Toji Fushiguro, also known as the sorcerer killer, was one of the main antagonists in Jujutsu Kaisen in an arc where we get a flashback to earlier events before the main series takes place. Toji Fushiguro was originally known as Toji Zenin since he was a part of the Zenin clan; however, he was born bearing no cursed energy at all, relying solely on physical strength and speed alone. He was considered a failure in the Zenin clan and was cast out for having no cursed energy and no innate talent for a cursed technique at all. He started making money by being an assassin for hire, learning everything he could about curses and sorcerers, solely relying on four of his senses to be able to fight cursed spirits as well as sorcerers.

Toji was considered weak by his clan, as stated before, since he was born in a world where cursed techniques were everything, bloodlines and genetics determined your worth and your power, and if you weren’t born with either, you were considered useless. When Toji was born, he broke that stereotype; he showed sorcerers and curses alike that you didn’t need innate talent or bloodlines to be strong, just dedication and pure willpower. He assassinated countless curses and sorcerers alike, and he was also the first person ever, to make the strongest sorcerer, Satoru Gojo bleed, the main feat that actually cemented himself as the sorcerer killer, unfortunately Gojo was still able to win in the end, but standing up to the strongest sorcerer despite having no innate technique, talent, bloodline, or cursed energy, that’s what he was recognized for, and what makes him a great villain, showing us that society shouldn’t determine your worth and not everything is traced back to and dependent on talent or genetics or the start of things, the fact that you should try to improve instead of giving up the moment you don’t have an immediate talent for something.

Kingsley Gao, a freshman at ERHS, states his opinion on Toji as a character, “Overall, I think he was a good character, and a representation of the ideology of not relying on bloodlines, and I felt sick of Gojo never being challenged in the show so it was cool to watch Gojo actually have a decent fight with someone for once.”

Jeremiah Ward, a freshmen at ERHS and an ESTEM student, states that, “Overall I like that his character really seems to represent the whole not giving up idea of most characters that aren’t born with cool or special powers, and I think it brings more to their personality overall instead of just sticking them to the same super powered stereotype that most strong characters have.”