The first five episodes remake everything you thought you knew about Gojo and Geto, and the animation during those opening fights is so precise it feels like watching a different show entirely. Then the rest of the season fights its own production schedule, some episodes look unfinished, some look deliberately experimental, most look like someone was drawing faster than the studio could keep up. What matters is that neither problem kills the Shibuya Incident arc, which takes the friendship you just watched break and buries it under the weight of every choice that led them there.

Two elite jujutsu sorcerers stand at a crossroads. In 2006, Satoru Gojou and Suguru Getou are best friends and Special Grade students at Tokyo Jujutsu High, sure that no job is beyond them. They are assigned to escort a young girl named Riko Amanai, the Star Plasma Vessel, to Master Tengen. When a sorcerer killer named Fushiguro sets out to assassinate her, the mission sinks into moral conflict that pushes the two toward becoming bitter enemies: one the strongest sorcerer alive, the other a twisted curse user. Twelve years later, cursed spirits led by an ancient curse join forces to wipe out humanity and target Gojou with an attack at Shibuya Station on Halloween. The sorcerers split into teams to stop them in this action drama of supernatural battles.