Jujutsu Kaisen’s world isn’t one where someone would love to live. Underneath all the amazing fight sequences and flashy animation, there is a cruel reality that not everyone receives what they deserve. Some don’t even get to live the life they desired, and others struggle until their dying breath, only to have their death as cruel and unfair as the world they live in.
This isn’t a ranking of who was the strongest or the smartest, it’s a ranking of the ones whose story ended in tragedy. These characters deserved more than what was shown of them in the story. They deserved peace, growth, and a life beyond endless struggle.
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10. Riko Amanai
Riko Amanai wasn’t born into the Jujutsu way of life, she was forced into it. She was a normal girl, living a normal life, when the world bestowed upon her the title Star Plasma Vessel, a title she did not seek.
She had wanted to be normal, to laugh, grow up, and have her own choices. But the people around her saw her as a tool and not as a person. And as she made peace with her fate and overcame it, Toji’s bullet destroyed it all in a moment.
Her death did not just kill her, but killed the people who were around her, Gojo and Geto especially. She was not a hero, a villain, or a fighter, she was simply a child who was lost in a system that never gave her a chance. Riko deserved better than a role, she deserved a future.
9. Nanako and Mimiko
Nanako and Mimiko, the twin sisters of the Shibuya Incident arc, were tragic casualties in Jujutsu Kaisen. They were not main characters, but their death had a lasting impression. They were children, attempting to understand a world filled with curses, but they were pawns in the grand struggle between Jujutsu sorcerers and curses. The tragic thing is, they never stood a chance.
They were left to rot in a cell until Geto found them and raised them with kindness. To them, he was no less than a savior who helped them find meaning in a world that had already abandoned them. However, the cruel world even took that away from them. And eventually, they were killed by Sukuna trying to set Geto free from Kenjaku’s control. Nanako and Mimiko were worth more than this.
8. Yaga Masamichi
Yaga was not only a tutor. He was the kind of individual who stood between his students and the harsh world that they had to live in. He not only taught them how to fight, but more than that, he taught them that they were human beings first before they were sorcerers.
His death wasn’t the kind that was brought about through fighting, it was the kind caused by politics and betrayal. Yaga’s only sin was his unconditional love for the cursed bodies he had brought into this world and the students he taught.
His last encounter with Gakuganji was not angry or bitter; it was sad. Yaga deserved to see his students go on to become the adults he knew they could be. He didn’t deserve to be hunted down and killed.
7. Mai Zenin
Mai Zenin lived her entire life bearing the burden of her family’s name. Strength built the Zenin clan, and Mai, in their estimation, was “weak.” That weakness never did contain the full truth. Mai was stronger than people realized, not physically, but spiritually.
When she gave her life so that Maki might live and lift the clan’s curse, it had nothing to do with duty, but love. But that is the tragedy. Mai shouldn’t have had to die for her sister to live.
She should have been able to grow up, to overcome the name Zenin, to become something more than a stepping block for someone’s strength. For all the bitterness and sarcasm she used to guard herself, Mai’s heart was kind. And that kindness cost her everything. Her death was not fair, it was cruel.
6. Choso
Choso started life as a womb of vengeance, an enemy to be defeated, but as the story moved forward, the more human he became. His bond with his brothers, especially Yuji, was not built with logic; it was blind, unconditional love.
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He fought to protect Yuji to the very end, as a big brother would do. Choso’s transformation from a vengeful, rage-filled womb to one of the series’ most unselfish characters was one of Jujutsu Kaisen’s most underrated arcs. He should have lived and experienced a life as a human being that he never got to have. But that’s not what the world offered him. The world only offered him tragedy.
5. Yuki Tsukumo
Yuki Tsukumo was not just some Special Grade sorcerer, she was a pillar of hope, someone who rebelled against the system rather than following it. She barely appeared in the majority of the story.
Her death wasn’t just the end of a character, it was the death of the dream she bore, a world without curses. For a character so full of strength, wisdom, and quiet heart, her story was worth more than to be cut short before it could even reach its climax.
4. Toji Fushiguro
Toji’s value was determined the moment he was born without cursed energy. The Zenin clan rejected him as a member, and the world used him as a weapon. When he was revived from the dead during the Shibuya Incident, the most human act that he did wasn’t fighting; it was asking about his son, Megumi, confirming whether the Zenin Clan bought him or Gojo rescued him.
That one moment stripped away the “assassin” title and revealed the broken, isolated man underneath. Toji was not a hero, nor was he evil. He was a creation of a world that never gave him a chance.
His death was not heroic, but it was not inhuman. He did not seek forgiveness or redemption, he just needed to know his son was alive. For a man who lived like a ghost, Toji deserved a life where he could live happily with his family.
3. Satoru Gojo
Satoru Gojo was the kind of character who simply felt invincible. His strength, intelligence, and aura made him the sun to which the rest of the Jujutsu universe orbited. But beneath all of that, Gojo was not merely “the strongest,” he was a man trapped in his own isolation, bound by the burden of expectations and power. Only he knew how lonely it was at the top.
He spent his entire life trying to protect others, only to find out that strength wasn’t enough to fix a broken world. Gojo deserved to see his students succeed and have a life free of pressure and worry.
2. Suguru Geto
Suguru Geto’s choice to take the villainess route was not because of selfish reasons, it was because of tragedy and loss. He started as one of the kindest sorcerers, a human being who only wanted to save everyone, like Riko, Nanako, and Mimiko. But the more he saw, the more he realized that the system was against people like him.
It wasn’t the curses that caused his death; it was watching innocent people die in vain. The worst thing is he died at the hands of his brother-like-friend, Gojo.
Even in death, Geto’s body was manipulated by Kenjaku, robbing him of even his dignity. He was better than to be remembered as evil. He deserved a world where his goodness was not rewarded.
1. Kento Nanami
Nanami’s death hit like a brick wall. He believed in kindness, something so hard to find in a world full of violence. Nanami had already given up when Mahito cornered him in Shibuya.
His body was there, but his soul was elsewhere, dreaming of the calm, peaceful life he never enjoyed. His final words to Yuji were not ones of courage but of acceptance because he did not want his final words to be a curse on him.
Nanami deserved that quiet, peaceful life. He deserved that retirement from curses and violence. But the Jujutsu world eats up men like him first.
The Jujutsu Kaisen characters are not just some fighters in a cursed world; they are the tragic realities of people caught in a system where human life is a secondary option to power. Theirs is a reminder that in a harsh world, not everyone gets to live their life. The mangaka of Jujutsu Kaisen, Gege Akutami, gave them a happy afterlife, shown in chapter 236, where Geto, Gojo, Nanami, Principal Yaga, Riko, and Haibara reunite and talk about how they do not regret their lives of Jujutsu.
