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 the Gachinko Fight Club, a venue for hand-to-hand combat between sorcerers for money.

Appearance
Kinji is a young man with small black eyes and short black locks that are currently dyed a light color. He has thin, slitted black 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 that are around Kinji's age think of him as a good-for-nothing.

Kinji is an individual who enjoys watching people get lost in their passions. He describes this as people's "fever" burning hot. Kinji is clever and pours his own fever into manipulating others. He believes people are desperate to change their lives and an easy way of directing their fever is through gambling. His goal is to manipulate all of Japan's fever with his fight club.

According to Kirara Hoshi, Kinji's fever burns hottest when he's working as a sorcerer for jujutsu high. However, Kinji's attitude and modern cursed technique don't mesh well with the higher-ups. He was suspended for assaulting a conservative member and decided to act outside their regulations. Kinji is willing to take advantage of the chaos caused by the public reveal of curses to advance his fight club. Eventually, his goal is to get his club recognized by jujutsu officials for the coming changes in their regulations.

Kinji is only willing to put his life on the line with another sorcerer if they show him a proper fever. Initially, upon encountering Yuji, Kinji felt that the first-year's fever was weak. Yuji was sent to him on the recommendation of others. Yuji explained that he's just a cog in the system of jujutsu sorcerers, which Kinji thought was boring. However, Yuji proved he's a cog in fever, burning hot enough to gain Kinji's attention.

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: Hakari is widely recognized as one of the most powerful students at Tokyo Jujutsu High. Satoru Gojo places him on the same level of potential as he does with Yuta Okkotsu and Yuji Itadori, believing they could surpass him in strength one day. Yuta believes that Kinji is stronger when he's in the right state of mind.

Master Hand-to-Hand-Combat: Kinji is capable hand-to-hand combat who was able to apply life-threatening pressure to Yuji, a very proficient taijutsu specialist. Yuji stopped resisting in order to win Kinji's approval and ended up suffering several blows that dealt serious damage to the first year.

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.