Yuji Itadori
Yuji Itadori is a male anime and manga character who features in Jujutsu Kaisen.
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Biography
Yuji Itadori (Japanese: 虎いた杖どり悠ゆう仁じ, Hepburn: Itadori Yūji?) was a Japanese male born as the son of Jin Itadori (虎いた杖どり仁じん Itadori Jin?) in the modern age.
He came to be mostly raised by his grandfather who became a parental figure for the young Yuji.
Yuji was in the Occult Club room, with Sasaki and Iguchi when the student council president comes in to complain about the club. The president says that the club room is going to a different club, since the Occult Club doesn't have three members. As the Occult Club is confused by this, Mr. Takagi shows up and reveals that he rewrote Yuji application, so that he would join the Track-and-Field team instead of the Occult Club. As Yuji complains, Mr. Takagi makes a deal that if Yuji can beat him then Yuji can join the Occult Club. Yuji agrees to the deal since it will be easy for him. Yuji takes on Mr. Takagi in Shot Put, and easily manages to defeat him. Sasaki tells Yuji that he doesn't need to continue being in the club, which Yuji tells her that the club has grown on him and wishes to stay. Yuji notices what time it is and head out. As Yuji passes Megumi, Megumi senses the presence of a cursed object on him and decides to follows him. Yuji arrives at the hospital that his grandfather is at, and meets with him. The two starts to talk, which Yuji's grandfather tells him to use his strength to help other and to be surrounded by others when he dies. Yuji tries to reply to his grandfather but notices that he has died, which he reports to the staff. After Yuji finishes the necessary paperwork, Megumi shows up and demands for the cursed object. Yuji says that he will give it to him but wants an explanation, which Megumi explains what curses are. After finishing the explanation, Yuji hands the box over but Megumi finds that the box is empty. Megumi wants to know where the object is, which Yuji says that his senpai has it and that they plan to unseal it tonight. Yuji and Megumi rush over to the school, which Yuji notices that a terrible pressure coming from the school once he gets close. As Megumi tells Yuji to say back, Yuji remembers what his grandfather told him and heads in to help. Yuji manages to rescue his friends from a spirit, which Megumi uses this chance to exorcise the spirit. Megumi then asks why Yuji is here, which Yuji explains his reason.
Suddenly Yuji finds the cursed object, which Megumi explains that it was one of Sukuna's fingers. Another spirit appears, which Megumi pushes Yuji out of the way. As Megumi gets tossed around by the spirit, Yuji jumps in and rescues him. Yuji takes on the spirit, but the spirit easily overpowers Yuji easily. Megumi explains to Yuji how it takes cursed energy to exorcise a spirit. Yuji wonders why the spirit is after the finger, to which Megumi says that the spirit wants to eat it in order to get stronger. Yuji eats the finger, which incarnates Sukuna, who easily exorcises the spirit. When Sukuna plans to start a massacre, Yuji takes back his body. Megumi tells Yuji that he will have to exorcise him since he has become a cursed spirit. Suddenly, Satoru Gojo arrives and wonders where the cursed object is at, which Yuji tells him that he ate it. Gojo tells Yuji to switch with Sukuna but switch back after ten seconds, which Yuji agrees to after some convincing. Yuji switches with Sukuna, which after ten seconds he switches back. After Yuji switches back, Gojo simply knocks Yuji out. Later, Yuji wakes up and notices that he is tied up in a room. Gojo tells Yuji that he is going to be executed, but they are going to suspend it for a period of time. As Yuji is confused by this, Gojo explains who Sukuna is and how there are 20 of Sukuna's fingers that they can't destroy. Gojo also explains how they plan to have Yuji eat the other fingers and then execute him, which he then tells Yuji to choose his death. Afterwards, Yuji is allows to check up on his friends and see how they are doing. After meeting with his friends, Yuji meets up with Gojo, who askes about his decision. After talking about how this might help people out, Yuji agrees to it and eats another finger. Yuji manages to hold Sukuna, which Gojo figures that Yuji is able to resist Sukuna. Megumi suddenly shows up, which Gojo and Megumi tells Yuji that he is coming to Tokyo with them to join as the third first year student of the Tokyo Jujutsu High.
After they arrive at the college, Gojo escorts Yuji through the college to his interview with the principal. Before they get to the meeting, Gojo tells Yuji that its possible the Yuji can fail his interview. As they arrive at the place for the interview, Yuji greets the principal of the college, Masamichi. Masamichi asks Yuji why he wants to attend the school, which Yuji gives an answer that Masamichi did not like. Masamichi has one of his cursed corpse attack Yuji, and explains how it won't stop until he get an answer from Yuji that he likes. After Yuji manages to restrain the cursed corpse and explains how he won't regret the way he lives in the end, Masamichi accepts his answer and allows him to attend the college. Afterwards, Gojo brings Yuji to his the dorm that he will be stalling at. While Yuji is decorating his room, Gojo explains to him that Yuji is now able to locate Sukuna's finger like a radar. When Megumi comes out of his room, Gojo tells the two that tomorrow they will going to be pick up the last of the first year students, Nobara Kugisaki. The next day, Yuji talks with Megumi about how there are so few shamans before they head out to go get Nobara. When Gojo shows up, all three of them head to Harajuku to go pick up Nobara. After they pick up Nobara and introduce themselves to each other, Gojo brings them to Roppongi for a mission. Once they arrive at the location, Gojo explains that Yuji and Nobara go exorcise the spirits as a tells to see their capabilities. Yuji brings up the fact that he can use cursed energy, which Gojo hands him a cursed tool to use, which is Slaughter Demon. Gojo also tells Yuji to not let Sukuna out during this mission, which Yuji agrees. As Yuji and Nobara head in, Nobara forces the two to split up to find the curse which Yuji doesn't agree with. As Yuji explores the lower floors, he comes across a spirit and exorcises it. Later, Yuji breaks through a wall in order to rescue a child that a spirit has been taken hostage. As the spirit escapes, Yuji gives Nobara the spirit's arm, that he had previously cut off, which she uses to exorcise the spirit. After a brief chat with Nobara, Yuji brings the child out to be taken home. After the mission was complete, Gojo decides to take them out to eat which Yuji suggested beef steak.
A month later Yuji, along with Nobara and Megumi, were brought to a detention center for a mission by Kiyotaka. Kiyotaka explains that situation in the detention center, and how its their job to just rescue any survivors to the three. When a parent comes to asks if their son is safe, Yuji decides to rescue the guy. As the three head into the center, they notices that the area has expanded. Megumi notices that the exit is gone, which Yuji and Nobara wonder what they are going to do. Megumi tells them that his shikigami, that he had summoned, was capable of finding the exit, which Yuji and Nobara are glad about. The three then head deeper into the center, where they come across some corpses. Yuji examines one of the corpses and finds how that its the guy they are looking for. Yuji decides to take the corpse back, which Megumi tells him to leave it. Yuji and Megumi then get into an argument, but stop when Nobara was teleported to another location. Before the two can react to this, a special grade cursed spirit shows up. Yuji quickly reacts and tries to attack it with his cursed weapon, but the spirit easily breaks it and even cuts off Yuji's arm. Yuji tries to get Sukuna to help them but Sukuna refuses and even says that he will kill Yuji's friends. Yuji then tells Megumi to go rescue Nobara and to give a signal once they are out, since he will switch with Sukuna by then. After Megumi leaves, Yuji takes on the spirit but the spirit easily overpowers him. Yuji came to realizes how weak he was but remembered what Masamichi had told him and decided to use his negative emotions against that spirit. The spirit easily catches Yuji's punch, but they both suddenly hear a wolf howl. After hearing this, Yuji switched with Sukuna. After the spirit is taken care of, Yuji fails to take back his body which causes Sukuna to go after Megumi. After a while, Yuji managed to take back his body and then has a brief chat with Megumi before dying.
With his body dead, he was taken to the morgue to be examined where Yuji came to find himself within the territory of Sukuna in his body.
A month later, he came to be introduced to another senior jujutsu sorcerer named Kento Nanami who was to accompany Itadori on a mission. Following a talk, the two went out to investigate an incident at a theatre where Nanami taught Yuji how to see the remnant of cursed energy.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Yuji Itadori was a young man of average height, lean build and muscular physique that was hidden by his slender frame that was hidden behind baggy clothing. Back in his school, he gained the nickname of The Tiger of West Junior High due to his strength.
Usually, he was shown as being a composed, good-natured and friendly person.
Yuji was 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.
Initially, he vowed that he would not kill another person and find a way to save them. Such was his commitment to the value of life that he also ensured that others received a proper death. As such, he believed that it as morally unethical for him to take another human life and tried to avoid this option. Yuji was shown to feel guilt over having been forced to kill a Cursed Womb: Death Painting as the creature as partly human.
A proficient learner, he was a curious person and an earnest student.
One of his most defining traits was his willingness to sacrifice himself for others. This stemmed from his grandfather's last words to him which was that when he died that he was surrounded by others.
Powers and abilities
Yuji Itadori was originally an ordinary seemingly with no special abilities. Akutama noted that he was the best at cooking among the first years' trio.
Itadori came to gain powers from a special grade Cursed Spirit with this being the infamous Ryomen Sukuna. Yuji was shown to have the unique capacity to see the soul of an individual whether they were human or a spirit. This gave him the ability to actually hit the soul of a Cursed Spirit such as Mahito who was normally immune to physical attacks. Another aspect of Itadori was he had the ability to resist Sukuna being able to take over his body. This was the case no matter how many of Sukuna's fingers he had managed to consume with this making him a valuable living prison to the Cursed Spirit. However, in some cases, Sukuna was able to wrest control over Yuji's form and rampage out of control until Itadori took back control over his body. As the host to Sukuna, he gained a resistance to all kinds of poisons that had no effect on him. He still felt the pain from the poison but was not harmed by any of its aftereffects.
As a result of his abilities, he came to be one of the most powerful and talented students Jujutsu High. In high school, he had superhuman strength, reflexes, and overall athletic ability with him being incredibly agile where he was able to run at up to 60.12km/h. Yuji also had strong durability with him being able to walk off stab wounds and beatings. An exceptional prodigy, he was able to contend with and defeated Grade 1 and Special Grade curses, despite only having been introduced into the world a few months beforehand.
He came to develop a number of techniques that included:
- Divergent Fist (逕庭拳 Keitei Ken?) : a strike where the flow of his cursed energy had a reverb effect against enemies which guaranteed a second hit against the target.
- Black Flash (黒閃 Kokusen?) : a cursed energy technique that created spatial distortion when a user connected with an impact of cursed energy within 0.000001 seconds of a physical hit. The phenomenon caused cursed power to flash black, creating a more potent attack to the power of 2.5 of a normal hit.
He later came to receive training from Satoru Gojo in the use of Cursed energy. Yuji had to learn to channel his emotions as they helped generate his attacks. He had to balance this without being overwhelmed by negative emotions that would make his attacks undisciplined. Itadori came to further learn to use his techniques from Aoi Todo.
Initially, Satoru Gojo gave him a cursed blade named Slaughter Demon (屠坐魔 Tozama?) that was a charm weapon that originally belonged to Maki Zenin.
Notes
- Yuji Itadori was created by Gege Akutami where he featured in the setting of the Jujutsu Kaisen universe.
In other media
Television
Appearances
- Jujutsu Kaisen:
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