One cited deathJujutsu Kaisen
Does this death move the ranking?

Confirms the ladder

The higher-ranked entity killed the lower-ranked one. Record and ladder agree.

Kenjaku vs Mahito

The killerKenjakuJujutsu Kaisen · rank 3
7 places
The victimMahitoJujutsu Kaisen · rank 10

The one most people remember wrong. By the time this lands, the curse has been beaten down to something unable to hold its own shape, and the person who did that is a schoolboy with no technique of his own and no domain. Then a thousand-year-old brain in a borrowed face walks in and swallows what is left before the fight can be finished properly. The order of these two is undisturbed by it. The credit sits somewhere uncomfortable, which is exactly why this site asks who landed the blow instead of who won.

The connecting record

shownJujutsu Kaisen

Kenjaku killed Mahito in Jujutsu Kaisen.

A first-year had already reduced him to a fragment that could not stand up; what arrives at the end absorbs the remainder.

What each of them is ranked on

The killer · Kenjaku · rank 3

Jujutsu Kaisencomicanimation

Has worn a line of other people's skulls for something past a thousand years, most recently Suguru Geto's, and walked that face up to Gojo Satoru to shut him inside a box. Wrote the rules of the Culling Game and enrolled sorcerers in it who were given no say in the matter, then lost his head to a student who took the transplant technique off him and was wearing Gojo Satoru by the end.

  • statedJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 136

    Kenjaku has moved his own brain from body to body across more than a thousand years.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 90

    Wears Suguru Geto's body with a line of stitches running across the forehead.

  • statedJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 90

    The stitching is explained as a brain placed inside the opened skull.

All 6 citations
  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 91

    Closes the Prison Realm on Gojo Satoru at Shibuya station.

  • statedJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 143

    Announces the Culling Game and the rules its enrolled players are bound by.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 243

    Yuta Okkotsu severs his head.

Kenjaku on the Jujutsu Kaisen ladder

The victim · Mahito · rank 10

Jujutsu Kaisencomicanimation

Took Junpei Yoshino apart in front of Yuji and left him in a shape nobody undid. Killed Nanami Kento in a corridor of Shibuya Station with Yuji a few metres away and nothing left to do about it. Ten chapters on he put the domain up around Yuji and Aoi Todo — not the first time he had opened it — and the technique took hold of Todo without a hand ever landing on him.

  • statedJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 22

    Mahito states that Idle Transfiguration reshapes the soul and the body follows it.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 27

    Transfigures Junpei Yoshino's body in front of Yuji.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 27

    Junpei Yoshino dies of the transfiguration.

All 10 citations
  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 120

    Kills Nanami Kento in front of Yuji.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 29–30

    Opens Self-Embodiment of Perfection against Kento Nanami, well before Shibuya.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 81–82

    Opens Self-Embodiment of Perfection again against Kokichi Muta in Mode Absolute.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 130, p. 6-7

    Opens Self-Embodiment of Perfection in Shibuya against Yuji Itadori and Aoi Todo, and uses Idle Transfiguration on Todo without touching him.

  • statedJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 30

    Inside the domain his technique is said to reach a soul without his hand landing on it.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 132

    Yuji Itadori beats him down to a fragment that cannot hold its shape.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 133

    Kenjaku absorbs what is left of Mahito before the fight ends.

Mahito on the Jujutsu Kaisen ladder

What this does not settle

One death in one work. It is the only place the record puts these two in the same room, and it is evidence about that meeting and nothing wider — not a general matchup, not a rematch, and not a ranking of its own.

The ladder above it is argued from everything either of them has been shown doing; this page is argued from one citation.

Where the two disagree, the disagreement is the point, and it stays visible rather than being resolved by whichever of them happens to be on this page.