Recaps

Araki Itsuki joined Jujutsu High and used his immense power to confront curses and challenge the school’s conservative leadership. As plans formed to seal Gojo and the Goodwill Event approached, Araki tried to steer Junpei away from Mahito, but Junpei chose to stay with him.

• Araki Itsuki arrived at Sugisawa Third High School, awakened the Death Omen Star’s power, and helped Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro survive the curse attack after Yuji swallowed Ryomen Sukuna’s finger.
• Araki Itsuki battled Sukuna, joined Jujutsu High with Yuji, and helped the first-years defeat a special grade cursed spirit at the detention center.
• Araki Itsuki fought Jogo and Hanami, survived their combined attacks, and urged Suguru Geto to make the cursed spirits’ plans more violent.
• Suguru Geto and the cursed spirits set their plan to seal Satoru Gojo in Shibuya for October 31, while Gojo defeated Jogo and explained his power to Yuji.
• Araki Itsuki confronted Yoshinobu Gakuganji over his special grade status, then fought Aoi Todo before Todo declared Yuji Itadori his best friend.
• Araki Itsuki met Junpei Yoshino after rescuing him from bullies and offered to help him, while Mahito later gave Junpei a cursed technique and turned him against Araki.
• Araki Itsuki warned Junpei that Mahito was using him and healed his scars, but Junpei chose to stay with Mahito.

Araki Itsuki disrupted Mahito and Suguru Geto’s plot around Junpei, then faced the Cursed Spirits and Kyoto students during the Goodwill Event. After Hanami’s attack and the theft of Sukuna’s fingers and other cursed objects, the students resumed the event with a baseball game.

• Nanami and Araki tracked Mahito to his sewer hideout, where Araki overwhelmed him before Mahito escaped.
• Yuji befriended Junpei, but Mahito and Geto manipulated him after Nagi Yoshino was killed, and Araki revealed that Sako had impersonated Junpei and attacked Mahito.
• Yuji fought Mahito, but Sukuna’s safeguard stopped Mahito’s domain, and the Cursed Spirits later exchanged Nanami and Ino for Mahito.
• Araki unleashed Rhaast against the Cursed Spirits, who failed to defeat him, and Rhaast killed Dagon and warned them not to challenge a god.
• At the Goodwill Event, Araki challenged the students, defeated several Kyoto and Tokyo fighters, and told Yuji to reveal the stronger potential of Divergent Fist.
• Hanami attacked the students, and Yuji landed Black Flash strikes with Todo’s help before Gojo arrived and fired Hollow Purple at Hanami.
• Mahito took six of Sukuna’s Fingers and three Cursed Womb: Death Paintings, while Araki told the students what had been stolen.
• The students resumed the Goodwill Event as a baseball game, and Gakuganji praised Yuji and Todo before leaving.

Araki Itsuki intervened in the Shibuya Incident, defeated Jogo, and forced Kenjaku to prepare a worldwide conflict among curses, sorcerers, and humans. Yuji, Choso, and Jogo joined forces against Mahito, as Yuji resolved to kill him without seeking justification.

• Araki Itsuki recruited Eso and Kechizu after the group fought a Finger Cursed Spirit beneath Yasohachi Bridge, and he later removed the curse from Tsumiki and restored Uraume in a new body.
• Satoru Gojo defeated Uraume, while Utahime identified Mechamaru as the mole and Mechamaru fought Mahito before Choso betrayed Mahito on Araki Itsuki’s behalf.
• Kenjaku sealed Satoru Gojo in the Prison Realm during the Shibuya Incident, but Araki Itsuki confronted Kenjaku and Mahito as curses and sorcerers fought across the city.
• Araki Itsuki defeated Jogo and enslaved him with netherflames, while Yuji Itadori, Fushiguro, and Ino confronted the summoned Toji Fushiguro and Rhaast killed him.
• Araki Itsuki proposed that Kenjaku gather the world’s curses and sorcerers in Sakura Country for an all-out war, with the victor promised any wish.
• Yuji Itadori confronted Mahito, and Choso claimed Yuji as his biological younger brother before joining him and Jogo in the fight.
• After Mahito struck Yuji with Black Flash and taunted him, Yuji declared that he wanted to kill Mahito without needing to justify his desire.

Araki Itsuki set the Culling Game in motion, gathered allies, and steered them into battles against its strongest players while Kenjaku pursued his plans. The stretch ended with Kinji Hakari restoring himself with another jackpot as his fight with Hajime Kashimo continued.

• Araki Itsuki helped Yuji Itadori and his companions defeat Mahito, then confronted Kenjaku and set a global trial in motion by unleashing the Culling Game.
• Araki Itsuki brought cursed energy back inside Sakura Country and gave Yuji Itadori and Mei Mei new authorities before the group split up to pursue their goals.
• At the Zenin estate, Megumi Fushiguro became clan head, while Maki Zenin awakened her Heavenly Restriction after Mai died and slaughtered the Zenin Clan fighters who opposed her.
• Araki Itsuki guided the group to Tengen, who revealed Kenjaku's plan to assimilate humanity, then entered the Culling Game with Yuta Okkotsu and Maki.
• Araki Itsuki defeated Hiromi Higuruma in his domain and persuaded him to train, while Fushiguro fought Reiji's group and Yuta Okkotsu defeated Kurourushi, Takako Uro, and Ryu Ishigori.
• Araki Itsuki resurrected Rika Orimoto for Yuta Okkotsu, while Maki defeated Naoya Zenin after awakening further and Kenjaku escaped a confrontation with strange brain-like duplicates.
• Araki Itsuki saved Panda from Hajime Kashimo and brought Yuji Itadori into the fight, but Kinji Hakari took over and battled Kashimo with repeated jackpots.
• Araki Itsuki refused to let Ryomen Sukuna heal Yuji Itadori, while Hakari survived Kashimo's fatal attack by hitting another jackpot and restoring his body.