The official Twitter/X account and website of the Jujutsu Kaisen TV anime series announced the casting of voice actors Soma Saito and Ari Ozawa for its ongoing third season. Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1 began airing in Japan on January 8, 2026.
Saito and Ozawa will voice Rin Amai (left) and Remi (right), respectively.
They join a voice cast that includes:
- • Junya Enoki as Yuji Itadori
- • Yuma Uchida as Megumi Fushiguro
- • Daisuke Namikawa as Choso
- • Megumi Ogata as Yuta Okkotsu
- • Koji Yusa as Naoya Zen’in
- • Yoshiko Sakakibara as Tengen
The third season staff includes Shota Goshozono (Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 director) as director, Hiroshi Seko (since Season 1) as series composer and scriptwriter, Yosuke Yajima (new) and Hiromi Niwa (new) as character designers, Yosuke Takada (new) as assistant director, Teppei Ito (since Season 1) as compositing director, Eiko Matsushima (since Season 2) as color designer, Junichi Higashi (since Jujutsu Kaisen 0) as background art director, and Yoshimasa Terui (since Season 1, solo credit since Season 2) as music composer. MAPPA is handling the animation production.
The anime began with a first season in 2020, which ended in early 2021 after 24 episodes. It was followed by December 2021’s Jujutsu Kaisen 0 prequel anime film. A second season aired from July 2023 to December 2023, with the latter “Shibuya Incident Arc” starting a few weeks after the initial “Hidden Inventory Arc. Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution was released in 2025 and was a compilation film that also previewed the first two episodes of the current season.
Crunchyroll is currently streaming all the anime’s previous seasons and Jujutsu Kaisen 0. It is streaming Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1 worldwide, outside of Asia, in select countries and territories.
The anime is based on the manga series by Gege Akutami, which was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from March 5, 2018 to September 30, 2024. Thirty total tankobon volumes were released in Japan. A short spinoff sequel manga titled Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo was released in the same magazine on September 8, 2025, with Akutami serving as writer and Yuji Iwasaki as the artist.
The four-chapter predecessor manga, now known as Jujutsu Kaisen 0, was released in 2017 and adapted into a 2021 anime film of the same name.
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Viz Media releases the manga series in English and describes the main premise as:
Although Yuji Itadori looks like your average teenager, his immense physical strength is something to behold! Every sports club wants him to join, but Itadori would rather hang out with the school outcasts in the Occult Research Club. One day, the club manages to get their hands on a sealed cursed object. Little do they know the terror they’ll unleash when they break the seal…
Sources: Jujutsu Kaisen Official Japanese Twitter (2), Official Anime Website, Anime News Network
