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Jujutsu Kaisen Season 4 Culling Game PV Reveals the Hakari vs Kashimo Fight

呪術廻戦4期（死滅回游）PV 日本のファンの反応

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Jujutsu Kaisen Season 4 Culling Game PV Reveals the Hakari vs Kashimo Fight
“Sorry, Yuji, but I genuinely LOVE the face you make when you despair.”

悠仁には悪いけど悠仁が絶望する顔大好き

— @ドブカスaka直哉708

The Season 4 PV for Jujutsu Kaisen — MAPPA's adaptation of the Culling Game (死滅回游) arc — dropped, and the top Japanese reactions zeroed in on the fight the fandom has been waiting years for: Hakari vs Kashimo. The most-liked comment is a manga reader cheerfully admitting he can't wait for the suffering to start ("the Yuji-torture accelerates from here"), and that gallows-humor anticipation set the tone for the whole thread. The recurring themes were pure hype: relief that Hakari's broken Domain "wasn't nerfed," fan theories about the color of his cursed energy shifting as his odds climb, awe at MAPPA's insane workload (they're making Chainsaw Man at the same time — and once juggled this AND Attack on Titan), and surprisingly sharp art-direction takes contrasting Part 1's deliberately grimy look with this PV's brighter, cleaner color. And at the very end, the PV flashes the 契闊 ("Keikatsu") scene one more time — a quiet gut-punch that manga readers immediately clocked as MAPPA twisting the knife.

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The reactions below are from Japanese fans responding to the Season 4 (Culling Game / 死滅回游) PV for Jujutsu Kaisen, with the long-awaited Hakari vs Kashimo fight finally on the horizon. （YouTube · 五条先生の動画集【呪術廻戦】）

Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 522)

  • Anime-only here, but yeah… Megumi really does start swaying (yura-yura) at the drop of a hat, huh…

    アニメ勢なんだけど、やっぱり恵くんはすぐ由良由良しちゃうんやね…

    — @Hiro_Bayash1,587 likes

  • It's more that the situations force him into it… he's just got a chronic swaying habit at this point…

    そうせざるを得ない状況というか… 由良由良癖があるというか…

    — @konayuki-CEHC325 likes

  • Trust me, he literally can't win without doing it…

    これはしないと勝てないっす…

    — @マロン-u6l90 likes

  • From here on the kid-torture absolutely accelerates, so I genuinely can't wait.

    ここからは小僧虐が加速しまくるから楽しみで仕方ない。

    — @R.R.RrR7119 likes

  • A protagonist who keeps trying to push forward even while suffering is the best… Yuji from around this point on is what I'm most hyped for.

    苦しみながらも前に進みつけようとする主人公最高よね...特にここら辺からの虎杖は楽しみすぎる

    — @マロ-w3t8 likes

  • Can't wait to watch the Tiger of West Middle School — a confessed killer — get put through the wringer all over again.

    西中の虎である人殺しがまた曇るから楽しみ

    — @ああああああ-y1o16 likes

  • Hakari vs Kashimo — I'm WAY too hyped for this.

    秤vs鹿紫雲が楽しみすぎる

    — @wowoniru747 likes

  • One of all of Jujutsu Kaisen's best fights, Hakari vs Kashimo, is finally getting animated…

    呪術屈指のベストバウト秤対鹿紫雲がとうとう映像化されるのか、、、

    — @SAKEKASU50315 likes

  • I really hope they go all-out on Hakari vs Kashimo.

    秤vs鹿紫雲めっちゃ盛ってほしい

    — @mikumo-o2c15 likes

  • Genuinely hyped to see Kashimo's lightning unleashed.

    カッシーの音上前葬マジで楽しみ

    — @aokabi-z1g33 likes

  • Hakari's Domain — I'm so relieved they didn't weirdly nerf it.

    金ちゃんの領域 変にナーフされなくてよかったよ

    — @豆腐メンタル-h2q401 likes

  • I want the color of Hakari's cursed energy to shift along with his odds.

    秤の呪力の色は期待値で変わってほしい

    — @ハピネス-i2z19 likes

  • Green → red → gold → rainbow.

    緑→赤→金→虹色

    — @sleep-f3p8w1 likes

  • The color of Hakari's cursed energy is so absurdly flashy it's god-tier.

    秤の呪力の色ドパガキ過ぎて神

    — @ななは-n5l12 likes

  • Yeah, Junya Enoki's voice (Yuji's VA) is just god-tier.

    やっぱ榎木さんの声神だ

    — @おにぎり-g5y-h5y26 likes

  • I can't wait to hear the "Big bro's gonna go kill his parents now!!" line.

    お兄ちゃんの親殺しいきまぁす!!が早く聴きたい

    — @アオスケ-a5 likes

  • Getting to hear the voice of King Enma (lol) again — amazing!

    エンマ大王の声()がまた聞けるなんて最高だな！

    — @tjwjgt-i4z118 likes

  • MAPPA is making Chainsaw Man AND Jujutsu Kaisen at the same time — their workload is insane.

    チェンソーも呪術も作っててMAPPAの仕事量えぐい

    — @Kurimatu-l7j511 likes

  • The wild part is they once did Attack on Titan WHILE juggling these two.

    かつてこの二つやりながら進撃の巨人もやってたのやべえ

    — @ほうれん草-u7x90 likes

  • They were making the Zombie Land Saga movie too, mind you.

    劇場版ゾンビランドサガも作ってたぞ

    — @yamamoto222213 likes

  • They were also making Tonsuki, Ranma, Bucchigiri, Hell's Paradise, Lazarus, Zenshu, Rose of Versailles, and Inazuma Eleven around the same period. MAPPA has 10+ production teams so they could cover it, but it must have been brutal back then.

    トンすき,らんま,忘却,地獄楽,ラザロ,全修,ベルサイユのばら,イナイレも同時期に作ってました。 まあMAPPAには制作チームが10個以上あるから受け持てたが当時は激務だったやろな

    — @youtubebamo7 likes

  • First thing I have to say is the visuals are gorgeous. Part 1 deliberately roughed up the linework, so it felt murky and grimy, but this time the art is clean and the color palette is much brighter — it was genuinely easy on the eyes.

    まず言いたいのが映像が美しすぎる。前編はあえて作画崩す故にドロドロとした印象だったけど今回は作画も整ってて色彩がかなり明るい印象で映像としてかなり見やすかった

    — @ポンデリンEX123 likes

  • Did you get a little faster?! Naoya!!

    ちょっと速くなったか！？ 直哉！！

    — @KuM-b1s97 likes

  • Flashing the "Keikatsu" (契闊) scene one more time at the very end of the PV just to deal psychic damage to us manga readers — classic MAPPA.

    pvの最後に契闊のシーンを改めて出すことで、原作勢にダメージを与えるMAPPA流石っす

    — @からあげ将軍-s7i87 likes

  • What I'm honestly most curious about is the song "Achira wo Tatereba." With lyrics like "your back hair's pretty thick, huh (papaya-paya)," I can't wait to hear what kind of track it turns into.

    マジで一番気になるのは「あちらをタてれば」なんだよな やんやねん「背中の毛濃いね(パパヤパヤ)」って歌詞、どんな曲になるのか楽しみすぎる

    — @konayuki-CEHC120 likes

  • I'd be thrilled if they played "Achira wo Tatereba" in full.

    あちらをたてればをフルで流してくれれば嬉しい

    — @hukashigi8 likes

  • Season 3 already had me stuffed, and this PV made my stomach burst.

    3期で満腹だったのが今回のPVでお腹が破裂しました

    — @悟-h1p190 likes

  • Thanks… now I've got indigestion.

    ありがとう…胃もたれだ

    — @7even2wo29 likes

  • Do an advance theatrical screening again — we NEED it.

    また先行上映やってくれ必要だろ

    — @garigari-jay171 likes

  • DON'T you DARE feed me garbage information!!!!! (Gojo voice)

    私にゴミのような情報を流すんじゃぁなぁぁぁい！！！！！

    — @陸奥_utage21 likes

  • Apparently more new info drops at Jujutsu Fest at the end of August, so let's keep our hopes up.

    8月末開催のじゅじゅフェスで、また新情報公開されるらしいから期待しよう。

    — @ベルツリー-x6b250 likes

  • The moment Tsukumo showed up was so good I choked on my sakura mochi.

    九十九出てきた瞬間最高すぎて喉に 桜餅 詰まった

    — @nu810vd7 likes

  • So it ends on the line "I'll win." — that kind of vibe, huh.

    最後は「勝つさ。」で終わる感じか

    — @Heren_1282 likes
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