Jujutsu Kaisen voice actor Takahiro Sakurai has parted ways with talent agency Intention.
According to Comic Natalie, the split stems from the scandal surrounding Sakurai’s 10-year extramarital relationship, which tabloid Weekly Bunshun reported late last year. The scandal had a serious impact on the voice actor’s career, including the end of his long-running radio show and his removal from the cast of the film adaptation. Mononoke is coming.
Sakurai returns as Geto of Jujutsu Kaisen
However, the first trailer for Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 confirmed that Sakurai will return as the voice of the special-level witch Suguru Geto alongside Yūichi Nakamura as Satoru Gojo. Furthermore, the trailer indicates that the new season will shift the focus away from the main characters, Yuji Itadori, Megumi Fushiguro, and Nobara Kugisaki, and depict events during Gojo and Geto’s time as students at high school. Jujutsu. Manabu Ohtsuka, CEO of MAPPA, the animation studio behind the film, explained how Season 2 will change fan expectations in a recent interview. “We are not going to do the same thing and repeat ourselves. For fans of the series, I want to show even greater success and greater growth in season 2,” he said.
There has been much development for the Jujutsu Kaisen franchise beyond the release of the Season 2 trailer and the announcement regarding Sakurai. Notably, commercial company Threezero has released a figure of the fan-favorite character Toge Inumaki. The Cursed Words user toy comes with multiple interchangeable pieces, including a cloth face shield and necklace, plus some accessories like a smartphone and a bottle of cough syrup medical. Fans can pre-order products through Sideshow.
Furthermore, Loungely and Jujutsu Kaisen have teamed up to create a special line of backpacks and mini wallets. The various pieces in the collection recreate memorable scenes from the story, such as when Itadori swallowed Sukuna’s first finger and when Gojo informed the pink-haired high school student of his fate.
Gege Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen manga first appeared in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump in March 2018, and the story follows Itadori as he strives to become a powerful witch after he eats a in the withered and rotten fingers of Ryomen Sukura, the undisputed Cursed King. The title has sold over 70 million copies worldwide, making Jujutsu Kaisen one of the best-selling manga in history alongside Ken Wakui’s Tokyo Revengers and Kōhei Horikoshi’s My Hero Academia.
Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 will premiere on July 6.
Source: Comic Natalie, via Anime News Network