'Jujutsu Kaisen' Gets Second Anime Season in 2023

The stage greeting event for the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 anime film announced a second season on Saturday. The new season is scheduled to air in 2023.

The anime film adapting Akutami Gege's prequel manga opened in theaters in Japan on December 24 last year, grossing over 10.46 billion yen (approximately US$90.7 million).

Jump GIGA ran the prequel manga from April to July in 2017. Shueisha published the manga as volume zero the following December. VIZ Media released the volume in English under the title Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Jujutsu High last January.

Gege began serializing the supernatural action sequel manga in Weekly Shounen Jump in March 2018. Shueisha shipped the 18th volume on December 25 last year. Jujutsu Kaisen has a cumulative 60 million copies of its volumes in circulation, including digital editions.

The television anime by animation studio MAPPA aired in 24 episodes in Fall 2020, adapting up to the beginning of the eighth volume. Crunchyroll simulcast the anime with subtitles and subsequently streamed dubbed versions in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Russian.

VIZ Media simulpubs the manga digitally with the Japanese release through its Shounen Jump service and shipped the 14th volume on February 2=1. The 15th volume will go on sale on April 5. Shueisha's Manga Plus platform also began simulpublishing the manga in English in January 2019.

Jujutsu Kaisen won the Grand Prize at the Tokyo Anime Award Festival 2022 in the television category.

Official site: https://jujutsukaisen.jp/
Official Twitter: @animejujutsu

Source: Oricon News

Jujutsu Kaisen (TV) 2nd Season on MAL