The Jagan Eye (邪眼, Ja Gan, translated as Evil Eye) is a mystical artifact in YuYu Hakusho.

Contents 1 Overview 1.1 Appearance 1.2 Procedure 1.3 Price 1.4 Power

OverviewEdit

AppearanceEdit

The Jagan is a third eye, placed in the middle of the user's forehead. It is the size of a normal eye, but the iris and pupil are thinner. Hiei's Jagan has a violet iris. It should be noted that not all demons with multiple eyes are considered Jaganshis, as several weaker demons in the series are shown with three or more eyes. Only those whose third eyes are implanted in such a manner are given the same abilities as Hiei and are known as Jaganshis.

ProcedureEdit

Shigure the Osteopath is the one that conducts the surgery. Seemingly, a machine with a drill digs into the forehead of the patient, then implants the Jagan, via an incision that is one seven hundredth of a millimeter in length.  The procedure is extremely painful (Shigure must strap the patient down to prevent them from clawing out their own eyes) and taxing on the patient, so much that it made Hiei drop from an A class down to a D class.

PriceEdit

Shigure asks for the patient's life story rather than money for payment, agreeing to operate only if their story holds his interest. Shigure seems to be interested in only tragic or extremely astonishing stories. If he's interested, he takes an important part of the story away from the patient. In Hiei's case, he could not inform his younger sister of their relationship.

PowerEdit

Hiei, an A-class demon at the time, turned into a D-class upon the surgery. This was due to the Jagan needing so much energy to grow. However, as the user becomes more adept at using the Jagan, it grants them several mental abilities:

• Telekinesis: the ability to move objects with your mind
• Telepathy: being able to communicate mentally.
• Mind Control: the ability to take over lesser creature's minds
  • Using this, one can also erase memories
  • It also seems to allow one resistance against mind control
• Remote Viewing: Allows Hiei to see great distances away.
• His Jagan glows when he uses his Dark Flame techniques, implying the Jagan played a role in his mastering them. The eye also allows him to enhance the strength of his technique, which normally wouldn't be possible, and grants him the ability of the Black Dragon Wave, as a Jaganshi.

Raigo possessed a Jagan as well (though his seems to be more natural than artificial, considering how he can make it disappear). Raigo's mind control abilities seemed to be greater than Hiei's, with hypnotizing spirits surrounding the victim when he casted the spell, but he was unable to predict that Hiei would be resistant to his mind control.