Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Ep 18 Gets Slight Streaming Delay

The Japanese X (formerly Twitter) account for the Jujutsu Kaisen anime has announced that Episode 18 of Season 2 (Ep 42 overall) will have a slightly delayed release on streaming services. The episode will now begin to show up on November 24 at 6 PM JST instead of the usual time.

At the time of writing, Bilibili, which streams Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 in a number of Southeast Asian countries, still lists the upcoming episode in the usual Thursday, 11:56 PM GMT+8 (12:56 AM JST) time slot.

Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 started airing on July 6. The current “Shibuya Incident Arc” began on August 31, a few weeks after the initial “Hidden Inventory Arc” ended. The announcement of this streaming delay comes after a period of frustrated tweets by various animators and episode directors regarding the show’s production, which Sakuga Blog’s kVIN described as having an “asphyxiating schedule.” 

Jujutsu Kaisen is based on the Shueisha-published supernatural action manga by Gege Akutami, which began in 2018 and has 23 tankoubon volumes as of October 2023. Viz Media describes the manga 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…

The anime’s first season ran from late 2020 to early 2021 with 24 episodes. It was soon followed by an anime movie adaptation of the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 prequel, which debuted in Japan in December 2021.

Staff

• Director: Shouta Goshozono (Jujutsu Kaisen Episode 17, Ranking of Kings Episode 21, and Chainsaw Man Episode 8 storyboard artist and episode director)
• Series composer and scriptwriter: Hiroshi Seko (returning)
• Character designer: Tadashi Hiramatsu (also credited in Season 1)
• Character designer: Sayaka Koiso (Jujutsu Kaisen 0 sub-character designer)
• Assistant director: Ryouta Aikei (Attack on Titan Final Season: The Final Chapters, Special 1 co-storyboard artist and unit director)
• Compositing director: Teppei Itou (returning)
• Color designer: Eiko Matsushima (Jujutsu Kaisen Phantom Bullet opening movie)
• Art director: Junichi Higashi (Jujutsu Kaisen 0)
• Music composer: Yoshimasa Terui (Jujutsu Kaisen and Jujutsu Kaisen 0 co-composer)
• Animation production: MAPPA

Cast

• Junya Enoki as Yuji Itadori
• Yuuma Uchida as Megumi Fushiguro
• Asami Seto as Nobara Kugisaki
• Yuuichi Nakamura as Satoru Gojo
• Junichi Suwabe as Sukuna
• Takahiro Sakurai as Geto Suguru

Source: @animejujutsu