Jujutsu Kaisen’s second season has been airing since July, and its first batch of episodes centered on then-young Jujutsu Sorcerers Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto. These flashback episodes highlighted how shut the pair had been and the mission that finally drove them aside to being on reverse sides as seen all through the present’s unique season and final yr’s Jujutsu Kaisen 0 film.
With the desk setting now achieved, and after a couple of weeks off the air, the present is returning again to the current day. Villains throughout the first season made it a behavior of mentioning Shibuya as a part of their grand plan to take Gojo down and use sequence lead Yuji Itadori to convey again the demon Sukuna to his full energy. (Additionally a part of that plan? Killing mainly everybody in sight, as Hanami and Jogo are wont to do.) The Shibuya Incident arc present in Gege Akutami’s manga has been hyped to hell and again by Kaisen followers, and is mainly the purpose the place the story really begins.
There’s a really “Everyone seems to be right here!” high quality to the trailer above, as virtually each outstanding current day character is right here and accounted for in some trend. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 had an identical impact throughout its third act, but it surely hits slightly more durable right here since Yuji is joined by his associates, Megumi Fushiguro, and Nobara Kugisaki, together with others like Panda, Maki, and Inumaki. Just like the motion scenes, all of them look slick as ever, it’s only a disgrace that they’re all about to be put via absolute hell throughout the subsequent 18 episodes.
Jujutsu Kaisen’s second season returns on Thursday, August 31 on Crunchyroll. Each season one and Jujutsu Kaisen 0 are on the identical platform, and there’s additionally a 25-minute recap episode if that’s extra your pace.
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