Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 Will Kick Off A Bloody Match Arc

Jujutsu Kaisen wrapped up earlier this week after an extended and pretty grim season. You received’t be shocked to be taught that it’s bought one other season within the works, as soon as once more courtesy of MAPPA.

Following the finale for season two, MAPPA put out a teaser video teasing a showdown between sereis lead Yuji Itadori and Yuta Okkotsu, who longtime followers will recall because the lead of final yr’s fairly candy film, Jujutsu Kaisen 0. It’d assist to rewatch that to refamiliarize your self with Yuta, however principally, he’s a distant relative of Gojo and may copy the strategies of different Sorcerers, which has earned him a fame as a fairly highly effective Sorcerer in his personal proper.

Season three will decide up principally proper the place the earlier season left off, with Yuta—who’s returning to Japan after being overseas for thus lengthy—being tasked with killing Yuji following Sukuna’s rampage in the course of the Shibuya Incident. However it’s not lengthy earlier than the duo and different surviving characters from the final season are pulled into the Culling Recreation, a battle royale the place all gamers earn factors by killing different gamers utilizing jujutsu sorcery. It’s the collection’ stab at a match arc, and like all spins on that shonen staple, it means quite a lot of new characters are going to be launched with their very own odd set of powers. The Culling Recreation stands because the longest manga to this point at 63 chapters, and it’s doubtless season three might be embody that and fold within the previous arcs for Itadori’s extermination and preparation for the Culling Recreation to start with.

At time of writing, a launch window for Jujutsu Kaisen’s third season hasn’t been revealed. The primary two seasons and Kaisen 0 can be found in full over on Crunchryoll.

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