Junpei Yoshino (
Appearance
Junpei was a thin young boy in his late teens with black eyes and dark brown (black in the manga) hair that reached his chin. His side parting let a large portion of his bangs cover the right side of his face. This helped to cover the cluster of circular scars he received from bullies' cigarettes.
He initially wore a purple and pink striped t-shirt or a simple white t-shirt with a green rectangle printed on the front. He also wore a pair of calf length olive green pants and off-white sneakers with black laces and golden soles and toes.
Later on, after his mother's death, he wore one of her black jackets in mourning.
Personality
Junpei is a reserved and apathetic individual with a distaste for other people. He has very negative views of people and society as a whole. If a button existed that would kill everyone he hates, he wouldn't press it. However, if there was a button that would kill everyone who hated him, he'd press it without hesitation.[3] He claims he feels indifferent towards people and believes it's no worse than hating them.[4]
Junpei is indifferent towards other humans because he expects them to be evil, so even people's deaths don't seem to affect him.[5] It is due to all the trauma he received from being bullied and rejected in his life. He has always been a recluse, but Junpei loves movies and tried to start his club at school. It was, unfortunately, taken over by bullies who burned Junpei while nobody did anything to help him or reprimand his assaulters.
Despite being a normal student, Junpei's dejected attitude made him easy for Mahito to manipulate. Mahito fed into Junpei's darkness and encouraged him to take his indifference a step further into hate and revenge.[6] This resulted in shortsightedness that made Junpei unable to see Mahito for what he truly was.
Yuji, someone around Junpei's age and interested in movies, became one of his only friends. Even after Junpei had rejected all those around him, Yuji was able to begin to bring Junpei out of his troubled mindset.
Abilities and Powers
Overall Skill Level: Prior to meeting Mahito, Junpei was weak. He was an average non-sorcerer who was constantly picked on and bullied. Mahito altered Junpei and turned him into a sorcerer, allowing Junpei to get his revenge. To his peers, it looked as if Junpei gained psychic powers they could not perceive. They were unable to view Junpei's jujutsu and Shota Ito suffered a wrath he couldn't even see. Junpei gained the ability to summon a fairly strong shikigami. This allowed him to even put up a fight against Yuji, who was a relatively new sorcerer at the time.
Cursed Technique
Battles & Events
Trivia
- Junpei's rankings in the Popularity Polls are as follows;
- Junpei ranked 9th in the first Popularity Poll with 7,481 votes.
- Junpei ranked 20th in the second Popularity Poll with 406 votes.
- Junpei ranked 35th in the third Popularity Poll with 99 votes.
- Junpei ranked 31st in the fourth Popularity Poll with 207 votes.
- According to Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook:[2]
- His hobby is watching movies.
- Favorite dish: Crab omelet on rice.
- Least favorite dish: Herring roe.
- Cause of stress: School
- Junpei started a film appreciation club with two of his friends during his first year of high school.[1]
- Junpei stopped going to school by his second year.[1]
- Junpei’s dislike for his mother’s smoking is likely rooted in his bullies’ habit of putting out cigarettes against his forehead. It may also be out of a concern for her health.
- Akutami has expressed that he wished to have shown more scenes of Junpei's kindness before he died in the manga.[1] The anime adaptation ended up showing an original scene, presumably inspired by this comment.[10]
- Junpei is probably a fan of the 𝘚𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘦 Franchise.[1]
- Junpei's surname has the kanji for "good luck" (吉, yoshi) and "field, wilderness" (野, no). His given name has the kanji for "order, sequence, obedience" (順, jun) and "ordinary, mediocre, simple" (平, pei).
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Vol. 4, Profile
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook: (p. 85).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 19 (p. 1) and Episode 9.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 21 (p. 2) and Episode 10.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 21 (p. 5) and Episode 10.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 21 (p. 9) and Episode 10.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 26 (p. 9) and Episode 12.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 25 (p. 15) and Episode 11.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 26 (p. 16) and Episode 12.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Anime: Episode 10.