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| “ | Just so you know, I... don't have any logical reason for saving you back then. Even if it was dangerous, I couldn't bear to see a good person like you die. I did have my reservations, but ultimately, it was for selfish, emotional reasons. That's fine, though. I'm not a hero. I'm a jujutsu sorcerer. So I've never once regretted saving you. | „ |
| ~ Megumi explaining his reason for saving Yuji. |
Megumi Fushiguro is the deuteragonist of the manga/anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. He is one of the three first-year students (alongside Yuji Itadori and Nobara Kugisaki) at Tokyo Jujutsu High, an academy dedicated to nurturing new generations of Jujutsu Sorcerers.
Megumi uses an inherited technique known as the Ten Shadows technique, which he summons through the usage of curse energy. He is also the son of Toji Fushiguro, an infamous curse user who was a relative to the Zenin Clan, making him a member of the clan as well. He later becomes the unwilling vessel of the King of Curses, Ryomen Sukuna.
In the anime series, he is voiced by Yuma Uchida in the Japanese version and by Robbie Daymond in the English version. Daymond's other heroic roles include Mumen Rider in One Punch Man, Mitsuki in Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, Goro Akechi in Persona 5, Reinhard van Astrea in Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World, Gilthunder in The Seven Deadly Sins, Joe Kido and Armadillomon in Digimon, Jin Mo-Ri in The God of High School, and Spider-Man in the 2017 show of the same name.
Biography[]
Past[]
Prior to the events of the present-day story, Megumi was born into the Zenin clan and left orphaned by his parents, to be looked after by his step-sister Tsumiki, who he sees as an inspiration. He was then tutored under Satoru Gojo in the first grade, as the sorcerer was left impressed by his immense power having also killed his father Toji years prior.
Story[]
Megumi first appears in Jujutsu Kaisen alongside Yuji after he discovers Yuji has found one of Sukuna's fingers. After Yuji eats Sukuna's fingers, Yuji and Megumi become partners at Jujutsu High under the tutelage of Gojo. He is present when Nobara Kugisaki arrives in Tokyo, and strikes up a reluctant friendship with her and Yuji. During an altercation with a "Cursed Womb" at a detention facility, Megumi witnesses Yuji seem to die after his heart is ripped out by Sukuna, who becomes interested in Megumi for his power and will while fighting Sukuna.
During an exchange event between the Tokyo and Kyoto Jujutsu schools, Megumi is involved heavily in the fighting and is eventually taken out of the picture due to injuries sustained at the hands of the enemy Cursed Spirits. During a mission with Nobara and Yuji investigating Cursed Womb: Death Paintings with curse and human blood, Megumi fights a cursed spirit bearing one of Sukuna's fingers and triumphs in the battle after giving into his emotions, falling asleep shortly afterwards.
He, along with many other Jujutsu Sorcerers, are sent to Shibuya when Mahito and the Cursed Spirits prepare to attack Japan. A Curse User named Ogami summons Toji from the dead, while Megumi and Yuji defeat Curse User Jiro Awasaka. He meets Toji, his father, after aiding him in defeat a powerful Cursed Spirit named Dagon, but does not realize who he is talking to before Toji commits suicide. During the battle, Sukuna saves him from Mahoraga, the most powerful shikigami. During the battle, Tsumiki, his sister, awakens from her coma that was inflicted by a Cursed Spirit and forced to participate in the Culling Game between the Curse Users of Japan.
He inadvertently becomes the head of the Zenin clan after the clan's previous head was killed in battle. Entering the game with Yuji, they are split up as soon as the culling game begins, fighting enemy Curse Users and forming alliances in order to win the game and defeat Kenjaku, the powerful Curse User who started the destruction.
Appearance[]
Megumi is a young man with a flat thin fragile body. he has a pretty face and a spiky black hair. His clothes are the same as all of the jujutsu sorcerers, but the collar is high at his neck.
Personality[]
Megumi is a very outwardly stoic, aloof, and calculating individual. He usually has a neutral facial expression that he rarely changes, making it appear as if he takes every situation seriously. This contrasts heavily with Yuji, Nobara, and Satoru's outgoing and goofy personalities, which often annoy Megumi. He's easily irritated and Yuji has noted that Megumi seems like he's always slightly angry.
Even as a child, Megumi was very stern, earnest, and thoughtful, to the point where Satoru questioned if he was a first-grader when they first met. He didn't care for his father and assumed he and Tsumiki were abandoned. Megumi understood his situation with the Zenin clan and stood firm that he would only cooperate if Tsumiki were happy as well.
Megumi has always been annoyed by Satoru's attitude ever since they first met. He didn't care for the idea of becoming a sorcerer and became more jaded about it over time. By the time Megumi reached middle school, his impersonal attitude had fully set in. He thought becoming a jujutsu sorcerer would be pointless as he didn't see himself as someone who saves others. Uninterested in making friends, Megumi believed the basis of human interaction was avoiding violating someone else's dignity. He would beat up school bullies who ignored this rule to feed their egos, gaining a reputation as the biggest troublemaker in school as a result. Tsumiki wanted him to stop getting in fights but Megumi didn't listen and wrote her off.
Megumi hated bad people with unearned pride just as much as he did good people who were too merciful to the former. Tsumiki was a perfect example of a good person to Megumi but he would disagree with and get annoyed with her anytime she scolded him for hurting someone bad. After Tsumiki fell into an unending sleep, Megumi realized he was acting immaturely. He knew Tsumiki was choosing to protect and that she believed that his lack of forgiveness was his way of showing kindness. After Tsumiki was cursed, Megumi was filled with regret and found the drive to become a sorcerer so he could save her.
As a jujutsu sorcerer, Megumi developed his sense of justice and is steadfast in his interpretation of right and wrong. Like his mentor, Megumi refuses to be influenced by traditions within the jujutsu world. Yuji should've been executed when they first met but Megumi ignored the rules and made a personal request to Satoru to protect him.
Powers and Abilities[]
Overview[]
Overall Skill Level: Megumi is a grade 2 sorcerer who possesses one of the highest potentials of any student at Jujutsu High regardless of age. He inherited the prized Ten Shadows Technique of the Zenin clan and is favored by the strongest sorcerer himself. Satoru believes that Megumi could become as strong as he is and has stated he likely possesses even more skill and potential than Yuji. Mai Zenin commended him as a genius who started school ranked grade 2. Noritoshi Kamo mirrored the same sentiment, claiming Megumi's age is irrelevant because of his inherited technique, and that he was even more reliable than the drunk Head of the Zenin clan. Even Sukuna took a special interest in Megumi due to his unique talents.
Megumi exorcising curses and navigating a mission early into his career.
Megumi is an exceptionally focused person and a highly disciplined combatant. He excels at keeping his cool in even the direst situations. Of all Satoru's students, Megumi is the most level-headed and clever in his approach to every fight. This has translated into an expert degree of understanding when it comes to jujutsu and how to practically apply his own skills. By the time he met Yuji Itadori, Megumi was already capable of summoning several different shikigami and he had a solid grasp on the Ten Shadows Technique. When Satoru left Megumi without much direction in his assignment to track down Sukuna's finger at Yuji's school, he was still able to navigate the mission on his own. Megumi was able to nearly secure Sukuna's finger without issue, but Yuji and his friends accidentally complicated the mission and led to Megumi getting caught off guard by a giant cursed spirit that nearly incapacitated him.
During the evacuation of the Eishu Detention Center, Megumi quickly recognized they had been caught in an unfavorable situation when they stepped into an incomplete domain. Even so, his rational line of thinking led him to use his shikigami to navigate the facility while leading his allies through it. Megumi's composure was shaken upon being faced with a special grade curse, but he was able to regain focus and switch his priority to rescuing Nobara. Using his arsenal of shikigami, Megumi was able to track Nobara down and save her. He proved to be the connective crux of this mission, also able to give Yuji the signal to let out Sukuna in order to exorcise the special grade.
Intelligence[]
Immense Tactical Intellect: Megumi's most reliable and imposing asset as a sorcerer is his mind. He is a young genius, a cerebral fighter whose focus in a battle is to outwit his opponent rather than overpower them. Megumi assesses all threats logically and deals with them in a strategic manner. Using his advanced deducting reasoning skills, Megumi thinks of clever ways to deal with every situation as it comes. This is regularly showcased by Megumi's consistent talent for deducing his opponent's strengths and weaknesses in the heat of battle.
Megumi possesses a wealth of knowledge about jujutsu and an expert-level understanding of it, equal to that of full-fledged sorcerers. As a student, Megumi lacks an excess of battle experience but he makes up for the difference with his tactical mindset. His fundamental understanding of sorcery enables him to take the lead on missions, or even go out on his own without much guidance. Megumi was able to give a solid explanation of the basics of curses to Yuji, someone totally uninitiated. In the detention center, Megumi was the only one of Satoru's students who could recognize a domain and assess its threat level while also taking into account its incompletion.
Megumi's jujutsu knowledge extends to reading the behavior of fellow sorcerers. Megumi figured out the Kyoto Team's objective during the Goodwill Event by tracking their movements. Fully aware of how sorcerers tend to view Sukuna's vessel, Megumi quickly realized the Kyoto Team was trying to assassinate his ally.As a former associate of one of the Big Three Families, Megumi had prior knowledge of Blood Manipulation before he fought with Kamo. Quickly after witnessing Flowing Red Scale in action, Megumi noticed his opponent was essentially doping. In order to deal with Kamo's boost in speed, Megumi took a tactical approach. He used a Toad on its last legs to distract Kamo and then took advantage of the time gained from this to summon Max Elephant. By using Max Elephant to flood the area with water, Kamo's physical advantage was nullified and he was forced outside into an open space where Nue could capitalize.
Physical Prowess[]
Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Megumi is a strong fighter who has never been afraid to get in close to hit his opponents. He's always been stronger than normal people his age, able to effortlessly beat down a human pile of bullies on his own. In one of his earliest missions, Megumi was already strong enough to destroy a curse with just the swipe of his bare hands.Megumi has a fast and graceful style of fighting that's evidence of his comfort in close combat. However, by sorcerer standards, Megumi was still weak at close range when faced with dangerous threats, especially without the help of his shikigami.Sukuna was impressed by Megumi's willingness to engage in hand-to-hand combat despite being a shikigami user but the King of Curses easily overpowered Megumi even while he was supported by shikigami.
Maki trained Megumi to be more reliable in close combat but he prefers to supplement himself with weaponry rather than fight unarmed. Megumi only truly excels at hand-to-hand combat while his domain boosts his cursed energy reinforcement. When his sword was broken by the Finger Bearer, Megumi rapidly summoned shikigami alongside his taijutsu to overpower the special grade. The same occurred when Megumi used shadow clones in the domain to barrage Reggie with combinations of punches, flying kicks, and elbows.
Expert Weapons Specialist: Megumi was trained by Maki, the best cursed tool user at Jujutsu High, to use a variety of different weapons. He can keep cursed tools in his shadow, so Megumi is capable of swapping out multiple weapons for himself at any time.Maki began by teaching Megumi with a polearm he quickly became comfortable with, and after nearly two months of training, Megumi was able to use a pair of tonfa for the Goodwill Event. In his fight with Kamo, Megumi was able to make effective use of the tonfa, especially on the defensive, using them to block Kamo's enhanced strength until they were broken.
Megumi utilizing his preferred choice of weaponry.
In a life or death encounter, instead of using blunt weapons, Megumi will generally arm himself with one handed-swords that are lightweight and easy to store if he needs to free up his hands to summon shikigami. He wielded his signature bladed black blade with great speed and efficiency, able to land two blows on Hanami with it. He also hit Hanami with Playful Cloud after swapping weapons with Maki mid-fight, displaying Megumi's advanced weapon dexterity. Using this black blade, Megumi also destroyed numerous heads of the Yasohachi Bridge curse in quick succession with great speed and skill.
Advanced Endurance: Megumi is especially tough for a human being, with high pain tolerance, exceptional stamina, and especially impressive durability. He's shown his toughness on numerous occasions where he was able to withstand a beating and survived the battle, sometimes even overcoming his own exhaustion to achieve victory. Megumi can survive direct attacks from even special grade cursed spirits. He suffered a beatdown at the hands of Sukuna without any major injuries. Todo also overpowered Megumi in a similar fashion, but in both cases, Megumi never passed out and he continuously refused to back down.
Jujutsu[]
- Ten Shadows technique: Allowed Megumi to gain permanent control of specific shikigami by summoning them in an exorcism ritual and then subjugating them. Megumi could summon the tamed shikigami by using shadow puppets of animals as an intermediary and forming the shikigami's shape out of them. Any shikigami that gets destroyed or killed can’t be summoned again, but its energy is inherited or passed on to the other shikigami. Though those on the verge of death could be unsummoned to keep them safe. The overall strength and amount of shikigami that could be summoned at once or in quick succession both depended on the user's cursed energy.
- Divine Dogs: The starter shikigami of the Ten Shadows is a pair of dogs. Divine Dogs are originally a set of two basic wolf-like beings, one wolf is black while the other one is white, that were efficient at defeating weak curses and tracking targets down. The white dog was killed by a Finger Bearer, so the black dog inherited the power of its deceased white twin, which granted the black dog the ability to become a larger, stronger, bi-pedal, bi-colored werewolf that can harm even special grade cursed spirits.
- Nue: a large orange owl-like shikigami that can produce electric shocks from its wings upon contact with a target. Nue is highly-versatile, as it boasted great speed and the ability to stun opponents with its electricity. It can also serve as a method of transportation as well as an affective tool for aerial scouting.
- Toad: a large green frog/toad shikigami that can help its master by ensnaring or slamming their opponents with its tongue. This shikigami can also be used to save allies that are in danger by carrying them in its mouth.
- Great Serpent: a giant white snake shikigami that can act as both an attacker and a trapper by trapping opponents or immobilizing them. Sadly, this shikigami was destroyed by Sukuna in chapter 9 while battling the latter and it is unknown which shikigami inherited its power.
- Max Elephant: a pink elephant shikigami that can summon large amounts of water from its trunk and can be used to crush opponents.
- Rabbit Escape: a swarm of rabbit/bunny shikigami as a distraction for the opponent. It is primarily used as a way to escape using the unfolded chaos.
- Round Deer: a tall, deer-like shikigami that can output positive energy from reverse cursed technique. This allows it to heal its user as well as counteract the cursed energy of their opponent
- Piercing Bull: a sizeable black ox shikigami, that can charge down the opponents. It can only move in a straight line but the more it moves, stronger the charge gets.
- Tiger Funeral: a shikigami whose appearance and unknown capabilities have not been shown yet.
- Eight-Handled Sword Divergent Sila Divine General Mahoraga: The strongest shikigami within Ten Shadows. None of the Ten Shadows users before Megumi weren't able to tame it. It carries the Sword of Extermination which it imbues with normal or reverse cursed energy depending on the circumstances. Mahoraga also has the ability to adapt to any and all phenomena.
Trivia[]
- Before he enrolled in Jujutsu High, he did not join missions. He observed Gojo, who acted like his supervisor, taking him out to missions on a few occasions.
- Megumi's surname contains the kanji for "prone, prostrated, bend down, bow, cover, lay (pipes)" (伏 fushi) and "black" (黒 kuro/guro) while his first name is a Japanese feminine given name meaning "favor, benefit, blessing, grace" (めぐみ, 恵 megumi).
- According to Akutami, Megumi's hairstyle tends to be erratic.
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Tokyo Jujutsu High Students: Megumi Fushiguro | Kinji Hakari | Kirara Hoshi | Toge Inumaki | Yuji Itadori | Nobara Kugisaki | Yuta Okkotsu | Panda | Maki Zenin Former Students: Suguru Geto | Yu Haibara Kyoto Jujutsu High Students: Noritoshi Kamo | Kasumi Miwa | Kokichi Muta | Momo Nishimiya | Arata Nitta | Aoi Todo | Mai Zenin Others | ||
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