Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Movie (Jujutsu Kaisen 0)

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Synonyms: Gekijouban Jujutsu Kaisen 0

Japanese: 劇場版呪術廻戦 0

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Type: Movie

Episodes: 1

Status: Finished Airing

Aired: Dec 24, 2021

Producers: Mainichi Broadcasting System, TOHO animation, Shueisha, Sumzap, Studio Easter

Licensors: Crunchyroll

Studios: MAPPA

Source: Manga

Genres: Action, Fantasy

Theme: School

Demographic: Shounen

Duration: 1 hr. 44 min.

Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity)

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Score: 8.48¹ (scored by 370,948 users)

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Ranked: #135²

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Popularity: #260

Members: 702,974

Favorites: 8,635

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Violent misfortunes frequently occur around 16-year-old Yuuta Okkotsu, a timid victim of high school bullying. Yuuta is saddled with a monstrous curse, a power that dishes out brutal revenge against his bullies. Rika Orimoto, Yuuta's curse, is a shadow from his tragic childhood and a potentially lethal threat to anyone who dares wrong him.

Yuuta's unique situation catches the attention of Satoru Gojou, a powerful sorcerer who teaches at Tokyo Jujutsu High. Gojou sees immense potential in Yuuta, and he hopes to help the boy channel his deadly burden into a force for good. Yet Yuuta struggles to find his place among his talented classmates: the selectively mute Toge Inumaki, weapons expert Maki Zenin, and Panda.

Yuuta clumsily utilizes Rika on missions with the other first-year students, but the grisly aftermath of Rika's tremendous displays of power draws the interest of the calculating curse user Suguru Getou. As Getou strives to claim Rika's strength and use it to eliminate all non-jujutsu users from the world, Yuuta fights alongside his friends to stop the genocidal plot.

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Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Movie covers manga chapters 0.1-0.4.

On the date of the premier in Japan, December 24, 2021, guests recieved a tie-in booklet dubbed "Volume 0.5."

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Opening Theme

"Ichizu (一途)" by King Gnu

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Ending Theme

"Sakayume (逆夢)" by King Gnu

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Mar 19, 2022

darkia1416

Not Recommended

The bad:

First whole hour of the movie was terrible. Just repeated comic relief after every serious moment. A ton of flashbacks to a tragic cliché backstory of a kid making a promise to marry a girl he liked. Animation quality insane in some scenes and lack luster in others (MAPPA style is typically high quality in still shots, but mid tier animation). There is a particular scene where the MC hears the villain's plan massacre tons of people leading MC to respond completely unfazed. When he sees his buddies knocked out though, he gets super strong and angry because his friends are hurt. It's just ...

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Mar 19, 2022

Piereth

Not Recommended

I love Jujutsu Kaisen but I fucking hated watching this movie in theaters. Perhaps my intense hatred is due to the high expectations I had before going in after seeing the reviews, hype and remembering how great the show was but I do know for sure I don't think the movie is very good at all.

I did not like the writing or direction, The fast but focused pacing of the TV series slow to a crawl in this movie with far too many scenes that repeat information from the show that proves no relevance to the story and some truly horrible shounen story tropes written ...

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Dec 23, 2021

TCTriangle

Recommended

(Spoiler-free review)
In 2019, Kimetsu no Yaiba took the anime world by storm and then followed up with a movie in late 2020 that smashed all box office records to become the top grossing movie of all time in Japan. Jujutsu Kaisen seems to be following the same strategy, having been arguably the most popular anime series released in 2020, and judging by how absolutely packed the movie theater was, it will probably be another record-setting anime film in terms of financial success. However, how is the movie in terms of actual content? Pretty damn good I must say, even coming from someone who enjoyed the ... anime but did not buy into the hype train at all.

The story is a prequel to the series, and stars previously unseen character Yuta. This movie shows the incident with the mysterious villain Getou, which was only mentioned in passing/hinted at in the series, and finally fleshes Getou out as a complex character with interesting motives and backstory. The story itself is rather straightforward and nothing to write home about, but serves its job well of further world-building and character introduction.

The prequel sees the return of series favorite Gojou-sensei, with the sempai trio Maki, Panda, and Inumaki also getting ample screen time. It showcases their characters a bit more than the original series did, which was a very welcome usage of running time. Nanami and the Kyoto school team also make an appearance, and although they do not have an influence on the story, their fight scenes/cameo were much appreciated.

My one gripe with the characters is with Yuta, the movie’s main protagonist. Personality-wise, he is like a slightly less annoying version of Shinji from Evangelion. His powers are poorly-defined and kind of overpowered, a deviation from the “technique-based” fighting styles that all other characters are introduced to have in the series. His backstory is also very cookie-cutter generic for anime protagonists. However, he did not annoy me as much as Shinji does and I grew to like him by the end, so this was not a huge complaint.

As expected of Mappa, one of the few studios that can rival the likes of Ufotable and KyoAni in terms of animation quality, the animation here was top-notch. All of the fight scenes (half the reason I went to see it on opening day) were crisp and an absolute pleasure to look at. There were some awkward CGI-assisted shots and far-away shots that did not look as good as the rest of the movie, but they were sufficiently few and far between that I was not bothered.

The soundtrack for the film was great, but nothing outstanding or particularly memorable, working well as background music. The ending songs were kind of generic and not my cup of tea, but I might grow to like them with repeat listens.

Overall, I am very satisfied with this movie and really liking the plot threads it sets up that should be further explored in future seasons, and it got me excited for the future of this franchise.

(Side note: JEREMY LIN spotted in the film credits haha.)

Overall: 8/10
Story: 7/10
Animation: 9/10
Sound: 7/10
Characters: 8/10
Enjoyment: 8/10

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