Jujutsu Kaisen: Aoi Todo (ENFJ)

There are a lot of different opinions about Aoi Todo’s personality type, most of which involve him being an Se dominant (ESFP or ESTP). However, we see a solid case for ENFJ and thought it’d be fun to present the argument for this as our first Jujutsu Kaisen typing. Let us know in the comments if you’d like to see other characters from this anime!

Fe:

“I’ll guide you with my full strength. Don’t die on me, Itadori. Rise up to greater heights!”

“Your friend has gotten hurt, and what’s even worse than that, they’ve rained on your honeymoon with me, your new best friend, so take it from me, I can absolutely understand why you’re boiling with rage.”

“What will you do, best friend?”

Todo appears to be an Fe dominant. Rather than possess the more casual and laid back tendencies of a extraverted perceiver, Todo is actually quite the opposite; he’s demanding and forceful. While this type of behavior is often attributed to Te, Todo actually presents as openly and unabashedly emotional, like when he cries after Fushiguro describes his taste in women. He also readily reads into Itadori’s emotions, and sympathizes with them during their fight against the cursed spirit.

Todo readily forms relationships with others, once certain external criteria are met. This is exemplified during his interactions with Itadori. Once Itadori shares his taste in women, Todo instantly feels emotionally connected to Itadori and declares him to be his best friend. He begins referring to him in a more intimate fashion by using names such as “brother” and “best friend”, much to Itadori’s confusion. If we compare this to Todo’s reaction to Fushiguro, we see that Todo tries to beat up Fushiguro because he gives him an inadequate answer. This further demonstrates the objective standard that Todo is holding others to, rather than appreciating their individuality or needing time to foster the relationship to learn who they are really are. Todo instantly makes a judgement call and takes decisive action.

Todo naturally takes on the role of teacher during his fight with Itadori, earnestly desiring to foster his new friend’s natural talent and help him improve. This need to teach quickly takes precedence over enjoying the fight, which seems like an unlikely reaction for an ESXP who is in the middle of a competition. Todo often pauses during their duel to critique Itadori’s technique or explain an important concept. There is even a moment in the fight where Todo goes from being thrilled by getting hit with Itadori’s techniques to completely snapping out of the moment and declaring that the lagged cursed energy technique is just wrong. He then proceeds to lecture Itadori about why.

Ni:

“You and I were destined to be best friends like we are.”

“We exist in this world with our entire mind, body and soul as a whole. It’s such a given that no one even thinks about it.”

“Brother, I keep having a premonition about you.”

“I keep getting that same premonition of my boredom being turned upside down!”

Todo doesn’t seem concerned with using specific wording when conveying a point. One of the major examples of this is when he gets irritated with his teammates for interfering in the fight he is having with Itadori. Earlier when their teacher instructs them to kill Itadori during the competition, Todo outright refuses to be a part of the plan, threatening to kill them if they tried to order him around. However, when they crash his fight, Todo angrily says that he told them not to interfere. One of his teammates tries to correct him on this point, reminding him that he had said not to order him around, but Todo simply states that both of those things are the same. For Todo, the point he was trying relay was to stay out of his way, even though the words he used didn’t specifically convey that. This supports Ni rather than Si in his stack due to the more abstract nature of his speech.

Todo also believes that Itadori is destined to be his best friend after discovering that they have the same taste in women. He swiftly creates a backstory that connects the two of them together providing a false history to justify the closeness that he is now claiming between them. He mentions multiple times that he is having premonitions about Itadori, but never clarifies why or what exactly is fueling these predictions.

Even when instructing Itadori, Todo keeps his explanations rather short, at one point saying that no more explanation is needed. He mostly just tells Itadori to stop viewing his body as individual parts and that thinking that way slows down the cursed energy inside him. Beyond that, he doesn’t give him any instructions on how to do this. He just tells him what he needs to do, and Itadori is able to somehow figure it out.

Se:

“The exchange event is where my soul can be free as the blood boils and the flesh clashes. Who knows what I’ll do if my last exchange event ends up only boring me.”

It seems to be a common theme for tertiary Se users in Anime to get a thrill out unexpected things happening in a fight. Todo is no exception to this. He seems overjoyed when Itadori puts up a good fight against him. He mentally praises Itadori for every hit that he lands, complimenting his technique as the boy is clobbering him.

Todo also exhibits boredom caused by a lack of action and stimulation, which is common among Se users as well. His biggest concern is that his last exchange event is going to end up being boring. This causes him to start causing trouble before it starts in order to test out his opponents and to amuse himself. He insists that even if he gets to fight someone, if they are a boring person, the fight will inevitably end up being boring as well.

Todo takes a very physical approach when he decides to teach Itadori. Much of what he demonstrates and teaches him, is through the fight that they are having. He either demonstrates the different concepts he is teaching by attacking Itadori or by insisting that Itadori figure it out or risk dying if he can’t. He goes as far as to tell Itadori that he will just stand by and watch him die if he can’t accomplish a black flash on his own. This method of instruction seems very Se in nature due to how hands on it is and the lack of focus on verbal explanations.

Ti:

Since Jujutsu Kaisen is still a new show with only one season, and Todo doesn’t get a whole lot of screen time, his inferior Ti is not very pronounced. However, there are slight indications in the way he’s shown working out his thoughts. During their fight with the cursed spirit, Todo is shown retreating into his thoughts mid-battle to have a discussion with himself. This is played out as a back-and-forth with someone he idolizes: Takada. He uses Takada to help him work out his thoughts, and figure out the trick to the attack that has just been launched at him.

Lastly, Todo highly exaggerates his own intelligence by proclaiming his IQ to be an unrealistically high number. While personality type is not tied to intelligence, the need to over-emphasize his IQ can be an indication of inferior Ti. From the way that the show portrays Todo, he is a rather intelligent person. However, a tendency to over-emphasize one’s own intelligence could potentially suggest an insecurity which is commonly rooted in the inferior function.