The opening two episodes of ‘Jujutsu Kaisen’ Season 3 do not arrive with the roar of a new beginning. Instead, they settle in with a heavy silence, reminding viewers that the Shibuya Incident has not ended, it has merely changed shape. Rather than chasing immediate spectacle, the premiere episodes linger on grief, guilt, and the moral rot spreading through the jujutsu world. By the time the ending arrives, it is clear that the series is positioning its characters for something far more cruel than a conventional battle arc.
Episodes 1 and 2 make it painfully clear that there is no emotional reset after Shibuya. The jujutsu system itself is fractured, leadership is compromised, and survival has become a political decision rather than a moral one. The death of Naobito Zenin and the chaos within the Zenin clan expose how quickly power shifts when figures like Gojo Satoru are removed from the board.
This instability creates the perfect breeding ground for the next phase of the story, one where decisions are dictated by fear, self-preservation, and institutional cruelty.
Yuji Itadori begins the season already broken. These episodes frame him not as a hero eager to fight, but as someone quietly hoping his life might end if it means preventing further harm. The series leans heavily into survivor’s guilt, showing how Yuji internalises Sukuna’s massacre as his own sin.
This emotional framing is crucial to understanding the ending. Yuji does not resist his fate when it arrives, he accepts it.
The arrival of Yuta Okkotsu is one of the most chilling moments of the premiere. Calm, efficient, and emotionally distant, Yuta represents the jujutsu system at its most merciless. His confrontation with Yuji is not staged as a heroic clash, but as an execution carried out by someone who hates that it must be done.
When Yuta kills Yuji, and later revives him, the act becomes deeply symbolic. It exposes the hypocrisy of the higher-ups and highlights Yuta’s own conflict between duty and conscience. The promise he makes to kill Yuji again if Sukuna resurfaces is not a threat; it is a grim act of mercy.
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The closing moments of Episode 2 deliberately avoid spectacle. Instead of ending on a cliffhanger fight, the story funnels its characters towards Master Tengen and the looming mechanics of the Culling Game. Kenjaku remains unseen but omnipresent, his plan already in motion.
This “deadly calm” is what makes the ending unsettling. Alliances are forming out of necessity, not trust. Everyone is moving forward while already accepting that survival may come at an unbearable cost.
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What these episodes ultimately establish is that the Culling Game is not a tournament to be conquered. It is a system designed to exhaust, break, and compromise its players. Yuji agreeing to continue, despite clearly wanting to disappear, underlines the tragedy at the heart of the arc.
If Episodes 1 and 2 are quiet, it is only because the story is holding its breath. The ending makes one thing unmistakably clear: when the Culling Game truly begins, it will not ask who deserves to survive.
'Jujutsu Kaisen' Season 3 is currently streaming on Crunchyroll.
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