Nobara Kugisaki

The girl who chose the city

Nobara Kugisaki is the third member of Tokyo Jujutsu High’s first-year trio, alongside Yuji and Megumi. Fiercely self-assured, she became a sorcerer largely to escape her stifling rural hometown for the freedom of Tokyo, and she refuses to apologise for wanting a life of her own.

Straw Doll Technique

Nobara fights with a hammer, nails, and a straw doll, channelling cursed energy through them to strike enemies from a distance. Her Resonance drives a nail through a fragment of her target to inflict damage remotely, while Hairpin turns embedded nails into bursting traps — a technique as theatrical as she is.

Unshakeable self

What defines Nobara is not her cursed technique but her refusal to be diminished. Whether facing curses or condescension, she insists on her own worth, and her declaration that she likes herself becomes one of the series’ quiet emotional anchors.

Shibuya

Nobara’s arc turns tragic during the Shibuya Incident, where the cursed spirit Mahito reaches her and inflicts a grievous, life-altering wound. Her fall lands as one of the incident’s cruelest blows — the loss of a character whose whole point was refusing to be a victim.