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Jujutsu Kaisen
Cover of the first manga volume of Jujutsu Kaisen, as published in Japan by Shueisha.
呪術廻戦
GenreAdventure, dark fantasy, supernatural[1][2]
Manga
Written byGege Akutami
Published byShueisha
English publisher
ImprintJump Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Jump
English magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runMarch 5, 2018 – present
Volumes9 (List of volumes)
Anime television series

Jujutsu Kaisen (呪術廻戦, "Sorcery Fight") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gege Akutami, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Jump since March 5, 2018. The individual chapters are collected and published by Shueisha, with seven tankōbon volumes released as of October 2019.

Viz Media published the first three chapters for its "Jump Start" initiative and will publish the series in print starting in December 2019. Shueisha began to simulpublish the series in English on the app and website Manga Plus in January 2019.

An anime television series adaptation has been announced.

Plot

Yuuji Itadori is an unnaturally fit high school student living in Sendai with his grandfather. He regularly avoids the track team due to his aversion to athletics, despite his innate talent for the sport. Instead, he chooses to join the Occult Research Club, where he is able to relax and hang out with his seniors, and leave school by 5:00 pm to visit his grandfather in the hospital. While he is on his deathbed, his grandfather instills two powerful messages within Yuuji - "always help people" and "die surrounded by a crowd". After his grandfather's death, Yuuji interprets these messages as one statement - everyone deserves "a proper death". He is then confronted by Megumi Fushiguro, a sorceror (巫, Shaman) who informs him of a high-grade cursed charm talisman at his school that Yuuji recently made contact with. His friends at the Occult Club unsealed the talisman, a rotting finger, which attracted Curses to the school, creatures that are brought about through negative emotions and are strengthened by consuming magical powers present in sorcerers or such charms. Unable to defeat the Curses due to his lack of magical powers, Yuuji swallows the finger to protect Megumi and his friends and becomes the host of Sukuna, a powerful Curse. Due to Sukuna's evil nature, all sorcerers are required to exorcise him (and by extension, Yuuji) immediately. However, despite being possessed, Yuuji is still able to retain control over his body for the most part. Seeing this, Satoru Gojou, Megumi's teacher, decides to take him to the Tokyo Metropolitan Magic Technical College to propose a plan to his superiors - postpone Yuuji's death sentence until he consumes all of Sukuna's fingers, allowing them to kill him once and for all.

Characters

Yūji Itadori (虎杖 悠仁, Itadori Yūji)
Voiced by: Junya Enoki[3]
A 15-year-old athlete who joins his schools's Occult Club to avoid the track team. After finding and opening a box containing a cursed charm resembling a rotting finger, his school is attacked by phantom-like creatures known as Curses. In order to protect his friends, he consumes the rotting finger and becomes possessed by a Curse known as Ryoumen Sukuna. He later joins the Tokyo Metropolitan Magic Technical College under the tutelage of Satoru Gojou, where he is placed under a sort of death sentence, which has been suspended until he consumes all of Sukuna's fingers in order to kill himself and Sukuna at the same time.
Megumi Fushiguro (伏黒 恵, Fushiguro Megumi)
Voiced by: Yuma Uchida[3]
A sorcerer studying in first year at the Tokyo Metropolitan Magic Technical College under the tutelage of Satoru Gojou. He meets Yuuji when trying to locate a high-grade cursed charm talisman at his high school. He is the one that convinces Satoru to try to save Yuuji from his execution after his possession by Sukuna. He uses his curse power to create spirits (式神, Shikigami) out of his own shadows to exorcise Curses. He has been noted to have high potential as a sorcerer by several other powerful people, including Sukuna himself.
Satoru Gojō (五条 悟, Gojō Satoru)
Voiced by: Yuichi Nakamura
A sorcerer working as a teacher in the Tokyo Metropolitan Magic Technical College. He teaches Yuuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara Kugisaki. He convinces his superiors at the college to keep Yuuji alive until he consumes all of Sukuna's fingers. Even though his title of 'The Strongest' is self-proclaimed, most allies and enemies alike never actually dispute the title and generally consider him to be one of the most dangerous people alive. As a result, he is widely respected and venerated by sorcerers, even by those in the college's sister school in Kyoto, and holds high influence in the sorcery world. He uses his curse power to control the space around him in innumerable ways.
Nobara Kugisaki (釘崎野 薔薇, Kugisaki Nobara)
Voiced by: Asami Setō[3]
A sorcerer studying in first year at the Tokyo Metropolitan Magic Technical College under the tutelage of Satoru Gojou. She transferred to the college so that she could live in Tokyo without any expenses. She meets Yuuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro during her first official mission as a sorcerer. She uses a charm weapon hammer and nails infused with her curse power to exorcise Curses.
Sukuna (宿儺, Sukuna) / Double-Faced Spectre (両面 宿儺, Ryōmen Sukuna)
A high-grade curse who is considered to be the undisputed 'King of Curses'. According to legend, Sukuna was a demon resembling a human with four arms who appeared during the prime era of sorcery. Sorcerers of this time period found that they were unable to fully exorcise him, so they resorted to cutting up his 20 fingers and storing them as cursed charms, hoping that one day these charms would be destroyed, and as a result, he would truly be defeated. Currently, he is the "guest" of Yuuji Itadori. He has taken an interest in seeing Megumi Fushiguro achieve his full potential. His goal is to gain complete control over Yuuji's body and go out on a killing spree. He has an immense amount of curse power, and it is estimated that his full strength is on par with or even greater than that of Satoru Gojou, though Satoru claims otherwise.

Media

Manga

Jujutsu Kaisen is written and illustrated by Gege Akutami. The series started in Weekly Shōnen Jump on March 5, 2018.[4] The individual chapters are collected and published by Shueisha, with seven tankōbon volumes released as of October 2019. A prequel volume titled Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Tokyo Toritsu Jujutsu Koutou Senmon Gakkou (呪術廻戦 0 東京都立呪術高等専門学校, lit. "Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Tokyo Metropolitan Magic Technical School) was published on December 4, 2018.[5] Shueisha began to simulpublish the series in English on the app and website Manga Plus in January 2019.[6]

Viz Media published the first three chapters for its "Jump Start" initiative.[7] In March 2019, Viz Media announced the print release of the series starting in winter.[8] The first volume will be published on December 3, 2019.[9]

Volume list

No. Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 July 4, 2018[10]978-4-08-881516-9December 3, 2019[9]978-1974710027
2 September 4, 2018[11]978-4-08-881608-1February 4, 2020[12]978-1974710034
3 December 4, 2018[13]978-4-08-881666-1April 7, 2020[14]978-1974710041
4 March 4, 2019[15]978-4-08-881756-9——
5 May 2, 2019[16]978-4-08-881828-3——
6 July 4, 2019[17]978-4-08-881876-4——
7 October 4, 2019[18]978-4-08-882076-7——
8 January 4, 2020[19]978-4-08-882168-9——
9 January 4, 2020[20]978-4-08-882218-1——

Light novels

A light novel entitled Jujutsu Kaisen: Soaring Summer and Returning Autumn (呪術廻戦　逝く夏と還る秋, Jujutsu Kaisen Iku natsu to kaeru aki), written by Ballad Kitaguni, was published under the Jump J-Books imprint on May 1, 2019.[21] A second light novel entitled Jujutsu Kaisen: The Path of Roses at Dawn (呪術廻戦　夜明けのいばら道, Jujutsu Kaisen Yoake no Ibara Michi), is planned to be released on January 4, 2020.[22]

Anime

In the 52nd issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump published on November 25, 2019, it has been announced that the series will receive an anime television series adaptation. The manga author Gege Akutami and the main cast members will appear at Jump Festa '20 on December 22, 2019.[3] Toho will produce the series.[23]

Reception

The series ranked 1st on a list of manga recommended by Japanese bookstore employees in 2019.[24] In 2019, the manga was nominated for the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen category.[25]

On February 2019, the series had 1.1 million copies in print.[26] As of June 2019, the series had 2 million copies in print worldwide.[27] As of November 2019, the series had 2.5 million copies in print worldwide.[28]

References

  1. ^ "The Official Website for Jujutsu Kaisen". Viz Media. Retrieved October 3, 2019.
  2. ^ Ressler, Karen (February 25, 2018). "3 New Manga Launch in Shonen Jump in March". Anime News Network. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d Rafael Antonio Pineda (November 24, 2019). "Jujutsu Kaisen Manga Gets TV Anime". Anime News Network. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
  4. ^ "ジャンプ50周年記念した新連載、第1弾は新鋭が描くダークファンタジー". Natalie (in Japanese). March 5, 2018.
  5. ^ 呪術廻戦 0 東京都立呪術高等専門学校 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
  6. ^ Morrissy, Kim (January 27, 2019). "Everything You Need to Know about MANGA Plus by Shueisha". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
  7. ^ Ressler, Karen (February 26, 2018). "Viz's Shonen Jump to Preview Jujutsu Kaisen Manga". Anime News Network. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
  8. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (March 16, 2019). "Viz Media Adds A Tropical Fish Yearns for Snow Manga, Announces Rerelease of Kazuo Umezu's The Drifting Classroom Manga". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 1, 2019.
  9. ^ a b "Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 1". Viz Media. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  10. ^ 呪術廻戦 1 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
  11. ^ 呪術廻戦 2 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
  12. ^ "Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 2". Amazon. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  13. ^ 呪術廻戦 3 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved December 9, 2018.
  14. ^ "Jujutsu Kaisen, Vol. 3". Amazon. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
  15. ^ 呪術廻戦 4 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  16. ^ 呪術廻戦 5 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
  17. ^ 呪術廻戦 6 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved July 21, 2019.
  18. ^ 呪術廻戦 7 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved August 19, 2019.
  19. ^ 呪術廻戦 8 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
  20. ^ 呪術廻戦 9 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
  21. ^ 呪術廻戦　逝く夏と還る秋 (in Japanese). Shueisha. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  22. ^ Rafael Antonio Pineda (November 17, 2019). "Jujutsu Kaisen Manga Gets 2nd Novel in January". Anime News Network. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
  23. ^ Valentine, Evan (November 26, 2019). "Toho Pictures To Adapt Jujutsu Kaisen Anime". Comic Book. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
  24. ^ 今一番面白い漫画はこれ！「全国書店員が選んだおすすめコミック 2019」ランキング発表！ [This is the most interesting manga now! "Recommended mangas selected by bookstore employees nationwide" ranking announced!]. Hikidashi. February 1, 2019. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
  25. ^ Rafael Antonio Pineda (November 22, 2019). "65th Shogakukan Manga Awards' Nominees Announced". Anime News Network. Retrieved November 22, 2019.
  26. ^ Hodgkins, Crystalyn (March 3, 2019). "Roundup of Newly Revealed Print Counts for Manga, Light Novel Series - February 2019 (Updated)". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 8, 2019.
  27. ^ @jujutsu_PR (June 30, 2019). "【特報】『呪術廻戦』コミックス累計200万部突破記念プロジェクト" (Tweet) (in Japanese). Retrieved August 9, 2019 – via Twitter.
  28. ^ 週刊少年ジャンプ連載「呪術廻戦」TVアニメ化　虎杖役は榎木淳弥、共演に内田雄馬＆瀬戸麻沙美. eiga.com (in Japanese). November 26, 2019. Retrieved November 26, 2019.
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