Jujutsu Kaisen Creator Hints the End of the Manga for 2024

Gege Akutami, the mangaka behind Jujutsu Kaisen, believes the manga may end sometime in 2024.

At Jump Festa 2024, the creator of Jujutsu Kaisen did not attend the event, but did leave a handwritten note that was read aloud to the audience who was there in person and online. Anime News Network translated Akutami’s note, saying, “This will probably definitely be the last Jump Festa where Jujutsu Kaisen is still in serialization.” The manga will likely end sometime in 2024.

Akutami has stated a few times on the end of Jujutsu Kaisen, with the most recent time at Jump Festa 2023 last year. In December 2022, the mangaka asked fans to “accompany me for up to one more year (probably).” Akutami has been vague about the exact timing for the manga’s end.

Written and illustrated by Gege Akutami, Jujutsu Kaisen began serialization in Weekly Shōnen Jump in March 2018. One of the best-selling manga series of all time at 90 million copies in circulation as of December 2023, the series has spawned a highly popular anime adaptation with MAPPA at the helm. Season 1 aired in October 2020 with 24 episodes. MAPPA produced an animated film adaptation of the prequel series Jujutsu Kaisen 0 in December 2021. Season 2 aired on July 6 and is currently streaming.

Jujutsu Kaisen follows high schooler Yuji Itadori who possesses an unusual level of fitness. After saving his friends and Jujutsu Sorcerer Megumi Fushiguro from a Curse at school, Yuji is thrust into the world of sorcerers. Because he swallowed the rotten finger of Sukuna, the King of Curses, the sorcerers society want nothing more than to kill him. Thanks to Satoru Gojo’s intervention, Yuji’s death sentence is temporarily suspended until he finds and consumes the rest of Sukuna’s fingers.

Jujutsu Kaisen is available to read through its manga form on Viz Media and animated form on Crunchyroll.

Source: X, formerly known as Twitter, via Jump Festa 2024