Hello everyone, welcome to my blog. I am @vaman1 and today I'll be recommending an anime film titled Jujutsu Kaisen 0. The movie is quite interesting and easy t
o follow even for non anime watchers.
It is a prequel of the anime which was initially named Tokyo Metropolitan Curse Technical School created to be the only story for the series but due to the Sucess of the manga, the author decided to continue with the story changing the protagonist from Yuta to Yuji Itadori.
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 centers on Yuta Okkotsu plagued by a deadly curse after the death of his childhood best friend Rikka to a car accident when they were kids. Instead of passing on after her death, Rikka chooses to stay behind in the human realm as a curse attacking anybody that might seem like a threat to Yuta. Scared of indirectly hurting people through Rikka, Yuta isolates himself from people but this does not handle the curse that never seems to leave his side. He inevitably chooses to commit suicide in an attempt to free himself and those around him from unnecessary torment.
Tired of such a painful existence and on the phase of killing himself, Yuta is approached by Gojo Satoru a powerful sorcerer who sees potentials in him and offers him a place at Tokyo Jujutsu High, a school where people learn how to fight, defeat curses and also protect the natural.
Here Yuta is to learn how to subdue and even break the curse that has been with him since childhood. He enrols as a first year student having classmates like:
- Maki Zenin, a strong-willed girl from a prominent family but lacks the abilities to combat curses so she uses cursed tools to make up for her shortcomings.
- Panda, A panda like creation with a mind of its own created through the combination of science and cursed energy. And finally
- Toge Inumaki, a calm cursed sorcerer with the power of curse speech which he uses as a weapon to battle curses.
The four classmates soon become friends training together and finding purpose as they interact. Yuta soon realizes that Rikka is not the curse that he once believed she was but rather he was the cause of it all accidentally using his powers to tie her down in the human plane after witnessing her death as a child. This shocking discovery throws Yuta into a whole new world of hurt but he has to come to terms with it and move forward hoping to free Rikka's spirit one day.
Life at Tokyo Jujutsu High is soon threatened by a former student of the academy Suguru Geto who also happens to Gojo's teammate and best friend. Geto sees non sorcerers as inferior species of the human race and intends to wipe them completely from the face of the earth by stealing Rikka from Yuta and using her power to achieve his objectives.
Geto continues to attack the world humans but the supernatural as well killing anyone that gets in his way. He causes a huge distraction of curses in the city which causes the school to dispatch all their strongest sorcerers to combat them leaving the school vulnerable. With no one to stop him, Geto invades the school to follow through with his plans but is confronted by all three of Yuta's classmates in an attempt to protect him. Suguru easily comes out victorious all leaving them in a bloodied state.
Angered by the results from the fight, Yuta decides to take Geto leading to a heated battle. The two continue to go back and forth until finally they both decide to use their ace to end it all. Yuta comes out victorious with Geto suffering from a fatal wound that ends up killing him as he struggles to leave the scene of the battle. After the fight, Rikka's curse is broken and her spirit appears in her original human form to bid Yuta goodbye before disappearing permanently offering him closure from years of grief and pain.
The movie is really interesting and easy to understand. It does not require people to watch the series Jujutsu Kaisen before they can enjoy it and that is the primary reason I can recommend to non anime watchers.
Thank you all.
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