Kinji Hakari

Kinji Hakari is a character in the Jujutsu Kaisen series. He is a third-year student at Tokyo Jujutsu High who is currently suspended for clashing with authority. While away from the school, Kinji is running a fight club between sorcerers for money.

Appearance
Kinji is a young man with small black eyes and short light-colored locks. He has thin, slitted eyebrows and a thin mustache as well. During his time as a bookie, Kinji dressed the part by sporting a dark fur coat, pants, and dress shoes.

Personality
Kinji is a very self-absorbed type of person who cares little for the rules and regulations of Jujutsu High. Yuta Okkotsu describes him as moody and apparently all the other students Kinji's age describe him as a good-for-nothing.

Kinji is very clever and can read people extremely well He mainly uses his wits to take advantage of other people's weaknesses. He believes everyone is desperate to change their lives due to what he refers to as "the fever". Kinji loves that people get lost in the fever and sees the opportunity to manipulate them. A direct way of engaging in the fever is by gambling. Kinji wishes to control all of Japan's fever, starting with his fight club. He even wants to take advantage of the chaos caused by the public reveal of curses. Eventually, his goal is to get his club recognized by jujutsu officials for the coming changes in their regulations.

Cursed Training Arc
Maki mentions to Megumi and Nobara that the third year student has been suspended and can't participate in the Kyoto Goodwill Event.

Gojo mentions Hakari as one of his students that can rival him in the future.

Perfect Preparation Arc
Analysis of the culling game is done and Maki instructs Megumi, alongside Yuji, to rendezvous with Hakari as earlier planned between them.

Abilities and Powers
Overall Skill Level: While Hakari's abilities haven't been seen much yet, he is regarded as one of the strongest jujutsu sorcerers around, with Satoru Gojo stating he is one of the few who has the potential to surpass him along with Yuji and Yuta Okkotsu. Yuta himself stated Hakari is capable of being stronger than him.

Master Hand-to-Hand-Combat: Hakari is shown to be a very accomplished martial artist, being able to fight and pressure Yuji Itadori, an exceptional hand-to-hand fighter in his own right.

Trivia

 * Hakari ranked 54th place in the manga's 1st Character Popularity Poll with 101 votes.
 * According to Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook:
 * He is a gambler.
 * He was present for the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons in Kyoto. (An even that took place during the Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Jujutsu High prequel series.) He had a disagreement with a conservative member of the jujutsu higher ups and beat them up. Kinji was suspended as a result.
 * Hakari's outfit seems to be inspired by one worn by Tyler Durden in Fight Club, a reference to his role as a bookie for a fight club.