Character · Jujutsu Kaisen
Yuji Itadori
He joined the occult club to get out of athletics practice, then ate a cursed finger to save two people.
In Otakana the clue reads: Athletic student who swallowed a cursed finger
- Type
- Character
- Series
- Jujutsu Kaisen
- Letters
- 7 · Easy
Yuji Itadori is a first-year with alarming physical numbers. He can outrun the track team without training and throws a shot put over the school building, and he spends none of that on sport because his grandfather told him to help people and the occult club meets after school anyway. The one instruction he takes from that deathbed is to die surrounded by others.
The cursed object his club dug up is a preserved finger belonging to Sukuna, and Yuji swallows it because his friends are about to be killed and there is no slower option available. He survives, which almost nobody does, and now shares his body with the King of Curses. Jujutsu High's response is to enrol him and postpone his execution until the remaining fingers are found.
Gege Akutami started the manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in 2018 and MAPPA animated it in 2020. Yuji is a shonen lead who is unusually easy to hurt, not physically but in the part that decides things, and the series keeps asking him to watch people die and then get up and keep working.
Spelling ITADORI
ITADORI is seven letters, and it is the family name rather than the given name Yuji. It reads as a plant: the kanji name Japanese knotweed, a weed that grows back through anything, which is a fair description of its owner. Vowels sit at both ends, I at the front and I at the back, with A and O between them. Confirm one I and the shape appears.