Kokichi Muta (JujutsuKaisenRising.0)

**Kokichi Muta** (与 (むた)  幸 (こう) 吉 (きち) , *Muta Kōkichi*?) is a supporting character in the *Jujutsu Kaisen: The Star, The Blight, and The Rose* series. He is a second-year at Kyoto Jujutsu High using Ultimate Mechamaru as his proxy to attend school. Kokichi himself could not due to the sickly and fragile body he was born with as a result of his Heavenly Restriction prior to his reformed body.

## Appearance

Kokichi is a slim young man with light peach skin and sharp brown eyes. He had black hair tied into a top knot above his head and the majority of his body was obstructed by the bindings of his Heavenly Restriction. His entire body was scarred with grotesquely thin wrinkled skin that he dressed in bandages. His right forearm was missing entirely and both legs were too weak to support his weight beneath the knees. Immobile, Kokichi sat inside a bathtub attached to several tubes inside a remote cave.

Following his healing at the hands of Mahito's Idle Transfiguration, Kokichi obtained a healthy body. Only a single scar on his cheek remained and he was able to stand up on his own. Like his Mechamaru stand-in at school, Kokichi donned a normal jujutsu high uniform with a white puffy scarf-like cloth around the collar of it.

## Personality

Kokichi was a reclusive and reserved individual who resented being born without a future outside of the jujutsu world. He proudly admitted he'd give back every ounce of cursed energy to gain a normal body.

Kokichi's resentment lead to him projecting on those undeserving. During the Goodwill Event, Panda suggested he and Mechamaru should get along since they're both cursed corpses. Kokichi took exception to this and thought of Panda as nothing more than just a doll. This was because Panda got to live free in the sun while Kokichi was trapped inside, ill with his restriction.

Around his classmates, Kokichi embraced the quiet robotic type persona while acting as a student through Mechamaru. He wanted to walk amongst them one day in spite of his condition and however they might have treated him. Kokichi felt especially close to Kasumi Miwa, who confessed to sharing romantic feelings with.

In order to achieve his dream, Kokichi was willing to engage in a Binding Vow with the enemy in order to gain a healthy body. He leaked information with them but included the conditions that they couldn't hurt his fellow Kyoto students in the contract. Kokichi attempted to kill Mahito and Pseudo-Geto after his body was healed. Fighting desperately to achieve his goal, Kokichi bet everything on his planning and determination. However, his desperation, unfortunately, lead to his demise before he could meet his classmates and Kasumi before the Shibuya Incident.

After surviving his battle against Mahito, Kokichi resolved to help his allies with the future catastrophe with his contingency plans, coordinating the jujutsu sorcerers until his arrival in the final act of the Shibuya Incident. In the aftermath, Kokichi resolved to atone for his mistake by shouldering the weight of the Culling Game.

## Abilities and Powers

**Overall Skill Level**: Kokichi Muta is a semi-grade 1 jujutsu sorcerer while he was still a student at Jujutsu High. He could control several puppets at once remotely from a great distance, with each puppet possessing high combat abilities worthy enough to earn him his rank. He has been credited as a genius at jujutsu, and has some of the highest potential of all the students at Kyoto Jujutsu High.

In order to defeat Mahito, Kokichi was prepared to unleash his entire life's worth of reserves of cursed energy to win. Pseudo-Geto acknowledged that Mahito's skill and strategies were exceptional in this battle. It was nearly enough to exorcise the special grade curse or as Mahito puts it, Kokichi puts too much stock into his strategy, despite Pseudo-Geto's lack of belief in Mahito's claim. Even Mahito, despite claiming he had truly bested Kokichi, believed that it was pure luck that he had survived, crediting his victory to pure hapenstance alone. He was ultimately defeated because Mahito was able to lure him into a false sense of security after believing he had achieved his objective. However, with his clever planning, he was able to fake his death, allowing him time to recover and regain his strength. Within ten days of recovery, he was able to stockpile 10 years worth of cursed energy, a feat considered special grade level by Yoshinobu Gakuganji.

In the final stages of the Shibuya Incident, Kokichi arrived on the battlefield to aid his tired allies, and was one of the last sorcerers standing, impressing even Kenjaku, who had believed him to be dead. In the time since his recovery, Kokichi had greatly improved his use of this cursed technique, incorporating it into a close quarters combat fighting style, as well as adding Technique Charges to his Ultimate Mechamaru Puppets, such as improving Ultimate Mechamaru to use Reverse Cursed Technique, an incredibly difficult technique to achieve.

During the Perfect Preparation Arc, Kokochi’s Puppet Manipulation technique was labeled a Special Grade Secret, and he was sentenced to execution by the higher-ups. When assassins were sent to kill him, he was able to take them down with little effort. He also coordinated with Maki Zenin and Oboro Mu to reveal the locations of the remaining Zenin Clan members who were not present during the massacre of the clan.

During the Culling Game, Kokichi became the central information gatherer via Mechamaru, as well as the main source of communication via multiple Mini-Mechamaru's. Through Mechamaru, Kokichi was able to monitor the situation throughout all the colonies before his Mechamaru's in Tokyo and Miyazaki were destroyed prior to the Tokyo students entering of said colonies. By coordinating with Maki and Ui Ui, Kokichi was able to effectively deliver information and support to his allies.

**Great Tactical Intellect**: Kokichi was a highly tactical thinker and fighter who tried to always stay a step ahead of his opponent. While in combat with Panda, Kokichi ascertained Panda's strengths and weaknesses as well as his own at every stage of the fight. Pseudo-Geto also praised Kokichi for having decent tactical prowess while fighting Mahito. Kokichi was well prepared for their fight and his tactics nearly succeeded in wearing Mahito out and damaging his body while neutralizing his technique.

### Physical Prowess

**Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: After gaining a working, fit body, and his subsequent defeat against Mahito, Kokochi began to study and practice close quarters combat, and applied using his puppets in tandem with him.

**Technique Charge** - **Reverse Cursed Technique** (反 (はん) 転 (てん) 術 (じゅつ) 式 (しき) , *Hanten Jutsushiki*?): Kokichi modified Ultimate Mechamaru to be able to output reverse cursed energy to heal others. However, the puppets cannot heal themselves, and can only use reverse cursed technique a few times.

**Technique Charge** - **New Shadow Style: Simple Domain** (シン・陰 (かげ) 流 (りゅう) 「簡 (かん) 易 (い) 領 (りょう) 域 (いき) 」, *Shin Kageryū: Kan'i Ryōiki*?): Kokichi invented four tubes that contain the Simple Domain cursed technique. It was the only way he could make the Domain work. The tubes are entered into a panel and activated with a Technique Charge. From there, Mechamaru can shift his fingers into spikes or shooting barrels that can inject Simple Domain's effect into Kokichi's desired target. It can also be used to protect the cockpit from an enemy Domain Expansion.

## Trivia

* Kokichi's surname has the Nanori reading of the kanji for "bestow, impart, award, grant, give" (与 (むた) , *muta*?). His given name has the Kan-on'yomi reading for "good fortune, happiness" (幸 (こう) , *kō*?) and the Go-on'yomi reading for "auspicious, lucky" (吉 (きち) , *kichi*?).
* According to Jujutsu Kaisen Unofficial Fanbook:
	+ Enrollment method: He was in custody of Jujutsu High when he was young. He enrolled when he reached the age of a high school student.
	+ His hobby is acting as a group (Ultimate Mechamaru).
	+ Favorite dish: Something that has a strong flavor.
	+ Least favorite dish: Raw food.
	+ Cause of stress: All the time.
	+ His parents are non-sorcerers.
	+ His parents think he died, as it's what Kokichi wished for.
* Kokichi named his mecha after an anime he liked.