Yusepe / Jujutsu Kaisen's "Maldición Random"

About

Yusepe or Jujutsu Kaisen's "Maldición Random" is a nickname given to a cursed monster kicked by Yuji Itadori that appears in the second season of the Jujutsu Kaisen anime. The character was introduced in October 2023 but received an ironic fandom on TikTok, specifically the Spanish-speaking community, in March 2024, sparking edits, parodies and other memes adding lore to the random curse.

Origin

On October 5th, 2023, the second season of the Jujutsu Kaisen anime aired the 11th episode on TV. In an early scene, the main character Yuji Itadori appears playfully kicking and defeating some low-level curses in the street, including a brown-horned curse (shown below). The earliest clip of the scene was posted on October 10th, 2023, on YouTube^[1] by user @skywve, which amassed over 585,000 views and 9,300 likes in six months.

The earliest mention of the curse as "Yusepe" was posted on February 15th, 2024, by TikTok^[2] user @allner_0. The video (shown below) shows the random curse's final thoughts before being defeated by Itadori, which amassed more than 48,000 plays and 2,900 likes in a month.

Spread

Over the course of February and March 2024, an ironic fandom started to post content related to Yusepe, most of them treating the character as "overpowered" or that Yuji Itadori was the real villain. For example, on February 28th, 2024, TikTok^[3] user @allner_0 posted a fan edit video dealing more lore about "Yusepe" (shown below, left), which amassed more than 889,000 plays and 135,000 likes in a month.

On March 26th, TikTok^[4] user @ricklogan004 posted a fan edit of the random curse paired with Porta's song "La bella y la bestia" (shown below, right), which amassed roughly 360 plays and 18 likes in two days.

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