Jujutsu Kaisen season 2: Release date, story … We stocked up on the anime

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What is Jujutsu Kaisen?

Jujutsu Kaisen is a manga by Gege Akutami. It began to be published earlier in Weekly Shonen Jump in March 2018. This was after the success of a one-shot (a term used to refer to works consisting of only a few chapters). Jujutsu Kaisen 0 that the author did the creation JJK : manga in the same universe, with the same characters but built to last. The main story revolves around Ryuji Itadori: a high school student who is much like any other, except that he has strength far above average. In contemporary Japan where a demonic creature is born from negative human emotions, he eats an evil finger to save one of his comrades: from this moment on Ryuji is cursed.

He had just swallowed one of the demon king Sakuna’s twenty fingers. He is then subject to an ultimatum from the Tokyo exorcism school: either he helps them overcome Sakuna by eating the other 19 fingers (which endangers his life), or he executes him. At the foot of the wall, Itadori accepts without hesitation too much and finds himself climbing different levels to become the ultimate exorcist. The seemingly difficult life choice of living together with the demon king has its drawbacks, especially since all the exorcists aren’t by her side.

When is the release date for Jujutsu Kaisen season 2 in France?

Synopsis and story that seems to convince the Japanese by becoming the best-selling manga of 2021 and 2022 in the Archipelago: followed by respectively Demon Slayer and tokyo revenge, which also received an anime adaptation. Success may be boosted by the television adaptation in 24 episodes produced by MAPPA, releasing between late 2020 and early 2021. After months of silence, the television adaptation will restart for season 2 of July this year. Through the teaser (to be seen at the top of this article) production house Toho Animation announced the news in September 2022. No specific release date has been revealed yet.

First season (total 24 episodes). Jujutsu Kaisen can be watched in full on Crunchyroll. However, regarding the second season, no streaming platform has yet announced that it will be broadcasting a sequel to Itadori’s adventures. If Crunchyroll once again seems well-positioned to welcome him, we’re never safe from surprises (see tokyo revenge first broadcast on Crunchyroll but its second season, broadcast starting January 09 live, is available on Disney+). As such we will be waiting for the official press release (which should arrive in the coming months) before securing a platform to watch this second season. Jujutsu Kaisen.

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Season 2 of Jujutsu Kaisen is a direct sequel to the first season of the TV adaptation. If there is a movie called Jujutsu Kaisen 0 released in theaters recently, had no impact on the main plot of the work. Indeed, feature films are adaptations of one shot which serves as an opening for Jujutsu Kaisen. It is therefore recommended to take a look at it to learn more about the universe and its characters but in no way involve understanding its major works.

The first season covers the manga’s first 63 chapters (volume 8). The second season, whose total number of episodes we do not yet know, should continue from the 64th chapter. If it only covers twelve episodes, then about thirty chapters would have to be repeated: later narrative arcs correspond to Satoru Gojo’s past and the beginning of Shibuya (early volume 11). If 24 episodes were ordered, Shibuya’s narrative thread would be almost completely covered (end of volume 14). Eventually, if they decide to cover it in its entirety for the small screen, up to volume 16 of the television adaptation will go ahead.

Who is working on the second season of Jujutsu Kaisen?

For now, no information has been revealed regarding the cast or director behind this second season Jujutsu Kaisen : we may have to wait for the next few months with the release of a new trailer to learn more. However, we already know that some of the voice actors continue in their roles. This is especially the case for Junya Enoki (tokyo revenge, Demon Slayer, Beastar or attack of the Titans) who provides his voice for the main characters while Satoru Gojo’s interpreter will always be Yuichi Nakamura (Hawks in My Hero Academy especially).

If we know that Gege Akutami has to oversee this second season adaptation project MAPPA (recently behind Vinland Saga, attack of the Titans or chain saw man), no names were given to directors or assistant directors. Regarding the first season, it is Responsible Seong-Hu Park and Yui Umemoto: affiliated with MAPPAthere’s still a good chance to see them behind this project though we’ll be waiting for official confirmation.

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Would you like to find out more?

As mentioned above, Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is an excellent gateway for anyone who wants to deepen their knowledge or enter gently into the universe created by Gege Akutami. Manga fans who have seen season 1 can already find out what happens in the upcoming season 2 by reading the eleven volumes (8 to 18) published in France. On the cross-media side, there is the Phantom Parade game but only in Japan : it features gameplay similar to the video game adaptations of the genre with turn-based combat and characters to collect.

In addition, Jujutsu Kaisen season 1 won a different prize Demon Slayer during the Crunchyroll Anime Awards (equivalent to the Game Awards but for anime) included best anime of the year.