Kiyotaka Ijichi (
Appearance
Kiyotaka is a relatively tall man with a slim figure with mid-length black hair that shapes his head and parts across the front of his forehead. He has small black eyes and normally wears glasses. He has curved black eyebrows and sunken cheeks that give him a resting bored expression across his face most of the time. Kiyotaka sports a normal manager's uniform, which includes a black suit and tie attire.
Personality
Ijichi's calm and professional demeanour.
Kiyotaka is a calm, rational, and reserved individual who maintains an authoritative and professional composure as assistant director for Jujutsu High. He is a highly responsible and mature person who takes his job very seriously. He is an authoritative figure responsible for auxiliary managers and students, with whom he shares respectful relationships. His cares for them and is dismayed anytime an ally perishes. Ijichi regretted allowing Yuji to die at the detention center and tried to avoid making the same mistake by stopping him from confronting Junpei Yoshino.[3]
Having originally trained to be a full-fledged jujutsu sorcerer, Kiyotaka can maintain his nerve even in dangerous situations. During the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons, Kiyotaka faced the Hasaba twins after they had just murdered several managers. Not only did Kiyotaka stand his ground, but he tried to talk the young sorcerers out of their actions.[4] Kiyotaka also assumed heavy responsibility during the Shibuya Incident, taking charge of all the auxiliary managers and supervising communication between sorcerers.[5]
Kiyotaka can be more reserved and nervous around people he attended Jujutsu High with. His confidence is heavily shaken by Satoru Gojo and Kento Nanami especially, constantly fearing they'll punish him for making a mistake.[6] Gojo's playful attitude and complete disregard for regulations make Kiyotaka much more anxious compared to his ordinary demeanor.[7]
When they were students, Gojo made Kiyotaka stop pursuing the path of a sorcerer by casually calling him useless and threatening to slap him if he didn't quit. This made Kiyotaka believe Gojo believed less of him. He even believed Gojo would've preferred if he died instead of Nanami in Shibuya. Later in life, Kiyotaka realized how Gojo was trying to protect him. Kiyotaka learned how much Gojo has always trusted him and put his life on the line in the fight against Sukuna to live up to the strongest's faith in him.[8][9]
Abilities and Powers
Overall Skill Level: Ijichi attended Tokyo Jujutsu High intending to become a jujutsu sorcerer. While he does not possess an innate technique, Ijichi can conjure shikigami and cast barriers.[2] Rather than a sorcerer, Ijichi is the assistant director of Tokyo Jujutsu High and can be considered the head authority over all auxiliary managers. He is highly knowledgeable on jujutsu, which helps make him an asset on any mission, especially with students. Often tasked with overseeing the assignments of young jujutsu sorcerers, Ijichi specializes in guiding sorcerers on their assignments while also using curtains to maintain secrecy.
Ijichi is also fully capable of overseeing and directing multiple teams of sorcerers and managers as if needed as well. During the Shibuya Incident when communications were down, Ijichi recognized that the managers were crucial and made it a priority to use them to communicate with sorcerers inside the city. Managers like Ijichi were targeted during the incident by Haruta Shigemo for this very reason, proving how much of a major asset is Ijichi despite his low combat ability.
Cursed Techniques
Trivia
- Kiyotaka's rankings in the Popularity Polls are as follows:
- Kiyotaka ranked 23rd in the first Popularity Poll with 1,087 votes.
- Kiyotaka ranked 29th in the second Popularity Poll with 188 votes.
- Kiyotaka ranked 24th in the third Popularity Poll with 221 votes.
- Kiyotaka ranked 21st in the fourth Popularity Poll with 569 votes.
- His surname has the Go-on reading for "Italy, that one" (伊 i?), "earth, ground" (地 ji?), and "to know, wisdom" (知 chi?). His given name has the kanji for "clean, pure" (潔 kiyo?) and the Kun reading for "tall, high" (高 taka?).
- Kiyotaka is a self-proclaimed "fighter" but is not meant to be on the battlefield besides playing a supporting role.
- At the time, he looked like he could fight, but in reality, the assistant manager didn't know how to fight and was technically forbidden from doing so. He handles simple barriers, supports jujutsu sorcerers with shikigami,[2] and gives basic instruction to students who are new to field missions.
- He is excellent at desk work.
- Sending students on dangerous missions, frequently getting into conflicts, being abused by Gojo and his other senior members- his heart can't take the stress much longer!
- Kiyotaka was said to be the driver of Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College and the assistant head in volume 0.
- The theme songs that Gege chose for Kiyotaka is "Do Nacchaten Dayo" by Yasuyuki Okamura and "SPY" by Noriyuki Makihara.[11]
- According to Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook[1]:
- His specialty is Excel.
- Favorite food: Udon.
- Least favorite food: Spicy food.
- Cause of stress: Satoru Gojo.
References
- ↑ 1.01.11.2 Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook: (p. 54).
- ↑ 2.02.12.2 Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Vol. 2, Profile
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 26 (pp. 2-3) and Episode 12.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 0-4 (p. 12).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 92 (pp. 3-4) and Episode 34.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 24 (p. 9) and Episode 11.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga and Anime: Chapter 13 (p. 12) and Episode 6.
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 211 (p. 15).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 223 (pp. 7-9).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Chapter 223 (p. 8).
- ↑ Jujutsu Kaisen Manga: Vol. 3, Theme Songs