Recaps

Riko Amanai and Misato Kuroi rescued Yuanfang, a child abandoned in the cold, and took him in despite being unable to understand his language. A year later, Yuanfang had learned their language and discovered he was in Jujutsu Kaisen, where his cursed-energy abilities might help him survive.

• Riko Amanai spotted the unconscious Yuanfang by the roadside, and she and Misato Kuroi brought him home.
• Yuanfang woke in a child’s body and realized he had transmigrated, while Riko and Kuroi struggled to understand his language.
• Kuroi suspected cursed spirits had attacked Yuanfang’s family and decided he could stay with her while she investigated.
• A year later, Yuanfang had learned the local language and realized he was in Jujutsu Kaisen with a constantly active domain and unusual control of cursed energy.
• Riko asked Yuanfang why he called Kuroi “Sister” but not her, and Yuanfang claimed she was not mature enough.

Yuanfang secretly strengthened himself by absorbing cursed spirits while preparing to protect Riko Amanai and Misato Kuroi. When Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto arrived to escort Riko, Yuanfang learned they would let her choose her own future, and the two sorcerers noticed his unusual lack of cursed energy.

• Yuanfang avoided busy roads and absorbed a cursed spirit, growing stronger through his concealed domain.
• Yuanfang saw Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto arrive at the house, realizing the events surrounding Riko’s escort had begun before he was ready.
• Riko refused to leave for Jujutsu High that day and hurried off to school with Misato Kuroi.
• Yuanfang asked what Gojo and Geto would do if Riko refused to become Tengen, and both indicated they would let her be free.
• Gojo and Geto discussed Yuanfang’s unusual maturity and lack of cursed energy fluctuations, concluding that he had likely awakened a cursed technique.

Yuanfang discovered that his domain let him use Sorcerer Reversal to heal his injuries and transfer negative energy to heal others. After defeating the Rhinoceros Cursed Spirit, he set out to test whether he could use the ability on a dead kitten.

• Yuanfang was badly injured by a powerful Rhinoceros Cursed Spirit and realized he could not escape.
• When his domain briefly disrupted the cursed spirit's energy, Yuanfang dodged its charge and discovered that his absorbed negative cursed energy could heal his injuries.
• Yuanfang learned he could transfer negative energy to others to heal them, though his energy could not harm cursed spirits.
• Yuanfang fought the Rhinoceros Cursed Spirit for three hours, repeatedly healing himself with absorbed cursed energy until he defeated it.
• Yuanfang found a motionless white kitten and prepared to test his new ability.

Yuanfang revived a dead kitten with cursed energy, then returned to the damaged house and reassured Riko Amanai and Misato Kuroi. Riko chose to visit the sea instead of returning to Jujutsu High, and the group spent a day in Okinawa as she made the most of her time.

• Yuanfang used his cursed energy to revive a kitten, and Suguru Geto arrived to find him safe.
• Yuanfang and Suguru Geto returned to the wrecked house, where Riko Amanai and Misato Kuroi embraced him in relief.
• Suguru Geto asked where Riko Amanai planned to go, and she chose to see the sea rather than return to Jujutsu High.
• The group flew to Okinawa, where Riko Amanai, Yuanfang, and Satoru Gojo played in the sea while Suguru Geto and Misato Kuroi discussed the attacks.
• At sunset, Riko Amanai told Yuanfang to take care of himself, and he agreed without arguing.

Yuanfang warned Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto not to lower their guard as the group escorted Riko Amanai to Jujutsu High. Toji Fushiguro ambushed them inside the barrier, stabbing both Gojo and Geto and leaving their friends in shock.

• Riko Amanai asked Yuanfang to call her big sister, but he refused and let her rub his head anyway.
• Yuanfang warned Gojo and Geto to stay alert, but Gojo dismissed the danger and insisted he was invincible.
• The group reached Jujutsu High, where Geto remembered Yuanfang's warning and grew alert again.
• Toji Fushiguro appeared behind Geto and Gojo and pierced both of them with a single thrust.
• Toji explained how he had worn Gojo down, and Geto sent out a cursed spirit to drive him back before asking Gojo if he was all right.

Suguru Geto brought Riko Amanai, Misato Kuroi, and Yuanfang to Tengen’s underground domain while Satoru Gojo stayed behind to fight Toji Fushiguro. Geto offered Riko the choice to refuse assimilation, and she chose to stay with her friends, but Yuanfang spotted a gunman preparing to attack.

• Satoru Gojo told Suguru Geto to take the others to Tengen while he dealt with Toji Fushiguro.
• Suguru Geto led Riko Amanai, Misato Kuroi, and Yuanfang into the underground domain, where Yuanfang hoped to avoid Toji and find a chance to act against Tengen.
• Suguru Geto told Riko Amanai that she could refuse assimilation and still have a future with him and Satoru Gojo.
• Riko Amanai chose to stay with everyone and reached for Suguru Geto’s hand as he invited her to go home.
• Yuanfang spotted a figure holding a gun in the shadows and sensed his body preparing to strike.

Yuanfang rescued Misato Kuroi after Toji Fushiguro killed Riko Amanai, then brought Riko’s body home and placed it in a prepared ice room. He revealed to Misato that his cursed technique could revive the dead, but he needed to grow stronger before he could bring Riko back.

• Toji Fushiguro shot Riko Amanai and told Suguru Geto that he had killed Satoru Gojo.
• Yuanfang knocked Misato Kuroi unconscious and carried her away while Suguru Geto fought Toji Fushiguro.
• Yuanfang told the defeated Suguru Geto that Satoru Gojo was alive and asked him to bring Riko’s body back.
• Yuanfang met Satoru Gojo at the villa, took Riko’s body, and placed her in a prepared ice room.
• Yuanfang revived a dead bird with his cursed technique and explained to Misato that he could eventually revive Riko, though he lacked enough cursed energy for now.

Yuanfang found Hana Kurusu in an abandoned church, rescued her, and brought her home to join his family with Misato Kuroi. At Jujutsu High, Yuki Tsukumo spoke with Suguru Geto about jujutsu and mentioned a person with absolutely no cursed energy.

• Yuanfang searched abandoned churches for Hana Kurusu after Misato Kuroi gave him a map.
• Yuanfang found Hana Kurusu and other children trapped with a cursed spirit, then destroyed it and sent the other children to safety.
• Hana Kurusu told Yuanfang she was an orphan, and he offered to make her his little sister; she accepted.
• Yuanfang brought Hana Kurusu home, where Misato Kuroi welcomed her and took her to bathe and change.
• At Jujutsu High, Yuki Tsukumo introduced herself to Suguru Geto, questioned him about his type, and discussed cursed spirits, sorcerers, and non-sorcerers.
• Yuki Tsukumo told Suguru Geto that one person in the world had absolutely zero cursed energy and had other unusual qualities.

Suguru Geto brought Yuki Tsukumo to meet Yuanfang after learning that the Star Plasma Vessel had adopted a child who might resemble Toji Fushiguro. Yuki tested Yuanfang’s claimed ability to suppress cursed energy and techniques, and found she could not summon her shikigami within his range.

• Yuki Tsukumo told Suguru Geto that making all humans sorcerers could prevent curses from being born, and agreed that killing non-sorcerers was viable but rejected it as too extreme.
• Yuki told Suguru that the Star Plasma Vessel’s adopted child might be like Toji Fushiguro, then took Geto to discuss him over a meal.
• Two days later, Geto and Yuki visited Yuanfang, who suspected they wanted to study his lack of detectable cursed energy.
• Yuanfang told Yuki that within one meter, sorcerers and cursed spirits could not project cursed energy or cursed techniques.
• Yuki tested the ability and found that her cursed energy vanished as soon as it appeared, then failed to summon her shikigami.

Yuanfang and Yuki Tsukumo’s research into his cursed technique made no progress, and Suguru Geto returned to his old path after a junior’s death and a village’s abuse of its residents. Geto came to say goodbye before leaving, while Yuanfang and the others were left to reckon with his choice.

• Yuki Tsukumo and Suguru Geto realized Yuanfang’s domain could prevent shikigami summoning, then decided to study his ability after finding they could not sense Geto’s cursed energy.
• By 2008, research had yielded no leads, and after a junior’s death Suguru Geto chose to exterminate non-sorcerers.
• Misato Kuroi and Hana Kurusu reacted with disbelief and regret, while Yuki Tsukumo wondered if she might also lose her way.
• Suguru Geto appeared at the living room to say goodbye and explained that a village’s abuse of someone had driven him to act after he had previously restrained himself and rescued two girls.
• Suguru Geto apologized for Riko Amanai and left; Yuanfang reminded him that he owed him a favor, then asked Misato Kuroi to make dinner.

Yuta Okkotsu arrived at Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu Technical College, where his powerful cursed spirit Rika attacked the students before he calmed her. Gojo explained that Rika was Yuta’s curse, and the class learned why he had been transferred.

• Gojo introduced Yuta Okkotsu as a transfer student, and the students reacted warily to the cursed energy surrounding him.
• Maki Zenin confronted Yuta, while Yuanfang explained the school’s purpose and the role of curses.
• Rika emerged behind Yuta and attacked Maki Zenin, Panda, and Toge Inumaki, but Yuanfang’s cursed technique suppressed her.
• Yuta told Rika to stop, and she withdrew after he promised not to speak to her if she misbehaved.
• Gojo explained that Yuta had cursed Rika, who had loved him deeply, and asked the students to welcome him.

Yuanfang supervised Maki Zenin and Yuta Okkotsu on a mission to rescue children from a curse at an elementary school. After Rika defeated the curse and Yuta passed out, Yuanfang carried the survivors out and met Satoru Gojo.

• Satoru Gojo assigned Maki Zenin and Yuta Okkotsu to a team and asked Yuanfang to supervise their practice.
• Yuanfang explained the mission and raised a Curtain around the elementary school while Maki Zenin and Yuta Okkotsu went inside.
• Yuanfang secretly watched as Maki Zenin defeated three Cursed Spirits and the pair continued through the school.
• Yuta Okkotsu summoned Rika, who destroyed the enormous Cursed Spirit that had swallowed them, while Yuanfang watched from a rooftop.
• Yuanfang emerged, carried the exhausted survivors out, and met Satoru Gojo, who teased him about not being strong enough to subdue Rika.

Yuanfang grew closer to Yuta Okkotsu and the others at Jujutsu High while continuing to improve through fights with Maki Zenin. Mei Mei recruited him to help exorcise a special grade cursed spirit lurking in a collapsed space beneath a hospital.

• Yuta Okkotsu trained to grow stronger, and Maki Zenin and the others began accepting him.
• Panda and Inumaki explained that Yuanfang could counter cursed techniques and cursed energy within six meters, but could not block physical attacks.
• Maki defeated Yuanfang with a leg scissor, and Satoru Gojo teased her about having a crush on him.
• Mei Mei approached Yuanfang and asked him to help exorcise a special grade cursed spirit for a reward.
• Mei Mei brought Yuanfang to a hospital where an earthquake had opened a huge hole in the plaza, and she warned him that the spirit inside could distort space.

Yuanfang and Mei Mei confronted the Worm Cursed Spirit underground, with Yuanfang nullifying its space-distorting attacks while Mei Mei fought it. After an hour, the spirit’s rapid healing forced them to retreat, though Yuanfang suspected it had absorbed Sukuna’s Finger.

• Yuanfang and Mei Mei entered the cave, where Yuanfang absorbed the Worm Cursed Spirit’s first space-distorting attack and Mei Mei struck the ground to draw it out.
• The Worm Cursed Spirit revealed its enormous maw and attacked them with a barrage of energy spheres, which vanished within Yuanfang’s six-meter range.
• Mei Mei wounded the spirit with her axe, exposing its huge body and smaller mouthlike heads as she suspected it had absorbed Sukuna’s Finger.
• Mei Mei fought the Worm Cursed Spirit while Yuanfang suppressed its cursed technique, and the spirit healed rapidly through an hour of battle.
• Mei Mei called for a retreat, Yuanfang agreed, and the two leaped upward as the Worm Cursed Spirit intensified its attacks.

Yuanfang saved Mei Mei from the Giant Worm and absorbed its cursed energy, but Mei Mei soon began demanding favors in exchange for keeping his strength secret. A month later, a group of unfamiliar visitors arrived at Jujutsu High, and the students confronted them.

• Yuanfang pierced the Giant Worm, then absorbed its cursed energy until it vanished and collected two cursed fingers.
• Mei Mei agreed to keep Yuanfang's strength secret, then later persuaded him to join her assignment by offering him two fingers.
• Panda, Inumaki, and Yuta teased Maki about Yuanfang and Mei Mei growing close, and Maki attacked them.
• A month later, an enormous winged bird landed at Jujutsu High and let a group of strangers emerge from its beak.
• Panda and Maki challenged the visitors, while Yuta realized they were using him as a shield.

Suguru Geto confronted Yuta Okkotsu and declared his plan to create a world for jujutsu sorcerers by killing all non-sorcerers. He then announced the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons for December 24, challenging the jujutsu sorcerers to stop him.

• Suguru Geto approached Yuta Okkotsu and tried to persuade him that the strong should reshape the world.
• Suguru Geto revealed that he wanted Yuta's help to kill every non-sorcerer and invited Yuanfang to join his cause.
• Satoru Gojo and Masamichi Yaga arrived, and Satoru warned Suguru Geto to stay away from his students.
• Suguru Geto insulted Maki, but apologized after Yuanfang said she could one day match Toji Fushiguro's strength.
• Suguru Geto declared war and announced that he would unleash over a thousand curses each in Tokyo's Shinjuku and Kyoto on December 24.

Yuanfang explained that Maki and Mai’s twin bond prevented Maki from gaining the full benefits of her heavenly binding vow, unlike Toji Fushiguro. The chapter ended with Satoru Gojo asking how Yuanfang had discovered Maki’s hidden restriction when even the Six Eyes could not detect it.

• Suguru Geto rejected Yuta Okkotsu’s help and escaped by using shikigami and the students as leverage.
• Satoru Gojo told Maki and the others that Toji Fushiguro had nearly killed him despite having no cursed energy.
• Yuanfang explained that Maki’s and Mai’s shared cursed energy made them count as one person in Jujutsu Society.
• Yuanfang revealed that Maki had a heavenly binding vow whose benefits were limited because Mai existed.
• Satoru Gojo asked Yuanfang how he had detected Maki’s heavenly binding vow.

Yuanfang convinced Satoru Gojo and the others that Maki had a heavenly binding vow, and Gojo explained that one twin might have to die for the other to reach her potential. On December 24, Yuanfang, Maki, and Mei Mei headed to Kyoto for the fighting, where Mei Mei prepared to lead them against the emerging cursed spirits and curse users.

• Yuanfang claimed that his theory about Maki came from studying twins in Jujutsu Society and information from Yuki Tsukumo, and Satoru Gojo agreed it was plausible.
• Satoru Gojo said one twin would have to die for the other to reach her potential, and Maki left unwilling to believe the conclusion.
• Yuanfang decided he wanted to go to Kyoto on December 24, and Satoru Gojo assigned him and Mei Mei there while sending Panda and Toge Inumaki to Shinjuku and keeping Yuta and Maki at school.
• Maki demanded to join the Kyoto mission, and Satoru Gojo agreed; Yuta accepted his order to stay behind.
• Yuanfang, Maki, and Mei Mei arrived in Kyoto, where cursed spirits appeared and curse users watched from rooftops as Mei Mei prepared to lead the attack.

Yuanfang took Maki to fight Cursed Spirits while expanding his domain, and Mei Mei left after accepting a paid assignment. Mai and Kasumi Miwa found Maki and Yuanfang; after Yuanfang went to confront a huge Cursed Spirit, the sisters and Miwa stayed together.

• Mei Mei received an assignment to watch a Curse User, accepted the higher pay, and left Yuanfang and Maki.
• Yuanfang expanded his domain while guiding Maki through fights against Cursed Spirits, then urged her to rest when she grew exhausted.
• Mai and Kasumi Miwa spotted Maki and Yuanfang, and Mai mocked her sister while Miwa asked about Yuanfang.
• Yuanfang introduced himself as a Grade 4 Sorcerer and explained that the higher-ups could not detect his cursed energy.
• A huge Cursed Spirit appeared, so Yuanfang rushed off and asked Mai and Kasumi Miwa to look after Maki; Mai joined them, insisting she had only stayed because she had not refused his request.

After exorcising the Cursed Spirits, Yuanfang expanded his domain to a hundred-meter diameter and returned to Jujutsu High, where Yuta Okkotsu had become a Special Grade. The next morning, Yuanfang began testing his Cursed Technique by absorbing Yuta's cursed energy.

• Kasumi Miwa teased Mai and asked Maki to tell her more about Yuanfang while Mai listened nearby.
• Yuanfang hurried to exorcise the remaining Cursed Spirits and expanded his domain to a hundred-meter diameter by the time the work ended.
• Yuanfang returned to Jujutsu High with Maki and found Yuta Okkotsu cheerful after Rika passed on and his conflict with Suguru Geto ended.
• Panda, Toge Inumaki, Maki, and Yuanfang congratulated Yuta on becoming a Special Grade and graduating.
• The next morning, Yuanfang asked Yuta to spar and urged him to pour cursed energy into his Cursed Technique; Yuta's energy vanished almost instantly, so he began channeling more.

Yuta Okkotsu appeared to break through Yuanfang’s cursed technique and sparred with him, though Yuanfang had secretly adjusted his domain’s absorption to make it seem possible. After the fight, Panda teased Maki about her affection for Yuanfang, while Yuanfang focused on expanding his domain rather than romance.

• Yuta Okkotsu maintained cursed energy around his katana, and Yuanfang praised him while secretly slowing his domain’s absorption.
• Yuta Okkotsu challenged Yuanfang to a fight, and they clashed until the cursed energy on Yuta’s blade ran out.
• Yuta Okkotsu praised Yuanfang’s strength, while Yuanfang pretended to be exhausted so Yuta would spar with him again.
• Maki gave Yuanfang a towel, and Panda teased Yuta Okkotsu about being jealous and Maki about her affection for Yuanfang.
• Maki attacked Panda as he continued teasing her, while Yuanfang watched and kept his attention on expanding his domain.

Yuanfang celebrated Yuta Okkotsu’s graduation, then returned home and was pulled into helping Yuki Tsukumo test her Curtain. The Curtain could absorb Cursed Energy but stored it dangerously, so Yuki hoped Yuanfang could remove it with his Cursed Technique.

• Yuta Okkotsu fought Yuanfang daily until he gained control of his strength, and Satoru Gojo returned and agreed to let him graduate.
• Yuanfang attended Yuta Okkotsu’s karaoke graduation party, then took two days off to visit Misato Kuroi and Hana Kurusu.
• Hana Kurusu welcomed Yuanfang home, but Yuki Tsukumo soon took him away to help test her Curtain.
• Yuki Tsukumo explained that the Curtain absorbed Cursed Energy, but the energy accumulated on it and could create powerful curses if the Curtain were destroyed.
• Yuanfang understood that Yuki Tsukumo wanted him to use his Cursed Technique to remove the stored Cursed Energy.

Yuanfang helped Yuki Tsukumo absorb the cursed energy attached to a Curtain, and she explained her plan to use his inherited technique to purify curses on a larger scale. At dinner, Yuki teased Misato Kuroi about marrying Yuanfang, prompting Hana Kurusu to join the joke.

• Yuanfang absorbed the cursed energy clinging to Yuki Tsukumo's Curtain, causing the Curtain to shatter and the energy to dissipate.
• Yuki asked Yuanfang to help create a world with fewer cursed spirits by purifying Curtains, then proposed that he have children so his technique could be inherited.
• Yuanfang refused to discuss having children, and Yuki agreed to focus on experimenting with more Curtains first.
• Yuanfang, Misato Kuroi, Hana Kurusu, and Yuki shared a meal, where Hana listened as Yuanfang and Misato discussed his studies.
• Yuki suggested that Misato marry Yuanfang to repay her for raising him, and Misato agreed playfully before Hana said she wanted to marry him too.

In 2018, Yuanfang supervised Megumi Fushiguro and helped Yuki Tsukumo test her plan to prevent powerful cursed spirits from forming by absorbing special Curtains. Yuki discovered the plan showed promise, but concluded it would require Yuanfang to have children with the same cursed technique, leaving her wondering whether she would have to force him.

• Yuanfang appeared after Megumi Fushiguro and his hounds defeated a weak cursed spirit, then reminded him to retrieve a cursed object the next day.
• Yuanfang met Yuki Tsukumo at a graveyard, where she teased him after catching him looking at her.
• Yuki expanded and shattered ten special Curtains, and Yuanfang absorbed the vast amounts of cursed energy they released.
• Yuki explained that she had only made ten Curtains because each required an expensive jade tablet, disappointing Yuanfang, who had hoped to absorb more.
• After Yuanfang left, Yuki observed cursed energy rising from underground and decided that placing Curtains where it accumulated could prevent terrifying cursed spirits from forming.
• Yuki concluded that her plan would need more people with Yuanfang's special cursed technique and wondered whether she would have to force him to have children.

Yuji Itadori’s grandfather died after urging him to save people, and Yuji rushed to his school with Megumi Fushiguro to rescue his upperclasswomen. After Yuji swallowed Sukuna’s Finger and regained control of his body, Yuanfang asked him to let Sukuna take over for five seconds.

• Yuji Itadori argued with his grandfather at the hospital, then heard his final advice to save others before the old man died.
• After arranging the funeral, Yuji met Megumi Fushiguro and learned that the object at school was dangerous, then followed him there.
• Yuji swallowed Sukuna’s Finger, and Sukuna took over his body before Yuji unexpectedly regained control.
• Yuanfang appeared and asked Yuji whether he could switch control with Sukuna, then urged him to let Sukuna out for five seconds.
• Yuji agreed, and Sukuna’s markings and extra eyes appeared as he took control of Yuji’s body.