You know a shonen manga’s made it when its anime adaptation will get a theatrical film. We’ve seen it dozens of occasions with Naruto, My Hero Academia, and Fullmetal Alchemist, and now the most recent anime to hitch that pantheon is Jujutsu Kaisen. The darkish fantasy anime based mostly on Gege Akutami’s 2018 manga about sorcerers combating Cursed spirits in Japan acquired a fairly nice adaptation again in 2020, and its first film is hitting in just a few weeks to introduce a brand new hero to its increasing world.

The collection’ teen protagonists Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, and Nobara Kugisaki are nowhere to be discovered within the movie Jujutsu Kaisen 0. Instead, the movie winds again the clock and shifts focus solely to the meek Yuta Okkotsu (Megumi Ogata for Japanese dub, Kayleigh McKee for English), who’s spent most of his life with the Cursed spirit of his lifeless love Rika (Kana Hanazawa/Anairis Quiñones) by his facet. The Cursed model of Rika has been defending him from hurt ever since, normally via bloody means, and it’s a latest occasion that attracts the eye of Tokyo’s Jujutsu Sorcerers, notably Satoru Gojo (Yuichi Nakumura/Kaiji Tang).

Yuta’s major goal is to hone his supernatural potential and discover a solution to exorcise Rika so he can have a standard life. But his presence within the Sorcerer world has caught the eye of Suguru Geto (Takahiro Sakurai/Lex Lang), and it’ll quickly fall to Yuta and his mates — Maki Zen’in (Mikako Komatsu/Allegra Clark), Toge Inumaki (Koki Uchiyama/Xander Mobus), and Panda (Tomokazu Seki/Matthew David Rudd), all three of whom are in Kaisen correct — to save lots of Tokyo from being destroyed by Curses. Just like the unique anime, the movie’s being animated by Studio MAPPA, and could have some unimaginable struggle scenes to associate with the emotional proclamations about desirous to dwell a full life.

Akutami initially created Yuta and firm in 2017, beneath the serialized miniseries initially titled Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School. The constructive reception to that story impressed him to proceed the universe with the first Jujutsu Kaisen. Kaisen 0’s characters have been introduced over to the primary story over time, with Yuta having been pretty just lately inserted into the adventures of Yuji, Fushiguro, and Kugisaki. Having seen the movie, we will verify that Yuta’s an important addition to Yuji’s world, and the film will greater than make you excited for him to indicate up when season two hits subsequent 12 months.

Jujutsu Kaisen 0 will launch in theaters, each sub and dubbed, on March 18. Look for our evaluate nearer to the movie’s launch.

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