Jujutsu Kaisen

About

Jujutsu Kaisen is a manga and anime series following high school student Yūji Itadori, a boy with unnatural physical strength who becomes a vessel for one of the strongest cursed spirits in history, Sukuna, after consuming one of Sukuna's 20 fingers. Itadori makes a pact with a sorcerer, Satoru Gojō of Jujutsu Tech, that he will consume all 20 of Sukuna's fingers before Jujutsu Tech can kill him, which will kill Sukuna as well. The series has run as a manga since 2018 before receiving an anime adaptation published by MAPPA in 2020.

History

The Jujutsu Kaisen manga is written and illustrated by Gege Akutami, who first published Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School in the summer of 2017. This would later serve as a prequel for Jujutsu Kaisen, which began publishing in Weekly Shonen Jump on March 5th, 2018. As of December 2020, there have been 14 volumes of the manga.^[1]

An anime adaptation for Jujutsu Kaisen was announced on November 25th, 2019.^[2] The anime is produced by MAPPA studios and directed by Sunghoo Park. The series debuted on October 3rd, 2020, and is set for a 24-episode run.

Online Presence

Jujutsu Kaisen has been received very favorably by fans online. On My Anime List,^[3] the series has an aggregate rating of 8.47 from 110,000 users. The series' subreddit,^[4] created just before the manga debuted in March of 2018, has over 36,000 subscribers. It is also very popular on YouTube, where the anime has been hyped by numerous commenters as potentially the "next big thing." Glass Reflection remarked the series had all the elements to make for a compelling, long-running show in an October 18th video, gaining over 77,000 views (shown below, left). Mother's Basement named it one of the best Fall 2020 anime in a video that gained over 500,000 views (shown below, right).

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