Jujutsu Kaisen

Artwork for the show, with all the less important characters removed

“Satoru Gojo is my favourite character from Ohio.”

~ Oscar Wilde

Jujutsu Kaisen, also known as Gojo's Bizarre Adventure, is a Japanese manga about a group of high schoolers whose irresponsible teachers put them in various dangerous situations to get them killed. The manga is written and illustrated by Gregory the Dreadful, an individual that falls somewhere between Oda and Fujimoto on the weird scale.

Jujutsu Kaisen rapidly rose to popularity after the animated adaptation of Jujutsu Kaisen was produced by MAPPA studios in 2020, which was a stunning success for MAPPA financially and luckily didn't result in the studio taking on increasingly impossible workloads from here on out. The manga continued to garner traction following the animation of the prequel series Jujutsu Kaisen 0 and peaked in popularity in 2023 following the second season of the anime releasing in conjunction with the Gojo vs. Sukuna fight. The series concluded in September 2024 following an ending that makes Attack on Titan fans look greedy by comparison and makes the average audience member wonder how an author using Bleach as heavy inspiration for their series managed to make the same mistakes as Bleach did in its conclusion. In spite of this, a third season of the animated adaptation is set to release in 2025 with heavy anticipation.

Plot

We begin with a fifteen-year-old high school boy with no parents by the name of Yuji Itadori. Yuji is a member of a delusional weirdoes club, doing research into cursed objects. Just when you thought Yuji couldn't be more of a shounen protagonist, his grandfather fucking dies. A local sorcerer by the name of Megumin Fushiguro informs Yuji of a cursed finger belonging to Sukuna, the evilest sorcerer in the world. Yuji eats the finger for dinner. (Within the Jujutsu world, eating fingers is a crime punishable by death.) Fortunately a teacher at Megumin's school, Satoru Gojo, decides it would be funny if Yuji actually found and ate all of Sukuna's fingers and also attended the school. Yuji then watches movies for 114 episodes straight. He enjoys hit classics such as Star Wars Holiday Special (1978).

Yuji returns to his friends in class. The principal orders the students to kill Yuji as punishment for the fingers. Is that ethical? I'm glad you asked. After that, the school gets attacked. (It wouldn't be a school for shounen unless villains attacked it every season!) Gojo does some cool stuff, and then the kids go under a bridge to kill some curses and stuff. The end.

Characters

Primary protagonists

Satoru Gojo

Gojo's eyes are a little more ambitious than the rest of the visuals.

Despite not being the main character, Gojo comes first in this list because everyone who has ever watched the show likes him as their favorite character. Anyway, Gojo is a laid-back teacher with Saitama-level abilities. Gojo constantly hides his eyes because they are very pretty and the animation budget couldn't cover their being in frame for more than two seconds per episode. Unfortunately, due to the fact he is indeed not the main character while also being not the strongest anymore ‘The Strongest’, he suffers from the fact he must be completely useless in almost all situations, including one’s that are relevant to the plot. Gojo is also a raging homosexual friends with Suguru Geto, someone who like Gojo is completely useless throughout his existence and ironically enough did more with his corpse than he actually did with his life.

Gojo’s ability, known as “infinity”, has become so well-known that power-scalers now have to save a bottle of Jack Daniels for when someone comes to tell them Gojo low-diffs their favorite anime character. It should be noted that infinity only managed to kill a glorified potting plant and that one Pitbull your neighbor swears is actually the nicest thing ever, but most are too encapsulated with Gojo’s eyes to care anyways.

Yuji Itadori

Yuji is a fifteen-year-old boy with an ancient sorcerer by the name of Sukuna inside him. Uh, that sounds a bit weird now I'm thinking about it. Yuji is the best at sports but refuses to join the track team. This makes sense because track and field sports absolutely suck. Yuji's goal in the series is to find and consume all twenty of Sukuna's fingers because he has a hand fetish, Yoshikage Kira's ideal job. He is still grandfatherless and fatherless and motherless.

Megumi Fushiguro

Megumi Fushiguro, son of famed homeless man Toji Zenin, is a chronically useless character that only serves as an outlet for the author to release frustration on by constantly shitting on him. Despite being a total prodigy of the Zenin clan, the son of the best Heavenly Restriction user in the entire series, and having Gojo has his mentor, his only win was against someone that most people cannot name. He was also fingered by Sukuna.

Megumi is most remembered for his divine dogs that appear less effective than the NYPD’s K-9 unit and Mahoraga, who is the only part of Megumi that is relevant in the plot past the exposition arcs.

Nobara Kugisaki

(editor’s note: who is this? There is no Nobara Kugisaki, and she definitely doesn’t get retconned back into the story because Gege didn’t know how to write an ending…)

Yuta Okkotsu

The only good character. 

Primary antagonists

Noritoshi Kamo (Kenjaku)

One of two primary antagonists of the series, Kenjaku is a sorcerer from over a thousand years ago that is a certified freak. For how horrible he is described as, the only major plot point about him that is brought up by fans of the series is that he took backshots from Yuji’s father and raised Yuji to birth, which wasn’t even really necessary in hindsight because his plans still didn’t need Sukuna anyways.

Kenjaku’s first apperance was at the start of the story, where he had stolen Suguru Geto’s corpse after he was defeated by Yuta in JJK0. While many believe he had stolen the corpse so that he could obtain Geto’s cursed technique as well as ambush Gojo at some point, the real reason was that he was convinced that if he showed up to Gojo’s doorstep again he would be able to get infinite backshots (just like Geto did). His true identity was not revealed until the Shibuya Arc however when he revealed to Gojo that Geto didn’t even like him like that fr, and then promptly sealed him in the Prison Realm.

Kenjaku’s primary goal is to enact the merger through the use of the Culling Games, which he enacted by doing BDSM on Mahito until he agreed extracting Mahito’s technique. Kenjaku later explains that his main goal with the Culling Games is to start a merger with all individuals that have cursed energy that would combine everyone in Japan into a single ‘thing’; what this would mean or what this would create if the merger was activated was unfortunately blocked by a cursed technique known as “Gege can’t do world-building”.

Ryomen Sukuna

A cursed spirit that is arguably the biggest hater in modern manga, Ryonmen Sukuna is the other antagonist that spans the entire duration of the manga. Introduced in the first chapter following Yuji getting fingered by Sukuna in the throat, Sukuna plays a fairly passive role in the majority of the manga until the final arc where Gege decided he didn't even want to write this shit anymore and just let him take over Megumi instead. Using a cursed technique that is way more complex than it should be considering it's just cutting shit in half, Sukuna is effectively able to beat every sorcerer he has ever encountered with little to no difficulty with the exception of Satoru Gojo.

Sukuna, like Kenjaku, is also from the distant past. While Kenjaku is significantly older than Sukuna, both are hundreds of years old and represent the pinnacle of sorcery in their own respective manner. Unlike Kenjaku however, Sukuna is more similar to Gojo than he is to Kenjaku due to his disinterested attitude towards the world as well as viewing Kenjaku as a morally bankrupt individual due to Kenjaku's various acts of rape and torture throughout his existence; this is definitely above the 'cannibal rapist' tier of moral bankruptcy apparently that Sukuna happily resides in.

Unlike Kenjaku, Sukuna also has actual friends, that being Uraume. Befriending them in his own time, Uraume has become a quintessential aspect of Sukuna's life, which for Sukuna means being a being a fat fuck and needing someone to cook and store food for him. While the nature of their relationship is somewhat ambiguous due to the lack of panels with the two, the fact that Uraume was male originally coinciding with the distinct possibility they are romantically involved somehow makes this the most gay aspect of the entire series (which is really something when you have half the fan-base shoving Gojo/Geto garbage down your throat).

Mahito

A cursed spirit born from mankind’s hatred of the Patriots’ dynasty in the 2010’s. Because of the amount of hatred said dynasty has accumulated, Mahito is given one of the most powerful abilities in the series known as Idle Transfiguration. Idle Transfiguration gives Mahito the ability to change being’s physical body at will, which unfortunately for Mahito only comes into use against characters that are completely useless anyways.

Mahito is considered a disaster curse like Jogo, Hanami, and Dagon. Unlike the others however, he isn’t stupid enough to fight a homeless man or the strongest characters in the series. Unfortunately this also means he needs to have a bullshit weakness to the main character so that he can get his ass beat, namely that the only people who can be affected by his ability are people who aren’t Patriots fans; Yuji being from the Boston Metropolitan area means that he is fully resistant to Mahito’s technique and is eventually able to defeat him in the end of the Shibuya Arc.

Toge Inumaki

Tuna.

Aoi Todo

An in-series example that half of the people with cursed techniques just fucking suck at using them, Aoi Todo is the only useful student at Kyoto that doesn't immediately get murdered. Todo's technique, "Boogie Woogie", allows him to clap his ass-cheeks to switch the positions of objects with cursed energy; he is also the only person in the series to figure out that the main antagonists are totally helpless when it comes to planning beyond what's right in front of them and used his 530,000 IQ to assist in defeating all three main antagonists over the course of the plot.

Todo is hated by most other characters in the series to some extent due to his brash and unapologetic nature; in his first meeting of Yuji Itadori he challenges him to a fight to prove his worth. After Todo begins to fight someone that isn't from Kyoto however, Todo realizes that his entire school is filled with the equivalent of my ranked teammates in Call of Duty and immediately befriended him to prevent himself from getting killed off by the main antagonists.

Maki Zen’in

Gege's way of ensuring that Toji is still essentially in the plot for the entire duration of the series, Maki Zenin is a Heavenly Restriction user that attends Tokyo as a second year. Unlike her sister who would be better off just listening to Naoya from how useless she is, Maki is often held back in the series due to misogyny within the Zenin clan as well as the Zenin clan being ran by what seems like a combination of the people working at the DMV and Al-Qaeda. Like Toji, she completely lacks cursed energy; unlike Toji however she doesn't have a bum of a child to raise, so she isn't tarnished by having a disappointment directly related to her.

Maki is revealed to be weaker than Toji at first due to her being a twin sister of Mai; once Mai gets dunked on by her father and realizes she's not built for this, she allows herself to die in exchange for Maki to gain Mai's strength. This allows Maki to beat the AliExpress Toji allegations and go on a killing spree of the Zenin clan that makes Kill Bill look tame by comparison.

Unlike most of the other characters in the series, she is heavily implied to have romantic interests; that person being Yuta Okkotsu. While the average audience member is often wondering how a kid that looks like he has shell-shock is dating someone like Maki, one must remind themselves that Yuta is also a total freak as well (I mean he has both kisses of the series being with cursed spirits, if he's willing to do that he's definitely an absolute freak in the sheets).

Nanami Kento

A man with a love for sandwiches and working an office job, this jujutsu sorcerer has a great deal of power. His powers include Tie-Wrapped-Around-Hand, Spotty Sword, and Overtime.

Miwa Kasumi

The strongest sorcerer of them all. She has blue hair and a sword! (She's sooooo cute!!!!)

Jogo

A cursed spirit that was likely Gege’s self-insert since they’re constantly getting touched by Gojo and Sukuna, his only major contribution to the narrative was ensuring that the strongest are shown as the strongest by getting violated horribly every time he had to throw hands. While he is indeed a strong character in the story with his technique and even featuring a domain expansion, it didn’t matter because every fight he was in was Coughing Baby vs. Hydrogen Bomb where he was featured as the latter. Jogo is also the reason that Nanami gets turned into Two Face, but really his only contribution otherwise was a yapping session about ‘morals’ and ‘life’, whatever that means.

Hanami

A tree born from Nanami Kento's wiener. Kento raised the baby tree, and named him with a similar name to his own so he wouldn’t accidentally forget it. Hanami becomes evil because he saw Jogo and remembered that he loved watching Monsters Inc. as a child.

Suguru Geto

Gojo's ex-boyfriend, this man has powerful powers. He can summon cool monsters and, like, do cool moves. Gojo decides to kill him because he didn't invite him to his birthday party.

Spike Spiegel

A character from a different show. Oops.

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The Shibuya incident

The death and suicide of Satoru Gojo. The coolest guy who is now dead. Forever, probably.

Here's where the series gets interesting for the first (and only) time: Gojo is pressured into fighting a bunch of monkeys at the Shibuya Incident Zoo in order to save Yuji. You see, these monkeys have captured Yuji to eat his fingers, just like he ate Sukuna's like an idiot, in order to gain the powers of Sukuna. The zoo is closed, so Gojo can't get inside. He commits suicide by cutting himself in half like a dumbass. While this is going on, heroes such as Maki Zen’in GET BURNED HORRIFICALLY and Kento Nanami FUCKING DIES because of Jogo, the guy I mentioned earlier. If you forgot about him that's fine because he dies too. This was during the battle of Urethra Utopia, the place where every cursed spirit comes from. Every important character, like Yuta and maybe others, are trying to stop this utopia from taking over the United States. Why? Who fucking knows.

Meanwhile, Yuji gets eaten by the monkeys because everyone forgot he was captured. The monkeys turn into mini-Sukunas. The spirit of Sukuna is resurrected, and he commands the monkeys to do his bidding.

"Rise, my monkeys!" Sukuna, the king of curses, cries. "Stop the sorcerers from defeating Urethra Utopia!" They all head to Urethra Utopia and fight against the jujutsu sorcerers. While this is happening, Yuta eats a sandwich, which he found next to Nanami's corpse. Somehow Gojo has returned. He heals himself, then remembers he needs to suck Sukuna's two remaining penises. With his mouth and lips puckered he zooms off into the night, ready for some intense and nasty fellatio. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that, while this is happening, this brain with teeth is possessing Geto's dead body. It's weird and unimportant. Anyways, the monkeys are trying their hardest to defeat the jujutsu guys, but they aren't strong enough on their own. Sukuna, pissed off at this, gathers them all and turns into a giant monkey Sukuna. Megumi Fushiguro, the guy with spikey hair and animal puppets, is so shocked by this that he has a heart attack. Nobara Kugisaki does not get to see Monkey Sukuna, however, as Mahito is too busy murdering her. That's when a miracle happens, and we enter the next arc of the series.

Norm Peterson

"What's going on here?" a voice exclaims in the distance. Monkey Sukuna looks up and notices the silhouette of someone entering Urethra Utopia. It's him! Norm Peterson from the sitcom Cheers! Woah, what the fuck Gege Akutami?! I didn't know about this. Anyways, just as Norm enters, so does Satoru Gojo.

The real king of curses

"It's been a long time," Gojo says, a small tear falling from his eyes.

"Yeah, it sure has," Norm responds with a smile. "You don't need to find and suck Sukuna's last two penises. I've taken care of that."

Gojo smiles. "You always knew how to one-up me, Norm."

Norm acknowledges this and takes his shirt off.

"Let's do this, Monkey Sukuna."

Monkey Sukuna rages towards Norm, but Norm is too quick! He dodges his first attack, following up with one of his own. A powerful punch to Monkey Sukuna's face, he falls over, crushing several buildings in this.

"MY UTOPIA!" Sukuna cries.

"Go fuck yourself," Norm replies like a badass. He grabs Sukuna by the throat and delivers a flurry of punches to his face. With this, Sukuna is finally defeated. Urethra Utopia is no more. Gojo and Norm lock eyes, and with that, Norm takes his leave.

Everyone is overjoyed. Sukuna is no more. Yuji is also dead, but then he comes back to life.

"What happened?" Yuji says.

"Norm ..." Gojo replies. "Norm saved us."

And that's why the cast of Jujutsu Kaisen has erected a statue of Norm Peterson, and they all pray to it every morning for good luck. Unfortunately, things get boring real fast when the brain possessing Geto becomes relevant and tells everyone: 

"It's time for a Culling Game." And then everyone groaned and sighed.

The Culling Game arc

Actually all filler; just skip chapters 143–220. During this arc 285 characters are introduced, coming to about five characters per chapter. With more convoluted abilities and explanations than Hirohiko Araki could ever dream of, this arc proves to be harder to read than Finnegans Wake. Megumi and Yuji play the teenager sex game "Seven Minutes in Heaven" and Sukuna takes the opportunity to stick Yuji's finger in Megumi's mouth, causing him to switch hosts. Contrary to popular belief this wasn't a strategic move, because even Sukuna has his limits, and Yuji has a seriously grotesque and vile mind. If Yuji ever acted out his sick fantasies, Sukuna would not want his name associated with such acts.

Spin-offs

On January 1st, 2025, Jujustsu No Kaisen was released by some random fuck on Twitter, which entails an alternate ending. Originally created as a fan-response to issues within the series, it has shown definitively that the average reader of manga cannot write better than a kindergartner and can’t draw better than a double-arm amputee.