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Crunchyroll to Screen Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Compilation Film in Select Territories This Summer

Crunchyroll announced during the Annecy International Animation Film Festival on Tuesday that it will theatrically release JUJUTSU KAISEN Hidden Inventory / Premature Death, the compilation film of the "Hidden Inventory / Premature Death" ("Kaigyoku/Gyokusetsu") arc from the second season of the Jujutsu Kaisen television anime, in select territories including France, Germany, the U.K., Latin America and Australia this summer. Crunchyroll will screen the film in both Japanese with subtitles and dubbed formats. Release dates and other details will be announced in the future.

Crunchyroll describes the compilation film:

"The innocent spring that the two strongest lost forever."

The tale of curses that you can't miss out on is airing once again in theaters—

This is the innocent spring that the two strongest lost forever.

June 2018, Yuji Itadori allows Ryomen Sukuna to inhabit his body.

December 2017, Yuta Okkotsu frees the Curse, Rika Orimoto.

Now, time goes further back to (Spring) 2006, when Satoru Gojo and Suguru Geto were still high school students.

Both were active as Jujutsu Sorcerers with no enemy that could match them when they received a mission from Tengen, the cornerstone of Jujutsu society, who wields the cursed technique of Immortality.

Their mission involves two goals. To escort and erase the Star Plasma Vessel, Riko Amanai, the young girl compatible with Tengen.

The two set out on their mission to protect her for the continuation of Jujutsu society, but the Sorcerer Killer going by Fushiguro interferes, intent on assassinating the Star Plasma Vessel…

The past that drove apart Gojo, the strongest jujutsu sorcerer, and Geto, the evilest curse user, will finally be revealed.

The film opened in Japan on May 30 and ranked at #4 in its opening weekend. The film sold 138,000 tickets and earned 198,332,500 yen (about US$1.36 million) in its first three days.

Tatsuya Kitani performed the film's theme song, an acoustic version of "Ao no Sumika," his opening theme song for the anime's second season.

The anime's second season premiered in July 2023 and aired for two cours (quarters of a year) for a continuous half-year run. The anime adapted both the "Hidden Inventory / Premature Death" ("Kaigyoku/Gyokusetsu") arc and the "Shibuya Incident" arc of the manga. Crunchyroll streamed the season as it aired in Japan, and is also streaming an English dub.

GKIDS has acquired the anime and will open the film in theaters in the United States on July 16. The film will screen in subtitled and English-dubbed formats.

Source: Crunchyroll (Kyle Cardine)