Just In from Jump Festa 2026, anticipated TV Anime, Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 Culling Game Part 1 (Japanese Name: Jujutsu Kaisen Shimetsu Kaiyu Zenpen) will be released on January 8, 2026, with 1-hour special episode featuring first 2 episodes from the third season. The official YouTube channel of Toho Animation has revealed the brand-new trailer for its third season:
It is also revealed that King Gnu will perform “Aizo” as the opening song for this season. The comment is arrived from King Gnu:
We are all proud that the song has been completed as a new update of
King Gnu
King Gnu’s royal road.
As a viewer, I was very much looking forward to the death wandering arc.
Thank you for your good luck early in the new year.
The additional castings announced for this season:
Naoya Zenin by Koji Yusa
Kinji Hakari by Kazuya Nakai
Kirara Hoshi by Yuki Sakakihara
Hiromi Higuruma by Tomokazu Sugita
Fumihiko Takaba by Satoshi Tsuruoka
Reggie Star by Yutaka Aoyama
Kogane by Neeko
The staff announced for season 3 includes:
Director: Shota Goshozono
Series Composition & Script: Hiroshi Seko
Character Design: Yosuke Yajima, Hiromi Niwa
Assistant Director: Yosuke Takada
Art Director: Junichi Higashi
Music: Yoshimasa Terui
Just like previously announced, Animation Studio MAPPA will be back animating this third season of Jujutsu kaisen. Bookmark our website for more updates.
About Jujutsu Kaisen
Jujutsu Kaisen is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gege Akutami. He launched the manga in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in March 2018. Viz Media licensed this manga in English and released it simultaneously digitally.
This manga later received an anime adaptation by Studio MAPPA. The series has two seasons and one anime film to date.
Viz Media describes the anime plot as follows:
“Although Yuji Itadori looks like your average teenager, his immense physical strength is something to behold! Every sports club wants him to join, but Itadori would rather hang out with the school outcasts in the Occult Research Club. One day, the club manages to get their hands on a sealed cursed object. Little do they know the terror they’ll unleash when they break the seal…“
Source: Official Website
