Mimei Futamigawa

**Mimei Futamigawa** (二見川 未明, *Futamigawa Mimei*) is a grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer and the leader of the vigilante group Saku. Formerly a fourth-year student at Tokyo Jujutsu High, he was expelled for his research which the higher-ups saw as threatening to the stability of the jujutsu community. Mimei currently travels Japan with his group, with the goal to defeat Nazar. He is one of the protagonists of Jujutsu Kaisen: Samsara.

For his transgressional research into cursed restrictions, Jujutsu Headquarters declared Mimei and his compagnion Aoba Hamorebi as dangerous criminals and ordered their execution. Mimei, however, believes this was done in order to silence him and prevent him from exposing the truth about the Ignorance Spirits.

## Personality

Since he was a child, Mimei has been noticed for his ability to adapt to any social situation, earning him the nickname 'Chameleon' (カメレオン, *Kamereon*). He is very quickwitted and sociable and seems to always find the right words to put his conversational partners at ease. Being born into one of the lesser sorcerer families, he was learnt to be obedient and quiet in interactions with the sorcerer clans. But his natural charm was enough that even as a child, prominent members of the Zen'in Family recommended him as a candidate for Tokyo Jujutsu High. As an adult, Mimei can seamlessly mix into any group of people, ranging from gangsters to nobility, adapt to their mannerisms, make them feel at ease and gain their trust. His natural sense of humor helps him defuse even the most tense of situations. During his time as a senior at Tokyo Jujutsu High, Mimei was very popular with the other students, because his attitude made him kind and approachable in the eyes of his juniors.

Aoba was one of the first people to see through Mimei's Chameleon personality and percieve him for who he truly is, which formed the basis of their close bond. She describes him as someone with a kind exterior, but a ruthless personality. Mimei considers the goals he is pursuing as ‘the highest good' and believes that the violence used and sacrefices made along the way are justified. Despite this, he has certain lines he will not cross, such as needlessly harming the innocent or his allies, and does not align himself with the idea that 'the ends justify the means'. Mimei has no respect for authority or rituals, and thinks it is foolish to honor things simply because they have been that way for a long time. He considers the jujutsu higher-ups to be idiots, who are only interested in self-preservation rather than improving the world.

Mimei’s fundamental belief that is motivating all of his actions, is that humans are good at their core, and that the relationship that is set forward between them, negative emotions and cursed spirits is a system created by Jujutsu Headquarters in order to control human and jujutsu society. It is this was motivates him to continue moving forward and makes him relentlessly optimistic in pursuing his goals.

## History

Mimei was born into the Futamigawa Family, a minor sorcerer family that has served the Big Three Families for hundreds of years. As such, at a young age he started to be educated to become a retainer for the Zenin Family. However, Mimei's charm and intellect lead to the Zenin Family recommending him to be a student at Tokyo Jujutsu High, in order to develop his skills and be more of use to them. Even at that age, however, Mimei had already determined for himself that he would find his own path and not return to Zenin Family after graduation.

Mimei enrolled together with Aoba Hamorebi into the first year. Quite exceptionally, they were the only two students in their class, even though normally the administration tries to find at least 3 or 4 potential sorcerers per year. Despite being only two, Mimei and Aoba's potential was seen as so high that it would not matter for the position of Tokyo Jujutsu High in the jujutsu society. They developed a close friendship during this time, which at some point is implied to have lead to a romantic implication, but they quickly abandoned this afterwards. As a first year, Mimei still had access to his innate technique, which he used to great effectiveness to exorcise multiple grade 2 cursed spirits together with Aoba, earning them both a recommendation for a promotion to grade 2 at the end of the first year.

During his second year, Mimei took an interest to cursed restrictions and started experimenting with Heavenly Restrictions. His research was initially encouraged by the school and its higher-ups. Slowly, Mimei started to create and modify his own restrictions, modifying his own soul and body and developing combat applications. When he encountered roadblocks, he sealed away parts of his own power, including his innate technique and eventually even the capacity to harm others at all, in order to overcome them.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Skill Level**: Mimei is a grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer that even during his time at Tokyo Jujutsu High was already being recognized as one of the strongest of his generation. This is despite the fact that he possesses only average skill in hand-to-hand combat and no longer has an innate technique. Purely using his intellect and his mastery over Cursed Restriction Techniques, Mimei is capable of defeating opponents several times more powerful than him. After being expelled from Tokyo Jujutsu High, the question was raised if Satoru Gojo should be sent after him, but the higher-ups decided it would be too risky. Even though Mimei wouldn’t have been able to defeat Satoru, it was presumed he would have been able to seal away an important part of his abilities, possibly forever.

**Proficient Hand-to-Hand Combatant**:

### Intellect

**Genius Intellect**:

### Jujutsu

**Immense Cursed Energy:**

**Shikigami:** **Akaon’na** (赤女, *Red Woman*) is a shikigami unique to Mimei, that takes the form of a giant woman with long limbs, a red robe and dark hair that is held in a traditional princess-like style. She doesn’t speak but possesses at least a human level of intelligence. Akaon’na possesses a different cursed energy signature than Mimei, and thus isn’t affected by his vow of non-violence, making her Mimei’s ‘workaround’ for his own restrictions. She is shown to be immensely powerful and durable, shrugging off attacks of grade 1 curses with no visible damage.

#### Cursed Restrictions

**Mastery of Cursed Restrictions:** Mimei has devoted most of his time and practice as a jujutsu sorcerer to the research and development of cursed restrictions. He is the most potent restriction user of his time, and Mimei himself claims he understands restrictions on a deeper level than any other sorcerer ever has. Though his research was initially well-regarded by the higher-ups at Tokyo Jujutsu High, they became more and more displeased as Mimei pushed the boundaries of what a restriction could be and went against traditional practice. Eventually, Mimei was expelled because it was discovered he was actually trying to reinvent Jujutsu Sorcery in a way that restriction techniques could be used as a basis rather than barrier techniques, which was seen to be an attempt to threaten the position of Master Tengen and the Jujutsu higher-ups in general.

Mimei can conjure a variety of chains, seals and bindings to restrict his opponent’s movement and fighting capacity in battle. He can also seal away specific senses, such as speech and sight, through mere hand movement, though this effect can be overcome by opponents with sufficient Cursed Energy. Mimei’s restrictions are strengthened by a variety of binding vows he has imposed upon himself, the most significant of which is that he cannot inflict any physical harm on his opponent while using Cursed Energy. Because of these vows Mimei can impose restrictions on opponents much more powerful than him, shown when he was able to chain Tōtetsu, a special grade curse and prevent him from reacting to his allies’ attacks temporarily.

The most powerful aspect of Mimei’s restrictions is that he can impose them on others, which is normally considered almost impossible. This is how the chains and seals he generates in battle are capable of affecting his opponents without them gaining anything in return. Additionally, this has allowed Mimei to at least partially succeed in creating an alternative jujutsu basis to Master Tengen’s barriers. Similar to how Tengen’s barriers empower and stabilize the cursed techniques of other sorcerers, Mimei’s allies use his restrictions to strengthen their power level and make their abilities more focused during battle. For this, Mimei is considered a ‘heretic’ by the higher-ups of the jujutsu community, and seen as a real threat to the balance of power that must be taken out as soon as possible.

* **Binding Vows**:

* **Blood Modification**: Mimei has modified his own blood to automatically impose a restriction onto everyone that comes into contact with it, in the event that he is hurt during battle. This restriction can be a loss of physical strength, mobility or cursed energy, depending on how Mimei was injured. The effect is cumulative, and can only be dispelled if Mimei releases it or gets sufficiently weakened. By restricting the blood from flowing out of his wounds and manifesting a thread to stitch them, Mimei can also use this technique as a form of ‘healing’, although unlike Reverse Cursed Technique it does not actually regenerate his flesh, but just temporarily halts his wounds from becoming worse.
* **Parasitic Restriction** (寄生縛, *Kiseibaku*): a technique Mimei developed for training purposes, where one makes a pact with a parasitic cursed spirit by swallowing it. The parasite then makes its way to the brain and starts eating away at its host’s cursed energy. Mimei calls it a form of ‘shock therapy’, because resisting the parasite can take up to 80% of the host’s cursed energy, while also generating enormous pain and distress. Training in these conditions accelerates one’s learning curve immensely, but it can only be endured for a limited time before permanent damage is done. Mimei and Aoba’s limit is four hours, but using this method they were able to enhance their capacities by 1.5 during their time as third year students, allowing them to completely dominate that year’s Goodwill Event just by themselves.
* **Nightmare Realm** (悪夢疆, *Akumukyō*): A technique Mimei created that is similar to the Prison Realm cursed object. Unlike the Prison Realm, it is not a barrier, but a restriction imposed on an opponent, where they are trapped in a dream-like state after coming into contact with an orb of cursed energy Mimei gathers in his hand. The technique then creates a continuous nightmare within the mind of the victim and uses the negative energy coming forth from the fear and distress to power itself. This both makes it self-sufficient enough to continue eternally and also not even capable of being broken by targeting Mimei, as it is not his cursed energy sustaining the Nightmare Realm.
* **Domain Connection** (領域連鎖, *Ryōiki Rensa*): Domain Expansion is considered the pinnacle of jujutsu sorcery, and is a technique that wouldn’t be possible for most sorcerers to use if not for the influence of Master Tengen. Mimei created this technique as an alternative manner of bringing out one's domain in battle, that maintains the improved power and can’t-miss nature of domain expansion. It functions by bringing out one’s domain, like in domain expansion, but rather than constructing it with a barrier, it forms a connection of energy between the user and the target(s), binding their reality to the user’s domain. Mimei calls this connection the ‘red thread of fate’ (赤い糸, Akai Ito), as it can be stretched and tangled, but never broken. Since the domain is not brought into the physical world, but only in the inner world of the target, it cannot be negated by domain expansion. It is, however, much harder to use domain connection on multiple targets, and if Mimei is too heavily injured, it becomes unavailable to himself or to others. Members of Saku use domain connection rather than domain expansion in battle, even Aoba who can do both.

#### Innate Technique

**Innate Technique:** As an adolescent, when he enrolled into Jujutsu High, Mimei was in possession of an innate technique named **Alchemy** (錬金術, *Renkinjutsu*) that allowed him to restructure and reshape the physical world through his cursed energy. Every non-living object could be affected and transformed into any other substance, though the technique was very taxing on Mimei's energy level. In his second year, Mimei made a binding vow that sealed away the usage of his innate technique, and he no longer has access to it.

**Interminable Restriction Release: Earth Womb**: Mimei was the first recipient of an Interminable Restriction, when he experimented with it on himself. By releasing the binding that he placed on himself, Mimei can access the massive amount of cursed energy that was sealed by the restriction, increasing his abilities up to 150%. Though his innate technique is sealed away, the interminable restriction mutates his soul in such a way that he gains access to it again, albeit in a different form.

* **Chōryō** (張陵, *Chōryō*) is the name of Mimei's Earth Womb. During the battle against Tōtetsu, Mimei used the effects of his Earth Womb to create an area around himself and his comerades that could not be devoured by the special grade cursed spirit's technique.

## Trivia

* Mimei (未明) means 'grey of morning'. It stands in contrast with his partner's name, which means 'blue waves ' (蒼波, *Aoba*)
* Mimei's appearance was based on Laurent Thierry from the The Great Pretender and Kisuke Urahara from Bleach. All credits for the images used go to their original sources.