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lead=yes, often known as The Honored One, is a fictional character from Gege Akutami's manga and anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. He was first introduced in Akutami's short series Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School as the mentor of the cursed teenager Yuta Okkotsu, who suffers from Rika's curse. This miniseries became the prequel Jujutsu Kaisen 0 of Jujutsu Kaisen. In the main series of Jujutsu Kaisen, Gojo takes the same role but instead mentors student Yuji Itadori who suffers a curse of Ryomen Sukuna, helping him become stronger while protecting other characters in the series.
Gojo was designed by Akutami to be a formidable yet endearing figure who is passionate about his students. He is voiced by Yūichi Nakamura in Japanese, Kaiji Tang in English and Lohit Sharma in Hindi in the anime adaptations by MAPPA. The character garnered positive reception by the media for his carefree nature and power shown when protecting his students, becoming the series' breakout character.
Sunghoo Park, the director of Jujutsu Kaisen
The song "Where Our Blue Is" by Tatsuya Kitani, which acts as the opening of the anime's second season, depicts the youth of Gojo and Geto alongside an emphasis on blue backgrounds. The opening contrasts the ending theme "Light", which uses a more relaxed melody while emphasizing Gojo and Geto's friendship.
Kaiji Tang voices Satoru in English. Tang described him as one of "the trolliest trolls to ever troll anime." He noted that the character stands out due to his "whimsical" nature and how he interacts with his students. He was also praised for how likeable he comes across, due to the kind nature he portrays in the series with a dark narrative while simultaneously showing interesting supernatural powers. Tang still noted that Gojo's arrogance was his only weak point, which also makes him come across as more human.
In another interview, Tang compared Gojo to comic book character Clark Kent, believing the charm behind the character was that, despite his age, Gojo acts like a spoiled child. Before dubbing Gojo, Tang had not read the Jujutsu Kaisen manga but had heard of it. When cast, Tang did research by reading the manga. When first interacting with Yuji Itadori, Gojo is noted to see a rarely-explored darker side of his personality due to how he thinks of the idea of killing a cursed teenager, which leads him to see more arrogance in Gojo. In contrast to his previous works like Gearless Joe from Megalobox or Archer from Fate/stay night, Tang feels that Gojo looks at the world in a more childish way than his previous characters; while Gojo has seen several challenges in his past, none of them made a major impact on him. In order to lipsync the character, Tang ended up ad-libbing, resulting in Gojo swearing when confronting Jogo.
Afterwards, the manga's Hidden Inventory arc explores Gojo's past. When he and Geto were both in high school, they were assigned to escort the Star Plasma Vessel Riko Amanai, who was to merge with the immortal sorcerer, Tengen. When the merging was to take place, they are attacked by mercenary Toji Fushiguro, who defeats the two and kills Riko. As Gojo recovers and kills Toji, Geto begins doubting his duties as a sorcerer, and, having grown annoyed of protecting non-sorcerers, vows to break the cycle and kill every non-sorcerer to prevent the birth of more cursed spirits. He escapes from the school and massacres a village with his powers. Gojo confronts Geto about his crimes, but is unable to kill him and lets him go.
Gojo was later ambushed by the Special Grade Cursed Spirits at Shibuya, and after he exorcised Hanami, Kenjaku manages to seal him away in the Prison Realm. Nevertheless, Gojo lets Yuta protect Yuji from being executed should something bad happen to him. Gojo's students successfully release him from the Prison Realm and he immediately challenges Sukuna to a duel on Christmas Eve. After several exchanges, Gojo comes close to winning, but is killed by Sukuna. He finds himself in airport talking with Geto and his other late friends. His corpse is later used by Yuta to aid Yuji in fighting and defeating Sukuna.
The character attained popularity in Chile when the second season of the anime aired, resulting in fans illustrating Gojo at an advertising billboard located inside Universidad de Chile station of Metro de Santiago. At the 8th Crunchyroll Anime Awards, Gojo won the award for Best Supporting Character. Three of Gojo's international voice actors were nominated in the voice acting categories, namely Yuichi Nakamura (Japanese), Jose Gilberto Vilchis (Spanish), and Léo Rabelo (Portuguese); Nakamura and Rabelo won their respective awards, while Vilchis lost to Emilio Treviño's Denji. In August 2024, Gojo ranked in first place on Shueisha's fourth Jujutsu Kaisen character popularity poll, with 113,392 votes. He won the Newtype Anime Award for Best Male Character in 2024. At the 9th Crunchyroll Anime Awards in 2025, Lohit Sharma won Best Voice Artist Performance (Hindi) for his performance as Gojo.
Comparing him to other mentor characters like Kakashi Hatake, All Might or Aizawa, news website Bleeding Cool said Gojo remains as more likable within this archetype as a result of how "The character is truly a balance of caring coldness with power that keeps dismissing any serious threats", particularly for how caring he is to his students and the might he shows in battle sequences. Comic Book Resources had said his fight against Jogo was the series' best fight. While Anime News Network praised the fight scene Gojo has against Jogo for the handling of visuals, finding it far superior than the studio's previous work The God of High School referred by the staff as "irredeemable trash" not only due to the narrative but also pacing in handling Gojo's fight sequence, making the anime adaptation of Jujutsu Kaisen develop its potential in the process. While still finding Gojo as an archetype due to the overpowered he is portrayed as, the reviewer still found him enjoyable personality-wise.
The Mary Sue found Gojo's characterization in Jujutsu Kaisen 0 identical to the main series as a result of how he trains the students but still found the pilot helped to further explore his past as a result of his tragic relationship with Geto. Crunchyroll listed Gojo's higher screen time in the animated film adaptation of the manga, citing him as a fan favorite character people would appreciate to see. The character's connection with the late Sugawara no Michizane was kept vague that might generate a future impact in the series by critics especially when Yuta Okkotsu reappears in Jujutsu Kaisen and wonders about their relationship to Suguwara. Otaquest also noted the similarities as well as how important is the relationship between Gojo and Geto which ends in a way that surprised the main series' readers. Manga News looked forward to more focus about the relationship between Gojo and Geto. The eventual exploration of Gojo and Geto's youth in the second season of the anime received the praise by IGN for their dynamic though the site found the former's powers too complicated to explain and that Geto appeared to be more important to see in such arc. Gojo's character has been popular in social focus. Following the anime adaptation of the flashbacks to Geto and Gojo's youth, Polygons Ana Diaz noticed there were several fans who made Doujinshi stories with them which went Viral phenomenon.
The twist of the manga chapter involving Gojo's death led to manga artist Kenjiro Hata go on a hiatus from writing the manga Fly Me to the Moon due to the need of recovering from the "shocking" event. According to IGN, Akutami received death threats over the death of Gojo which came across as a shocking event to several manga readers. In September 2023, leaks of the manga's 236th chapter caused a major controversy online within the community. Contents of the chapter surprised fans to the point they took to social media to react to the new development. At time of publication, the "#GojoSatoru" hashtag was trending on X with more than 11,400 posts. Comic Book Resources had mixed opinions about Gojo's death, praising the event for the major impact it resulted in the entire narrative since nearly most of the surviving characters watching his death were his students but still felt like Akutami was trying too hard to make Jujutsu Kaisen a dark series by killing several characters in the Shinjuku arc. Gojo's death despite his confidence when confronting Sukuna and Kenjaku became famous in social media due to the ironic result. Once the series ended, GameRant praised both Gojo and Yuta's characters as the writer noted they overshadowed Yuji Itadori, the actual main character of the series.
Gojo has often been compared to Killua Zoldyck from Hunter × Hunter based on physical and personality similarities. When Mariya Ise was cast to portray the younger Gojo in a flashback from the anime's second season, Hindustan Times said the "meme came to life" as Ise was known for voicing Killua and fans were "happy" with such casting.
| 2021 | 5th Crunchyroll Anime Awards | Best Boy | Satoru Gojo | ||
| Best Fight Scene | Satoru Gojo vs. Ryomen Sukuna | ||||
| Best Voice Artist Performance (Japanese) | Yuichi Nakamura | ||||
| 43rd Anime Grand Prix | Best Character (Male) | Satoru Gojo | |||
| Best Voice Actor | Yuichi Nakamura | ||||
| 2022 | 16th Seiyu Awards | Best Actor in Supporting Role | Yuichi Nakamura | ||
| 44th Anime Grand Prix | Best Character (Male) | Satoru Gojo | |||
| Best Voice Actor | Yuichi Nakamura | ||||
| 2024 | 8th Crunchyroll Anime Awards | Best Supporting Character | Satoru Gojo | ||
| Best Voice Artist Performance (Japanese) | Yuichi Nakamura | ||||
| Best Voice Artist Performance (Spanish) | Jose Gilberto Vilchis | ||||
| Best Voice Artist Performance (Portuguese) | Léo Rabelo | ||||
| 14th Newtype Anime Awards | Best Character (Male) | Satoru Gojo | |||
| 2025 | 9th Crunchyroll Anime Awards | Best Voice Artist Performance (Hindi) | Lohit Sharma |
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