Shueisha‘s Leap Festa ’22 occasion on Sunday revealed a brand new trailer for the Gekijō-ban Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (Jujutsu Kaisen 0 the Film) anime movie. The video previews the theme tune “Itto” (The Solely Manner) by King Gnu.

The movie will open in Japan on December 24. 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. 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. The movie can even have IMAX screenings.

Megumi Ogata will voice the principle character Yuta Okkotsu

Kana Hanazawa will voice the character Rika Orimoto. The character is vital to the movie’s story, and is the childhood pal of principal 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 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.

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 pal Rika has was a Curse and will not go away him alone. Since Rika is not any odd 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 exterior 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 Leap journal in March 2018. 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: Leap Festa ’22 livestream, TOHO‘s YouTube channel