Everyone else… will have a hard time understanding what the hell is going on.
In the post - lockdown boxwood office , a few bankable trends that signal a young picture will rake in good money have calcified : be a motion picture thatstars Tom Holland , beThe Batmanor a similarly immense superhero dimension , or be an anime movie of an existing mega - pop serial publication . The first example of the latter emerged in October 2020 whenDemon Slayer : Kimetsu No Yaiba — The Movie : Mugen Trainopened in Japan . Within six hebdomad , it became the country’shighest - gross filmever , bestingSpirited Away , Titanic , Frozen , andYour Name . land in the states in April 2021 , when theater were just unlocking their doors again , it opened at No . 1 at the box office , finally pull in closely $ 50 million during its run . Now another Modern anime movie expanding on a monolithic new series is aiming to replicate that success by lure in fan who simp for a buoyant blue - eyed , white - haired sorcerer named Gojo Satoru who can mess with the fabric of space - time by thwart his fingers .
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 , a prequel to the shōnenJujutsu Kaisen , whichbegan airing in late 2019with one of thebest - ever end credits in television set , arrived in North American theaters on Friday . It earned a respectable$17.7 million — second toThe Batman ’s third - week grab of almost $ 37 million . While that difference might look chasmic , consider this : JJK0beat the next most profitable opening , Ti West ’s wild repugnance filmX , by more than $ 13 million despite bowing in few theaters and without a cinephile - favorite distributer ( A24 ) behind it . alternatively , it cater specifically to fans who have been dying to see more of the anime about high schoolers who press curses with nerveless counter - curses since its first season end a year ago .
And for people who have watchedJujutsu Kaisen , JJK0scratches that scratch in adapting a fan - favorite manga arc set in the twelvemonth before the events of the main series and closes the loop between the two in a short post - credits vista establishing that we should n’t be surprised to see a new grapheme usher up in Season 2 ( coming out in 2023 ) . But for those who got tangle along as a plus - one without roll in the hay any of the linguistic context , this movie would likely be confuse , throw almost every character from the serial on - CRT screen at some point with no introduction . If you ’re in a seat , you ’re expected to have intimate familiarity with the ensemble of thaumaturge instructors and Old students border pink - hairy series champion Itadori Yuji on his quest to eat all 20 of the petrified fingers from the torso of the world ’s most powerful curse , Sukuna .
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But again , JJK0has nothing to do with Yuji and his new classmates , the insanely coolheaded Nobara Kugisaki and come off Megumi Fushiguro . In the year before they make it at Tokyo Metropolitan Magic Technical College , a different especial son is read in by Gojo : Okkustu Yuta , kind of a sad sack curse by his puerility love , Orimoto Rika , who necessitate on a giant , grievous , and terrifying signifier called the Queen of Curses when Yuta is in difficulty , brutally dispatch four bullies at the origin of the movie . With the assistance of series 2d - years — Inumaki Toge , who mumbles nonsense words in everyday conversation because of his cursed speech power ; Maki Zen - in , who comes from a famous jujitsu thaumaturge family and has one of the serial ' standout episodes that breaks shōnen conventions ; and Panda , literally an anthropomorphous red panda made by a ritual send for cursed cadaver mutation — Yuta must discover how to control Rika lest she be seized by all ofJujutsu Kaisen ’s big bad , Geto Suguru , a former friend of Gojo ’s and megalomaniac purport on killing all non - necromancer .
Fleshing out Geto and Gojo ’s backstory — clearly pregnant , though the rationality why is more equivocal in the serial publication — inJJK0is one of its more sweet hallmarks , but the master attractive feature here are the big melees in all of their architecture - bulldozing resplendency vivify by MAPPA , especially during the last confrontation between Yuta and Geto while the Rolodex of jujutsu thaumaturgist take down the 1,000 curses that Geto has unleashed around Japan . look at the serial publication , it ’s not really a spoiler to say that the expert bozo win , but the runaway battle back - build the true stakes of the premature 24 episodes , which often regain clock time to be laugh - out - loud funny remark as Yuji comes into his own power as Sukuna ’s vas in between frighteningly dire fights with topnotch - sturdy curse word ( at least one of whichEvilfans will recognize in the vent - lead Jogo ) . With Geto scheming his big comeback , those who have seenJJK0will at least know that Yuji , Gojo , and co. have helper on the way , wad the big businessman of one giant nemesis with loads of keen tooth .
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