SatoShoko

SatoShoko is the het ship between Satoru Gojo and Shoko Ieiri from the Jujutsu Kaisen fandom.

Canon
Satoru and Shoko are colleagues and longtime friends, they have known each other for more than 10 years. They first appear together as second-year students at Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College during Gojo’s Past Arc. Satoru and Shoko, along with their classmate Suguru, come to professional sorcerers’ help. When Gojo gets rid of the curse, Shoko appears, and compares her classmates, Gojo included, to “trash”. When they go back to college, and Yaga reprimands them for not lifting the curtain before exorcising, Shoko gives Gojo away – it was his responsibility, and he forgot about it.

The two stay friends throughout their college years, but they don’t get to go on missions much, since Shoko has a very rare technique, and principal Yaga doesn’t want to risk her life for completing mundane missions. When Gojo masters his technique, he and Shoko (along with Suguru) test his abilities. Shoko wonders if Gojo will be alright with his technique constantly being active and corroding his brain. When Shoko meets Suguru after his deflection, she calls Satoru.

A decade later both Satoru and Shoko are working in Tokyo Jujutsu High. Gojo is a teacher and Shoko is a doctor. When Yuji Itadori presumably dies and is taken to college mortuary for autopsy, Gojo and assistant Ijichi are seen conversing. Gojo’s antics and peculiarities unsettle and scare Ijichi. Shoko comes in and puts Gojo down, telling him to lay off of their colleague. She comments saying that Gojo’s student’s death must have really upset him, because he’s usually less emotional. After Yuji comes back to life, Gojo asks Shoko not to put that in her reports. She agrees, despite the fact that it's a violation of working ethic and regulations.

They spend free time, too, outside of their job. In the second light novel they take their colleague Kiyotaka Ijichi to an izakaya. Ijichi notes the visual difference between them, and mentally calls Shoko a "cool adult", while describing Gojo as a "troubled adult", compared to her. After they send Ijichi home, they continue the night, when Shoko persuades "grumbling" Gojo to go to another izakaya with her.

Fanon
SatoShoko is considered a rarepair, being overshadowed by SatoSugu and ShokoHime. It is Gojo’s 8th and Shoko’s 2nd most written ship on AO3. It’s slightly more popular with the Japanese fans, on Pixiv, SatoShoko has over 400 art works, and the total number of art work views is 5276829.

The ship might seem interesting, since Shoko and Satoru are close friends, who had to go through a lot together and endure sufferings, ever since their closest friend, Suguru Geto, deflected, and they remained the only students in their year. Fan works often focus on exploring Satoru and Shoko’s feelings after the events of Volume 0, and how this tragedy brought them closer.

Fans of the ship have noticed how calm and serious Shoko tries to pacify Gojo, who often annoys others with his wild behavior. Their contrasting personalities make this relationship so interesting to explore, both in a romantic and platonic way.

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Trivia

 * Shoko's birthday is November 7th, and Gojo's — December 7th.
 * Satoru has a sweet tooth, and doesn't drink alcohol; Shoko hates sweets, and is a heavy drinker.
 * Satoru and Shoko's VAs Yuichi Nakamura and Aya Endo worked together before Jujutsu Kaisen, voicing characters in Macross Frontier anime. Their characters Alto and Sheryl are romantically interested in each other.
 * When mangaka Gege Akutami disclosed the results of the Jujutsu Kaisen 2020 Valentine Ranking, Gojo turned out to be the winner, Shoko was in the 11th place, judging by the amount of valentines their characters recieved. Next to Shoko's name Gege left a remark, saying that, "it's Macross F when paired with Gojo", referencing the anime both of their actors worked together on.