Rather than executing him immediately, the Jujutsu Sorcerers—led by the powerful Satoru Gojo
His club members unseal a high-grade cursed object—a rotting finger. The Choice: Jujutsu Kaisen vol. 01
opens not with a battle, but with a death. High schooler Yuji Itadori is unnaturally physically gifted, but he avoids the track team to spend time in the Occult Research Club. Why? Because his dying grandfather leaves him with two haunting words: "Help people. You're strong, so help them. You don't have to save the world. Just save the people you can, so that when you die, you'll be surrounded by people who care about you." You don't have to save the world
The volume’s emotional core lands like a punch to the gut. To save his friends from the rampaging curses attracted by the finger, Yuji does the unthinkable: he swallows the rotten, poisonous finger. In doing so, he becomes the vessel for humanity’s greatest nightmare. Sukuna manifests—a leering, four-eyed demon with tattoos that ripple across Yuji’s skin—and gleefully tears through the curse. But Yuji, through sheer willpower, shoves the demon back inside his own soul. cursed talisman for a viral video
Akutami masterfully lures us into a false sense of mundane school-life comedy before the horror crashes in. When Yuji’s fellow club members unseal a decaying, cursed talisman for a viral video, the rot sets in fast. Enter Megumi Fushiguro, a stoic, trench-coated "Jujutsu Sorcerer" on a mission to retrieve a cursed object of immense power: a dried-up finger belonging to the King of Curses, Ryomen Sukuna.