The Master-Mind of Jujutsu kaisen – Kenjaku

Many villains across Jujutsu Kaisen are immensely strong, have nearly endless power when fighting, and have great cursed skills. However, of all the villains featured in this story, one is unique in that he’s very smart, has long-term goals, and is insanely ambitious. That villain is Kenjaku.

Kenjaku is an antagonist who stands out from other antagonists due to having greater goals than destruction, revenge, and domination. Kenjaku wants to alter all of mankind. His actions have an impact on almost every major event that takes place in the series; most of the conflicts are not random at all, rather they were part of a carefully created plan that Kenjaku has had in place for hundreds of years.

Kenjaku is a mastermind villain :
Kenjaku makes his initial appearance in the body of Suguru Geto. (Geto had previously been a very skilled jujutsu sorcerer and had been close friends with another powerful jujutsu sorcerer, Satoru Gojo). Many thought that his life had ended when Geto died.

However, as with all good stories, Jujutsu Kaisen introduces one of its greatest plot twists.

The individual who is controlling Getos body is not in fact Geto; rather, the individual which is controlling Getos body is actually an ancient sorcerer named Kenjaku and he has a very fearsome cursed technique that enables him to implant his brain into other individuals’ bodies and subsequently take full possession of all those bodies.
Kenjaku obtains an extraordinary fictional power: the ability to exist in the physical realm indefinitely.

He keeps doing experiments and finding knowledge while living in a different body every few years. The sewn lines on his forehead are his signature style, and it just reminds you that while you may see a body, the individual inside is, more often than not, not Kenjaku.

The Sorcerer Has lived for centuries :

What makes Kenjaku more dangerous is not just the power he has but his experience.
Compared to the younger sorcerers that use their instincts, talents or feelings, Kenjaku has seen several thousand generations of humans in the past. He saw countries emerge and vanish, and that curse energy evolved and many methods of jujutsu appeared.

He has a complete understanding of how people behave.
To Kenjaku, humans are nothing more than pieces of a huge experiment instead of individuals who have dreams and feelings. Because of this detachment, Kenjaku is able to make choices that other people would not dream of making.
It takes many years to und to achieve his goals. While the good guys are battling to save the day, Kenjaku is always working towards a future that only he can see in his head.

The Philosophy of Kenjaku: Enforced Evolution

Most bad guys want to have a lot of power. Kenjaku wants to create better people. His main idea is that people are not the best they can be yet. He thinks that cursed energy can lead to the best people, but people are still limited because they are not enough grown.
Kenjaku actively pushes humanity into its next stage instead of letting the evolution happen naturally.

He does so extremely and ruthlessly. He uses manipulation of sorcerers and cursed spirits and creating disasters to put people in situations where they have no other option but to change. Suffering for Kenjaku is not tragedy, but essentially a tool to achieve an end.

The philosophy makes him dangerous to others as he does not do things out of hatred and believes his vision of the future to be a better one at that.

Manipulation/Strategic Genius:

The greatest weapon that Kenjaku has at his disposal is his mind. He spends much of the series building relationships and manipulating events behind the scenes and only engages in battle when he absolutely has to. He spends his time learning to identify weaknesses and establish alliances and prepare for conditions long before he engages in any battle. The other powerful Curse Spirits are also tools in Kenjaku’s plan; he manipulates and utilizes them just as he does with the humans to achieve his goals.

Mahito is one of the people influenced by Kenjaku, and Mahito’s abilities help further Kenjaku’s greater ambitions. One of the qualities that makes Kenjaku unique as an individual is the fact that he rarely wastes any resources. Every action that he takes is calculated and has a purpose. Every conflict that occurs will create an opportunity for Kenjaku to win. When he loses, it turns into information. Because of this tactical plan, he can confront opponents that are superior to him in strength physically.

The Shibuya Event: Kenjaku’s Greatest Accomplishment

The Shibuya incident Is the most significant event in “Jujutsu Kaisen.” it changes the overall narrative. Kenjaku overwhelms the Jujutsu world by using his fighting techniques, intelligence, and deception, at the right moment in time. Kenjaku demonstrates his ability to combine strategy with mental manipulation. His ultimate goal is not only eliminating his enemies but also destroying the established order.

He has permanently changed the future of all the characters in the story as a result of the Shibuya incident; their relationships and the order of power have been permanently changed. The Shibuya Saga demonstrates that Kenjaku’s greatest strength is not in battle but in manipulation of events.

Ability:

Kenjaku is known for his intelligence. In addition, he possesses extraordinary abilities. Transfer of the Body Technique This particular skill enables him to take possession of another person’s body by essentially transferring his consciousness into that other person, and making use of all of that other person’s prowess.

High-level Cursed Energy Regulation

He has been training his ability to control his cursed energy for centuries, thus he is very adept at it.

Tactical Fulfilment

Kenjaku immediately change tact depending upon the circumstances.

Jujutsu Experience

His knowledge consists of techniques and barriers and cursed energy greater than that of most sorcerers.

Mind Games

He knows how people feel and will usually trick his opponents so that they blunder. All of these combined abilities make him one of the deadliest characters throughout the entire series.

What Makes Fans Fascinated About Kenjaku :

Kenjaku is more than just an evil guy. He does bad stuff, yeah but he is not solely characterised by it. He has endless curiosity in his character. Through his experiments, you will find yourself having to consider complex questions regarding humanity: should people develop regardless of the consequences? is progress always a good thing? can we rightly make people suffer just so we can learn more? can one lose their humanness in trying to improve human kind? Because of these questions, Kenjaku is a much deeper villain than what most villains are. Because although his actions are scary, most times his reasoning sounds sickeningly rational.

Conclusion
Kenjaku has truely become one of the most intricate and memorable villains in modern anime. After surviving centuries through the art of body possession and endless experimentation, he comes to represent the unseen power behind most of the significant events of Jujutsu Kaisen.

Kenjaku wins not with overwhelming power but through patience and wisdom and by having a greater vision of something in the farther future. By pursuing his vision of forcing humanity into an evolutionary step, he produces catastrophic results and creates challenges for our protagonists that the traditional physical battles aren’t able to.
The world of sorcerers and curses has rallied together behind Kenjaku to demonstrate that even though you may be the strongest of all fighters; you can still be defeated by someone who has prepared for your future before you have ever even begun to realize that you are in a battle.