Jujutsu Kaisen Parents’ Guide: Is It Too Dark for Young Audiences?

Summary:

• Jujutsu Kaisen is targeted at teenagers and young adults.
• There’s no sexual themes, alcohol and drugs in the series.
• The main thing it can teach is how important it is to work as a team.

If you have a child or a younger sibling who is into anime, they’ve definitely heard of a series called Jujutsu Kaisen. Nowadays, it’s one of the most prominent anime series in the world, and thousands of fans discuss it every day.

But how appropriate is it for kids and teenagers?

Rating and Inappropriate Content

Jujutsu Kaisen is officially rated R (not recommended to viewers under the age of 17) and features a lot of violence, gore and even horror elements. It’s set in a world where curses exist and attack people, and sorcerers use their cursed energy to fight them.

Curses don’t often look that frightening, but some contents of the series get intense. There are severed limbs and blood, hideous monsters and demon-like creatures. That’s why the R rating suits this anime well, but a 15-16-year-old can handle it, if they’re not so easy to impress.

There’s mild nudity in the series, but nothing explicit. You won’t find any sex scenes in Jujutsu Kaisen.

The main focus of the anime is fights. There are really a lot of them, and you’ll hardly find an episode where there isn’t even a minor fight. Action tends to get pretty intense with a lot of screams, punches and even torture.

There’s no smoking, drinking or drug-use propaganda in Jujutsu Kaisen, so your kids are absolutely safe when it comes to these topics.

There’s also slight profanity in the anime, but nothing an older teenager can’t handle. In fact, teenagers around 16-19 and young adults are the main target audience for the series.

Positive Messages

Jujutsu Kaisen is a series about fighting. And not just physical fighting, but also fighting your inner demons. It takes the main protagonist, Yuji, a lot of time to deal with his sorcerer life, and his morals get constantly tested.

Jujutsu Kaisen is good at teaching teenagers how to be strong and never give up. All the characters know that they’re on a dangerous path, but they try hard to do the right thing and help innocent people who cannot take care of themselves. They also know how important it is to make sacrifices.

The series also explores the topic of finding your place in the world and the choice between good and evil. The theme of power is very present in the anime, too, and your kids will learn that with great power comes great responsibility.

Jujutsu Kaisen also explores all sorts of trauma. There are the topics of death and loss, struggling with fitting in and finding friends.

But most importantly, Jujutsu Kaisen shows that you have to work together to achieve your goals and overcome all the obstacles on your way. Sorcerers must come united to defeat the great evil, this is the only way they can survive and be victorious.