Characters / Jujutsu Kaisen: Cursed Spirits

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Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu High School (Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, Satoru Gojo) | Kyoto Prefectural Jujutsu High School | Cursed Spirits (Mahito) | Curse Users (Ryomen Sukuna) | Culling Game Players | Zen'in Clan | Others

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Cursed Spirits

In General

Malicious, immaterial monsters birthed from the errant Cursed Energy generated by humanity's feelings of anger and disdain. They are compelled by their nature to torment and bring harm to their makers, and are thus hunted by Jujutsu Society to mitigate their threat.

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• Always Chaotic Evil: Cursed spirits can develop different personalities and mindsets, but a constant for them is their malicious and sadistic nature.
• As Long as There Is Evil: Individual Cursed Spirits, no matter how strong, lack the intelligence to ever pose a genuine threat to humanity, but since Curses are born from the errant Cursed Energy generated by most humans, as long as regular humans exist, Curses can never be fully exterminated.
• Body Horror: Their appearance varies a lot, however many of them look like a bunch of human body parts sown onto an animal carcass. Even the more human-passing ones usually have significant tells.
• Demoted to Extra: Apart from being exploited by Kenjaku, Curses largely take a backseat after the Shibuya Incident, as the second half of the manga places a heavier emphasis on Sorcerers battling it out to either further their aims or prove their worldviews.
• Good Hurts Evil: Because they are beings physically comprised of negative emotions, the Reverse Cursed Technique is poison to Cursed Spirits: causing their bodies to rapidly start breaking down and guaranteeing death if they can’t break contact within a few seconds.
• Healing Factor: In contrast to Sorcerers (who can only heal using the very hard-to-learn-and-master Reverse Cursed Technique), their Made of Evil nature means Cursed Spirits can regenerate endlessly so long as they have enough Cursed Energy to reform their bodies from. Jogo, for instance, was able to survive getting decapitated by Gojo and regenerate his whole body in a matter of days.
• The Heartless: They are born from humanity's negative emotions.
• It Can Think: Zig-Zagged. Curses at Grade 4 and above can speak, strategize in combat, and even contemplate on philosophical subjects like the nature of souls or what it means to be human. But comments from characters and Word of God imply that they're incapable of resisting their Always Chaotic Evil instincts, even when it’s to their detriment, so Curses outright can't achieve genuine human-level intelligence.
• Made of Evil: Curses are created from fear and negative emotions.
• Non-Indicative Difficulty: A Special-grade Curse can vary greatly in strength, ranging from a King Mook that Toudou or Nanami can pack up no issue, to an absolute walking nightmare like Kurourushi, the Elephant God, Mahito or Sukuna.
• Our Spirits Are Different: Sapient concentrations of Cursed Energy. Their appearance, Innate Technique, and level of intelligence vary massively depending on the amount of negative emotions directed at the concept they represent.
• Power Levels: Cursed Spirits are placed on a Grade system to determine their overall power and threat, with the scale going from 4 to 1 (with 4 being weakest and one being the strongest), with Special Grade referring to ones that go beyond the typical scale. While exact power levels are difficult to determine, the basic rule of thumb goes like this:
  • Grade 4 ones are weak enough that a Muggle with a baseball bat can be expected to deal with them.
  • Grade 3 can generally be handled through use of firearms like a handgun, which would probably place them on the same level as animals like tigers or bears.
  • Grade 2 are the kind that require heavy duty firearms like a shotgun, and even that's said to be cutting things close.
  • Grade 1s represent a massive step up in threat, as it's said that even bringing a tank to the fight not be sufficient.
  • And Special Grades are said to require mass ordinance on par with a carpet bombing run to have any chance at taking them down, though, as mentioned in Non-Indicative Difficulty above, they can vary greatly in power.
• To Serve Man: Many of the biggest and meanest ones eat people.

Vengeful Spirits

Rika Orimoto

Rika Orimoto

Voiced by: Kana Hanazawa (Japanese), Anairis Quiñones (English)

Jujutsu: Immeasurable Cursed Energy

A childhood friend of Yuta Okkotsu who tragically perished at a young age in a traffic collision. She somehow returned as a Special-Grade Vengeful Spirit and started haunting Yuta as a Guardian Entity, leading him to eventually enroll in Jujutsu High in the hopes of finding a way to break her curse and let her rest in peace.

Rika commands one of the largest concentrations of Cursed Energy Jujutsu Society has ever seen in a single Curse, granting her incredible physical strength and an instinctual understanding of very complex techniques.

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• Beast and Beauty: Her relationship with Yuta is a gender-flipped example, and a twisted one at that. They were childhood friends who promised to marry each other when they grow up until Rika died from a car accident. Yuta unwittingly cursed Rika's spirit, causing her to become a cursed spirit. She becomes violently protective of him, and eventually they use The Power of Love to defeat Geto. Upon being released from her curse, Rika tells Yuta that she was happy being by his side (and arguably more so after her original death).
• Childhood Marriage Promise: Her and Yuta were very close as children and promised to get married when they grew up, even exchanging engagement rings. This connection is what bonds Rika's spirit to Yuta after death, and why she is so violently protective of him.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: She picks up on the Belligerent Sexual Tension between Yuta and Maki, and briefly refuses to help the injured Maki before Yuta gets her to behave.
• Creepy Good: Everything about Rika as a cursed spirit is horrifying, but she is still a kind young girl beneath all the Nightmare Fuel and fights for the sake of the heroic Yuta.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Oh boy. According to a bonus profile for JJK 0, Rika's life prior to meeting Yuta Okkotsu is pretty arcane but we know that both of her parents died of mysterious causes. Trouble is, Rika was with her father when he disappeared during a hiking trip while she was little with the implication being that she had something to do with it. She's been known to manipulate adults due to understanding their "perception" of her and in addition to getting testy when Yuta is around other girls, she especially dislikes older men. All these factors put together implies that something really bad happened to this girl when she was younger and she took it to the grave.
• Demon of Human Origin: Like Sukuna, she's a Vengeful Spirit.
• Disappears into Light: After the curse on her spirit is lifted, she briefly appears to Yuta in her original form long enough for some parting words before fading into the light.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Tends to dish out brutal punishment for anyone who would try to harm Yuta. This makes Yuta wary of interacting with others out of fear of accidentally setting her off and getting people hurt.
• The Dreaded: Rika's ungodly levels of Cursed Energy makes her quite the terror. Yuta Okkotsu was sentenced to death once the Jujutsu higher ups got word of his link to her, and weaker cursed spirits avoid attacking Yuta and Maki on a mission due to their fear of Rika. Although she only fully manifested twice, both occasions are treated as major events worthy of being noted in the records kept by headquarters. Finally, Gojo himself seems to not be too certain that he could exorcise her if it came down to a fight, and even refers to it as "near impossible."
• Eyeless Face: Her cursed spirit form has a distinct eyeless appearance, though a large eye appears on her face once she is at full power.
• Family-Unfriendly Death: The manga doesn't shy away from the gory nature of her death, with the top of her head being completely crushed by a vehicle. This gruesome injury is reflected by the appearance of her cursed spirit form's head.
• Giant Hands of Doom: She commonly manifests as a large pair of arms that appear to defend Yuta. More of her body manifests depending on the severity of the situation.
• Good Counterpart: To Sukuna. Both are incredibly powerful, formerly human Curses currently possessing a teenage sorcerer. But while Sukuna is a Card-Carrying Villain who hates Yuji (whom he tries to exploit or get killed at every opportunity), Rika genuinely cares about Yuta and wants to protect him (even if her current state makes this difficult for her to express). To hammer this in, she's sometimes referred to as "The Queen of Curses" much like Sukuna is known as "The King of Curses".
• Guardian Entity: She is with Yuta at all times and appears to protect him when he is in great danger.
• Inexplicably Awesome: Why a seemingly ordinary eleven year old transformed into a Vengeful Spirit Geto believes could take on Gojo is one of the driving questions of 0.It's revealed that the source of her great power is Yuta's own Cursed Energy, who turns out be a distant relative of the Gojo Clan.
• Parental Abandonment: Her profile notes, in a phrasing that implies that Rika might have had something to do with it, that her mother died suddenly when she was five, and when Rika and her father went mountain climbing shortly before she entered elementary school, the two went missing, and Rika was the only one found a week later. Her father was never found and his death was never confirmed.
• Posthumous Character: She has been dead for 6 years by the time of Volume 0.
• Power Copying: Her instinctive understanding of Cursed Energy is such that she's able to replicate other people's Innate Techniques, which she first demonstrates by creating a megaphone imbued with Inumaki's Cursed Speech for Yuta during their climatic fight with Geto.
• The Power of Love: Yuta professing his love for Rika, complete with a Big Damn Kiss, causes her power to skyrocket, allowing her and Yuta to curb-stomp Geto and his legion of curses.
• Psychopathic Womanchild: Due to becoming a cursed spirit at age 11, she still carries a very immature outlook and has childish outbursts that need to be reined in by Yuta. Her being an Eldritch Abomination with massive amounts of Cursed Energy only makes this horrifying.
• Red Baron: The Queen of Curses.
• Red Herring: It was initially implied that the reason she was able to return as a Special-Grade Vengeful Spirit was that she was potentially a sorceror, with her Dark and Troubled Past suggesting that her parents' mysterious deaths and disappearances was linked to her as the cause somehow. However, Gojo ultimately reveals that this was not the case and Yuta was the actual sorceror who subconsciously cursed her spirit to stay with him.
• Scary Teeth: Her cursed spirit form has a mouth filled with very long and sharp teeth.
• Third-Person Person: Uses her name in place of first-person pronouns, showing her childish mindset due to becoming a Cursed Spirit at a young age.
• Unskilled, but Strong: Her strategy in a fight never gets more complex than Attack! Attack! Attack! and she lacks an Innate Technique, but her seemingly bottomless well of Cursed Energy means she doesn't need anything else.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: She still views herself as Yuta's fiancée and reacts violently to threats against him.
• Wave-Motion Gun: Gains the ability to fire a gigantic one after Yuta professes his love to her and promises to join her in death.
• World's Strongest Woman: Among cursed spirits, she is regarded by Suguru Geto as an unparalleled existence due to her seemingly unlimited supply of Cursed Energy, referring to her as the "Queen of Curses". He believes capturing her will single-handedly secure his victory over his enemies at Jujutsu High, including Gojo. With her power fully unleashed, she was able to overpower Geto's Uzumaki technique when it was fueled by 4461 different Cursed Spirits while simultaneously being supported by another Special Grade Cursed Spirit. Word of God confirms she is weaker than Sukuna, however.

Kuchisake-Onna

Kuchisake-Onna

Voiced by: Hiroko Kiso (Japanese)

An Imaginary Vengeful Cursed Spirit of unknown grade that was part of Suguru Geto's collection.

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• Bandage Mummy: Its body is covered with bandages underneath its overcoat.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: It is effortlessly exorcised by Toji Fushiguro, who is able to easily deflect the can't-miss attacks within its domain before cutting it down.
• Domain Holder: It possesses an Innate Domain that it activates before asking its victim whether or not they find its appearance beautiful, attacking with large scissors if their answer displeases the spirit.
• Extra Eyes: It has many eyes on its head that are visible through its hair.
• Glasgow Grin: Translated to English, its name means "Slit-Mouthed Woman" and it has the appearance to match, with its disfigured face covered by bandages.
• Shear Menace: It wields large scissors and can summon several more within its domain to attack with.
• Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl: As one of the classic onryō spirits, it sports this look.
• Youkai: It is based on the malevolent spirit of the same name in Japanese folklore, and its abilities are directly taken from its legend.

The Worm Curse (Spoilers!)

Naoya Zen'in

Cursed Technique: Projection Sorcery

^{Click here to see his evolved form}

A Vengeful Spirit formed from Naoya Zen'in's dying hatred of his cousin, Maki. Being murdered by Maki's non-sorcerer mother allowed him to manifest and pursue her to Sakurajima Colony during the Culling Game to get his revenge on her.

For more information, see its folder under Jujutsu Kaisen: Culling Game Players.

Disaster Curses

In General

A group of four Special-Grade Cursed Spirits — their power a result of being born from humanity's greatest and long-standing fears. Though they have their own agenda, as of the beginning of the series they are taking orders from Suguru Geto in order to achieve their ambition of removing humans from the world.

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• Arc Villain: They're the first major antagonistic group in the series and are behind the conflicts for multiple arcs until they're all dispatched at the end of the Shibuya Incident, where Geto and Sukuna start taking a more active hand in things.
• Big Bad Wannabe: The Disaster Curses are incredibly powerful, but the plot makes it apparent they wouldn't get anywhere close to realizing their vision without Geto, who uses them for his own ends and is happy to discard them once his own agenda takes shape.
• Death by Irony: All of them perish in ways that are ironic to themselves.
  • Hanami loathes humans for their cruelty towards the land. In his final confrontation, Gojo directs this same lack of respect towards Hanami, referring to him not as a curse but calling him a "weed" and a "useless tree" before executing him cruelly with minimal effort. Additionally, Hanami had the ability to phase through the earth, and was noted to be the toughest of the disaster curses. ^note  Word of God stated that if Jogo, the strongest of the four, had taken as much damage as Hanami did during Yuji and Todo's team-up fight with him, he would have perished, despite his strength being greater than Hanami's Hanami is killed via Gojo brute-force crushing him with his Infinity technique, forcing the Curse against a wall underground and increasing the pressure until Hanami explodes, thus overpowering his toughness with greater strength than even he can endure. Because the wall was concrete, Hanami couldn't phase through it to escape.
  • Jogo, who loved killing humans with his Innate Technique, is burned to death For the Evulz. Additionally, Jogo firmly believed curses were higher beings then humanity and regularly chided Mahito for only ever obeying his instincts as a Curse. He dies not to a human Sorcerer; but to Sukuna, a Demon of Human Origin and stellar example of a typical Curse.
  • Dagon values the lives of his curse partners, and has an ability revolving around the summoning of endless life. In the end he is killed not by the four people who faced him, but by the raging spirit of Toji Fushiguro, someone who isn't even alive. Additionally, Toji kills him with the broken remnants of Playful Cloud, effectively the 'corpse' of a Cursed Weapon.
  • Mahito has his nihilistic outlook thrown right back in his face when Yuji's embracing it completely leads to him having the resolve to defeat the curse before dying at the hands of someone he trusted and expected to help him at his lowest point, mirroring what he did to Junpei. Prior to his defeat, Mahito showed a noticeable fear towards his own incoming demise at Yuji's hands, in contrast to how each of his fellow curses perished. Though he ends the fight being assimilated by Geto's Cursed technique, it's implied that Mahito is still somewhat 'alive' within 'Cursed Spirit manipulation', but he is now effectively a plaything in Geto's hands, with the latter being able to use his Idle Transfiguration technique at will and generally using him as a tool in his plans going forwards, mirroring what Mahito did to so many Humans to gain a combat advantage against Yuji and other sorcerers.
  • Finally, the three of them who definitely die during the Shibuya incident die to the 'strongest' of their respective categories, despite their plans only involving two of them — The Strongest Sorcerer, The Strongest Curse, and the Strongest Human.
• Death Is Cheap: They are embodiments of the immense negativity humanity feels towards specific aspects of nature. Exorcising them only removes them from the fray temporarily, but as long as negative thoughts towards these concepts exist, they'll simply return albeit with completely different egos and no memories of their previous incarnations. Jogo is accepting of this though, believing that even if the new Disaster Curses will be nothing like them at all, and will have no memory of or even fondness for their former allies, a meeting of such successors will still have meaning. Mahito, who is on his first life, isn't so receptive to this notion.
• Disc-One Final Boss: After being the main antagonists for the first part of the series, the Disaster Curses are all killed in the Shibuya Incident, after which Geto and Sukuna, the real villains of the story, take center stage.
• Dumb Muscle: All four of them are extremely capable fighters, but beyond that seem to have very poor grasp of strategy without Geto’s guidance. The plan Jogo comes up to deal with Jujutsu High without Geto’s help was, for example, “bumrush Satoru Gojo”.
• Dwindling Party: Throughout the "Shibuya Incident" arc, their numbers decrease as they fight the jujutsu sorcerers. Hanami is splattered by Gojo, Dagon is butchered by a revived Toji Fushiguro, Jogo is incinerated by Sukuna, and Mahito is absorbed by Kenjaku.
• It Can Think: Humanoid as they are, they're still uplifted Cursed spirits.
• Humanoid Abomination: While still obviously inhuman, they possess humanoid bodies and are far less eldritch looking than other curses.
• Kill All Humans: Their ultimate goal. The reason why they each want this seems to vary: Jogo believes the humans on the planet are "fakes", Hanami wants to allow the planet to shine again without humanity's cruelty, and Mahito simply disregards life and enjoys experimenting on and killing people.
• Moral Myopia: Despite having killed dozens of humans without batting an eye, they're still genuinely angered whenever their own is killed off.
• Motif: Ironically enough, the four seem to embody the stages of human life. Namely infancy (Dagon), childhoood/adolescence (Mahito), adulthood (Hanami), and senescence (Jogo).
• Primal Fear: They are cursed spirits born of the negative emotions that humans have for the earth, forests, seas and each other.
• Reincarnation: As embodiments of collective human fear, they will eventually reincarnate as new but similar beings even if they are killed. They will keep drawing power from the negative emotions associated with fear for as long as humanity exists, with Jogo speculating that it would take them about 100 years to return to the strength they are at in the present story.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: Their claim that Cursed Spirits are the true form of humanity is implied to actually hold some weight after the introduction of Master Tengen. Who implies that his current Curse-like form is what every sorcerer would eventually "evolve" into if they could live as long as he can with his technique. Further events like Naoya Zen'in's Cursed Spirit evolving from an Eldritch Abomination into a form near-identical to when he was alive would go on to give even more weight to the Disaster Curses' MO.
• Unwitting Pawn: They probably wouldn't have been willing to work with Geto if they had known he was planning to eat them once they stopped being useful. Mahito, however, claims he was aware of the truth the whole time.
• Villainous Friendship: The Disaster Curses have this towards each other, being very close. They work together, save each other when one is at risk of dying and will attempt to avenge their fallen comrades if one is killed. Brief scenes even show Mahito, Hanami and Dagon cheerfully playing together like children, showing their close bond in heavy contrast to their horrific deeds.

Mahito

See his page here.

Jogo

Jogo

Voiced by: Shigeru Chiba (Japanese), Michael Sorich (English)

Cursed Technique: DisasterFlames

A hot-tempered and overconfident Special-Grade Curse born from the negative emotions humanity feels towards the Earth.

His Innate Technique allows him to conjure and manipulate magma in various forms.

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• Adaptation Expansion: The anime gave a loving hand in showing just what Jogo's Magma Man Technique can do in full, such as shooting pure magma like a minigun from his fingertips, creating Giant Hands of Doom to smash skyscrapers together like Jenga towers and even use the top of his volcanic head as a Wave-Motion Gun. It also shows that he created his Meteor by instantly melting most of a skyscraper and the resulting heat influx pulling in even more rubble and flying cars to increase the size of it, as opposed to the manga where it seemed as if he pulled an actual meteor out of nowhere.
• Alas, Poor Villain: The end of his fight with Sukuna has him see a vision of the other deceased Curses, earnestly apologizing to them and saying that he can't wait for the day they meet again. Following that, Sukuna genuinely praises him, saying "Stand proud. You're strong." Jogo's response has him start crying, asking to know what his tears are before Sukuna burns him to a crisp.
• Anti-Magic: He and Hanami use a technique called Domain Amplification with this effect during their fight with Gojo at the start of the Shibuya Incident. It neutralizes Innate Techniques by surrounding his body with his own Domain, similar to the Simple Domain technique but an Instant Armor and not an Area of Effect. It can even bypass Gojo's Limitless technique, but has the drawback of not protecting him from physical attacks and preventing Jogo from using his own Innate Technique while Domain Amplification is active. It's implied that Geto had something to do with his use of the ability, explaining why Jogo didn't use it in his first fight with Gojo.
• Art Evolution: He was much more threatening-looking in his first two appearances, but nowadays he could pass as a Monsters, Inc. character.
• Big Bad Wannabe: While not harmless by any means (he is a very dangerous Special Grade after all), his overconfidence makes him see himself as a far greater threat than he really is. At least, compared to Satoru Gojo.
• Colony Drop: His Maximum Technique literally drops a smoldering meteor large enough to obliterate a considerable portion of downtown Shibuya on his opponent. Sukuna dodged it with ease, however.
• The Comically Serious: He's actually fairly straight-laced despite what appearances could suggest. His comedic moments stem from having to deal with the antics of others like Gojo or Mahito.
• Convection, Schmonvection: Completely Averted; the heat produced by Jogo's powers is every bit as lethally high as normal magma. When he (literally) blows his top in his first appearance, every single human except Geto, who he's implied to be shielding from the effect, is rendered a charred corpse in seconds. During the Shibuya Incident, the residual heat produced by his Magma Man attacks against Sukuna literally starts melting entire high-rise buildings.
• Defiant to the End: Even when fighting Sukuna, Jogo never once begs for his life or tries to flee. This is what gets Sukuna's respect.
• Domain Holder: His Domain Expansion, "Coffin of the Iron Mountain", take the form of a massive volcanic cavern. Along the standard Always Accurate Attack, his domain also is as hot as an actual volcano with him stating the average sorcerer would burn to death upon entering, this makes Yuji unable to move away from Gojo due to the heat.
• Establishing Character Moment: Jogo is introduced as a hot-headed misanthrope and prone to charging in battles as he tells Geto that they want to kill Gojo soon despite Geto's advice, and ends up murdering almost a restaurant room of civilians for fun.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: For all his sour attitude, Jogo genuinely cares about his fellow Disaster Curses, viewing them as true comrades, showing visible shock when Gojo kills Hanami and is incredibly solemn as he watches Dagon's body fade away.
• Evil Is Not a Toy: He feeds Itadori more of Sukuna's fingers in an attempt to use the King of Curses against the sorcerers. The King of Curses has his own plans. When Sukuna makes a wager with him that he'll fall in line if Jogo can land even a single hit, Jogo agrees, believing he's strong enough to do that much. He's very wrong. Subverted in that he's perfectly aware Sukuna isn't actually their ally and that his group could be in greater danger than the Jujutsu sorcerers if Sukuna is resurrected. But since Sukuna's resurrection would guarantee an age of curses, he's still willing to die by Sukuna's hands so long as curses eventually rule the world as people. In other words, he gave Sukuna the fingers knowing full-well it could mean his death and still fought Sukuna on the small chance he could land a blow.
• Evil Old Folks: Though he isn't even human, his hunched posture, loose clothing, uses a walking stick in his first appearance, and voice give the impression of a bitter old man.
• Evil Sounds Raspy: The anime gives Jogo a notably rough, chorused voice to further his Evil Old Folks motif.
• Familiar: His Ember Insects are essentially mosquitos with the explosive yield of a demolition charge. The anime shows Jogo capable of Flight by having the insects lift and fly him around by grabbing onto the collar of his robe.
• Foil: To Mahito, with the two of them holding completely contradictory mindsets. Jogo bases his identity around his insecurity of wanting to become a "true" human, adopting human mannerisms and even chiding his fellow Disaster Curses for acting in ways "unbefitting" of humanity's successors. Mahito, while ironically the most human-like of the Disaster Curses, wholeheartedly accepts and embraces his malicious impulses as a curse. Whereas Jogo acts with a defined end-goal that doesn't directly benefit himself, wanting to create an era of curses, Mahito simply does it because he enjoys killing humans. The narrative decidedly doesn’t really favor either mindset over the other. On one hand, Mahito is highlighted to have the most potential out of all the disaster cursed and puts up a serious fight against Yuji and Todo. By contrast, although Jogo is extremely strong, he gets completely pulverized by Sukuna as a direct consequence of him trying to ally with Sukuna to achieve the Disaster Curses' goal. On the other hand, however, Jogo is given a dignified and even sympathetic death and is shown to have an impact on Sukuna of all people posthumously. Mahito dies pathetically groveling for his life, with Yuji by the end viewing him as yet another cursed to be exorcised and with Kenjaku absorbing him, stealing his cursed technique, and throwing him out as a disposable tool.
• Glass Cannon: He completely blows the rest of the Disaster Curses out of the water when it comes to raw destructive power, but unlike Mahito his technique lacks any sort of defensive application and his body is nowhere near as durable as Hanami's. Word of God even states that had Jogo taken as much damage as Hanami did during his fight with Yuji and Todo, he would have been exorcised.
• Gonk: Compared to the stylishly threatening Hanami, the handsome Mahito, and the cute Dagon, Jogo's simply rather squat, goofy, and ugly. Yuji's first reaction to seeing him says it all:
  (screams in WTF voice) Fuji! His head is Mount Fuji!
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Fitting of his element, Jogo has a volatile and explosive temper.
• Hot-Blooded: Jogo is very passionate when espousing his views on curses being "true humans", involuntarily burns people to death when he gets excited, gets riled up whenever his pride as a curse is insulted, and possesses a fiery temper that, when coupled with his volcano tipped head, literally causes him to blow his top.
• Human Shield: Is willing to use humans as hostages or obstacles to put between himself and enemies he is running from, but the story stresses that he severely underestimates the amount of collateral damage jujutsu sorcerers can tolerate so long as they can eliminate a troublesome curse.
• I'm Crying, but I Don't Know Why: When Sukuna acknowledges him as a strong opponent, it's enough to cause Jogo to start shedding Tears of Joy. Jogo expresses confusion as what the tears mean, but Sukuna says he doesn't know either before delivering the death blow.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: He talks himself and his group up the most, repeatedly referring to himself as a "true human", and rushes at the chance to flaunt his power and crush his opponents even when warned against it. His encounter with Sukuna paints the picture of a man who prioritized the affirmation of his identity above all else, and was unable to achieve his goals as a result of constantly comparing himself to the humans he hates so much. It's very telling that upon having his strength genuinely complimented by Sukuna, he finds himself shedding tears.
• Jobber: Jogo is very, very powerful, and even gets a chance to prove it, but he has the singular misfortune of tangling with the only people who completely blow him out of the water, and loses to both Gojo and Sukuna.
• Karmic Butt-Monkey: Takes this role among the villain group thanks to his temper, overconfidence, and tendency to be on the receiving end of a Curb-Stomp Battle. This is in spite of him being the most powerful of the Disaster Curses.
• Karmic Death: Being burned alive by Sukuna, which was one of his favorite ways to eliminate humans.
• Kick the Dog: Jogo incinerates an entire restaurant full of civilians for no reason in his first appearance.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Charges in to kill Gojo, believing he could somehow take him down. Hanami's intervention is the only thing that saved him from getting exorcised then and there.
• Lightning Bruiser: He blitzes Nanami, Maki and Naobito, burning the first two before they even have a chance to react.
• Magma Man: It comes with being the personification of humanities fear of volcanoes.
• Meaningful Name: Jogo's name is written in kanji as 漏瑚, which is literally translated as "leakage". While it's already appropriate on the surface considering Jogo's body literally leaks magma, leakage can also refer to a weakness in a strong foundation, hinting at his Inferiority Superiority Complex.
• Misanthrope Supreme: Because he and the other Disaster Curses are born from negative emotions, Jogo sees them as the "true humans", claiming that humans as we know them are built entirely upon lies.
• No-Nonsense Nemesis: When he gets to Nanami, Maki and Naobito's position, he instantly incinerates all 3 of them without giving any of them a chance to counterattack.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Zigzagged. While his design is evocative of classic yokai illustrations like the typical curses the protagonists usually face, his fellow Disaster Curses are more stylistically streamlined, taking their cues from Urban Fantasy aesthetics.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: His earlier fights with Gojo portray him as a clearly outclassed Big Bad Wannabe however, he manages to defeat Maki, Nanami and Naobito with ease. He later even holds his own against Sukuna, leading the latter to compliment him.
• Not Afraid to Die: He's well aware that releasing Sukuna would make things worse for both Humanity and Curses alike. But he's content with not being around for a new age of Curses thriving later on.
• Off with His Head!: He gets his head torn off by Gojo at the end of their "fight".
• Only Sane Man: He's unrepentantly murderous, but he's capable of lucid speech (unlike Hanami and Dagon) and has a level (if cantankerous) temperament that contrasts sharply to the whimsically eccentric behaviors of Geto and Mahito. Unsurprisingly, he's often punished for being this kind of character.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: From his first two onscreen fights, he's clearly outclassed. This combined with his volatile and overconfident demeanor give the impression that he's not that much of a threat compared to Hanami and Dagon in his true form. He's actually the strongest of the trio, it's just he had the misfortune of facing Gojo. When he's fighting anyone else, he's genuinely portrayed as a dangerous threat that outclasses Naobito, Maki and Nanami and is described by Sukuna of all people as the first genuine challenge he's had in a very long time
• Personality Powers: As a volcano-themed cursed spirit, he's short-tempered even with his peers.
• Person of Mass Destruction: He throws a ball of magma big enough to engulf a city block at Sukuna.
• Playing with Fire: He's effectively an anthropomorphic volcano, able to generate rivers worth of magma and fire at will.
• Random Power Ranking: Desperately clings to Geto's assessment that he is about as strong as a Sukuna at 8-9 fingers during his duel with a King of Curses who is at 15 fingers, since he only needs to hit him once to earn a bit of his cooperation.
• Scary Teeth: Jogo's teeth are black, likely a reference to the ancient Japanese practice of ohaguro. In some traditions, teeth blackening is seen as a dignified custom to differentiate humans and animals, similar to Jogo's view of cursed spirits being superior to humanity.
• Stop Being Stereotypical: As a self-proclaimed "true" human, he criticizes Hanami and Dagon for being The Unintelligible when they should be speaking real words rather than Black Speech.
• Tears of Joy: In his final moments, he starts crying when Sukuna acknowledges his strength.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After being portrayed as a Butt-Monkey and Big Bad Wannabe when facing off against Gojo, he finally shows his true level as a Special-Grade Curse by defeating his three enemies with ease and is genuinely complimented by Sukuna of all people for his strength before he kills them.
• Underestimating Badassery:
  • In spite of Geto's warnings, Jogo thinks very little of Gojo. Forgoing the plan to seal Gojo away, he tries to confront and kill him directly. This works about as well as you'd expect.
  • To a lesser extent, while he knows how powerful Sukuna is, he assumed that he'd be capable of landing at least a single blow on the King of Curses. This estimation gets him killed.
• Villainous Valor: Despite knowing that Sukuna is powerful, Jogo still doesn't hesitate to fight him, earning the King of Curses' respect.
• What Is This Feeling?: Jogo seems unable to fully grasp what he's feeling after Sukuna calls him strong. When Jogo starts shedding tears he can only ask the King of Curses what's happening, but Sukuna claims not to know and incinerates him.
• The Worf Effect: Though he is established as a very dangerous Special-Grade Curse with great powers, his first onscreen fight has him getting effortlessly destroyed by Satoru Gojo in order to show Gojo's unimaginable strength in comparison. When he finally gets the chance to pay Gojo back in Shibuya, he's instead left running and panicking despite his prior confidence after Gojo gets serious. With Gojo out of the picture, however, his strength is made clear — he's considered to be significantly stronger than Hanami, Mahito and Dagon, and nearly kills Naobito, Maki and Nanami upon meeting them with little effort. Then Sukuna shows up at 15 fingers and completely dominates him.

Hanami

Hanami

Voiced by: Atsuko Tanaka (Japanese), Marie Westbrook (English)

Cursed Technique: DisasterPlants

A Special-Grade Curse born from the negative emotions humanity feels towards forests.

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• Achilles' Heel: Hanami is incredibly durable, with his only real weak point being the branches that stick out of his head. Gojo takes full advantage of this in Shibuya, violently ripping them out of his face and crippling him severely.
• Arc Villain: Of the Kyoto Goodwill Event arc, being the main threat that the students must deal with during the attack on the school.
• A Lighter Shade of Black: Hanami is the only Disaster Curse who has a somewhat valid reason for believing the world is better off with humanity gone. He's also capable of showing respect towards humans that impress him and never kills just For the Evulz.
• Awesomeness by Analysis: Mid-fight, he's constantly examining enemy techniques, using the time afforded to him by his durability to figure out exactly how the enemy functions and fights. This is most notably shown in his fight against Todo and Yuji, where, while constantly on the back foot, even Todo admits that Hanami is quick to wise up and he doesn't have long to take him down; that said, Todo also turns this against Hanami by letting him analyze Boogie Woogie and then immediately faking him out on its usage. Similarly, Gojo ultimately defeats him by turning this against him as well. He lets Limitless down briefly, causing the ever-analytical Hanami to lower his own power in preparation for close combat, only to reactivate his full power and kill Hanami effortlessly.
• Anti-Magic: He is capable of using Domain Amplification, which creates an Instant Armor of cursed energy around his body that neutralizes any cursed techniques used against him. It doesn't protect him from physical attacks however.
• Black Speech: Unlike the other Disaster Curses, all of Hanami's dialogue is conveyed through a bizarre inhuman text, with most of his thoughts instead conveyed through monologue. Mahito and Jogo seem to be the only ones capable of understanding him. He later demonstrates that he can make himself comprehensible to people if he wishes, resulting in them hearing his voice in their head.
• Blood Knight: Begins developing into this during the Goodwill Event arc thanks to Mahito's influence, eventually finding his battle with Yuji and Todo to be thrilling.
• Body Horror: He has two branches growing out where his eyes would normally be.
• The Brute: The toughest and most physically imposing of the Disaster Curses. Jogo outstrips them in power, but Hanami has him beat when it comes to sheer durability. It also helps that Hanami is smarter, more skilled, and more mature than the average brute.
• Conflict Killer: The conflict initially driving the Goodwill Event Arc is the students from both schools fighting after the Kyoto students are ordered to assassinate Yuji for the threat he poses as Sukuna's vessel. That all changes once Hanami arrives on the scene and attacks the school, causing all students to drop their grudges and focus on the bigger threat.
• Confusion Fu: While his build might suggest otherwise, his powers are the most obtuse among the Disaster Curses, making him as unpredictable as he is dangerous.
• Death by Irony: Motivated to destroy humanity to end its cruelty, he is murdered in an excessively brutal fashion because his killer decided he'd be the easier kill (even calling him a "useless tree") between him and Jogo, who Hanami spent much of their fight with Gojo protecting.
• Domain Holder: Hanami is fully capable of a Domain Expansion, but the one time he's about to use it against Yuji and Todo, Gojo barges into the area and Hanami immediately stops the attempt and calls it quits.
• Evil Is Bigger: Standing at a canonical height of 220 cm (just under 7'3''), Hanami towers over all of the heroes.
• Eyeless Face: In place of where his eyes should be are a pair of branches shaped like horns.
• Eyes Do Not Belong There: The flower bud on his left shoulder has an eyeball in its center that concentrates cursed energy for his Wave-Motion Gun attack.
• Fertile Feet: His Flower Field move spontaneously creates a field of flowers around him that can sap the will to fight from his enemies.
• Fluffy the Terrible: His name is derived from the japanese spring festival of blooming sakura trees. Also, he plays the Token Good Teammate to the Disaster Curses and has a gentle and somber voice.
• Gaia's Vengeance: Hanami is the Avenger type; his motivation for wiping out humanity is their destruction of the environment.
• Green Thumb: Hanami's powers involve the manipulation of cursed plants from buds that drains opponents when they use Cursed Energy, summoning roots, a Wave-Motion Gun from a flower-shaped laser cannon attached to his left arm, etc.
• Imagination-Based Superpower: The plants created with his cursed technique are actually illusions that he manifests into reality thanks to his abundance of cursed energy, and can be instantly dispersed if he chooses to. This is due to real plants not producing cursed energy, meaning that he cannot manipulate them. His power works on a similar principle to Mai Zen'in's Construction technique, but on a much more impressive scale and level of precision.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: The second he sees the Curtain keeping Gojo out, he immediately makes his leave.
  Hanami: I'm not arrogant enough to face Satoru Gojo.
• Lightning Bruiser: While Hanami has great physical strength he is also very agile as well, as shown during his fight with Todo and Yuji. One of the only reasons why he lost was because of the immensely damaging power of the Black Flash and the deceptive Boogie Woogie.
• Magic Eater: His Cursed Bud attack plants a bud on an opponent that drains them when they use Cursed Energy.
• Mana Drain: The flower bud on his left arm drains the life-force from surrounding plants and converts it into cursed energy, as real plants do not actually produce the negative energy.
• Meaningful Name: The name of the character is written as 花御, which may be read as "honorable flower", which poetically describes (at least in a Well-Intentioned Extremist fashion) his motivations. It also doubles as an Ironic Name and Punny Name, since "hanami" (written differently as 花見, "flower viewing") represents the spring-time practice of viewing sakura.
• Nature Spirit: His presence is noted to be close to that of a normal spirit despite being a curse, but he is still a being who desires humanity's extermination.
• No Body Left Behind: Hanami is completely obliterated by Gojo's Limitless technique after he is heavily weakened and unable to maintain his Domain Amplification to protect himself.
• No-Sell: Hanami is so naturally durable that Megumi and Noritoshi's attacks can barely scratch him at best, forcing them to run from him with Inumaki holding him back. And even then, Hanami is so much stronger than Inumaki that the sorcerer's throat gives out from repeated speech despite not using particularly powerful words.
• Orbiting Particle Shield: His Wooden Ball technique summons several balls of compressed branches that orbit around him to either attack or defend.
• Rule of Three: Hanami encounters Gojo three times. In their first encounter, he manages to distract him and rescue Jogo from under his nose. The second time, Hanami wisely instantly bails out and only narrowly survives Gojo‘s Hollow Purple. In their third and final encounter, Gojo kills him.
• Run or Die: What his fight against Megumi, Inumaki, and Noritoshi amounted to on their end. Unable to even scratch him, they resorted to having Inumaki use his Cursed Speech to stall him while they waited for back up.
• Sacrificial Lion: A villainous one. His death is the start of the rest of the Disaster Curses getting defeated throughout the Shibuya arc.
• Sdrawkcab Speech: Hanami's untranslated speech has this effect in the anime.
• Stealth Expert: He can mask his presence to the point that he can take someone like Gojo by surprise. Given what we later learn of Gojo's abilities, that is incredibly impressive.
• Super-Toughness: Hanami is immensely durable, able to tank several attacks that, according to Word of God, would kill a curse as strong as Jogo in just one strike. He's even able to survive Gojo's Cursed Technique: Hollow Purple attack, which destroys a large portion of the surrounding area, though just barely.
• The Unreveal: During the climax of the Goodwill Event arc, Hanami is pushed to his limits by Yuji and Todo, forcing him to use Domain Expansion. However, he is stopped at the last moment by the arrival of Gojo, never getting the chance to reveal what his Domain is like. With his death during the Shibuya arc, the audience will never get to find out either.
• Villainous Valor: Fittingly for a Noble Demon in a story where the heroes are wholly willing to be pragmatic, Hanami often acts more like a hero than a villain. He is singlehandedly going against a much larger number of sorcerers during the Kyoto Goodwill event without hesitation, expresses consistent respect for his enemies and a desire for honorable combat, even telling his foes outright that he wishes them the best in their next lives, and holds his own and keeps adapting even when Todo and Yuji are clearly winning their fight. He gets up for a second round afterward, and only finally flees when he realizes staying would require him to fight Gojo and die senselessly. That said, his Villainous Valor ends up Deconstructed in the Shibuya Incident— When Gojo seems to challenge him to a proper duel, Hanami is happy to stop holding hostages and engage Gojo in a straight fight without protection, only for the comparatively practical Gojo to immediately reactivate his full power and obliterate Hanami, showing how impractical taking that sort of attitude is.
• Vocal Dissonance: Despite his imposing masculine figure, he has a rather soothing, feminine voice in the anime. He is voiced by Major Kusanagi after all.
• Walking Wasteland: Using his Mana Drain ability saps the energy of the surrounding plant life, turning the environment into a rotted wasteland. This directly conflicts with his motives, and is thus something he only uses as a last resort.
• Wave-Motion Gun: Hanami's strongest attack is a flower-shaped laser cannon attached to his left arm, which he has to power by consuming the life force of nearby plants.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: While far from a nice guy himself, Hanami's motivation appears to be beyond mere spite or cruelty. He believes humans have gone for too long in ruining the Earth's environment, and while he does acknowledge that there are kind humans, he also knows that kindness alone just isn't enough.
• The Worf Effect: Hanami serves as the Arc Villain of the Goodwill Event arc and proves himself to be a powerhouse that requires Yuji and Todo to give it their all just to almost defeat him. During the Shibuya Incident Hanami is quickly, brutally and anticlimactically killed by Gojo just to remind the readers that Special-Grades may be threatening to other powerful characters but not to Satoru Gojo.
• You Will Not Evade Me: He has a tendency to chase after enemies with his large roots if they try escaping, and can grab them by the ankle with a surprise attack to either bring them in closer or throw them.

Dagon

Dagon

Voiced by: Kenta Miyake (Japanese, true form), Aya Endo (Japanese, as a Cursed Womb), Jamieson Price (English, true form)

Cursed Technique: Disaster Tides

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A Special-Grade Curse born from the negative emotions people have for the ocean.

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• Avenging the Villain: Distraught by Hanami’s death Dagon rallies to avenge him, but he fails to even confront the one (Gojo) responsible for his death, and is instead waylaid by an inexplicable third party.
• The Baby of the Bunch: During the Shibuya Incident it's revealed that Dagon's actually a curse womb. His rage at Hanami's death spurs him to shake this form and emerge as a much more intimidating and powerful cursed spirit.
• Berserk Button: Naobito Zen'in refusing to acknowledge that the Disaster Curses have names sets him off into an uncharacteristic rage.
• Big Eater: A particularly dark example; upon encountering Nanami's group, Dagon regurgitates dozens upon dozens of skeletons, suggesting an appetite for human flesh. We are later shown just where all those bones came from, as Dagon is seen flooding an entire room full of civilians before horrifically slurping them all down while Mahito provides a cheering chant usually used by delinquent teens chugging alcohol, complete with a comedic burp afterwards.
• Cthulhumanoid: His true form resembles common depictions of Cthulhu.
• Cute Is Evil: Dagon mostly appears as an adorable squid with googley eyes even as he aids his fellow curses in trying to wipe out humanity or "drinks" a room full of people after flooding it. It turns out this "cuteness" is because he's actually a Cursed Womb. Once he sheds it to take his true form, Dagon looks like the terrifying monster he always was at his core.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Cries out to his fellow Disaster Curses for help when he gets ambushed by Naobito, while his grief and rage at Hanami's demise spurs his evolution into a full-fledged Cursed Spirit.
• Evil Sounds Deep: When he finally speaks his voice starts off as sounding small and weak, but once he transforms from his Cursed Womb form he has a much deeper voice.
• Evolution Powerup: His cute first form is actually just a Curse Womb incubating his true form, which is much more powerful and fearsome.
• Fetus Terrible: Is revealed in Shibuya to have actually been this, explaining its weakness and lack of complete sentience — it's a Cursed Womb housing a Special-Grade Cursed Spirit.
• Flunky Boss: His Domain technique revolves around throwing countless piscine shikigami at his opponents, which are guaranteed to connect due to how a domain works.
• Fiendish Fish: In its domain, Dagon can send countless numbers of gigantic fish-like shikigami at its opponents.
• Lovecraft Lite: Its entire character is built around Lovecraft references. Its design echoes Cthulhu, and its name is lifted from Father Dagon, progenitor of the Deep Ones. Its connection to the ocean and use of fish monsters also echos the common use of oceanic themes in many of Lovecraft's stories.
• Making a Splash: Uses its control over water to attack and defend.
• Minor Major Character: Despite being a member of the Disaster Curses, Dagon's appearances onscreen are all surprisingly brief; he's rarely mentioned by the others and doesn't get a single line of dialogue for over 100 chapters. As well as dying in his first onscreen battle
• Mundane Utility: Its Domain Expansion looks like a sunny beach, and the group spends most of their time lounging in it when they're not advancing their plans.
• Non-Standard Character Design: Borders on gonkish in comparison to the other Curses in the group, due to having a small, larvae-like form, as well as large eyes spread far part on its flat face. Justified in that it is a Cursed Womb, and its form upon being released from the womb is far more threatening.
• Not-So-Harmless Villain: For most of its appearance, it was very harmless and not useful, outside of its domain being a hideout for the group. After learning of Hanami's death, it evolves into a more menacing form and becomes a much more dangerous threat. Even in its "harmless" form, it was able to devour dozens of humans at once.
• Oh, Crap!: Dagon panics when he realizes his enemies aren't grouping together to bolster their defense but to escape his domain, since, unlike certain sorcerers like Gojo, Dagon can't open his Domain multiple times a day.
• Out of Focus: Of all the Disaster Spirits, Dagon gets the least focus. While Mahito becomes Yuji's nemesis, Jogo is the group's leader with his own ideology, and Hanami is the Arc Villain of the Goodwill Event where his motivations get fleshed out and he gets a character arc. Dagon only ever appears sporadically, mostly in the background, and doesn't even getting a speaking role until over 100 chapters, then dies in his first fight.
• Power Floats: He gains the ability to levitate once he awakens into his true form.
• The Runt at the End: In his initial state, he's basically a toddler compared to the rest of the Disaster Curses and often does little more than follow them around. After his transformation, he's more or less as dangerous as his compatriots, only lacking in experience if anything.
• Shout-Out: Dagon is named for the Lovecraftian short story of the same name which, fittingly, focuses on the fear of the ocean.
• Summon Magic: Dagon is able to summon a literally endless number of sea-serpents, sharks, piranha swarms and various other sealife shikigami to attack his opponents.
• The Stoic: After changing form, he's very levelheaded, focused and dutiful, not unlike Hanami.
• This Cannot Be!: He's completely dumbfounded when Toji Fushiguro breaks into his Domain and starts turning the tide of the fight in the sorcerers's favour, unable to comprehend that a human with zero Cursed Energy could so massively surpass him, a Special Grade, in strength.
• To Serve Man: Unlike his fellow Disaster Curses, Dagon has a taste for human flesh, eating dozens of civilians during the Shibuya Incident. He promises to devour Maki, Nanami and Naobito after he kills them.
• Took a Level in Badass: In its regular form, this curse is harmless and silly-looking. While fighting Naobito, Nanami, and Maki, however, it awakens and evolves into its intended form, and becomes startlingly intelligent, competent and dangerous.
• Worf Had the Flu: Dagon's No-Holds-Barred Beatdown at the hands of Toji Fushiguro only happened the way it did because Megumi was preventing him from using his Domain's unblockable techniques, giving Toji the opportunity to overwhelm Dagon before he even knew what happened. With the later reveal that people like Toji are borderline immune to Domain Expansions, Dagon was probably doomed either way.
• Zerg Rush: His Death Swarm technique summons an endless amount of man-eating fish Shikigami that he sends at his enemies. Within his Domain, every single fish will hit its target, making it a truly formidable technique. Megumi countering the fish with his own activated Domain is the only reason the heroes are able to survive the attack.

Death Paintings

In General

Death Paintings

Unique entities which exist as a hybrid of Curse and Human, born from the unspeakable atrocities committed upon an abnormal young girl by the evil sorcerer Noritoshi Kamo^*No, not the student Noritoshi Kamo. This one is an ancestor who lived 150 years ago. . Because they are virtually indestructible Special Grade Cursed Objects, all nine are sealed in the storehouse of Jujutsu High to the present day, but Mahito breaks three of them out during a raid on the school for Sukuna's fingers — Eso, Kechizu, and Choso — who operate with Geto and Mahito in exchange for their freedom and out of a mutual agreement that siding with them was better than siding with other Sorcerers.

The three shown so far all use some variation of the Kamo Clan's Blood Manipulation, the result of another experiment by Noritoshi where he infused his own blood into their bodies.

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• Bequeathed Power: Yuji consumes and assimilates the 4th through 9th Death Paintings to gain access to the Blood Manipulation Cursed Technique and so that they may "Live on within him" without the need to possess innocent people.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite being villains, all three brothers have an unyielding love for each other. Eso cries in sorrow after Kechizu's death, and Choso to kill Yuji and Nobara in revenge. In a ironic turn, Yuji is accepted into their family once Choso realises he's another of Kenjaku's Tyke Bombs.
• Extra Parent Conception: According to Choso, he and the other Death Paintings had three birth parents: their mother who birthed them, the Curse Spirit who impregnated her, and the previous Noritoshi Kamo, who was by then another of Kenjaku's identities, who mixed his own blood into the union and subsequently aborted the still developing fetuses who still remained alive as cursed objects. Understandably, their mother is the only one that Choso loves.
• Half-Human Hybrid: The Death Paintings are half-curse, half-human, born after a horrifying atrocitiy committed against a young girl with the ability to give birth after impregnation by a Cursed Spirit.
• Long-Lost Relative: It's eventually revealed all the Death Paintings are this to Yuji, because both he and they are spiritually Kenjaku's children due to a side-effect of his Body Surf ability. As a result, Choso's ability to sense the well-being of the other Death Paintings extends Yuji as well.
• Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: They have a lot of blood, as a Required Secondary Power to their Blood Magic. Their status as half curses allows them to convert cursed energy into blood, meaning they can't die from blood loss as long as they have cursed energy to spare.
• Personality Powers: A group of brothers who cherish family as the most important thing in life who all share the power to manipulate blood.
• Poisonous Person: The exact variant of it differs a bit by brother, but their blood is dangerous due to being toxic to humans or acidic, in a reversal of how the Kamo Clan's blood is toxic to Cursed Spirits, but not to humans.
• The Pretty Guys Are Stronger: Kechizu is a bizarre monster with a huge mouth and generally the weakest member of the team. Eso, except for a large face on his back, looks human, and is stronger than Kechizu. Choso looks mostly human and is by far the strongest of the three.
• Required Secondary Power: Unlike the fully human Kamo clan, their nature as curse-human hybrids allows them to directly use cursed energy to regenerate without Reverse Cursed Technique- essentially letting them directly convert cursed energy to blood. While Noritoshi has to be conservative and carry blood bags for stronger techniques, the Death Paintings can just fire huge blood attacks willy-nilly. Choso in particular can flood an entire street with blood.
• Sibling Team: The wombs are all related by blood, and so they see themselves as a team of brothers, deeply linked through their existences.

Choso

Choso

Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese), Ray Chase (English)

Cursed Technique: Blood Manipulation

The oldest and most powerful of the Death Painting brothers, and the leader of the trio.

He has the same technique as the student Noritoshi Kamo, "Blood Manipulation", allowing him to freely control his blood and its properties. Unlike Noritoshi, he has access to much, much more, in addition to it being toxic.

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• Armor Is Useless: Averted. During the final battle in Shinjuku, Choso is hit with a fourth consecutive Black Flash from Sukuna, who had already been powered up by the three Black Flashes prior to this. Right before Sukuna lands the hit, Choso uses his Blood Manipulation to create improvised armor, severely reducing the damage and catching Sukuna off-guard just long enough for Yuji to hit him in the face.
• Art Evolution: His design is noticeably altered from his initial apperance in the manga. By the time of Shibuya his eyes are bigger and his face is considerably less wrinkled, making him look overall more handsome and friendlier. This becomes even more noticeable towards the end of the Shibuya Incident arc and afterwards, probably in preparation for his Heel–Face Turn and the revelation of his status as Yuji's older brother. The anime retains this evolution.
• Ascended Extra: He's introduced as a very minor character in the Origin of Obedience arc, and then only marginally gets more attention in the Shibuya Incident arc as he battles Yuji. However, following his Heel–Face Turn he joins Yuji and co and becomes a much more relevant secondary character, even getting an entire battle against Naoya entirely from his perspective where he plays the role of "protagonist", and afterwards stays with the main cast.
• The Atoner: Chapter 208 shows him talking with Yuki about how he had killed several humans at Shibuya. Eso and Kechizu were born with deformed bodies, and as such Choso believed that he had no choice but to live as a curse lest his younger brothers suffer as human beings. After discovering that Yuji was in fact his younger brother and that he was choosing to suffer as a human for the sake of others, Choso realized that he had chosen the easy path. He admits to Yuki that he doesn't believe he can live alongside Yuji after everything he had done, though she encourages him to try his best for Yuji's sake.
• Baritone of Strength: He has impressively deep voice that rivals Sukuna's in sheer timbre, and is highly skilled with his Cursed Technique.
• Bash Brothers: With Yuji, his literal brother (kind of; it's complicated). In chapter 256, the two of them run an effective tag team on Sukuna, resulting in them turning the tides on the King of Curses with Yuji landing an eighth consecutive Black Flash combo.
• Berserk Button: Insulting or harming his family. Realising that Kenjaku almost tricked him into killing one (Yuji) leaves him utterly furious.
• Big Brother Instinct: His most notable and endearing trait; he loves his younger brothers dearly and will react violently to anyone who would insult them. He transfers these feelings towards Yuji after his realization about their connection, and comes to protect him during the confrontation with Geto and Uraume. During his battle with Naoya, he explains his belief that as the eldest brother, all of the younger ones look up to him. If he makes mistakes they'll know what to avoid, and if he's good they'll know what to follow. Because of this he believes he carries great responsibility as the eldest.
• Bishōnen Line: He is the oldest and most powerful of the Blood Paintings, and is virtually identical to a human. Eso has Cursed Spirit-like features despite his human shape, and Kechizu is practically a full-on Cursed Spirit.
• Blood Magic: He uses the Kamo family's signature cursed technique thanks to the experimentation on his pregnant mother. Unlike Noritoshi, he shows a lot more skill and the ability to manipulate blood in larger quantities, helped by the fact that he can generate it using cursed energy.
• Bloody Murder: Choso can create condensed or slicing beams of blood, harden it as a projectile, and form a dagger of blood if needed. His most impressive showing was producing an entire wave of blood enough to entire flood a hall.
• Creepy Good: Downplayed, as while he is a little eerie looking, him being a half curse half human being makes him come off as odd. However, he proves he wishes to end Kenjaku's evil plans.
• Creepy Shadowed Undereyes: Rather prominent, albeit not as noticeable in the manga due to the lack of coloring, but the anime makes them far more obvious. They become more like Exhausted Eye Bags following his Art Evolution.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Doesn't stand a smidgeon of a real chance against Kenjaku, even when the latter is only using hand-to-hand and low-grade Cursed Spirits. Once Kenjaku breaches the Godzilla Threshold against Yuki Tsukumo, Choso's chances drop by an astronomical amount.
• The Comically Serious: Yuji is understandably weirded out by the guy who tried to kill him now calling himself his older brother. When Yuji remembers his mother, this starts getting less funny as Yuji comes to realize Choso wasn't actually far off.
• The Cuckoolander Was Right: Choso truly believes he and Yuji are related due to Choso's ability to sense his siblings through blood. Yuji is frequently confused by this, especially since they tried to kill each other prior. Choso states that with Kenjaku able to swap bodies for the last one thousand years and how he experiments on others for his own sick pleasure, Choso believes it's not impossible. With the reveal that Yuji's mother was possessed by Kenjaku, as well as Yuji's appearance bears a strong resemblance to Sukuna, Choso claim about them being brothers may be more true than it appears. Chapter 251 seems to fully confirm this, as Yuji is able to use the Death Paintings technique, Blood Manipulation in the final battle against Sukuna.
• Death Seeker: Toward the end of the Culling Game, it's shown that Choso genuinely believes he doesn't deserve to live due to killing several humans at Shibuya and holding himself responsible for the deaths of Eso and Kechizu. He tries to take down Kenjaku in a suicidal final attack, but is stopped by Yuki who tells him that his life as a curse has ended, and now his life as a human can begin.
• Defector from Decadence: His main reason for cooperating with Geto and the Disaster Curses is sharing the ideal of the Disaster Curses about curses replacing humanity, as he thinks that it will lead to a world better fit for himself and his brothers. When he learns that Geto is an impostor and in fact Kamo, the man who experimented and toyed with his mother, he turns on him immediately, doubly so because Kamo never had any intention of actually helping the Disaster Curses, who at that point are all dead. Following this he joins the heroes side, the revelation that Yuji is his brother sealing the deal with no enmity remaining.
• Easily Forgiven: Zigzagged. Even after Choso had helped the Disaster Curses in Shibuya and killed several civilians, Yuji is pretty quick to accept Choso and doesn't hold any kind of grudge against him. As time goes on and Choso realizes just how much he had screwed up, Choso isn't able to forgive himself for what he did, admitting to Yuki Tsukumo that he believes he deserves to die for what he did at Shibuya.
• Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: He carries a deep hatred towards Noritoshi Kamo (the ancestor) due to the atrocities he committed against the mother of the Death Paintings. Upon learning that "Geto" was also the original Noritoshi Kamo, Choso immediately turns on him.
• Evil Is Easy: Due to Eso and Kechizu having deformed bodies, Choso believed that they would never be accepted as humans, and so instead decided to live as curses. Choso later expresses his belief that this was cowardice on his part, saying that his brothers were strong enough to have lived as humans despite their deformed appearances. In Choso's eyes, he alone is responsible for his brothers' deaths, as he had failed as their older brother by putting them on this path that resulted in them being killed by Yuji — their own brother.
• Facial Markings: He has a crimson marking that runs horizontally across his face. Using Flowing Red Scale creates two vertical marks that intersect his eyes, and further adding the Stack technique makes the markings more elaborate.
• Fake Memories: Right as Choso is about to finish off Yuji, he hallucinates Yuji and the three Death Painting Wombs enjoying a barbecue and being best friends. This shakes Choso so much that he runs off screaming. This is eventually revealed to have been caused by his own ability, which allowed him to sense Yuji's impending death as he was about to kill him.
• Family-Values Villain: Family means everything to Choso. He near immediately expresses scorn for Naoya when the latter expresses the belief you should leave "useless" siblings to die and his look of scornful contempt as he's about to finish Yuji off instantly gives way to shock and horror when he realises the sorcerer is actually his younger brother.
• Foil: Choso's development over the course of the story has given him a remarkable resemblance to, of all characters, Aoi Todo. Both of them started off antagonistic to Yuji, but declared themselves his brothers after flashing back to fake memories with him, and Choso even becomes unlikely friends with Yuki Tsukumo, Todo's mentor. Choso also activates Piercing Blood by clapping his hands together. However, Todo is a more energetic and comedic character, maintaining his braggadocious and dramatic attitude even in the bleakest of moments, whereas Choso is more serious, with his moments in the spotlight being a lot more sober. Case in point: Choso's fake memories point to a genuine long-lost relation between him and Yuji, but Todo got his because he's a nutcase.
• Horrible Judge of Character: As beings who exist between the boundary of Curses and humans, the Death Paintings are comfortable picking either "side" or none at all with the way they view themselves. Choso, after some thought, decides to ally their group with Geto as he believes it would be the most beneficial to him and his brothers in the long run. Not only does this choice indirectly result in the deaths of Eso & Kechizu but it results in Choso unwittingly helping Noritoshi Kamo, the sworn enemy of his entire family.
• It's Personal: Choso adopts this perspective once he learns his brothers were killed by Nobara and Yuji. Upon realising that he and Yuji are brothers, he forgives the "misunderstanding" and transfers his desire for revenge onto Kenjaku.
• Laser Cutter: Piercing Blood, a sub-technique of the Kamo Clan's Convergence, essentially creates a water-cutter of razor-sharp blood that fires at the speed of sound; When Choso used it against Yuji, he more or less carved the entire subway station they were in apart with blood.
• Logical Weakness:
  • As Mechamaru correctly deduces, Choso's Blood Manipulation technique stops the process of clotting so blood can be controlled more effectively. This means Choso's blood dissolves more easily in water and makes him tell Yuji to move the fight to a bathroom and break the sprinkers and sinks — pouring water on the blood outside Choso's body in any form will stop his control over it because the osmotic pressure will rupture the walls of his red blood cells, thus he can no longer control it externally and use it like hand grenades or a water-cutter in the dry subway station. He can clot the blood inside his body or somewhere dry like inside his clothes still, but this runs risk of thrombosis.
  • Averted later during his fight with Naoya, the latter thinks Choso will start to have logical issues due to a bleeding wound, which as a Blood Manipulation user will constantly distract him with keeping it closed, but Naoya ended up being Wrong Genre Savvy because Choso isn't human and can create blood from cursed energy.
• Long-Lost Relative: It's eventually revealed Choso and the other death paintings are in fact this to Yuji, all considered children of the entity currently inhabiting Geto's body. Choso's ability to sense his brethren is extended to Yuji as well, causing him to eventually join Yuji's side.
• Love Redeems: A platonic example. Choso's genuine love for his brother Yuji is what sets him on the path of redemption, making him realize that he always had a choice between living as a curse and living as a human. While it's too late for him to bring back Eso and Kechizu, he can always still be there for Yuji.
• Master of Your Domain: Flowing Red Scale is a Blood Manipulation technique that can be used to modify bodily parameters to achieve drastic physical improvement, while this usually runs the risk of causing blood clots, thrombosis and other systemic issues. Choso's Healing Factor can severely mitigate (though not nullify) potential internal damage, allowing him use to it with far greater frequency.
• Made of Iron: Shrugs off a beating and a huge knife wound from Naoya... only to knocked out cold via Offhand Backhand by Yuta. Kenjaku absolutely beats the brakes off of him twice, with Choso even leaving the battlefield to heal only for Kenjaku to put him down again.
• My God, What Have I Done?: After pulling a Heel–Face Turn for Yuji's sake, Choso realizes that he never needed to become a curse in the first place, feeling genuine remorse for killing several humans at Shibuya and blaming himself for the deaths of Eso and Kechizu, believing that he's responsible for bringing them down the path that lead to their deaths.
• Nice Guy: Once he undergoes his Heel–Face Turn, Choso becomes much softer towards others and an overall nice person to Yuji and his friends.
• Not So Above It All: In the anime, the usually stoic Choso makes a smug smirk at Jogo after Mahito backs up his desire to kill Yuji, which Jogo was against. When he finds out that he and Yuji are actually brothers, Choso asks Yuji to refer to him as "Onii-Chan" during a life-or-death battle against Kenjaku, and is later overjoyed when Yuji calls him "Aniki".
• Not So Stoic: Upon learning from Yuji his brothers cried as they died together, Choso becomes furious.
• Overdrawn at the Blood Bank: Choso summons a The Shining-esque deluge of blood when fighting Naoya Zen'in. The narration reveals that because Choso is a half-curse, he can convert cursed energy to blood, giving him a much larger amount to work with than a human sorcerer. As long as he has cursed energy remaining, he won't die of blood loss.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He is softer and more emotive with his siblings, even asking Yuji to call him "Onii-Chan", which is incredibly cutesy and childish. Additionally, despite his regular stoic demeanor he completely looses it and goes into a rage when his family or siblings are in game. Learning that "Geto" is actually Noritoshi Kamo makes him fly into an Unstoppable Rage, and Naoya having disparaging words about siblinghood prompts Choso to give a deeper speech about his thoughts on the matter as he nearly murders Naoya. Later on, Yuji calling him "Aniki" also makes him gasp in glee as it means Yuji is recognizing him as his older brother, at least on some level.
• Poisonous Person: Like his brothers, he can make his blood poisonous. After making his Heel–Face Turn, he does this when attacking Uraume and is able to take them out of the fight, allowing the heroes to break free of the ice. He also makes use of it against Naoya, almost killing him.
• Punch-Clock Villain: Choso possesses no animosity towards humans, but still willingly went along with the Disaster Curses' plan to wipe out mankind and murdered people in Shibuya because he believed it would be easier for his brothers to live in a world of curses with their deformed bodies than live in a world of humans. He regrets this following his Heel–Face Turn and has since been working to atone for his actions.
• Removed Achilles' Heel: He has Blood Manipulation like the Kamo family. While even human users of the Technique have an amount of versatility that borders on Master of All, it has a fairly glaring drawback of the user's naturally very limited amount of blood, which typically requires them to harvest blood over time and carry it around on bags. Choso has no such issue because he is half curse and thus can convert cursed energy into new blood, enabling incredibly aggressive moves using huge amounts of blood that the Kamos couldn't even dream of besides for a Suicide Attack.
• Ship Tease: He's surprisingly gotten moments with Yuki Tsukumo since they both partnered up to protect Master Tengen. During their fight with Kenjaku, she praises his skills and later mentions her type of man is the hard-working guy who's rough. She says this after he briefly leaves and says is again just as he returns to get the drop on him, hinting she may be interested in him on a romantic level.
• Sole Survivor: With Kechizu and Eso dead, Choso is the only Death Painting not still sealed or dead.
• The Stoic: Choso is the most levelheaded member of the trio, and is rarely ever seen with anything but a stonefaced, empty expression. As mentioned above, he tends to emote more when the topic of brotherhood (be it about his own siblings or the idea in general) is brought up however.
• Super-Reflexes: Flowing Red Scale: Stack focuses blood flow onto his extra-ocular muscles, which improves his eyesight and reaction speed enough that he can track the movements of someone using Projection Sorcery.
• Torso with a View: In Chapter 246, Choso is casually punched straight through the chest by Sukuna, who's barely even taking the fight seriously. Thanks to Choso's powers, however, he's able to survive. 10 chapters later, however, Sukuna goes in for another punch on Choso and lands a Black Flash... but this time Choso is able to cushion the blow by creating improvised armor, making it clear just how much weaker the King of Curses has gotten thanks to his own injuries.
• Tranquil Fury: Upon learning of his brothers' deaths, he breaks a piece from a board game while grimly noting they died, with his shaking on his hands nothing he is furious.
• Unstoppable Rage: Choso goes absolutely ballistic upon making the two-fold discovery that A, 'Geto' is in actuality Kenjaku, the man responsible for his and his brothers' cursed existence, and B, that Kenjaku manipulated Choso into almost killing Yuji, who it turns out is Choso's younger brother.
• The Worf Effect:
  • Choso is a powerhouse who has had both Yuji and Naoya Zen'in's numbers in a fight, but when Kenjaku invades Tengen's barrier on November 16th, he is little more than Cannon Fodder, something he doesn't even try to deny. While he can still defend himself to an extent when Kenjaku is only brawling and using low-grade Cursed Spirits as familiars, once Kenjaku starts pulling out one stop after another to beat Yuki Tsukumo, Choso isn't left with a smidgeon of a chance, with the evil sage casually dodging Choso's Piercing Blood at point-blank before making him eat dirt with his Gravity Master powers.
  • A very interesting example in the climactic battle against Sukuna. In chapter 246, Choso attempts to snipe Sukuna with Piercing Blood when he isn't looking, only for Sukuna to notice and effortlessly speedblitz Choso and pierce him straight through the chest with a single attack, showing just how much stronger the King of Curses is compared to everyone else. In chapter 255, however, after Sukuna had taken a Jacob's Ladder from Yuta, been stabbed through the heart by Maki, and taken several soul-targeting attacks from Yuji, Choso tries to do this exact same attack and just like before Sukuna notices him... except this time Sukuna can barely dodge it by a few feet. The next chapter, just like before, Sukuna goes in for a punch against Choso (a Black Flash no less), and this time Choso is able to form improvised armor to cushion the blow and is able to stay in the fight even after taking that. So that's to say, Sukuna's performance against Choso establishes just how much stronger he is compared to everyone else and makes it clear just how much the heroes have managed to take out of the guy.
• Worf Had the Flu: He's a special grade hybrid Curse who handily bested Yuji, who even had assistance, and later took on and defeated Naoya — however, he gets oneshot and instantly knocked out by Yuta Okkotsu. At that point he was extremely worn down from the fight with Naoya and was taken by surprise. Not that he could have fared particularly better than Yuji or at full strength, as Yuta is one of the strongest characters in the entire series.

Eso & Kechizu

Eso & Kechizu

Eso voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama (Japanese), Landon McDonald (English)

Kechizu voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (Japanese)

Cursed Technique: Rot Technique

Eso

Kechizu

Two Death Paintings who were tasked with obtaining Sukuna's fingers. They face the Tokyo first years while on a mission to obtain a finger under the Yasohachi Bridge.

They share the "Rot Technique", which allows them some degree of control over their blood, as well as making it extremely poisonous.

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• Adaptational Modesty: In the anime, Eso wears full tights on his lower body as opposed to the thong, garters and leggings worn in the manga.
• Affably Evil: Eso is surprisingly polite and friendly, and was fine with giving Nobara the chance to flee before their fight.
• Alas, Poor Villain: Eso's death is noticeably tragic, with him desperately trying to run away after Kugisaki kills Kechizu, whose death he is clearly heartbroken by. Itadori is left quite crushed, and only recovers after a heart-to-heart with Kugisaki in the aftermath.
• Arc Villain: Of the "Origin of Obedience" arc.
• Belly Mouth: Kechizu has a second face with a gruesome mouth where his stomach should be. Eso also has one, but unusually, his is located on his back.
• Berserk Button: Eso mentions that he'll kill anyone who looks at the face on his back. This is immediately followed by Yuji and Kechizu popping up right behind him. The both of them immediately apologize for staring at his back. In hindsight, it's Foreshadowing that Yuji is related to them.
• Black Eyes of Crazy: Eso's eyes have pitch black sclera, though he isn't as insane as most examples aside from the odd complex about his back.
• Bloody Murder: Their blood is very corrosive when activated with their technique, and can kill within minutes.
• Killed Off for Real: Eso and Kechizu are killed by Kugisaki and Itadori after a tough battle.
• Man of Kryptonite: Not themselves, but the opponents they end up facing: Yuji and Nobara are both awful matches for them. Nobara can use their blood infection to unavoidably deal damage to them both via Resonance (and is willing to drive nails into her own arm to do so), while Yuji is is mostly unaffected by their technique due to Sukuna's nature.
• Poisonous Person: The Decay technique makes their blood both poisonous and corrosive.
• Power Gives You Wings: Eso's Winged King technique sprouts wings made of solidified blood from his back, greatly increasing his speed and mobility in addition to giving him a long-range attack. However, he cannot use this ability while the Rot technique is activated.
• Stripperiffic: Eso appears to be dressed like a Chippendale. When asked about it, he claims "it (ie. the face on his back) gets stuffy!" It's entirely possible that that was simply what his vessel was wearing before he took over. His outfit is less revealing in the anime, but he still retains the male stripper motif.
• Sympathy for the Devil: While Yuji destroys them without hesitation because they are an obvious threat to humanity (and are trying to kill him), he still feels sorrow upon realizing how deep their brotherly bond goes.
• Underestimating Badassery: Eso assumes that Yuji and Nobara are weak enough to fall to his Cursed Technique within minutes without fighting back. They then instantly turn the tables on the both of them, with Nobara sticking her nails in her body to use "Resonance" on them, while Yuji's resistance to poison (due to being Sukuna's vessel) allows him to fight Kechizu without any hassle.

Other Curses

Finger Bearers

Finger Bearers

A type of Special-Grade spirit created by Cursed Wombs that have consumed one of Sukuna's fingers and taken its power for themselves.

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• Elite Mooks: Being Special-Grade spirits, it's a given. They have no names or individual relevance beyond their first appearances and are merely remnants of one of the Big Bads. But it's the fact that they're remnants of an unfathomably powerful Cursed Spirit that makes them dangerous.
• Healing Factor: The first Finger Bearer displays the ability to regrow missing limbs, though it seems to take a little effort to do so. When it seems pleased with itself, an unimpressed Sukuna mockingly praises its ability while pointing out that regrowing missing body parts is remarkably easier for a cursed spirit than it is for a sorcerer.
• It Can Think: They don't seem to be able to speak, but they notably have a sense of pride and sadism. The first one encountered knew that it was outmatched by Sukuna, but still attacked him anyway.
• Kamehame Hadoken: Their primary method of attack is to project the massive reserve of Cursed Energy Sukuna's finger gives them as a beam.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • The first Finger Bearer quickly realizes that Sukuna is bad news. Not that it stops it from attacking him.
  • The second one gets a little distance from Megumi when the latter tries to summon Mahoraga, sensing that whatever Megumi is about to do is dangerous.
• Shoddy Knockoff Product: They pale in comparison to the actual Sukuna.
• Small Role, Big Impact: The first Finger Bearer ever encountered. It's not even a named character, and does not survive past its chapter, but a single encounter with an abomination of that caliber is all it takes to convince Yuji of how dire the task he's getting into is.
• Too Dumb to Live: Special mention goes to the curse in the picture, who thought it was a good idea to attack Sukuna.
• Unskilled, but Strong: They lack any sort of refined technique, and just throw bolts of raw Cursed energy in hopes of vaporising their opponents. They can also create an incomplete Domain, but they make no use of the benefits that come with it.
• Wake-Up Call Boss: The very first Special-Grade that Yuji, Nobara and Megumi face. It's after an encounter with one of these things that they start actual training.
• The Worf Effect:
  • Yuji and Megumi stood no chance against the first one they face, and Yuji resorted to unleashing Sukuna to get rid of it. Sukuna promptly dominates it with no effort, while only possessing 10% of his power.
  • Megumi encounters another one in the Death Paintings arc. Although he gets overwhelmed at first, he manages to kill it with the newfound power of his incomplete Domain.

Ko-Guy

Ko-Guy

Voiced by: Mitsuaki Kanuka (Japanese)

A Grade 2 Curse born from the negative emotions humanity feels towards Grasshopper swarms, Yuji battles it during the start of the Shibuya Incident.

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• Beware the Silly Ones: Despite its idiocy, it's still introduced eating a civilian. Mei Mei also suggests that its strength is Grade 1. Yuji doesn't let its silly nature stop him from mercilessly killing it.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: It's a Grade 2 curse born from negative feelings toward grasshopper swarms, manifesting as a humanoid grasshopper towering over humans.
• Dumb Muscle: Not particularly smart, despite its belief otherwise.
• Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: It believes itself to be exceedingly clever, boasting of its intelligence and calling Yuji not clever. While it may be smart enough to be capable of speech and rudimentary strategy, it's apparent to both readers and Yuji that the curse is exceedingly dumb.
• It Can Think: It possesses a sense of self and personality that other cursed spirits of its level haven't shown, not that it helps with its intelligence.
• Laughably Evil: Despite being a man-eating Grade 2 curse, it's also hilarious with its comical overreactions to Yuji pointing out it's not nearly as smart as it thinks it is using basic common sense.
• Multi-Armed and Dangerous: It has four arms, not that they do any good against Yuji’s two arms in a straight fist fight.
• This Cannot Be!: Its reaction to Yuji somehow managing to beat the crap out of it using only his two arms to both attack and defend against its four arms.
• To Serve Man: It's introduced chowing down on a human, having already bitten their head off.
• Unskilled, but Strong: According to Vol. 11 extras, the only reason Ko-Guy is classified as a Grade 2 Cursed Spirit is because it doesn't possess a Cursed Technique. However, even without one, its raw strength makes it as powerful as a Grade 1 Cursed Spirit. Unfortunately, having superior strength does not make it a superior fighter, as it realized all its strength was useless when up against the more skilled Yuji.
• The Worf Effect: It's quickly and completely thrashed by Yuji to display that he's reached the level of a Grade 1 Sorcerer.

Smallpox Deity

Smallpox Deity

Voiced by: Yuji Murai (Japanese)

A powerful Special-Grade Disease Cursed Spirit born from humanity's hatred of Smallpox. It was added to Geto's collection of cursed spirits, who deploys it to combat Mei Mei and Ui Ui in Shibuya.

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• Creepy Cemetery: Its Domain Expansion takes on the appearance of a dark and ominous cemetery, representing all the lives lost by its disease.
• Death from Above: The Grave technique captures enemies within a coffin before dropping a massive gravestone on top of it. If the enemy survives, it will begin a three-second countdown that will instantly kill its target with disease if they are unable to escape.
• Domain Holder: It possesses a Domain Expansion that it pragmatically activates immediately once confronted.
• Fog Feet: It has no legs and floats above the ground in a manner reminiscent of a djinn.
• Plaguemaster: As a manifestation of the sorrow created by its namesake disease, the Always Accurate Attack within its Domain inflicts a sickness that will instantly kill its target if the proper conditions are met.

Kurourushi

Kurourushi

A Special-Grade Cursed Spirit born from the negative emotions caused by cockroaches, it was trapped in Geto's Cursed Spirit collection before he freed it so it could participate in his Culling Game.

For more information, see its folder under Jujutsu Kaisen: Culling Game Players.

"Elephant God" (Spoilers)

Elephant God

'Troot' this.

A Special-Grade Cursed Spirit Kenjaku imported from abroad born from the curse of an Asian God known as the remover of obstacles, the Elephant God is a Kaiju-sized elephant and one of the many aces up Kenjaku's sleeves.

Its Cursed Technique lets it "Remove any obstacle".

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• Combination Attack: The Elephant God can entangle its controller's Cursed Technique unto the targeted "obstacles". In Kenjaku's case, this lets him send an entire battallion of Special Forces tumbling into the sky... before dropping them to their deaths by releasing the Technique's hold on them once they reach terminal height.
• Cruel Elephant: Nothing about this thing looks friendly.
• Humanlike Hand Anatomy: It has four humans arms and two legs and walks with all six when it's hunched over, which only makes it look freakier as it makes praying gestures while throwing military men to their imminent death via Cursed Technique.
• Kaiju: For reference, The Elephant God is sitting on the White House in the picture, and it is as fearsome as it is enormous.
• The Worf Effect: Despite its great power, it is instantly vaporized by Yuki Tsukumo's Fastball Special, showing that Special Grade Sorcerers are in a whole 'nother ballpark when it comes to power compared to Special Grade Curses.

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