Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 Shocks Fans With Trailer and Kickoff Date.
After months of silence, sorcerer and curse fans got a jolt from the Season 3 Jujutsu Kaisen team, confirming the long-anticipated adaptation of the ominous Culling Game arc returns in January 2026. The next deadly tournament looms just аи few animated heartbeats ahead.
It was the 31st of August when Toho Animation dropped the bomb during a celebratory fifth-anniversary special streamed on YouTube. The show’s triplet of lead voices—Junya Enoki, Yuma Uchida, and Asami Seto—played the mischievous hosts, giving the audience one last surprise.
The clustered group teased the footage earlier in the year, during Anime Expo 2025, but fans finally got their eyes on the meteorite of a first trailer that promises more blood, strategy, and signature moving-dimensional grudge champions that fans crave. January 2026, circle those symbols, the Shibuya curse chaos continues!
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Begins: Premiere Date & First Trailer Unveiled?
At this year’s Anime Expo, the transition of the “Culling Game” arc into a Season 3 JJK TV adaptation received a celebratory green light. “I’ve already stepped into the booth, and trust me, the fight choreography has been cranked up to an entirely new frequency,” Enoki teased the audience. “If the tables were turned, I’d be the first to fangirl over what’s coming.” Guests were granted a sneak peek of behind-the-scenes clips, showing Enoki physically capturing intimate scenes while tracking the rhythm of rough storyboard sketches.
One emphasized moment had Yuji pacing, his heart tracking the thread of danger Ryomen Sukuna’s swelling power poses to close companions. Enoki explicitly mentioned at Anime Expo 2025 that Yuji, having lived the crushing fallout of Season 2, has finally zeroed in on the reason to continue.
While the anime powerhouse MAPPA (behind Chainsaw Man and Lazarus) presses ahead with the Jujutsu Kaisen anime adaptation, series creator Gege Akutami is already charting the next phase after the manga wraps this September.
Akutami is co-penning a brand-new limited series for the next issue of Shonen Jump alongside artist Yuji Iwasaki, known from Cipher Academy. Mimojuro is lined up to kick off its focused serialization in Weekly Shonen Jump’s 41st issue of 2025. Creative roles are clear: Akutami handles storytelling, Iwasaki provides the art.
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The anticipated Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 is confirmed to land in 2026, but the franchise isn’t slowing down. A movie retelling the “Shibuya Incident Arc” is confirmed, coupled with the opening two episodes of the “Culling Game,” both screening theatrically in Japan on Nov. 7, 2025. Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution then jumps to North American shores, with GKIDS—fresh off the U.S. release of Jujutsu Kaisen: Hidden Inventory / Premature Death – The Movie in July—planning a theatrical rollout stateside on Dec. 5, 2025.
Jujutsu Kaisen Seasons 1 and 2 are streaming right now on Crunchyroll, Hulu, and Netflix, so you can dive into the action whenever you want. If you want the complete manga, Gege Akutami’s work is all there to read digitally on the Viz Media and Manga Plus apps. A brief series description nailed the vibe: “For some strange reason, Yuji Itadori, despite his insane athleticism, would rather just hang out with the Occult Club.
