Takuma Ino

Name: Takuma Ino

Gender: Male

Age: 21

Affiliation: Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College (Tokyo Jujutsu High)

Occupation/Rank: Grade 2 jujutsu sorcerer (considered quasi–grade 1 level by Kento Nanami)

Family Background: Born into a jujutsu sorcerer family

Former Education: Former Tokyo Jujutsu High student

Innate Technique: Visiting Divine Beasts

Hobbies / Special Skills: Drinking parties

Favorite Food: Fried horse mackerel

Disliked Food: Vinegared dishes

Stress Level: None (described as having no stress)

Voice Actor (anime): Yū Hayashi

Goal: To become a grade 1 sorcerer via recommendation from Kento Nanami

Notable Quirk: Always wears a knit cap in battle, pulled down like a mask to activate his technique

Takuma Ino is a young, energetic sorcerer of Tokyo Jujutsu High who serves as Kento Nanami’s assistant on missions.

He is visually recognizable by his knit cap, which he pulls down over his face during combat, with only eye holes cut out for visibility.

He comes from a lineage of sorcerers and originally attended Tokyo Jujutsu High as a student before operating as a professional sorcerer.

Since assisting Nanami on a mission once, he has deeply admired him and treats Nanami as a mentor and ideal senior.

Ino is determined to act like a proper senior toward his juniors, especially Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro, sometimes overdoing the “senpai” persona.

He places high importance on “sticking to his principles,” particularly when it comes to how he advances as a sorcerer.

Despite being capable of becoming a quasi–grade 1 sorcerer at any time, he insists on remaining grade 2 until he can be formally recommended by Nanami.

His personality is relatively straightforward and simple, which makes him easy for Nanami to manipulate with a few well-chosen words.

In combat, he uses the shamanic technique Visiting Divine Beasts, becoming a medium for four mythic beasts by hiding his face.

Because of his technique’s conditions, he must wear his knit cap as a makeshift mask to use any of his abilities, making the cap effectively a combat tool.

Ino is earnest, simple-minded in a charming way, and very loyal.

He is easily motivated by praise and guidance from seniors he respects, especially Kento Nanami.

As a senior, he is serious about setting a good example for Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro.

He consciously tries to act like a “proper older brother figure,” even when his experience or power is still catching up with his enthusiasm.

He values “doing things the right way” and keeping to his own sense of justice and order.

This is most clearly shown in his stubborn insistence that he can only accept promotion to grade 1 if it comes through Nanami’s recommendation.

He also has a somewhat laid-back side, especially when he feels he is not being given a chance to shine.

During the prequel events against Suguru Geto’s forces, for example, he openly shows low motivation when he thinks Nanami got the better assignment.

Kento Nanami has stated that with his technique, Ino could become quasi–grade 1 whenever he “feels like it.”

This implies that his raw technique and combat potential are high, even if his experience and polish are still developing.

He is capable of tracking the movements of extremely powerful opponents such as Toji Fushiguro when possessing another’s body, even if he cannot keep up in a direct fight.

His performance later, fighting alongside higher-grade fighters, shows that he stands shoulder to shoulder with at least grade 1-level combatants.

In the large-scale battles after the Shibuya Incident and during the brutal confrontations with Sukuna Ryoumen, Ino contributes as a front-line sorcerer.

He is trusted enough to join a team with Atsuya Kusakabe (a grade 1 sorcerer) and Choso (a special grade-level cursed object’s incarnated body).

Visiting Divine Beasts is Ino’s innate technique.

By hiding his face and acting as a medium, he temporarily calls down the abilities of four mythical auspicious beasts.

Ino uses his knit cap as a mask, pulling it down over his face and cutting eye holes so he can still see.

If this cap is removed during battle, his technique is forcibly canceled, making his headgear a critical weakness.

The four beasts manifested through his technique each correspond to a numbered “form” with distinct abilities.

Each form specializes in offense, defense, bodily control, or overwhelming firepower.

First Form: Kaichi

Kaichi manifests as a single horn-like projectile that automatically tracks its target.

It operates like a homing drill, boasting enough piercing power to gouge out and remove a human arm.

In the prequel-era events (depicted in Jujutsu Kaisen 0), Ino uses Kaichi to pulverize a large cursed spirit over 10 meters in length in a single blow.

This shows that, at least in concentrated form, his offensive capability is lethal against even large curses.

Second Form: Spirit Tortoise

Spirit Tortoise coats Ino’s body in water-like cursed energy that acts as a cushion and shield.

This cladding absorbs and mitigates incoming attacks, giving him a defensive buffer.

When concentrated around his legs, the liquid-like cursed energy allows Ino to perform a sliding, gliding movement.

This enables rapid, smooth repositioning, functioning as a kind of high-speed movement technique.

Third Form: Kirin

Kirin forces Ino’s body to release large quantities of endogenous “brain chemicals,” essentially numbing his sense of pain.

While active, he can ignore injuries and push through damage that would normally incapacitate a human fighter.

The cost is severe: after using Kirin, Ino cannot move for a while.

It is a high-risk, high-reward technique best used when a decisive push is needed.

Fourth Form: Dragon

Dragon summons a dragon-like entity that charges straight into its target.

According to Ino’s own boastful words, “no one who has seen this and lived to tell the tale exists,” suggesting extreme destructive power.

From what is shown when the technique finally appears, Dragon likely functions as a simple but incredibly high-powered direct strike.

It is implied to be his ultimate offensive option, meant to end a battle outright.

Prequel Era and Jujutsu Kaisen 0

Ino appears briefly in the prequel story set one year before the main series.

Masamichi Yaga gathers sorcerers to counter Suguru Geto’s “Night Parade of a Hundred Demons,” and Ino is among those summoned.

In the film adaptation Jujutsu Kaisen 0, Ino fights cursed spirits released by Geto in Shinjuku.

Because Kento Nanami is deployed to Kyoto, Ino feels robbed of the chance to show off, openly complaining and acting unmotivated as he battles.

Even in this “low motivation” state, he uses Kaichi to demolish a large curse, demonstrating his underlying strength.

This early appearance hints at his potential, even though he remains a supporting figure.

Shibuya Incident

During the Shibuya Incident, Kento Nanami entrusts Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro to Ino’s care.

Ino then locates Ogami Baba and her grandson, who are responsible for maintaining one of the curtains trapping people in Shibuya.

He engages them in battle, but the situation escalates when Ogami Baba uses a séance-like ritual to “call down” Toji Fushiguro into her grandson’s body.

The possessed grandson, acting with Toji’s overwhelming combat instincts, completely outclasses Ino.

Although Ino’s speed and perception allow him to at least visually track Toji’s movements, he is utterly overpowered and knocked off a building.

He plummets from the rooftop to what would normally be certain death.

Megumi Fushiguro intervenes in time, rescuing him and ensuring he survives the fall.

Later, Shoko Ieiri treats his injuries, allowing him to cling to life despite severe trauma, including damage to his right eye.

After the Shibuya Incident

For a time after the Shibuya Incident, Ino does not appear, and his fate remains uncertain.

He eventually reappears, revealing that he has recovered physically, though he has lost his right eye.

In chapter 222, he approaches Satoru Gojo, saying he has “something to talk about regarding Nanami.”

The detailed content of this conversation is not explicitly revealed, adding a layer of emotional mystery around Nanami’s legacy.

In this later period, Ino is shown seeking permission to use a cursed tool that Nanami left behind.

This item is a machete-like cursed weapon imbued with the Ten Shadows-style technique known as Ten-Shaped Cursed Method, which he uses as a keepsake and combat tool in Nanami’s memory.

Culling Game Aftermath and Sukuna Battle

After the deadly Culling Game arc, Ino has fully recovered and returns to the front lines.

He participates as a Tokyo Jujutsu High sorcerer in the ultimate battle in Shinjuku, where humanity faces the inhuman “hellscape” of Sukuna Ryoumen’s full power.

In chapter 245, after Hiromi Higuruma declares Sukuna guilty and temporarily strips him of the cursed tool Divine Sword (also translated as “Kamukei” or similar), Ino charges in.

He joins Atsuya Kusakabe and Choso to attack Sukuna while the king of curses is momentarily disadvantaged.

Standing alongside a grade 1 sorcerer (Kusakabe) and a pseudo–special grade entity (Choso) underscores that Ino is considered to have comparable combat value.

Even though his official rank remains lower, the battlefield clearly treats him as a top-tier fighter.

There is some visual inconsistency in his depiction: when he first returns, his right eye appears open, as if fully healed.

Later panels revert to showing his right eye closed, implying either a persistent injury or a minor artistic error.

In this battle, Ino wields Nanami’s machete-like cursed tool inscribed with the Ten-Shaped Cursed Method.

He fights within the radius of Sukuna’s incomplete Malevolent Shrine and survives by using a simple domain to mitigate the effects.

His efforts, alongside others, help create the opening that allows Yuji Itadori to land a crucial Black Flash on Sukuna.

Though he does not receive a flashy, spotlight-stealing moment, his steady performance and survival against such overwhelming odds highlight his growth.

Kento Nanami

Kento Nanami is the most important figure in Ino’s professional life and personal development.

Ino admires Nanami deeply, seeing him as an ideal model of what a sorcerer and a senior should be.

He once assisted Nanami on a mission and has respected him intensely ever since, striving to live up to Nanami’s expectations.

Nanami, for his part, holds Ino in high regard, noting that “with your technique, you could be quasi–grade 1 any time you want.”

Ino wants Nanami’s old wristwatch as a hand-me-down, symbolizing his desire to inherit Nanami’s role and spirit.

Most notably, he refuses promotion to grade 1 unless it comes via Nanami’s recommendation, even posthumously.

Nanami’s praise easily motivates Ino, and Nanami can “talk him into” dangerous tasks with a little rhetorical nudging.

Ino’s use of Nanami’s cursed tool in later battles is both practical and emotionally significant, turning it into a living legacy.

Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro

Ino takes pride in being their “senior” and tries to act cool and dependable in front of Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro.

He enforces his own concept of what a senior should be, sometimes rigidly, but always with good intentions.

During the Shibuya Incident, Nanami directly entrusts Yuji and Megumi to Ino’s protection.

This shows both Nanami’s trust in Ino and Ino’s position as a bridge between older and younger generations of sorcerers.

Later, when Ino and others fight Sukuna to create an opening for Yuji, he once again supports his junior.

Helping Yuji land Black Flash against Sukuna symbolizes his role as a supportive senior in the most dangerous battlefield.

Other Sorcerers

Ino fights alongside figures like Atsuya Kusakabe and Choso during the New Shinjuku confrontation with Sukuna.

Being placed on the same line as these heavy hitters signals his recognition among his peers.

He also has professional ties to Masamichi Yaga, who summoned him for the Night Parade counterforce, and to Shoko Ieiri, who helped save his life after Shibuya.

Through these connections, Ino occupies a solid place within the broader network of Jujutsu High’s sorcerers.

Ino’s knit cap is not just a fashion item but a technical necessity, as his technique requires his face to be covered.

The cap is pulled down and modified with eye openings, turning it into a kind of “battle mask.”

Because losing the cap cancels his technique, enemies who recognize this weakness may try to target it.

In this sense, his headwear is both his signature and his vulnerability.

He jokingly or confidently claims things like “Soon I’ll become a grade 1 sorcerer too,” hinting at both ambition and self-belief.

This playful bravado contrasts with his genuine humility and loyalty toward Nanami.

Despite being described as having “no stress,” his world is one of extreme danger and trauma, making his relaxed attitude stand out.

His love of drinking parties and simple pleasures underscores his desire to enjoy life even in bleak circumstances.