Jujutsu Kaisen Comes to Life in Live-Action Video Ahead of Season 2
To celebrate 80 million copies in circulation, Jujutsu Kaisen will release a live-action special video on July 5.
Jujutsu Kaisen will celebrate its enormous manga milestone in style.
The official account of Jujutsu Kaisen revealed the manga series has recorded over 80 million copies in circulation. To celebrate this impressive achievement and the release of Volume 23, Jujutsu Kaisen will broadcast a live-action television ad after the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 film broadcasts on July 5. For fans who can’t watch it in Japan, the ad will also show on Weekly Shōnen Jump’s YouTube channel and Twitter account.
Written and illustrated by Gege Akutami, Jujutsu Kaisen began serialization in Weekly Shōnen Jump in March 2018 and the series’ growth has been explosive. The manga recorded 600,000 copies in circulation in December 2018 and reached 1.1 million copies in February 2019. By the time the anime adaptation aired in October 2020, the series had reached 10 million copies. In February 2021, the series had over 30 million copies and reached 50 million copies in May 2021. Most recently, Jujutsu Kaisen recorded 70 million copies in August 2022.
Jujutsu Kaisen follows Yuji Itadori, an unusually fit high schooler, who finds himself pinned with a death sentence after he swallows the rotting finger of Sukuna, the dangerous King of Curses. Although the sorcerers’ society demand that Yuji dies, Satoru Gojo suspends his death sentence until Yuji trains himself and is able to hunt down the rest of Sukuna’s fingers and swallows them. Once he does so, the sorcerers’ society will kill him and thus eliminate Sukuna once and for all.
The series received an anime adaptation by MAPPA in October 2020 with 24 episodes. Sunghoo Park directed the first season and the animated prequel film Jujutsu Kaisen 0 which became the highest-grossing film in 2021 when it premiered. The second season, adapting the “Kaigyoku/Gyokusetsu” and “Shibuya Incident” arcs with Shōta Goshozono replacing Park as the director.
Season 2 will premiere on July 6 for two consecutive cours. The special live action video drops on July 5.
Source: Twitter
