A brief trailer for Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1‘s upcoming final episode has been released, giving fans an early look at Yuta Okkotsu’s showdown with Ryo Ishigori, Takako Uro, and Kurourushi.
The episode, “Sendai Colony,” is also the 12th of the season. The anime started broadcasting on January 8 (effectively January 9 at 12:26 AM JST).
Jujutsu Kaisen is based on the manga by Gege Akutami, in which Jujutsu Sorcerers battle Cursed Spirits in modern-day Japan. Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1 sees Yuji and his allies attempting to stop the schemes of the ancient and formidable Kenjaku, with several of them participating in the titular death game-like Culling Game.
The first season of the anime debuted in 2020 and ended in early 2021 after 24 episodes. It was followed by December 2021’s Jujutsu Kaisen 0 prequel movie (based on the manga’s four-chapter predecessor). Season 2 arrived later in July 2023 and ended in December 2023, with the latter “Shibuya Incident Arc” starting a few weeks after the opening “Hidden Inventory Arc.
Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution, a compilation film for Season 2 that also previewed the first two episodes of the current season, premiered in 2025.
The Jujutsu Kaisen manga began serialization in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump in 2018 (its prequel was serialized in 2017)) and ended in 2024. A sequel titled Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo started this year and concluded earlier this month.
Viz Media describes Jujutsu Kaisen as such:
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…
Staff
• Director: Shota Goshozono (since Season 2)
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Hiroshi Seko (since Season 1)
• Character designer: Yosuke Yajima (new)
• Character designer: Hiromi Niwa (new)
• Assistant director: Yosuke Takada (new)
• Assistant director: Takeru Sato (new, ZOMBIE LAND SAGA: Yumeginga Paradise director)
• Compositing director: Teppei Ito (since Season 1)
• Color designer: Eiko Matsushima (since Season 2)
• Background art director: Junichi Higashi (since Jujutsu Kaisen 0)
• Music composer: Yoshimasa Terui (since Season 1, solo credit since Season 2)
• Animation production: MAPPA
Cast
• Junya Enoki as Yuji Itadori
• Yuma Uchida as Megumi Fushiguro
• Daisuke Namikawa as Choso
• Megumi Ogata as Yuta Okkotsu
• Yoshiko Sakakibara as Tengen
Source: TOHO animation channel
