Jujutsu Kaisen Season 4 Trailer Debuts with a Bang, Introducing a New Director and Plenty of Action

The world's most in-demand anime just gave its global fanbase the update they have been waiting three months for. During MAPPA's 15th anniversary lineup reveal livestream on Friday, June 19, the studio released the first official teaser trailer for Jujutsu Kaisen Season 4: The Culling Game Part 2, confirming the series is in active production and naming a new director to lead it.

The teaser debuted on Toho Animation's official YouTube channel immediately after the livestream concluded. It previews several of the arc's most anticipated matchups — including Hakari versus Kashimo, Yuki Tsukumo and Choso defending against Kenjaku, and Maki Zenin, Yuji Itadori, and Megumi Fushiguro pressing deeper into the battle royale. The footage also includes a brief scene of Kenjaku meeting with figures connected to the United States government, a plot thread that has been building since earlier in the arc.

No release date was announced. MAPPA's message to viewers: Jujutsu Kaisen Season 4 is "diligently in production," and further updates will follow.

The most significant news from the event was the directorial change. Shota Goshozono, who directed Season 2 in full and shaped Season 3's overall creative vision, moves into a chief director role — a supervisory position above the series director. Stepping in as director for Season 4 is Takeru Sato, who served as assistant director on Season 3. Sato has a full directorial credit on the MAPPA film Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise and additional episode-directing work on Chainsaw Man and Dororo.

The transition reflects a calculated internal bet at MAPPA rather than a surprise creative disruption. Sato and Goshozono have already collaborated directly: Sato co-directed the episode of Chainsaw Man that Goshozono himself storyboarded. Handing the director's chair to someone who has already executed Goshozono's creative vision in practice — with Goshozono remaining overhead as chief director — is the studio's way of maintaining creative continuity while developing its next generation of talent.

Also returning to the production are series composer and scriptwriter Hiroshi Seko, character designers Yosuke Yajima and Hiromi Niwa, compositing director Teppei Ito, color designer Eiko Matsushima, background art director Junichi Higashi, and music composer Yoshimasa Terui.

Season 4 picks up where Season 3 left off following Yuta Okkotsu's victory at the Sendai Colony. The remaining stretch of the Culling Game arc spans roughly manga chapters 181 through 221, bringing the tournament to its conclusion and setting up confrontations that push every major character to their limits. The Culling Game is the longest arc in Gege Akutami's source manga, which concluded its six-and-a-half-year run in Weekly Shonen Jump in September 2024 after being collected in 30 volumes.

Season 4 will resolve the arc's central conflicts — battles that manga readers have followed in print but anime viewers have yet to see animated. MAPPA has made clear that Season 4 will be the series at its most intense.

No official release date or window has been announced. Based on the availability of Japanese TV broadcast slots and MAPPA's production pace, industry observers have pointed to late 2026 or early 2027 as the most likely debut window, with January 2027 frequently cited as the earliest realistic target. MAPPA has not confirmed any of these projections. The next major opportunity for a release announcement is Jump Festa 2027, traditionally held each December.

Crunchyroll is currently the primary streaming home for Seasons 1 through 3 internationally, and Season 4 is expected to follow the same distribution arrangement — though no streaming platform for the new season has been officially confirmed.

Hulu confirmed that Season 3 will arrive on the platform on July 10, 2026, in both subbed and dubbed versions, expanding access to the Culling Game arc for US audiences who have not yet followed the series on Crunchyroll. Netflix carries the series in select regions of Asia, though no confirmed US Season 4 streaming arrangement has been announced.

MAPPA was founded on June 14, 2011, by Masao Maruyama, a co-founder of Madhouse, and has grown to 467 employees across studios in Tokyo, Sendai, and Osaka. In 15 years, the studio has produced the final season of Attack on Titan, Chainsaw Man, Vinland Saga Season 2, Hell's Paradise, and Dorohedoro — a portfolio that would be considered a career's work for many studios, assembled at pace. Jujutsu Kaisen is its highest-profile property: Guinness World Records certified it as the world's most in-demand animated TV show based on 2023 data, a title it retained the following year with a global demand rating more than 64 times higher than the average TV series, according to data-science firm Parrot Analytics.

The franchise's Gen Z audience — comprising over 71% of its viewership — means that MAPPA's ability to deliver Season 4 at the standard fans have come to expect is not just a matter of creative pride. It is a high-stakes production obligation for the studio's most commercially consequential title.

When will Jujutsu Kaisen Season 4 be released?

No official release date has been announced. MAPPA confirmed the series is in active production as of June 19, 2026. Based on Japanese TV scheduling and typical MAPPA production timelines, most industry observers expect Season 4 to premiere in late 2026 or, more likely, early 2027. The next probable update will come at Jump Festa 2027 in December.

Who is the new director of Jujutsu Kaisen Season 4?

Takeru Sato is directing Season 4. He served as assistant director on Season 3 and directed the MAPPA film Zombie Land Saga: Yumeginga Paradise, with additional episode-directing credits on Chainsaw Man and Dororo. Shota Goshozono, who directed Seasons 2 and 3, moves to a chief director role — a supervisory position that keeps him involved in the production's creative oversight.

What will Jujutsu Kaisen Season 4: Culling Game Part 2 cover?

Season 4 will adapt the second half of the Culling Game arc, roughly chapters 181 through 221 of Gege Akutami's manga. It picks up after Yuta Okkotsu's victory at the Sendai Colony and brings the tournament to its conclusion, including several of the arc's most intense battles. The completed manga gives MAPPA a full roadmap through the end of the Culling Game — and into the setup for what follows.

Where can I watch Jujutsu Kaisen right now?

Seasons 1 through 3 are available on Crunchyroll internationally. Hulu will add Season 3 in both subbed and dubbed formats on July 10, 2026. Netflix carries the series in select Asian markets. No streaming platform for Season 4 has been officially confirmed yet.

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