GojoHime

GojoHime is the het ship between Satoru Gojo and Utahime Iori from the Jujutsu Kaisen fandom.

Canon
Gojo and Utahime are teachers at Tokyo Jujutsu Tech and Kyoto Jujutsu Tech respectively. They've known each for over 10 years, presumably since Gojo's second year, with Utahime being 3 years older.

Gojo is often seen teasing Utahime, eventually getting on Utahime's nerves. Due to their relationship, Utahime is quite used to this teasing and even though she gets agitated, they manage to get along when in action. In Episode 14, once Utahime and the Kyoto students arrive for the Sister School Goodwill Event, she asks everyone where 'the idiot' is, in reference to Gojo. As soon as this is said, he appears, to which Utahime reacts with "Tsk. Gojo Satoru", with a rather disapproving look on her face. He's seen rolling a metal box along with souvenirs for the Kyoto students from his overseas business trip, but notes that none are for Utahime, clearly teasing her. She responds with annoyance, claiming that she wouldn't need one anyway. While Principal Yaga is explaining the event, he is holding down Gojo, and we see Utahime laughing at him.

While Gojo is explaining to Utahime why he believes that a human is working with curses, Utahime asks him what would happen if she was the traitor. Gojo replies by telling Utahime that it couldn't have been her, since she's too weak and doesn't have guts to try and betray them. In response, she throws her drink at him. After doing this, Gojo tells her that hysterics won't win men, and she replies angrily. She says that she's the senior here, meaning that he should respect her.

At the beginning of Episode 15, Gojo is counting down for the start for the start of the event, and when there's one minute left, he asks Utahime to say some words of encouragement. Since Utahime wasn't ready, she struggles to say something, and stutters a lot, while she's speaking, Gojo cuts her off after she musters something by saying "time's up", making her angry. She continues to shout at Gojo for embarrassing her and tells him that he should show respect to his elders. In Episode 17, while Gojo and Utahime are watching the students, Utahime says that the students should just get along with each other. Gojo replies by saying "They must take after you, Utahime", but she says that Gojo is the only one that she has a problem with.

Some time later Gojo and Utahime are seen talking on the phone. Gojo briefly tells her about the first-year students, boasting about the triumphal ending of their last mission. He says their success must be the direct consequence of his "awesome teaching". Utahime interrupts him and tells him to hurry up, since it's her day off, and she doesn't want to waste her time talking to him about college life. She mentions that staff members are all busy and cannot attend "a party", meaning she didn't find the traitor among the faculty. He figuratively asks whether the mole is a student, and she says that she will keep asking around.

Fanon
Having a relatively small fandom, this ship took off during the Kyoto Sister School Goodwill Event episodes. Their main trope includes "Opposites Attract", especially due to the extreme differences between the two personalities, with Utahime being more calm and Gojo being playful.

This ship is largely popular within Japanese fans, calling them the "Five Songs Couple" (GoUta, in Romaji). Go (五) from Gojo's surname, which directly translates to "Five", and Uta (歌) from Utahime, which also directly translates as "Song". GojoHime has been popular within manga fans for some time now, which explains the relatively large amount of fanfictions and fanarts of the ship. Their interactions in the anime adaptation has also welcomed new shippers to the boat.

On Pixiv, Gojo and Utahime currently have 27130 total views, the highest the ship ever got was 150038 views on April 1, 2021. On Pixiv, Utahime and Gojo have 1,808 fan arts made by the Japanese fandom (as of 11/06/21).

Fandom
FAN FICTION



PIXIV


 * GojoHime tag on Pixiv

TUMBLR



TWITTER


 * GojoHime hashtag on Twitter
 * 五歌 posts on Twitter

Trivia

 * According to the Official Fan Book, there are certain contrasts between their personalities: Utahime dislikes sweets and enjoys drinking alcohol, while Gojo likes sweets and dislikes alcohol.
 * Gege mentioned that chapter's title "Accomplices" refers to all duos who appeared in Ch.63. Which makes Gojo and Utahime accomplices too.
 * Gojo is listed as Utahime's source of stress, and unlike Nanami and Ijichi whose stress source is also Gojo, the two live very far away from each other.
 * Gojo tampered with the suggestion box to add on option for baseball, a sport Utahime is a fan of, (to rule out Yuji being killed in individual competitions); "Utahime, the one into the baseball game the most!" said by Gege in his sketch of Utahime and Momo.
 * Utahime and Gojo are seen together in one of the Jujutsu Strolls talking before Gojo gets asked about his type.
 * Gojo's and Utahime's Japanese voice actors share the same teasing dynamic as the characters they portray. Nakamura Yuichi (Gojo's VA) likes to call Hikasa Yoko (Utahime's VA) "old hag" and joking that she can't sing cute songs.
 * In episode 14, when Utahime throws tea at Gojo, he teases her by saying that her hostility is a turn off in the English dub, whereas in the Spanish version he says "That's why you don't have a boyfriend". ("Con razón no tienes novio").
 * In Jujutsu Kaisen's Brazilian Portuguese dub, when Utahime throws tea at Gojo, he responds with, "Ow! Retract your claws, kitten!" (In the dubbed version, "Ih! Recolhe as garrinhas, gatinha!") In Brazil, the word 'gatinha' means 'kitten' but it's used as a colloquialism to compliment women when they are considered beautiful.
 * In 2021, Jujutsu Kaisen collaborated with Niigata Rice Cracker Museum & Bakauke Inari. One of the crackers' packages depicts Gojo and Utahime as small, cartoonish crackers, Borin and Barin, characters who frequently promote this brand and are considered boyfriend and girlfriend respectively.
 * GojoHime is the only Utahime ship on the list of the TOP 30 most popular Jujutsu Kaisen ships in the Japanese fandom and franchise, scoring 11th place.
 * In the seasonal Japanese calendar, known as the 24 Sekki, their birthday meanings are connected. Gojo's birthday (7th of December) known as Taisetsu (Big Snow), is the season when heavy snow begins to fall and cold sets in, while Utahime's birthday (18th of Febrarury) known as Usui (Rain Waters) is the season when the snow begins to melt and the weather begins to warm up. Fans believe this could hint to future developments in their relationship.
 * On the cover page of chapter 34, the background pattern used on Utahime and Gojo's panel is called Yagasuri (Arrow Feathers), a traditional design usually worn in weddings and graduations as a good luck charm. However, in the panel, the arrows point from Gojo to Utahime instead of pointing upside down like in its original design. Japanese fans believe it might be a hint of Gojo's feelings, as arrows are often used to express the direction of the feelings between a couple and the meaning behind the design is the saying "an arrow fired, never returns.”