On Wednesday, the official website for the Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 anime announced the artists who will be performing the opening and ending theme songs for the second season’s “Kaigyoku/Gyokusetsu” arc. Tatsuya Kitani will perform the opening theme song titled “Ao no Sumika” (Blue House), and Soushi Sakiyama will perform the ending theme song titled “Akari” (Lantern). Both songs will be released on July 19. Additionally, a part of the opening theme song will be previewed during the Jujutsu Kaisen segment of the “MAPPA STAGE 2023” event on May 21.
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The second season, which will premiere on July 6 on MBS and TBS along with 28 affiliated channels, will be directed by Shōta Goshozono, who is replacing Sunghoo Park. The new cast members include Anna Nagase as Riko Amanai and Takehito Koyasu as Toji Fushiguro.
The second season will run for a continuous half-year, with two cours covering both the “Kaigyoku/Gyokusetsu” arc and the “Shibuya Incident” arc.
Story
Yuji Itadori is an expert at track and field. But he has zero interest in running around in circles, he’s happy as a clam in the Occult Research Club. Although he’s only in the club for kicks, things get serious when a real spirit shows up at school! When his grandfather is on his deathbed, Yuji makes a promise to him; that he will do kind deeds so that he dies surrounded by loved ones, unlike his grandfather. However, Yuji’s life takes a sudden turn as he meets Megumi Fushiguro; a jujutsu sorcerer who tries to retrieve a cursed object. When Yuji’s friends open the cursed object that they found, things go south as the cursed spirits that it spawned start roaming in school. As Fushiguro and Yuji are almost defeated by one of the spirits, Yuji then swallows the cursed object and gains its power. As a result, Yuji becomes cursed by the object and gets dragged into Fushiguro’s thrilling world of jujutsu sorcerers and cursed spirits.
The Jujutsu Kaisen television anime originally premiered in October 2020 with 24 episodes. It was streamed by Crunchyroll outside of Asia with dubs available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German. The Jujutsu Kaisen 0 anime film was released in Japan in December 2021 and in the U.S. and Canada on March 18 with English subtitles and an English dub.
The manga, created by Gege Akutami, was first serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in March 2018. As part of Viz Media’s Jump Start initiative, the first three chapters of the manga were simultaneously published in English with the Japanese release. Later, when Viz adopted its new Shonen Jump model in December 2018, the company started releasing new chapters of the manga digitally. The digital version of the manga is also available on Shueisha’s MANGA Plus service.
Source: Natalie
