Voice actress Yoshiko Sakakibara has been cast as the character Tengen in the upcoming Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1 TV anime series. Sakakibara also currently narrates the series. The third season of Jujutsu Kaisen will begin broadcasting in Japan on January 8, 2026.
She joins a main voice cast that stars:
- • Junya Enoki as Yuji Itadori
- • Yuma Uchida as Megumi Fushiguro
- • Daisuke Namikawa as Choso
- • Megumi Ogata as Yuta Okkotsu
Earlier this month, Koji Yusa was also announced as a new cast member for the Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution compilation film, voicing Naoya Zen’in.
The first two episodes of the upcoming third season were featured in Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution, which also covered Season 2’s “Shibuya Incident” story arc. It premiered in Japan on November 7, 2025, while it will be released in North America by GKIDS on December 5, 2025. The compilation film will also screen in the U.K., Ireland, EMEA, Latin America, and APAC.
Jujutsu Kaisen’s third season staff includes Shota Goshozono (Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 director) as director, Hiroshi Seko (since Season 1) as series composer and scriptwriter, Yosuke Yajima (new) and Hiromi Niwa (new) as character designers, Yosuke Takada (new) as assistant director, Teppei Ito (since Season 1) as compositing director, Eiko Matsushima (since Season 2) as color designer, Junichi Higashi (since Jujutsu Kaisen 0) as background art director, and Yoshimasa Terui (since Season 1, solo credit since Season 2) as music composer. MAPPA is in charge of the animation production.
The first season of Jujutsu Kaisen aired from late 2020 to early 2021 for 24 episodes and was followed by the prequel movie Jujutsu Kaisen 0 in December 2021. The second season was broadcasted from July to December 2023, with the latter “Shibuya Incident” airing a few weeks after the initial “Hidden Inventory Arc.”
Shota Goshozono (Jujutsu Kaisen Episode 17, Ranking of Kings Episode 21, and Chainsaw Man Episode 8 storyboard artist and episode director) assumed director duties for the second season, taking over from first season director Sunghoo Park (God of High School, Ninja Kamui).
Crunchyroll is currently streaming all the previous seasons and Jujutsu Kaisen 0. It will stream Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3: The Culling Game Part 1 worldwide, outside of Asia, in select countries and territories.
Jujutsu Kaisen is based on the manga series by Gege Akutami, which was serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from March 5, 2018 to September 30, 2024. Thirty total tankobon volumes were released in Japan. A short spinoff sequel manga titled Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo was released in the same magazine on September 8, 2025, with Akutami serving as writer and Yuji Iwasaki as the artist.
The four-chapter predecessor manga, now known as Jujutsu Kaisen 0, was released in 2017 and adapted into a 2021 anime film of the same name.
Viz Media releases the manga series in English and describes the main premise as:
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…
Sources: Jujutsu Kaisen Official Twitter, Anime News Network (2)