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Nov 9, 2023 · After asking Megumi what his name is, Toji’s spirit chooses to end himself by killing the body his spirit is inhabiting, effectively ending his return to the series.
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Nov 22, 2023 · Jujutsu Kaisen’s recent battle between Toji and Megumi ends with the former killing himself. Here’s why he did that.
Nov 13, 2023 · Why Did Toji Kill Himself While Fighting Megumi? The latest episode of Jujutsu Kaisen revealed more about the complex relationship between Megumi Fushiguro and his father, Toji. When they finally meet, Megumi tells Toji that his surname is now Fushiguro rather than Zen’in.
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Toji Fushiguro (伏 (ふし) 黒 (ぐろ) 甚 (とう) 爾 (じ) , Fushiguro Tōji?), born Toji Zenin (禪 (ぜん) 院 (いん) 甚 (とう) 爾 (じ) , Zen'in Tōji?) is a recurring character in the Jujutsu Kaisen series. He was a former member of the Zenin clan and the infamous assassin known as the Sorcerer Killer (術 (じゅつ) 師 (し) 殺 (ごろ) し, Jutsushi Goroshi?), contracted by the Time Vessel A...
Toji is a tall, muscular man with mid-length straight black hair that reaches to his ears. His eyes are green, just like his son's, and he has thin black eyebrows and a scar on the corner of his right lip.
For casual attire, Toji wears a simple outfit consisting of a long-sleeved shirt and matching pants with sandals. While fighting, Toji wears a tight-fitting black shirt, sports tan baggy training pants with a black belt weaved through the waist and black martial arts slippers. While still a member of the Zenin clan, Toji wore a dark colored haori over a black yukata.
Toji is a cool-headed, confident man who makes a living using his skills and does not sweat the small stuff. He appears to enjoy insightful conversation with others as long as it somehow pertains to himself and can trade witty banter with the highly sarcastic likes of Satoru Gojo. Upon meeting, Satoru asked Toji if they had met before. Toji, on the other hand, reassured him that he was not the type to recall a random man either. In battle, Toji has a crazed expression as if he's lost in the thrill of the fight, but he's always maintaining a cool and calculated head and plotting his next move.
Toji is an assassin who's garnered the name "Sorcerer Killer" and spends his time gambling between assignments from shady clients. Toji even planned on selling Megumi to the Zenin clan he had left behind, believing that this would warrant a better future for his son due the cursed technique he would eventually inherit.
Toji doesn't question his client's motives as long as the money is right and generally doesn't do any extra work for free. He's bold and dangerously calculated in his strategies, using his jujutsu knowledge to outwit even the most prophesized sorcerers. This garnered him a reputation large enough to attract the attention of the wealthy Time Vessel Association for such an important job that could ensure their future. While he thought the religious members of the organization were crazy, he got along well enough with their middleman to invite him to eat.
As a non-sorcerer raised in the Zenin clan who values cursed techniques above all, Toji is a man who has suffered due to the interests of the sorcerer clans in a very similar manner to Maki Zenin. His evil actions result from his dejection towards the jujutsu world as he attempts to spite it. Born without cursed energy, Toji eventually left the Zenin clan and married a woman, taking her name "Fushiguro". Her kindness helped Toji change his ways. He stopped gambling and hunting sorcerers and it's likely her influence stopped Toji from taking revenge on the Zenin clan. However, after her death, Toji reverted back to his old, cold, self. He sold their son to the Zenin clan because he believed in young Megumi's potential to be a real sorcerer, naming him "Megumi" because it means blessings.
Toji completed his final mission for the Time Vessel Association and should have cut and run when faced with a rejuvenated Satoru Gojo. However, due to his disdain for the jujutsu world and the sorcerer families, Toji chose to try and cut down the most gifted sorcerer in the world as another way to spite them all. Unfortunately, this pride cost Toji his life. Unable to look past his demons, he deviated from his natural instincts and ignored the uneasiness plaguing him during the fight.
Keeping up with his stoic persona, Toji chose not to utter any final words at first. In his last moments, he thought back to his ex-wife and their son, and decided to tell young Gojo that Megumi would be sold into the Zenin clan in a few years, urging him to do whatever he wanted with this information. This would eventually lead to Satoru stripping Megumi away from the Zenin clan's hands and becoming a close mentor for Megumi in the future as well as granting Megumi a chance to work as a jujutsu sorcerer.
Overall Skill Level: While Toji is technically a non-curse user with no innate talent for jujutsu, he was one of the most elite fighters in the jujutsu world when he was alive. With innate physical prowess far superior to all others in his path, Toji contended with the most dangerous and highly ranked jujutsu practitioners this era had to offer.
He was able to defeat the strongest jujutsu sorcerers at the time without sustaining any injuries beyond a small cut around the ear, one of which was a young Satoru Gojo, a prodigy who possessed the Six Eyes and Limitless cursed technique. The other was the curse manipulator Suguru Geto, a powerful grade 1 sorcerer that would reach special grade a year later. Toji was able to effortlessly take down Suguru along with several of his strongest cursed spirits. Toji referred to Suguru's abilities as rabble compared to his own strength.
Toji used the jujutsu knowledge from the Zenin clan and turned it against sorcerers, earning him the moniker of "Sorcerer Killer." During the Star Plasma Vessel Escort Mission, an assignment given to the two strongest sorcerers by Master Tengen, Toji was hired by the Time Vessel Association to assassinate the Star Plasma Vessel. Toji was able to completely derail the escort through a series of tactical moves over a few days. This wore down the escort team and lured them into a false sense of security before he abruptly made his move.
Toji's elaborate planning led to him successfully pulling off a surprise attack on a user of the prestigious Six Eyes, ocular jujutsu that grants god-like perception. Toji took full advantage of his lack of cursed energy, making him the perfect assassin thanks to his status as an "invisible man". The culmination of all Toji's talents allowed him to successfully defeat the Star Plasma Vessel's escort team and assassinate the girl, completing his assignment while nearly killing both of Jujutsu High's most blessed sorcerers in the process.
Toji was only defeated when he pitted his pure physical prowess against the awakened Limitless technique wielded by Satoru Gojo. Even in the face of this power, Toji was able to create clever ways to combat the abilities of the Limitless that were known to the Zenin clan. Only the secret Hollow Purple technique was powerful enough to put down Toji once and for all.
Yuki Tsukumo, another special grade sorcerer, found that Toji was the only case where a Heavenly Restriction has eradicated someone's cursed energy completely. By eliminating all cursed energy, Toji's body was sharpened to the point where he developed a resistance to curses and could detect them with his highly refined five senses. This also allowed him to dominate and utilize a cursed spirit capable of storing his wide arsenal of weapons. Yuki considered him to be truly superhuman and told Suguru that he shouldn't be ashamed to have lost to him in a fight.
Gojo's Past Arc
•Satoru Gojo vs. Toji Fushiguro
•Suguru Geto vs. Toji Fushiguro
•Satoru Gojo vs. Toji Fushiguro: Rematch
Shibuya Incident Arc
•The Shibuya Incident
•The surname he inherited from his late wife, Fushiguro, has the kanji for "cover, bend down" (伏, fushi?) and "black, darkness" (黒, guro?). His given name has one kanji meaning "great, exceedingly" (甚, to?) and a Jinmeiyo kanji completing it (爾, ji?).
•According to Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook:
•Hobby: is gambling.
•Favorite dish: Meat and Offal.
•Least favorite dish: Alcohol (he doesn't get drunk).
•Cause of stress: Zenin clan.
•(To Shiu Kong) “I don’t go by Zen’in anymore. I got married and took my wife’s name. I go by Fushiguro now. Sounds good. I accept your offer.”
•(To Suguru Geto) “The Tombs of the Star and the Cursed Warehouse are barriers for hiding. You can’t leave guards at the entrance. So as long as you know where the entrance is located, there should be no problems finding it. Jujutsu sorcerers are busy around this time of year. Plus, fly heads have infested the school and things are hectic outside. As someone who possesses no cursed energy, I’m the invisible man. But there is one problem… as soon as I hold a cursed tool, the cursed energy from it means I am no longer invisible. […] You see, I’ve got this cursed spirit that can store objects. I use it to carry my cursed tools. Now I know what you’re thinking… shouldn’t the cursed energy from the spirit make him visible?! The spirit shrinks by storing itself within its own body. Then I ingest it and keep it inside my stomach. An invisible man’s gonna have invisible guts, right? That’s why I can move through barriers while carrying cursed tools! And that’s why I didn’t use a cursed tool at first. I need to stay invisible if I’m gonna pull off a surprise attack on the Six Eyes. I could have started with the Star Plasma Vessel. But it’s risky to reveal myself to the Six Eyes.”
•(To Suguru Geto) “But you guys, with all your blessed talents, lost to a monkey like me who can’t even use jujutsu. Don’t you dare forget that if you wanna live a long life.”
•(To himself) “‘I don’t work for free.’ That’s what I would always say before making a run for it. But now the awakened power of the Limitless stands before me. He’s probably the greatest sorcerer alive. I wanted to discredit it. To crush it. The pinnacle of the jujutsu world and the Zen’in family. I wanted this for self-affirmation. And I deviated from my true self. At that point, I had already lost. I thought I had set aside such petty pride. To be proud neither of myself nor others… I chose that path, didn’t I?”
1.Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook: (p. 82-83).
2.Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 73 (p. 1-6) and Episode 28.
3.Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 70 (p. 21) and Episode 27.
4.Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 67 (p. 5-7) and Episode 26.
5.Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 59 (p. 10) and Episode 23.
6.Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 113 (p. 16) and Episode 40.
For Toji it was a good idea to cut of Megumi from his life because Toji himself was just too broken and he himself knew he wasn't able to raise a child especially after the only woman he loved died.
Nov 9, 2023 · We know that Toji did not lose to Megumi – he willingly committed suicide and spared Megumi’s life. Why? Well, however ironic this might sound, knowing Toji, he did it because he was Megumi’s father.
Nov 10, 2023 · Toji, before he became the Sorcerer Killer, was the father of Megumi, who involuntarily abandoned his son. After facing off against Megumi in the Shibuya Incident arc Episode 16, Toji learned that Megumi chose Fushiguro as his last name rather than Zenin and is safe.
