Jujutsu Kaisen Vol 1: Volume 1

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I just finished the anime and now I need to be able to just safely navigate the internet without risking the spoilers so, naturally, I'm reading the manga. Although Yuji Itadori looks like your average teenager, his immense physical strength is something to behold! c] [109] By January 13, 2021, the series had over 20 million copies in circulation, [c] [110] [111] and increased to 25 million copies in circulation by January 26. The story is pretty much your 'new kid goes to a magical boarding school' setting but there is a twist, the new kid is possessed by the most powerful being in the circle of curse workers/magic users and supernatural beings.

I'm all for being inspired or adding small references, but this author just copies things in their entirety, at time without even changing anything. Just when I thought I was done with the shōnen genre, Jujutsu Kaisen comes along and slaps me upside the head. Gojo reveals Yuji being alive during the exchange event between the Tokyo and Kyoto Jujutsu schools. Silverman praised the series' use of Japanese folklore and yōkai elements, comparing this and Akutami's art style to Shigeru Mizuki's GeGeGe no Kitarō, but criticized the story for being "very generic". A second stage play based on the manga's "Kyoto Goodwill Event" and "The Origin of Blind Obedience" story arcs, is scheduled to run in Tokyo and Hyogo from December 2023 to January 2024.Sukuna hits Kashimo with the same move he used to kill Gojo, fatally wounding him, but Yuji, implied to have consumed the rest of the Death Paintings with Choso's approval, arrives with Culling Game participant Hiromi Higuruma to fight Sukuna. The story follows high school student Yuji Itadori as he joins a secret organization of Jujutsu Sorcerers to eliminate a powerful Curse named Ryomen Sukuna, of whom Yuji becomes the host. c] [114] [115] By the start of March 2021, the series had over 36 million copies in circulation, [c] [116] and by the end of the month, the manga recorded over 40 million copies in circulation.

Crunchyroll Anime Awards 2022 Nominations Include '86 Eighty-Six,' 'Jujutsu Kaisen,' 'Oddtaxi' (EXCLUSIVE)".It was the fourth best-selling manga series in the first half of 2023 (period between November 2022 and May 2023), with over 3. Raise wa Tanin ga Ii, Senpai ga Uzai Kōhai no Hanashi Take Top Prizes at Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Awards". When the group attempt to save Tsumiki, they learn she has become a host for a reincarnated sorcerer. I really like Sukuna's first appearance in the story and I also like how Sukuna looks in the last panel!

While the story isn’t breaking new ground the setup gives us a great idea of how our jujutsu members will work together. The outfits from Yuji Itadori, Satoru Gojo, Megumi Fushiguro, and Nobara Kugisaki were released as cosmetic items in Fortnite starting on August 8, 2023. Shawn Hacaga of The Fandom Post, in his review of the first volume, compared the series to early Bleach and praised it for its world, lore, characters and artwork, concluding that it is a "solid first volume". I'm so excited to just get to expend more time with these precious characters, especially Yuuji, because I just love them all so much.

The main group makes plans and gets ready for the ultimate showdown on the day, where Gojo faces off against Sukuna and Megumi's Ten Shadows, eventually managing to beat them. Douresseaux praised the series for its characters, plots, settings, and internal mythology, and described it as a "combination battle manga and horror comic book".

A fanbook, titled Jujutsu Kaisen Official Fanbook ( 呪術廻戦 公式ファンブック, Jujutsu Kaisen Kōshiki Fanbukku), was published by Shueisha on March 4, 2021.She concluded, "It has the potential to be more as Akutami gets more comfortable with the serialization process and figures out precisely where the story is going, so it may be worth a second book to be certain.