Through the Leap Festa 2023 Tremendous Stage on December 17, 2022, Jujutsu Kaisen’s creator Gege Akutami introduced that his sequence might come to an finish in a yr. The mangaka’s message to his readers acknowledged that he wished for his or her help for one more yr.
The Leap Festa 2023 Tremendous Stage unveiled the character previews for season 2 and introduced a Q&A session with the voice actors current. The message was learn on the finish of the presentation and displayed Akutami’s signature flare and the important thing announcement.
Jujutsu Kaisen creator Akutami’s message at Leap Festa 2023 asks followers to help him for another yr
The panel consisted of Junya Enoki, Yuichi Nakamura, and Nobunaga Shimazaki, who play Yuji Itadori, Satoru Gojo, and Mahito, respectively, within the Jujutsu Kaisen anime. Suguru Geto’s voice actor, Takahiro Sakurai, was additionally set to seem. Nevertheless, he was absent as a result of current scandal concerning his private life.
The message from Akutami was learn aloud by Shimazaki. Roughly translated, it reads:
“Thanks on your continued help of Jujutsu Kaisen. It’s unlucky however we regularly have to listen to the information that we dread daily. It’s truthfully a shock that so many individuals take pleasure in my work at the same time as actuality appears to slowly however absolutely smother us.”
It additional continues:
“I’ll maintain drawing issues that make no sense, and Gege (referring to himself) can be so completely satisfied in case you proceed to stick with me and revel in my work for about one other yr (possibly).”
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For sure, the message was complicated at finest and gave rise to rampant hypothesis. Akutami had beforehand acknowledged in January 2021 that he needed to finish his sequence inside two years.
It seems that the deadline has been prolonged as a result of introduction of the Culling Recreation. One of many ongoing debates within the fandom is whether or not The Culling Recreation arc would be the closing arc of the manga. Suffice to say, Akutami’s message appears to have confirmed this hypothesis for some followers.
In the meantime, many followers consider that whereas The Culling Recreation arc might come to an finish in a yr, the manga itself will proceed, given the variety of plot-threads Akutami has but to resolve. Whereas it’s nearly universally acknowledged amongst followers that the sequence will finish in a tragedy, it is just pure that they need to lengthen the arrival of stated ending.
Enoki even commented that he doesn’t belief mangakas concerning the end-dates of their sequence, doubtless referring to how My Hero Academia mangaka Kohei Horikoshi deliberate to finish his sequence this yr. Nevertheless, the latter couldn’t accomplish that as a result of story being removed from completed.
Remaining ideas
At present’s Jujutsu Kaisen Tremendous Stage at Leap Festa 2023 additionally contained details about season 2 and a Q&A piece, the place the voice actors revealed the solutions to among the quirky questions, such because the origin of Takaba’s joke and why Charles was made a foreigner. Furthermore, the voice actors needed to constantly censor themselves in order that they would not reveal any spoilers.