On Tuesday, Crunchyroll announced thatJujutsu Kaisen 0will open in the U.S. and Canada on March 18. The film will be shown in over 1,500 theaters alongside IMAX theaters and will be presented with both English subtitles and an English dub.
Fans can purchase tickets to the film starting on February 25. Crunchyrollstreamed an English-subtitled trailerto commemorate the film’s North American release.
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Jujutsu Kaisen 0will also release in the U.K., Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, French-speaking Africa, and Latin America sometime in the near future. The film isexpected to be releasedin more territories, though no release window has been provided.
The film recently became the 50th highest-earning film in Japanese box office history after selling 6,812,266 tickets and earning ¥9,310,477,450 (roughly US$81.7 million) in its first 31 days at the box office. It iscurrently outpacing last year’s highest-earning filmin Japan,Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time, which earned around ¥10.22 billion (roughly US$88 million) during its run.
Gege Akutami’sJujutsu Kaisen 0(renamed fromTokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School) manga ran in Shueisha’s Jump GIGA magazine from April-July 2017. The series serves as a prequel to Akutami’s popularJujutsu Kaisenseries, which began serialization in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine in 2018. The series has amassed 18 collected volumes throughout its run so far. A free-to-play RPG developed by Sumzap was announced in June 2021, though nothing new regarding the project has been disclosed since.
MAPPA animated a24-episode anime adaptationof the manga from October 2020-March 2021, with Sunghoo Park (Banana Fish,The God of High School) directing and Hiroshi Seko (Attack on Titan,Dorohedoro) serving as screenwriter.
MAPPA returned to animateJujutsu Kaisen0, alongside Park and Seko. The film stars Megumi Ogata(Evangelion’sShinji Ikari,YuYu Hakusho’sKurama) as Yuta Okkotsu, with Kana Hanazawa (Steins;Gate’sMayuri Shiina,Psycho-Pass’Akane Tsunemori) voicing Rika Orimoto.
VIZ Media licenses the manga in English alongside Jujutsu Kaisen 0. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and VIZ Media owns the home video rights.
