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If you’re keeping up with anime, then you know that Jujutsu Kaisen continues to be one of the most popular shows around. It already had one prequel movie with Jujutsu Kaisen 0, but we’ll soon be getting to see more of young Satoru Gojo’s antics on the big screen. Though it is just a compilation film from the anime’s second season, Jujutus Kaisen: Hidden Inventory/Premature Death – The Movie’s release date will bring one of the manga’s best arcs into cinemas in the US this summer. 

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Jujutsu Kaisen: Hidden Inventory/Premature Death – The Movie will be released on July 16, 2025, in the US, following its May 2025 release in Japan. That is smack in the middle of Superman and The Fantastic Four: First Steps, for those keeping track. Jujutsu Kaisen: Hidden Inventory/Premature Death – The Movie serves as a prequel to everything that we’ve seen before, including Jujutsu Kaisen 0. It shows Gojo and Geto, two enemies when we see them in the series, as best friends and classmates at Jujutsu High. As two of the most powerful sorcerers in the country, they are tasked with protecting Riko Amanai until she can be sacrificed as the Star Plasma Vessel and secure the future of Jujutsu society for another century.

We love the Jujutsu Kaisen anime as much as anyone else but believe us when we say that this arc is one of the best in the series. Even having read the manga, very little matches the emotional pain Gojo has when he is ultimately betrayed by his best friend. Jujutsu Kaisen: Hidden Inventory/Premature Death – The Movie has some of the most impressive animation we’ve seen from MAPPA and we can’t wait to see it on the big screen.

Jujutsu Kaisen: Hidden Inventory/Premature Death – The Movie is out in US cinemas on July 16, 2025.

Each week, Popverse's resident anime expert Trent Cannon runs down the latest and, dare we say "greatest," in anime and manga in Popverse Jump. Some recent columns have included... 

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