Nobara Kugisaki is a fictional character from Gege Akutami's manga and anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. She is a first-year student at Tokyo Jujutsu High, raised partly by her grandmother, a sorcerer who taught her jujutsu in a remote village near Morioka. She left that village for Tokyo against her grandmother's wishes.\n\nShe fights with the Straw Doll Technique, hammering nails into a straw doll to strike cursed spirits, and later uses the Resonance technique. Fans know her for her blunt, self-assured personality and her loyalty to Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro,