Jujutsu Kaisen's season 3 has been going strong, and it's no surprise as the series keeps on delivering one amazing episode after another. With Culling Games now in full action, we are starting to meet new characters that have long been teased but have never come into the spotlight up till now.
Fans of Jujutsu Kaisen know that the Jujutsu world is a complicated place where power is not always enough. The combat system of the series is a combination of the Binding Vows, Cursed Energy characteristics, and the pinnacle of sorcery: the Domain Expansion. The aspiration of most sorcerers is a “Guaranteed Hit” that kills the enemy immediately, yet Gege Akutami introduced a character whose existence does not adhere to the usual norms. Kinji Hakari is an excellent contrast to the world of strong fighters and ancient curses, yet a high-stakes gambler who considers the field of battle as a gaming floor, demonstrating that luck is the most deadly weapon in the hands of a professional.
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Who is Kinji Hakari?
The Third-Year Sorcerer Who Even Gojo Respected
Kinji Hakari is a third-year (high school) student suspended at Tokyo Jujutsu High. His fame is not as much about schoolwork as it is about his coarse character and his underground fight club. His suspension was a result of a confrontation with the higher-ups regarding the modernity of his technique. In spite of this, he is recognized as among the most powerful sorcerers in existence. Even Satoru Gojo has mentioned Hakari with Yuta Okkotsu as one of his students who will one day be able to compete with his strength. Hakari thrives on the thrill of high-stakes gambling, and his fighting style is a perfect representation of that addiction.
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Hakari possesses a special Cursed Energy trait before he can expand his Domain. The power of Hakari is unlike that of Yuji, who uses his force bluntly, or Gojo, who uses his energy with perfect precision. Hakari's cursed technique hits are considered rough or serrated, like sandpaper or barbed wire to his enemies. His natural style, Private Pure Love Train, is based on a fictional romance manga. He can manifest elements from the story, such as "shutter doors" to crush his opponents or "ball effects" to disrupt their movements. All these are components of pachinko machine which serve as previews of his real power.
Idle Death Gamble: The Most Complex Domain In History
Spamming The House Until The Jackpot Hits Home
The Domain Expansion of Hakari, "Idle Death Gamble" (Zasatsu Bakuto), is a technical masterpiece when you think about it, a domain so unique yet so clever. It is a non-lethal exchange where a guaranteed kill is exchanged with a guaranteed hit of information. The complex rules are immediately banged into the mind of the opponent when it opens. The Domain resembles a pachinko game in which Hakari has to match three similar symbols in order to win.
He employs visual cues, like the change in the background color or appearance of characters, and the successive effects to increase his chances. In case of failure, he is able to loop the outcomes and the Domain will continue running until he lands on the prize. Since the Domain itself is non-lethal and the rules are its ensured strike, the speed of activation is incredibly high, and it can startle even the most seasoned sorcerers. Consider his domain sort of like a gacha game where each time you lose a jackpot, the odds are increased for the next try until you hit the pity, and it's a guaranteed jackpot.
Rearrange the covers into the correct US release order.
Rearrange the covers into the correct US release order.
The Four Minutes And Eleven Seconds Of Immortality
When Hakari finally hits the Jackpot, the real "fever" begins. To be precise, Hakari attains unlimited Cursed Energy during the 4 minutes and 11 seconds of the theme song as played in his romance manga, *Admiring You. This is so enormous that, in response, his body automatically uses Reverse Cursed Technique (RCT) to avoid taking any lethal damage.
In this condition, Hakari is basically immortal. He is able to renew limbs, organs, even his brain on the spot. He does not have to consider healing, his body does it as a reflex due to the infinite cursed energy flowing through him. This turns him into the invincible tank of the series, capable of taking enemy blows that would literally have killed any other sorcerer, with the sole exception of Satoru Gojo, of course.
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Hakari Vs. Kashimo: A Duel Of Infinite Stakes
Peak Fiction Fans Can't Wait For
The battle with Hajime Kashimo at the Culling Games is generally regarded as one of the greatest battles in Jujutsu Kaisen. Kashimo, an ancient lightning-using sorcerer who lived 400 years ago, was the ideal opposite of Hakari, as both of them never knew when to back down and thirst for battle. The 4 minute and 11 second fight scene showed Kashimo attempting to determine when Hakari would run out of immortality so he could make a fatal strike.
Turn up the volume!! Because this is a funeral for the living!! - Hajime Kashimo
Kashimo even went as far as trying to blow off the head of Hakari with a discharge of lighting to avert the RCT at its source, but Hakari was lucky and could dispel the Cursed Energy through his nose and simultaneously healed himself. It was a fierce, blistering chess game that showed Hakari is not simply a luck-of-the-draw fighter, he is a genius, who knows how to make everything work to his advantage.
The Gambler’s Flaw: Does Hakari Have A Weakness?
Relying Entirely On A Streak That Eventually Has To End
Despite his immortality, Hakari’s greatest weakness is the "startup" phase. Before he hits a Jackpot, he is "only" a high-level sorcerer with rough Cursed Energy but not someone that can't be killed if caught off guard. If an opponent is able to kill him in the Domain before the symbols match, then the game is over for him. As well, his immortality is so closely related to the timer.
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When the music stops, he has a little window during which he has to restart his domain to start the process over. The only natural enemy of Hakari is a clever opponent that can withstand the onslaught of 4 minutes and then hits Hakari during that time, but that's exactly how losers would think.
- Release Date
- October 3, 2020
- Network
- TBS, MBS, CBC, Tulip Television, BSN, tys, NBC, HBC, RKK, i-Television, SBS, IBC, BSS, MRO, OBS, TUF, RSK, TUY, tbc, RKB, SBC, KUTV, RBC, UTY, RCC, MRT, atv, MBC
- Directors
- Ryohei Takeshita, Masataka Akai, Chie Nishizawa, Daisuke Tsukushi, Tomomi Kamiya, Kakushi Ifuku, Ken Takahashi
Cast
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Junya EnokiYuji Itadori -
Yuichi NakamuraSatoru Gojo
WHERE TO WATCH
Based on Gege Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen manga, Mappa's battle shonen anime envisions a world where Jujutsu Sorcerers battle against entities born out of Cursed Energy. One day, a teenager named Yuji Itadori is dragged into this conflict when he eats a possessed finger.
- Writers
- Hiroshi Seko
- Franchise(s)
- Jujutsu Kaisen
- Main Genre
- Animation
- Seasons
- 1
- Studio
- MAPPA
- Producers
- Makoto Kimura, Hiroaki Matsutani, Yuriha Murai, Toshihiro Maeda, Yoshiaki Takagaki, Tatsuya Omori, Hiroaki Yamazaki
- Based On
- Manga
- Creator
- Gege Akutami
- Number of Episodes
- 47
- Streaming Service(s)
- Crunchyroll, Netflix, Hulu
- MyAnimeList Score
- 8.57 (Season 1)
- Executive Producer(s)
- Hiroo Maruyama, Keiji Ota
