Nobara Kugisaki

Student as Tokyo Metropolitan Technical Jujutsu Highschool

ESTJ, The Executive.

Nobara possesses an extremely high pain tolerance, tactical intellect, and a careful understanding of Jujutsu arts. Her innate Cursed Technique is the Straw Doll Technique, which has two main abilities: Resonance, which allows her to use a straw doll and a part of a target's body to attack her opponent from a distance by hitting a nail with a Cursed Energy-imbued hammer, causing the damage done to the effigy to be relayed and amplified to the target's main body, and Hairpin, which she activates remotely on her nails causing them to violently explode with Cursed Energy. The Straw Doll Technique is based on the ushi no toki mairi, who are portrayed as women dressed in white that lay upon cursed on people using a straw doll, hammer and nails which is a traditional method of inflicting curses. She is also highly proficient in using her hammer to launch nails at enemies, causing both physical and Cursed Energy damage to her opponent when they make contact. In addition to her standard abilities, she has been able to a Cursed Energy Manipulation—Black Flash, which creates a spatial distortion when the user comes into contact with the impact of Cursed Energy in a 0.000001 second window of a physical attack. It was revealed in the volume extras that Nobara's grandmother is a sorcerer with the same abilities and was taught to use the technique before enrolling as a student in Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College.

In the official second light novel for Jujutsu Kaisen, it was revealed that Nobara can improvise the usage of her technique if she does not have access to her weapons. Using her heels as a nail and a makeshift doll out of rope, she was able to activate her Straw Doll Technique to defeat an opponent.

Yuji Itadori