With his execution postponed, Yuji is brought to Jujutsu Tech, where Gojo tests his control over Sukuna and the stern Principal Yaga challenges him to find a reason of his own for becoming a sorcerer.
On their first true mission, the rookies enter a detention center threatened by a cursed womb that may birth a special grade spirit. Told that flight or death could be their only outcomes, they search for survivors and run into a monster far beyond them.
The sixth episode of Jujutsu Kaisen sees Yuji confront Sukuna in a limbo between life and death before clawing his way back to begin secret training under Gojo, while a sinister plot to seal the strongest sorcerer takes shape.
The seventh episode sets Gojo against the volcanic curse Jogo in a duel that lays bare the gulf in their strength, then repurposes the fight as a live demonstration to teach Yuji about jujutsu combat and Domain Expansion.
The eighth episode of Jujutsu Kaisen brings rival students down from Kyoto to needle Megumi and Nobara ahead of the Goodwill Event, while Gojo confronts the jujutsu conservatives and a fresh investigation opens for Yuji.
The ninth episode of Jujutsu Kaisen pairs Yuji with the no-nonsense Nanami to probe a theater killing, while the lone witness, a bullied teen named Junpei, forms a quiet bond with the very curse responsible.
The eleventh installment closes out Nanami's underground duel with Mahito and follows Yuji as a budding friendship with Junpei is poisoned by grief, a planted Sukuna finger, and a manipulative curse steering the boy toward vengeance.
Yuji fights to pull Junpei back from the brink with both fists and pleading, but Mahito arrives to twist the boy's fate, transfiguring him into a weapon before a furious Yuji and a returning Nanami square off against the curse.
Nanami and Yuji nearly finish Mahito, but cornering the curse drives it to unfurl its first Domain Expansion with Nanami caught inside, forcing a last-ditch rescue and a hard reckoning with what it means to guide people toward a proper death.
Life resets after the Mahito clash as Yuji returns to school to a far chillier welcome than he hoped, while the curses plot to reclaim the Sukuna fingers and the Kyoto students arrive carrying secret orders to kill the resurrected vessel.
The Spirit Bash Race opens with the Tokyo plan to pin Todo on Yuji, but the entire Kyoto squad converges to murder the vessel, and an absurd exchange about ideal women cements one of the series' strangest friendships.
Todo coaches Yuji on the true flow of cursed energy as their duel deepens, while a parallel showdown pits Panda against Mechamaru in a clash of cursed corpses that uncovers the puppet's hidden operator and Panda's secret extra cores.
Kasumi discovers that grade tells little about real strength when facing Maki, Nobara rejects Momo's grievances about female sorcerers, and a bitter sibling rivalry between the Zenin sisters reaches a somber finish.
Megumi and Noritoshi probe their shared burden as heirs of great sorcerer families through their duel, until the Goodwill Event is shattered by the arrival of the special grade Hanami and the curse user Juzo, plunging the students into a fight for survival.
The students rotate through desperate stands against the special grade Hanami until Yuji, steadied by Todo, finally lands the legendary Black Flash, turning a fight for survival into a coordinated counteroffensive.
Todo's Boogie Woogie and Yuji's chained Black Flashes batter Hanami until Gojo drops onto the field to shut the invasion down, but the win feels empty as Mahito strolls off with the loot his side actually came for.
With the invasion's true purpose laid bare and Kenjaku's plot quietly advancing, the surviving students choose to honor the dead by playing on, capping the disrupted Goodwill Event with a chaotic and lighthearted game of baseball.
The thirty-third episode opens the Shibuya Incident's central battle, with the strongest sorcerer cornered underground among helpless civilians. Hemmed in on every side, he still demonstrates why no curse can match him, until a familiar face changes everything.
The thirty-fourth episode deals with the fallout of Gojo's capture. Word of the sealing spreads through Shibuya, and the scattered sorcerers must abandon their assignments and unite around a single goal: tearing open the curtain and freeing their captured ally.
The thirty-fifth episode follows the push to dismantle the barrier locking sorcerers out of inner Shibuya. The effort drops the first-years and Ino into a rooftop ambush against veteran curse users, and a necromancer's ritual revives a deadly ghost from the past.
The thirty-sixth episode follows the managers being picked off across Shibuya. Nobara and an injured aide square off against a gleeful curse user, and as hope drains away, Nanami appears to prove what a grade 1 sorcerer truly is.
The thirty-seventh episode pits Yuji against Choso inside Shibuya Station. Driven by grief over his slain brothers, Choso unleashes his blood techniques in a brutal duel, and Yuji must out-think a stronger foe to survive.
The thirty-eighth episode runs on two fronts. Mei Mei and Ui Ui outwit a special grade disease curse, while Nanami links up with the Zenin pair and meets an aquatic spirit whose fury reshapes it into something deadlier.
The thirty-ninth episode continues the desperate fight inside Dagon's domain. A rampant, soulless Toji crashes the battle, and once the dust settles, Sukuna awakens in Yuji's body to dispense brutal judgment on those around him.
The fortieth episode runs two duels in parallel. Megumi flees a soulless Toji who hunts him on instinct, while Sukuna toys with Jogo across a collapsing Shibuya, granting the dying curse a final, unexpected acknowledgment.
Megumi's last gamble against Shigemo summons an untamed shikigami, then Sukuna takes over and wages a city-leveling duel with the adaptive Mahoraga. The fight tears through Shibuya before ending in fire, and Yuji is left to face the carnage he was forced to witness.
The forty-second episode delivers a wrenching loss as Nanami makes his final stand, then thrusts Yuji into a rematch with Mahito who weaponizes innocent lives. Meanwhile, a second Mahito stalks Nobara through the alleys.
The forty-third episode brings the Mahito clash to a devastating turn. Nobara cracks the secret of the duplicate she faces, lending Yuji a decisive opening, but the cost of returning to the battlefield proves heartbreakingly high.
The fifty-fifth episode of Jujutsu Kaisen sends Yuji hunting for a former lawyer's points inside Ikebukuro while Megumi gets pulled toward a sorcerer with ties to Kenjaku. It is the eighth installment of the third season.
The fifty-sixth episode of Jujutsu Kaisen drops Yuji into a courtroom-style domain where his own guilt over Shibuya becomes the verdict on trial. As the ninth chapter of season three, it brings his duel with Higuruma to a close.
The fifty-seventh episode of Jujutsu Kaisen throws Megumi into a lopsided brawl against Reggie's crew before a stand-up comedian crashes in to even the odds. It serves as the tenth chapter of the third season.
The fifty-eighth episode of Jujutsu Kaisen pays off Megumi's grueling duel with Reggie while cutting to Yuta cracking open a brutal standoff up in Sendai. It is the eleventh chapter of the third season.
The fifty-ninth episode of Jujutsu Kaisen turns Yuta loose on the trio left standing in the Sendai deadlock, capping off the entire third season as he tears through them one by one and racks up a massive point haul.
The series premiere introduces Yuji Itadori, an athletic high schooler whose life changes when his Occult Club unleashes a cursed object. To save his friends, Yuji swallows one of Ryomen Sukuna's fingers and becomes the King of Curses' vessel.
Nobara Kugisaki rounds out Gojo's first-year trio in this third episode. Cool toward her new classmates, she is thrown into an exorcism trial beside Yuji where a child's life lands squarely in her hands.
The fifth episode of the anime traps Yuji inside his own body after he overuses Sukuna. The King of Curses seizes the moment to take the body hostage, leaving Megumi to confront Sukuna alone in a desperate bid to save his classmate.
Junpei Yoshino and Mahito trade thoughts on indifference while Kento Nanami descends into Mahito's underground lair. Their clash reveals the cursed spirit's Idle Transfiguration, which reshapes human souls and bodies alike.
The twenty-second installment of the Jujutsu Kaisen anime opens the Death Painting storyline. Three first-years probe a chain of deaths tied to Megumi's old junior high while Mahito and Geto bring a Death Painting Womb into the world.
The twenty-third Jujutsu Kaisen episode splits the team across two threats. Megumi clears the bridge curse only to face a Sukuna finger bearer, while Yuji and Nobara meet the Death Painting brothers and a deadly wasp technique.
Season one's finale wraps the Death Painting battle. Yuji and Nobara put down Kechizu and Eso, yet the act of killing leaves its scars, and news of the brothers' end travels to Choso, Geto, and Mahito.
The second season begins by rewinding to Gojo and Geto's second year. The two strongest draw the job of delivering Master Tengen's Star Plasma Vessel, right as rival factions and a hired assassin converge on the target.
Named as the Star Plasma Vessel destined to merge with Tengen, Riko asks for one farewell visit to her old school. A reward that Toji posts on a hidden board pulls curse users out of the woodwork, dropping a string of fights onto Gojo and Geto.
With the kidnapping resolved, the escort enjoys calm days in Okinawa before the merger. Then an invisible assassin with no cursed energy strikes, pushing even the Six Eyes to its breaking point.
With Riko and Gojo both reported dead by the assassin, Geto throws everything he has at the Sorcerer Killer and still falls. Then the slain Honored One stirs back to life, and the brutal rematch that follows ends Toji for good.
A year past the failed escort, Gojo stands alone as the strongest while Geto quietly crumbles. A meeting with Yuki Tsukumo and a fresh wave of cruelty drive Geto down a road that severs the two friends.
Returning to the present, Nobara meets Yuko Ozawa, a former classmate hoping to reconnect with Yuji. The lighter mood shifts as the trio uncovers the mole at Jujutsu High and Mechamaru's true form rises.
Mechamaru and Mahito fight to the finish, with Kokichi emptying his whole arsenal into Mode: Absolute and paying the ultimate price. Ten days on, a four-hundred-meter curtain seals the district and the long-dreaded Shibuya Incident finally ignites.
The Shibuya Incident opens in earnest. Gojo drops down to meet a trio of cursed spirits while Yuji, drafted onto Team Mei Mei, squares off against a grasshopper curse that brags about its own cleverness.
The forty-fourth episode of the anime and the twentieth of season two follows a shattered Yuji as Mahito gloats over his broken spirit. Aoi Todo arrives through Boogie Woogie to drag his friend back into the fight, and the trio's brutal duel sprawls across Shibuya Station.
The forty-fifth episode and season two's twenty-first installment carries the Shibuya street fight to its climax. Mahito splits and multiplies his soul into deadly constructs, gambles on a fraction-of-a-second domain, and finally evolves into a new form before Yuji ends their long struggle.
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