JUJUTSU KAISEN
"A boy fights... for "the right death.""
Overview
Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by curses, he eats the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, taking the curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with Ryomen Sukuna. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Satoru Gojo, Itadori is admitted to Tokyo Jujutsu High School, 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.
The appeal of Jujutsu Kaisen lies in the friction between everyday teen life and a grim supernatural reality. Instead of keeping the horror contained, the series forces its students into a secret organization where school life is interrupted by the necessity of exorcising malignant spirits. This structure transforms a familiar academic setting into a volatile training ground for combat against entities spawned from human malice.
The narrative gains edge through the symbiotic struggle between Yuji Itadori and the formidable Ryomen Sukuna. Sharing a body with a demonic force creates a constant internal threat that complicates every mission. The action sequences, bolstered by the presence of Satoru Gojo and a wide cast including Yuu Hayashi, prioritize technical discipline and high-stakes survival. It manages to balance dark fantasy tropes with a grounded approach to the consequences of wielding power.
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- First Aired
- October 03, 2020
- Status
- Returning Series
- Episode Runtime
- 24 minutes
- Origin
- JP
- TMDB Votes
- 4,399