Megumi Fushiguro (Fem)

Megumi Fushiguro is the deuteragonist of the Jujutsu Kaisen series. She is a grade 2 jujutsu sorcerer and first-year student at Tokyo Jujutsu High alongside Yuji Itadori and Nobara Kugisaki. Megumi is Tsumiki Fushiguro's stepsister, and as Toji Fushiguro's daughter, she is also a descendant of the Zenin Clan, of which she is currently the 27th head. Megumi was born outside the clan as Toji's trump card and was eventually found by Satoru Gojo, who mentored her and enrolled her at Jujutsu High as his student.

Megumi is a relatively tall and slim young woman with fair skin and dark-blue eyes that slant upwards to denote her harsher and colder personality. She has uniquely styled black hair with long spikes that jut out in every direction around her head, resembling a sea-urchin (according to Kinji Hakari). When first meeting Megumi, Gojo noted the resemblance to her father Toji, and Megumi herself has similar facial features and the same eyes as her late father.

Following the Shinjuku Showdown Arc and her separation from Sukuna, Megumi acquires three facial scars corresponding with the eyes of Sukuna's incarnated form: one scar below Megumi's left eye, and two scars where the eyes of Sukuna's "second face" were.

Megumi typically wears a standard Jujutsu High uniform with a dark blue jacket over a long-sleeved white dress shirt. Her uniform pants match her jacket and only reach to just above her shins. She wears long black socks that cover her exposed ankles and finishes her outfit with low-top brown shoes. She also has a blue tracksuit for training.

Megumi is a very outwardly stoic, aloof, and calculating individual. She usually has a neutral facial expression that she rarely changes, making it appear as if she takes every situation seriously. This contrasts heavily with Yuji, Nobara, and Gojo's outgoing and goofy personalities, which often annoy Megumi. She's easily irritated and Yuji has noted that Megumi seems like she's always slightly angry.

Even as a child, Megumi was very stern, earnest, and thoughtful, to the point where Gojo questioned if she was a first-grader when they first met. She didn't care for her father and assumed she and Tsumiki were abandoned. Megumi understood her situation with the Zenin Clan and stood firm that she would only cooperate if Tsumiki were happy as well.

Megumi has always been annoyed by Gojo's attitude ever since they first met. She didn't care for the idea of becoming a sorcerer and became more jaded about it over time. By the time Megumi reached middle school, her impersonal attitude had fully set in. She thought becoming a jujutsu sorcerer would be pointless as she didn't see herself as someone who saves others. Uninterested in making friends, Megumi believed the basis of human interaction was avoiding violating someone else's dignity. She would beat up school bullies who ignored this rule to feed their egos, gaining a reputation as the biggest troublemaker in school as a result. Tsumiki wanted her to stop getting in fights but Megumi didn't listen and wrote her off.

Megumi hated bad people with unearned pride just as much as she did good people who were too merciful to the former. Tsumiki was a perfect example of a good person to Megumi but she would disagree with and get annoyed with her anytime she scolded Megumi for hurting someone bad. After Tsumiki fell into an unending sleep, Megumi realized she was acting immaturely. She knew Tsumiki was choosing to protect and that she believed that her lack of forgiveness was her way of showing kindness. After Tsumiki was cursed, Megumi was filled with regret and found the drive to become a sorcerer so she could save Tsumiki.

As a jujutsu sorcerer, Megumi developed her sense of justice and is steadfast in her interpretation of right and wrong. Like her mentor, Megumi refuses to be influenced by traditions within the jujutsu world. Yuji should've been executed when they first met but Megumi ignored the rules and made a personal request to Gojo to protect him.

Megumi was unsure for a while if she made the correct decision. She was uncomfortable with the idea that she was someone who saved people. She believed saving the wrong people could hurt innocent people in the future, which made saving Yuji a contradictory decision. Megumi cast aside her uncertainty when she came face-to-face with the consequences of her choice, Sukuna. She decided the only thing that's fair in life is how it's unfair to everyone and sorcerers can be a cog in karmic retribution. She wants more good people like Tsumiki to receive fairness and that's why she'll save people unfairly. Megumi realized that she didn't save Yuji because it was logical, she did it because she didn't want to see a good person die. She knows it was a selfish and emotional decision but she's okay with that because she's not a hero, she's a jujutsu sorcerer. That is why Megumi never regretted saving Yuji, not even for a second.

Being unable to save Yuji or Tadashi Okazaki during the detention center incident left Megumi pondering her role as a sorcerer. She asked Maki what kind of people she wanted to save, only to be annoyed by her response. Megumi and Nobara weren't exactly friends at this point, but Yuji's premature demise brought them closer together. It was the first time either of them lost a friend in battle and they decided to honor him by participating in the Goodwill Event to honor their fallen friend, swearing to get stronger no matter what.

In response to Aoi Todo's classic "what kind of person do you like?" question, Megumi said that she doesn't have a preference as long as her partner is compassionate. She was trying to de-escalate the situation but this only irritated Todo due to their opposing personalities. When it came to blows, despite being outmatched, Megumi never backed down. Megumi didn't hold any resentment toward Todo and was uninterested in a rematch, which disappointed Panda.

Megumi didn't have any loyalty to the Zenin clan so she didn't reciprocate Noritoshi Kamo's familiarity with her. She rejected Noritoshi's belief that as descendants of the Big Three Families, they were obligated to kill Sukuna's vessel. Megumi expressed that she didn't care about being right or wrong and acted only according to her conscience. She told Noritoshi that she would save people unfairly and if they disagree, they would have to agree to curse each other instead.

Megumi was distant with Yuji and Nobara despite considering them her comrades and friends. She was so embarrassed when they visited her middle school that she couldn't speak properly. Yuji and Nobara felt Megumi never shared much with them and hassled her for about her secretiveness. Megumi even blushed when she was reunited with Takeda and was annoyed with Akari Nitta for making her the one to speak with the faculty member. She never shared information on Tsumiki's condition with any of them, Nobara didn't even know she had siblings.

Even when Megumi found out Tsumiki could be in danger, she initially refused to involve Yuji and Nobara. They assured her she didn't have to share everything but asked that she depend on them as her friends. This encouragement helped Megumi admit the truth about Tsumiki's condition and her concerns. Yuji and Nobara dismissed the danger of the mission and told Megumi she should've led with that information. Pleased with her comrades' willingness to help her, Megumi smiled.

Megumi, who lacks any sort of competitive edge, can feel insecure about her strength as a sorcerer. She made it a point to tell Yuji she would surpass him after the Goodwill Event. Pressured by Yuji's rapid growth, she even went to Gojo for training when any interaction between them is a hassle for Megumi. Gojo made Megumi realize her mindset was holding her back from bringing out her best. She relied too heavily on a failsafe and only achieved her growth when she decided to be selfish and visualize a stronger future for herself. This aided Megumi in achieving domain expansion for the first time, while she was untethered and smiling like a madman.

Megumi and Yuji have a shared guilt for accidentally incarnating Sukuna. They both accepted responsibility for Sukuna's rampage in Shibuya. While Yuji felt he couldn't return to Jujutsu High, Megumi believed that was a selfish route. She doesn't think anyone can judge jujutsu sorcerers so they must continually prove their existence by saving people. Megumi told Yuji he could start by saving her, a plea for help to rescue Tsumiki from the Culling Game.

Megumi feels no loyalty or connection to the Zenin clan, treating Tsumiki as her family. The only member of the Zenin clan Megumi interacts with is Maki, and their relationship is more friendly than familial. Maki wanted Megumi to help her by becoming the head of the clan after Naobito's death but she was completely uninterested. Megumi's reserved personality immediately led her to reject the position, claiming it was too much of a hassle. She isn't very materialistic and social status isn't important to her either, so she couldn't care less about the fortune she'd receive. She told Maki she'd step down so she could lead the clan instead. Even after Maki pointed out several legitimate reasons why Megumi would be a more acceptable head, she continued to stubbornly push back simply because she didn't want to do it. It was only when Megumi realized how important it was to Maki that she accepted.

While Megumi cares about protecting those close to her, that same concern doesn't extend to herself. She feels responsible for Sukuna so she doesn't allow Yuji or anyone else to express concern for her regarding the King of Curses. She and Yuji even argued because Megumi didn't want to hassle their senpai just for his own safety. She told Yuji that line of thinking is selfish and an annoying waste of time. Megumi's desperation to protect others, especially her sister, was on full display when she needed help from Hakari and Kirara. Megumi prostrated herself and begged for help. She even used her status as the head of the Zenin clan to win Hakari over.

Unlike Yuji, Megumi had zero qualms about killing other humans in the Culling Game. Megumi's sole focus was saving her sister and she immediately conflicted with anyone who stood in her way. She even threatened to kill Remi, a weak woman, for leading her into an ambush. When Reggie Star attempted to recruit Megumi, she felt that Reggie and Remi were wasting her time and they almost instantly came to blows. Megumi always figured Reggie and his group were always using Remi but she never realized it. When it became clear and she begged Megumi to help her, she told Remi that she was the type of trash who cares more about words than deeds. After making her first ever human kill, Megumi remained calm and trusted in her own judgment. Confident in herself and her allies, Megumi resolved to wave away any difficulties that crossed her path on the way to rescue her sister.

Megumi only put her cynicism and mistrust aside in the Culling Game when Fumihiko Takaba helped her. Fumihiko's eccentric personality reminded Megumi of Todo and she didn't laugh at his jokes, but they were still able to communicate and work together. Despite their clashing personalities, Megumi even felt comfortable asking Takaba to try and steal Iori Hazenoki's points, viewing him as a potential ally for the future.

When Sukuna forcibly took possession of Megumi's body and forced her to kill Yorozu (who incarnated into Tsumiki's body), Megumi's soul had been plunged into despair losing her reason to fight and live, so much so that she could not bring herself to accept help from Yuji when the latter accessed the barrier between her and Sukuna's soul. When speaking to Yuji's soul once more and hearing her friend understand her emotions while admitting that without her he would be lonely, Megumi regained enough will to use her technique to hold Sukuna in place for Yuji. It was thanks to these efforts that Megumi grew back the resolve to reject Sukuna's attempts at demoralizing her further, and declared that she would return to living for others' sakes before the King of Curses was stripped away from her soul.

Her hobby is reading and she likes non-fiction.

Favorite food: Food that pairs well with ginger.

Least favorite food: Red bell peppers and all sweet side dishes.

Cause of stress: People (almost all). When her shikigami gets destroyed, she becomes depressed. People like Fushiguro get more sad over the death of an animal than the people she doesn’t know.

She watches the news and reads newspapers, but doesn’t believe half of them.

Gojo and Maki taught Megumi Hand-to-Hand Combat and how to use weapons.

During Megumi's first mission, Gojo watched over and teased her.

Fushiguro has had friends pass away during her career as a jujutsu sorcerer.

After their parents vanished, Tsumiki basically did all the housework. Megumi helped to a degree. Gojo had intervened before the little money left by Tsumiki’s mother was used up.

Megumi has a strong memory.

She doesn't sincerely respect Inumaki because the latter will soon join Panda and Gojo when they're playing around.

She has never laughed out loud until the Death Painting Arc.

Before she enrolled in Jujutsu High, she did not join missions. She observed Gojo, who acted like her supervisor, taking her out to missions on a few occasions.

The tablet she uses is owned by Tokyo High. It's handed by the accompanying assistant manager when necessary.

She got acquainted with Maki and Mai before entering the school. When Gojo worked out the problem of Megumi and Zenin family, he took Megumi to Zenin clan’s house. Megumi met Ogi's daughters for the first time when they went around the house.

Megumi first met Gojo when she was in 1st grade.

Megumi prefers casual clothes/clothes you'd wear around the house.

According to Akutami, Megumi's hairstyle tends to be erratic.

Overall Skill Level: Megumi is a grade 2 sorcerer who possesses one of the highest potentials of any student at Jujutsu High regardless of age. She inherited the prized Ten Shadows Technique of the Zenin clan and is favored by the strongest sorcerer himself. Gojo believes that Megumi could become as strong as he is and has stated she likely possesses even more skill and potential than Yuji. Mai Zenin commended her as a genius who started school ranked grade 2. Noritoshi Kamo mirrored the same sentiment, claiming Megumi's age is irrelevant because of her inherited technique, and that she was even more reliable than the drunk Head of the Zenin clan. Even Sukuna took a special interest in Megumi due to her unique talents.

Immense Tactical Intellect: Megumi's most reliable and imposing asset as a sorcerer is her mind. She is a young genius, a cerebral fighter whose focus in a battle is to outwit her opponent rather than overpower them. Megumi assesses all threats logically and deals with them in a strategic manner. Using her advanced deducting reasoning skills, Megumi thinks of clever ways to deal with every situation as it comes. This is regularly showcased by Megumi's consistent talent for deducing her opponent's strengths and weaknesses in the heat of battle.

Megumi possesses a wealth of knowledge about jujutsu and an expert-level understanding of it, equal to that of full-fledged sorcerers. As a student, Megumi lacks an excess of battle experience but she makes up for the difference with her tactical mindset. Her fundamental understanding of sorcery enables her to take the lead on missions, or even go out on her own without much guidance. Megumi was able to give a solid explanation of the basics of curses to Yuji, someone totally uninitiated. In the detention center, Megumi was the only one of Gojo's students who could recognize a domain and assess its threat level while also taking into account its incompletion.

Megumi's jujutsu knowledge extends to reading the behavior of fellow sorcerers. Megumi figured out the Kyoto Team's objective during the Goodwill Event by tracking their movements. Fully aware of how sorcerers tend to view Sukuna's vessel, Megumi quickly realized the Kyoto Team was trying to assassinate her ally. As a former associate of one of the Big Three Families, Megumi had prior knowledge of Blood Manipulation before she fought with Kamo. Quickly after witnessing Flowing Red Scale in action, Megumi noticed her opponent was essentially doping. In order to deal with Kamo's boost in speed, Megumi took a tactical approach. She used a Toad on its last legs to distract Kamo and then took advantage of the time gained from this to summon Max Elephant. By using Max Elephant to flood the area with water, Kamo's physical advantage was nullified and he was forced outside into an open space where Nue could capitalize.

Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Megumi is a strong fighter who has never been afraid to get in close to hit her opponents. She's always been stronger than normal people her age, able to effortlessly beat down a human pile of bullies on her own. In one of her earliest missions, Megumi was already strong enough to destroy a curse with just the swipe of her bare hands. Megumi has a fast and graceful style of fighting that's evidence of her comfort in close combat. However, by sorcerer standards, Megumi was still weak at close range when faced with dangerous threats, especially without the help of her shikigami. Sukuna was impressed by Megumi's willingness to engage in hand-to-hand combat despite being a shikigami user but the King of Curses easily overpowered Megumi even while she was supported by shikigami.

Maki trained Megumi to be more reliable in close combat but she prefers to supplement herself with weaponry rather than fight unarmed. Megumi only truly excels at hand-to-hand combat while her domain boosts her cursed energy reinforcement. When her sword was broken by the Finger Bearer, Megumi rapidly summoned shikigami alongside her taijutsu to overpower the special grade. The same occurred when Megumi used shadow clones in the domain to barrage Reggie with combinations of punches, flying kicks, and elbows.

Expert Weapons Specialist: Megumi was trained by Maki, the best cursed tool user at Jujutsu High, to use a variety of different weapons. She can keep cursed tools in her shadow, so Megumi is capable of swapping out multiple weapons for herself at any time. Maki began by teaching Megumi with a polearm she quickly became comfortable with, and after nearly two months of training, Megumi was able to use a pair of tonfa for the Goodwill Event. In her fight with Kamo, Megumi was able to make effective use of the tonfa, especially on the defensive, using them to block Kamo's enhanced strength until they were broken.

Advanced Endurance: Megumi is especially tough for a human being, with high pain tolerance, exceptional stamina, and especially impressive durability. She's shown her toughness on numerous occasions where she was able to withstand a beating and survived the battle, sometimes even overcoming her own exhaustion to achieve victory. Megumi can survive direct attacks from even special grade cursed spirits. She suffered a beatdown at the hands of Sukuna without any major injuries. Todo also overpowered Megumi in a similar fashion, but in both cases, Megumi never passed out and she continuously refused to back down.

Cursed Energy Capacity: While not on the level of a special grade, Megumi has a very high volume of cursed energy. She's constantly summoning shikigami while also reinforcing her body with cursed energy in battle. Megumi displayed immense reserves of cursed energy in numerous drawn-out battles while rarely fully exhausting herself. She can summon up to three shikigami at the same time and uses multiple summonings in every fight.

The Ten Shadows Technique is an inherited technique passed down in the Grimm Clan. Using shadows as an intermediary, this technique allows the user to summon ten different shikigami.

When someone inherits the Ten Shadows Technique, they receive two Divine Dogs. Other shikigami can be summoned with an exorcism ritual where the user must defeat the shikigami in order to make them submit.

Once dominated, the shikigami are under full control of their master and can be summoned using shadowgraphic hand signs that create a shadow puppet of the respective familiar. The shadows act as the intermediary for the shikigami conjuration, reflecting the shape of the user's hand-weaved shadow puppet and manifesting the shikigami from tangible liquid shadows using cursed energy. After gaining more familiars, the user can repeat the ritual process to exorcise and amass up to ten different shikigami.

Shikigami of the Ten Shadows Technique cannot be summoned again when they are completely destroyed or killed. However, the power left behind by the shikigami is inherited by others. In the case of the Divine Dog shikigami, if the white or black dog dies, its twin will inherit its power and can be summoned in a far more ferocious form. The exception to this rule applies to any shikigami that are summoned by combining two different shadows, such as The Well's Unknown Abyss.

In addition to using shadows as an intermediary for shikigami, a Ten Shadows Technique user can manipulate shadows to some degree as well. They are able to move physical mass in and out of shadows at will. This allows them to hide their body inside shadows whether it be their own or someone else's. They can eject themselves from shadows at will as an effective means of surprise attacking their target. This same function can be used to store items within the user's shadow, but they must bear the weight of anything kept in there.

The complete version of the Ten Shadows Technique's Domain Expansion, Chimera Shadow Garden, has yet to be fully explored. Megumi is able to achieve an incomplete version that floods the area with liquid shadows that he can freely manipulate and use to summon shikigami at will.

Divine Dogs are a pair of twin wolves, one black, one white, capable of tearing curses apart with their fangs and devouring them. Each of the dogs can detect curses and notify their master when one gets close. Their tracking abilities allow them to find lost allies and locations as well.

Nue is a winged shikigami resembling an orange-ish owl with a white skeletal face with normal teeth and purple eyes, armed with great speed and electric-shock wings. It can support its master by carrying them while flying to increase their mobility, and can attack with its heavy wings charged with electricity, shocking anyone it hits and leaving them temporarily paralyzed. It's especially effective for taking opponents posted in high places off guard or in combination attacks with other shikigami. In addition to basic offensive applications, Nue's speed and wings can also be used defensively to shield its master from harm.

Toad is a large frog shikigami that can support its master using its long tongue. Its tongue can be used to ensnare its master's target and is strong enough to throw and slam them into objects. The speed of the Toad's tongue is useful for helping its master or an ally out of harm's way. Its large size also allows it to carried injured humans in its mouth.

Great Serpent is a giant snake shikigami that can quickly attack and ensnare its master's targets. It appears suddenly from the shadows to immobilize the target within its mouth, making for an effective surprise attack. The Great Serpent's size allows it to overpower large curses and can also be used to keep a target in place while another shikigami attacks. Megumi's Great Serpent was ripped apart and completely destroyed by Sukuna.

Max Elephant is a pink elephant shikigami that can spew large volumes of water from its trunk. It can also be used to crush its master's target with its weight. However, it cost a lot of cursed energy to conjure when compared to other shikigami. Megumi only acquired it just prior to the Goodwill Event.

Rabbit Escape is a massive swarm of white, red eyed rabbit shikigami that serve as a distraction for the user. Upon activating the technique, dozens of rabbits fill the area to distract the opponent, allowing the summoner to escape danger by using the chaos to their advantage.

Round Deer is a towering deer shikigami with 4 eyes that can heal through reverse cursed technique. Its positive energy is powerful enough to cause another sorcerer to lose control of physical objects strengthened by cursed energy.

Piercing Ox is an ox shikigami that can charge with immense strength. It can only move in a straight line, but the longer its charge, the more powerful it is. Its physical strength is robust enough to match up against a reincarnated sorcerer from the Heian period.

Tiger Funeral is a striped tiger shikigami with protruding fangs and huge red eyes. It's claws, imbued with a special kind of Cursed Energy attack the enemy for the master and leave a wound that not even Round Deer could heal. It's a overall very offensive kind of Shikigami.

Eight-Handled Sword Divergent Sila Divine General Mahoraga is the most powerful shikigami available to be summoned that no one in the Grimm Family has ever been able to force to submit. It is armed with the Sword of Extermination (it emits positive Cursed Energy, so it destroys anything fully made with normal Curse Energy in one strike), as well as the ability to adapt to any and all phenomena.

Ultimately, the Ten Shadows technique can add multiple Shikigami through 2 ways. 1st, Totality. When a Shikigami becomes dead and unusable, Totality adds that shikigami's ability to another, rendering the main Shikigami stronger. And Infinite Well's Unknown Abyss combines two Shikigami without the need for one to die beforehand. Examples are:

Divine Dog: Totality is an improved version of the black Divine Dog shikigami which inherited the power of its fallen white twin and attained a werewolf-like appearance. It is a well-balanced shikigami with the ability to attack, defend, and provide support for its user. Its notable traits are its immense speed and powerful claws capable of damaging special grade cursed spirits.

Merged Beast Agito is an improved humanoid version of the Nue shikigami which inherited the powers of Great Serpent, Tiger Funeral, and Round Deer. It is a powerful, towering shikigami capable of producing electricity and regenerating with reverse cursed technique.

Last thing, a master of the Ten Shadows technique can use any specific Shikigami's ability through a technique known as extraction, giving the trait to the master for a short period of time that increases through training. This is the technique of Megumi Fushiguro

Cursed Energy is a form of spiritual energy that leaks from humans as a result of their negative emotions. It makes up the bodies of cursed spirits, and is utilized by jujutsu sorcerers and curses alike to fuel their jujutsu.

Negative emotions such as fear, grief, anger, hatred, and envy are the foundation of cursed energy. These emotions exist to some degree within most humans and as a result, the vast majority of human beings possess cursed energy. If this amount is higher than a certain degree, it grants the person the ability to see cursed spirits. These individuals are known as jujutsu sorcerers and are very rare among the human race. Cursed energy leaks from the human body, accumulates, and ferments over time until a cursed spirit manifests. This is only the case with non-sorcerers, as sorcerers are trained to control and channel their cursed energy into jujutsu.

Cursed energy is the primary power source for any sorcerer or cursed spirit; sorcerers voluntarily produce said energy akin to the generation of electricity, and since negative emotions are the trigger, sorcerers train to create cursed energy from the slightest spark of emotion. Cursed tools, cursed objects, and cursed corpses all contain cursed energy as well. It is ordinarily used to fuel cursed techniques, reinforce the body, or activate talismans, but cursed energy has various uses. The properties of cursed energy vary from person to person and its connection to the human brain is shrouded in mystery. In the anime, most cursed energy is blue in color but there are several exceptions.

Cursed Techniques are abilities fueled by cursed energy. Different types include innate techniques, barrier techniques, shikigami, New Shadow Style, and more.

Reverse Cursed Technique is a special type of cursed technique that converts cursed energy into positive energy primarily used for healing injuries.

Reverse cursed technique turns cursed energy into positive energy to regrow missing body parts and heal wounds. Cursed energy comes from negative emotions, unfit for healing living things. Reverse cursed technique uses the principle of multiplying a negative by another negative to produce a positive. While cursed energy flows from the gut, the brain directs reverse cursed technique. Positive energy can reproduce blood, bone, flesh, and organs, allowing proficient jujutsu sorcerers to recover entire limbs and withstand powerful attacks. The speed and effectiveness of this process are dependent on the user's cursed energy output. Reverse cursed technique can also remove toxins from a sorcerer's body and heal damage to their soul, though both of these skills are even more difficult than simple regeneration.

Reverse cursed technique is extremely complex and difficult for most jujutsu sorcerers to perform. One of the primary hurdles when using it is compensating for blood loss through a technical process that converts a massive amount of cursed energy into blood. Individuals who are naturally capable of doing this, namely the Cursed Womb: Death Paintings, can learn to use reverse cursed technique much easier than others and use it without the drawback of large energy consumption.

Most reverse cursed technique users can only heal themselves, as it is more efficient and less difficult to perform than healing other people. One reason is the fundamental difference in application. Another is because the cursed energy of the healer and the receiver can be incompatible due to the receiver's body rejecting the healer's cursed energy or failing to respond to the conversion. Due to this, the effectiveness of healing other people is case-by-case.

Cursed spirits are manifestations of cursed energy and need only to manipulate it to heal instead of resorting to reverse cursed technique. They are vulnerable to positive energy because it can compromise the integrity of their bodies and destroy them.

Domain Expansion is an advanced barrier technique and is considered the pinnacle of jujutsu sorcery. It manifests the user's innate domain into reality inside a barrier infused with their innate cursed technique. Within a domain expansion, the user's cursed techniques are improved and any that are activated are guaranteed to hit.

Domain Expansion is the most supreme technique of any jujutsu user. It is achieved by expanding one's innate domain with cursed energy while using a barrier to construct it inside a separate space. The caster then imbues their cursed technique within the barrier to complete the expansion, allowing them to deploy their innate ability throughout the entire domain.

A specific hand sign or signal unique to the user is required to expand someone's respective domain. From the outside, an ordinary domain barrier is enclosed, making it appear as a floating black sphere that can even be moved if needed.

Domains that are expanded to be lethal are constructed within a barrier imbued with the user's cursed technique. The caster's abilities are amplified and any cursed techniques deployed within the domain are guaranteed to hit their target. This "guaranteed-hit guaranteed-kill" factor is derived from the barrier's embedded technique, which is what makes this type of domain considered lethal. These sure-hit attacks even bypass Satoru Gojo's Infinity.

In the past, Domain Expansion was a more common technique because domains weren't constructed to be fatal. They were only imbued with a guaranteed-hit effect, which forced targets inside to obey the rules of the embedded cursed technique. As more domains were constructed to be lethal and include guaranteed-kill effects, the number of users greatly decreased over time. Hiromi Higuruma's Deadly Sentencing is an example of an old-style, non-lethal domain that forces his opponent into a trial.

Innate domains that are expanded using only cursed energy without an embedded cursed technique are incomplete even if they include a barrier. In most cases, the same applies to domains without a fully enclosed barrier. Closing the barrier fully integrates the embedded technique into the domain and enables its sure hit effect. Without that, the caster will only receive an improved cursed technique without a sure-hit effect. Barriers forcibly enclosed using the shape of an outside environment also do not incorporate sure-hit effects.

Chimera Shadow Garden is Megumi Fushiguro's domain expansion using the Ten Shadows Technique.

While still incomplete, Chimera Shadow Garden floods the area with thick fluid shadows. This grants the user the ability to manifest multiple shikigami, as well as advanced manipulation of all available shadows.

With an enclosed barrier, Chimera Shadow Garden traps the target inside the user's shadow, recoloring the entire space into a negative palette. It also conjures a large object that resembles two columns of a spinal bone with bow-shaped ropes tied and roots attached to it. This disappears soon after the initial casting of the domain.[2][3]

Anyone standing in the shadow will have to reinforce their feet with cursed energy or risk falling into the abyss.[4] Within the liquid-like shadows, there is no buoyancy, resistance, or oxygen. Anyone who has dropped into it will fall indefinitely.

Megumi first manifested Chimera Shadow Garden in a battle against a Finger Bearer by freely imagining himself going beyond his limits. The activation of this technique used nearly all of Megumi's cursed energy, resulting in physical backlash. This, coupled with Megumi's inexperience, resulted in an improper Domain Expansion without a complete barrier or a sure-hit effect. Even so, the domain was effective enough to enhance Megumi's Ten Shadows Technique to a greater degree than normal.

The floor of flooded shadows can quickly reshape itself into shadow Toads that can grab onto Megumi's target. He can also surf using these frogs to move across the waves of shadows at high speed. Multiple versions of Nue can be created as well, capable of flying around and attacking the opponent rapidly.

Aside from creating more shikigami, Megumi's manipulation of shadows improved greatly as well. After suffering what appeared to be a fatal blow, Megumi was able to fake out his opponent with a shadow double. In order to finish the fight against the Finger Bearer, Megumi used his amplified technique to hide in the curse's shadow with Divine Dog: Totality and dealt the killing blow from behind.

During the Shibuya Incident, Megumi used Chimera Shadow Garden to enter Dagon's Domain Expansion. He entered through a large explosive geyser of shadows that could expand to his allies. This allowed Maki Zenin access to the weapons cache within Megumi's shadows, or more specifically: Playful Cloud.

While fighting in the Culling Game, Megumi considered using Chimera Shadow Garden when he found himself outnumbered by Reggie Star and Iori Hazenoki. However, with his domain still incomplete, it would've been foolish to expand it without being able to trap his opponents. Instead, Megumi was able to separate Reggie from his partner and lure him into a spacious gymnasium he deemed a perfect fit for his domain. Unable to use barrier techniques very well, Megumi forcibly enclosed the barrier by converting the gymnasium into his domain and trapped Reggie inside.

The domain was still incomplete and couldn't incorporate a guaranteed-hit function, but it powered up the Ten Shadows Technique's overall potential to 120% of its maximum. Reggie didn't realize the domain didn't have a can't-miss attack and attempted to counter with Hollow Wicker Basket. That technique neutralizes barriers rather than cursed techniques themselves and was unable to stop physically manifested Toads from binding Reggie. The increased performance of the Ten Shadows Technique allowed Megumi to summon two clones to fight beside him. They were able to move in and out of Reggie's shadow as well and the three of them quickly overpowered and pummeled their adversary.

Satoru Gojo is one of the main protagonists of the Jujutsu Kaisen series. He is a special grade jujutsu sorcerer and widely recognized as the strongest in the world. Satoru is the pride of the Gojo Clan, the first person to inherit both the Limitless and the Six Eyes in four hundred years. He works as a teacher at the Tokyo Jujutsu High and uses his influence to protect and train strong young allies.

Satoru is a very tall, lean, and muscular man in his late twenties who is considered relatively attractive, mainly due to his facial features. He has snow-white hair and the Six Eyes, which are a vibrant blue color. Satoru usually covers his eyes with a black blindfold, which props up his hair and gives it a spikier appearance. Satoru wears sunglasses and lets his hair down to the base of his neck when sporting a casual look.

While working, Satoru wears a dark blue zip-up jacket with a high collar, which is also fairly broad. He wears matching slim-fit black pants and black dress boots. Before switching over to a simple blindfold, Satoru used to wear bandages over his eyes. Satoru enjoys wearing expensive clothing[6] and has several casual looks he pairs with wearing his sunglasses. As a Tokyo Jujutsu High student, Satoru wore the standard school uniform with his sunglasses before adopting any makeshift blindfold.

Satoru is a complex individual. He is usually laidback and playful with his students, close colleagues, and friends. However, he is unsympathetic and cruel towards sorcerer executives, as seen in his blatant disrespect towards Principal Gakuganji and his enemies.

Satoru is overconfident in his abilities and reputation as a powerful sorcerer, believing himself to be invincible. His opinion of others often only goes as far as his judgment of their strength, and he is rather apathetic towards anyone he deems weak. Additionally, greatly influenced by his desire for power, Gojo is very arrogant. He believes himself to be the strongest in the world, claiming, during his fight with Toji Fushiguro, that "throughout heaven and earth, [he] alone is the honored one." It is evident during his task of protecting Riko Amanai, one of the few 'weak' people he genuinely grew to show compassion for. However, his regret for her death was negated by his extensive pride and arrogance after learning reverse cursed technique in his following battle against Toji Fushiguro.

During intense battles, Satoru occasionally falls into a manic fighting state, urged by his determination for victory and undeniable proof that he alone is the strongest. His combative style is characterized by his aggressive and domineering attacks while flaunting his mastered techniques to his opponents. Furthermore, in a crisis, he is capable of being cold-blooded. He will prioritize his enemies' destruction over saving innocent people when he believes that the sacrifice is unavoidable. However, this only extends to the people killed by his opponent; he will not do any lasting harm to or kill anyone innocent to gain the upper hand.

Nevertheless, despite his arrogance and strength, Satoru is more human than he first appears. After defeating Toji, Satoru retrieved Riko's corpse with a sorrowful look, showing that although his recent conceited victory temporarily clouded his feelings, he still felt some grief over her death. He sought to kill the Star Religious Group members who were clapping over Riko's death before being stopped by Suguru Geto — who he relied on as a moral compass at that time — from taking any action. Furthermore, Satoru was later left visibly horrified and panicked after learning that Suguru, his "one and only" best friend, had become a murderous curse user. Satoru attempted to reason with his friend but eventually realized and accepted that he lost the one person he truly saw as an equal. After having to put an end to Suguru's life before more calamity arose, it was Satoru's trauma over losing his best friend that caused his ultimate downfall in Shibuya. He was also distraught when Yuji seemingly died.

Satoru's dream and endgame is to reform the jujutsu world from the bottom up through education. He seeks to foster a new generation of sorcerers that he hopes will one day become his equals.

Yuji Itadori is the main protagonist of the Jujutsu Kaisen series. He is the son of Jin Itadori and Kaori Itadori, and the grandson of Wasuke Itadori. Yuji was living a normal life in Sendai City until he encountered Megumi and ate one of Sukuna's fingers. After becoming Sukuna's vessel, Yuji began attending Tokyo Jujutsu High alongside Megumi and Nobara as first-year students.

Yuji is a young man of average height and appears to have a slender build when wearing baggy clothing, but actually has a lean and muscular physique. He also has relatively large light brown eyes and spiky pink hair (brownish blonde in the manga) that's styled in an undercut fashion. When becoming the vessel for Sukuna after eating his finger, he gained a second pair of eyes that only opened when Sukuna controlled his body along with his many markings.

At the start of the series, Yuji wore a light-colored hooded jacket, high-cuffed black pants, and white shoes. However, in the anime, his pants were denim, and his shoes were bright red. When Yuji enrolled in Tokyo Jujutsu High, he began wearing his version of the uniform; a black long sleeve shirt resembling a gakuran over a red hoodie, black pants, and red shoes.

He gains a noticeable scar between his two eyes and a smaller scar on his left labial commissure of the mouth during the Shibuya Incident. Both scars were caused by Mahito; the first one was inflicted when the cursed spirit surprise-attacked him with a blade on his fist, and the second one was inflicted when Yuji battled him after his transformation.

He lost the second pair of eyes that only open when Sukuna controls his body along with his many markings after the latter transferred to Megumi as his new vessel. Yuji also lost his left pinky finger when Sukuna ripped off and fed it to Megumi. Yuji later lost his left ring finger so Yuta Okkotsu could copy Sukuna's technique. Yuji is a fair person who truly cares for not only his comrades but anyone he views as people with their own wills, despite how deep or shallow his connection to them is. He highly commends "the value of life," and to this end, he will ensure that others receive a "proper death". Because of this, he believes that it is morally unethical for him to take another human life, and tries to avoid any possibility of doing so unless as a last resort.

He is also not without his more energetic and outgoing traits. Such as his frequent comedic moments where he was seen alongside Nobara gushing about Tokyo and his eagerness to train with Satoru Gojo or even when entertaining both Junpei Yoshino and his mother. Yuji is also highly passionate whenever he's focused on achieving certain goals and being quite stubborn when confronted about them, such as when Masamichi Yaga questioned why Yuji wanted to become a sorcerer. He is also quite naïve due to his inexperience in the world of cursed spirits and jujutsu sorcerers, but is shown to be a quick learner, capable of adapting to his surroundings and picking up how to use cursed energy quickly.

Although usually composed, good-natured and friendly, Yuji can be angered quickly in the face of pure malice after witnessing firsthand the cruelty that curses were capable of, particularly Mahito's inhuman exploitation of Junpei. Yuji felt so profoundly disgusted that he felt a genuine desire to kill for the first time in his life and has a very intense yet focused hatred towards the cursed spirit.

One of Yuji's defining traits is his willingness to sacrifice himself for others, triggered by his grandfather's last words to him to die surrounded by others. When he and Megumi were under the threat of being killed by a curse, Yuji impulsively swallowed Sukuna's finger to exorcise the curse and save them despite having met Megumi for the first time on that day.

Nobara Kugisaki is the tritagonist of the Jujutsu Kaisen series. She is a first-year student and grade 3 jujutsu sorcerer at Tokyo Jujutsu High studying under Satoru Gojo alongside Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro.

Nobara is slim fair-skinned young woman with neck-length light brown hair that reaches to her neck that is styled with bangs that cover the right side of her forehead in an asymmetrical bob-cut. She has orange eyes, long eyelashes and thin eyebrows of the same color. After sustaining a near-fatal injury from Mahito, she now has an eyepatch covering her left eye.

Nobara's Jujutsu High uniform consists of a dark blue gakuran-style top (a button-down jacket) and a long matching skirt that reaches to just above her knees. She also sports black pantyhose and brown shoes along with her signature brown belt that holds her tools for jujutsu.

As someone who enjoys dressing up, Nobara has several different outfits. She didn't have a tracksuit prior to enrolling at Jujutsu High and bought one shortly after. It included a white and blue hoodie accented with a flower pattern, black tights, and white shoes.

Nobara is a confident and brash young woman with an unshakable character. More than anything, she is determined to stay true to herself no matter what. She takes great pride in being both photogenic and a strong fighter, refusing to let anyone change her core.

Initially, Nobara can appear to be a very obnoxious and arrogant person. She first introduced herself to Yuji and Megumi by expressing how inferior they were and argued with Yuji for the greater part of their first mission together. Despite her abrasive attitude, Nobara is actually an incredibly caring and dutiful person, but would never let most people see that side of her. After fighting alongside each other on several missions, Yuji and Megumi grew to become Nobara's closest allies. She and Yuji are the two class clowns among the first years who typically annoy Megumi for a laugh any chance they get. Although she likes to pretend that she doesn't like the boys, Nobara was upset after Yuji's death following the Detention Center incident, even shedding a tear upon his revival and demanding an apology from him.