About 15,000 folks watched the Gekijō-ban Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (Jujutsu Kaisen 0 the Film) anime movie on the earliest public screenings in 58 screens at midnight on Friday.

The distributors initially deliberate to display screen the movie at midnight on solely 28 screens in 14 theaters at Kyoto and Miyagi (locales with hyperlinks to the story), plus Tokyo, Osaka, Aichi, Fukuoka, and Hokkaido. Nonetheless, tickets bought out on the primary day of gross sales, so theaters ultimately expanded the variety of screens. Specifically, Tokyo’s TOHO Cinemas Shinjuku had deliberate solely two screens at first, however tickets bought out in minutes. It will definitely confirmed the movie at midnight on eight screens.

As a result of pandemic from the brand new coronavirus illness (COVID-19), few movies have opened with midnight screenings in Japan through the previous two years.

The movie opened in Japan on Friday. The movie’s viewers members every obtain a “Jujutsu Kaisen #0.5 Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu Excessive Faculty” booklet, whereas provides final. Theaters are distributing 5 million booklets. The movie additionally has IMAX screenings.

Megumi Ogata is voicing the primary character Yuta Okkotsu:

Kana Hanazawa is voicing the character Rika Orimoto. The character is essential to the movie’s story, and is the childhood buddy of foremost character Yuka. The 2 had promised to marry one another, however Rika passes away in a automotive accident and turns into a particular grade vengeful cursed spirit. The character is seen beneath in her human and cursed spirit appearances.

The twenty fourth and remaining episode of the Jujutsu Kaisen tv anime led to March with an announcement {that a} movie will open this winter. The movie relies on Gege Akutami‘s Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Tokyo Toritsu Jujutsu Kōtō Senmon Gakkō (Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu Excessive Faculty) manga prequel story, with MAPPA animating once more and TOHO distributing.

Viz Media launched the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 manga in January, and it describes the story:

Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous highschool scholar who’s affected by a major problem—his childhood buddy Rika has was a Curse and will not go away him alone. Since Rika is not any peculiar Curse, his plight is observed by Satoru Gojo, a instructor at Jujutsu Excessive, a college the place fledgling exorcists discover ways to fight Curses. Gojo convinces Yuta to enroll, however can he study sufficient in time to confront the Curse that haunts him?

The Jujutsu Kaisen tv anime premiered in October 2020. Crunchyroll streamed the anime exterior of Asia because the anime aired in Japan, and has additionally streamed dubs in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

Akutami launched the primary manga in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Bounce journal in March 2018. Viz Media printed the manga’s first three chapters in English concurrently with Japan as a part of its Bounce Begin initiative. When Viz then switched to its new Shonen Bounce mannequin in December 2018, the corporate started publishing new chapters of the manga digitally. Shueisha can be publishing the manga on its MANGA Plus web site.

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