If you
thought surviving the rules of the Extinction Games was hard,
try to survive the relentless schedule of Japanese television. The third season
of Jujutsu Kaisen (titled The Culling Game: Part 1)
kicked off with a bang in January 2026, but a devastating new rumor suggests
that we'll be itching to see the conclusion of this arc until next year.
"There
is no space in the programming"
According
to the leaks that are already setting fire to forums and social networks, Part
2 of the third season will not arrive until January 2027. The official
excuse behind this rumor? Apparently, Japanese television networks have their
transmission blocks completely saturated for the rest of 2026, without leaving
a single free slot to squeeze the new episodes of Yuji Itadori and company.
Considering that Part 1 will end its broadcast on March 26, 2026, this would mean that anime fans will have to endure a legal vacuum of almost ten months without their weekly dose of sorcery, traumatic deaths, and masterfully animated fights.
A
blessing in disguise for the entertainers?
Although
there is no official confirmation from the production committee, the community
is divided. On the one hand, there are the desperate who can't bear the idea of
such a long hiatus, especially when readers of the manga (whose main story has
already ended) keep dropping spoilers in every corner of the
internet.
On the
other hand, the more sensible faction of the fandom is
celebrating this possible delay. Making high-caliber anime is a logistical
nightmare, and considering the brutal history of labor exploitation at
animation studios, giving the team nearly a year of respite to draw every
frame, fine-tune the action, and avoid a collapse in production sounds like an
extremely wise decision not to ruin the visual quality that The Culling
Game demands.
