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呪術廻戦

JUJUTSU KAISEN

TV · Fall 2020 · 24 episodes · MAPPA

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Some of the best fight animation of the decade, with a cast you'll miss between seasons.

Jujutsu Kaisen is what happens when a strong shounen story gets top-tier animation. The fights are fast, inventive and easy to follow, and the power system has enough rules that clever moments feel earned.

The cast carries it between battles. The students bicker like real teenagers, and the teachers are just as memorable. Season 2 gets much darker, so be ready for a change in tone.

Watch the prequel film after season 1: it makes more sense with the world already set up, and it pays off well later.

Watch it if you want modern shounen action at its most stylish.

Watch order

  1. Season 1
  2. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (the prequel film; it lands best after season 1)
  3. Season 2
  4. Season 3: The Culling Game

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Story

A boy fights... for "the right death." Hardship, regret, shame: the negative feelings that humans feel become Curses that lurk in our everyday lives. The Curses run rampant throughout the world, capable of leading people to terrible misfortune and even death. What's more, the Curses can only be exorcised by another Curse. Itadori Yuji is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a friend who has been attacked by Curses, he eats the finger of the Double-Faced Specter, taking the Curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with the Double-Faced Specter. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Gojou Satoru, Itadori is admitted to the Tokyo Metropolitan Technical High School of Sorcery, an organization that fights the Curses... and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a Curse to exorcise a Curse, a life from which he could never turn back. (Source: Crunchyroll) Note: The first episode received an early web premiere on September 19th, 2020. The regular TV broadcast started on October 3rd, 2020.

Where to watch

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