The film is based on Gege Akutami’s Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Tokyo Toritsu Jujutsu Kōtō Senmon Gakkō (Jujutsu Kaisen 0: Tokyo Prefectural Jujutsu High School) manga prequel story.
The manga’s circulation will have jumped by 5 million copies since the release of the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 film on December 24.
Jujutsu Kaisen 0 opened in Japan on December 24 and is currently the 19th highest-grossing film in Japan of all time.
The Jujutsu Kaisen anime premiered in October 2020, and it had 24 episodes.