He considers the new protagonist, Yuta Okkotsu, as a representative teenager possessed by loneliness, in this case caused by being beset by Rika's curse. Miguel's overconfident personality pops up in the manga when he challenges Gojo to a battle in Shinjuku. I wasn’t expecting the parallels between Yuji and Yuta, which really adds an extra layer to the current arc we’re in right now. About 15,000 people watched the film at the earliest public screenings on 58 screens at midnight on the opening day. It’s also a good chance for them to learn about this extremely high-level curse that’s attached to him.

Manga News also found the art interesting, especially the character designs, but often noted its strange proportions. This was mainly because the movie was based on a single manga volume, and the team aimed to make a long film rather than a thirty-minute work.Boston Bartand Brigade and Otaquest said Yuta is a more appealing character than Yuji Itadori due to their different curses, which Otaquest said makes Yuji simple, like Ichigo Kurosaki from Bleach, in contrast to the more compelling Yuta. King Gnu performed the film's theme song "Ichizu" ( 一途, "The Only Way"), [44] [45] as well as the ending song "Sakayume" ( 逆夢, "Contradictory Dream"). In the original format, Park would adapt the series' first three episodes to develop Yuji and then replace him with Okkotsu, but that idea was discarded. Since Rika is no ordinary Curse, his plight is noticed by Satoru Gojo, a teacher at Jujutsu High, a school where fledgling exorcists learn how to combat Curses. Yuta’s been mentioned a handful of times in the series, and while this manga volume serves as his backstory, there’s MAJOR spoilers pertaining to the series villain and other characters we’ve met thus far.

Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Shows in India Going Houseful Even in Non-Metro Cities is Good News for Anime Culture Growth in the Country". However, Sukuna is NOTHING like Rika and is very much in it for himself, not caring who is hurt (or killed) in the process. Fortunately, there exists a mysterious school of jujutsu sorcerers who exist to protect the precarious existence of the living from the supernatural! One of the most important pieces of information that comes out of Volume 0 is tied to the Cursed Spirit known as Rika and spoken by Suguru Geto: "Surreal. Seko said that the action scenes of Akutami's manga are the most important part of that series, he wanted to focus on them in the movie.When learning that the manga would be written in Jump Giga instead of Weekly Shōnen Jump, Akutami was saddened by this decision and kept silent rather than argue over it. The volume was also popular with ICv2, noticing the manga's sudden popularity in Western regions might be connected to its release in January 2021. Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous high school student who is suffering from a serious problem—his childhood friend Rika has turned into a curse and won’t leave him alone.

While the television series was noted for having entertaining fight scenes, the team wanted to improve them. Geto being the main adversary, and this being the final moment he has with Gojo (as his actual self), is also something I wasn’t expecting. The figure's box came in great shape, allowing it to be added to the collector's value of the figure. While Akutami wished to incorporate many ideas, he realized by the third chapter that he made a mistake in relying on too many characters.Another addition to the movie, not present in the original work, was the four consecutive Black Flashes that Nanami mentioned in an interview in the TV series. Before reading this volume all we knew was that Yuta Okkotsu was amazing, at least, according to his peers.