As Mahito faces Itadori in a showdown during the Shibuya arc of theJujutsu Kaisenanime series, fans see the curse go all out as he puts his ideals and way of thinking against Itadori. During his many battles against jujutsu sorcerers and Itadori Yuji inJujutsu Kaisen, Mahito has gone from a curse that had the potential to cause trouble for jujutsu sorcerers, to one who causes chaos wherever he goes.
Throughout his many battles, Mahito has dropped many quotes, some more wise than others. While some of his quotes simply serve to display his vile nature, others show that the cursed spirit is quite intelligent and has a point.
Updated July 08, 2025, by Oluwatokiloba Folami:Sorcerers in Jujutsu Kaisenconsider curses as evilbeings that must be eradicated. However, from Mahito’s perspective, many such sorcerers are simply hypocrites who kill curses and hate them for killing humans when they do the same thing. In a sense, Mahito sees curses and humans as two sides of the same coin who do the same thing, but humans hypocritically justify their actions as ‘justice’ and ‘honorable’. Mahito may not bethe wisest of charactersin Jujutsu Kaisen, but as a curse borne from humanity’s hate, many of his quotes allow fans and characters alike to take a peek into his essence, showing the parts in which he confronts the moral ambiguity of curses and humans killing each other, and his vile desires and thought process.
10"Tell me, Yuji Itadori. Have you ever stopped to count how many curses you’ve killed?"
Season 2, Episode 20
Mahito dropped a lot of thought-provoking quotes in his battle against Itadori and allowed the sorcerer to understand that the curses he saw as just ‘evil’ beings were beings nonetheless. In this quote, Mahito mocked Itadori’s hypocrisy in hating him for killing various humans when he had unrelentlessly killed various curses.
The same way Itadori saw killing curses as right and justifiable was the same way Mahito considered humans as beings to be slaughtered for the amusement of curses. Twisted yes, but true nonetheless. Rather than see curses as mindless monsters, Itadori had to realize many curses have a conscience and if he could kill curses to ‘save’ humanity, Mahito could kill humans indiscriminately as well.
9“I’m thrilled by my own talent! Ah, I really am a curse!"
Of all the curses portrayed in theJujutsu Kaisenseries, Mahito was one curse that fully embodied harm, chaos, and depravity as a curse should. Unlike other curses, he didn’t strive to become like humans, or see himself as an evolved form of humanity, but as a total being entirely— a curse.
Spewing this quote shortly after killing Nobara, Mahito was thrilled by his talent for creating chaos and relished in Itadori’s apparent breakdown. At the heart of this quote, Mahito showed immense pride and joy in his ability to cause both emotional and physical distress to humans and ended it by landing a black flash on Itadori in pure joy and acceptance of his inherent malevolent nature. A truly satisfying feeling.
8"I’ll kill itadori before you switch with him. So shut up and watch from there."
Season 2, Episode 21
Unlike many of Mahito’s quotes that embody his nature and beliefs, this shows his immense pride and confidence in his abilities. The first time Itadori Yuuji was in his domain, Mahito received a warning from Sukuna, telling him to not touch his (through Itadori) soul and got struck by the King of Curses as punishment. However, inspired by Gojo Satoru’s two-second domain expansion, the cursed spirit attempted the same thing.
Mahito didn’t just accomplish what Gojo had done but talked down to Sukuna, the King of Curses while at it. In a mere moment, he emulatedone of the strongest intheJujutsu Kaisenseries while he talked down to another. An act of intense dominance backed up by talent.
7"Life simply flows."
Season 1, Episode 10
In this quote, Mahito compares life to water, and he states:
“Just like how water flows throughout the Earth, life simply flows.”
As he compares water to life, Mahito remarks that life is ever flowing, and if one life is lost, another will replace it. In a way, Mahito states that life isn’t particularly significant. As there will always be replacements for that which is lost, one must live the way one wants.
As a villain who sees human life as worthless, this quote perfectly embodies the lack of value that Mahito places on human life. That is why he so easily eradicates it without a care in the world, and with no rhyme or reason.
6"You can’t let yourself get trapped in an ideal of indifference."
At the time Mahitomet Junpei Yoshino, Junpei lived his life indifferently, caring about very few things. As someone who got bullied enough, Junpei couldn’t express himself and became apathetic towards many things. While many of Mahito’s quotes towards Junpei edged him to the wrong side, this one has more meaning.
In the context in which Mahito used it, he told Junpei to fulfill his carnal desires. Here, Mahito claims that in the same way in which he eats when he is hungry, he can kill when he hates someone, rather than being indifferent towards everything. While that is not the best of advice, not allowing oneself to be trapped in indifference is something many more people should adhere to.
5"The sparks of black do not choose who to bless."
Chapter 126
Since Todo explainedthe concept of Black Flashto Itadori, the young sorcerer has used it many times, even destroying Nanami’s previous record of four consecutive Black Flashes in a row. However, while it seems Itadori has mastery over the technique, fans are left bewildered as Mahito also executes a Black Flash on an already heavily wounded Yuji.
As fans had begun associating Black Flash with Itadori, Mahito’s words hit deep. They reminded fans that any person or curse could use Black Flash and grow stronger, not just the good guys. After his Black Flash, Mahito went on to understand his nature and cursed technique better,making him a more dangerous opponent.
4"Thanks to the hate spewed between humans…I was born."
Season 1, Episode 9
Humans have always been fickle creatures, who bear ill will and develop negative emotions against each other. When the negative emotions of humans build up to a certain point, a curse is born. In Mahito’s case, he is the curse born from humanity’s inhumanity towards each other.
Mahito is the ideal curse. He is individualistic, selfish, stubborn, and bears no sympathy for human life or anything else except his ideals. Because of his supposed origins in human hate, Mahito believes he is meant to eradicate and replace them. Moreover, of thespecial-grade cursesin his group, he is the only one not born from a natural disaster, and his manipulation skills are top-notch.
3"This is war! Not a battle to fix what’s wrong! But a clash of truths!"
After sevaral battles, Itadori Yuji and Mahito have come to see each other as polar opposites. However, Itadori had come tosee the battle between Jujutsu sorcerersand curses as akin to good versus evil, but Mahito corrected that notion. Rather than a simple clash of good versus evil, the Shibuya incident arc is more like the start of a war, which serves to prove whose ideals are right.
In this case, the one with the right ideals is the one that comes out on top, and Mahito is determined to win. Thankfully, in the clash of truths, the Jujutsu sorcerers eventually come out on top against Mahito and the other special-grade sorcerers. If they didn’t, the age of humanity would be over.
2"I kill people without a second thought."
Mahito has always been the embodiment of a true and vile cursed spirit. His statement, “I kill people without a second thought,” clearly proves it. Rather than killing for a greater purpose or his ideals, Mahito simply disposes of humans because he feels like it. Many times, he uses humans for experimentation, andonce he gets bored, he kills them.
The same way Itadori protects people without a second thought, Mahito kills without thinking about it. Killing is second nature to Mahito and bears no real consequences for him. Just how Itadori has never thought to count how many curses he’s killed, Mahito has never thought about human lives, as he sees them as beings with no real value but to be toyed with.
1"Which do you think came first, the soul or the body?"
Despite being a relatively young cursed spirit, Mahito has raised many philosophical questions about the soul and the body. As his technique widely deals with the soul,he asked Nanamithis question, similar to asking if the chicken or the egg came first. Despite some believing the soul resides inside the body, Mahito claimed that the body was built around the soul. By changing the soul, he can affect the body.
While many may have differing opinions on whether the soul or the body came first, Mahito claims that each cursed technique works according to its own principles. This means that his technique operates in a world in which he sees fit.
