Toji Fushiguro (2024)

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Toji Fushiguro (né Zenin), also known as the Sorcerer Killer, is a major antagonist in the manga/anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. He is an infamous non-curse user assassin and a former member of the Zenin Clan, one of the three great family clans of the Jujutsu society, whose Heavenly Restriction granted him immense physical abilities in exchange for completely lacking cursed energy. He is also the father of Megumi Fushiguro and a former enemy of Satoru Gojo.

In the summer of August 2006, he was contracted by the Time Vessel Association to carry of the Star Plasma Vessel, Riko Amanai. Although he was successful in his task of killing Riko, he was killed by Gojo in their second match. Before dying, he requested that Gojo take care of Megumi.

He is voiced by Takehito Koyasu in Japanese and by Nicolas Roye in English. Koyasu has also voiced Nikolai Gogol in Bungo Stray Dogs, Shinya Aiba in Tekkaman Blade, Kuzan in One Piece, Dio Brando in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Shinsuke Takasugi in Gintama, the Hand Demon in Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, and Zeke Yeager in Attack on Titan. Roye has also voiced Chuuya Nakahara in Bungo Stray Dogs.

Appearance[]

Toji appears to be a tall and well-built middle-aged man with mid-length straight black hair that reaches to his ears. Toji has green eyes like his son, thin black eyebrows, and a sharp scar over the right side of his mouth just on the edge of his lips.

For casual attire, Toji wears a simple outfit consisting of a long-sleeved shirt and matching pants with sandals. While fighting, Toji wears a tight-fitting short-sleeve shirt and sports tan baggy training pants with a black belt weaved through the waist, as well as black martial arts slippers. While still a member of the Zenin family, he wore a dark-colored haori over a black yukata.

After being reanimated by Granny Ogami, Toji inhabits the body of her grandson. He wears a loose white sweater along with black pants and black shoes. After killing Ogami while her Séance technique remains active, Toji's scleras become pitch black.

Personality[]

A cold, calm, confident type of man is what Toji likes to enjoy himself and make money using his skills. He appears to enjoy insightful conversation with others as long as it somehow pertains to himself, and he can trade witty banter with the highly sarcastic likes of Satoru Gojo. Upon meeting, Satoru asked Toji if they had met before, but Toji assured him that he's not the type to remember some guy either.

In battle, Toji wears a crazed expression as if he's lost in the thrill of the fight, but he's always maintaining a cool and calculated head and plotting his next move.

An assassin who's garnered the name "Sorcerer Killer," Toji spent his time gambling between assignments from shady clients. He doesn't question his clients' motives as long as the money is right, and he generally doesn't do any extra work for free. He's bold and dangerously calculated in his strategies, using his jujutsu knowledge to outwit even the most prophesized sorcerers. This garnered him a reputation large enough to gain attention from the wealthy Time Vessel Association for such an important job that could ensure their future. While he thought the religious members of the organization were crazy, he got along well enough with their middleman to invite him to eat.

As a non-sorcerer raised in the Zenin family who values cursed techniques above all, Toji is just another man who has suffered due to the interests of the sorcerer clans in a very similar manner to Maki Zenin. His evil actions are a result of his dejection towards the Jujutsu world as he attempts to spite it. Born without curse energy, Toji eventually left the Zenin family and married a woman whom he seemed to care about, taking her name "Fushiguro." He left his clan to have his son, naming him "Megumi" because it means blessings. But after his wife's death, he remarried and then left his son and stepdaughter behind. Toji even planned on selling his son to the Zenin family he had left behind, exploiting the young Megumi for the cursed technique he would eventually inherit.

Toji was able to complete his final mission for the Time Vessel Association and should have cut and run when faced with a rejuvenated Satoru Gojo. However, due to his disdain for the jujutsu world and the sorcerer families, Toji chose to try and cut down the most gifted sorcerer in the world as another way to spite them all. Unfortunately, this pride cost Toji his life. Unable to look past his demons, he deviated from his natural instincts and looked past the uneasiness plaguing him during the fight.

Keeping up with his cold persona, Toji chose not to utter any final words at first. In his final moments, he thought of his late wife and their son, so he decided to tell Satoru that he would be sold into the Zenin family in a few years. A decision that would eventually lead to Satoru becoming a close mentor for Megumi in the future as well as granting Megumi a chance to work as a jujutsu sorcerer.

Biography[]

Background[]

When Toji was still with the Zenin Family, he went to see Satoru Gojo out of curiosity and was surprised that Gojo was able to notice him. Due to his lack of Cursed Energy and reliance on weapons, Toji would be seen as inferior by many of his relatives. Despite this, some members of the family would develop a tremendous fear of Toji's strength. Others would grow to respect his tremendous physical strength. He would eventually leave the Family, and their survival was described as Toji's casual whim. He would then marry and leave the Zenin Family to have his son, Megumi. Upon leaving the clan, he took his wife's surname, becoming Toji Fushiguro. However, his wife ended up dying under unknown circ*mstances. At some point, Toji met with Naobito to discuss him selling his son to the Zenin Family once the boy's cursed energy manifested. He would re-marry when Megumi was in grade school. He would eventually abandon both his son and stepdaughter, Tsumiki Fushiguro, to live his own life. His son would eventually forget what he looked like, and Toji promised himself he'd never be proud of himself or others.

Hidden Inventory Arc[]

In 2006, Toji meets with a member of the Time Vessel Association and accepts a job to assassinate the Star Plasma Vessel. Later, at a race track, Toji met with a member of the Time Vessel Association, informing them that he had used their money to put a bounty on Riko Amanai. The intention was that hitmen and assassins would slowly wear Gojo down before Toji made his move. The deadline for the bounty is designed to cause Riko's bodyguards to relax and not expect another attack. After listening to Toji, the employer leaves, but not before asking Toji how Megumi was doing. Toji responds by asking who that person is.

On the day Riko is to merge with Tengen's, Toji finally strikes and wounds Gojo with a sneak attack. Geto uses a curse to swallow Toji, but Toji manages to cut himself free using a cursed weapon. Gojo then faces off against Toji, while Geto, Misato, and Riko head into the college. When Gojo tells Toji that the bounty was taken down, Toji reveals he was the mastermind and only used it to weaken his opponents. Toji manages to evade all of Gojo's attacks and slip from sight. Gojo, unable to sense his target, clears the battlefield to gain a clear line of sight, only for Toji to release an insect swam to block Gojo's view. Attacking from Gojo's blind spot, Toji stabs him in the throat before slashing and stabbing him. Toji then claims he is finally back in the swing of things as Gojo lies on the ground, bleeding to death.

After taking care of Gojo, Toji uses his footprints and his enhanced senses to track Riko and the others before shooting Riko in the head with a handgun. When a shocked Geto asks how Toji was there, Toji then says that he has killed Gojo, and Geto attacks in anger. While they fight, Toji explains to Geto how he was able to remain invisible at the college and even how he fights. Geto does not care and instead wants to know about how he tracked them down and what happened to Misato. Toji admits he took care of her but doesn't know if she is alive. While Geto briefly gets the advantage and tries to cripple the assassin by stealing his curse and tools, Toji easily manages to defeat the spirits and cuts Geto down. Deciding not to kill Geto due to the risk of freeing his curses, Toji kicks him and tells him that all their magic was useless in stopping someone with no powers. He then remembers that Megumi is his son and why he chose the name.

Toji took Riko's dead body to the Time Vessel Association base to be verified. Toji and his employer then leave after the association transfers the money to their account. Outside the Association's base, Toji is shocked to encounter Gojo. Having used Reverse Cursed Technique to heal himself, a delirious and manic Gojo explains how he figured out the technique and how Toji almost killing him helped him master his abilities. Toji takes Gojo on but is easily overwhelmed. While quickly analyzing Gojo's abilities to formulate a counterplan, Toji is utterly blindsided by a technique combining Gojo's different abilities into a completely new and unpredictable attack: Hollow Purple. The attack fatally wounds Toji before he can fight back. As he dies, Gojo asks if Toji has any last words. After some thought, Toji tells his killer thatMegumi will be sold to the Zenin family and to do whatever he wants with that information. This causes Gojo to track down Megumi with the intention of telling him about his father.

Shibuya Incident Arc[]

Ogami had used her Séance Technique to transform her grandson into Toji to gain his abilities. After defeating Takuma Ino, the grandson's personality is suddenly overwritten by Toji, much to Ogami's shock. Toji explains that copying his body was a mistake because his body is special and that if his orders are to kill sorcerers, he'll start with Ogami and attack her. Because Ogami's Séance continues even after her death and her grandson's lack of cursed energy, Toji remains active. His sole reason to exist is to mindlessly fight until his body is destroyed, hunting down the strongest opponent closest to him to kill them.

Later, Toji manages to find Dagon's domain and enters through a hole that Megumi had made while the boy and his allies were trying to escape. Toji easily takes Playful Cloud from Maki and prepares to fight Dagon, completely ignoring the shocked Naobito. As Dagon attacks with his shikigami, Toji easily manages to take them all out and beat Dagon down with just pure physical power. Toji then sharpens the Playful Cloud by rubbing the ends of the weapon together. As Dagon tries to escape from Toji, Naobito blocks Dagon, giving Toji the chance to pierce Dagon. Dagon says that it's not over, but Toji continues to stab Dagon until he is exorcised.

Toji then turns his attention to Megumi and drags him to another location to fight him. Megumi tries to create a cover with his Escape Rabbit technique, but Toji easily gets past it and attacks. Megumi dodges Toji's attack and quickly runs to an alley. Toji chases after Megumi and attacks, but misses because he steps into the trap that Megumi had created. Megumi goes to stab Toji, but Toji easily manages to get away. Toji, seemingly regaining his senses, asks for Megumi's name, which Megumi tells him. Toji is glad that Megumi didn't take in the Zenin name and stabs himself in the head, destroying his vessel and ending the fight.

Powers and Abilities[]

Abilities[]

While Toji is technically a non-curse user with no innate talent for jujutsu, he was one of the most elite fighters in the jujutsu world when he was alive. With innate physical prowess far superior to all others in his path, Toji contended with the most dangerous and highly ranked jujutsu practitioners this era had to offer.

He was able to defeat special grade jujutsu users on three separate occasions, one of which was a young Satoru Gojo, who at the time was still considered a prodigy and one of the world's strongest sorcerers. The other sorcerer who was considered the strongest at the time was the curse manipulator, Suguru Geto, who was effortlessly taken down by Toji along with several of his strongest cursed spirits. Toji referred to Suguru's abilities as rabble compared to his own strength.

Toji used the jujutsu knowledge from the Zenin family and turned it against sorcerers, earning him the moniker of "Sorcerer Killer". During the Star Plasma Vessel Escort Mission, an assignment given to the two strongest sorcerers by Master Tengen, Toji was hired by the Time Vessel Association to assassinate the Star Plasma Vessel. Toji was able to completely derail the escort through a series of tactical moves over the course of a few days. This wore down the escort team and lured them into a false sense of security before he abruptly made his move.

Toji's elaborate planning led to him successfully pulling off a surprise attack on a user of the prestigious Six Eyes, ocular jujutsu that grants god-like perception. Toji took full advantage of his lack of cursed energy, making him the perfect assassin thanks to his status as an "invisible man". The culmination of all Toji's talents allowed him to successfully defeat the Star Plasma Vessel's escort team and assassinate the girl, completing his assignment while nearly killing both of Jujutsu High's most blessed sorcerers in the process.

Toji was only defeated when he pitted his pure physical prowess against the literally infinite power of the awakened Limitless technique wielded by Satoru Gojo. Even in the face of this power, Toji was able to create clever ways to combat the abilities of the Limitless that were known to the Zenin family. Only the secret Hollow Purple technique was powerful enough to put down Toji once and for all.

Yuki Tsukumo, another special grade sorcerer found that Toji was the only case where a Heavenly Restriction has eradicated someone's cursed energy completely. By eliminating all cursed energy, Toji's body was sharpened to the point where he developed a resistance to curses and was able to detect them with his highly refined five senses. This also allowed him to dominate and utilize a cursed spirit capable of storing his wide arsenal of weapons. Yuki considered him to be truly superhuman and told Suguru that he shouldn't be ashamed to have lost to him in a fight.

When resurrected by Granny Ogami's Séance Technique, Toji's body was able to overwrite her technique and acted purely on fighting instinct. At the start of his out-of-control rampage, Toji killed Ogami with a single blow and nearly beat grade 2 sorcerer, Takuma Ino, to death with his bare hands.

He also took on special grade cursed spirit, Dagon, completely alone and absolutely dominated him. Dagon was a powerful curse that Maki and grade 1 sorcerers Kento Nanami and Naobito Zenin were not able to defeat together. In comparison, Toji made exorcising Dagon look effortless, cementing his own status to undeniably on the level of that of a special grade.

Shortly afterward, Toji confronted Megumi, and the latter compared Toji to a fully realized Maki. He also recognized Toji as a "monster" capable of taking out a special grade cursed spirit and assessed his shikigami were no match for him. If Toji had not chosen to sacrifice himself, Megumi too would have been another victim of Toji's rampage.

• Master Weapons Specialist: The Sorcerer Killer is capable of employing a wide variety of weapons in battle. His entire fighting style is based around using weapons to substitute for jujutsu. He keeps a vast arsenal in his cursed spirit, allowing him to efficiently switch weapons out based on necessity.

Toji has used non-cursed tools such as swords to perform a sneak attack so no cursed energy will be detected. Armed with a normal handgun, he's also an expert marksman with extremely precise aim.

The Sorcerer Killer is able to counter jujutsu users because he is a master of wielding cursed tools as well. He's used a cursed tool broadsword to counter and slice open giant cursed spirits. Toji has employed knives and daggers, sometimes one in each hand. Additionally, he employs his special grade cursed tool: The Inverted Spear of Heaven with a mastery worthy of that ranking. He was able to capitalize on the dagger's powerful nullification technique to negate even the most powerful sorcerer's abilities.

Toji successfully complements his physical gifts with high adaptability and dexterity with all his weapons. By attaching a chain to the Inverted Spear of Heaven, Toji changed his entire fighting style to suit a long-ranged battle. When he first confronted Dagon, Toji took Playful Cloud, a weapon that Megumi stated was difficult to use, from Maki and used it to its maximum potential.

• Enhanced Senses: Thanks to his Heavenly Restriction, Toji's lack of cursed energy resulted in his five senses being heightened to their absolute peak. He was able to see curses and jujutsu with just his elevated senses and even developed a resistance to them. This also allowed Toji to track sorcerers without the use of residuals, as he was able to follow human footprints and odors.

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  Immense Strength: Toji possesses a superhuman degree of physical strength, enough so to effortlessly yank Playful Cloud from Maki's hands, another person with great physical gifts. Using Playful Cloud, a tool that depends on physical strength, Toji was able to easily smash through Dagon's hardest shikigami. With another cursed tool, he was able to cut through Suguru's toughest curse, and used his bare hands to beat Takuma Ino's face so badly he almost died. Toji's fingers were holding so much strength that he could push numerous pebbles in the air to be a launched at Megumi's rabbit shikigami, easily tearing through them like bullets. Morever, his unmatched level of strength even allowed him to effortlessly kick a truck and throw it higher than buildings at Megumi while he was pursuing his son.
• Immense Speed and Reflexes: Toji has been noted on several occasions to have superhuman speed, so much so that its impossible for his opponents to read his moves. He was able to dodge Satoru's cursed technique Lapse: Blue, completely avoiding the field of attraction before Satoru even realized it. Megumi also stated that Toji was ridiculously fast, even faster than Sukuna with two fingers. In their fight, Toji was able to avoid a point blank stabbing attack despite getting his foot caught in Megumi's shadow thanks to incredible agility and reflexes. He also stated that seeing Toji while he moves is near impossible and was impressed his speed rivaled that of Sukuna's without cursed energy.
• Toji's speed was also enough to easily counter Suguru's curses in their exchange. He quickly avoided Suguru's Rainbow Dragon by moving on top of a building despite the swift curse being right in front of him. His reflexes were also quick enough to counter Kuchisake-Onna's scissor blades, which were already so close to him they were cutting his flesh when he first noticed them. As soon as Suguru came in close range, Toji cut him and the Imaginary Vengeful Curse down in a flash.

Inside Dagon's Domain, Toji so fast that he could run on water like it was nothing, shocking the special grade. He only got faster as their fight went on, allowing him to plow through the endless stream of shikigamis with ease.

• Great Tactical Intellect: When it came to his assignments, Toji approached his missions with careful calculation, caution, and patience. Toji has retained a plethora of information from being a member of the Zenin family, including understanding the workings of the Limitless and the Six Eyes.

Using this information Toji was able to plot out a way to slowly wear down Satoru and his escort team. With connections to the curse user community and funds from the Star Religious Group, Toji put a bounty on the Star Plasma Vessel's head. By posting it on a website for curse users with a time limit, evil sorcerers flocked to collect the bounty. He knew they'd be unable to win so this was free labor, a smart way to use his resources. The time limit also ended up working in his favor as well, luring Satoru into lowering his guard once the mission was over. Once Satoru deactivated the Infinity, the Sorcerer Killer immediately acted and only then jumped into fight the sorcerer directly.

Toji is clever in battle and quick to analyze his opponent's abilities. He correctly assumed Suguru's technique early in their battle and quickly recognized his Kuchisake-Onna's ability within her Domain. He also came up with several ways to counter Satoru's limitless in their final bout. When he was brought back by Ogami, Toji instantly created a theory that was correct on how exactly he was able to keep his individuality despite his technique.

• Zero Cursed Energy: Unlike any other known case in the world, Toji possesses no cursed energy at all. His Heavenly Restriction eliminated cursed energy from his body completely. This makes Toji undetectable to other jujutsu sorcerers, making him capable of moving through barriers undetected or even sneaking past the Six Eyes. This aided his unpredictability in battle and caused others to underestimate him based purely on cursed energy.
• Heavenly Restricted Body: The trade-off for Toji's complete lack of cursed energy is his immense physical prowess. While it has been noted that several people have had Heavenly Restrictions that bring their cursed energy to normal levels, Toji is the only case where it has erased the person's cursed energy completely. By eliminating all cursed energy, Toji's body became sharpened to a point where his five senses reached his pinnacle and he could freely interact with curses.

When Granny Ogami summoned the information of Toji's body for her Séance Technique, she's unable to control him because his heavenly gifted body overwrites her grandchild's soul's information. Furthermore, his body doesn't take up cursed energy, allowing Toji to be resurrected for an unprecedented amount of time.

Equipments[]

• Inventory Curse: Toji has a cursed spirit that can store a high number of different objects within its body. This allows Toji to store his weapons as well as freely interchange them by putting them into the curse or taking them out of its mouth. Additionally, the curse can shrink itself within its own body, allowing Toji to ingest it so people can't detect the curse energy it emits. The inventory curse contains Toji's entire wide arsenal, including his cursed tools and even a swarm of Fly Heads Toji can use as a chaff grenade.

Toji and the curse had established a master-servant relationship. Suguru Geto's curse manipulation technique requires him to kill the master before he can absorb the curse. Suguru attempted to absorb the curse to cut off Toji's weapons cache, but the curse rejected him per the rules of his technique since Toji was still alive.

• Conventional Weaponry: Toji used a normal katana to stab Satoru through his back during his initial surprise attack on the escort team. Using a non-cursed tool allowed him to stab Satoru without being detected.
• Cursed Tools: One of Toji's primary cursed tools was large Japanese broadsword with a fur tsuba and a dark handle. Coupled with Toji's superhuman strength, this weapon was able to cut through several of Suguru's curses, including the Rainbow Dragon, which had the hardest skin among all his curses. This weapon is worth five hundred million yen
• Inverted Spear of Heaven: It is a special grade cursed tool with the ability to completely nullify cursed techniques on contact by using an imbued cursed technique fueled by a foreign cursed energy. He used this to force the stoppage of the Infinity technique, completely bypassing the nearly impenetrable limitless.
• Chain of a Thousand Miles: It is a mysterious cursed tool that can keep extending as long as the user doesn't allow the back end to be visible. Toji does so by hiding the end of the chain in his curse's mouth. He connected the Inverted Spear of Heaven to the endless chain to create a kusarigama-like weapon, allowing him to use the Inverted Spear of Heaven from long range.
• Playful Cloud: It is a special grade cursed tool that embodies pure and solid power. It originally belonged to Toji and he got it back from Maki Zenin after he was resurrected. In Toji's hands, the three-section staff reflected his incredible physical strength, making a weapon capable of destroying even Dagon's hardest shikigami with a single blow. By rubbing it together, Toji sharpened Playful Cloud, turning it into a deadly stabbing weapon. He used it to stab Dagon repeatedly through the head until the special grade was exorcised.

Trivia[]

• Toji didn't have much money, so he wandered from woman to woman. However, he made a lot of money in one job and he will spend it until it runs out.
• He became unstable in the Zenin household, but calmed down thanks to Megumi's mother. However, she died shortly after Megumi's birth, causing Toji to revert to this state.
• He can effectively fight jujutsu sorcerer even without cursed tools. However, he cannot exorcise cursed spirits. As a result, he was rejected by the Zenin family.
• Nicolas Roye, his English voice actor has also voiced Junpei Hoshino from the same series.
• Toji's birthday is on December 31st.

External Links[]

• Toji Fushiguro on the Jujutsu Kaisen Wiki
• Toji Fushiguro on the Magnificent Baddie Wiki

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