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First Year Student - Tokyo Jujutsu High

Kugisaki
Nobara

Nobara is fierce, stylish, and unafraid to take brutal risks.

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Character Profile

A soul shaped
by darkness
and duty

Kugisaki Nobara

Nobara is fierce, stylish, and unafraid to take brutal risks.

She balances confidence with a deep sense of identity and pride.

Her hammer-and-nails style delivers precise and devastating cursed damage.

16
Age
Hammer & Nails
Primary Tool
Resonance
Technique Core
Aggressive
Combat Style

Cursed Techniques

The Powers
Revealed

Kugisaki Nobara's arsenal of cursed techniques represents the peak of their abilities and strategic prowess. Each technique has been honed through years of battle and training.

01
Straw Doll Technique
芻霊呪法
Hammers cursed nails into a straw effigy to transmit damage to a linked target from range. The connection is established through shared blood, cursed energy, or embedded materials.
Link / Curse
02
Resonance
共鳴り
Drives a nail through her own palm into a linked effigy, sending cursed energy through the sympathetic connection to directly damage the target's soul. Called a natural enemy by Mahito.
Soul Strike
03
Hairpin
簪
Embeds multiple nails into a target, then detonates them all simultaneously with a single trigger.
Trap Burst
04
Overtime (improvised)
超過
Nobara's pain tolerance and willingness to harm herself for tactical advantage creates openings no standard sorcerer would attempt.
Reckless Precision

About the Series

Jujutsu Kaisen

"I am Nobara Kugisaki. That is enough."

Identity

Nobara fights on her own terms.

She rejects the pressure to be anything but herself.

Impact

Her presence transforms team dynamics instantly.

She brings lethal precision to close-range chaos.

Key Relationships

Those who shaped
his path

I
Itadori Yuji
Classmate - Partner
They match energy in both banter and battle. Nobara's fate in Shibuya becomes one of Yuji's defining traumas.
II
Fushiguro Megumi
Classmate - Counterbalance
Her personality cuts through Megumi's stoicism. Their friction becomes a running comedy that hides genuine care.
III
Maki Zenin
Senior - Influence
Maki's resolve reinforces Nobara's confidence. Two women defining strength entirely on their own terms.

Story Arcs

Kugisaki Nobara through
the arcs

Intro

Third Member

Nobara arrives in Tokyo with zero self-doubt and immediately establishes herself as a force of personality and power.

Death Painting Arc

Precision Under Fire

She delivers one of the arc's key finishes against the Death Painting Womb Kechizu, willingly infecting herself to win.

Shibuya Incident

Cost of War

Her fate becomes one of the series' most emotional and ambiguous turns — she is left critically wounded by Mahito.

Character Credits

Profile notes
& sources

Story details are summarized for fan reference and may be spoiler-adjacent for later arcs.

Character portrait reference: https://jujutsu-kaisen.fandom.com/wiki/Nobara_Kugisaki