TOHO has released a teaser trailer for Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1, which previews early post-Shibuya Incident happenings like Yuji Itadori’s one-on-one with Yuta Okkotsu, Naoya Zenin battling Choso, and Maki Zenin cutting a bloody path through the Zenin clan.
The teaser also reveals a January 2026 broadcast start date and a November 7, 2025 JST theatrical pre-screening. The theatrical preview of Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 (featuring Episodes 1 and 2) will be combined with a compilation of Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2’s “Shibuya Incident Arc,” with the release being titled Gekijouban Jujutsu Kaisen “Shibuya Jihen Tokubetsu Henshuban” x “Shimetsu Kaiyu Senko Joei.” A key visual for that was released as well.
Crunchyroll has confirmed that it will be streaming the new season “exclusively worldwide, excluding Asia.”
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3’s staff credits include:
• Director: Shota Goshozono (since Season 2)
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Hiroshi Seko (since Season 1)
• Character designer: Yosuke Yajima (new)
• Character designer: Hiromi Niwa (new)
• Assistant director: Yosuke Takada (new)
• Compositing director: Teppei Ito (since Season 1)
• Color designer: Eiko Matsushima (since Season 2)
• Background art director: Junichi Higashi (since Jujutsu Kaisen 0)
• Music composer: Yoshimasa Terui (since Season 1, solo credit since Season 2)
• Animation production: MAPPA
Some other Jujutsu Kaisen reveals:
• A Jujutsu Kaisen anime exhibition will be held at Ikebukuro Sunshine City from December 5 JST to December 29 JST, with stops in other cities to follow later. The logo indicates that it’s focused on Season 2’s arcs.
• A JuJu Fest will be held in summer 2026.
• A fifth anniversary website has been launched
Jujutsu Kaisen is based on the manga by Gege Akutami, which began serialization in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump in 2018 after a four-chapter predecessor now known as Jujutsu Kaisen 0, and ended in 2024. Viz Media describes the manga as:
Although Yuji Itadori looks like your average teenager, his immense physical strength is something to behold! Every sports club wants him to join, but Itadori would rather hang out with the school outcasts in the Occult Research Club. One day, the club manages to get their hands on a sealed cursed object. Little do they know the terror they’ll unleash when they break the seal…
The first season of the anime ran from late 2020 to early 2021 with 24 episodes and was followed by prequel movie Jujutsu Kaisen 0 in December 2021. Season 2 ran from July to December 2023, with the latter “Shibuya Incident Arc” beginning a few weeks after the initial “Hidden Inventory Arc.”
The first season of the anime and Jujutsu Kaisen 0 were directed by Sunghoo Park (God of High School, Ninja Kamui), with Shota Goshozono (Jujutsu Kaisen Episode 17, Ranking of Kings Episode 21, and Chainsaw Man Episode 8 storyboard artist and episode director) taking over afterwards.
Update: Added Crunchyroll streaming announcement and Crunchyroll English-subtitled teaser.
Cast
• Junya Enoki as Yuji Itadori
• Yuuma Uchida as Megumi Fushiguro
• Daisuke Namikawa as Choso
• Megumi Ogata as Yuta Okkotsu
Source: Jujutsu Kaisen anime website
