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I cant finish it... sorry

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me personally i would put mahito in a blender buuuuuut he’s a good villain. a great villain even. anyway this was an art trade for my friend izu :D

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They're not sure if Mahito is the stepfather or the pet, but he's part of the family nonetheless.

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Perosnally I think that normal mlm itafushi is lowkey buns so I had to yurify it

Their names should still have the same meaning. In Megumi's case a chose this one since it's usually masculine name, so it's a opposite to him having feminine name.

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oh my god i drew so much and forgot to post it

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getting rid of someone else's brain without damaging the central nervous system, and then somehow attaching your own to it is literally an impossible operation at the moment. even if we assume that the reverse cursed technique can be used for successful regeneration of nerve tissue, it is unlikely to be able to overcome poor tissue compatibility (the result is deplorable... edema leading to brain death) or save oneself from the body's immune response to the new "processor" in the skull (there is a possibility that the immune system may fail/stop working altogether).

kenjaku's meticulousness and caution simply will not allow him to risk his own life, hoping for luck. therefore, i assume that kenny is not only the brain, but also the nervous system + spinal cord.

although extracting such a complex structure from a corpse is clearly not a quick process, bloody and requiring a large supply of cursed energy, kenjaku has time on his side. on average, the decomposition process begins 1-2 days after death. + it is much easier to use rct to restore damaged muscles, bones and organs.

that's it. that's the whole thought.😶

p.s. i have no professional knowledge in neurobiology/neurosurgery. formulated this headcanon based purely on scientific articles from google + asking knowledgeable friends and acquaintances. you can point out any mistakes if you notice them.

cr(art): dare

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those kenjaku backshots memes are so overused and unfunny like holy shit 😭

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Drew some little guys for practice ✌️

I used this generator:

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Girl that is kinda strange and has 1000 years of lived experience in her eyes.

Jin was so real for not letting this baddie go and rather staying with something that wore her skin.

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Definitely haha. I like to think they have to put it into some solution about once a week like dentures

do you think kenjakus brain ever gets itchy

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just some kenny doing random normal things

wearing something casual

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Nah, she's high as fuck here. No one will convince me this bitch wasn't tripping for half of his screen time.

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Is Kenjaku originally a woman??

Really important question we all need the answer to but until now we only have bits and pieces of hints that might or might not point us to Kenjaku starting his body hopping career as a woman.

But just today I discovered one more hint of Kenjaku being a woman originally, so I decided to put all the hints together and see what comes out.

In story, we have:

Kenjaku is no stranger to gender hopping as seen by his takeover of Itadori Kaori

His DE is named Womb Profusion and naked female breasts and pregnant bellies feature in it

He is the actual mother of the main protagonist Yuji

(Ahem, in another translation it's Womb Profusion.)

Outside of the story from a meta perspective, we have

Gege drawing him as a female nurse

Kenjaku being a close friend of Tengen 1000 years ago which points to him being also a woman back then

Kenjaku was drawn in a way similar to being "pregnant" with Tengen before seemingly dying

And the hint that came to me today:

Gege played with the idea of making Yuki fake-Geto before he decided to keep Yuki as her own character

When you read through Gege's interviews, you see that his discarded ideas are still present in some form in the ideas he actually went with. For my last point, even that was a low possibility, that would mean that while Gege did decide to not implement the Yuki-reveal, the actual reveal would still have a woman as the original person called Kenjaku.

So, this looks like just enough hints sprinkled throughout the manga and outside that an actual reveal would still be shocking but with a "I could've seen/I did see this coming" moment.

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Thinking about Kenjaku born in a early heian era into Fujiwara or any other influental family as a unattractive girl. Incredibly smart, assertive and good at martial arts, too "manly" and not fit for marriage, seen as a failure. So she dedicates her whole life to studying and perfecting what she can.

Then she finds out about Sukuna and his followers. She has nothing to lose anyway, so she decides to join them. And it's first time she experiences respect and recognition. Quickly becomes one of the Sukunas closest people and one of the few he sees as equal. Tengen learning her everything she knows about barriers and domain expansions.

She is feared, people finally acknowledge her. But then Sukuna dies, Tengen hides from society and she is alone again, forgotten. The Golden era of jujutsu, THEIR era, is over.

But she isn't someone who gives up easily, she always gets what she wants. And she has whole centuries to bring it back.

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Master Tengen 💫

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This is the entirety of my Mahito character Analysis! I have no clue how to link a document, so I’ve pasted it below. 🩵

This is not just for his fans, I would like it if even those that purely despise Mahito to read this to better understand his character.

The name Mahito means ‘true human’. People believe this to be ironic knowing that he was for a long time the centre villain and curse Alongside Kenjaku and the other disaster curses, although they cannot hold the title of ‘main villain’ when it came to standing beside Mahito.

Mahito and his knowledge on the soul:

This is not ironic at all, and my reasoning is that he is the natural nature of a human, not the sane and organised manner of the masses. He is the hatred and cruelty that each person holds. People argue that there is more good than evil in the world, but after learning about the soul itself, Mahito knows that to be untrue, each and every human is in the same form of the ��yin and yang’. We all hold good and evil and even the kindest of souls such as Yuji can be pushed over the edge, spilling that black dot into the pureness of his being. That is what Mahito creates, he brings out the worst of the soul purely because he is the only one who can see it, he is the only one who can grasp it and understand it.

His natural enemy:

Speaking of grasping souls, Mahito seems to believe in the start of his existence that the only way he can use ‘idle transfiguration’ is by making contact with his victim. This is also untrue, and only goes to show how little he knows about humans, and in turn, himself. He could not directly touch Itadori’s soul because Sukuna would destroy him for it, so he had to circle around his plan and start from scratch. How was he to corrupt Itadori’s soul if he could not touch it? But then again, how is any human driven to detachment and pure insanity? It certainly wasn’t always by the hand of a curse, no, it was both physical and psychological. He would murder horrendously those that Yuji loved, and he would make him watch as he smiled and laughed and made it clear he enjoyed it, all to drive Yuji over the edge of his soul. He was maddening the boy without even having to touch him.

In the last episodes, Mahito feared what he had created, that being Yujis gaze. The term ‘eyes are the window to the soul’ is true in this instance, Mahito could see the detachment in his gaze and feared it. It made people wonder what he was expecting, after all he wanted this. But Yuji looked down on Mahito like he had always looked down on his own prey, and it frightened him as he would anyone, because he is that human. He is the cornered prey he so loved to destroy, he was the essence of a human and he could not comprehend it.

Bleeding theory & psychological effect:

Another human aspect of Mahito, which so many people surprisingly missed was that he bleeds red. And since he is practically never on the defensive he is bleeding in half the panels he appears in. Perhaps, in some instances that is why people seem to hate him more than they should. Artists will usually make certain things visual, like his blood, to make the viewers despise the character even more without them really realising it. So knowing that this may be the case, many would see the red blood and look at him like a human, instead of something that was born to act the way he does like a curse should. So maybe it is purely because he is not covered in that wretched purple blood that all the fandom’s other favourite curses bleed, maybe that is the psychological reasoning behind the hatred he receives.

And again the blood is a very simple symbol of his human body. His organic state is human and the essence of humanity quite literally flows through him, he cannot escape it because he would not only have to drain himself of blood, but destroy the entirety of his soul. But of course, he was too young to realise these things, and most likely never thought to question it.

Mahitos effect on viewers:

I also want to add how confused i was knowing that he his hated so distastefully, to the point where people make hour long videos of just Mahito whining and crying, and go on to attack people that find him the slightest bit interesting. I have been continuously told to ‘get therapy’ and had multiple people ghost me over even posting about him. As dramatic as these fans are, it just goes to show how insanely well written Mahito is, and they are only proving how his character is successfully portrayed as annoying and disgusting to certain people… which I will not elaborate on because i will be doxed. (People unable to understand a proper character that wasn’t written just to sit and look cool on a pile of bones for half the series, and people that cannot comprehend their favourite curse ever hurting their favourite sorcerers until it happens)

Mahito is not a curse and is unknowing to this:

This is also very subjective, but when i rewatched jujitsu Kaisen i picked up on why Yuji shouted ‘what the hell are you Mahito’. Less on the fact that this interaction was insanely good voice acting, and more on the fact that Mahito did not answer the question with ‘i am a curse’. I believe this was done purposely, since Yuji has never been confused by a curse before, and has never asked the question, not even when he killed the two crying brothers. Mahito is very obviously different to all curses, he is so human that it scared Yuji, and it made him doubt himself in each and every battle he found himself in with Mahito until he saw him weak and dying. Only then, when he ran out of cursed energy and souls did Yuji truly see that his vessel was a helpless human.

The death of Mahito (Yuji):

‘You are me’ and ‘I am you’ was not just an exchange of hatred, it was the both of them slowly coming to the realisation that the one thing they do have in common is humanity. It is almost as if they switched places, Yuji curled up and crying on the floor to Mahito sobbing and running away from him. Mahito’s merciless gaze and hunger to kill being practically given to Yuji when he went after him in the woods. It all makes sense once you realise that the key words ‘I am you’ meant so much more than his last vows of revenge, it was the tragedy which followed the loss of his youth, the kindness he had. In truth, Mahito succeeded in killing Yuji.

Character appearance:

More on his appearance: he has heterochromia eyes (two different colours) and before i say this i did look into the meanings which there were none, so this is just purely theory and my own take on his design. I think that Gege did this purposefully to mirror both curse and human. Eyes are the window to the soul and his just happen to be double paned windows. If you look at the majority of illustrated curses other than Kenjaku and Sukuna, since they have human vessels, you’ll notice that they either do not possess eyes, or they are deep reds and voided black around the iris rather than white. This very obviously symbolises their demonic nature and appearance, but Mahito does not harbour this. I believe that the blue eye is a symbol of his strings to humans, and the grey eye is his symbol to being a ‘curse’, almost like a half breed of the two. Since the grey eye has a pretty unique pattern to it, its the second thing to his stitches that gives away his vessel being a curse.

Speaking of his stitches he would quite literally be able to fool any low grade sorcerer if he did not have them all over his body. It is the one thing other than his dramatic and rather comical body alterations that makes him very deceiving. The stitches most likely symbolise how he has been put together in his birth, a symbol of humanity’s imperfection and perfection all at once. He is quite literally an “embodiment of perfection”, the perfect embodiment of humanity.

Ive seen many people refer to him as similar to Frankenstein’s monster, which is ironic since that monster was created by a human, and ended up being freakishly emotional and dangerous. On a more scientific take it is also probably to make his body looser so that he can dislocate and sever his limbs to create weapons such as his arm sword, and that one time he twisted his own head off just to dodge a punch. I don’t believe there is a theory on the design choice for his clothes, and there is certainly no excuse for the shoes he wears. And his strange leggings that seem to be stitched onto him in season 2 were probably put into his design because both Gege and the animators ran out of censoring ideas.

Fighting style:

He is constantly on the offensive, there is not one instance, really, that he is on the defensive instead. He only ever shields and shells himself within his own body when he is vulnerable to genuine damage. He is indestructible but also terribly clever. He is called a coward by fans and characters simultaneously because of how many times he’s ran away in a battle. But again, this is what makes him so clever, he knows his limits, and he is playing with humans to stretch these limits. This is what not only curses lack, but villains in general, they never run because of pride. Mahito doesn’t understand the concept of an ego, he does not let it affect him, that is why he is so dangerous. He knew when to run, even in the end.

Snow rabbit:

Mahito was portrayed as a snowy rabbit when being chased by Yuji through the woods. And even though many people are sceptical of Gege’s writing skills and probably believe he did this because a bunny is the first prey of a wolf that comes to mind, I do not believe this was done without intended symbolism. It most certainly portrays the shift in power dynamics, as I had explained earlier, they switched places in that scene which was not arguably but definitely the main turning point for Yuji. Rabbits are easily hunted, vulnerable animals, but alongside this they are one of the most loved creatures for their harmless nature. Why would Gege depict a character that finds the torture of a human entertaining, as a snowy rabbit? Would this not then cause the viewer to feel sorrow or pity on him? That was my initial idea, but with the knowledge that every Yuji fan and their mother having applauded the scene and made it their entire personality, I was proven wrong. He was vulnerable for a reason, because it’s what we had always wanted, for him to show a weakness we thought did not exist.

Mahitos overall symbolism:

It pleases us humans to watch something we despise die, especially when it is so tragically written, you can refuse this but it is true, there is pleasure in it. But this is what made Mahito more than just a character, more than simply a villain in another hero’s story. There was ‘you are me’ and ‘I am you’ but truly it all narrows down to he is us.

I hope you enjoyed my ramblings, and if you do hate this particular character, I hope you can at least now understand why, and perhaps too why I do not.

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Heian era Sukuken, my beloved