Shoko

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Shoko Ieiri (硝子) 26 28
Gender	Female 30 48
Age	16 36
Height	160 cm 37
Affiliation	Tokyo Jujutsu High; a minor jujutsu family 28
Occupation/Role	First-year student, jujutsu sorcerer, and medical support; studying toward a medical license 27 37 41
Status	Alive; accompanying Sukuna inside Tokyo First Hospital after escaping a cursed spirit’s innate domain 50
First Appearance	Chapter 26 26

Background / History

Shoko comes from a minor jujutsu family. Her upbringing gives her enough familiarity with Sukuna’s markings to recognize them immediately, although she initially mistakes the reincarnated Sukuna for someone who swallowed one of his fingers 28.

She arrives at Jujutsu High early because she is tired of her family pressuring her to marry. Shoko, Satoru Gojo, and Suguru Geto become Masamichi Yaga’s students at the same time and develop a close friendship over the following year 26.

Her professional goal is to obtain a medical license so she can practice medicine and avoid frontline duty. She remains at school during vacation, both to escape marriage pressure at home and to continue her dissection studies 41 45.

Appearance

Shoko has short brown hair, also described as tawny 30 44.

• Stature: At 160 cm, she is notably shorter than the 190-cm Gojo 37.
• Signs of overwork: Heavy dark circles develop under her eyes during her intensive medical studies 45.
• Clothing: She wears a white lab coat while dissecting animals and changes into her school uniform for missions 48.
• Recurring detail: She is frequently seen with a cigarette between her lips 26 44 48.

Personality

Shoko is sharp-tongued and quick to retaliate against teasing, especially from Gojo. She stomps on her friends’ feet, swings at Gojo, and chases him when his jokes go too far. She is equally willing to confront strangers who gossip that Sukuna and Geto are fighting over her 26 30 31 37.

Her temper coexists with concern for others. She repeatedly checks on Geto during his spar with Sukuna, apologizes when she believes she has raised a painful subject about Sukuna’s family, and intervenes when Gojo’s challenges threaten to disrupt an outing 31 34. She also withholds news of Sukuna’s Reverse Cursed Technique from Gojo to spare his pride 32.

She is determined to qualify as a medical practitioner, but her efforts become exhausting: she pulls all-nighters and regularly sleeps in the dissection room. Despite preferring support work, she accepts urgent assignments and regards exorcising cursed spirits as part of her job 45 47 48.

Shoko smokes and drinks, and is portrayed as having exceptional alcohol tolerance. Her enthusiasm for liquor also produces less responsible behavior: she secretly sells leftover anesthetic to private hospitals and spends the proceeds on alcohol 35 37.

Abilities & Skills

Reverse Cursed Technique

Shoko’s defining ability is healing other people with Reverse Cursed Technique. Yaga identifies her as the youngest among the small number of sorcerers capable of treating others’ injuries 36.

• Healing injuries: She fully restores Geto after Sukuna’s sparring blows cause bruising and internal damage 31.
• Competition medicine: She treats Yamagami Kuro’s head injury and Naoya Zenin’s severe injuries during the Goodwill Event 39.
• Treatment limits: Healing Naoya takes enough time to delay the next round and leaves her exhausted; the team battle then creates further work for her 39 40.
• Teaching difficulty: She tries to explain the technique to Gojo and Geto, but neither understands her explanations or has mastered it at that point 26.
• Recognition: Gakuganji offers her Kyoto Jujutsu High’s best resources after witnessing her healing 39.

Medical Study and Dissection

Shoko studies anatomy and practices dissection to obtain a medical license. Her healing talent does not make her automatically proficient at conventional medical procedures 36 41.

• Practice subjects: She works on rabbits and mice; she has not yet dissected human corpses 47.
• Difficulty: Her hand shakes during an attempted heart removal, causing her to cut a ventricle and ruin the specimen 41.
• Anatomical curiosity: She tries to take one of Yaga’s teddy-bear cursed corpses to examine its internal structure, but he catches her 36 37.
• Observation: She notices Sukuna’s facial injury healing and correctly identifies his use of Reverse Cursed Technique 31.

Combat and Field Awareness

Shoko is a support specialist rather than a frontline fighter. She can handle low-grade cursed spirits, but would struggle against a Grade 2 spirit without another sorcerer protecting her 33 48.

• Limited battle experience: Her first actual mission frightens her, and she holds Geto’s sleeve for reassurance 33.
• Vulnerability: The hospital spirit’s innate domain overwhelms her with induced despair, leaving her sobbing and disoriented 50.
• Recovery: After Sukuna brings her back to her senses, she regains her determination and follows his instructions 50.
• Attention to surroundings: She notices her earlier tears on the floor and realizes they have been walking in circles 50.

Equipment / Items

• Scalpels and dissection tools — Used for her anatomical studies; she also draws a scalpel when she initially suspects Sukuna is a finger vessel 28 41.
• Anatomy books — References for her medical training and dissection practice 36 41.
• Laboratory supplies — Gloves, rubbing alcohol for disinfecting tools, and an incinerator for disposing of dissected organs 41.

Relationships

• Satoru Gojo — Close friend and classmate. Their friendship is marked by relentless teasing, attempted punches, and chases; he also offers to protect her during missions 26 32 37.
• Suguru Geto — Close friend and classmate. He reassures her during her first battle, while she monitors and heals his sparring injuries 26 31 33.
• Sukuna — Classmate and increasingly familiar companion. She initially fears he has swallowed a Sukuna finger, but later shares food with him and supplies cleaned rabbits for him to roast. He protects her during the hospital mission 28 37 44 50.
• Masamichi Yaga — Teacher and mission coordinator. He values her rare healing ability, catches her taking his cursed corpse, and assigns her to accompany Sukuna on an urgent mission 36 37 48.
• Yoshinobu Gakuganji — Kyoto principal who attempts to recruit her after seeing her heal Kuro 39.
• Her family — Their repeated pressure to marry leads her to arrive at school early and avoid returning home for vacation 26 41.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Sukuna’s Enrollment and First Mission

• Shoko recognizes the new student’s markings and draws a scalpel, believing Yaga has brought a Sukuna-finger vessel into class. After Yaga presents him as Sukuna’s descendant, she handles the introductions 28.
• She accepts Sukuna’s fabricated explanation that his name is a hereditary title passed down through a single family line 30.
• During Sukuna and Geto’s spar, she moves from cheering to emergency treatment and discovers that Sukuna can heal himself 31.
• Gojo and Geto bring her on the abandoned-street assignment despite her support role. She remains near Geto while Sukuna and Gojo dispatch the spirits 32 33.

Goodwill Event

• Shoko withdraws from combat to provide off-field medical support for both schools 37 38.
• Her treatment of Kuro attracts Gakuganji’s recruitment offer. Naoya’s more serious injuries require prolonged healing and postpone the next match 39.
• Exhausted, she falls asleep in the lounge, only to be awakened for the team battle. Tokyo’s overwhelming victory leaves her treating another round of injuries 40.

Vacation and Medical Training

• Shoko stays at Jujutsu High while Gojo returns to his clan and Geto leaves to travel. She tells Sukuna that her unsuccessful dissections are part of her effort to earn a medical license 41 42.
• Her work becomes increasingly intensive. Sukuna finds her with heavy dark circles, and she later sleeps at her desk beside an ashtray filled with cigarette butts 45.
• Without a license, she continues practicing on animals rather than human corpses 47.

Tokyo First Hospital

• With Gojo and Geto unreachable, Yaga sends Shoko and Sukuna to investigate a suspected special-grade cursed spirit at an evacuated hospital 48.
• Inside, they enter a sealed, shifting innate domain. Its imposed despair overwhelms Shoko until Sukuna slaps her back to awareness and tells her to remain beside him 50.
• She notices evidence that they are circling the same location. Sukuna breaks through a wall with Cleave and pulls her through before it repairs itself, returning them to the hospital 50.
• The chapter ends with Shoko still accompanying Sukuna as he prepares to pursue the spirit 50.

Notable Quotes

“I can't exactly practice medicine without a license, can I?” 41

“Haha, I'm just trying to get my Medical License sooner. I don't want to go to the front lines.” 45

“All right. I won't leave your side.” 50

Trivia

• Shoko chooses alcoholic chocolate ice cream during the classmates’ outing 34.
• She gives Sukuna a strawberry-flavored lollipop in exchange for his explanation of his name 30.
• Giving Sukuna rabbits after dissection practice becomes a recurring arrangement that brings them closer 37 40.
• Gojo jokes that her Reverse Cursed Technique explanations sound like a “Thai accent”; Shoko blames his and Geto’s failure to understand on them instead 26.