Jujutsu Kaisen

What’s it about?

After a boy swallows the cursed finger of a demon, he enters a sorcerers school to learn how to locate the demon’s other body parts and remove his curse.

Season 2 tells the backstory of one of the teachers at the high school, Gojo and his fellow student Geto.

The facts

• Directed by Shōta Goshozono
• Japanese and English languages
• 23 episodes, around 24 minutes each
• Based on the manga series of the same name written and illustrated by Gege Akutami.

Why did it get this rating?

This series was cross-rated by the Film and Video Labelling Body. You can find out more about cross-rating here.

Violence

This series contains frequent violence. Characters use curse spells and weapons during battles with blood, injury, and death. Some of the characters are able to regenerate and the animated style may lessen the impact of violence. Some of the strongest instances include:

• A character has the ability to make people’s heads explode when he touches them. This is shown several times, and bodies without heads, or with partially exploded heads are shown.
• A villain has the ability to control blood and use it as a weapon. He turns it into a bullet-like sharp object and sends it through the heads of several hostages, killing them.
• There is a scene where a character kills many transfigured humans in ultra-fast time. Heads and body parts are shown flying and afterwards the ground and walls are splattered with blood.
• When asked to help two young girls, an evil character explodes one of their heads and slices off the other.

Horror scenes

There is monster horror, supernatural horror and body horror. This includes:

• Some of the evil supernatural powers use extra body parts or distorted body parts that have an unsettling effect.
• The cursed spirits transform humans into monsters called ‘transfigured humans’ and become brightly coloured and aggressive. Some of these are big enough to destroy buildings.
• A character undoes stitches on his head to lift the top of his skull and show his brain, which had been implanted there.
• A character eats the decaying fingers of an old sorcerer which gives him powers, but he is also possessed by this sorcerer, gets strange markings on his face and extra eyes.

Offensive language

There is some offensive language used for emphasis and in stressful situations offensive language used includes ‘F**k’, ‘hell’, ‘bastard’, ‘crap’ and ‘shit’.

When content stays with you:

We all have our boundaries, and it’s completely okay if something you’ve watched is weighing on your mind. If certain content lingers with you, consider having a chat with friends or whānau to debrief about what you’ve just seen. But if you’re still feeling affected, please reach out to any of the following helplines for support.

• 1737
• Safe to talk
• Lifeline
• Youthline

Further information

• Why are ratings and content warnings important for me and my whānau?
• Brain development – how it works, why it matters