Jujutsu Kaisen 0has become the 50th highest-earning film in Japanese box office history after selling 6,812,266 tickets and earning ¥9,310,477,450 (roughly US$81.7 million) in 31 days.
Thepopular prequel filmhas now surpassed theCode Bluefilm,Arrietty,Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer, andStar Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sithin Japanese box office performance.
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Last year’shighest-earning film in Japan,Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time, earned around ¥10.22 billion (roughly US$88 million) during its run. Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is currently outpacing the film, which took 42 days to earn ¥7,799,314,050 (roughly US$71.7 million).
Gege Akutami’sJujutsu Kaisen 0(renamed fromTokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School) manga ran in Shueisha’s Jump GIGA magazine from April-July 2017. Theseries serves as a prequelto Akutami’s popularJujutsu Kaisenseries, which began serialization in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine in 2018. The series has amassed 18 collected volumes throughout its run so far. A free-to-play RPG developed by Sumzap was announced in June 2021, though nothing new regarding the project has been disclosed since.
MAPPA animated a 24-episode anime adaptation of the manga from October 2020-March 2021, with Sunghoo Park (Banana Fish,The God of High School) directing and Hiroshi Seko (Attack on Titan,Dorohedoro) serving as screenwriter.
MAPPA returned to animateJujutsu Kaisen0, alongside Park and Seko. Thefilm stars Megumi Ogata(Evangelion’sShinji Ikari,YuYu Hakusho’sKurama) as Yuta Okkotsu, with Kana Hanazawa (Steins;Gate’sMayuri Shiina,Psycho-Pass’Akane Tsunemori) voicing Rika Orimoto.
VIZ Media licenses the manga in English alongside Jujutsu Kaisen 0. Crunchyroll streamed the anime as it aired in Japan, and VIZ Media owns the home video rights.
