Jujutsu Kaisen creator Gege Akutami has been trending in the anime and manga community thanks to his Q&A that was recently made public in Japan during a Jujutsu Kaisen exhibition.
The Q&A confirmed some things that are more or less tragic for the fandom, and honestly, fans would have been better off if the information about Gojo or Nobara was not revealed in the Q&A.
Recently, Gege Akutami has been in the talk of the anime and manga community again, thanks to his recent comment in the Shonen Jump magazine. In case you don’t know, authors of manga usually have a message for fans in the Shonen Jump magazine.
This time, however, Gege didn’t talk about his manga series. Since the author was recently ill and couldn’t work on his manga, the message also referred to his illness and how he passed his time during it.
The message read: “When I wasn’t feeling well, I couldn’t watch movies or read anything at all because all I did was watch compilations of Messi’s plays.”
So Gege Akutami has not outright said that he is a Messi fan, but why would you watch a compilation of someone if you don’t like the player? We can safely assume that Gege Akutami is likely a fan of Messi and his dribbling skills. This might be slightly unpleasant news for Ronaldo fans, given the rivalry between the two players.
If you don’t know about Jujutsu Kaisen anime and manga, here is a brief history of the series:
- The Jujutsu Kaisen manga began serialization in March 2018 in Weekly Shonen Jump.
- The anime adaptation, produced by MAPPA studio, premiered in October 2020.
- The first season of the anime concluded in March 2021.
- A prequel movie, Jujutsu Kaisen 0, was released in December 2021.
- The highly anticipated second season aired in July 2023.
- Season 3 is currently in production.
- Gege Akutami has confirmed that the ongoing arc will be the final one.
You can watch the anime series on Crunchyroll, which describes the series as follows:
Follow young Yuji Itadori in this dark supernatural action series as he begins training in the dangerous arts of jujutsu sorcery and explores the violent world of curses! Yuji Itadori eats a cursed finger to save a classmate, and now Ryomen Sukuna, a powerfully evil sorcerer known as the King of Curses, lives in Itadori’s soul. Curses are supernatural terrors created from negative human emotions. This cursed energy can be used as a power source by jujutsu sorcerers and cursed spirits alike.
