The Bounce Festa ’22 occasion on Sunday revealed that Gege Akutami‘s Jujutsu Kaisen manga is inspiring a stage play adaptation that may run in Tokyo and Osaka in July to August 2022. Kensaku Kobayashi is directing the play, with a script by Kōhei Kiyasu.

Akutami launched the manga in Shueisha‘s Weekly Shonen Bounce journal in March 2018. Shueisha revealed the manga’s seventeenth compiled ebook quantity on October 4, and can publish the 18th quantity on December 25. The manga could have 60 million copies in circulation (together with print and digital copies, in addition to copies not but bought) when the amount ships.

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.

Viz Media describes the story:

In a world the place demons feed on unsuspecting people, fragments of the legendary and feared demon Ryoma Sukuna have been misplaced and scattered about. Ought to any demon eat Sukuna’s physique components, the ability they achieve might destroy the world as we all know it. Happily, there exists a mysterious college of Jujutsu Sorcerers who exist to guard the precarious existence of the dwelling from the supernatural!

Yuji Itadori is excessive schooler who spends his days visiting his bedridden grandfather. Though he appears to be like like your common teenager, his immense bodily power is one thing to behold! Each sports activities membership needs him to affix, however Itadori would somewhat hang around with the college outcasts within the Occult Membership. In the future, the membership manages to get their arms on a sealed cursed object, however little do they know the fear they’re going to unleash once they break the seal…

The Jujutsu Kaisen anime premiered in October 2020, and it had 24 episodes. Gekijō-ban Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (Jujutsu Kaisen 0 the Film), a brand new anime movie for the franchise, will open on December 24. The movie relies on Gege Akutami‘s Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Tokyo Toritsu Jujutsu Kōtō Senmon Gakkō (Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu Excessive College) manga prequel story.

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