60 Fun Facts About Jujutsu Kaisen

Who wrote and illustrated the Jujutsu Kaisen manga?

The author is a fan of both Kubo (Bleach) and Togashi and has cited them as influences on the series.

Which animation studio produces the Jujutsu Kaisen anime?

The same studio's other credits include Chainsaw Man and Yuri!!! on Ice.

How many of Sukuna's fingers must Yuji consume before his planned execution?

The historical figure that inspired Sukuna was described with two faces and four arms, which is where the finger count comes from.

In which Shueisha magazine was the main Jujutsu Kaisen manga serialized from 2018 to 2024?

The magazine's chief editor said the series received unanimous approval from the serialization committee before its March 2018 debut.

How many tankōbon volumes make up the completed Jujutsu Kaisen manga?

The final volume added 16 pages of new epilogues focused on Yūko Ozawa, Uraume, Nobara and Panda.

Which real historical figure are Yuta Okkotsu and Satoru Gojo said to descend from?

The author added the reference as a tribute to his late editor Yamanaka, after being advised the story should feature a real person.

In Jujutsu Kaisen 0, Yuta Okkotsu is haunted by the cursed spirit of which childhood friend?

The two had promised to marry when they grew up, and Yuta keeps wearing her engagement ring after her spirit passes on.

Under what title was Jujutsu Kaisen 0 originally published in 2017?

It was a four-chapter series that was retitled and reissued as a prologue volume once the main series took off.

The four-chapter prequel that became Jujutsu Kaisen 0 first ran in which magazine?

The author was disappointed to be placed in that quarterly rather than the main weekly, but the response was strong enough to earn a full serialization.

When did the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 anime film premiere in Japanese cinemas?

A novelisation based on Hiroshi Seko's script was published the very same day as the premiere.

Who directed the first season of the anime and the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 film?

He had previously directed The God of High School and said Gojo's Domain Expansion scene was especially tough to adapt from black-and-white pages.

Which director took over from the first season's director for season 2?

For the fourth season he steps up to chief director while his season 3 assistant director takes the main chair.

How many episodes were in the first season of the anime?

From episode 3 onward each episode ended with a 'Juju Sanpo' post-credits short about the characters' daily lives.

Season 2's second arc, the Shibuya Incident, ran for how many episodes?

The flashback arc that opened the season, Hidden Inventory / Premature Death, took just five episodes.

Which artist performs 'Kaikai Kitan', the anime's first opening theme?

Its music video hit 100 million YouTube views by April 2021, one of the fastest anime openings to do so.

Which band performed 'Specialz', the opening theme for the Shibuya Incident episodes?

The same band returned with 'Aizo' as the opening for the first part of the Culling Game season.

How many awards did the second season win at the 8th Crunchyroll Anime Awards, a record at the time?

It beat the eight awards My Hero Academia's second season had won in 2018 and took Anime of the Year for the series' second time.

From which series did Jujutsu Kaisen take Guinness's most in-demand animated TV show title in 2024?

Parrot Analytics measured its demand at 71.2 times the average TV show, peaking at 128 times on December 29.

The author said the series' magic system was largely inspired by which Yoshihiro Togashi manga?

He admired how that series' fights 'reject emotional arguments', and also borrowed a twist on Naruto's Nine-Tails to create Sukuna.

Which anime did the author credit with influencing the mythological aspects of the series?

Horror and found-footage films were the other stated influence, which explains the grotesque curse designs.

The historical Ryomen Sukuna who inspired the villain appears in which classical Japanese text?

That figure had two faces and four arms and was an enemy of the Yamato court, yet was worshipped as a deity by some.

Sukuna is described as the strongest sorcerer of which era of Japanese history?

That era is called the golden age of jujutsu sorcery in the story, and Sukuna's true form finally reappears during the Shinjuku battle.

Which inherited Zen'in ability lets Megumi Fushiguro summon shikigami such as his divine dogs?

Once one of the technique's shikigami is destroyed it can never be summoned again, which is why Mahoraga is so dangerous.

What is the name of Megumi Fushiguro's Domain Expansion?

Sukuna nearly levels Shibuya after Megumi summons the uncontrollable Mahoraga in desperation.

Nobara Kugisaki fights with a hammer, nails and effigies; what is her innate ability called?

Its Resonance ability lets her hurt a distant target by striking a doll along with a piece of the opponent, and she once improvised with her heel as the nail.

Nobara transferred to Tokyo Jujutsu High from which city in northern Japan?

Her sharp desire to get to Tokyo, against her grandmother's wish that she grow up quietly at home, was a deliberate contrast written by the author.

What is Gojo's inherited ocular ability to see and read cursed energy in detail called?

The blindfold he can see through was the author's starting idea for the character's design.

During the Kyoto Goodwill Event, Gojo blasts the curse Hanami with which signature attack?

Yuta later fires the same attack at Sukuna while temporarily occupying Gojo's body in Shinjuku.

Toge Inumaki keeps his mouth covered and speaks only in rice-ball ingredients because of what ability?

In the Shinjuku fight Yuta plays a recording of his voice to freeze Sukuna, and Inumaki still suffers the technique's backlash.

Aoi Todo swaps the positions of people and objects by clapping using which technique?

After losing an arm in Shibuya he modifies the technique with a percussion attachment so he can keep clapping.

Which percussion instrument does Aoi Todo attach to his arm so he can keep swapping after losing a hand?

The upgrade lets him swap multiple targets rapidly, disruptive enough to force Sukuna into using his Domain Expansion.

Kento Nanami's technique creates weak points by dividing a target into what proportion?

His Binding Vow called Overtime makes him stronger once he is working past normal hours, a joke on his salaryman past.

Mahito reshapes the souls and bodies of his victims with which cursed technique?

Kenjaku later absorbs Mahito and uses the technique to awaken cursed techniques in marked humans for the Culling Game.

Which bullied high-school student befriends Yuji, then is transfigured and killed by Mahito?

Mahito forcibly awakened his cursed technique, a venomous jellyfish shikigami, by transfiguring his brain.

Maki Zen'in traded cursed energy for superhuman physical ability, a condition known as what?

She needs special glasses to see curses at all, and Toji Fushiguro carries the same condition.

Which second-year student is a sentient Cursed Corpse with three cores, including a gorilla mode?

Principal Masamichi Yaga made him; the third core is a triceratops mode, and after two cores are destroyed he shrinks to a cub-like form.

Kinji Hakari's Domain Expansion, Idle Death Gamble, is themed on which Japanese gambling machine?

Hitting the jackpot (a 1 in 239 chance) gives him four minutes and eleven seconds of unlimited cursed energy and effective immortality.

Which volcanic Special Grade curse force-feeds Yuji ten fingers during the Shibuya Incident?

Sukuna kills him moments later but acknowledges his fighting ability, a rare compliment from the King of Curses.

Toji, the 'Sorcerer Killer', once left teenage Gojo near death and killed which Star Plasma Vessel?

Watching non-sorcerers celebrate her death was one of the events that pushed Suguru Geto into becoming a curse user.

Aoi Todo picked up his habit of asking men what type of woman they like from which mentor?

She is one of only four Special Grade sorcerers and dies fighting Kenjaku near the end of the Culling Games.

Mei Mei's cursed technique lets her control and share the vision of which animals?

She openly admits she only cares which side pays more, and after Shibuya she converts her fortune to foreign currency and leaves Japan.

Who voices Yuji Itadori in the original Japanese version of the anime?

In the season 2 finale the anime added a scene not in the manga where Yuji performs an ippon-jime hand clap.

Which actor voices Satoru Gojo in the English dub?

He called the character one of 'the trolliest trolls to ever troll anime' and ad-libbed some swearing to match the lip-sync.

Yuji's surname Itadori is the name of which plant, used in traditional medicine?

The plant is used to take away pain, a nod to Yuji's caring nature; his hoodie was meant to symbolise his indecisiveness.

Megumi's given name is usually a girl's name in Japan; what does it mean?

That is why he mostly goes by his surname; in the author's first draft he was called Wanibuchi and was the protagonist.

In the Japanese voice cast, Yūichi Nakamura plays Gojo; who voices Sukuna?

Ray Chase voices Sukuna in English and also voices Choso, so the two half-brothers' foe and friend share one American actor.

Which fast-food chain sold a Jujutsu Kaisen 'Special Grade Garlic Sauce' in 2024?

Eight characters appeared on the dipping-sauce lids and each purchase came with a 30-day Crunchyroll trial.

Which theme park hosted a Jujutsu Kaisen 4-D show and a themed roller coaster from 2022 to 2023?

The coaster's onboard sound system let riders pick their own music for the ride.

What is the title of the 2024 Bandai Namco fighting game based on the series?

The free-to-play mobile RPG Phantom Parade came out a few months earlier in Japan after a lengthy delay.

By December 2025, roughly how many copies of the manga were in circulation?

It was the best-selling manga series in Japan in both 2021 and 2022, ahead of everything including One Piece.

In which prefecture was the author of Jujutsu Kaisen born?

He moved to Sendai in fifth grade and started drawing manga by copying a friend.

Before his debut, the author worked as an assistant on Kiss x Death under which manga artist?

His first published work that same year, 2014, was the one-shot 'Kamishiro Sōsa' in Jump NEXT!.

Which company publishes the Jujutsu Kaisen manga in English in North America?

Shueisha also runs the series in English on its Manga Plus app simultaneously with Japan.

Two Jujutsu Kaisen light novels, including Summer of Ashes, Autumn of Dust, were written by whom?

Both were released under the Jump J-Books imprint before Viz brought them to English in 2022 and 2023.

After the Shibuya Incident, Tokyo principal Masamichi Yaga is executed by which Kyoto principal?

The executioner fights by amplifying cursed energy through the melody of his electric guitar.

Besides Crunchyroll, the English dub premiered in December 2020 on which US streaming service?

In Southeast Asia, India, Hong Kong and Taiwan the series arrived on Netflix in June 2021 through licensor Medialink.

Which studio developed the free-to-play mobile RPG Jujutsu Kaisen: Phantom Parade?

Announced in June 2021 for a 2022 launch, it slipped to November 2023 in Japan and reached international players a year later.

How many episodes made up the anime's third season, The Culling Game: Part 1, in early 2026?

It aired from January 9 to March 27, and a fourth season, The Culling Game: Part 2, was announced after the finale.

Which Japanese retailer's annual manga prize, then in its third year, did the series win in 2019?

The same year it was nominated for the 65th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category.

Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo, the 2025-26 short manga, was co-created by Akutami and which artist?

It ran in Weekly Shōnen Jump from September 8, 2025, to March 9, 2026.