Jujutsu Kaisen creator Gege Akutami reflects on the manga's seven-year journey: ‘I'm fed up with…'

Gege Akutami, the creator of Jujutsu Kaisen, has opened up about the personal and professional challenges he faced throughout his creative journey. Gege Akutami reflects on the challenges faced during the creation of Jujutsu Kaisen, revealing moments of self-doubt and frustration. In his public note, he began, “The product Jujutsu Kaisen was pissed out for six and a half years, nearly seven years if you include the serialisation of the special issues, and what I learned was ‘I am really an idiot.’ I was, of course, pushing myself to the limits to pull out everything I could for my creations, and after about three years of serialisation, my already rough personality began to become absentminded.” He continued, “Even though I was complaining that ‘I'm fed up with having things pointed out to me that could be figured out by looking it up on the internet! Akutami wrote, “Jujutsu Kaisen began running with my first editor Yamanaka-san, and we immediately entered an underground forced labour arc, but he periodically communicated with me. This is the end of the Jujutsu Kaisen that I have drawn.” The creator ended the note on a warm note as he wrote, “To everyone who supported me, to the people who read it all at once when it became topical, to those who read it wanting to see what came after the anime, to the person who just happened to read this final volume.