Yuji Itadori is the face of Jujutsu Kaisen. The story opens in a high school athletics club — Yuji is freakishly strong but a normal 15-year-old. One night his school''s occult club unseals a thousand-year-old finger; Yuji swallows it on a dare. That finger belonged to Sukuna, the most powerful curse to ever exist. Yuji''s body becomes the vessel.
What sets him apart
Yuji reads close to the shounen-battle template: positive, honest, instinctively protective, physically beyond ordinary. The twist: he shares a body with two consciousnesses. Sukuna can seize control. Yuji knows this; every fight has to be survived as himself with a monster sharing the seat.
His combat style is purely physical — he can''t channel cursed energy well yet, so it''s body and instinct. Later seasons see him develop his own techniques, but the core ethic stays the same: save people. That''s the one trait he didn''t inherit from Gojo.
His place in the story
Yuji is our entry into the jujutsu world. The rules get explained to him and to us together — classic shounen scaffolding. What''s different about JJK: Yuji isn''t a "chosen one", he''s an accepted casualty. Swallowing Sukuna isn''t heroism, it''s a mistake; the rest of the story is the cost of that mistake.
His relationships with Megumi, Nobara, Gojo are the show''s spine. The internal dialogue with Sukuna is one of the most original arcs in modern shounen — much heavier in the manga.
Tracking on Episodo
Yuji''s screen time stays peaked across both seasons. With the Episodo extension installed, every platform you watch from tracks episode-by-episode automatically. The Season 2 finale arc lands brutally for manga readers; first-time viewers should expect medium-heavy emotional load.
