The weekend is finally here – and we’ve been buzzing with anticipation all week. I know, I know… usually it’s more “why did this week feel like a 12-episode filler arc?” but this time the hype is real. And that’s because we’ve been invited by Anime After Hours to the premiere of Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution this Saturday!
Now, we get it – not everyone has had the luxury (or obsession) to rewatch all of Jujutsu Kaisen from start to finish. So whether you’re brand-new to JJK (welcome to the madness) or a returning fan who needs a quick refresher, we’ve got you covered.
(Spoiler warning… but honestly, if you haven’t watched JJK yet, have you been living under a cursed rock?)
Everyone has their own preferred watch order – yes, we’re talking to you Star Wars timeline theorists – so we’re laying it how we like it, because, well… we’re the ones writing this.
So flex those scrolling fingers… and let’s dive right in.
The Setup
Jujutsu Kaisen kicks off with Yuji Itadori, just a regular (and we’re using “regular” very generously here) freakishly athletic teenager – whose life goes completely off the rails the moment he eats a cursed finger on a whim (as one does). That finger belongs to Ryomen Sukuna, the most dangerous Curse in existence, and before Yuji can blink, he’s sharing a body with a legendary demon who’d happily end humanity for fun.
To stop Sukuna’s full resurrection, Yuji is pulled into the world of Jujutsu Sorcerers – an underground society of exorcists who battle monsters born from human negativity. His mission? Track down and consume every remaining Sukuna finger… knowing that when the job’s done, so is he.
Before diving deeper, here’s a quick primer for anyone new to the series (veterans may proceed smugly past this part):
The World of JJK
In JJK, negativity has consequences. Every living being leaks Cursed Energy – power generated by fear, anger, anxiety, sadness… basically all the emotional clutter we try to ignore. Most people can’t control it, so the energy builds up and manifests as Curses: physical nightmares with teeth.
Jujutsu Sorcerers
Sorcerers are the rare individuals who can control their Cursed Energy instead of letting it leak everywhere. They can shape it, weaponise it, and refine it into Cursed Techniques – special abilities passed down through bloodlines or unlocked through pure talent.
The System Behind the Magic
The entire sorcery world is overseen by the Jujutsu Society, a secretive, tradition-heavy organisation that protects Japan from Curses (and makes plenty of questionable decisions along the way). Jujutsu High’s Tokyo and Kyoto campuses train young sorcerers, each dealing with its own politics, pressures, and all-too-human flaws.
Season 1
Season 1 follows Yuji Itadori after he swallows the super-yum cursed finger of Sukuna and is immediately thrown into the deep end of sorcery life.
He’s enrolled at Tokyo Jujutsu High, where he teams up with Megumi Fushiguro – a stoic summoner with a soft spot for strays and Nobara Kugisaki, whose basically confidence, chaos, and weaponised nails held together by pure attitude. Together, they start learning what it actually means to be Jujutsu Sorcerers.
Their early missions are a crash course in how wildly dangerous this world is. Yuji faces deadly curses, tests the limits of his new reality, and deals with Sukuna hijacking his body at the worst possible moments.
A brutal fight with a Cursed Womb pushes him past his breaking point – literally. After dying, Yuji strikes a pact with Sukuna he doesn’t fully understand and returns to life with new questions and even bigger risks attached.
Meanwhile, a new threat emerges: Mahito, a twisted, childlike Curse who can reshape souls like clay.
His manipulation of Junpei, a lonely kid who just wanted someone to care, spirals into one of the season’s most heartbreaking arcs. When Mahito destroys Junpei in the most merciless way possible, Yuji’s rage ignites.
This isn’t just duty anymore. It’s personal.
Season 2
This is where the story stops flirting with darkness and just swan-dives into it. Season 2 is split into two massive arcs, Gojo’s Past and the Shibuya Incident, and both fundamentally reshape the world of JJK.
Quick reminder: earlier, we mentioned our preferred watch order, which is – Season 2, Episodes 1–5 → Jujutsu Kaisen 0 → the rest of Season 2. Not our genius idea, just a brilliant suggestion from the blessed corners of the internet, and absolutely the way we recommend watching.
Gojo’s Past Arc
Before he was “the strongest,” Satoru Gojo was… still the strongest, just with even less social energy and slightly more arrogance. He and Suguru Geto – best friends, perfect foils, and the only people who truly understood each other are second-year sorcerers assigned to protect Riko Amanai, a girl destined to merge with Master Tengen to stabilise the entire Jujutsu world.
This arc is a slow-motion tragedy. We watch Gojo and Geto at their peak, joking like brothers, fighting like legends and quietly starting to drift apart. Then Toji Fushiguro arrives.
Toji is the walking proof that you don’t need Cursed Energy to erase a sorcerer, just absurd physical power and a weapons stash that makes no sense. He dismantles both Gojo and Geto, kills Riko, and pushes Gojo into his first near-death awakening. That’s the exact moment “invincible Gojo” is born.
Geto’s fall is quieter but deeper. Constant violence, endless curses born from human malice, and the crushing weight of sorcery ethics push him beyond a line he never thought he’d cross. By the end, the two once-inseparable friends stand on opposite sides of history.
Shibuya Incident Arc
The long-brewing plan by Geto/Mahito/Kenjaku finally detonates. Civilians are trapped under a curtain. Sorcerers scramble across Shibuya. And the villains launch the plan to do the unthinkable: seal Satoru Gojo.
From here, everything spirals. Yuji is forced to grow up at record speed. Megumi brushes shoulders with death more than once. Nobara gets her most iconic moment and her most devastating one.
Mahito evolves into something truly monstrous, and his final showdown with Yuji and Todo is as emotionally brutal as it is physical. Yuji has to confront what it means to be nothing more than a “cog built to kill curses” and what pieces of himself he’ll lose along the way.
Meanwhile, Megumi’s arc explodes when he summons Mahoraga, the uncontrollable Shikigami. Sukuna takes the wheel to stop it, leaving behind a trail of destruction that reshapes Shibuya and shatters Yuji’s sense of responsibility and identity.
Jujutsu Kaisen: 0
This is the emotional prologue that shows just how dark, tragic, and beautifully tangled the world of JJK really is. It centres on Yuta Okkotsu – a quiet, awkward kid who walks into the Jujutsu world with the most overpowered curse in existence chained to him.
Yuta is haunted by Rika, his childhood friend who died in a car accident. Instead of moving on, her love twists into a monstrous, terrifyingly powerful Curse that clings to him – part protector, part prison.
Gojo brings Yuta to Tokyo Jujutsu High not just for safety, but because he senses something in him – potential even he can’t fully quantify. There, Yuta meets Maki, Panda, and Inumaki, the trio who slowly drag him out of his shell. Step by step, Yuta learns to live again, to care again, and eventually to fight – not because he’s terrified, but because he chooses to stand his ground.
Everything detonates when Suguru Geto enters the picture, the man who once stood beside Gojo and now stands firmly against everything he believes in. To Geto, Yuta isn’t a person – he’s the ultimate weapon.
Geto launches a full-scale assault on Jujutsu High, unleashing one of the film’s flashiest, most creative battles. But the real heart of the movie is Yuta vs. Geto – a fight powered less by raw strength and more by Yuta’s determination to stop running from his own life.
The final twist hits hardest: Rika didn’t curse Yuta by accident. In his moment of grief and desperation, he cursed her. Yuta wasn’t the victim… he was the source. Accepting that truth finally lets Rika move on, ending the story with a goodbye that’s simple, soft, and devastating.
And there you have it – fully caught up on JJK and ready to hit the theatres for Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution.
We want to hear from you – how pumped are you to see it, and who’s planning to catch it on the big screen?
That’s all from us for now. We’ll be back on Monday, after surviving the post-JJK: Execution withdrawal, to drop our full review for all you fellow otaku.
If you want to watch JJK: Execution with the NAG team, we’ll be at Northgate this Saturday, full details here.
