Jujutsu Kaisen unveils new trailer and announces director change

During the event AnimeJapan 2023 A new promotional video has been unveiled for the second season of the manga’s anime adaptation, written and illustrated by Against Akutami, Jujutsu Kaisen. The video officially confirms this The premiere is scheduled for July 6 in Japan.while the platform crispy roll takes over distribution in the West.

Let’s remember that this second season is titled “Jujutsu Kaisen: Kaigyoku and Gyokusetsu / Shibuya Incident Arc‘, and which will consist of two arcs (two quarters) airing continuously, for which fans can expect more than twenty episodes. Also the video confirms that season one director Sunghoo Park is leaving the project and hands over direction to Shouta Goshozono.

New voice cast members were also announced, including:

• Anna Nagase as Riko Amanai.

• Takehito Koyasu as Touji Fushiguro.

Against Akutami began publishing the manga in the magazine Weekly shōnen jump from the publisher shueisha in March 2018. The first season of the anime adaptation had a total of twenty-four episodes and premiered in the season of Autumn-2022 (October-December). Then an animated film with the title Jujutsu Kaisen 0 and released in theaters in Japan in December 2021.

production team

• Shouta Goschozono (Jujutsu Kaisen Ep. 8 & 17, Chainsaw Man Ep. 8) is responsible for directing the anime at the studios MAPPAsubstitute Sunghoo Parkwho directed the first season.
• Hiroshi Seko (Dorohedoro, banana fish) is responsible for writing and supervising the screenplays.
• Tadashi Hiramatsu (Yuri! On Ice, Parasite: The Maxim) is responsible for character design and animation direction.
• Hiroaki Tsutsumi, Yoshimasa TeruiAnd Okehazama Alisa They are responsible for composing the soundtrack.

Jujutsu Kaisen summary

Engaging in unfounded paranormal activity with the Occult Club, high school student Yuuji Itadori spends his days in the club room or in the hospital visiting his bedridden grandfather. However, this leisurely lifestyle soon takes a bizarre turn when he unknowingly stumbles upon a cursed item. Triggering a chain of supernatural events, Yuuji suddenly finds himself in the world of curses – terrifying beings formed out of human evil and negativity – after swallowing said object, which turned out to be the finger of the demon Sukuna Ryoumen, the “king”. , turns out the curses”.

Yuuji experiences firsthand the threat these curses pose to society as he discovers his own newfound powers. When he is introduced to the Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu Technical School, he begins to walk a path from which he cannot return: that of a jujutsu magician.

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