Summary
- Jujutsu Kaisen is gearing up for a third season with the Culling Games arc, featuring unique and bizarre abilities.
- Kirara and Hakari, new third-year characters, join the Culling Games protagonists with their strange abilities.
- The series embraces its weirdness, drawing comparisons to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, with both series sharing unique and inspired concepts.
With the end of the Shibuya arc, Jujutsu Kaisen is gearing up for a third season, featuring the highly anticipated Culling Games. In the pivotal final moments of Season 2, Kenjaku absorbed and used Mahito's dormant metamorphosis on a massive scale, awaken two thousand sorcerers across Japan. Half of them were people who possessed innate cursed techniques, but weren't born with the brains to use them. The other half were incarnate sorcerers from a bygone era, just like Sukuna.
Over the course of the arc, the protagonists and readers become acquainted with several individuals from both groups, and they have abilities that completely overturn the power system of Jujutsu Kaisen on his head, take it to strange new heights. Bizarre new heights, even, as many of these new powers wouldn't be at all unusual to see in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
Just like this shonen giant did before, It seems like Gege Akutami wanted to get weird with these new charactersand they certainly succeeded. Here's what those waiting for the next season can expect from the Culling Games arc.
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Kirara and Hakari give us a taste of what's to come
Invisible Third Years Become New Allies
Before Yuji, Megumi, and the other sorcerers embark on the Culling Games in search of a sorcerer who can free Satoru Gojo from his imprisonment, they need help. These two third-years had only been the subject of hushed rumors, with Hakari in particular having been suspended due to a dispute with a conservative high-ranking official in the Jujutsu world. Both are quite capable sorcerers, but both are also have strange abilities unlike anything seen in the series previously.
Kirara's Love Rendezvous technique forces her enemies to move in a certain direction, with each individual marked by a star from the Southern Cross constellation. She can cause objects to hurtle directly into others, or make other objects nearly impossible to hit. Almost like a puzzle more than a fighting technique. Hakari's technique uses a domain extension in a completely unique way, using his hit to inform his enemies about the workings of his Pachinko-based domain – and if he hits the jackpot, he gains infinite cursed energyThis is just a taste of the conditional cursed techniques introduced by this arc.
The cursed techniques get stranger as the slaughter games begin
Wizards old and new boast unique techniques
Once the protagonists get their hands on Hakari and Kirara, they descend into the actual slaughter games and become familiar with all types of wizardsfrom bygone eras to those who are new to the game, but thrive nonetheless. There’s Hiromi Higarama, a defense attorney turned killer with his trial technique and domain. Kashimo, an electric demon who seeks to do battle with the most powerful sorcerer of all time, Sukuna; not to mention Reggie Star, another resurrected sorcerer who can recreate anything from a recipe with his technique.
The list goes on. There's a jet and helicopter hair couple who rule the airspace. A comedian who can materialize anything as long as he thinks it's funny. An aspiring manga artist who can see the future with a drawing he places on his opponents. A man who throws gasoline-soaked body parts to make them explode, making them grow back with his “reverse curse” technique. A woman who bends the sky to make her clothes. Interestingly, The US military also appears at one pointThese are really just the tip of the iceberg for what the Culling Games are about.
The connection to JoJo's Bizarre Adventure
Jujutsu Kaisen Embraces Its Weird Side
All of these strange new abilities take the series' combat in new directions. They force the heroes to think quickly, make the most of it, and figure out how to counter these oddly specific but creatively applied powers. Domains are reintroduced not as thunderous finishing blows, but as a method of expressing technique through a domain. Gege Akutami clearly wanted to push the system they had built to its absolute limitsand may have been inspired by JoJo's Bizarre Adventure do this.
The authors themselves never claimed as much, with Bleach in particular cited as a direct inspiration for JJK. But there are a number of characters who feel perfectly at home in the wacky world of JojoIt’s easy to imagine Giorno Giovanna fighting an enemy that throws his own explosive body parts and makes them grow back. An aspiring mangaka with the power to see the future through his drawings wouldn’t be out of place in Morioh. Reggie Star’s fashion and receipt-based recreations would be fitting. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure like a glove.
Jojo's is also a good choice for JJK fans
Killing Time Before Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3
As the third season of Jujutsu Kaisen has been confirmed, it probably won't happen for another year. But fans of the series can definitely give the six-parter a try. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure an essay instead; ongoing for a decade now, there are six parts currently animated, two more in the manga, and one ongoing as well. While Todo's antics and thunderous attitude were entertaining, Jojo has plenty of that. If Megumi's Shikigami is cool For fans, almost everyone is a shikigami user Jojo.
Although these similarities are superficial and probably unintentional, they both do something unique with these concepts that take both series to the next levelAnyone who is a fan of JJK should try Jojo, and the same goes for fans of Jojo who have not yet given JJK a watch or a reading. Then they too can join in waiting for the Culling Games animation, or JJK fans can join the wait for Jojothe seventh part, Steel ball raceto animate – if it ever has to be.
While Jujutsu Kaisen And JoJo's Bizarre Adventure While there isn't a new season coming anytime soon, both shows share similarities, likely stemming from similar inspirations. What both shows do with it is unique, as the first becomes closer to the second with the Culling Games.
Jujutsu Kaisen
Jujutsu Kaisen is a supernatural action anime that follows high school student Yuuji Itadori as he battles magical curses. After Yuji selflessly saves a classmate by taking a curse into his own body, he is discovered and trained by a powerful sorcerer named Satoru Gojo. Gojo, who is also a faculty member at a high school, enrolls Yuji there to help him and other students prepare against the supernatural forces plaguing humanity.
