The official web site for the Gekijō-ban Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (Jujutsu Kaisen 0 the Film) introduced on Friday that Kana Hanazawa will voice the character Rika Orimoto. The character is essential to the movie’s story, and is the childhood pal of predominant character Yuka Okkotsu (voiced by Megumi Ogata). 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 movie will open on December 24.

The twenty fourth and ultimate episode of the Jujutsu Kaisen tv anime ended on March 26 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 on January 5, and it describes the story:

Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous highschool scholar who’s affected by a major problem—his childhood pal Rika has changed into a Curse and will not go away him alone. Since Rika is not any atypical Curse, his plight is seen by Satoru Gojo, a instructor at Jujutsu Excessive, a faculty the place fledgling exorcists learn 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 airs in Japan, and has additionally streamed dubs in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

Crunchyroll describes the anime’s story:

Hardship, remorse, disgrace: the detrimental emotions that people really feel turn into Curses that lurk in our on a regular basis lives. The Curses run rampant all through the world, able to main individuals to horrible misfortune and even dying. What’s extra, the Curses can solely be exorcised by one other Curse.

Itadori Yuji is a boy with super bodily energy, although he lives a very atypical highschool life. At some point, to avoid wasting a pal who has been attacked by Curses, he eats the finger of the Double-Confronted Specter, taking the Curse into his personal soul. From then on, he shares one physique with the Double-Confronted Specter. Guided by probably the most highly effective of sorcerers, Gojo Satoru, Itadori is admitted to the Tokyo Metropolitan Technical Excessive Faculty of Sorcery, a corporation that fights the Curses… and thus begins the heroic story of a boy who grew to become a Curse to exorcise a Curse, a life from which he might by no means flip again.

Sunghoo Park (The God of Excessive Faculty) directed the anime at MAPPA. Hiroshi Seko (Assault on Titan: Misplaced Women, Banana Fish, Vinland Saga) wrote and supervised the scripts. Tadashi Hiramatsu (His and Her Circumstances, Yuri!!! on Ice, Parasyte -the maxim-) designed the characters. Hiroaki Tsutsumi, Yoshimasa Terui, and Arisa Okehazama composed the music.

Akutami launched the principle manga in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Bounce journal in March 2018. The manga has 55 million copies in circulation, together with print and digital copies. Akutami mentioned in February that manga will “most likely” finish inside two years. Akutami added he doesn’t believe in that assertion although.

Viz Media revealed 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 also be publishing the manga on its MANGA Plus web site.

Sources: Jujutsu Kaisen 0 movie’s web site, Comedian Natalie