Within the framework of Crunchyroll Expo 2022, the world leader in the distribution of anime content announced that Jujutsu Kaisen 0 will be added next September 21st to its international catalogue. This is the same date that the film will be released on Blu-ray/DVD in Japan.
But that is not all. Crunchyroll revealed that will begin adding classic anime movies and other successful franchises every Thursday from August 11 until next October. The list of feature films that will hit the platform in our region will be revealed very soon.
For now, Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is the only production confirmed to premiere subtitled and dubbed in Latin American territory as part of this Crunchyroll campaign.
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Jujutsu Kaisen 0 is a prequel to the main series inspired by the manga Tokyo Metropolitan Magic Technical School of 2017. The elements of that one shot by Gege Akutami served as the basis for the serialization of the manga jujutsu kaisen. Eventually, the publisher Shueisha decided to collect the original story as a prequel volume that they renamed Jujutsu Kaisen 0.
The feature film saw the return of most of the staff MAPPA study (Attack on Titan: The Final Season) who worked on the anime series: director Sunghoo Park (The God of High School); screenwriter Hiroshi Seko (Vinland Saga); character designer Tadashi Hiramatsu (Parasyte -the maxim-); as well as the composers Hiroaki Tsutsumi (DR STONE), Yoshimasa Terui (Hi Score Girl) and Arisa Okehazama (The God of High School). The Japanese cast was led by Megumi Ogata as Yuta Okkotsu and Kana Hanazawa as Rika Orimoto, while the Latin dub featured Diego Mora and Itzel Mendoza, respectively.
Crunchyroll provides the following synopsis of Jujutsu Kaisen 0:
When they were children, Rika Orimoto died in a car accident in front of her best friend, Yuta Okkotsu.
“It is a promise. When we grow up, we’ll get married.”
Rika became a ghost and Yuta came to wish for his own death after suffering under his curse, when the great mage Satoru Gojo welcomes him to the Academy of Sorcery.
There Yuta meets his companions: Maki Zen’in, Toge Inumaki and Panda, and finally finds the courage he lacked.
“I want to have the confidence to say that it is not bad that he is still alive! As long as I’m in the Academy of Sorcery, I’ll end Rika-chan’s curse.”
Meanwhile, the evil sorcerer Suguru Geto, who was expelled from the sorcery academy for murdering innocents, appears before Yuta and his friends.
“On December 24 we will celebrate the Night Parade of the Hundred Demons.”
Geto aspires to create a paradise exclusively for sorcerers and decides to unleash thousands of curses on Shinjuku and Kyoto to exterminate all non-sorcerers.
Can Yuta stop Geto?
Will he be able to end Rika’s curse?
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Jujutsu Kaisen 0 premiered on December 24, 2021 in Japan. Crunchyroll brought the film to theaters in Latin America on March 24 of this year.