Cursed Child — Yuji's Enrollment

High school student Yuji Itadori swallows a cursed finger belonging to the legendary Sukuna and is drawn into the hidden world of Jujutsu sorcerers. Arrested into Tokyo Jujutsu High, he trains alongside the skilled Megumi Fushiguro and fierce Nobara Kugisaki under the mentorship of the immensely powerful Satoru Gojo. The arc establishes Yuji's unwilling status as Sukuna's vessel and explores how ordinary teenagers are forced into supernatural responsibility. Early confrontations with Death Painting brothers introduce the broader supernatural conflicts existing hidden beneath ordinary society.

Yuji Itadori's decision to swallow a cursed finger belonging to Sukuna saves his classmates at Satozakura Hall High but immediately plunges him into the hidden world of jujutsu sorcery. His survival of Sukuna's emergence is impossible—vessels don't survive—yet Yuji remains conscious and whole. This anomaly forces Jujutsu High's hand: Gojo Satoru intervenes with a plan to use Yuji as a living repository, collecting all of Sukuna's fingers before his eventual execution. Enrolled at Tokyo Jujutsu High, Yuji meets Megumi Fushiguro, whose reserved competence masks a darker family burden, and Nobara Kugisaki, whose assertiveness and genuine compassion balance Megumi's distance. Under Gojo's mentorship, the trio experience their first actual curse encounters—not theory but visceral combat where miscalculation means death. The early battles establish the series' central irony: Yuji's extraordinary kindness and his role as humanity's curse weapon are inseparable rather than contradictory. The arc establishes that Yuji's self-sacrifice comes not from suicidal ideation but from a fundamental belief that human life has inherent worth worth dying for. This belief system becomes his defining characteristic and eventually the entire series' philosophical anchor. His initial execution order frames the core tension: the jujutsu world values systemic efficiency over individual life, yet Yuji consistently chooses the opposite. Early missions introduce the supernatural mechanics gradually: cursed energy manipulation, grade classifications, the diversity of curses from mindless entities to semi-intelligent spirits. The Satozakura High incident and subsequent missions establish that curses are real, dangerous, and constantly hunting. By the arc's end, Yuji has internalized that his choice to become a sorcerer means accepting that he might die at any moment, and that this acceptance is necessary rather than pathological.