The Jujutsu Kaisen 0 anime movie offered 1,908,053 tickets for two,694,128,150 yen (about US$23.5 million) in 418 theaters throughout its first three days after opening on Friday. Distributor TOHO stated it was the #1 begin for a movie in Japan this fiscal 12 months, which began in April. Kyodo reviews that it’s the second highest three-day opening weekend field workplace ever, under final 12 months’s Demon Slayer – Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Film: Mugen Prepare.

TOHO reported the next numbers for the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 movie’s first three days:

• December 24: 772,224 tickets for 1,072,252,950 yen (about US$9.37 million)
• December 25: 626,110 tickets for 892,008,700 yen (about US$7.79 million)
• December 26: 509,719 tickets for 729,866,500 yen (about US$6.38 million)

TOHO additionally reported that 79.9% of respondents in viewers satisfaction surveys stated the movie was “superb,” and one other 18.1% stated it was “good” for a mixed 98% optimistic ranking.

TOHO had projected on Friday that the Gekijō-ban Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (Jujutsu Kaisen 0 the Film) anime movie offered over 1 million tickets (versus the ultimate tally of 772,224) on its opening day, on its approach to over 10 billion yen (about US$87 million) projected for its complete run.

About 15,000 folks watched the movie on the earliest public screenings in 58 screens at midnight on Friday. TOHO initially deliberate to display 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. Nevertheless, tickets offered out on the primary day of gross sales, so theaters finally expanded the variety of screens. Particularly, Tokyo’s TOHO Cinemas Shinjuku had deliberate solely two screens at first, however tickets offered out in minutes. It will definitely confirmed the movie at midnight on eight screens.

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 principle character Yuta Okkotsu:

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

The twenty fourth and ultimate 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 significant issue—his childhood pal Rika has was a Curse and will not go away him alone. Since Rika isn’t any unusual Curse, his plight is seen by Satoru Gojo, a instructor at Jujutsu Excessive, a faculty 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 outdoors of Asia because the anime aired in Japan, and has additionally streamed dubs in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

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

Sources: 47 Information, Oricon