Nobara Kugisaki

Nobara is slim fair-skinned young woman with neck-length light brown hair that reaches to her neck that is styled with bangs that cover the right side of her forehead in an asymmetrical bob-cut. She has orange eyes, long eyelashes and thin eyebrows of the same color. After sustaining a near-fatal injury from Mahito, she now has an eyepatch covering her left eye.

Nobara's Jujutsu High uniform consists of a dark blue gakuran-style top (a button-down jacket) and a long matching skirt that reaches to just above her knees. She also sports black pantyhose and brown shoes along with her signature brown belt that holds her tools for jujutsu.

As someone who enjoys dressing up, Nobara has several different outfits. She didn't have a tracksuit prior to enrolling at Jujutsu High and bought one shortly after. It included a white and blue hoodie accented with a flower pattern, black tights, and white shoes.

Nobara is a confident and brash young woman with an unshakable character. More than anything, she is determined to stay true to herself no matter what. She takes great pride in being both photogenic and a strong fighter, refusing to let anyone change her core.

Initially, Nobara can appear to be a very obnoxious and arrogant person. She first introduced herself to Yuji and Megumi by expressing how inferior they were and argued with Yuji for the greater part of their first mission together. Despite her abrasive attitude, Nobara is actually an incredibly caring and dutiful person, but would never let most people see that side of her. After fighting alongside each other on several missions, Yuji and Megumi grew to become Nobara's closest allies. She and Yuji are the two class clowns among the first years who typically annoy Megumi for a laugh any chance they get. Although she likes to pretend that she doesn't like the boys, Nobara was upset after Yuji's death following the Detention Center incident, even shedding a tear upon his revival and demanding an apology from him.

Even from a young age, Nobara was outspoken and different from everyone else in her small town. She felt everyone was crazy for worse, with the exception of her grandmother who raised her and taught her sorcery. As a result, she was determined to trade the small countryside to the big city. She was only ever drawn to outsiders who moved into the village like Fumi and Saori, especially the latter. She looked up to Saori to a great degree and was disheartened when she was forced out of the neighborhood. Saori leaving made Nobara want to escape the village more and aspired to meet Saori again one day. Before attending Jujutsu High with her grandmother's hard-earned support, Nobara made a promise to Fumi that the three of them would reunite in Tokyo.

Staying true to who she is, Nobara carries herself confidently as a jujutsu sorcerer. Whenever her classmates tend to be decisive, she is willing to take charge even if they don't like it. While they are prone to panic in some situations, she is able to remain relatively level-headed regardless of what is happening. Nobara loves joking around in civil situations and is a huge trash talker in combative ones, no matter who it is. Among all her peers, she looks up to Maki Zenin in particular. She loves the way Maki carries herself and admires her strength as someone fighting against the oppression of her own family.

Momo Nishimiya insulted Yuji during the Goodwill Event while trying to justify Mai Zenin's undesirable attitude, annoying Nobara. Nobara dislikes Mai, which upset Momo and caused her to monologue about the power hierarchy and gender-based discrimination in the Zenin Clan. This only served to annoy Nobara, who understands the situation too but, unlike Momo, she isn't willing to adapt to the expectations society asked her to advance her path as a sorcerer. To her, Maki is a good person like Saori despite the circumstances that surround her, while Mai is not. She doesn't believe people are excused just because they come from a difficult background. She openly rejected Momo and told her to consider the kind of person Yuji was before condemning him, citing that life isn't just a job.

Upon first enrolling at Jujutsu High, Gojo was unsure how a girl from the countryside would fair against gruesome-looking cursed spirits. He believes it takes someone to be virtually insane to voluntarily be a jujutsu sorcerer or else they'll quit quickly. Despite her distaste for crazy people, Nobara has proved she is plenty crazy herself. She passed Gojo's test with flying colors and didn't hesitate to inflict pain on herself during the battle with the Cursed Womb: Death Paintings, Eso and Kechizu. In order to counter the former's Decay, Nobara willingly stabbed herself with nails and smiled while doing it. She took pleasure in outwitting her opponents and didn't hesitate to injure herself further in order to ensure victory and her own survival. Together, she and Yuji were victorious and ended up killing both brothers. Although Yuji was guilt-ridden because of this, Nobara was relatively unfazed. She admitted that she expected killing came with the job of being a sorcerer. Noticing that Yuji was acting strange, she comforted him in her own way by claiming that they were both accomplices in the murder.

Nobara has a high sense of duty as a jujutsu sorcerer and is a prideful fighter. During the Shibuya Incident, her pride was hurt by her near defeat at the hands of Haruta Shigemo. After being rescued by Kento Nanami, she wanted to help rescue Gojo from being sealed and redeem herself. However, Nanami refused to let her and ordered her to wait to be rescued. Despite this, she ignored his warning because she couldn't bring herself to leave the city while all her allies were still fighting. Upon encountering Mahito's double soon afterward, Nobara admitted she didn't have much to show for October 31st and believed beating him would be a solid contribution. She remained confident in her strategy and managed to injure Mahito's soul, forcing him to retreat. Nobara chased him and attempted to exorcise the curse, but her overconfidence ultimately proved to be her biggest mistake so far, as Mahito switched places with his double while her guard was down against his hands, letting him score a direct hit to her face with Idle Transfiguration.

Realizing her time was likely at an end, Nobara took a moment to recall her past life in the village. She used to believe that crazy people like those villagers did nothing but step on other people's lives. However, after meeting all the wild and crazy sorcerers at Jujutsu High, Nobara changed her mind. During this exchange, Yuji watches Nobara with extreme worry and horror. In what could have been her last moments, Nobara smiled at Yuji and asked him to tell everyone that life wasn't so bad in the end.

Following her nearly miraculous recovery on December 24, a scarred Nobara appeared to still be in high spirits after being brought up to speed about the raid against Sukuna, happily taking the opportunity to help defeat the legendary sorcerer with Resonance. Upon seeing Yuji again, the two got up to old habits by attempting to surprise Megumi with the fact she was alive, later making up for lost time with him after. She also planned to meet with Maki again, showing her desire for rekindling her friendships.