A live-streamed particular for the Gekijō-ban Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (Jujutsu Kaisen 0 the Film) movie introduced on Saturday that the movie’s viewers members will every obtain a “Jujutsu Kaisen #0.5 Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu Excessive Faculty” booklet, whereas provides final. Theaters will distribute 5 million booklets.

The booklet will embrace an unique nine-page manga by authentic manga creator Gege Akutami in regards to the day by day lifetime of Okkotsu and the opposite first-year college students, the thumbnail layouts for the primary chapter from the manga that impressed the movie, the movie’s designs, a question-and-answer session with Akutami, and feedback by the anime’s employees and forged.

As well as, theaters in Kyoto and Miyagi (locales with hyperlinks to the story), plus Tokyo, Osaka, Aichi, Fukuoka, and Hokkaido will maintain midnight screenings on opening day, December 24. Among the collaborating theaters will start providing tickets for these screenings on December 21.

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

As beforehand introduced, Megumi Ogata voices the primary character Yuta Okkotsu.

Kana Hanazawa voices the character Rika Orimoto. The character is vital to the movie’s story, and is the childhood good friend 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.

Kōichi Yamadera (proper in picture under) will play Miguel (left).

The opposite new forged members embrace (from left to proper in picture under):

• Risae Matsuda as Mimiko Hasaba
• Satsumi Matsuda as Nanako Hasaba
• Shizuka Itou as Manami Suda
• Sho Hayami as Larue

The movie will open on December 24.

The twenty fourth and closing 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. The movie could have a novel adaptation that may debut similtaneously the movie on December 24.

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

Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous highschool pupil who’s affected by a significant issue—his childhood good friend Rika has become a Curse and will not go away him alone. Since Rika isn’t any strange 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 be taught 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.

Crunchyroll describes the anime’s story:

Hardship, remorse, disgrace: the unfavorable emotions that people really feel develop 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 demise. 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 totally strange highschool life. Someday, to save lots of a good friend 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 essentially the most highly effective of sorcerers, Gojo Satoru, Itadori is admitted to the Tokyo Metropolitan Technical Excessive Faculty of Sorcery, a company that fights the Curses… and thus begins the heroic story of a boy who turned 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 primary manga in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Leap journal in March 2018. The manga has 60 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 have faith in that assertion although.

Viz Media revealed the manga’s first three chapters in English concurrently with Japan as a part of its Leap Begin initiative. When Viz then switched to its new Shonen Leap 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 anime’s web site, Comedian Natalie