Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2

Last updated: 1 November 2026

About Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2

Season 2 of Jujutsu Kaisen opens in 2006 with the Hidden Inventory arc: Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto are carefree second-year students, the strongest duo at Tokyo Jujutsu High, ordered to escort a schoolgirl, Riko Amanai, to her fate as the Star Plasma Vessel. The mission's brutal end, and the assassin Toji Fushiguro, splits the friends' paths forever: Gojo awakens as the strongest, while Geto begins his fall toward the villain of Jujutsu Kaisen 0. The season then returns to the present for the Shibuya Incident, the manga's most famous arc: on Halloween night, 31 October 2018, a curtain traps thousands in Shibuya, Gojo is sealed away, and curses and curse users launch a coordinated attack that changes every surviving character. Running 23 episodes from July to December 2023, Season 2 pairs MAPPA's most ambitious action with the story's emotional core, how the strongest sorcerer was made, and what the world looks like without him.

Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 is a TV anime from 2023, first released in Summer 2023. It belongs to the Action and Supernatural genres and is listed as a completed series. The summary above is written by the AnimeYug team in our own words.

Official Trailer

▶Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2: Shibuya Incident PV · TOHO animation

Story & Plot

In 2006, Gojo and Geto are Jujutsu High's golden pair, cocky, inseparable and already stronger than almost anyone alive. Their mission sounds simple: protect Riko Amanai, a bright, ordinary girl chosen to merge with Master Tengen, from the cults who want her dead. But a bounty brings the Sorcerer Killer, Toji Fushiguro, a man with no cursed energy at all, into their path. What happens on that mission awakens Gojo's true power and plants the doubt that will consume Geto: why should sorcerers die protecting a world that fears them?

Twelve years later, on Halloween 2018, the bill comes due. A curtain seals Shibuya with thousands of civilians inside, all demanding one thing: bring Satoru Gojo. It is a trap built by the fake Geto and the disaster curses, and when Gojo is sealed inside the Prison Realm, every sorcerer in Tokyo must fight through one endless night of ambushes, domain battles and losses. The Shibuya Incident is where Jujutsu Kaisen stops being a school story and becomes a war.

Story Arcs & Episode Guide

The Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 anime is split into story sagas. Here is every saga in order, with its episodes and years.

Why Watch Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2

• Gojo's Past: five episodes that reframe the whole series, friendship, failure and a fateful mission.
• The Shibuya Incident: 18 episodes of near-nonstop battles, ambushes and turning points.
• MAPPA's peak action direction, from Toji's ambush to the Shibuya domain clashes.
• King Gnu's 'SPECIALZ' and Tatsuya Kitani's 'Where Our Blue Is' bookend the two arcs.
• Real consequences: Season 2 permanently changes the cast and the world.

Who Is It For?

Rated TV-MA in the US for gore and horror imagery, so Season 2 is aimed at older teens and adults. The Shibuya Incident is the darkest stretch of the series so far, with heavy losses and intense imagery throughout the night-long battle.

Satoru Gojo

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Suguru Geto

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Toji Fushiguro

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Riko Amanai

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Yuji Itadori

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Megumi Fushiguro

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Nobara Kugisaki

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Kento Nanami

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Maki Zenin

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Toge Inumaki

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Panda

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Aoi Todo

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Ryomen Sukuna

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Mahito

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Choso

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Voice Actors

The Japanese voices behind the main characters of Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2.

• Satoru GojoMain character: the strongest sorcerer; seen here as both a Jujutsu High student (2006) and a teacher
  Japanese voiceYuichi Nakamura
• Suguru GetoGojo's best friend and classmate in 2006, whose fall begins in this season
  Japanese voiceTakahiro Sakurai
• Toji FushiguroThe Sorcerer Killer: an assassin with no cursed energy
  Japanese voiceTakehito Koyasu
• Riko AmanaiThe Star Plasma Vessel: the girl Gojo and Geto must protect
  Japanese voiceAnna Nagase
• Yuji ItadoriMain character: Sukuna's vessel and Jujutsu High first-year
  Japanese voiceJunya Enoki
• Megumi FushiguroMain character: first-year who summons shikigami from shadows
  Japanese voiceYuma Uchida
• Nobara KugisakiMain character: first-year who fights with nails, a hammer and straw dolls
  Japanese voiceAsami Seto
• Kento NanamiSupporting character: a grade 1 sorcerer and former office worker
  Japanese voiceKenjiro Tsuda
• Maki ZeninSupporting character: second-year who fights with cursed tools
  Japanese voiceMikako Komatsu
• Toge InumakiSupporting character: second-year whose words carry cursed power
  Japanese voiceKoki Uchiyama
• PandaSupporting character: a talking panda cursed corpse and second-year student
  Japanese voiceTomokazu Seki
• Aoi TodoSupporting character: Kyoto third-year with a love of tall idols
  Japanese voiceSubaru Kimura
• Ryomen SukunaThe King of Curses, living inside Yuji
  Japanese voiceJunichi Suwabe
• MahitoA special grade curse born from human hatred
  Japanese voiceNobunaga Shimazaki
• ChosoThe eldest of the Death Painting brothers
  Japanese voiceDaisuke Namikawa

Staff & Production

Original Creator

Gege Akutami

Animation Studio

MAPPA

Director

Shota Goshozono

Series Composition

Hiroshi Seko

Music

Yoshimasa Terui

Manga & Source Material

Jujutsu Kaisen began as a manga by Gege Akutami. It was preceded by a short 2017 prequel series that was later collected as Volume 0 and adapted into the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 movie.

• Written and illustrated by Gege Akutami.
• Serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump from March 5, 2018 to September 30, 2024.
• 271 chapters collected into 30 volumes, plus the prequel Volume 0.
• The manga is complete; the final volumes 29 and 30 were released together in December 2024.
• Passed 100 million copies in circulation by September 2024.

Music

King Gnu are the franchise's signature music act: they performed the movie Jujutsu Kaisen 0's theme "Ichizu", the Shibuya Incident opening "SPECIALZ" and the Culling Game opening "AIZO". The score is by Yoshimasa Terui, with Hiroaki Tsutsumi and Arisa Okehazama joining him on Season 1.

Opening Themes

• “Kaikai Kitan”by EveSeason 1 opening.
• “Vivid Vice”by Who-ya ExtendedSeason 1, second cour opening.
• “Where Our Blue Is”by Tatsuya KitaniSeason 2 opening for Gojo's Past.
• “SPECIALZ”by King GnuSeason 2 opening for the Shibuya Incident.
• “AIZO”by King GnuSeason 3 (The Culling Game Part 1) opening.

Ending Themes

• “Lost in Paradise”by ALI featuring AKLOSeason 1 ending.
• “Give It Back”by Co Shu NieSeason 1, second cour ending.
• “Akari”by Soushi SakiyamaSeason 2 ending for Gojo's Past.
• “More Than Words”by HitsujibungakuSeason 2 ending for the Shibuya Incident.
• “Yoake no Uta”by jo0jiSeason 3 (The Culling Game Part 1) ending.

Series Timeline

1. 2017

   Gege Akutami's prequel story, later called Jujutsu Kaisen 0, is published.

2. 2018

   The main manga begins in Weekly Shonen Jump on March 5.

3. 2020

   The anime premieres on October 3, produced by MAPPA.

4. 2021

   The prequel movie Jujutsu Kaisen 0 opens in Japan on December 24 and becomes the year's top-grossing film there.

5. 2023

   Season 2 covers Gojo's Past and the Shibuya Incident, from July to December.

6. 2024

   The manga ends on September 30 with chapter 271.

7. 2026

   Season 3, The Culling Game Part 1, airs from January to March; a Season 4 covering Part 2 is announced, with no date yet.

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