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| “ | I'm the only person in this world who understands the composition of souls. After all, I change the shape of other creatures by making contact with them. All emotions are the result of the soul's metabolism. They're far to mechanical to call hearts. People place too much value on things they can't see. I can see them, and souls are no more special than Physical bodies. They're just there. Do you get it? There's no value or importance to life. Life just continues its cycle, same as the waters of the world. That's true for both you and me. Our lives are meaningless and have no value. And that's why we can do anything we want. We're free to live our lives however we please. You can't let yourself get trapped in an ideal of indifference. There's no need for consistency in how you live your life. Just as you eat when you get hungry, you can kill someone if you hate them. I'll sanction you fully. | „ |
| ~ Mahito encouraging Junpei into misanthropy. |
| “ | I bet you thought... You were gonna do some pest control! Or exterminate ghosts like some make-believe story! You came to Shibuya with half-assed determination, didn't ya?! How naïve, you stupid brat! This is war! Not a battle to fix what's wrong! But a clash of truths! You and your fragile justice! You are me, Yuji Itadori! I kill without a second thought... Just like how you save people without a second thought! The instincts of a curse... Against the so-called dignity of obtained human reason! It's a battle to determine who will be left standing in 100 years! How the hell did you think you were gonna beat me... When you don't even realize that? Tell me, Yuji Itadori... Have you ever stopped to think about how many curses you've killed? No, right? Me neither, me neither. Like I care about how many people I've killed... I'm sure I'll eventually forget about you too! | „ |
| ~ Mahito to Yuji Itadori after physiologically breaking him |
Mahito (真人 Mahito) is the secondary antagonist of the manga/anime series, Jujutsu Kaisen.
He is a Disaster Cursed Spirit who is allied with Kenjaku, aka Suguru Geto, into replacing humanity with Cursed Spirits in their entire population to eradicate them. He is one of the arch-enemies (alongside Ryomen Sukuna) of Yuji Itadori, after killing Junpei Yoshino, as well as his evil counterpart.
He is voiced by Nobunaga Shimazaki, who also voiced Joffrey Baratheon in the Japanese dub of Game of Thrones and Tooru in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure All Star Battle R, and Lucien Dodge in the English version.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He has experimented on numerous people by using his shapeshifting to manipulate their souls into monsters or weapons for him to use. Some victims die in agony from the transformation alone and the rest are left in constant pain with awareness of what they are being forced to and cry out for help, leaving them in fates worse than death.
- Just like the Kenjaku and the rest of his companions, Mahito wishes to eradicate all of humanity and have them replaced with Cursed Spirits roaming around the world.
- He has manipulated and placed a binding vow on Kokichi Muta, who is Ultimate Mechamaru, to use him as a proxy to gain information within the Jujutsu High academy.
- Killed one of Junpei's bullies within the cinema, but he didn't do it for Junpei but to make it easier for him to corrupt him
- He manipulated Junpei while "befriending" him as he teaches him how to use his Curse abilities and encourages him to kill everyone he hates as all life is meaningless anyway.
- Wounded Nanami during his battle with him while also attempting to kill and mutilate him.
- Orchestrated the death of Junpei's mother, Nagi, on the very night Junpei became friends with Yuji, using one of Sukuna's Fingers to attract a curse to kill her. This pushes Junpei's stress and thoughts to the point Mahito coerces him to use his powers for revenge against his bullies, whom Mahito framed for the crime.
- Uses the veil to assist Junpei in getting his "revenge" against his classmates, most notably Shota Ito, within the school area.
- When Yuji offered Junpei to join him and have a better path for his life of being a Jujutsu Sorcerer rather than a Curse User, he intervenes by impaling Yuji and forcibly transforms Junpei into a deformed creature where he dies from the process of Idle Transfiguration.
- In addition to how worse it got, other than using Junpei's feelings and toying with his suicidal stress, was that Yuji trying to save Junpei got destroyed right in his own eyes along the fantasy of Yuji's friendship with Junpei and becoming friends with Megumi and Nobara, as well.
- He even laughed alongside Sukuna (who refused to help Yuji heal Junpei) at not only Junpei's undeserved death but also at Yuji's despair as well as not showing any sympathy for both of them, to the point he became a personally evil enemy to Yuji where he was motivated to kill him.
- He threatens to kill every student around Junpei's school just to further drive Yuji into his despair.
- Tried to force Yuji to switch into Sukuna in their fight and get the latter to join him and Geto's group, but backfires when it enrages Sukuna and tells him he won't be given another chance.
- He used three transfigured humans to distract Yuji in a fight. It was implied that some of the transfigured humans he released used to be children given their dialogue.
- He stole Death Painting Wombs after attacking Jujutsu High.
- He also force feeds three humans to incarnate Yuji's elder half-brothers: Choso, Eso, and Kechizu, effectivity killing the humans.
- Killed Kokichi Muta despite him being a source of information to Geto's group and him fulfilling the binding Vow simply because he found him annoying.
- Transfigured a thousand innocent humans in Shibuya throughout several train stations and had some of the transfigured humans attack or kill more innocent people when he arrived at the Shibuya Station.
- Helped assist Kenjaku in sealing Satoru Gojo away using the Prison Realm, thus allowing them to proceed with their plan.
- He immediately plans to kill Yuji (and Sukuna alongside him), thus fully planning to invalidate Hanami's sacrifice which was only done to ally with Sukuna.
- Killed Kento Nanami in front of Yuji by blowing him up with Idle Transfiguration and when an angry Yuji asked why he does this to people, Mahito just mocks him by mimicking his angry voice and turning his hand into a puppet of Junpei to toy with him further.
- Tried to corrupt Yuji Itadori in Shibuya in nearly the same way he corrupted Junpei, dismissing idealism and kindness as worthless qualities, in order to drive Yuji into suicidal despair.
- Used and transfigured random humans he encountered to create weapons/minions in order to fight back against Yuji, playing on his guilt over killing transfigured humans
- He and his double let Nobara Kugisaki's guard down for the chance to transfigure her face and have her head left eye and part of her head explode, very likely killing her in front of Yuji. This caused Yuji to lose the will to fight due to losing one of his best friends.
- He beats a mentally broken Yuji while mocking his idealism and beliefs and saying that they are the same all to further shake his ideals, then attempts to kill him while callously stating he would eventually forget he ever killed Itadori.
- He severed Aoi Todo's left hand in order to prevent him from using his Boogie Woogie technique.
- His actions brought more impact to Yuji Itadori on a personal level, probably more so than Sukuna himself who killed thousands in Shibuya and Geto (aka Kenjaku) sealing Satoru Gojo, as he killed off two people he knew of (Junpei and Nanami) , one of his best friends (Nobara), despite the fact that it is left ambiguous as to whether Nobara died. And also making Yuji's animosity with Sukuna to become more personal as he unknowingly allowed Kenjaku to start the Culling Games which in turn led to Sukuna making Megumi his new vessel grievously injured Hana as well as killing Megumi's sister Tsumiki.
- In the first light novel based on the series, while Mahito became fond of a blind elderly man who he met while looking for a base for him and his fellow curses to use, this stemmed from his curiosity rather than growing to care for him as an individual, and planned to use his soul to enhance his power because he believed he was a "special" kind of human due to his ability to not show any emotions. When the elderly man died and thanked Mahito for spending time with him, while he was initially shocked and silent, this stemmed from realizing that he was wrong about the man being different from any other human, later referring to his body as an object for him to dispose, and thinking about how it no longer had a soul he could manipulate.
- Despite being born from negative emotions; it is explicitly pointed out that Special Grade Cursed Spirits are capable of having intelligence and their own personalities. The cursed paintings were partial cursed spirits yet had no innately destructive nature as shown by spirits yet. Shikigami are also formed of curse energy and can choose heroic attributes. Therefore, Mahito has a clear moral agency due to having his own unique personality traits.
- Although he claimed that he was proud to be part of Geto's group, showing some hint of care for his comrades. It was later revealed to be ingenuine as Mahito was practically disloyal to them and never care for other Cursed Spirits. He was only surprised to hear about Hanami's death instead of mourning him, acts spiteful towards Jogo, and no longer has the interest of recruiting Sukuna, going against Geto's objectives. Therefore, Mahito's care for his fellow allies was only out of mutual professionalism on having the same interests in eradicating humanity instead of genuineness.
- Even when he claimed he knew Geto was going to absorb them after they dealt with Gojo, he didn't inform any of the other Disaster Curses, probably preferring to watch them be eradicated while he planned to escape from Geto, thus showing his supposed care for the other Curses to be a lie.
- Despite having a lot of comedic moments, he's still taken seriously in-universe and none of these moments detract from his heinous acts.
- Although he was painfully absorbed by Kenjaku, it was never played for sympathy as he deserves his death.
Trivia[]
- He and Kenjaku are the first two villains in Jujutsu Kaisen to count as Pure Evil.
External Links[]
- Mahito on the Villains Wiki.
- Mahito on the Jujutsu Kaisen Wiki.