Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 Release Date Confirmed With Unsettling First Look
The release date has been locked in, but what really has everyone talking is the eerie footage revealed in the sneak peek.
Time to dust off the finger guns: Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 finally has a window. During the series 5th-anniversary livestream, Crunchyroll made it official — the next chapter, titled 'Jujutsu Kaisen: The Culling Game,' starts in January 2026 and adapts that arc from the manga.
Release window and rollout
No exact day yet, but the plan is straightforward: new episodes will hit Crunchyroll weekly, the same day they air in Japan. That means a proper simulcast, not a drip-feed weeks later.
The teaser sets a grim tone
Crunchyroll dropped a mood-setting teaser to hold us over. It leans hard into the fallout from Shibuya: Yuji Itadori is wrecked, convinced he took multiple lives during the incident. There is also a tense face-off between Yuji and Yuta Okkotsu, plus quick flashes of Maki, Yuki, and Choso. It is terse, unsettling, and exactly the kind of setup you expect before the series throws everyone into a blender.
What the Culling Game actually is
If you have not read ahead, here is the clean version: Kenjaku kick-starts a sprawling, rules-heavy death match that drags jujutsu sorcerers and civilians into a lethal contest across multiple colonies. It is designed to force power-ups, break people, and cause chaos — basically jujutsu terrorism dressed up as a tournament.
- Official title: 'Jujutsu Kaisen: The Culling Game' (season 3)
- Streaming: Crunchyroll, weekly, day-and-date with Japan
- Director: Shota Goshozono
- Series composition and scripts: Hiroshi Seko
- Character designs: Yosuke Yajima and Hiromi Niwa
- Season 2 timing recap: the last season wrapped in December 2023
- Hardware check: the anime won Crunchyroll's Anime of the Year in 2021 and again in 2024
Why this matters (and why the wait feels long)
Season 2 ended in December 2023, so yes, this is a bigger-than-usual gap. The upside: the Culling Game is meaty enough that taking time to line up the staff and rollout makes sense. If the teaser is any indication, the show is embracing the arc's nastier edges rather than sanding them down.
Bottom line: January 2026 is locked. Get your rewatch in, brace for Kenjaku's rules lawyering, and expect weekly chaos when the Culling Game begins.