What happens
Yuji ItadoriYuji ItadoriHumanAn ordinary high school athlete who became the vessel for Ryomen Sukuna after swallowing a cursed finger to save his friends. Yuji's defining trait isn't his superhuman physical ab... would rather sit with the Occult Club than run for the track team, even though he can throw a shot put clean past the world record without trying. His grandfather is dying in a hospital across town, and the last thing the old man tells him is to use his strength for other people so that he dies surrounded by them.
That night the club unseals the object they found at school: a withered finger belonging to Ryomen 
SukunaSukunaSpecial Grade · HumanThe King of Curses. A thousand years ago, Sukuna was a jujutsu sorcerer so powerful that other sorcerers of the golden age couldn't defeat him even working together. His cursed tec..., the King of Curses. The talisman breaks, curses spill into the building, and 
Megumi FushiguroMegumi FushiguroGrade 2 · HumanA first-year student at Tokyo Jujutsu High who inherited the Ten Shadows Technique from the Zenin clan: the same technique whose user once fought a Six Eyes Limitless user to mutua..., the jujutsu student who came looking for that finger, cannot reach Sasaki and Iguchi in time. Yuji comes through a fourth floor window instead.
He can carry his friends out and he can outrun a curse, but with no cursed energy he cannot hurt one. When the finger is about to go down a curse's throat, Yuji catches it in his own mouth and swallows.
SukunaSukunaSpecial Grade · HumanThe King of Curses. A thousand years ago, Sukuna was a jujutsu sorcerer so powerful that other sorcerers of the golden age couldn't defeat him even working together. His cursed tec... incarnates in front of Megumi, pleased to find a body and an era crowded with people to kill. Then Yuji takes himself back mid sentence, as though it cost him nothing. No vessel in a thousand years has managed that. Megumi summons a shikigami anyway, because the rules say a vessel for the King of Curses is a curse.
Key moments
- Revelation
- Sukuna's finger is a cursed object that grants immense power. Yuji swallows one and becomes Sukuna's vessel
- Technique reveal
- Yuji Itadori uses Divergent Fist. Yuji's cursed energy hits a second time after his physical blow
- Power-up
- Yuji Itadori gains Sukuna's Vessel, swallows Sukuna's finger.
- Debut
- Yuji Itadori appears for the first time. Main protagonist, Sukuna's vessel
- Debut
- Megumi Fushiguro appears for the first time. Ten Shadows user, Toji's son
- Debut
- Satoru Gojo appears for the first time. Strongest sorcerer, Six Eyes + Limitless
- Debut
- Sukuna appears for the first time. King of Curses, inhabits Yuji's body
Fights
Yuji & Megumi vs. Cursed Spirits
Manga chapters adapted
- Chapter 1
- Special Grade Incident
Volume 1