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Jujutsu Kaisen's Gege Akutami, Cipher Academy's Yuji Iwasaki Team Up for New Short-Term Manga
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
This year's 40th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine revealed on Monday that Jujutsu Kaisen manga creator Gege Akutami and Cipher Academy manga illustrator Yuji Iwasaki are launching a new short-term manga titled Mojuro (title romanization not confirmed) in the magazine's 41st issue, which ships on September 8. Akutami is in charge of the original work, and Iwasaki is illustrating the manga. The magazine shared an image for the manga in the preview for the next issue (right side in the image below).
The first chapter will have 54 pages, with a color opening page. Shueisha will also feature the manga on the cover of the 41st issue of Weekly Shonen Jump. Weekly Shonen Jump did not reveal details about the manga's plot.
Akutami launched the Jujutsu Kaisen manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in March 2018, and ended it in September 2024. Viz Media is publishing the manga digitally and in print, and Shueisha also published the manga digitally on its MANGA Plus service. The manga has 30 volumes.
The first anime adaptation of the manga premiered in October 2020, and it had 24 episodes.
The Jujutsu Kaisen 0 anime film opened in Japan in December 2021, and it opened with English subtitles and with an English dub in the U.S. and Canada in March 2022.
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.
The "Hidden Inventory / Premature Death" arc received a compilation film that opened in Japan on May 30. GKIDS acquired the film and screened it in theaters in the United States on July 16 and 17.
The anime is getting a sequel adapting the manga's "Culling Game" (Shimetsu Kaiyū) arc. MAPPA will continue to produce the anime.
Source: Weekly Shonen Jump issue 40
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