Is JUJUTSU KAISEN scary?

Only a little. JUJUTSU KAISEN has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.

How gory is JUJUTSU KAISEN?

Graphic gore and brutal violence. If graphic gore is a dealbreaker, skip it.

What is JUJUTSU KAISEN rated, and is it OK for kids?

No. It is rated TV-MA, with brutal violence, graphic gore and several jump scares.

JUJUTSU KAISEN (2020)

Series · 24m episodes · Rated TV-MA · In Japanese

Action, Adventure, Animation, Anime, Fantasy, Foreign (non-English), Sci-Fi

A high schooler battles monstrous curses and dark forces, facing relentless, gritty action and suspense.

Suspenseful, with dark satire. A full-attention watch at full speed. Emotionally it is heavy.

Streaming on Netflix, Prime Video, Hulu and Crunchyroll.

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JUJUTSU KAISEN parents guide

Of what we could confirm, nothing runs past a TV-MA: brutal violence and mild language.

Scare: Mildly scary; A few tense or eerie moments.
Jump scares: Several; More than a couple of sudden jolts.
Gore: Graphic gore; Blood and wounds shown clearly.
Violence: Brutal violence; Our top level for violence.
Sex and nudity: None flagged; It is rated TV-MA, so treat our zero as unconfirmed.
Language: Mild; Mild words like damn, hell or crap.

How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.

Three questions

Is JUJUTSU KAISEN scary?: Only a little. JUJUTSU KAISEN has a few tense moments, nothing that follows you to bed.
How gory is JUJUTSU KAISEN?: Graphic gore and brutal violence. If graphic gore is a dealbreaker, skip it.
What is JUJUTSU KAISEN rated, and is it OK for kids?: No. It is rated TV-MA, with brutal violence, graphic gore and several jump scares.

What is JUJUTSU KAISEN about?

Yuji Itadori is a boy with tremendous physical strength, though he lives a completely ordinary high school life. One day, to save a classmate who has been attacked by curses, he eats the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, taking the curse into his own soul. From then on, he shares one body with Ryomen Sukuna. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Satoru Gojo, Itadori is admitted to Tokyo Jujutsu High School, an organization that fights the curses... and thus begins the heroic tale of a boy who became a curse to exorcise a curse, a life from which he could never turn back.

Does it have a happy ending? (spoiler-safe)

It leaves things open rather than tying them up.