Jujutsu Kaisen’s second season has been airing since July, and its first batch of episodes targeted on then-young Jujutsu Sorcerers Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto. Those flashback episodes highlighted how shut the pair had been and the mission that in the end drove them aside to being on reverse sides as seen all through the present’s unique season and final yr’s Jujutsu Kaisen 0 film.
With the desk setting now achieved, and after a couple of weeks off the air, the present is returning again to the current day. Villains throughout the first season made it a behavior of mentioning Shibuya as a part of their grand plan to take Gojo down and use collection lead Yuji Itadori to deliver again the demon Sukuna to his full energy. (Also a part of that plan? Killing principally everybody in sight, as Hanami and Jogo are wont to do.) The Shibuya Incident arc present in Gege Akutami’s manga has been hyped to hell and again by Kaisen followers, and is principally the purpose the place the story really begins.
There’s a really “Everyone is here!” high quality to the trailer above, as virtually each outstanding current day character is right here and accounted for in some trend. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 had an analogous impact throughout its third act, nevertheless it hits somewhat tougher right here since Yuji is joined by his pals, Megumi Fushiguro, and Nobara Kugisaki, alongside with others like Panda, Maki, and Inumaki. Like the motion scenes, all of them look slick as ever, it’s only a disgrace that they’re all about to be put via absolute hell throughout the subsequent 18 episodes.
Jujutsu Kaisen’s second season returns on Thursday, August 31 on Crunchyroll. Both season one and Jujutsu Kaisen 0 are on the identical platform, and there’s additionally a 25-minute recap episode if that’s extra your velocity.
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