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“ | Yuji, you're a strong kid, so try to help others. Save the people you can, even if it’s only those closest to you. It’s okay if you lose your way and don’t worry about whether they’ll thank you or not. Just save as many as you can, even if you can only save one. When you die, you should be surrounded by people. Don’t end up like me. | „ |
~ Wasuke gaving his Grandson: Yuji his last words and advice to help others before he passes away peacefully. |
“ | As a kid, I was always better than most in sports and in fights. But never once did I think 'this is something only I can do'. Never! [..] Consuming Sukuna is something only I can do! So even if I could escape my death sentence and run away from this responsibility, then someday I'd be eating food, taking a bath, or reading manga. And the moment I stop to think, I'd go 'Oh, I bet that right now, somewhere out there, someone is dying because of Sukuna. But that doesn't concern me. It's certainly not my fault. You expect me to tell myself that? Well, I refuse to do that. I don't know how I'll feel when I'm dying, but... I won't regret the way I lived! | „ |
~ Yuji to Masamichi Yaga. |
Yuji Itadori is the main protagonist of the manga/anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. He is one of the three first-year students at Tokyo Jujutsu High, alongside Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara Kugisaki, after becoming the vessel for the King of Curses Ryomen Sukuna.
Despite being a first year, Yuji possesses an incredible amount of potential and power, with his teacher Satoru Gojo placing him among the students who may one day surpass him. It is later revealed that his father Jin was the twin brother of Sukuna in his previous incarnation, making him the "nephew" and descendant of the King of Curses. It also explains why Sukuna was incapable of possessing Yuji's whole body at will.
In Japanese, he is voiced by Junya Enoki. In English, he is voiced Adam McArthur, Who also voiced Marco Diaz in Star vs. the Forces of Evil.
Biography[]
Yuji first debuts as an eccentric 15-year-old who lives with his grandfather Wasuke and is a member of his high school's Occult Club. On the day of his grandfather's death, Yuji is approached by first-year Jujutsu Sorcerer Megumi Fushiguro, who inquires about one of Sukuna's fingers that the occult club illicitly obtained. He comes to Megumi's rescue when a swarm of Cursed Spirits attack the school, attracted by the finger. Yuji ingests the finger and becomes Sukuna's host. Jujutsu master and teacher at the Tokyo school Satoru Gojo tells Yuji that he is intended for execution, but it is delayed so that the world can be rid of Sukuna when Yuji eat all of Sukuna's fingers. Yuji moves into the school and is mentored in Jujutsu personally by Satoru. He quickly strikes up a friendship with his fellow first-years, Megumi and Nobara Kugisaki. He dies during an altercation with a "Cursed Womb" at a detention facility, wherein Sukuna blackmailed Yuji by holding his heart hostage, but is later brought back to life by Sukuna.
Presumed dead, Yuji continues to work with his sorcery, uncovering his massive Cursed Energy and using it for specialized cursed purposes. He strikes up a quick friendship with Junpei, which is derailed when he is killed by the Cursed Spirit Mahito. He also meets the 9 to 5 sorcerer and former salaryman Kento Nanami. After a fight that Mahito loses but escapes, Yuji swears revenge. At the exhibition between the Tokyo and Kyoto Jujutsu schools, Yuji reveals to the world he has survived. Some want him dead immediately, while others side with Gojo to keep him alive temporarily. He strikes up a quick brotherly relationship with Kyoto's third-year Aoi Todo. Alongside Todo, he and the other Jujutsu students and staff repel an invasion of the school by Mahito and Hanami, a Cursed Spirit who is environmentally conscious. During the battle, he uses several consecutive punches called "Black Flash," a distortion in space that significantly empowers his Cursed Techniques. By the end of the battle, he and Todo are able to fight off Hanami long enough for Gojo to defeat the Curse. Later, Yuji is assigned on a mission where he comes across two brothers who are both a Cursed Womb: Death Painting, hybrids of a Cursed spirit and a human. He and Nobara kill them, though Yuji expresses regret when he realizes they have physical bodies and that he disrupted their tight-knit brotherly bond.
In October of the same year, Yuji is sent to Shibuya when Mahito and the Cursed Spirits lay one final siege on the Jujutsu Sorcerers of Japan. During the battle, Yuji watches Nanami and seemingly Nobara get killed when encountering Mahito. This causes him to feel incredible guilt and pain. He also fights Choso, the Eldest brother of the two Death Paintings, Eso and Kechizu. After the Jujutsu Sorcerers lose the battle and Suguru Geto (actually Kenjaku) unleashes thousands of Cursed Spirits and newly awakened Jujutsu Sorcerers onto the world, Choso tells Yuji that he is his older brother and that Yuji has the blood of a Cursed Spirit. Choso comes to this realization after their fight in Shibuya station where the blood spilled from both Yuji and Choso mix together. After the Shibuya incident concluded Yuji is later hunted by other Jujutsu Sorcerers blaming him for the attack on Shibuya, including Yuta Okkotsu.
Sometime afterwards Yuji, Fushiguro, and second-year student Panda prepare to fight in Kenjaku's Culling Game between the newly born Jujutsu Sorcerers in Japan. It is also revealed that Kenjaku is his "mother" who took over her body and created him.
In the light novel, set during Yuji's time in hiding and secret training after being declared dead, he encounters Minato in a park. The boy unknowingly manifested a Cursed Spirit that appeared in front of his adoptive parents' home at night. Yuji ultimately defeats it after a lesson from Gojo.
Appearance[]
Yuji is a teenager with average height and has a large light brown eyes and spiky pink hair that's styled in an undercut fashion. Like every student of Jujutsu High, he wears a custom uniform. His uniform consists of black long sleeve shirt over a red hoodie, black pants, and red shoes.
Personality[]
Yuji is a good-natured person who truly cares for not only his comrades but anyone he views as people with their own wills, despite how deep or shallow his connection to them is. He highly commends "the value of life," and to this end, he will ensure that others receive a "proper death". Because of this, he believes that it is morally unethical for him to take another human life, and tries to avoid any possibility of doing so unless as a last resort.
He is also not without his more energetic and outgoing traits. Such as his frequent comedic moments where he was seen alongside Nobara Kugisaki gushing about Tokyo and his eagerness to train with Gojo or even when entertaining both Junpei and his mother. Yuji is also highly passionate whenever he's focused on achieving certain goals and being quite stubborn when confronted about them, such as when Yaga questioned why Yuji wanted to become a sorcerer. He is also quite naïve due to his inexperience in the world of cursed spirits and jujutsu sorcerers, but is shown to be a quick learner, capable of adapting to his surroundings and picking up how to use cursed energy quickly.
Although usually composed, good-natured and friendly, Yuji can be angered quickly in the face of pure malice after witnessing firsthand the cruelty that curses were capable of, particularly Mahito's inhuman exploitation of Junpei. Yuji felt so profoundly disgusted that he felt a genuine desire to kill for the first time in his life and has a very intense yet focused hatred towards the cursed spirit.
One of Yuji's defining traits is his willingness to sacrifice himself for others, triggered by his grandfather's last words to him to die surrounded by others. When he and Megumi were under the threat of being killed by a curse, Yuji impulsively swallowed Sukuna's finger to exorcise the curse and save them despite having met Megumi for the first time on that day.
However, Yuji's initial belief's on the value of a life as well as "proper deaths" have been greatly challenged overtime, primarily during the Shibuya Incident. When Sukuna took possession of Yuji's body after forced consumption of his fingers, he proceeded to massacre countless innocents within the city save for Megumi, leaving Yuji traumatized from the event, wishing he was dead and blaming himself for all the deaths. This would only worsen as Yuji later witnessed Mahito kill Nanami and mortally wound Nobara making Yuji lose hope in being able to save anyone, before Todo's intervention. Eventually after a grueling battle between Mahito, Yuji spoke to the curse spirit admitting that they were alike in a way while also declaring pure and utter hatred for the latter, promising to kill Mahito: no matter how much time passed or how many times he is reborn, again and again with no need to justify his actions as anything but his nature, believing that some reasoning for his actions would eventually be found centuries after his own death.
Following the incident in Shibuya, Yuji's disposition grew more solemn than before, as well as developing a change ideology; that his purpose was to be a "cog in the machine that functions to exorcise curses. While still wanting to save and help people, Yuji was racked with unshakable guilt and felt that he deserved death, to the point he would even willingly take blame for the crimes committed by Sukuna when prompted by an enemy, only slightly relenting when speaking with Hiromi Higuruma. While Yuji still retained most of his traits of being good-natured and friendly, he would act closed off and abrasive towards someone unfamiliar as seen with Hana Kurusu, admitting that this behavior stemmed from fear of the latter replacing Nobara before apologizing later.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Overall Skill Level: Yuji is one of Tokyo Jujutsu High's most powerful and talented students. Satoru Gojo places him on the same level of potential as Yuta Okkotsu and Kinji Hakari, the three students who he believes will surpass his strength. Despite having no connections to the jujutsu world before a few months prior to the Shibuya Incident, Yuji is able to contend with and defeat Grade 1 and Special Grade curses. Yuji was gifted with superhuman physical abilities which he masterfully combines with his cursed energy. Yuji is also able to contain Sukuna with no ill effects, which allows him to perceive the shape of souls. This enables him to harm Mahito, whose control over the shape of his soul otherwise renders him immune to injury.
- Immense Strength: Yuji is quite powerful even without the usage of cursed energy, as he can destroy walls with ease, throw a lead ball with enough force to bend a soccer goalpost, and even throw a car. As powerful as he is without cursed energy, especially when it comes to fighting, his exceptional strength can often be augmented to further levels with the usage of cursed energy, the Divergent Fist technique, and Black Flash, allowing him to exorcise cursed spirits. His unique strength has also been compared to Kento Nanami, a Grade 1 sorcerer. He can even harm Hanami and Choso, two curses who have remarkable durability and toughness with the former being near-impossible to damage. During his fight with Sukuna, Yuji jumped twenty stories from two buildings to reach Sukuna after the latter took control over Megumi's body. Also in his fight with Sukuna, Yuji was able to kick a massive chunk of rubble towards Sukuna, momentarily stopping him.
- Immense Speed and Reflexes: Yuji is shown to have great speed and can finish a 50-meter track within 3 seconds, implying he can run at speeds of 60.02 km/h (37.3 mph). He's also been shown to dodge the attacks of all five opposing sorcerers from the students from Kyoto Jujutsu High who tried to murder him. He has been shown to be fast enough to evade Choso's Piercing Blood, which travels at the speed of sound, proving he has superb reflexes. During Yuji and Maki's fight against Sukuna while possessing Megumi, Yuji was able to keep up with their magnificent speed and reflexes while being grievously wounded from his previous battle.
- Immense Durability: Yuji's durability surpasses the average sorcerer. He was able to continuously take hits from Choso during their fight and even Piercing Blood, an attack moving at the speed of sound didn't pierce Yuji immediately. He was also able to withstand numerous attacks from Mahito in his Instant Spirit Body of Distorted Killing form and continue fighting. After Sukuna took control over Megumi's body, he punched Yuji through multiple buildings and Yuji survived that, and afterwards was able to fight him and even survive Sukuna relentlessly attacking him with Dismantle and keep fighting him with Maki's help.
- Immense Stamina: Fitting his other superhuman capabilities, Yuji possesses a large amount of stamina and has often been shown continuing to fight despite grievous injuries for longer periods of time without rest, such as having his hand severed and his fingers disintegrated when battling the Finger Bearer, allowing for Megumi to escape with Nobara. He was also able to resist several poisonous stab wounds from when he tried to stop Junpei Yoshino from hurting anyone at his school. His incredible stamina is especially shown afterwards when he sustained grievous injuries from Mahito but was able to continue attacking.
- Proficient Learner: Yuji is a curious person and an earnest student. He is also good at progressing - being quick at Satoru's Movie Appreciation Training, and realizing Aoi Todo's advice quickly. According to Akutami, he is the best at cooking among the first years trio. He was able to master using martial arts alongside cursed energy and honed it to a level with which he can take on Special Grade curses. He was even able to use Black Flash four times in a row a short time after he had even learnt of its existence.
Another testament to his development was his growing understanding of cursed energy within just a month prior to his battle against Sukuna, aside from drastically improving his cursed energy reinforcement techniques, Yuji managed to grasp the complex nature of reverse cursed technique and learned how to use and perform it efficiently to heal himself.
- Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Yuji is one of the greatest, if not the greatest practitioner of martial arts in the series. His fighting prowess goes toe to toe with Aoi Todo, another extremely proficient martial artist. Yuji can effortlessly defeat a Semi-Grade 1 cursed spirit, and challenge Special Grade curses purely using martial arts and infusing his style with cursed energy. Yuji also possesses an impressive control over his attacks, being able to pause his punch a moment before impact and adjust his power into several counter blows.
Yuji's fighting style is usually depicted as being very acrobatic with his movements, allowing him to strike his opponent in several different angles which also allow him to evade several oncoming attacks, essentially giving him great offensive and defensive capabilities. If the initial strike he is going for has been blocked, he is able to use high flying kicks, unorthodox punches, and even a knee strike to retaliate. He is also skilled in a martial arts style known as Taido Martial Arts, which grants him the ability to perform Knee Release, an ancient martial arts technique that eliminates starting movements and allows Yuji to release his knees, hips, and shoulders to guide him to his opponent's feet instead of falling down.
By combining the technique mentioned above with Taido Martial Arts, Yuji can perform Manji Kick, where he uses the momentum to throw his right leg upwards and land a kick to his opponent's head. By adding cursed energy to this attack, it can harm cursed spirits.
- Poison Resistance: Since Yuji is the host to Sukuna, he has a resistance to all kinds of poison. Yuji will feel the pain from the poison, but he is mostly unaffected. This ability was first demonstrated during his fight with Junpei when he could resist Moon Dregs' poison. It was demonstrated again when Yuji resisted the effects of Eso and Kechizu's Decay.
Quotes[]
“ | I admit it mahito, I am you.. i’ve always wanted to pretend I didn’t understand you said, but that’s different now, I’ll just kill you.. and if you’re ever reborn again as a new curse.. I’ll kill you then too.. you can change your name and change your appearance, but I’ll still kill you again and again. I don’t need meaning or a reason for it anymore, maybe there will be some meaning to be found from my actions several centuries after I’m dead, but I’m sure I’ll just.. one big cog in the wheel, and I’ll keep killing curses until I rust away.. because that is my role in this war. | „ |
~ Yuji Itadori’s most famous speech to Mahito after defeating him. |
Trivia[]
- In the series, Yuji openly declares that he is into women like the real life actress Jennifer Lawrence. Jennifer is the first real person to be mentioned in the series, along with Sebastian Stan, who is mentioned by Momo Nishimiya.
- Yuji makes a cameo appearance in the Nightwing's 300th issue DC comic.
- Among many inspirations from other popular manga series, Gege Akutami was excited to draw Yuji's horrified reaction in response to Sukuna switching to Megumi's body after doing a Binding Vow. This scene was heavely inspired from Yoshihiro Togashi's Hunter x Hunter series, where Killua Zoldyck had a similar reaction in response to Gon Freecss's weakened state after using too much Nen power, when he took Gon's hand, as shown by the similar faces of both characters and similar circumstances of both scenarios.
External Links[]
- Yuji Itadori on Wikipedia
- Yuji Itadori on the Jujutsu Kaisen Wiki
- Yuji Itadori on the Pure Good Wiki
- Yuji Itadori on the Shonen Heroes Wiki
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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 |