Jujutsu Kaisen (Japanese for “Sorcery Fight“) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gege Akutami. The story of Jujutsu Kaisen follows high school student Yuji Itadori as he joins a secret organization of sorcerers in order to kill a powerful Curse named Ryomen Sukuna, of whom Yuji becomes the host. A 24-episode anime television series adaptation produced by MAPPA premiered in October 2020. The show is becoming greatly popular day by day.
With its magnificent animations and epic action scenes, the show has managed to steal the hearts of watchers all while forcing even the non-weebs to watch the show. In January 2021, it was revealed that the anime series was the second most-watched anime series on Crunchyroll in 2020, only second to Black Clover, being watched in 71 countries.
Jujutsu Kaisen’s Success apart from summing up a large Fandom, the show has also managed to procure various awards. As mentioned above, the show is currently the second Most Watched anime series on Crunchyroll, following this great success, Jujutsu Kaisen is winning many awards despite being launched only a few months ago. Crunchyroll has announced the winners of the fifth annual Anime Awards, as decided by 15 million global votes from fans across 18 categories.
Jujutsu Kaisen’s greatest success is winning the “Anime Of The Year” award which is a massive achievement for a newly launched anime. Ryomen Sukuna, the antagonist of the series has won the “Best Antagonist” Award in Crunchyroll’s Anime Award. Ryomen Sukuna in Jujutsu Kaisen is the same Ryomen Sukuna who is known throughout ancient Japanese history. Just like his real-life counterpart Sukuna in Jujutsu Kasien has two arms and two faces.
He is considered to be the most powerful Curse in the show. Even a group of Jujutsu Sorcerers were not able to defeat him and so he exists long after his death as cursed objects. His finger is the cursed object that contains his strength and is so powerful that other curses are drawn to them in hopes of ingesting them in order to gain great strength. Apart from this, the show has also managed to win the “Best Ending Sequence” award for itself.
The ending of Jujutsu Kaisen features the Lost In Paradise song by ALI and AKLO. Winning three Crunchyroll awards and acquiring the title of the second most-watched Anime flawlessly expresses what a brilliant show Jujutsu Kaisen is. 19 episodes of the show have been released in Japanese dubbed format while the English dubbed version of the show has 13 episodes released till now.
The thirteenth episode of the Jujutsu Kaisen dub was released 12 days ago on 12th February 2021 and is the show is currently on a two-week break. With 5 episodes left in the Japanese version of the show and 11 episodes in the English dubbed version of the show, the 24 episodes long run of this amazing show is about to come to an end. With this much success, it’s exciting to see what the future of the show would be.
