Takuma Ino

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Takuma Ino
Biographical Information
Kanji	猪野琢真
Rōmaji	Ino Takuma
Personal Description
Species	Human
Age	20 (Prequel) 21
Gender	Male
Professional Status
Status	Alive
Occupation	Jujutsu Sorcerer
Affiliation	Tokyo Jujutsu High
Grade	Grade 2
First Appearance
Manga Debut	Chapter 0-3 (Cameo) Chapter 26
Anime Debut	Episode 12
Portrayal
Japanese Voice	Yū Hayashi
English Voice	Lucien Dodge

Takuma Ino (猪 (い) 野 (の) 琢 (たく) 真 (ま) , Ino Takuma^?) is a supporting character in the Jujutsu Kaisen series. Ino is a grade 2 jujutsu sorcerer and a close associate of Kento Nanami who operates out of Tokyo Jujutsu High.

Appearance

Ino is a young man of average height with disheveled brown hair usually kept under his signature ski-mask rolled up into a beanie-type hat. He wears a wide-collared black sweatshirt and matching black pants tucked into his high-topped sneakers. After his fight with Toji Fushiguro, Ino lost his right eye. He seems to have regained his eye some time after meeting with Satoru Gojo, Shoko Ieiri, and Kiyotaka Ijichi.

Ino with his mask lowered over his face.

Personality

Takuma Ino is a genuine and cheerful person with a more positive outlook on things than most jujutsu sorcerers. He doesn't believe he's the smartest person around and has a lot of respect for Nanami. Whenever Ino finds himself in a tough situation, he asks himself what would Nanami do.

Ino's positive attitude helps his juniors prepare for battle.

Ino believes it's important to proceed through life doing things the right way, especially with dirty work like being a jujutsu sorcerer. This is a large part of Ino's honor code, so much so that he refuses to advance to grade 1 without Nanami's approval.

Ino is very young for a sorcerer and gives off a little brother type of vibe, so everyone tends to help him out. When he's around people younger than himself, he has a tendency to show off his jujutsu knowledge and maturity. An example of this is shown when he went out of his way to explain curtains to Megumi, an already very educated student with good grades. Nanami pointed this out to him but Ino vehemently denies trying to show off.

When it was time for Ino to step up and lead on Nanami's behalf, he was honored to have someone else rely on him. He took looking after Yuji and Megumi seriously and embraced the leadership role wholeheartedly. In spite of the risk, Ino's positive attitude and optimism helped hype up his team in anticipation for their dangerous mission to rescue Satoru Gojo.

Abilities and Powers

Ino exorcising several cursed spirits on his own.

Overall Skill: Ino is a grade 2 jujutsu sorcerer but his rank does not reflect his true skill level. According to Nanami, Ino could easily become a semi-grade 1 sorcerer if he chose to. He is an exceptional combatant with a very potent cursed technique.

Ino actively chooses to stay at grade 2 until he gets Nanami's approval and doesn't always have confidence in himself. However, Nanami was completely sure Ino could take out a large room full of Transfigured Humans and left him there alone to take care of them. He even believed Ino could exorcise Mahito in his weakened state after fighting with Nanami and Yuji.

Ino overpowering his opponent in close quarters.

During the Shibuya Incident Ino was assigned to Nanami's Team and was eventually put in charge of leading Yuji and Megumi. He worked together with the squad to deduce the enemy curse users' location and was able to fight two at once after confronting them.

Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant: Ino outclassed an average level curse user in close combat with no issues. However, he caught on to his opponent's plan too late, allowing Granny Ogami to outmaneuver him and activate her Séance Technique. After her grandson shapeshifted into Toji Fushiguro, Ino proved no match in terms of physical prowess.

Jujutsu

Cursed Energy Manipulation

High Cursed Energy: As a professional sorcerer, Ino possesses high cursed energy levels and has been trained to manipulate his power efficiently. When activating his innate technique, Ino's entire body is coated in surging cursed energy. He can use cursed energy to reinforce his body for close combat at the same time as his technique. Additionally, Ino is capable of sensing other individual's cursed energy fairly well.

Innate Technique
	Auspicious Beasts Summon (来 (らい) 訪 (ほう) 瑞 (ずい) 獣 (しゅう) , Raihō Zuishū?) is activated when Ino hides his face by covering it with his mask, turning himself into a spiritual medium. This allows Ino to summon and use the abilities of four auspicious beasts: Kaichi, Reiki, Kirin, and Ryu.

Kaichi (獬 (カイ) 豸 (チ) , Kaichi?): Auspicious Beast number one. Summons a horn with a spiral pattern on it. Can be fired as a projectile cloaked in cursed energy that won't stop until it hits its target.
Reiki (霊 (れい) 亀 (き) , Reiki?): Auspicious Beast number two. Covers Ino's body in cursed water that can be used cushion him from danger or and increases his overall mobility.
Kirin (麒 (き) 麟 (りん) , Kirin?): Auspicious Beast number three. Effectively causes intracerebral doping, which nullifies Ino's own sense of pain. However, it also drains his stamina, causing him to become extremely tired but unable to sleep at the same time. Once Kirin has been summoned and the technique completes, Ino becomes immobile for some time.
Ryu (竜 (りゅう) , Ryū?): Auspicious Beast number four. Ino concentrates cursed energy around his hands and summons a large serpentine dragon-like creature that rushes out from them and crashes into his target. The dragon can be attacked and dissipates if sufficient damage is dealt.

Anti-Domain Technique
	New Shadow Style: Simple Domain (シン・陰 (かげ) 流 (りゅう) 　簡 (かん) 易 (い) 領 (りょう) 域 (いき) , Shin Kageryū: Kan'i Ryōiki?): It is used to disable a domain's guaranteed-hit effect by neutralizing its barrier. Ino activated it in response to Sukuna's impromptu Malevolent Shrine to try and survive its 99 second onslaught .

Equipment

Cursed Tool

Nanami's Blunt Sword: A cursed tool originally used by Kento Nanami, resembling a blunt sword wrapped in a cloth with a splattered black dot design. After his death, it was used by Ino during the battle against Sukuna. It has been imbued with Nanami's Ratio Technique, allowing Ino to enhance the power of his strike by dividing his target with lines and hitting the weak spot at the ratio point of seven to three. It was also durable enough to withstand a kick from Sukuna.

Battles & Events

Cursed Child Arc

• Night Parade of a Hundred Demons

Shibuya Incident Arc

• The Shibuya Incident
  • Takuma Ino vs. Ogami & Her Grandson

Shinjuku Showdown Arc

• Jujutsu Sorcerers vs. Sukuna

Trivia

• Takuma's rankings in the Popularity Polls are as follows:
  • Takuma ranked 26th in the first Popularity Poll with 893 votes.
  • Takuma ranked 28th in the second Popularity Poll with 201 votes.
  • Takuma ranked 27th in the third Popularity Poll with 177 votes.
• Takuma's surname has the Nanori reading for "wild boar" (猪, i) and the Kun reading for "field, wilderness" (野, no). His given name has the Jinmeiyo kanji and Go-on reading for "to polish, to cultivate one's skill" (琢, taku) and the Kun reading for "truth, genuine" (真, ma).
• Takuma is always getting help from others because of his little-brother vibe.
• Takuma really respects Kento Nanami after accompanying him on a mission.
• Takuma hopes that he'll get Nanami's watch as a hand-me-down one day.
• According to Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook:
  • Enrollment method: Family lineage.
  • His hobby is attending drinking parties.
  • Favorite food: Deep-fried horse mackerel.
  • Least favorite food: Pickled dish.
  • Cause of stress: None.

Quotes

• (To Kento Nanami) “To me, doing things the right way is really important. Especially when doing dirty work like jujutsu sorcery. But I'm not the smartest person around, so it's hard to figure out what's right sometimes. So that's why whenever I'm not sure what to do, I ask myself, 'What would Nanami do?' And since that's the case, becoming a grade 1 sorcerer without your approval wouldn't feel right.”

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