Jujutsu Kaisen: Best Quote by Mahito

When Mahito meets Itadori in a showdown under the Shibuya Arch Jujutsu Kaisen anime series, fans watch the curse unfold as he sets his ideals and way of thinking against Itadori. During his many battles against jujutsu wizards and Itadori Yuji in Jujutsu KaisenMahito has gone from a curse that had the potential to cause trouble for jujutsu wizards to one that causes chaos wherever he goes.

During his many battles, Mahito has dropped many quotes, some wiser than others. While some of his quotes simply serve to show his despicable nature, others show that the cursed spirit is quite intelligent and has a point.

Updated October 10, 2024 by Oluwatokiloba Folami: Wizards of the Jujutsu Kaisen regard curses as evil entities that must be exterminated. But from Mahito's perspective, many such wizards are simply hypocrites who kill curses and hate them for killing people doing the same thing. In a sense, Mahito sees curses and humans as two sides of the same coin doing the same thing, but humans hypocritically justify their actions as “just” and “honorable”. Mahito may not be the wisest character in Jujutsu Kaisen, but as a curse carried by the hatred of humanity, many of his quotes allow fans and characters alike to take a look into his essence and show the parts where he confronts the moral ambiguity of curses and people 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 many thought-provoking quotes in his fight against Itadori, letting the sorcerer understand that the curses he saw as merely “evil” creatures were creatures after all. In this quote, Mahito mocked Itadori's hypocrisy in hating him for killing various people when he had relentlessly killed various curses.

The same way Itadori saw killing curses as right and justifiable was the same way Mahito saw humans as creatures to be slaughtered for the pleasure of curses. Twisted yes, but true nonetheless. Instead of seeing curses as mindless monsters, Itadori had to realize that many curses have a conscience and if he could kill curses to “save” humanity, Mahito could kill humans indiscriminately as well.

9 “I am proud of my own talent! Ah, I am truly a curse!”

Season 2, Episode 20

Of all the curses depicted in Jujutsu Kaisen series, Mahito was a curse that fully embodied the damage, chaos and depravity that a curse should. Unlike other curses, he did not aspire to become like humans, or see himself as an evolved form of humanity, but as a total being entirely – a curse.

Spreading this quote shortly after killing Nobara, Mahito was proud of his talent for creating chaos and enjoyed 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 suffering to people and ended it by landing a black bolt on Itadori in pure joy and acceptance of his inherent malevolent nature. A really satisfying feeling.

8 “I'll kill itadori before you trade with him. So shut up and look away.”

Season 2, Episode 21

Unlike many of Mahito's quotes that embody his nature and beliefs, this one shows his immense pride and confidence in his abilities. The first time Itadori Yuuji was in his domain, Mahito received a warning from Sukuna, who told him not to touch his (through Itadori) soul, and was beaten 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 not only accomplished what Gojo had done but talked down Sukuna, the King of Curses while he was at it. In just an instant, he mimicked one of the strongest in the world Jujutsu Kaisen series while talking down to another. An act of intense dominance backed by talent.

7 “Life just flows on.”

Season 1, Episode 10

In this quote, Mahito compares life to water, and he says:

“Just as water flows throughout the earth, life simply flows.”

Comparing water to life, Mahito says that life is always flowing, and if one life is lost, another will replace it. In a way, Mahito is saying that life is not very significant. Since there will always be replacements for what is lost, one must live as one wishes.

As a villain who sees human life as worthless, this quote perfectly embodies the lack of value Mahito places on human life. That's why he so easily eradicates it without a care in the world, and without rhyme or reason.

6 “You can't get caught up in an ideal of indifference.”

Season 1, Episode 10

When Mahito met Junpei Yoshino, Junpei lived his life indifferently and cared about very few things. As someone who was bullied enough, Junpei was unable to express himself and became apathetic towards many things. While many of Mahito's quotes against Junpei rubbed him the wrong way, this one has more meaning.

In the context where Mahito used it, he was telling Junpei to fulfill his carnal desires. Here, Mahito claims that in the same way that he eats when he's hungry, he can kill when he hates someone, rather than being indifferent to everything. Even if it's not the best advice, not getting caught up in indifference is something many more people should adhere to.

5 “Sparks of Black do not choose whom to bless.”

Chapter 126

Since Todo explained the concept of Black Flash to Itadori, the young wizard has used it many times, even breaking Nanami's previous record of four consecutive Black Flashes in a row. However, while it appears that Itadori has mastered the technique, fans are confused when Mahito also performs a Black Flash on an already badly injured Yuji.

As fans had begun to associate Black Flash with Itadori, Mahito's words struck a chord. They reminded fans that any person or curse could use the Black Flash and grow stronger, not just the good guys. After his Black Flash, Mahito continued to understand his nature and cursed technique better, making him a more dangerous opponent.

4 “Thanks to the hatred spewed between people… I was born.”

Season 1, Episode 9

Humans have always been fickle creatures, bearing ill will and developing negative feelings towards each other. When the negative emotions of people build up to a certain point, a curse is born. In Mahito's case, he is the curse born of humanity's inhumanity to one another.

Mahito is the ideal curse. He is individualistic, selfish, stubborn and has no sympathy for human life or anything other than his ideals. Due to his supposed origins in human hatred, Mahito believes he is meant to exterminate and replace them. Also, of the special-class curses in his group, he is the only one not born from a natural disaster, and his manipulation skills are first-rate.

3 “This is war! Not a fight to fix what's wrong! But a clash of truths!”

Season 2, Episode 20

After several battles, Itadori Yuji and Mahito have come to see each other as opposites. However, Itadori had come to see the battle between Jujutsu wizards and curses similar to good versus evil, but Mahito corrected that perception. Rather than a simple clash of good versus evil, the Shibuya Incident arc is more like the beginning of a war, serving to prove whose ideals are right.

In this case, the one with the right ideals will come out on top, and Mahito is determined to win. Thankfully, in the conflict of truths, the Jujutsu wizards eventually come out on top against Mahito and the other special class wizards. If they didn't, the age of mankind would be over.

2 “I kill people without thinking.”

Season 2, Episode 20

Mahito has always been the embodiment of a true and vile cursed spirit. His statement, “I kill people without thinking,” clearly proves it. Instead of killing for a greater purpose or his ideals, Mahito simply gets rid of people because he feels like it. Many times he uses people to experiment, and once he gets bored, he kills them.

In the same way that Itadori protects people without thinking, Mahito kills without thinking. Killing is second nature to Mahito and has no real consequences for him. Just as Itadori has never thought of counting how many curses he has killed, Mahito has never thought of human lives, seeing them as beings of no real value and nothing to play with.

1 “Which do you think came first, the soul or the body?”

Season 1, Episode 10

Despite being a relatively young cursed spirit, Mahito has raised many philosophical questions about the soul and body. Since his technique is largely about the soul, he asked this question to Nanami, similar to asking if the chicken or the egg came first. Although some believed that the soul resides inside the body, Mahito argued that the body was built around the soul. By changing the soul, he can affect the body.

While many may have different 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 technology operates in a world that he sees fit.