Jujutsu Kaisen character guide
Megumi Fushiguro is the first-year who finds Yuji Itadori and brings him into the jujutsu world. He inherits the Zenin clan’s prized Ten Shadows Technique, summoning shikigami from his own shadow, and the series gradually shows how much the people around him matter to the way he fights.
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Megumi grew up with his older stepsister Tsumiki, who often scolded him for the fights he kept getting into at junior high. He enrolled at Tokyo Jujutsu High as a Grade 2 sorcerer with an unusually valuable inherited technique. (Ch. 59)
Megumi is sent to a school to recover Sukuna’s finger and ends up fighting a curse in the school with Yuji, who swallows the finger to help. His first plan is to kill Yuji to exorcise Sukuna, which is the standard way to deal with a vessel. Gojo turns up in chapter 2 and decides to test Yuji instead. (Ep. 1 · ch. 2)
During the Shibuya Incident, Megumi rescues Maki, Naobito and Nanami from a sure-hit domain by entering it and opening a hole in the barrier. A little later Haruta Shigemo slashes him across the back; he is badly hurt, but he survives. (Ep. 40 · ch. 114)
Megumi’s goal in the Culling Game is rescuing Tsumiki. He pushes the applications of the Ten Shadows Technique further, infiltrating a fight club to gather information on one of the players, and relying less on the shikigami he regards as a last resort.
In chapter 216 Kenjaku brings Sukuna to Megumi, and Sukuna moves into Megumi’s body. For the next 50 chapters Megumi’s soul survives underneath, bearing the burden of Mahoraga’s adaptation while Sukuna fights Gojo and, later, Yuji. (Ch. 216)
Yuji’s final plan is aimed at separating Sukuna from Megumi’s soul. After Sukuna’s defeat, Megumi is alive and standing with Shoko at the grave she prepared for Tsumiki, and he returns to ordinary missions with Yuji and Nobara. (Ch. 270)
Megumi reads situations quickly and chooses the least risky route. He is blunt with Yuji, and after the Kyoto Goodwill Event he tells Yuji that he will surpass him, which says as much about his own insecurity as about Yuji’s growth. (Ep. 21 · ch. 53)
Megumi has a stated habit of helping people he judges worth helping, rather than everyone, and the story keeps testing whether that stance holds when the person at risk is his stepsister or his friends. He has no loyalty to the Zenin clan and treats Tsumiki as his family.
The pattern across the series is that Megumi improves when he stops treating his last resort as the answer and lets his imagination work on his shadows, using shikigami for support, tracking and escape rather than only as attackers. The story presents this as growth in how he thinks, not just in how much cursed energy he has.
Open an entry for its strengths, limits and where it appears. Entries describe what the story shows; they are not a power ranking.
Megumi summons shikigami from his shadow by forming hand signs. The roster of shikigami available to him grows as the story goes on.
Ep. 5 · ch. 9
Later chapters show Megumi inventing new uses for the shadows themselves, such as the Rabbit Escape diversion.
A shikigami that adapts to whatever damages it. For Megumi it is a last resort, because summoning it is tied to risking his life.
Ep. 5 · ch. 9
Megumi’s domain, first shown in an unfinished form in the Death Painting arc.
Ep. 23 · ch. 58 · part of Domain Expansion
A swarm of rabbit shikigami used as a diversion.
Ep. 53 · ch. 156
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Gojo stepped in after Megumi’s parents were gone and taught him at Tokyo Jujutsu High.
Megumi saves Yuji in chapter 1 and then spends the story pushing back against him, and fighting beside him.
Tsumiki is Megumi’s stepsister, and his reason for becoming a sorcerer.
Toji, an assassin known as the Sorcerer Killer, is Megumi’s father.
Sukuna wants Megumi’s Ten Shadows Technique and ends up wearing his body.
Result: Megumi loses several shikigami and is saved when Yuji takes his body back. (Ep. 5 · ch. 9)
Sukuna toys with Megumi’s shikigami and shows that he finds the technique interesting, until Yuji regains control.
Result: Megumi is slashed across the back but survives. (Ep. 40 · ch. 114)
In Shibuya, exhausted after rescuing others from a domain, Megumi is struck by a surprise attack.
Result: Megumi’s soul holds on until Yuji reaches it. (Ch. 229)
Under Sukuna’s control, Megumi’s soul carries Mahoraga’s adaptation during the Gojo fight, and later uses shadows to hold Sukuna long enough for Yuji to strike. See it on the timeline.
To save Megumi from a curse, Yuji eats a finger of the King of Curses and wakes Sukuna inside himself.
Sukuna takes control of Yuji’s body, tears out his heart to stop him from taking it back, and Yuji dies in chapter 9. In Sukuna’s domain Sukuna offers a deal, and Yuji wakes up in the morgue in chapter 11 with no memory of the terms.
Kenjaku turns ten colonies into a death-match arena, and Megumi enters the game to save Tsumiki.
After Yuji eats the last finger, Kenjaku takes Sukuna to Megumi’s body.
The strongest sorcerer and the King of Curses fight on 24 December 2018.
Yuji’s Black Flash in chapter 267 ends the fight, and Sukuna dies in chapter 268 after refusing Yuji’s offer to let him live inside him.
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Megumi survives the manga. Sukuna uses his body from chapter 216 until he is separated in the final fight, and Megumi is seen alive in chapters 270 and 271.
Sukuna’s possession of Megumi. Anime: Not reached; the anime stops at chapter 181. Manga: Happens in chapter 216.
| Medium | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| Manga | Jujutsu Kaisen | Main character, from chapter 1. |
| Anime | Jujutsu Kaisen seasons 1–3 | Episodes 1–59 |
The Ten Shadows Technique, a Zenin clan technique that summons shikigami from shadows. Megumi inherited it through his father.
Yes. Toji Fushiguro, the assassin Gojo fights in the 2006 flashback, is Megumi’s father.
No. Sukuna takes over Megumi’s body in the late manga, but Megumi survives and is seen alive in the final chapters.
Last verified October 29, 2026. Covers Manga chapters 1–271 (complete) and anime episodes 1–59. Details are written by AnimeSparks from the manga and anime themselves, and cross-checked against the references below. Where something isn’t confirmed, the page says so.