Jujutsu Kaisen
Jujutsu Kaisen | |
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呪術廻戦 | |
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Written by | Gege Akutami |
Published by | Shueisha |
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Imprint | Jump Comics |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Jump |
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Demographic | Shōnen |
Original run | March 5, 2018 – present |
Volumes | 17 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Sunghoo Park |
Written by | Hiroshi Seko |
Music by |
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Studio | MAPPA |
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Original network | JNN (MBS, TBS) |
Original run | October 3, 2020 – March 27, 2021 |
Episodes | 24 |
Jujutsu Kaisen (呪術廻戦) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gege Akutami, serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump since March 2018. The Jujutsu Kaisen chapters are collected and published by Shueisha, with seventeen tankōbon volumes released as of October 2021. The story follows high school student Yuji Itadori as he joins a secret organization of Jujutsu Sorcerers in order to kill a powerful Curse named Ryomen Sukuna, of whom Yuji becomes the host. Jujutsu Kaisen is a sequel to Akutami's Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School, serialized in Shueisha's Jump GIGA from April to July 2017, later collected in a tankōbon volume, as Jujutsu Kaisen 0, in December 2018.
Jujutsu Kaisen is licensed for English-language release in North America by Viz Media, who has been publishing the manga in print since December 2019. Shueisha publishes the series in English on the Manga Plus online platform. Two novels, written by Ballad Kitaguni, were published in May 2019 and January 2020, respectively. A 24-episode anime television series adaptation by MAPPA aired on MBS from October 2020 to March 2021. The anime is licensed by Crunchyroll for streaming outside of Asia, who premiered an English dub in November 2020. The original soundtrack of the anime was released in April 2021.
As of October 2021, the Jujutsu Kaisen manga had over 55 million copies in circulation, including digital versions and Jujutsu Kaisen 0, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time.
Synopsis
Setting
In Jujutsu Kaisen, all living beings emanate an energy called Cursed Energy,[Jp. 1] which arises from negative emotions that naturally flow throughout the body. Normal people cannot control this flow in their bodies. As a result, they continually lose Cursed Energy, resulting in the birth of Curses,[Jp. 2] a race of spiritual beings whose primary desire is to bring harm to humanity. These curses are shown as gruesome monsters.
Jujutsu Sorcerers[Jp. 3] are people who control the flow of Cursed Energy in their bodies, allowing them to use it as they please and also to reduce its release. High-ranking Sorcerers and Curses can refine this energy and use it to perform Cursed Techniques,[Jp. 4] which tend to be unique to the user or their family. An advanced form of Cursed Technique is Domain Expansion,[Jp. 5] through which the user can use their Cursed Energy to build a pocket dimension that covers the surrounding area within which all attacks will be stronger.
Plot
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- Introduction, Cursed Womb, Cursed Training and Vs. Mahito arcs
Yuji Itadori is an unnaturally fit high school student living in Sendai with his grandfather. He regularly avoids the track team due to the time commitment required for it, despite his innate talent for the sport. Instead, he chooses to join the Occult Research Club; due to the freedom it allows him in attending, he goes to visit his dying grandfather in the hospital every day.
In June 2018, on his deathbed, his grandfather instills two powerful messages within Yuji: "always help people" and "die surrounded by people". After his grandfather's death, Yuji interprets these messages as one statement: everyone deserves "a proper death". He is then confronted by Megumi Fushiguro, a sorcerer who can control curse-animals called "shikigami" who informs him of a high-grade cursed charm talisman at his school. 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. Yuji swallows the finger to protect Megumi and his friends and becomes the host of Ryomen Sukuna, a powerful Curse. Due to Sukuna's evil nature, all sorcerers are required to exorcise him (and by extension, Yuji) immediately. However, despite being possessed, Yuji is still able to retain control over his body for the most part. Seeing this, Satoru Gojo, Megumi's teacher, decides to take him to the Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu High School to propose a plan to his superiors: postpone Yuji's death sentence until he consumes all of Sukuna's fingers, allowing them to kill Sukuna once and for all.
During his early time as a first-year jujutsu student, Yuji forms quick friendships with Megumi and Nobara Kugisaki, a brash and talented up-and-coming jujutsu sorcerer from Morioka. On a mission to detention center that has become infested with a "curse womb" forming a special grade Finger Bearer, Megumi encounters Sukuna holding Yuji hostage by ripping his heart out. Unable to do anything, he watches as Yuji seemingly dies from the blood loss.
Only known to Gojo and a select number of others, Yuji is still alive and continues to train directly under the mentorship of Gojo in the art of cursed techniques. At the same time, a group of cursed spirits plot a multi-layered attack on the world of jujutsu sorcery, including the cursed spirit Mahito, whose "Idle Transfiguration" can reshape the soul of any human, and Suguru Geto, a disgruntled jujutsu sorcerer. Gojo is ambushed by one of those cursed spirits, Jogo, whose domain expansion (a barrier technique creating personalized encapsulated space) is destroyed easily by Gojo. Mahito enlists the help of the young Junpei, a boy who has been bullied and wants to use his power to fight back against his oppressors. Yuji meets 9 to 5 sorcerer and former salaryman Kento Nanami, who investigate victims of Mahito's Idle Transfiguration. By happenstance, Yuji meets and strikes up a quick friendship with Junpei. However, they come to conflict with one another when Junpei's bitterness grows after his mother was killed by cursed spirits; Mahito arrives and kills Junpei. A distressed Yuji and Nanami fight Mahito and only barely win when Sukuna forces Mahito to escape. Yuji vows to never lose again.
- Kyoto Goodwill Event, Death Painting and Gojo's Past arcs
At the exchange event between the Tokyo and Kyoto jujutsu schools, Yuji reveals his survival to the world. Some want him dead immediately, while others side with Gojo to keep him alive temporarily. He strikes up a quick brotherly relationship with Kyoto's third-year Aoi Todo. Alongside Todo, he and the other jujutsu students and staff repel an invasion of the school by Mahito and Hanami, a cursed spirit who is environmentally conscious. During the battle he uses several consecutive punches called "Black Flash," a distortion in space that significantly empowers his cursed techniques. By the end of the battle, he and Todo are able to fight off Hanami long enough for Gojo to defeat the curse though they miss Mahito stealing artifacts from their storage inventory. Later, Yuji is assigned on a mission where he comes across two brothers who are both a Cursed Womb: Death Painting with curse and human blood. He and Nobara kill them, though Yuji expresses regret when he realizes they have physical bodies and that he disrupted their tight-knit brotherly bond. Meanwhile, Megumi uses a partial domain expansion from his bottled-up emotions of his step-sister Tsumiki being in a coma from a chance encounter with a cursed spirit to kill a Finger Bearer and obtain another one of Sukuna's fingers. Afterwards, the trio is promoted to being first-grade sorcerers.
Flashbacks reveal Gojo's past as a jujutsu student in training, friends with Suguru Geto. He and Geto fail to protect a young girl from Toji Fushiguro, Megumi's father, an assassin from the Zenin clan without the ability to use cursed techniques. Toji dies in the process, while Geto decides the world must be cleansed of non-sorcerers so that no more cursed spirits can manifest.
- Shibuya Incident arc
A mole in Kyoto Jujutsu Tech is revealed to be Mechamaru, actually a cursed corpse piloted by the severely disfigured second-year student Kokichi Muta. Kokichi betrays Mahito and attacks him with a massive manned and armored version Ultimate Mechamaru, though is trapped and killed when Mahito unleashes a speedy domain expansion on him. Mahito escapes with his life. On October 31, Geto and the cursed spirits lay a screen over Shibuya. Various jujutsu sorcerers including Yuji, Megumi, Nobara, Gojo, Nanami and other arrive at the scene to fight them. Gojo systematically culls off cursed spirits including Hanami but is caught in the Prison Realm, a special-grade object sealing him away in a pocket dimension. Pseudo-Geto also reveals that the real Geto died a long time ago and that he is now under control of an ancient sorcerer named Kenjaku. Yuji searches for Mahito to take revenge on what he did to Junpei and is guided by an implanted earpiece created by Kokichi, whose construct guides him to Mahito. Grade 2 jujutsu sorcerer Takuma Ino fights a curse user named Ogami, who transplants Toji's spirit into her grandson's body; Ino kills her, but Toji gets away. Megumi and Yuji defeat curse user Jiro Awasaka and head to the subway tunnels. Megumi and other jujutsu sorcerers including head of Zenin clan Naobito Zenin fight Dagon, a special grade cursed spirit while Yuji fights Choso, brother to the two Death Paintings. Toji exorcises Dagon and meets Megumi; proud at seeing that his son kept the Fushiguro name and not Zenin, he commits suicide.
Nanako and Mimiko, curse users who are twin sisters and deeply loyal to Geto, force-feed ten of Sukuna's fingers to Yuji. This awakens Sukuna, who fights Jogo across the skies of Shibuya after Sukuna kills Nanako and Mimiko. Jogo wants to force Sukuna into a Binding Vow but Sukuna refuses, easily winning the battle by replicating and amplifying Jogo's firepower. Sukuna also saves Megumi from Mahoraga, a powerful shikigami. Yuji and Nobara watch as Mahito kills Nanami. After Mahito touches Nobara and begins to initiate Idle Transfiguration, Nobara seemingly kills herself by splitting open the left side of her face so that he cannot influence transfigure her. An enraged and helpless Yuji fights with Todo against Mahito. The battle ends with Kenjaku absorbing Mahito. Choso arrives and reveals Yuji is his brother. As the incident finally ends, Kenjaku emerges victorious, revealing that he has been jumping from body to body for thousands of years and implanted Binding Vows, which in turn awakens thousands of new sorcerers throughout Japan including Tsumiki. He then releases many curses that he had been storing up and releases them onto Japan, the first step into creating chaos and a world of cursed spirits such as the Heian period.
- Perfect Preparation, Itadori's Extermination and Culling Game arcs
In the aftermath, Yuji and Megumi team up with second-year Yuta Okkotsu (from Jujutsu Kaisen 0) as well as Yuki Tsukumo, a special grade jujutsu sorcerer and one of the most powerful sorcerers of all time along with Choso and second-year student Maki Zenin to meet with Tengen. Tengen, an immortal, part-curse part-human jujutsu sorcerer, tells the group of Kenjaku's plan to merge Tengen's consciousness with the human population of Japan. The Culling Game, Kenjaku's all-out war between the jujutsu sorcerers and curse users of Japan, is about to begin. Yuji, Megumi, and second-year sorcerer Panda become allies with Kinji Hakari and Kirara Hoshi, third-year sorcerers. Maki kills the entire Zenin clan after her twin sister Mai sacrificed herself for Maki; Megumi becomes the Zenin clan's new leader (and one its only remaining members) after Naobito died fighting Jogo. The Culling Game begins.
Production
In 2017, Gege Akutami published Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School, a 4-chapter series that ran in Jump GIGA from April 28 to July 28.[3][4] This series would serve later as a prequel to Jujutsu Kaisen, being retroactively titled as Jujutsu Kaisen 0.[5] Akutami began the publication of Jujutsu Kaisen in Weekly Shōnen Jump (#14, 2018) on March 5, 2018.[6]
Akutami stated that Neon Genesis Evangelion influenced the mythological aspects of the series.[7] Akutami is also influenced by horror and found footage films.[8] Akutami is particularly a fan of Yoshihiro Togashi, author of YuYu Hakusho and Hunter × Hunter,[8][9] and expressed desire to get an art style as close as possible to his style.[7] Akutami is also a fan of Tite Kubo, author of Bleach, and discussed in an interview with him the similarities between their works.[10][11] Other manga artists who influenced Akutami include Masashi Kishimoto (Naruto) and Yusuke Murata (Eyeshield 21 and One-Punch Man illustrator).[7] The magic system of Jujutsu Kaisen is largely based on Hunter × Hunter, whose fights, in Akutami's words, "rejects emotional arguments", but Akutami said that like Daisuke Ashihara, World Trigger's author, whose magic system is also similar to Togashi's series, Akutami is trying to find and develop an own style.[8]
In October 2020, Akutami stated that the ending and the main stages of the story are planned, but the path between the two remains "fairly free".[7] In February 2021, Akutami stated that the series will probably be finished within two years, declaring however no confidence in that statement. Akutami knows how the story for Megumi Fushiguro will end, but not for Sukuna.[12] On June 9, 2021, it was announced that the manga would enter on hiatus due to Akutami's health issues,[13][14] and the manga resumed publication on August 2 of the same year.[15][16]
Publication
Jujutsu Kaisen is written and illustrated by Gege Akutami. The series started in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine on March 5, 2018.[2][6] Its chapters are collected and published by Shueisha into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was published on July 4, 2018.[17] As of October 4, 2021, seventeen volumes have been released.[18]
Shueisha began to simulpublish the series in English on the app and website Manga Plus in January 2019.[19] Viz Media published the first three chapters for its "Jump Start" initiative.[20] In March 2019, Viz Media announced the print release of the series in North America.[21] The first volume was published on December 3, 2019.[22] As of October 5, 2021, twelve volumes have been released.[23]
Related media
Novels
Two novels written by Ballad Kitaguni have been released under the Jump J-Books imprint. The first, titled Jujutsu Kaisen: Iku Natsu to Kaeru Aki,[Jp. 6] was released on May 1, 2019.[24] The second novel, titled Jujutsu Kaisen: Yoake no Ibara Michi,[Jp. 7] was released on January 4, 2020.[25][26]
Anime
An anime television series adaptation was announced in the 52nd issue of Weekly Shōnen Jump published on November 25, 2019.[27] The manga author Gege Akutami and the main cast members appeared at Jump Festa '20 on December 22, 2019.[28] The series was produced by MAPPA and directed by Sunghoo Park. Hiroshi Seko was in charge of the scripts, Tadashi Hiramatsu designed the characters.[29] While the anime had an advanced streaming debut on YouTube and Twitter on September 19, 2020,[30] it officially aired on MBS and TBS's Super Animeism block from October 3, 2020, to March 27, 2021.[31][32][29][a] The series ran for 24 episodes.[33] From episode 3 onwards the series includes post-credits anime shorts titled "Juju Sanpo",[Jp. 8] which focus on the daily lives of the characters.[34]
The anime is licensed by Crunchyroll for streaming outside of Asia.[35] Crunchyroll has released streaming dubs for the series in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French and German that premiered on November 20, 2020,[36][37] with the English dub also premiering on HBO Max on December 4, 2020.[38] Viz Media will release the series on home video.[39] In Southeast Asia and South Asia, Medialink licensed the series and streamed it on iQIYI.[40][41] The company also released the series on Netflix in Southeast Asia, India, Hong Kong, and Taiwan on June 3, 2021.[42][43]
Music
The original soundtrack of the Jujutsu Kaisen anime series is composed by Hiroaki Tsutsumi, Yoshimasa Terui and Arisa Okehazama.[29] The series' first opening theme is "Kaikai Kitan",[Jp. 9] performed by Eve, while the first ending theme is "Lost in Paradise feat. AKLO" performed by ALI.[44] The second opening theme is "Vivid Vice", performed by Who-ya Extended, while the second ending theme is "give it back ", performed by Cö Shu Nie.[45] The original soundtrack was released on a 2-CD set on April 21, 2021.[46] Anime Limited released the soundtrack digitally in North America, Europe and Oceania on April 21, 2021,[47][48] and it is set to be released on CD and vinyl on January 31, 2022.[49]
Video games
In June 2021, a free-to-play RPG developed by Sumzap for smartphones was announced.[50]
A collaboration with PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG: Battlegrounds) was announced in August 2021. The collaboration will be available globally except in Japan and Mainland China.[51]
Other media
A fanbook, titled Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook,[Jp. 10] which features exclusive information about the series, character profiles, author commentaries, an interview and a special dialogue between Akutami and Bleach author Tite Kubo, was published by Shueisha on March 4, 2021.[52]
Reception
Manga
Jujutsu Kaisen was 6th on the 5th Next Manga Awards in the Print category in 2018.[53] The series ranked 1st on the "Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics" by the Honya Club website in 2019.[54][55] It won the 3rd annual Tsutaya Comic Awards in 2019.[56] In 2019, the manga was nominated for the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.[57] The series ranked 31st on the 2021 "Book of the Year" list by Da Vinci magazine.[58] Jujutsu Kaisen topped Alu's manga community "My Manga Best5" 2020 ranking, in which 46,641 users (via Twitter) participated, and Jujutsu Kaisen 0 ranked 43rd.[59][60] On TV Asahi's Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 poll, in which 150.000 people voted for their top 100 manga series, Jujutsu Kaisen ranked 19th.[61][62] Jujutsu Kaisen won the Mandō Kobayashi Manga Grand Prix 2020, created by comedian and manga enthusiast Kendo Kobayashi, in which each year's winner is decided based on his personal taste.[63] The manga was nominated for the 25th annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2021.[64]
Sales
The Jujutsu Kaisen manga had 600,000 copies in circulation as of December 2018,[65] 770,000 copies in circulation as of February 1, 2019,[66] 1.1 million copies in circulation as of February 2019,[67] 2 million copies in circulation as of June 2019,[68] 2.5 million copies in circulation as of November 2019,[69] 4.5 million copies in circulation as of May 2020,[70] 6.8 million copies in circulation as of September 2020,[71] and over 10 million copies in circulation as of October 2020,[b] having grown 400% in one year, and about 230% in a half year.[72][73] As of December 2020, the series had 15 million copies in circulation[b].[74] By January 13, 2021, the series had over 20 million copies in circulation,[b][75][76] and increased to 25 million copies in circulation by January 26.[77][78] As of February 2021, the manga had over 30 million copies in circulation.[b][79][80] By the start of March 2021, the series had over 36 million copies in circulation,[b][81] and by the end of the month, the manga recorded over 40 million copies in circulation.[82] As of April 2021, the manga had over 45 million copies in circulation.[b][83][84] As of May 2021, the manga had over 50 million copies in circulation.[b][85][86] As of October 2021, the manga had over 55 million copies in circulation.[b][87][88]
Jujutsu Kaisen was the 5th best-selling manga series in 2020 (from the period between November 2019 to November 2020), with 6,702,736 copies sold.[89] In January 2021, Jujutsu Kaisen's first fifteen volumes at the time (including volume 0) took 15 of top 16 spots of Oricon's weekly manga ranking (week of January 11–17), being only surpassed by Attack on Titan's 33rd volume, which topped the list.[90] Jujutsu Kaisen was the second best-selling manga series in the first half of 2021 (period between November 2020 and May 2021), behind Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, with over 23 million copies sold,[91] while its 16 volumes at the time (including volume 0), were among the 25 best-selling manga volumes.[92]
Critical reception
Leroy Douresseaux of Comic Book Bin gave the first volume a score of 8.5 /10. Douresseaux praised the series for its characters, plots, settings, and internal mythology, and described it as a "combination battle manga and horror comic book".[93] Shawn Hacaga of The Fandom Post, in his review of the first volume, compared the series to early Bleach and praised it for its world, lore, characters and artwork, concluding that it is a "solid first volume".[94] Hannah Collins of CBR found parallels between Yuji and Sukuna and Marvel Comics characters Eddie Brock and Venom. She also noted similarities to Bleach, Blue Exorcist and Tokyo Ghoul. Collins commended the manga and regarding its then recently announced anime adaptation concluded that Jujutsu Kaisen is a "darkly enjoyable action series that's sure to be one to watch out for in 2020".[95] Rebecca Silverman of Anime News Network ranked the first volume as a C. Silverman praised the series' use of Japanese folklore and yōkai elements, comparing this and Akutami's art style to Shigeru Mizuki's GeGeGe no Kitarō, but criticized the story for being "very generic". She concluded; "It has the potential to be more as Akutami gets more comfortable with the serialization process and figures out precisely where the story is going, so it may be worth a second book to be certain. But as of this one, it's just okay, making it the kind of series that gets damned with faint praise".[96]
Anime
The Jujutsu Kaisen anime was awarded "Anime of the Year" at the 2021 5th Crunchyroll Anime Awards, while Ryomen Sukuna won the "Best Antagonist" category and "Lost in Paradise feat. AKLO" by ALI won the "Best Ending Sequence" category.[97][98] In January 2021, it was revealed that the anime series was the second most-watched anime series on Crunchyroll in 2020, only second to Black Clover, being watched in 71 countries and territories, including North America, South and Central America, Europe, Middle East and North Africa, Africa, Asia and Oceania.[99] The official music video of the series' first opening, "Kaikai Kitan" by Eve, reached 100 million views on YouTube in April 2021, being one of the fastest anime openings to hit such number of views.[100]
Micah Peters of The Ringer said that while the series' "focused execution" of shōnen tropes makes it "infinitely watchable", is its "specificity, its personality, its ultra-slick stylishness" what make the show special. He added: "Like with Park’s previous work, there is a sumptuous amount of splashy, expensive, mo-cap-enabled animation, delivering on the action promised by the comics".[101] Paul Thomas Chapman of Otaku USA called it a "prime example of average material elevated by excellent execution", adding that it is similar to Bleach and YuYu Hakusho. Chapman commented that Sunghoo Park "puts the “beatdown” in narrative beats", being able to "segue from goofy comedy to chilling horror in an instant", and that he and the crew at MAPPA "make this narrative mutability seem effortless".[102] Ana Diaz of Polygon highlighted the 17th episode, praising the series' treatment of its female characters, different to other shōnen series. Diaz wrote: "Jujutsu Kaisen goes a step further than avoiding gender tropes by presenting a variety of female perspectives. It’s not like there’s any right way for these young women to deal with the unique pressures they face. The story lets them disagree, and fight for their perspectives and their place". She concluded: "The show’s widespread success signals that audiences aren’t just ready for change, they’re actively craving it. Now, every other creator has the green light to write all kinds of women into their shows".[103]
Novels
Jujutsu Kaisen: Iku Natsu to Kaeru Aki and Jujutsu Kaisen: Yoake no Ibara Michi were among the best-selling novel series in the first half of 2021 (period between November 2020 and May 2021), with 235,170 and 206,059 copies sold, respectively,[104] and both novels were the best-selling-novel volumes in the first half of 2021.[105]
Notes
- Explanatory
- Japanese
- ^ 呪力, Juryoku
- ^ 呪い, Noroi
- ^ 呪術師, Jujutsushi, lit. "Cursed Technique Masters" or "Shamans"
- ^ 呪術式, Jujutsushiki
- ^ 領域展開, Ryōiki Tenkai
- ^ 呪術廻戦 逝く夏と還る秋, "Jujutsu Kaisen: Soaring Summer and Returning Autumn"
- ^ 呪術廻戦 夜明けのいばら道, "Jujutsu Kaisen: The Path of Roses at Dawn"
- ^ 呪術さんぽ, lit. "Jujutsu Stroll"
- ^ 廻廻奇譚
- ^ 呪術廻戦 公式ファンブック, Jujutsu Kaisen Kōshiki Fanbukku
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- Jujutsu Kaisen official manga website at Weekly Shōnen Jump (in Japanese)
- Jujutsu Kaisen official anime website (in Japanese)
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