Reggie Star in Jujutsu Kaisen: The Receipt Sorcerer of the Culling Game Explained

Reggie Star is a reincarnated ancient sorcerer and the primary antagonist of Megumi Fushiguro’s arc in the Tokyo No. 1 Colony during the Culling Game. He wields Contractual Re-Creation, a technique that materialises real objects by burning receipts, and leads a small group of allied players with tactical precision and deliberate cynicism.

His name is a pun on the word “register.” The technique was built into the name from the start.

Character Profile

Who Is Reggie Star?

Reggie Star is a tactically intelligent reincarnated sorcerer who entered the Culling Game with a clear plan: gather strong allies, accumulate points, and position himself for whatever Kenjaku’s true objective turned out to be.

He is muscular, middle-aged in appearance, and has possibly-dyed blonde hair with darker eyebrows and a goatee. He has a tattoo on his left arm reading “indomitable” in kanji. During the Culling Game he wears almost nothing — just boxer briefs with receipts attached across his entire body, ready to activate at any moment.

His dialogue in the original Japanese manga is stylised with heart symbols, a personality detail that fits the gap between his cheerful presentation and his genuine ruthlessness.

He is cynical about the nature of sorcery. His stated philosophy is that sorcerers are con artists — defined by deception and opportunism, using whatever works to survive. He lives by this without apology.

He was not loyal to Kenjaku and did not fully trust the Culling Game’s stated purpose. He suspected the merger explanation was either secondary or entirely a bluff. His real goal was to be in a position of strength when the game’s true objective revealed itself.

What Is Contractual Re-Creation?

Contractual Re-Creation materialises real, fully functional objects and services by burning a receipt that documents them. The objects are not illusions — they are physical and persist until Reggie dismisses them or loses access to his receipts.

Reggie optimises the technique by carrying receipts for a vast and specific range of items — kitchen knives, machetes, cars, trucks, gas, nets, flying drones, a moped, an entire wooden house, and hotel services.

He burns a receipt and the documented item appears immediately, ready to use. He can give simple commands — stab, stay, fall — but cannot give complex instructions. The technique makes him a logistics-based fighter rather than a raw power combatant, which is precisely how he frames himself.

His most creative application in the fight with Megumi is using a receipt for several days at a spa with full treatment. It restores his stamina completely while Megumi remains exhausted from a sustained ambush. He recovers and immediately resumes pressure.

Critical Weakness

Receipts must remain physically intact. If they get wet or damaged, they become unusable. Megumi identifies and exploits this by engineering a situation where both fighters fall into a swimming pool, rendering every receipt on Reggie’s body completely useless for the remainder of the fight.

Hollow Wicker Basket

Hollow Wicker Basket is Reggie’s anti-domain technique. It prevents the guaranteed hit effect of an opponent’s Domain Expansion from landing. It does not neutralise the domain entirely — it only cancels the sure-hit. During the fight with Megumi, it protects Reggie from Chimera Shadow Garden’s automatic hits but does not stop the domain’s physical weight from threatening him.

What Happens to Reggie in the Story?

Reggie sets up a base in Shinjuku, uses Remi to lure players, ambushes Megumi with his group, fights him in a sustained tactical duel, and dies after Megumi drops them both into a swimming pool and wins the physical confrontation that follows.

Reggie’s group ambushes Megumi shortly after he enters Tokyo No. 1 Colony. Fumihiko Takaba intervenes to even the odds and removes Hazenoki from the fight. The battle shifts to a one-on-one between Reggie and Megumi.

Reggie initially dominates through martial arts and a constantly refreshed arsenal. He uses cars, trucks, drones, and a moped. He uses the spa receipt to recover completely while Megumi cannot. He activates Hollow Wicker Basket when Megumi deploys Chimera Shadow Garden and survives the guaranteed hit effect.

Megumi responds by loading the domain’s shadow with an enormous amount of weight — multiple cars and a house — creating a situation where the mass threatens both fighters. Megumi then disperses the domain, dropping both of them through the floor into the swimming pool below. In the water, Reggie’s receipts dissolve instantly. He has no technique. Megumi uses the increased weight of the shadow to hold Reggie underwater. Reggie cannot escape.

As he dies Reggie acknowledges Megumi’s intelligence and transfers all of his points to him voluntarily. Not because he is obligated to but because he thinks something more interesting will happen if Megumi has the resources. His final words curse Megumi to be toyed by fate and die like a fool.

Read the full fight from Chapter 162 through Chapter 173.

Why Does Reggie Matter?

Reggie’s fight with Megumi is the Culling Game Arc’s clearest demonstration of Megumi’s tactical intelligence at full expression. Reggie is not a weak opponent. He beats Megumi in direct exchanges repeatedly and has a complete answer for every shikigami Megumi deploys.

Megumi wins not by overpowering him but by identifying the one environmental condition that collapses the entire technique and engineering that condition mid-fight.

Reggie also provides Megumi with information about Kenjaku and strategic perspective on the game that shapes the arc’s direction. He functions as both antagonist and unwilling ally in the final moments.