If big wins at The Anime Awards weren’t enough, now Guinness World Records is touting the success of the JUJUTSU KAISEN anime. Guinness is using data from Parrot Analytics to give JUJUTSU KAISEN the distinction of “most in-demand animated TV show,” a title that has been in the hands of Attack on Titan since 2020. Those calculations aim to determine “demand” based on metrics like “attention, engagement, desire and viewership.” Social media engagement ranges from likes and shares to related hashtags, and viewership is centered on downloads and streams. They also factor in “research” actions like looking a series up on sites such as IMDb. Actions like streaming carry more weight because of the effort required, apparently, but the bottom line is they’ve deemed JUJUTSU KAISEN to be pretty darn popular. The One Piece anime was in the running, too, but JUJUTSU KAISEN hit a surge near the end of 2023 that carried it over the hump. It probably didn’t hurt that the Shibuya Incident Arc was airing at that time. It was in December that the show hit a peak of “128 times the demand of the average show,” and Parrot Analytics says 71.3 percent of viewers fall in the Gen Z (13-22) category.
Crunchyroll is streaming the first two seasons of JUJUTSU KAISEN and the JUJUTSU KAISEN 0 anime film. Here’s how Crunchyroll describes the series:
Yuji Itadori eats a cursed finger to save a classmate, and now Ryomen Sukuna, a powerfully evil sorcerer known as the King of Curses, lives in Itadori’s soul. Curses are supernatural terrors created from negative human emotions. This cursed energy can be used as a power source by jujutsu sorcerers and cursed spirits alike.
Guided by the jujutsu sorcerers, Yuji Itadori joins Tokyo Jujutsu High School, an organization that fights the curses. Mentored by his teacher Satoru Gojo, Itadori befriends Megumi Fushiguro and Nobara Kugisaki, both first-year students.
Source: Guinness World Records
