On December 17th and 18th, 2022 the Jump party 2023, a convention dedicated to Japanese comics and animation. We have already revealed all the panels that were present at the Shueisha event, including the one dedicated to Jujutsu Kaisen, a very popular work by the young mangaka Gege Akutami.

In a press release, Jump Festa 2023 staff revealed that voice actor Takahiro Sakurai will not attend the event. His presence as a voice actor on Jujutsu Kaisen was a given i getSeries villain whose past will be revealed in the second season.

The exclusion of Tomioka’s Demon Slayer voice from Jump Festa 2023 is in all likelihood due to the extramarital scandal he was involved in. Takahiro Sakurai He has always been very private about his private relationships, so much so that he has had both a wife and a lover for more than 10 years and both were unaware of the existence of the other relationship.

In between August and September 2022 However, many newspapers have brought the voice actor’s love affairs to light, causing a stir that has negatively impacted his career. Sakurai then publicly apologized to everyone involved and stated that he had to work hard for it regain lost trust.

In the Jump Festa 2023 press release that we leave you at the bottom of the news in the @ tweetWSJ_mangaHowever, the reason for Sakurai’s non-participation was not disclosed, which could therefore be linked to other circumstances. In any case, a bitter loss for the board Jujutsu KaisenHowever, which refers to other voice actors such Junya Enoki and Yuichi Makamura.


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