Satoru Gojo

Satoru Gojo (五ご条じょう悟さとる Gojō Satoru^?) 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.

Appearance

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.

During the Shinjuku Showdown Arc, Gojo didn’t wear his blindfold, letting his hair fall and eyes shown. He wore a tight-fitting black shirt, white baggy training pants with a black belt weaved through the waist, and black martial arts slippers, similar to Toji Fushiguro’s attire.

Personality

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.^[7]

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.^[8]

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.^[9] 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.^[10] 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.^[11]

Abilities and Powers

Overview

Overall Skill Level: Even among the special grade sorcerers, Satoru is known to be the strongest, holding both immense amounts of cursed energy and a dangerously powerful technique. No one can seemingly match his skill level except for the King of Curses, Sukuna.

As students, Satoru and Suguru were considered “the strongest,” capable of quickly dealing with experienced and powerful curse users. Whereas before, he and Geto were no match for the renowned Sorcerer Killer, Satoru’s abilities vastly increased to where he was able to put Toji Fushiguro into the defensive and ultimately kill him with his strongest technique after realizing and perfecting his capabilities. As he continued growing, he eclipsed Suguru’s talents to the point Saguru admitted Satoru to be the strongest alone. Suguru also stated that Satoru had the capability of killing all of humanity by himself, which Suguru admitted was out of his ability and didn’t even try to fight back when Satoru prepared to kill him, although Satoru ultimately relented as he was unable to kill his best friend.

In the present, Satoru’s might was feared by the higher-ups of the jujutsu society, to where Satoru could easily force them to cancel the executions of the likes of the dangerous fellow special-grade sorcerer Yuta Okkotsu and the vessel of Sukuna, Yuji Itadori. He states that it would be easy for him to kill them all and overthrow the jujutsu society if he actually wanted to. Satoru even claimed that he could defeat Sukuna at full power.

Kenjaku and his group of special-grade cursed spirits were also wary of Satoru’s power and skill, with Kenjaku admitting he couldn’t defeat Gojo in direct battle. He was capable of entirely overpowering and killing Jogo, who was the strongest of the group, and simply his presence was able to force Hanami to retreat, with Gojo almost killing the special-grade cursed spirit with a single attack. When Kenjaku and his group finally developed a plan to face him in combat, despite their preparations, Satoru was still capable of easily fending off their assaults and overpowering them, leaving them astounded by how exceeding his capabilities truly were, killing Hanami and only being defeated due to Kenjaku using his past with Geto to distract him long enough for the Prison Realm to seal him.

Physical Prowess

Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Satoru, in addition to his overwhelming levels of cursed energy, is also an extremely formidable martial artist in close combat, with extraordinary physical prowess to back up his skills. Q&A with Gege Akutami revealed that Satoru is as skilled as the millennia-old Kenjaku in pure hand-to-hand combat without any cursed energy.^[12] He was capable of completely overpowering Jogo in hand-to-hand combat, delivering several precise attacks on Jogo’s fatal spots, and could even casually fight off both Jogo and Hanami with close-quarters combat, easily countering their attacks and landing powerful hits that swiftly pummelled them into submission.^[13] In his duel with Sukuna, Satoru proved to be superior in terms of hand-to-hand combat against the immensely powerful King of Curses, who had previously demonstrated impeccable martial arts skills by simultaneously keeping both Yuji and Maki at bay, consistently being able to overwhelm Sukuna in their later exchanges while clashing their domains to deliver lethal wounds that forced his Malevolent Shrine to crumble within 3 minutes.^[14]

Immense Strength: Satoru has the extraordinary physical strength to fight against powerful curses without a problem, causing severe injuries to Jogo with powerful punches and throwing him a considerable distance with a single kick during their fight.^[15] He was also able to rip out Jogo’s head and,^[16] later on, his arm with sheer physical force and even managed to casually rip out Hanami’s roots.^[17] He could casually rip apart transfigured humans, tearing them apart limb by limb.^[18]

Satoru incapacitated the likes of Uraume with a single punch,^[19] which injured them to the point where even the use of reverse cursed technique was unable to truly heal them, leaving the powerful subordinate of Sukuna still suffering a degree of pain from the lasting wound.^[20] During his fight with Sukuna, a clash between the two of them destroyed entire buildings, and Satoru proved strong enough to deal critical injuries to the King of Curses using martial arts alone, a feat that not even the strength of Yuji and Maki could achieve. With just a single burst of Black Flash, Satoru was able to damage Sukuna to the point where he temporarily knocked him unconscious by punching him in the heart.^[21] Two punches from Satoru proved sufficient to temporarily stun Mahoraga.^[22]

Immense Speed & Reflexes: Satoru is an extremely fast fighter, capable of moving faster than the eye could perceive. He is known as the fastest jujutsu sorcerer, being above Naobito Zenin in terms of speed.^[23] He managed to effortlessly outpace Jogo, throwing almost imperceptible punches and kicks. Satoru was even able to successfully react to and dodge the attacks of someone of Toji Fushiguro‘s level.^[24] Satoru can also accurately eliminate a thousand transfigured humans in a crowd of people in almost five minutes.^[25] He was able to move faster than Uraume, a powerful and experienced sorcerer was able to react and may have killed Kenjaku if Sukuna hadn’t intervened. During Satoru’s duel with Sukuna, he proved to be faster than the King of Curses, able to continuously outpace Sukuna in their hand-to-hand combat exchanges, repeatedly pushing him into the defense with his speed and catching him off-guard on certain occasions. Satoru even kept up with Sukuna, Mahoraga, and Merged Beast Agito simultaneously.

Immense Endurance: Despite rarely being put in dangerous situations, Satoru has proven himself to be overwhelmingly resilient when needed to be. When Toji stabbed him through the chest when he had just deactivated his Infinity, Satoru showed little pain, and with cursed energy reinforcement, he was able to avoid any further damage. Even after being impaled in the throat and then savagely slashed through his body, not only did Satoru survive, but he was able to instead use the life-and-death experience to understand the nature of reverse cursed technique and become even more powerful than he ever was. Years later, when Sukuna’s Malevolent Shrine overpowered his Unlimited Void, Satoru withstood countless slash attacks from the domain while using reverse cursed technique at full throttle to heal himself instantaneously without showing any signs of pain and being affected by the blood loss and injuries and was able to keep fighting Sukuna with great efficiency, eventually buying enough time to recover his cursed technique.

Intelligence

Great Tactical Intellect: Satoru is quite tactical and capable of figuring out his opponent’s plan with minimum information. He has also shown to be extremely adaptable to any enemy he has ever faced so far, precisely knowing what to do to counter their techniques and find ways to defeat them. This is best displayed during his bout against Jogo, Hanami, Choso, and Mahito, where he was shown to be capable of conceiving multiple battle strategies while fighting at blinding speeds, protecting civilians, keeping property damage to a minimum, all while dodging and evading the attacks of the four adversaries. While fighting Sukuna, faced with the Malevolent Shrine’s relentless attacks without his cursed technique, Satoru proved able to calmly develop an effective plan to not only survive but also counter-attack by out-healing its sure-hit attack with reverse cursed technique and using Simple Domain to give him an opening to recover his cursed technique. He also demonstrated the great genius to change the conditions of his domain to a degree that left Atsuya Kusakabe, an expert on barrier techniques, astonished.

Cursed Energy

Cursed Energy Capacity: Satoru Gojo is known as the strongest jujutsu sorcerer within the modern jujutsu society. He earned this alias in part due to the immense amounts of cursed energy he possesses. Gojo’s vast cursed energy, combined with his cursed energy efficiency, allows him to expand his domain at least five times in one day, while most sorcerers and special grade cursed spirits can only use it once. Throughout his fight with Sukuna, Gojo used cursed energy to constantly reinforce himself and activate his cursed techniques multiple times, without ever showing signs of exhausting his reserves.

Cursed Energy Manipulation: Gojo has excellent control over his cursed energy due to the Six Eyes. He is capable of expanding his domain for a split second, using reverse cursed technique, and simultaneously activating and controlling multiple Blues and Reds. Additionally, Gojo has extraordinary cursed energy efficiency. When using cursed techniques, Gojo suffers almost zero unnecessary cursed energy loss. As a result, he spends less cursed energy compared to other sorcerers during combat, giving the impression that he never runs out of cursed energy.^[26][27] This allows him to keep Limitless activated at all times while constantly using reverse cursed technique to heal his brain to prevent fatigue,^[28] despite the latter’s massive cursed energy consumption.^[29]

Cursed Energy Output: In addition to his immense cursed energy capacity, Gojo can output high amounts of cursed energy into his techniques to augment their effects. By strengthening the output into his Limitless technique, Gojo countered Jogo and Hanami’s strategy to neutralize his Infinity with domain amplification, expanding the size of Infinity to the point that he could even push back and crush Hanami against a wall with the barrier.^[30]

By deliberately including the incantations and hand signs of his cursed techniques, Gojo can increase their cursed energy output. While being amplified by Utahime Iori‘s Solo Forbidden Area, Gojo boosted his Hollow Technique: Purple‘s output to 200% by chanting its cursed chant and performing its gestures. Upon unleashing Purple, the technique travelled from Shibuya to Shinjuku, covering almost four kilometers (2.5 miles) of distance and carving through all the obstacles in its path.^[31][32]

Cursed Energy Reinforcement: Even when he was a second-year student, Gojo was already skilled at reinforcing his body with cursed energy. When Toji stabbed through his chest with a sword, Gojo reinforced his cursed energy so that the sword couldn’t do further damage, causing the injury to hardly affect him during their first battle.^[33]

As an adult, Gojo can strengthen himself with cursed energy to vastly increase his physical strength or fortify his body. Many of his aforementioned feats of strength and speed can be attributed to his skill in reinforcement techniques. With cursed energy reinforcement and hand-to-hand combat alone, Gojo was able to overwhelm two special grade cursed spirits. In several instances, single strikes from Gojo were strong enough to either launch his opponents a fair distance away or pierce through them.

Black Flash (黒こく閃せん Kokusen^?): A phenomenon that occurs when the user applies cursed energy within 0.000001 seconds of a physical hit, creating a spatial distortion that causes their cursed energy to flash black and amplifies the destructive power of the strike to the power of 2.5.^[34] Satoru first demonstrated his ability to use Black Flash against Sukuna during their battle in Shinjuku, dealing a devastating strike when the King of Curses least expected it and knocking him unconscious.^[35] Gojo has used Black Flash more times than Kento Nanami but less times consecutively, though his record was eventually surpassed by Yuji Itadori.^[36] It is currently unknown how many times exactly Gojo has performed Black Flash, but he has used it at least four times.

Cursed Technique

Inherited Technique

Limitless (無む下か限げん Mukagen?): Limitless is an inherited technique of the Gojo family. This technique grants its users nigh-absolute control over space through cursed energy manipulation at an atomic level,[37] resulting in multiple subsequent results and techniques within the overall ability. With the manipulation of space as just the base level of the technique, Limitless has three standard and one “non-standard” form beyond this.

Infinity (無む限げん Mugen?): Being the neutral form of the Limitless, the Infinity is commonly known as the ability to stop,[38] although this is a common misconception as the true power of the Infinity is to slow things down. When something attempts to hit Satoru, the person or object in question instead hits the infinity between himself and them.[39][40] According to Satoru, this is the convergence of an infinite series and comes straight from the paradox of Achilles and the tortoise. Akin to the way Achilles will never catch the tortoise due to the potential, infinite amounts of finite space separating them or how the real number one will never touch the real number two due to the infinite amount of fractions that separate them, the opponent will never touch Satoru due to the infinity between them.[41] Satoru initially had to manually activate Infinity, and keeping it active for long periods of time tired him.[42] Since his third year at Jujutsu High, Satoru has programmed Infinity to be constantly active, and automatically target and protect him by discerning the danger levels of approaching objects based on their cursed energy intensity, mass, speed, and shape. While this would normally fatigue his brain, an efficient and constant usage of reverse cursed technique allowed Gojo to keep his brain refreshed.[43]
Cursed Technique Lapse: Blue (術じゅつ式しき順じゅん転てん「蒼あお」 Jutsushiki Junten・Ao?): The reinforced version of the neutral limitless;[38] Blue is the byproduct of Gojo amplifying the Limitless with negative cursed energy, producing a vacuum. Through these, Gojo creates a scenario where the world itself is forced to correct itself and fill in the negative space, causing all matter in the range of the commanded space to be pulled together.[44]
Cursed Technique Lapse – Maximum Cursed Energy Output: Blue (術じゅつ式しき順じゅん転てん出しゅつ力りょく最さい大だい「蒼あお」 Jutsushiki Junten Shutsuryoku Saidai・Ao?): Satoru creates a center of gravity in a specific space capable of attracting all matter, crushing it all effortlessly akin to a black hole. He can also move the point of gravity at will, augmenting its destructive capabilities greatly.[45]
Cursed Technique Reversal: Red (術じゅつ式しき反はん転てん「赫あか」 Jutsushiki Hanten・Aka?)[46]: Being an inversion of Blue, Red has the opposite effect. By flowing positive energy generated from reverse cursed technique into his Limitless technique,[47][48] Satoru inverts the properties of Blue and activates the divergence of Infinity, causing an extremely powerful repulsive force that blasts targets away. Red outputs at least twice as much as energy as Blue.[49]
Hollow Technique: Purple (虚きょ式しき「茈むらさき」 Kyoshiki・Murasaki?): An advanced technique that collides the Lapse and Reversal of the Limitless, resulting in the creation of imaginary mass that is then launched at the target to deal destructive damage.[50]

Reverse Cursed Technique

Reverse Cursed Technique (反はん転てん術じゅつ式しき Hanten Jutsushiki?): At first, while a first and second year student of Jujutsu High, Satoru was unable to grasp the complex nature of reverse cursed technique. After being put on his deathbed during his first fight with Toji Fushiguro, Satoru finally understood how to perform the technique and tapped into the core of cursed energy, granting him the ability to not only heal himself, but also make the positive energy flow into the Limitless, giving him access to his Red and Hollow Purple techniques.[51] During his duel with Sukuna, Satoru survived the onslaught of slashes from Malevolent Shrine by using reverse cursed technique at full power.[52] Additionally, Satoru further demonstrated his expertise with reverse cursed technique by using it to replenish his burned-out cursed technique, an unprecedented and seemingly impossible feat even for a talented sorcerer like Yuta Okkotsu.[53]

Barrier Techniques
	Curtain (帳とばり Tobari?): Gojo can create a barrier that surrounds a certain area. The barrier can seal the area off from other people or a specific person wanting to get in.

Anti-Domain Techniques
	New Shadow Style: Simple Domain (シン・陰かげ流りゅう　簡かん易い領りょう域いき Shin Kageryū: Kan’i Ryōiki?): An anti-domain technique that neutralizes a domain’s barrier and disables its sure-hit effect in a set area of space around the user. Satoru normally doesn’t need to resort to doing so and Yuji didn’t even know he could do it before the former’s fight with Sukuna. Unlike Yuki Tsukumo, Satoru is not suited to teach the technique to others.[54]
	Falling Blossom Emotion (落らっ花かの情じょう Rakka no Jō?): A secret art and an anti-domain technique exclusively passed down in the Big Three Families. It shrouds the user in cursed energy, which counterattacks a domain’s sure-hit attack the moment it makes contact. Gojo learned this technique when he was a kid, but stopped using it after mastering his domain until his battle with Sukuna. Normally, this technique can nullify a domain’s attacks, however, it only weakened the damage from Malevolent Shrine due to the domain’s high output.[55]

Domain Expansion

Unlimited Void (無む量りょう空くう処しょ Muryōkūsho?): Satoru’s Domain Expansion. It creates a metaphysical space that causes the victims to receive all kinds of stimuli and information endlessly, restraining their thought processes and actions.[56] In terms of raw strength, Satoru’s domain is equal to Sukuna’s on the inside, only losing due to Malevolent Shrine’s open domain that allowed Sukuna to destroy the barrier of Unlimited Void.[57] Satoru’s skill with his Domain Expansion is so great that he can precisely activate it for only 0.2 seconds, limiting its lasting effect on those he traps within it,[58] and is able to freely change the conditions of Unlimited Void’s barrier. Satoru himself and those he makes physical contact with are immune to its effect.[59]

Special Abilities

Six Eyes (六りく眼がん Rikugan?): An innate trait rarely inherited by individuals in the Gojo Clan, similar to the Limitless. These eyes grant their wielder incredible perception and precise control of cursed energy. Even when they are completely obscured, the Six Eyes function like high-definition infrared vision, allowing the user to perceive their environment through the flow of cursed energy. These eyes also allow the user to see through a sorcerer’s cursed technique and determine its nature.[60][41][61] The extremely precise manipulation of cursed energy granted by the Six Eyes allows the user to activate their cursed techniques with incredible levels of efficiency, resulting in almost zero cursed energy loss due to inefficiency, which lets the user use comparatively less cursed energy than others when activating the same techniques.[26] Consequently, the Six Eyes are essential for using and mastering the Limitless technique.[62]

Battles & Events

Trivia