Update [Wed 11th Oct, 2023 03:55 BST]:
It seems the PlayStation Blog has lifted the lid on the release date for Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash. It will apparently be arriving early next year on 2nd February 2024 (thanks, Gematsu).
Original article [Sun 2nd Jul, 2023 02:25 BST]:
If you happen to be a fan of the manga and anime series Jujutsu Kaisen, you might be interested to know a new 2 vs. 2 action arena fighting game is on the way.
Bandai Namco has announced Jujutsu Kaisen Cursed Clash will be "coming soon" to the Nintendo Switch and multiple other platforms. This reveal comes ahead of the anime's Season 2 launch on 6th July.
"Jujustu Kaisen Cursed Clash features over fifteen characters in high-impact 2 vs. 2 Cursed Technique Battles!"
This Japanese series featuring plenty of action and supernatural themes was originally written and illustrated by Gege Akutami and was serialised in Weekly Shonen Jump. Here's a bit about the series' premise, if you're not familiar with it (via Crunchyroll):
"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."
Any interest in this upcoming anime fighter? Comment below.
Comments 18
Another day, another generic Bamco anime fighter. Hard to believe it’s been 5 years since FighterZ launched, and Bamco still hasn’t licensed another IP to a more capable studio.
It's a 2 on 2 3D brawler, not fighting game. Meh. I'm not interested...
I don’t mind brawlers, but I’d really like a revival of the Clash of the Ninja series. The fighting in that game was so enjoyable.
This show really deserves more than a cliche brawler game.
Jujutsu Kaisen is one of my favorite anime from recent years, so I'll be picking this one up when it goes on sale. All of the cast have very unique abilities, which will keep things fresh.
Read this title and was trying to remember why the name felt familiar. Suddenly remembered it was from the manga my brothers tried to get me into, which I dropped early on.
The standard BAMCO romp, but maybe fun. Just gotta know what you're (likely) getting if you jump in.
Oeh looks amazing!
Been a fan of this anime, and the gameplay looks dope.
Huh, this could be intere--
"arena fighting game"
Bummer. Maybe next time.
@Dom_31 my thoughts exactly
I find that these games are usually made well enough IMO. I have a fair few of the anime based brawlers. I like this anime tv series and will probably be downloading this but not straight away. Fighters are a genre I like, so it may be that I am easily pleased
Another arena fighter, don’t get me wrong they are really fun games! But most of these anime deserve 2d fighters like dbfz, of course I don’t expect them all to be on arcs level, but a 2d fighter would be much better, at least it will be fun and go on sale in a few months.
This looks like Japanese school Anime series. All diffrent characters.
Great anime, deserves the Kakarot treatment rather than another one of these games that are all starting to look the same.
I really enjoy Jujutsu Kaisen but hard to get excited since this looks like they just lazily slapped the series over the exact same engine for the My Hero Academia 3D brawler from 2018.
I enjoyed those My Hero games don't get me wrong but would have preferred if Jujutsu Kaisen was given an RPG or a Devil May Cry/Bayonetta style action game.
@SpoonySpoons imho fighterz isn't really so good as it seems, it's a very good fighter, but not a good anime based game: characters selection is meh, no transformations (instead there are 100 Goku), bad story mode, balancing ruins the atmosphere (Yamcha and videl can beat Jiren?)
It's disappointing that it'll be a 3D brawler. An anime like Jujutsu Kaisen deserves a fighting game akin to DBFZ.
Looks very low budget sadly. The characters are very well realised but we only really see two fighting areas (a courtyard and a forest clearing) and it's just the characters fighting each other.
I'd much rather something where you're fighting actual curses like the anime instead of this.
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