Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Ending Explained: The Game-Changing Choice That Lights the Fuse for the Culling Game

Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 just stuck the landing and then kicked the door open for what comes next. The Shibuya Arc wraps with Episode 47 overall (aka Episode 23 of Season 2), and it is equal parts brutal, emotional, and big-picture setup. Gojo is sealed, Yuta is back in Japan, and Kenjaku is finally ready to push his grand plan from creepy theory into horrifying practice.

The finale, in plain English

The last episode flips from aftermath to escalation fast. Kenjaku lays out his worldview: if you optimize cursed energy, humans can break past their limits. Then he puts it to work. Using Mahito's technique, Idle Transfiguration, he triggers changes in people he pre-marked, basically priming the city for chaos. His goal is exactly that: spark enough conflict between sorcerers and non-sorcerers to flood the world with cursed energy and fuel his endgame — merging humanity with Master Tengen.

Kenjaku and Uraume bail with Gojo locked inside the Prison Realm. As Kenjaku puts it:

'The Golden Age of Sorcery begins.'

And yeah, it shows. Japan descends into nonstop hauntings, with cursed spirits roaming and wrecking everything in sight.

Meanwhile, the series drops a couple of cold bureaucratic hammer blows: Yuta Okkotsu returns to Japan and checks in with the Jujutsu higher-ups, stating he intends to kill Yuji Itadori. Headquarters reinstates Suguru Geto's death penalty and brands Gojo a co-conspirator in the Shibuya incident. On top of that, they order Yuji's immediate execution — with Yuta as the designated hitman.

The episode ends on a curious beat: Yuji claps, monsters show up one after another, and he goes to work. No mystery power-up there — Yuji is acting as bait, drawing spirits so they can be exorcised. It is a simple, gutsy plan that quietly shows how far he has come.

Quick note on the episode count

If the numbering is throwing you: this finale is Episode 47 of the anime overall and Episode 23 of Season 2. Season 1 ran 24 episodes; Season 2 adds 23 more to hit 47.

Where Season 3 is pointing: the Culling Games

Shibuya was never just a disaster arc; it was a strategy. Removing Gojo — the single biggest roadblock to curses and curse users — was the whole point. Now Kenjaku can move.

• Kenjaku wants to accelerate human evolution via cursed energy and kick off the Culling Games.
• Expect newly awakened sorcerers and a surge of cursed spirits thrown into a deadly selection process to weed out the weak.
• Scale-wise, this is bigger and messier than Shibuya — the battleground is basically all of Japan.
• Yuta's return is not just fan service; he has a binding vow to execute Yuji, which will matter a lot.
• With Gojo sealed, the power balance tilts hard. Stakes go global, and the fights only get more complex from here.

Ratings and where to watch

For the scorekeepers: Jujutsu Kaisen sits at 8.5/10 on IMDb and 8.53/10 on MyAnimeList at the time of writing. You can stream the anime on Crunchyroll.

If you powered through the finale, how did that last stretch hit you? Grim little mic drop, or exactly the kind of chaos you were hoping for before the Culling Games kick off?