ShoJichi

ShoJichi is the het ship between Shoko Ieiri and Kiyotaka Ijichi from the Jujutsu Kaisen fandom.

Canon
Kiyotaka Ijichi and Shoko Ieiri were once students at Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College. When Kiyotaka started his first year at college, Shoko was in her last third year. It is not known whether the two were friends back at the time. Now Ijichi and Ieiri are 26 and 28 years old respectively, they both work at Tokyo College – Shoko is a doctor (the only known one at college), and Ijichi is the assistant manager (handling barriers, attending tiresome meetings, supporting sorcerers, and giving out instructions). Both are quite serious and professional people. As of chapter 151, the two share only one scene.

The two are seen together right after Yuji was proclaimed dead and sent to the morgue for post-mortem inspection. Ijichi and Gojo are caught up in conversation, and Gojo announces to slightly frightened Ijichi that maybe he should have murdered the higher-up sorcerers, when Shoko arrives. Ijichi quickly bows to greet her and says it’s good to see her. Twirling a lock of her hair between her fingers, she tells Gojo to ease off on their colleague. Ijichi’s eyes lighten up, and, as if in a trance, he internally asks her to keep saying nice things about him. Shoko mentions that Gojo shouldn’t pick up on Ijichi, as he is just performing his job, being caught up between them and the higher-ups. As Shoko and Gojo talk, Ijichi keeps looking at Shoko and internally begging for more praise from her.

Apparently, the two have to work together closely, as Ijichi, being a manager, is a mediator between college teachers, students, contracted sorcerers, and higher-ups. After Ijichi was heavily wounded in a fight in Shibuya, he was delivered to Shoko’s treatment camp, and she healed him. He can be seen sleeping on one of the cots. Principal Yaga tells Shoko that her talent is valuable, since Ino and Ijichi would have been dead without her. When later Maki comes to Shoko to discuss the rules of the culling game, and the doctor shares her theory about cursed technique removal, Ijichi is seen there, either being in her cabinet in person, or signifying she remembered him at the moment.

Fanon
The ship is considered a rarepair, with ShokoHime being a more popular ship for Shoko. Ijichi’s flustered reaction to Shoko’s appearance in episode 5 is the main reason fans think these characters have potential. Realistically, Shoko’s initial comment about Ijichi wasn’t much of a “praise”, as his bewildered response made it seem: she was either teasing him or quietly warning Gojo not to overstep with his subordinate as Ijichi looks like someone easily subjected to anxiety. This subjectivism on Ijichi's side concerning Shoko led some to believe Ijichi might harbour feelings for her. The way he is depicted in the official art piece (see below), shyly sitting by her side, made fans to believe Ijichi thinks Shoko to be too “cool” for him, so he, afraid to make his move, quietly simmers with his affection for her.

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Trivia

 * Shoko is 1 centimeter (roughly 0.4 inches) taller than Ijichi.