Toho Animation started streaming on Friday a brand new trailer for the Gekijō-ban Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (Jujutsu Kaisen 0 the Film) movie, and the video reveals and previews the theme track “Itto” (The Solely Means) by King Gnu.

About 74,784 folks watched the trailer when it premiered reside on Friday at 12:00 a.m. JST.

Megumi Ogata will voice the primary character Yuta Okkotsu

Kana Hanazawa will voice the character Rika Orimoto. The character is essential to the movie’s story, and is the childhood buddy of fundamental 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 beneath in her human and cursed spirit appearances.

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 is predicated 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 buddy Rika has was a Curse and will not depart him alone. Since Rika is not any peculiar Curse, his plight is observed by Satoru Gojo, a trainer at Jujutsu Excessive, a college the place fledgling exorcists learn 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 outdoors 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 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 folks to horrible misfortune and even loss of life. What’s extra, the Curses can solely be exorcised by one other Curse.

Itadori Yuji is a boy with large bodily power, although he lives a totally peculiar highschool life. At some point, to save lots of a buddy 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 corporation 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 may by no means flip again.

Sunghoo Park (The God of Excessive Faculty) directed the anime at MAPPA. Hiroshi Seko (Assault on Titan: Misplaced Ladies, 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 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 “in all probability” finish inside two years. Akutami added he doesn’t have faith in that assertion although.

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

Sources: Jujutsu Kaisen anime’s web site and Twitter account, Toho Animation‘s YouTube channel