Jujutsu Kaisen’s First Look at Season 2 Winds Back the Clock

The first season of Jujutsu Kaisen’s anime adaptation cemented itself as some of the enjoyable, strangest shonen anime of the present second, and had sufficient promise to make you need to see what got here subsequent. With MAPPA’s more and more packed schedule, it was a matter of when Jujutsu would come again, notably after Jujutsu Kaisen 0 from earlier this 12 months made even an excellent larger splash.

Revealed at Jump Festa this weekend, the second season of Jujutsu Kaisen might be debuting in July 2023. For the primary half of the brand new season, the sequence might be adapting the “Gojo’s Past” arc, which can take us again to the distant 12 months of 2006 and places the highlight on a younger Satoru Gojo (Yuichi Nakamura/Kaiji Tang) and Suguru Geto (Takahiro Sakurai/Lex Lang). Kaisen 0 briefly touched on their previous relationship as finest mates and highly effective sorcerers, and this new arc will additional present their friendship—earlier than a mission with Ieiri Shoko (Aya Endō/Ryan Bartley) places the young Jujutsu trio on a collision course with one Toji Zenin.

Following the “Gojo’s Past” arc, the second season will come again to the current day of Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, and Nobara Kugisaki and adapt the “Shibuya Incident” arc, which was talked about a handful of occasions all through the primary season as a part of Geto’s large ol’ grasp plan. After that…effectively, what follows remains to be actively enjoying out within the pages of Gege Akutami’s manga, nevertheless it’ll undoubtedly be action-packed and greater than a bit bizarre in some spots.

Until then, you’ll be able to compensate for the primary season of Jujutsu Kaisen on Crunchyroll and HBO Max.

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