Crunchyroll unveiled a new trailer and additional images for its upcoming March 18 theatrical release of Jujutsu Kaisen 0. The dark fantasy film from Toho Animation, animated by MAPPA and directed by Sunghoo Park, will be available in both English dub and subtitled and will arrive in more than 1,500 theaters nationwide. The will also be released in select U.S. based IMAX theaters.
Tickets for the highly-anticipated film (rated PG-13, RT 105 min.) are on sale in the United States and Canada are currently on sale. For more information, visit crunchyrollmovienight.com.
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 follows Yuta Okkotsu, a nervous high school student, who enrolls in the mysterious Tokyo Jujutsu High School under the guidance of Satoru Gojo after being haunted by the curse of his childhood friend. The film is based on the JUMP COMICS / Shueisha prequel manga to the smash hit supernatural adventure series from Gege Akutami.
Synopsis: When they were children, Rika Orimoto was killed in a traffic accident right before the eyes of her close friend, Yuta Okkotsu.
“It’s a promise. When we both grow up, we’ll get married.”
Rika became an apparition, and Yuta longed for his own death after suffering under her curse, but the greatest Jujutsu sorcerer, Satoru Gojo, welcomed him into Jujutsu High. There, Yuta meets his classmates, Maki Zen’in, Toge Inumaki and Panda, and finally finds his own determination.
“I want the confidence to say it’s okay that I’m alive!”
“While I’m at Jujutsu High, I’ll break Rika-chan’s curse.”
Meanwhile, the vile curse user, Suguru Geto, who was expelled from the school for massacring ordinary people, appears before Yuta and the others.
“This coming December 24th, we shall carry out the Night Parade of a Hundred Demons.”
While Geto advocates for creating a paradise for only jujutsu sorcerers, he unleashes a thousand curses upon Shinjuku and Kyoto to exterminate all non-sorcerers.
Will Yuta be able to stop Geto in the end? And what will happen to breaking Rika’s curse…?
The anime series Jujutsu Kaisen is based on the best-selling manga of the same title, serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump and has sold over 60 million copies in Japan. In the U.S., the series is published by VIZ Media. The anime series was named Anime of the Year by the Crunchyroll Anime Awards in 2021. Both Crunchyroll and Funimation have the entire series on their platforms, both subbed and dubbed, for fans to catch up on before seeing the theatrical experience.
