Hajime Kashimo

Biodata

Background

Kashimo was known as the strongest jujutsu sorcerer of his era, four hundred years before the Culling Game, and was reputed never to have lost a fight. Ryu Ishigori, a contemporary, said they had never met in combat because they lived far apart and Kashimo later died in poor health 38 84.

Kenjaku approached Kashimo with a contract when he was young. Kashimo distrusted him and initially refused, but accepted near the end of his life. He returned through Incarnation to seek a fight with Ryomen Sukuna, retaining the memories of his new body, including its ability to drive 10 13 383.

Appearance

Kashimo has a slender build and a somewhat feminine face. He appears as a young man with blue hair, including two small buns, and wears a loose white shirt 382 418.

• Lightning often crackles around his body in combat 81 418.
• In one use of Mythical Beast Amber, his frame swells into a humanoid beast, his eyes glow amber, and plasma flows over his skin 446.

Personality

Kashimo lives for challenging powerful opponents and is frustrated by fights he considers too easy. He refuses to retreat simply because an enemy counters his abilities, seeing that choice as the mindset of the weak 22 23 75.

His pursuit of Sukuna is tied to the loneliness of being the strongest in his own era: he wants to ask the King of Curses what strength truly means. Although blunt and easily angered by perceived disrespect, he can acknowledge another fighter’s resolve; he respected Kasumi Miwa’s willingness to risk herself for a chance to fight Sukuna 184 200 385.

Abilities & Skills

Lightning-attributed Cursed Energy

Kashimo’s Cursed Energy inherently has the properties of electricity. He relies heavily on close combat to place charges on opponents 23 83 418.

• Charge manipulation: His strikes transfer positive charge into a target. He can use attraction between charges to close the distance or pull an opponent toward him 23.
• Lightning strike: Once sufficient charge accumulates, he can react it with negative charge to generate a strike inside the target, giving the attack a sure-hit effect without a Domain Expansion 23.
• Battlefield trap: Against Akuta, he planted charges in the mall’s floor and walls, then discharged them as an indiscriminate thunderstorm. The attack consumed most of his Cursed Energy and also injured him, though less severely than Akuta 24 25.
• Speed and resistance: Lightning stimulates his muscles for rapid movement. He can also assimilate incoming lightning Cursed Energy, giving him considerable resistance to electrical attacks 24 385.
• Limitations: An opponent who absorbs the planted charge can prevent his sure-hit attack. Rain causes some of his inherently electrical Cursed Energy to leak, although light rain does not completely restrain him 23 83.
• Other applications: He used electricity to kill insect larvae inside his body and attempted to produce chlorine gas by electrolyzing seawater during a fight with Kinji Hakari 81 110.

Mythical Beast Amber

Kashimo’s Cursed Technique reconstructs and transforms his body with lightning, greatly increasing his speed and power. It is described as usable only once in a lifetime, and its alterations carry fatal consequences 8 117 119 446.

• In a spar with Akuta, Kashimo used a sound wave and an electromagnetic wave; the latter destroyed Akuta’s right arm and severely damaged his side 117.
• In another fight, the transformation left him unable to speak in a human voice 446.
• The technique’s backlash began to weaken him after prolonged fighting. In one challenge, Akuta assimilated him into lightning and reversed the transformation to save him 118 119.

Hollow Wicker Basket

Kashimo cannot use Domain Expansion, but employs Hollow Wicker Basket against a domain’s guaranteed-hit effect. He used it against Ryu Ishigori and Yuta Okkotsu 8 87 423.

• Kashimo helped disperse Ryu’s domain while fighting without a domain of his own 87.
• Against Okkotsu, maintaining the hand sign prevented him from retrieving his staff without becoming vulnerable to the domain’s guaranteed hit 423.
• Kashimo attributes his inability to master Domain Expansion to the unusual, lethal nature of Mythical Beast Amber, which left him little opportunity to study the technique 8 385.

Equipment

• Iron rod — Kashimo’s primary close-combat weapon. He can leave a negative charge in it and attract it back to his body from a distance 23. Jie Jian severed one of his staffs during their training-ground fight 187.
• Thunder Scale Armor — A Special Grade cursed tool taken from Jinichi Zenin. It absorbs, stores, and releases lightning-attributed Cursed Energy; Kashimo fitted it to his right arm and used its stored energy to destroy Kurourushi 382 386 418.
• Former Special Grade cursed tool — A tool that helped Kashimo become the strongest in his original era. It disappeared after his Incarnation 386.

Relationships

• Ryomen Sukuna — Kashimo’s principal desired opponent. He returned through Incarnation to challenge Sukuna and wanted to face him at his peak 383 424.
• Kenjaku — Offered Kashimo the contract that allowed his return. Kashimo distrusted Kenjaku and did not want to become a pawn in his schemes 13.
• Akuta / Jie Jian — A lightning-using opponent who can absorb Kashimo’s charges. They fight and travel together in several challenges; Kashimo later challenges him after Sukuna is gone 23 75 95 116.
• Ryu Ishigori — A sorcerer from Kashimo’s era whom he never fought in their original lives. After their battle in Sendai, Kashimo calls him the second-strongest opponent he has met 84 87.
• Kasumi Miwa — Kashimo initially respects her determination, then defeats her in training and demands to fight Jie Jian through her. After learning she defeated Sukuna in another challenge, he seeks her out and is knocked away by her Black Flash 184 186 187 234.
• Kinji Hakari — Fought Kashimo in Tokyo No. 2 Colony and later intervened to calm him during disputes with Miwa and Jie Jian 110 181 182.

Story Role and Major Arcs

The following events occur across different challenges and outcomes.

• Culling Game and Sukuna’s vessel: Kashimo learns from Akuta that Yuji Itadori is Sukuna’s vessel. He demands a duel and blocks Choso from interfering when Sukuna takes over Akuta. Kashimo activates Mythical Beast Amber against Sukuna, but is left covered in crosshatched slashes 7 11 15 16.
• Mall duel: Kashimo confronts Akuta in a battle between lightning users. His mall-wide thunderstorm initially leaves him in better condition, but Akuta recovers and defeats him 22 23 24 25.
• Sendai opponents: Seeking stronger enemies, Kashimo fights Kurourushi and Ryu Ishigori. Ryu’s domain eventually shatters, leaving Kashimo badly burned and nearly out of Cursed Energy 81 87.
• Island spar: After Sukuna is defeated in another challenge, Kashimo chooses Akuta as the strongest opponent remaining. Mythical Beast Amber wounds Akuta, but Akuta recovers, outmatches him, and saves him from the transformation’s fatal aftermath 116 117 119.
• Miwa’s training: Kashimo faces Miwa, then Jie Jian controlling her body. Jie Jian’s adapted Simple Domain attack pierces Kashimo’s chest; Yuta Okkotsu treats the wound 186 187 189.
• Thunder Scale Armor and Sendai: Kashimo defeats Jinichi Zenin and takes his lightning-absorbing armor. He later destroys Kurourushi with stored lightning and challenges Okkotsu, who refuses the fight 385 386 418 423.
• Final duel with Sukuna: Kashimo activates Mythical Beast Amber after Sukuna wounds him. Sukuna responds with Malevolent Shrine, and Kashimo dies inside the domain 445 446.

Notable Quotes

“But even without Domain Expansion, I’m invincible!” 8

“My life is for fighting. If I die here, there’s no one else to blame.” 446