Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 has finally been announced after a hiatus of three years.
Crunchyroll revealed today, Thursday, January 8, 2026, that the new season is officially on its way.
This season is being called the most intense and morally heavy chapter yet as it enters the Culling Game Arc.
The Culling Game is a deadly, high-stakes Battle Royale arc in Jujutsu Kaisen where wizards and cursed spirits are forced to fight and earn points under dangerous new rules set by Kenjaku.
What is Culling Game in Jujutsu Kaisen S3?
The Culling Game is Kenjaku’s great ritual masquerading as a Battle Royale.
Using Suguru Geto’s stolen body, he orchestrated the event after Gojo was sealed away, awakening thousands across Japan by implanting cursed objects and forcing latent cursed techniques to awaken in ordinary people.
He then proceeded to build ten colonies, huge cursed barriers where players fight under bloody rules where points are earned by shedding blood.
Wizards earn five points per murder; non-wizards serve one. If a player’s points remain unchanged for 19 days, they die via the removal of a cursed technique.
What is the story of the main characters?
Yuji and Megumi are not competing to become champions. They are in favor of becoming rule-benders.
The goal is to rescue Tsumiki, Megumi’s sister, which requires earning enough points to establish new colony rules.
With sound strategy, they hunt down high-point players, manipulate the rules and systematically dismantle the game from within.
Meanwhile, they recruit two unpredictable allies: Hiromi Higuruma, whose courtroom domain can disempower or sentence souls to death, and Kinji Hakari, who has a gambling-based domain that grants him temporary immortality and infinite cursed energy whenever he hits a jackpot.
How to Watch Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 Episodes 1-2
Jujutsu Kaisen season 3 will stream weekly on Thursdays via Crunchyroll, the anime’s official international platform, and the announcement has sent anime fans into a frenzy.
