The fall 2020 anime series Jujutsu Kaisen recently found itself a distribution partner overseas with Crunchyroll having announced their pickup of the series. It’s set to be an exclusive show on their service when it arrives, which will be available to audiences worldwide outside of Asia. With an October 2nd, 2020 debut for it coming up, Crunchyroll has now taken the recent third full promo for the series and provided English subtitles for it so we can know what’s going on ahead of its premiere.
In terms of production, Sunghoo Park is directing the series based on the scripts from Hiroshi Seko. Tadashi Hiramatsu is adapting the original character designs and MAPPA will be handling the animation for the production.
The Japanese cast includes Junya Enoki as Yūji Itadori, Yūma Uchida as Megumi Fushiguro, Asami Seto as Nobara Kugisaki, Junichi Suwabe as Sukuna Ryomen, Mikako Komatsu as Maki Zenin, Kouki Uchiyama as Toge Inumaki, Kenjiro Tsuda as Kento Nanami, and Tomokazu Seki as Panda. Additional cast includes Nobunaga Shimazaki as Mahito, Takahiro Sakurai as Suguru Geto, Atsuko Tanaka as Hanami, Shigeru Chiba as Shogo, Marina Inoue as Mai Zen’in, Subaru Kimura as Aoi Todo, Mugihito as Yoshinobu Gakuganji, Chinatsu Akasaki as Kazumi Miwa, Aya Endo as Shoko Ieiri, Takaya Kuroda as Masamichi Yaga, Yoshitaka Yamaya as Junpei Yoshino, and Mitsuo Iwata as Kiyotaka Ijichi.
The series comes from Gege Akutami which began in 2018 and has eleven volumes out as of June 2020.
The series has set Eve to perform the opening theme song “Kaikai Kitan” while Ali will handle the ending with “Lost in Paradise feat. AKLO.”
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Plot Concept: Hardship, regret, shame: the negative feelings that humans feel become Curses that lurk in our everyday lives. The Curses run rampant throughout the world, capable of leading people to terrible misfortune and even death. What’s more, the Curses can only be exorcised by another Curse.
Itadori Yuji is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a friend who has been attacked by Curses, he eats the finger of the Double-Faced Specter, taking the Curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with the Double-Faced Specter. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Gojo Satoru, Itadori is admitted to the Tokyo Metropolitan Technical High School of Sorcery, an organization that fights the Curses… and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a Curse to exorcise a Curse, a life from which he could never turn back.
Previous Promos:
【呪術高専2年生 禪院真希 役は #小松未可子 さんに決定!キャラクター設定&コメント公開‼】
彼女の表立って見える強さや荒々しさ。その背景にある境遇を丁寧に演じられたらと思います。コメント全文→https://t.co/U7tNzCN1g0#呪術廻戦 pic.twitter.com/ltHApvvczI
— 『呪術廻戦』アニメ公式 (@animejujutsu) July 15, 2020
【呪術高専2年生 禪院真希 役は #小松未可子 さんに決定!キャラクター設定&コメント公開‼】
彼女の表立って見える強さや荒々しさ。その背景にある境遇を丁寧に演じられたらと思います。コメント全文→https://t.co/U7tNzCN1g0#呪術廻戦 pic.twitter.com/ltHApvvczI
— 『呪術廻戦』アニメ公式 (@animejujutsu) July 15, 2020
【呪術高専2年生 パンダ 役 #関智一 さんに決定!キャラクター設定&コメント公開‼】
見た目はパンダでありながら、人間的な常識を持ち合わせる存在。そのギャップを大切にしながら、自分らしさも僅かに加えて演じていきたいと考えております。コメント全文→https://t.co/U7tNzCN1g0#呪術廻戦 pic.twitter.com/j9et6tTzqh
— 『呪術廻戦』アニメ公式 (@animejujutsu) July 15, 2020