Shoko Ieiri

Shoko Ieiri is a character in the Jujutsu Kaisen series. She is an alumnus of Tokyo Jujutsu High, having been classmates with Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto. After graduating into a full-fledged jujutsu sorcerer, Shoko became the school's primary doctor.

Appearance
Shoko is a tall woman with long brown hair that extends past her shoulders that she sometimes ties into a ponytail when working. She has soft brown eyes with dark lines under them, making it appear as if she's underslept. Shoko has a mole underneath her right eye and thick brown eyebrows.

Shoko normally sports a white lab coat over a blue turtle-neck swear and darker navy blue pants that reach just above her ankle. She finishes her outfit with cream-colored high-heeled shoes.

As a student, Shoko had short-length hair that only reached just past her chin. She wore the typical jacket-type jujutsu high uniform. For casual wear during the summer, she wore a long-sleeved shirt, shorts, and sandals.

Personality
Shoko is a very laid-back and nonchalant person, especially compared to Kiyotaka Ijichi high-strung attitude and the overly playful Satoru. As a student alongside Satoru and Suguru, she would let the two fight and simply remove herself from the situation as it escalated. She enjoyed poking fun at them like when she called them both trash for Utahime Iori or when she took Satoru's sunglasses and wore them after he was punished by Masamichi Yaga.

Shoko didn't appear to take any situation very seriously in general back then. Shoko would openly smoke in public despite obviously being a high-schooler. Even after Suguru went rogue, Shoko was able to have a casual conversation with him about what he did. She was totally comfortable asking Suguru about the accusations and even called him childish for sulking because no one understands him. She even called Satoru to come to confront Suguru right in front of him without any fear for her own life.

As the school doctor, Shoko appears to take her job seriously but she's very stoic. While Satoru was upset about Yuji Itadori's demise, Shoko kept her personal feelings out of the situation and only wanted to perform an autopsy, noting that Satoru was being more emotional than usual. Apparently, Shoko often gets nostalgic about her highschool days and will decide to smoke a cigarette despite quitting the habit.

Shoko remains composed out on the field and wasn't concerned about being discovered in Shibuya despite the danger of being a high-value target. She was fine being protected by a few of his cursed corpses but she assured Yaga he didn't need to guard her personally.

Gojo's Past Arc
When Shoko was a second-year student at the college, Shoko along with Gojo and Geto go to check up on Mei Mei and Utahime Iori after they haven't heard from them in two days. After making sure that Mei Mei and Utahime are okay and that the spirit has been handled, Utahime along with Geto and Gojo meet with Masamichi Yaga, where Gojo is punished for not putting up a screen. Later Shoko is with Geto and Gojo, as Gojo and Geto discuss the important use of screens. When Gojo and Geto start to argue about the strong protecting the weak and the role of sorcerers in this curse-filled world, Shoko quickly runs away.

A year later, Shoko and Geto help out with testing Gojo's technique. After Gojo explains how his new technique works, Shoko says that Gojo will fry his brain if he leaves the technique always active, but Gojo replies that he has a recovery technique active as well. Sometime later, Shoko has an encounter with Geto in Shinjuku, she calls Gojo and tells him she spotted their former classmate.

Fearsome Womb Arc
Shoko meets up with Gojo and Kiyotaka Ijichi, at the college morgue to examine Yuji Itadori's body. As Shoko is about to start the dissection, she is disappointed when Yuji is revived since she won't be able to examine his body. Shoko and Gojo then head out and talk about how they won't inform the higher-ups that Yuji is alive, since Gojo wants to increase Yuji's strength.

Vs. Mahito Arc
Shoko calls Kento Nanami and Yuji, and informs them that the cursed spirits they sent her were once humans. She explains how someone has transformed the humans' bodies and that they all had died from the shock of their bodies being transformed.

Shibuya Incident Arc
On October 31, Shoko has set up a place to heal wounded sorcerers during the Shibuya Incident. Shoko is with Masamichi, and tells him that she doesn't need him there. Masamichi explains how they can't leave Shoko alone since she is the only one that can use reverse techniques to heal sorcerers who are wounded in battle. Shoko is with Masamichi when Sukuna delivers Megumi Fushiguro to them.

Culling Game Arc
After the events of Shibuya, Shoko briefly explains the process of Cursed technique to Maki and Ijichi in preparation for the Culling game. Some time later she along with Yuta Okkotsu patch Hana Kurusu's injuries so she can attempt to unseal Gojo from the Prison Realm, watching with the other students as the seal is broken. Afterward she tells Gojo of Kento Nanami's death and calls in Takuma Ino to discuss something. Shoko smiles and looks on along with the other teachers as Gojo prepares for his fight with Sukuna.

Abilities and Powers
Overall Skill Level: Shoko was never a combat type of sorcerer and never trained to be as a student. Shoko has not shown the capacity to use normal cursed techniques, but she's always possessed the rare ability to use a reverse cursed technique. She can convert it into output and apply it to others in order to regenerate lost limbs and heal wounds, something Satoru Gojo cannot even do. However, when asked how it works, Shoko is unable to put it into proper words that could effectively teach someone else how to use it.

Shoko possesses the knowledge required of a proper doctor while also possessing the sorcery skills to save her comrades at a moment's notice. She is invaluable to the sorcerers of Jujutsu High. When Nanami was injured by Mahito in their first fight, he retreated to Jujutsu High to receive treatment from Shoko. Ijichi and Ino both would have died if they weren't immediately treated by her during the Shibuya Incident.

Her skills as a doctor also make Shoko very knowledgeable in the realm of sorcery as it relates to biology. By dissecting two transfigured humans, Shoko was the one who was able to discover they weren't actually cursed spirits but former humans transfigured by a cursed technique. Shoko was also the one who correctly theorized that the Culling Game's cursed technique removal punishment would affect players' brains and end their life as a result.

Trivia

 * Shoko's surname contains the kanji for "house, family" (家) and "to enter" (入), and her first name contains "nitrate" (硝) and "child" (子).
 * Shoko ranked 27th place in the manga's 1st Character Popularity Poll with 639 votes.
 * Shoko doesn't like sweets, but she does like alcohol.
 * It has been 5 years since Shoko stopped smoking. However, she picked up the habit again recently.
 * Shoko was in the same year and class as Gojo.
 * According to Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook:
 * Her hobby is drinking alcohol.
 * Favorite dish: Alcohol.
 * Least favorite dish: Sweet things.
 * Cause of stress: Night shift.
 * Shoko is the heaviest drinker in the series.
 * She thinks Geto becoming a curse user was stupid.
 * Rather than being closer to Gojo or the upper echelon, she’s neutral (non-political).
 * After Shoko finished high school, she obtained her doctor's license in two years by cheating. She properly followed the national examination, but she made up her exam eligibility.
 * Her only technique is reverse cursed technique.
 * She has bags under her eyes because she is quite busy.

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