Jujutsu Kaisen: Megumi Fushiguro (ISFP)
Megumi Fushiguro from Jujutsu Kaisen is believed by many to be an ISTJ. To be completely honest, we initially thought the same thing. However, as the show progressed, Megumi started to show a very strong Fi preference, much stronger than that of an ISTJ or INTJ. Eventually, as we reevaluated our opinion and considered all the evidence, we shifted our position on Megumi to ISFP. This likely won’t be a popular take, but we believe it makes the most sense, especially if you compare Megumi to Nanami, an undisputed, obvious ISTJ. Please read this with an open mind!
Fi:
“Oh, and just so you know, I didn’t have any logical reason for saving you back then. Even though it was dangerous, I just couldn’t bear to see a good person like you die. Sure, I had my reservations, but ultimately I did it for selfish, emotional reasons.”
“I want good people to enjoy fairness, even if only a few will, and so I save people unequally.”
“I don’t really have a type. As long as one’s character is unshakeable, there’s nothing more I can ask for.”
“Answer me something. As a sorcerer, what kind of people do you want to save?”
“There’s one fundamental rule for interacting with others. You know what that is? …It’s simple. It’s ‘I won’t kill you, so in return, please don’t kill me either.’ Substitute any word for kill. The point is drawing a line so you don’t infringe on others. In order for both to exist together, they need to honor that.”
“I hate bad people. They act so …superior when their empathy and imagination are as empty as a vacant lot. I can’t deal with good people either, because they forgive those bad people. And they view the act of forgiveness as a noble thing. It makes me want to vomit.”
Megumi puts his values above all else. This is first hinted at when Gojo asks Megumi what he thought they should do about Itadori. Megumi responds by saying, “Well, even if he is a vessel, Jujutsu regulations demand Itadori be executed. However, I don’t want him to die.” Essentially, he references regulation, because he’s well aware of it, but immediately devalues it, preferring on a personal level that Itadori be saved. Later, while fighting Sukuna, he references why he saved Itadori, describing the decision as a selfish, emotional decision without logical basis. He just didn’t want to see a good person die.
When it comes to saving people, Megumi is far from objective, and openly admits to this. He explains that he saves people unequally, because he specifically wants good people to enjoy fairness. In addition to stating this, he also clearly demonstrates it during the show, when him, Nobara, and Itadori are sent to a detention center. Megumi reveals to Itadori that he had no intention of saving any criminals that they found, which is in stark opposition to their orders. Not only did he have no intention of saving any of them, he came to that conclusion because he had researched their records in advance to determine if they we worth saving.
Values seem to be at the forefront of Megumi’s mind at all times. It isn’t hard for people to prompt him to express his values. For instance, when Todo asks what kind of women he’s interested in, Megumi explains that the only thing that matters is that one’s character is unshakeable. As another example, after Itadori dies, he walks up to another sorcerer and asks what kind of people they want to save. And then lastly, during the Death Painting Arc, Megumi internally expresses his hatred of bad people, but he specifically describes these bad people as acting superior when their “empathy and imagination are as empty as a vacant lot.” (Placing the value on empathy and imagination is more in line with high Fi than high Te.) He then goes on to add that he dislikes good people as well, because they forgive bad people and act like that’s noble. This all demonstrates not only a focus on values, but a preference for subjective Fi rather than objective Te.
Se:
“Spit out the entire depths of my shadow. Worry about a specific structure later. Just push it out as soon as I collect the cursed energy. Imagine a future version of myself who’s freely surpassed my limits. Oh, I can do that! Domain expansion! …It’s incomplete, and it’s ugly work at best, but for now that’s fine.”
Megumi enjoys physical action, which appears to be a trend throughout his life. For instance, when Nobara is being tested for the first time, Megumi expresses a desire to go in a help them. After the battle is finished, Itadori asks Megumi what’s wrong, and Gojo announces that Megumi is pouting because he didn’t get a chance to kill anything. Later, during his backstory, Megumi is shown to express his values through physical action. In middle school, he becomes known as a troublemaker because he likes to beat up school bullies. Ultimately, he becomes a bigger troublemaker than even the bullies because he can’t stop doing this, in spite of any physical consequences or the pleading from his sister, Tsumiki.
During the battle under the bridge, Megumi figures out how to do a domain expansion spontaneously, in the heat of the moment. When he describes the process he follows to do it, Megumi mentions just pushing out energy as he collects it without worrying about a specific structure, which demonstrates a more moment-by-moment approach.
Ni:
“You can only piece together undervalued data on yourself and others. You can’t imagine a stronger future version of yourself. Maybe that’s because of your trump card. You believe that in the worst case, you can resolve everything at the cost of your life.” – Satoru Gojo
When beating up the bullies, he gives them a brief moral lecture, that is overall a bit vague and unspecific. He doesn’t say exactly what they did or who they did it to. (See quote in the Fi section.) When they ask what they’d done to him, Megumi shrugs off their question by simply saying, “Figure it out yourself or die.” This lack of straightforward answer is common for Ni users.
Megumi demonstrates the weaknesses of low introverted perceiving, or low Ni for him specifically, in the way he’s unable to envision a future version of himself. He struggles to advance his abilities because can’t look beyond his trump card, to figure out a technique that’ll be more effective in the long term. Essentially, he relies on his immediately available, self-sacrifice technique, and makes no attempt to form a long term strategy (or vision) that will help avoid having to use it. This is extremely short-sighted and a testament to the lack of development of his Ni.
Te:
“Well, even if he is a vessel, Jujutsu regulations demand Itadori be executed. However, I don’t want him to die.”
“I don’t care whether you believe in them or not. The fact is they exist. Just listen.”
Megumi can certainly put on TJ-like mannerisms, especially while acting in the capacity of a jujutsu sorcerer. He initially comes across as matter-of-fact, blunt, and business-oriented. However, as time goes by, it comes clear that he’s not actually concerned with acting in an objective manner. As mentioned in the Fi section, he acts in ways that go directly against regulation, such as ignoring the order to verify and rescue any survivors in the detention center.
Megumi doesn’t at all struggle to admit that he’s not being objective, which directly contradicts being high Te. He doesn’t always have a logical reason for everything he does, beyond knowing that it’s what he wants. When younger and less controlled, he acts extreme and harsh towards anyone who fails to align with his values, taking it upon himself to enact justice, which shows his Se-Te combination.
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Hi guys and, even if a bit later, happy New Year!
Now back on business… very interesting typing (I need to recover other articles too).
I also believed he is an ISTJ, considering season 1 only, with S2 we start to see more in-depth.
No future vision at all, he is willing to die every time he encounter a stronger enemy.
Now, the big question:
what are yours thoughts on Sukuna after S2?
Will you typing him?
During the Battle with volcano head we see a glimpse of his philosophy, but for anime only, we need to wait for season 3-4, so a little spoiler:
“WE ARE LOVED SIMPLY BECAUSE WE ARE STRONG.
IN RETURN, WE ANSWER IT WITH LOVE.”
– Te that sees strength as a reason (cause) and love as an answer (effect)?
“IT IS PRECISELY BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND IT THAT I CAN PROCLAIM… LOVE IS MEANINGLESS.”
– Could be Te that see no utility in emotional expression?
“I’VE NEVER NEEDED ANYONE TO SATISFY ME.
I EAT WHEN I WANNA EAT, PLAY WITH WHAT AMUSES ME, AND KILL WHOEVER’S IN MY WAY.
I LIVE AS BEFITS MY NATURE. IF NO ONE CAN GRASP THAT, THEN THAT’S THEIR PROBLEM.”
– In this case Se, but ensure if sounds like TeFi or TiFe.
Sukuna probably ENTJ ( He gives orders. Takes none). Or perhaps a ESTP 🤔 (Adapts well and pretty quickly to his situations. Also seems very logical). He comes off as a high thinking type to me.
Hey! We’re definitely not ready to type Sukuna yet, but he seemed like an EXTJ.
I read it as “Fi-Te” axis actually. “My value judgements regarding food, pleasure, and survival are what matters most” aka Introverted Fi. Also, the “us vs them” of “their problem” is anti-Fe (Extroverted Feeling takes on all people problems/has obligation towards people’s problems, Introverted Feeling separates from personal problems of others).
I would think ISFP (Fi/Se/Ni/Te) over INFP though. There is a concreteness to these statements that sounds like Extroverted Experience/Sensation.
I always thought ISTP over ISTJ because he does not display Si, which is what a lot of people overlook. Megumi from the very beginning comes off like an introverted perceiver. I considered ISFP, but I thought he displayed a weak Fe a little more than Fi. I see your argument for ISFP, but can you explain why ISTP was ruled out? I’m still trying to understand how to spot one over the other.
Not Mara, but I guess ISTP was ruled out for the reasons exposed in the Fi section: Megumi is very self-aware he does things to satisfy his own personal preferences even going so far as to admit they are selfish, emotional reasons. An ISTP would be averse to doing this, i.e. framing the entire reasoning as not logical or well-thought, so Megumi is not a thinker or, at least, a Ti user.
Thinkers often try to present themselves as rational and not worried, or above of, feelings (Ben Shapiro vibes). On the other hand, Ti users are very concerned with following their logical principles, viz., if they have deemed that a certain action is not rational according to some personal parameters they have elaborated then it’s worthless to make the action unless the context makes to take the non-rational action a rational action. If they are considering Fe, the justification will try to focus on the group’s well-being, but often as a well-thought one, not a childish, emotional, selfish, short-sighted, whatever one.
Often I have heard about Megumi’s self-sacrificing tendencies as his Inferior Fe in action (I have thought of it too). Still, it seems to be his Inferior Te wanting to get things done and not be a burden for the overall goal: the famous winning by dying to make things end well of Chapter 58 if you prefer. Megumi has been taught to follow jujutsu regulations and not be like Gojo, so he’s uncomfortable with pursuing his own desires to a certain extent along with his self-perception as a burden to others (Tsumiki, his parents, and Gojo) only worth having the Ten Shadows with Mahoraga in his arsenal.
Thank you. Mara and Ryan’s ISFP argument made total sense with the evidence given. Like you, I viewed Megumi’s self sacrificing tendencies as a low Fe rather than a low Te. I also viewed his argument with Yuji about saving the prisoners as a logical one from his perspective. Now I’m more curious on how they settled on Yuji, who many think is an ISFP or even ESFP. Thank you again.
His argument was logic based on his values. What really stood out as Fi in that scenario was the fact that he looked them all up in advance to figure out if they were worth saving. That puts the focus completely on values. Most people would have just gone in there and done their job, not giving much thought to it either way. (They would have been completely in the right to do so.) Of course, it would have been entirely logical for him to argue against having to drag out a dead body and risk all of their lives. That part wasn’t innately Fi. It was the fact he kept using character arguments as his reasoning.
A good contrast could be how he responded to Gojo when Gojo asked what he thought they should do about Yuji (in the first episode). A Ti answer would have focused on the things that Gojo was considering, like the potential for Yuji to absorb all the fingers, control Sukuna, and eventually eliminate him for good. (This is even if the Ti user didn’t want to kill Itadori on a moral level. They would prefer to start with detached reasoning, before adding in that Itadori didn’t deserve to die.) Megumi didn’t verbalize any reasoning. He just recited procedure (Te) and then a preference to the contrary.
I’m understanding a little better. Thank you.
Don’t worry too much about Yuji. Obviously, he’s an ESFP, I mean, the guy just ate his first Sukuna finger because he had a half-thought that it would give him the cursed energy he needed to kill the curse in front of him. And overall he’s basically a very proactive guy eager to get in on the action who’s not very aware of the implications of his actions. About his Fi, well, I think that’s already well-known—he’s seen as an ISFP for something—, but he follows Peter Parker’s ethos about something being their fault if they didn’t do anything to prevent it having the power and ability to do it, his focus is about him and his moral values and he has a deep hatred for beings as Mahito and Sukuna that only wants to cause suffering for fun until the point of becoming blunt, brutish, single-minded and self-sacrificing (yes, Yuji like Fushiguro has this same tendency for very similar reasons, but he’s more confident in himself) to destroy them.
An interesting typing maybe would be Sukuna. He must be an extraverted and an Se user for obvious reasons (where are the women? the children? I eat when I want to eat, human corpses of course, and every other thing I do, I do it when I want to do it), so he’s an ENXJ or an ESXP. To me, his Ni must be very high because from the beginning he envisioned how useful Megumi would be, and he’s very good at planning overreaching strategies as his fight against Gojo showed (more or less, though), also he’s always mysteriously saying things without any explanation at all (what’s True Jujutsu? what’s interesting about Megumi? what’s that Fire he used? why curses can’t understand it? [Am I a Curse for not Understanding it] why was he born with deformations? why did he say that he won from the beginning? [well, I know that, right?), so ENXJ then, but which then? I would be in Te for obvious reasons: Very bossy domineering and self-absorbed, he can’t bear other people just standing around him and his Fi is deep in the bottom. I quote: “You lacked the ‘hunger’ to take hold your desires”—it means crushing your principles to get whatever your goal is—, “I’d never thought about it. …Ideals. Desires that go beyond oneself”, “Their motivation, their ideals. I couldn’t even begin to understand any of it”, “There were those who boasted strength they didn’t have. There were those OBSESSED WITH THEMSELVES”, and “My capabilities were always too great. I wasn’t bound by ideals, in fact, I LOATHED THEM. That’s the sort of human I was.” He’s an ENTJ then… now I feel like he’s an obvious one too.
Maybe a truly interesting one would be Toji. The guy is full-on Se pleasures and he’s very good at dealing with chaotic situations. His is pretty good, so people see him as an ISTP, but I think he would be an ESTP because Gege explained that he’s gentle enough to seduce women to freeload them. Also, he’s always making faces and being kind of mischievous and polite. He must have a higher Fe (in fact, it’s mentioned that he likes to appease his prey before attacking them). Interestingly enough, he talks about deviating from his usual self by attempting to self-affirm himself through massacring Gojo, the pinnacle of Jujutsu. He has a big grudge against the Jujutsu society and wants to prove that he is better than them even though he is a monkey with no cursed energy. I don’t know what exactly is happening here, maybe Toji is expressing his tertiary Fe in the way he talks about how badly he wants to discredit Jujutsu society by defeating Gojo, he’s not trying to fulfill a personal moral value or principle, he just wants to cause an impact in others. In fact, he discarded his own values doing this because he deviated from his habitual self: escape the dangerous situation.
I would definitely think Yuji is an ESFP and Sukuna an ENTJ. I would think Yuji leads with Se just due to how physically adaptive he is and his tendency to jump head first into situations. I think people look at how strong his values drive him and think that it’s his first trait. I think his Te is displayed with him recently accepting he and Mahito are the same. “I’m a cog, and cogs have a role”. He’s not pursuing his own goal or even his own internal rational. It’s always in relation to everyone else.
Sukuna displays all of the stereotypical ENTJ cognitive function. Te with how he pursues power and dismisses others. Ni in coming to conclusions and never fully explaining things, leaving it up to interpretation. Se with his physical pleasures and how he enjoys a good fight. Fi with how little values & ideals besides power drive him.
Toji is harder but I’d settle on ESTP. I would have loved to have more time with the character.
Another point to consider Toji as an ESTP is that when he was resurrected he just decided to massacre anything he could, granted the spell had something to do but anyway, and he only stopped when he found Megumi who told him that his last name is Fushiguro pleasing him. A weird thing though is he made a statement about deviating from his true self and, as I have understood reading this website very frequently, is a proper thing for Fi users and not Ti users.
On the other hand, I have also learned from reading this website that ISTPs are very cold in comparison to ESTPs, so I’m pretty sure that Toji, despite being cold in certain points, is enough warm to be considered an ESTP (a depressed one though). The grand point of counter-argumentation would be his decent use of Ni to be inferior, but, technically, he threw it to the window in his rematch against Gojo and he wasn’t cautious enough to kill Gojo by decapitation (Mara said that Sasori, an INTJ, would do that too due to his inferior Se, however).
In overall, I just see him as extraverted in nature with a playful mischievous behavior found in users of tertiary Fe and a main drive to engage the physical world with his sense and its pleasure. Also, he literally was very indirect as a Ti-Ni user would be when he told his last words to Gojo (could he be an ISTP? I don’t think so, but Mara could say otherwise…).