Heads up, this blog contains spoilers for the entire JJK manga, so click off if you’re not up to date.

Before We Start…

Being a JJK character, Choso’s media is pretty simple with the original manga, anime and supporting media such as the extras and guidebooks. In addition, this blog will be updated with any future content Choso gets as the manga and anime are continuing.

Credit to Rina and the G1 JJK blogs for the calculations used.

Background

“When you get to the other side, be sure to ask for my brothers’ forgiveness.”

For many years, the Death Paintings were sealed within Jujutsu high, isolated and only aware of their own existence. That day would all change however, after the Disaster Curses invaded the Kyoto event and distracted all participants with one goal in mind: Retrieving the fingers of Sukuna and obtaining Death Paintings 1-3 for their future endeavors. Thus the Death Paintings were reawakened from their 150 year long dormancy; Kechizu, Eso and Choso were born again at last.

The brothers swore no allegiance, siding with Mahito after Choso believed his future was more ideal for the three of them, as they lived for each other above everything else. That vision would soon meet a tragic end however, as soon Choso’s connection with his brothers was severed when they were killed by sorcerers Yuji Itadori and Nobara Kugisaki. Choso was devastated by the deaths of his siblings, and saw no point in siding with the Disaster Curses any longer once Gojo had been sealed during the Shibuya Incident. His only goals moving forward were to retrieve his remaining Death Paintings, and to kill Yuji and Nobara to avenge his brothers.

Soon after, Choso’s moment would arrive, as he and Yuji suddenly encounter one another within a subway. Without hesitation, Choso immediately attacked Yuji, only further enraged once hearing about the sadness his brothers felt before death. This would lead to a prolonged fight, where Choso was able to barely emerge victorious and leave Yuji on the brink of death. But suddenly, Choso felt a memory of a past that never happened: Him, Keichizu, Eso and Yuji all eating together, happy. After the sudden bewilderment, Choso came to a shocking revelation: If what happened was from his blood connection, then Yuji Itadori was his brother.

After discovering this truth, Choso later went to confront Kenjaku after realizing his past as Kamo Noritoshi, the most evil Sorcerer in history and the man who brought his mother great suffering. Choso abandoned any remaining loyalty he had to the curses, and tried the best he could to protect Yuji and the rest of the sorcerers, but it was sadly not enough as Kenjaku successfully escaped while his plans moved forward. Choso continued to protect Itadori following this and orders for Yuji’s execution, even defeating Naoya Zenin and swearing to always walk ahead of his brothers to help them avoid the mistakes he once did.

Eventually, Choso would have to reluctantly separate from Yuji as Tengan’s appointed guardian with Yuki. During this time, Choso wanted nothing more than to end Kenjaku’s life, even at the cost of his own, for both the pain his mother was inflicted alongside Yuji’s future. After Yuki questioned Choso’s complete disregard for himself, he began to open up about the difficulties of living as neither curse nor human. Choso chose to live as a curse out of fear of his brothers not being accepted just because of their appearance. He felt immense guilt over the people he killed and believing his decision of the easy path was the reason his brothers killed each other, thinking he’s not even worthy of being Yuji’s brother. Seeing no reason to keep going, Choso was about to launch one last desperate attack against Kenjaku, before suddenly, Tengan released him from the barrier. Yuki offered one final request before Choso left, in having finally died as a curse, to continue living as a human.

To this day, Choso’s taken that message to heart, and has worked alongside him and the remaining sorcerers in unsealing Satoru Gojo and their final showdown against Sukuna. No matter what the future holds, Choso’s finally found his place as a human, and as a brother. His siblings would be proud.

Experience & Skill

Despite chilling inside an incubator for 150 years, Choso’s not to be underestimated in combat. While he’s acknowledged to have no combat experience during Shibuya, Choso’s fought many skilled opponents over his time. He’s capable of contending with and even defeating Yuji Itadori, a sorcerer who’s been at it for many months and was able to match him in martial arts despite it being his first ever fight. Choso’s even able to battle Kenjaku, who’s existed for over 1000 years. Choso was struggling greatly in their encounter, but him holding his own at all and forcing his hand later is still worth noting.

Of course, we can’t talk about Choso’s experience without going over his phenomenal Blood Manipulation capabilities. While dormant, Choso had practiced Blood Manipulation across his 150 year long sealing, and has mastered it to such a degree he’s invented entirely new techniques. He’s demonstrated incredible creativity with this ability as well and adapting it based on the circumstances. For example, he’s prepared Supernovas as a defensive measure to counter Yuji rushing him down, and kept a level head when water was hindering his blood manipulation abilities before using a hidden Blood Meteorite to gain the advantage he needed. Choso’s combined multiple abilities together as well for creative strategies, such as distracting Naoya with Piercing Blood to stop him long enough for a wave of blood he sent to catch up to him. He used this to hold Naoya down and anticipate his curse technique by making him think he’ll use Piercing Blood only to use Supernova.

He’s even been shown to adapt on the fly, such as Yuji blinding him by letting the water dissolve his knife from Blood Edge and using trick against him, or adjusting Flowing Red Scale: Stack to perceive Noaya’s movements. Choso’s even been able to outsmart the likes of Kenjaku, by exploiting his tunnel vision in believing Choso would only attack with blood vectors, only to launch Convergence alongside it to catch Kenjaku off guard and force him to reveal Antigravity system.

Choso’s incredible intelligence also extends outside of combat, as he’s able to formulate many plans for whatever the situation demands. For example, to get to Tengen and move past her barriers, Choso reused the strategy Mahito planned when stealing the first 3 Death Paintings, using his blood connection with the rest as a sort of guide. He’s even shown to be a good teacher, as he helped Yuji properly use Reverse Curse Technique and even taught him the basics of Blood Manipulation.

Abilities

Death Painting Womb Physiology

At the beginning of the Meiji era, a girl with special genetic makeup gave birth to a cursed spirit child, whose blood was mixed from birth a cursed spirit and human. However, after running away from her people she unfortunately, ran into a temple in the mountains run by Jujutsu Sorcerers, including Noritoshi Kamo, the most evil sorcerer in history. Any remaining information on the girl was destroyed, only being know to have been given nine pregnancies and nine abortions, those born being what is known today as the Death Painting Wombs.

After being stored away for 150 years with the faintest ideas of their past, three were brought back upon Mahito feeding the stolen cursed objects to three random individuals. These vessels can be anyone, even those with no potential are capable hosts. Death paintings don’t have any resemblance to their vessel’s appearance, however the severity of the transformation is dependent on how resilient the vessel is.

Despite their origin, Death Paintings only live for their brothers first and foremost. Their blood is mixed between that of a curse spirit and human, and this gives them numerous benefits for Blood Manipulation which will be touched on later.

Cursed Energy

Cursed Energy is the main power system within Jujutsu Kaisen, deriving from negative emotions which are present in almost everyone. It’s capable of empowering blows, shielding one from attacks by focusing their energy, even being able to protect more experienced users’ souls from tampering. Choso has demonstrated great use of Cursed Energy, being able to fuel many techniques for Blood Manipulation without any signs of being drained from prolonged fights. Speaking of which:

Blood Manipulation

Blood Manipulation was an inherited technique from the Kamo Clan which has been passed down for generations. Choso inherited this from the late Kamo Noritoshi’s blood, and has been honing his technique for over 150 years.

Blood Manipulation itself is the ability to manipulate the user’s own blood composition, down to its temperature, pulse rate and number of red blood cells alongside anything it touches. This extends to briefly halting the blood’s coagulation to further increase its effectiveness. It’s a technique valued for its balance, suitable for close, mid and long range combat, allowing the user to be highly adaptable in fights.

With this, Choso’s proven his talent with this technique in numerous ways. He’s capable of firing bursts of blood either to fuel techniques or blast foes away, and he’s capable of manipulating blood even by itself to hold down foes stained by it, carve and launch out parts of the environment, pulling back his blood for barrages, directing waves of blood towards a target or even shoot out his own hand with blood to grapple foes! He’s even displayed enough skill to shift his blood between different techniques, such as changing daggers he made from Blood Edge to make Supernovas instead.

Choso’s also capable of hardening his own blood on his body to increase his combat capabilities, be it making a gauntlet or hardening his body to defend from incoming attacks. He’s also used this to fire out bursts of blood, be it firing out small objects for feigns or blasts strong enough to cut. Though this does come with great risk, as hardening the blood within their body risks the user immediately developing thrombosis, so Choso would only use this if it outweighs the risk otherwise such as determining Yuji was a big enough threat to try using it on.

This only scratches the surface of what Choso’s done, as his many techniques he’s learnt will be touched on in their own sections.

Topping things off, Choso’s physiology grants him multiple benefits blood users wouldn’t normally have. As he’s part curse, his blood is poisonous, which causes regular sorcerers’ bodies to reject that blood and feel sick enough to throw up and leave them incapacitated. It’s potent enough to disrupt Uruame’s ice formation after they were drained from the blood in spite of using Reverse Cursed Technique to heal their hand where it entered. This hybrid of blood also lets them convert their cursed energy into blood, meaning they’re unable to die from blood loss so long as they have cursed energy. Choso’s able to use this to generate more blood to overwhelm his opponent, such as turning an open wound into a massive wave of blood to chase down foes. And while not combat applicable, Choso’s technique has a side effect of sensing the transformation of his brothers irrelevant of distance. Death is the greatest and final transformation, causing him to have an intense sensation when Yuji’s about to die and sensing the deaths of his brothers once they were finished off.

Slicing Exorcism

The most simple of Choso’s techniques, Slicing Exorcism creates high-speed blood streams in front of Choso that can tear through foes, be it single or rapid fire. He’s also got access to a variation of this move, where it instead creates a rapidly spinning chakram to toss at a target. Choso’s able to create multiple of these at once to throw when ready. While Naoya does note that the attack’s slower due to Choso’s blood loss, the speed was likely just for Choso setting up a Piercing Blood shot at Naoya as he’s unaffected by blood loss as mentioned earlier.

Convergence

Convergence serves as a basis for multiple extension techniques Choso derives from Blood Manipulation. Blood is compressed and condensed to its limit, after which Choso can either use immediately or float around him for later use. Given its charging time, Choso must be careful otherwise interruption will disrupt the technique. However, should he be pressured, Choso can use an existing convergence for a punch that bursts out its stored blood to coat targets.

Stamina & Endurance

Despite the beatings he’s taken, Choso has shown his resilience time and time again no matter the foe. Choso was able to fight a prolonged battle with Yuji, even continuing to fight despite him being heavily damaged from just a few blows and then hardened the blood within his fists despite the risk of thrombosis it brings on top of that. He’s even been able to immediately grab Sukuna’s arm right after he was coughing up blood protecting himself from a Black Flash to the stomach. But Choso’s most impressive showings of endurance would have to be against Kenjaku, where the thoughts of his brothers cheering him on let him get up right after getting shredded by several of Kenjaku’s spirits. This extends to him later resuming the fight and helping Yuki wear Kenjaku down, even preparing a final attack after he was incapacitated from Antigravity System.

Feats

Overall

Practiced Blood Manipulation for 150 years
Took part in helping seal Satoru Gojo
Defeated First Grade Sorcerer Yuji Itadori despite his bloodbending being hindered by sprinklers

And reunited with him later after realizing they were brothers, common Choso W

Defeated Special Grade 1 Sorcerer Naoya Zenin
Helped Yuji, Yuta and the gang reach Tengen
Forced Kenjaku into revealing Antigravity System and fought him alongside Yuki
Taught Yuji the basics of Blood Manipulation
Battled Sukuna, the King of Curses alongside Yuji, Miguel and Maki
Is an awesome bro
Gave Todo a dope ass fade

Power

Launched a massive pillar into the air with his blood (5.25 Tons of TNT)

Leapt up to and blew up the top of that pillar by channeling blood inside it

Speed

Piercing Blood moves at the speed of sound
Fought on par with Yuji Itadori
Reacted in time to protect himself from Yuji catching him off guard with a drop kick
Dodged his own piercing blood repelled by Kenjaku (as seen above)
Used Flowing Red Scale: Stack on his eye muscles to track Naoya’s speed

Durability

Scaling

Yuji Itadori

Before realizing they were brothers, Choso fought Yuji during the Shibuya Incident and came out victorious, despite him being lured into the bathroom with sprinklers preventing him from manipulating blood outside of him. Choso matched Yuji in combat while taking severe damage and even broke his shoulder and sent him flying, giving pretty blatant scaling. That being said this would only apply for feats Yuji has up to Shibuya, as he’s gotten much stronger in the series since then and Choso hasn’t been shown on the same level.

Comparable to his other brother Aoi Todo, who deduced Hanami’s Cursed Buds in 0.01 seconds
Can utilize Black Flash, which activates within the microsecond (Mach 284 - 932.9)

Kenjaku

Father issues everyone. Admittedly, Choso was behind in his encounter with Kenjaku, but this wasn’t without his moments. Choso was able to take a beating directly, harmed Kenjaku with Piercing Blood (and would’ve likely killed him had he not mitigated it) and forced Kenjaku to reveal Antigravity System to negate his Supernovas despite being immune to the blood’s poison. Choso also later helped Yuki briefly beat up Kenjaku and survived his Antigravity System pressing him down hard enough to crack the floor beneath him. While he’s definitely not 1-1, he should still be in the ballpark to scale to his feats, and him growing stronger following this encounter supports it.

Before using Antigravity System to escape, survived the initial effects of Yuki’s Black Hole (676.2 Megatons of TNT)

This feat comes from the Kenjaku vs Medusa blog, which can be found here alongside an elaboration. Please give it a read when you can!

Sukuna

This one requires a whole tangent, so I’ll provide a brief summary here. While Choso should obviously not scale to Sukuna fully, he’s demonstrated to downscale heavily from him during Shinjuku. Choso’s Supernova was capable of blocking multiple of Sukuna’s slashes, and Sukuna saw his attacks as enough of a threat to move out of the way despite also being immune to poisons. But most impressively, Choso, with hardened blood, was able to survive a Black Flash and briefly held Sukuna’s arm in place after taking the hit. See more in Q&A as there’s a lot of context surrounding this scaling.

(15F) Kicked Jogo’s ass. Jogo:

Created everyone’s favorite Maximum Meteor (238.8 Kilotons of TNT)
Said meteor was also stated to be capable of turning an entire town to ash (79.5 Megatons of TNT)
Carries low-mid tier scaling on his back

(15F) Blew up a massive part of Shibuya (2.07 Megatons of TNT)
(19F) Fought and off screened Satoru Gojo, who:

Caused an earthquake when he was unsealed from the Prison Realm (515.2 Kilotons - 12.94 Megatons of TNT)
Can power an entire nation with his Cursed Energy (94 Megatons of TNT, likely much higher)

Weaknesses

While Choso’s abilities are incredibly impressive, they aren’t without workarounds. While his technique boosts his blood’s potency, it comes at the cost of making it highly dissolvable which would make him struggle greatly against foes who can capitalize on that. Additionally, moves requiring Convergence can be difficult to manage if he’s unable to charge it in time, which Naoya exploits in his battle against him with his speed. Lastly, while Choso can generate massive amounts of blood, it’s limited by the amount of Cursed Energy he possesses and won’t be able to use any more once he’s at his limit.

Q&A

Sukuna Scaling?

Alright, this is going to be a lot. Being the strongest sorcerer in history, it may seem jarring for Choso to scale to anything close to this level of power, so let’s dissect this.

As the scaling section mentions, the recent JJK chapter has given Choso some incredibly impressive feats against Sukuna. These include him blocking several of his slashes with Supernova, him needing to get out of the way of Choso’s attacks and Choso even surviving a Black Flash by hardening his blood which Sukuna was visibly surprised by.

Of course, it would be disingenuous to say this automatically makes Choso scale to Sukuna, as we know Sukuna was significantly weakened in their encounter. Sukuna had taken a Jacob’s Ladder from Yuta alongside multiple punches from Yuji (which we know weakens Sukuna’s CE output), forced to focus some of his CE into protecting his heart after Maki stabbed right through it, and even taking slashes from the goat Kusakabe. That being said, we also know Sukuna has begun to regain some of his output back, as it’s mentioned within the chapter doing so thanks to landing multiple Black Flashes, the fourth he landed directly on Choso. This is important because we not only know that Sukuna had partly regained his output, but the attack Choso was able to shield was heavily amplified because well, it was a Black Flash lol.

That being said, it still must be noted that Sukuna’s output during that moment is incredibly difficult to pinpoint on how it stacks to him at his peak, since while he partially regained output the fact he took all those lethal attacks before still remains. He would still likely be massively weaker as it even notes within the chapter Sukuna’s Black Flashes aren’t a complete fix for this depleting power. The point of this is just to show that Choso downscaling massively is the safest bet here, mainly applying to his blood techniques given his showings were from his abilities. Even then, hesitance on this scaling is still understandable, and may change depending on what future chapters reveal.

Anyhow all of Sukuna’s feats still get below Kenjaku surviving the initial black hole, Fraudkuna will never beat the allegations.

Is Piercing Blood equal to Sukuna’s?

Aside from the scaling above, there’s actually an argument to be made for Choso scaling to the complete yield of the King of Curses’ feats by him using his own variation of Piercing Blood, but just with water. This is important due to Sukuna using this technique to damage Satoru Gojo and was even going to blow up his Red had Gojo not redirected it, which would grant the move full scaling to Gojo and Sukuna’s best feats.

However, this argument has several problems. Starting off, this power gap is very likely due to Sukuna’s power still being above Choso’s, and Piercing Blood being described as reinforced with Cursed Energy would likely imply its potency varies from users. This is further supported by Sukuna himself (albeit in Heian Form) deflecting Piercing Blood with barely any effort, which wouldn’t be the case if it was truly as strong as what could pierce Gojo. We can also refer to Uruame being able to block Choso’s Piercing Blood for a short time themselves, and while their right hand was pierced through after a short time, them holding it off at all indicates this attack is clearly not on Sukuna’s level. If it was, then their hands and head should’ve been instantly shredded right through by an attack that powerful. There’s just not enough concrete evidence for the two being built equal.

Summary

“Whether they’re superior or inferior, older brothers are role models for their younger brothers. If the older brother takes the wrong path, the younger brothers can avoid it. And if I take the right path, my little brothers can follow behind. What if you’re strong because your older brothers are weak? You asked why I’m tough. I’ll tell you. It’s because I didn’t have someone to guide me, so I kept making mistakes. Nonetheless, I must walk ahead of my younger brothers. That’s why I am strong.”

To summarize:

Mountain Large City attack potency
MHS combat and reaction speeds
Possesses many forms of Blood Manipulation that give him countless methods of battle
Has several great range and AOE options such as Slicing Exorcism, Piercing Blood and Supernova, his physiology amplifying this blood usage further
His unique blood type lets him exhaust and incapacitate foes
Good mobility options from Wing King and (situationally) Supernova
Access to stat boosts with Flowing Red Scale and Flowing Red Scale: Stack
Difficult to put down thanks to his regeneration, endurance and massive supply of blood thanks to his Cursed Energy
Incredibly experienced in the use of Blood Manipulation and has proven to be highly adaptable with it
In spite of his combat inexperience, has demonstrated great hand to hand skill if he’s up close
Yuji vs Choso is peak fiction
One of JJK’s best characters

Opponents

Power (Chainsaw Man)

Don’t have a connections post but assuming it’s blood manip + hybrid + sibling-esq relationship with protag-kun + Rivalry momento

Obligatory JJK vs CSM matchup time. Connections for this are fiiiiine, better than a majority of the series pairings at least. Dynamically though this kinda falls apart, Power just gets ratio’d since Choso basically just has her main power (via Blood Edge) and then some. If you do choose to give Blood Devil, congrats, Choso dies the moment Power tries summoning ten different weapons inside the guy. Not a fan.

Better than Nobara though.

Gyutaro (Demon Slayer)

Connections

This one’s alright. Connections wise is a mixed bag, while I like it touching on them being older brothers and them being protective of their siblings, that’s all it really has. It tackles none of Choso’s character development and only his story up until defeating Yuji which makes it really lacking thematically. Fight potential does sound good though, given Gyutaro’s got multiple blood manipulation techniques and other abilities to play off Choso’s versatility. I’d probably be more on board with this if the thematics were tighter.

Arystar Krory III (D. Gray-Man)

(no full body renders its chosover)
Connections

Thematics for this one seem solid, albeit there’s a lot of fluff in the connections that probably should be trimmed down (normalize core themes first plz). I do like it tackling their family relationships alongside their crisis of belonging though. I’m not familiar with Arystar’s series at all but looking at this page, fight seems neat and would be interesting to see how their different bloods would affect the other and has some great hand to hand potential. It seems solid, just doesn’t have that extra push for me.

Greed (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Connections

Spoilers, this is my preferred for both. The connections here are easily my favorite, as they tackle many important moments across both’s stories that make it really feel complete (plus the meta connection of them being the goats of their series). And luckily, the fight dynamic holds up just as well. One may be put off initially as Greed has few abilities (primarily just his shield and regeneration), but I think this can work to its benefit. The idea of Choso needing to make use of his techniques to get around Greed’s defenses, while Greed has to figure the best way to close the gap against Choso’s offense with clever shield usage sounds like a pretty compelling dynamic. For example, you could have Choso set up multiple Supernovas behind Greed to attack him while unshielded, only for Greed to notice and harden his back to crash right into Choso. Add on it being accompanied by their strategic mindsets, potential for great environmental usage and some amazing hand to hand segments, and you have a fight that really clicks with me. It helps that the dialogue also sounds fun from what I’ve seen of Greed so far, and FMA vs JJK as a pairing both vibes and would make for an awesome track.

Character Analysis - Choso

Before We Start…

Background

Experience & Skill

Abilities

Death Painting Womb Physiology

Cursed Energy

Blood Manipulation

Slicing Exorcism

Convergence

Piercing Blood

Supernova

Flowing Red Scale

Blood Meteorite

Blood Edge

Wing King

Regeneration

Stamina & Endurance

Feats

Overall

Power

Speed

Durability

Scaling

Yuji Itadori

Kenjaku

Sukuna

Weaknesses

Q&A

Sukuna Scaling?

Is Piercing Blood equal to Sukuna’s?

Summary

Opponents

Power (Chainsaw Man)

Gyutaro (Demon Slayer)

Arystar Krory III (D. Gray-Man)

Greed (Fullmetal Alchemist)

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