During the event JUMP FESTA 2024 a message written by Gege Akutamiwho noted that “this would be the last Jump Festa during which Jujutsu Kaisen would be being serialized.” With this, The author confirmed that the work will be completed at some point before December 2024when the next edition of Jump Festa will take place.
It is not the first time that Gege Akutami makes a statement of this typesince during the Jump Festa 2023 event, held in December of last year, the author had already indicated his plans to finish the work “one year after the date in question.” Furthermore, in February 2021 he had said that “the work would be completed in two years from then,” and neither ended up being fulfilled.
The message wrote:
- «This is probably the last Jump Festa in which “Jujutsu Kaisen” will be published. An exhibition of original illustrations will be held next summer. Although it is such an exhibition, “Jujutsu Kaisen” is made with digital manuscripts, how on earth am I going to do something like that? After discussing it with the bosses, we decided to use some materials I have lying around, such as names and drafts, to create a display that people will see and think: “I want to draw manga too!” We are currently doing trial and error on the material together. Keep trying! And all of you, please come to the exhibition when it starts!».
During the event, the cover of the twenty-fifth compilation volume of the work was also revealed, which will be released on January 4, 2024 in Japan. The literary franchise has also surpassed 90 million accumulated copies in circulation.
Gege Akutami The publication of the manga in the magazine began Weekly Shonen Jump from the publisher Shueisha in March 2018. The first season of the anime adaptation had a total of twenty-four episodes and premiered during the season of Fall-2022 (October-December). An animated film titled Jujutsu Kaisen 0 and released in December 2021 in theaters in Japan. A second season is currently airing.
Jujutsu Kaisen Synopsis
High school student Yuuji Itadori, who engages in baseless paranormal activities with the Occult Club, spends his days in the club room or in the hospital, where he visits his bedridden grandfather. However, this leisurely lifestyle soon takes a turn for the strange when he unknowingly comes across a cursed object. Triggering a chain of supernatural events, Yuuji suddenly finds himself immersed in the world of curses – terrible beings formed from human evil and negativity – after swallowing said object, which is revealed to be a finger belonging to the demon Sukuna Ryoumen, the “King of Curses”.
Yuuji experiences firsthand the threat these Curses pose to society while discovering his own newfound powers. Introduced to the Tokyo Metropolitan Jujutsu Technical School, he begins to travel a path from which he will not be able to return: that of a Jujutsu sorcerer.
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