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Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3's Teaser Unveils Part 1's January 2026 Debut, Main Cast

The livestreamed fifth anniversary special for the Jujutsu Kaisen anime debuted a teaser promotional video for the third season on Sunday. The video announces that Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1 (Shimetsu Kaiyū Zenpen) will premiere in January 2026.

Update: Crunchyroll also confirmed that it will stream the new season and posted its main cast and staff:

The cast includes:

• Junya Enoki as Yuji Itadori
• Yūma Uchida as Megumi Fushiguro
• Daisuke Namikawa as Choso
• Megumi Ogata as Yuta Okkotsu

Shōta Goshozono (JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death – The Movie, Ranking of Kings) returns to direct the series at MAPPA. Hiroshi Seko (Ajin, DAN DA DAN) is overseeing and writing the series scripts. Yosuke Yajima and Hiromi Niwa return to design the characters. Yoshimasa Terui (Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX, Hi Score Girl) will compose the music for the season.

Other staff members include:

• Assistant Director: Yōsuke Takada
• Art Director: Junichi Higashi
• Color Key Artist: Eiko Matsushima
• CG Producer: Yusuke Tannawa
• 3D CG Director: Daisuke Ishikawa (Monster's Egg)
• Compositing Director of Photography: Teppei Ito
• Editor: Keisuke Yanagi
• Music Producer: Yoshiki Kobayashi
• Sound Director: Yasunori Ebina
• Sound Production: dugout

Crunchyroll will stream the season exclusively worldwide, excluding Asia, and it will offer new episodes on the same day as in Japan.

In addition, a theatrical compilation film, Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution -Shibuya Incident x The Culling Game Begins, will open throughout Japan on November 7, before rolling out around the world. The film will be a compilation of the second season, "Shibuya Incident," along with the first two episodes of the third season. Below is the key visual that MAPPA created for the event screenings:

A site opened to celebrate the anime's fifth anniversary with a visual:

An exhibition will run from December 5 to December 29 the Ikebukuro Sunshine City complex in Tokyo, before touring other cities.

Jujutsu Kaisen Phantom Parade smartphone game previewed its upcoming original Jugokutō (Cursed Prison Island) story arc with a teaser promotional video:

The "Juju Fes 2026" event will be held next summer.

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 second season premiered on July 6, 2023 on MBS and TBS and 28 affiliated channels. Crunchyroll streamed the second season as it aired in Japan in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East, and the Commonwealth of Independent States. The company is also streaming an English dub.

The second season aired for two cours (quarters of a year) for a continuous half-year run. The anime adapts both the "Hidden Inventory / Premature Death" ("Kaigyoku/Gyokusetsu") arc and the "Shibuya Incident" arc of Gege Akutami's original manga. The "Hidden Inventory / Premature Death" arc aired from July 6 through August 3, 2023, and then the show aired two compilation episodes on August 10 and 17, 2023. The "Shibuya Incident" arc started on August 31 and consisted of 18 episodes.

Gege Akutami launched the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in March 2018. Viz Media is publishing the manga digitally and in print, and Shueisha is also publishing the manga digitally on its MANGA Plus service.

Sources: Jujutsu Kaisen anime's website & livestream, anime.eiga.com, e-mail correspondence