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Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1 Unveils More Cast, King Gnu Opening Song in New Trailer
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The Jump Festa '26 event on Saturday revealed a new trailer for Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1, the first part of the third season of the anime. The video revealed more cast and the opening theme song "AIZO" by King Gnu. It was also announced that the new season's first two episodes will air as a one-hour special on its premiere on January 8.
The anime's staff also revealed an "another version" of the new season's teaser visual:
The newly announced cast are:
Kazuya Nakai as Kinji Hakari
Yuki Sakakihara as Kirara Hoshi
Tomokazu Sugita as Hiromi Higuruma
Satoshi Tsuruoka as Fumihiko Takaba
Yutaka Aoyama as Reggie Star
Neeko as Kogane
The anime will premiere on January 8, and will air on the "Super Animeism TURBO" programming block on MBS, TBS, and their affiliates. Crunchyroll will stream the anime worldwide, excluding Asia.
Yoshiko Sakakibara will voice the character Tengen in the new season. Sakakibara will also continue as the narrator for the anime, as she did in the anime's second season.
Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution, known as Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution -Shibuya Incident x The Culling Game Begins in Japan, is a compilation of the second season's "Shibuya Incident," along with the first two episodes of the third season (before the season premieres in January). The film opened simultaneously in Japan on November 7 on both IMAX screens and regular theaters. The film ranked at #1 in its opening weekend, and earned 639,785,800 yen (about US$4.13 million) in its first three days.
The cast for the third season 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. Animation directors Yosuke Yajima and Hiromi Niwa return, but this time 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 Itō
- Editor: Keisuke Yanagi
- Music Producer: Yoshiki Kobayashi
- Sound Director: Yasunori Ebina
- Sound Production: dugout
The first Jujutsu Kaisen television anime season 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 film got revival screenings in five cities across Japan on October 24.
The second season premiered in July 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-August 2023. The "Shibuya Incident" arc started at the end of August 2023 and consisted of 18 episodes.
The JUJUTSU KAISEN: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death – The Movie compilation film opened in Japan on May 30 and ranked at #4 in its opening weekend.
Gege Akutami launched the manga in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in March 2018, and ended it in September 2024. Viz Media is publishing the manga digitally and in print, and Shueisha is also publishing the manga digitally on its MANGA Plus service.
Source: Jump Festa '26 Jump Super Stage livestream
