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WE BACK!!!!!!!

During the live-streamed JUJUTSU KAISEN 5th Anniversary Special, the first teaser trailer for JUJUTSU KAISEN Season 3 was shared, which also announced that it will air in January 2026.

Also referred to as JUJUTSU KAISEN The Culling Game, it has been decided that Crunchyroll will stream the third season of the hit anime series exclusively worldwide, excluding Asia, with new episodes premiering weekly, same-day as Japan. 

Seen in the teaser trailer is Yuji Itadori in conflict and despair after believing he has killed many people from the “Shibuya Incident.” Also shown is a fierce battle between Yuji and Yuta Okkotsu, the main protagonist from the film JUJUTSU KAISEN 0. The preview also features a heated exchange between new character Naoya Zen’in and Choso. Megumi Fushiguro, Yuki Tsukumo, and Maki Zen’in also make brief appearances in the trailer, building anticipation before the start of The Culling Game.

The teaser throws us glimpses of so much in so little time:

Best Boi and Actual Golden Retriever Yuji being wrecked with guilt over what ruin he’s brought to the world, acting as the (very unwilling) vessel of Sukuna.

The Upperclassman we all wished we had growing up (Bonus Rika!), Yuta arriving on the scene in flair.

Megumi looking aggravated as the only father-figure he’s known is gone and Team Save Gojo assembling on point.

A certain cult leader (without children this time–SUKUNA YOU MENACE) looking every bit of shadowy baddie with the inches.

Big Bro Choso putting the bass in his voice and getting ready to show everyone that his hands are rated E for everyone.

Mai scarred up, bringing the smackdown, the fire and holy spirit in battle and getting ready to burn down (her family’s) house (she and the other women in the series were failed but let me save that for another time) with plenty of shots of the city under duress, under attack and so beautifully broken and falling apart.

Much like Yuji’s fragile mental state.

We all know the animation is going to blow us away–one sincere hope that every fan has is wishing that this anime adaption of the arc in the manga is going to be BETTERED PACED. I, like so many others, still can’t think of how visually stunning the anime was at times and the very, very serious reports of “extreme crunch culture” or whatever extreme working conditions, those animators were under….What has changed at MAPPA or even if the wider animation industry in Japan since then?

Also for folks like me soldiering on without our favorite former salary man-who-returned-to-the sorcerer-world–beloved we are still on those–Gege When I Catch You, vibes. Lastly, for “all the women who supposedly ruined JJK“, may we continue to annoy men in fandom spaces. Come on now, keep that same energy–not this being a It’s Cool When They Do It, moment in fandom.

The Japanese voice cast and characters include:

• Junya Enoki as Yuji Itadori
• Yuma Uchida as Megumi Fushiguro 
• Daisuke Namikawa as Choso
• Megumi Ogata as Yuta Okkotsu

The animation production staff includes:

• Director: Shota Goshozono
• Series Composition and Script Writer: Hiroshi Seko
• Character Design: Yosuke Yajima and Hiromi Niwa
• Deputy Director: Yosuke Takada
• Art Director: Junichi Higashi
• Color Design: Eiko Matsushima
• CG Producer: Yusuke Tannawa
• 3DCG Director: Daisuke Ishikawa (Monster’s Egg)
• Director of Photography: Teppei Ito
• Editor: Keisuke Yanagi
• Music: Yoshimasa Terui
• Music Producer: Yoshiki Kobayashi
• Sound Director: Yasunori Ebina
• Sound Production: dugout
• Animation Studio: MAPPA

About JUJUTSU KAISEN

Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by curses, he eats the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, taking the curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with Ryomen Sukuna. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Satoru Gojo, Itadori is admitted to Tokyo Jujutsu High School, an organization that fights the curses… and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a curse to exorcise a curse, a life from which he could never turn back.

Based on the best-selling manga of the same title written and illustrated by Gege Akutami, the anime series is produced by TOHO Animation and animated by MAPPA (Chainsaw Man; Attack on Titan Final Season; Hell’s Paradise).

With over 100 million copies currently in circulation, the manga was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump until the series ended in September 2024. In the US, the manga is published by VIZ Media.

The first season JUJUTSU KAISEN aired from October 2020 to March 2021. The second season, which consisted of the Hidden Inventory/Premature Death arc and the Shibuya Incident arc aired from July to December in 2023. 

The anime series was named Anime of the Year at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards in 2021 and 2024. The global blockbuster prequel film, JUJUTSU KAISEN 0, was awarded Best Anime Film at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards in 2023 and earned around $180 million in global theatrical box office revenue.

JUJUTSU KAISEN Season 3 is coming exclusively to Crunchyroll!

Follow along and see more JJK online:

JUJUTSU KAISEN Showpage: crunchyroll.com/jujutsu-kaisen 

Official English Facebook:facebook.com/jujutsu.kaisen.official

Official English X: x.com/Jujutsu_Kaisen_

Official English Instagram: instagram.com/jujutsukaisen

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