Jujutsu Kaisen has become a major player in the Shonen universe in a relatively short amount of time. First arriving under the name, “Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical College”, the series has received an anime series from MAPPA, along with a prequel film exploring the world prior to Yuji Itadori’s arrival. With season two slated to arrive next year, creator Gege Akutami is hinting that the grand finale of Jujutsu Tech might be arriving in the manga sooner than many expect.
Jujutsu Kaisen’s first season of its anime adaptation had helped boost the popularity of the series that sprang from the mind of the mangaka Gege Akutami, with the first film of the franchise netting some serious box office receipts. While Yuji Itadori was the star of the series throughout the first season’s anime episodes, the movie Jujutsu Kaisen 0 followed the student that came before him, Yuta Okkotsu. Unlike Yuji who struck ingested the fingers of the king of curses, Sukuna, Yuta’s backstory was a much more tragic one as his supernatural power caused the love of his life to be bound to him. Unfortunately for the film’s hero, his childhood love was transformed into one of the most terrifying monsters that the anime had seen to date.
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Jujutsu Kaisen’s End
Gege Akutami took to the stage for this year’s Jump Festa, confirming a possible timeline for when his biggest Shonen franchise would come to an end:
“If you accompany me for up to one more year (probably), I will be very happy.”
The anime landscape has been bringing a handful of major juggernauts in the medium to a close these past few years, with Demon Slayer and Dr. Stone being two prime examples. Not only is Jujutsu Kaisen aiming to bring Yuji’s story to a close, but the likes of One Piece, Attack on Titan, and My Hero Academia are more examples of animes that are nearing their end.
Will you be sad to see Jujutsu Kaisen come to an end? Do you think Akutami might revisit the series with a sequel or spin-off in the future? Feel free to let us know in the comments or hit me up directly on Twitter @EVComedy to talk all things comics, anime, and the world of Jujutsu Tech.
