Kinji Hakari

Tall, tan, and muscular, Hakari has small magenta eyes under thin slitted brows and a thin scruff of a moustache. Back in his school years his black hair sat in short twists with a fade, but these days he dyes it blonde and works it into a puffy, tapered afro slicked toward the back of his head.

Running the Gachinko Fight Club, he played the bookie, sporting a white tank top beneath a dark fur coat with gray pants and pale boots. Once he agreed to take on the Culling Game, he traded that for a Jujutsu High uniform jacket over the same jeans and boots, its hood fully attached and matching the jacket instead of standing apart the way Yuji's does.

Wrapped up in himself and indifferent to Jujutsu High's rules, Hakari is written off by many of his peers as a waste of space, while Yuta Okkotsu just labels him moody. The idea that drives him is "fever," the white-hot intensity of people swept up in their passions. Watching it blaze thrills him, and he turns his personal fever toward manipulating those around him, treating gambling as the ideal channel for anyone desperate to change their lot. His sweeping goal is to ride and steer all of Japan's burning passion by means of his fight club, which he wants formally sanctioned someday as jujutsu rules relax. Kirara Hoshi notes that his own fever runs hottest when he works as a sorcerer, even though his temperament and unorthodox technique grate on the higher-ups, who suspended him after he thrashed a conservative official.

He lays his life down only for sorcerers who burn with real fever, and Yuji eventually won him over by proving that even a self-described cog within the sorcerer machine could blaze with passion. For all his coarse, rude front, Hakari deeply values those who stood by him and honors the dreams of others, enemies included; he heard Charles Bernard out as he raged about the Culling Game and afterward urged him to keep chasing his ambitions. He flourishes amid danger and loves wagering on himself in a fight, swapping jabs and praise with Hajime Kashimo mid-battle and extending an alliance once it ended. As a comrade he is dependable and loyal, helping plan the Makyo Shinjuku raid, defusing standoffs between Yuta and Kashimo, and keeping unshakeable faith in his allies right to the finish.

Counted among Tokyo Jujutsu High's mightiest students, Hakari was singled out by Gojo, along with Yuta, as carrying the potential to match him, and Yuta conceded Hakari edges him out when fired up. He is a top-tier close-range fighter whose cursed energy has a coarse, serrated quality, an "edge" that delivers a sharp cutting sting no matter how lightly he hits, likened by Yuji to a serrated bat and by Charles to sandpaper. He reinforces both his strikes and his toughness with cursed energy, and his greatest weapon is raw luck, fortunate enough that he can simply bank on it to pull out wins.

His innate technique, an unnamed pachinko-styled art dubbed Private Pure Love Train, works mainly through his domain expansion, Idle Death Gamble. That domain raises a train-station setting that stages a game of chance in which lining up three matching numbers nets a jackpot, a slim one-in-239 prospect his luck keeps delivering. Landing it kicks off Unkillable Mode, flooding him with boundless cursed energy across a window of four minutes plus eleven seconds, matching the length of the song that plays through the round, while a wholly automatic reverse cursed technique mends any injury at once and leaves him all but immortal.

That mix produced his signature wins. He took down Charles, who could peek a moment into his future, by hammering away at blind spots without let up, and he beat Kashimo, an incarnated sorcerer who had cut down forty Culling Game players and stood among the deadliest foes Kenjaku encountered in a thousand years, through repeated jackpots and shrewd, often reckless calls. Facing Uraume in the Shinjuku raid, his regeneration during Unkillable Mode outran even the pace Gojo and Sukuna showed in their clash, and while he never finished her before the raid wrapped, he waged a long, high-caliber fight and walked away alive. A master hand-to-hand combatant carrying a broad striking and grappling repertoire, a keen tactical mind that reads foes and crafts counters, and a readiness to stake it all on a single binding vow or domain spin, Hakari fuses skill and fortune into a pairing able to stand against virtually any danger.