Only true fans caught up with the 10 hidden details revealed in Season 3

Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 finally arrived in the 2026 winter anime season, featuring an explosive and hyper-stylized opening sequence full of hidden details and visual motifs. this Showing snippets of important events from the manga and anime series that only true JJK fans will recognize. Not to mention, the opening song titled AIZO by King Gnu complements the visuals perfectly.

It goes without saying Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 has a solid opening. Almost every frame in the sequence hides references and meanings that practically spoil the third season if viewers know where to look. The opening held a lot of important stuff, but they showed it in an obscure way. Let's break them down one by one.

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Volume 19 cover of Hiromi Higuruma

• The JJK Volume 19 cover features Hiromi Higuru holding a sunflower

JJK Manga has featured major and minor supporting characters on its volume covers, and Hiromi Higuru, a Grade 1 mage, is no exception. In JJK Volume 19, Hiromi Higuru is on the cover, holding a sunflower with an intense look in her eyes. This cover can be seen in the opening of JJK Season 3 around the 1:10 mark.

Interestingly, Higuruma is another name for sunflower in Japan, making the flower a direct reflection of Higuruma's identity. In addition, real-life Japanese lawyers usually wear sunflower pins for their badges. Higuruma also had a sunflower badge when he first appeared in chapter 143 of the manga.

Yuji Itadori and The Cogs

• Yuji Itadori has the mentality.

Around the 1:26 mark of the opening of JJK Season 3, fans can easily see a bunch of cogs turning. This appears to be a reference to Yuji Itadori's iconic declaration to Kinji Hakari in JJK chapter 157, where he tells her that he is a cog for the sorcerers to continue the curses.

Of course, Kinji, a man who thrived on feverish passion, found Yuji's argument boring. However, Yuji eventually convinces Kinji to fight on their side, helping Gojo Satoru and the other magicians of Jujutsu High in their cooling matches.

Megumi Fushiguro and the Ten Sacred Treasures

• Seven of the ten shadows have already appeared in the JJK anime.

As fans know, Megumi Fushiguro is a Ten Shadow Technique user in JJK. The season 3 opening made this fact even clearer by showing the seven symbols of the Ten Sacred Treasures, from the Okitsukagami (Mirror of the Depths) to the Yatsuka No Tsurugi (The Eight-Handed Long Sword), representing the seven shadows that Megumi summoned in JJK.

So far, JJK has also featured Megumi's Divine Dogs, New, Toad, Great Snake, Max Elephant, and Divine General Mahoraga. Recently, the anime also featured Megumi's rabbit escape.

Kiss painting featuring Yuta Okkotsu

• The match between Yuta Okkotsu and Kururushi will be in a calling match.

The opening of JJK Season 3 referenced several paintings in its visual sequence, and one of them is an iconic oil painting by Gustav Klimt called The Kiss. Instead of seeing the couple hugging, fans saw Kuroroshi and Yuta Okkotsu together.

Yuta and Kururushi's depicted kiss is a direct reference to the final moments of their fight in the Painting Calling games, specifically in JJK chapter 175. Yuta literally kissed Kururushi to death, sending positive cursed energy straight into his head, thus killing him.

Ryu Ishigori's Granite Blast

• Ryu Ishigori can perform a laser beam-like attack called Granite Blast.

The laser beam is not hard to spot in the new opening of JJK Season 3. It appeared at about 1:07 and again at 1:24. Those who have read the manga should know that this laser beam is actually Ryu Ishigori's signature attack called Granite Blast.

For further context, Ryu Ishigori is yet another old magician who joined Kenzaku's calling game. His Granite Blast looks like a laser beam filled with highly-focused curse energy, perfect as a weapon of mass destruction.

In the area of ​​Maki and My Reeds

• JJK season 3 will have a major event between Maki and Mai.

The new opening of JJK season 3 featured Mai and Maki in several frames, one of which is of them running hand in hand through a field of reeds. The short scene looks like an ominous found footage video, where Maki and Maki look very happy together. It's a rare sight considering their ongoing feud.

While Maki and Maki looked happy in that scene, according to Egyptian mythology, the field of reeds represents an afterlife paradise where pain, sickness and suffering do not exist. Without spoiling too much, this scene is bad news for one of the Janine sisters.

Flying Nuke

• Kenzaku once went to America to betray the government.

During the opening of JJK Season 3, an atom can be seen flying in the sky over Japan. Some fans believe the nuke represents JJK's American plot, which the series eventually abandoned, while others believe it represents Kenzaku's plan to explode after the weak magicians die in the Calling Game.

In the words of Reggie Star, “Kenzaku will drop the bomb when only the strong are left,” a quote that gives nuclear imagery at the start of a new episode of JJK Season 3. Still, fans are free to interpret the nuke as a US conspiracy, with Kenzaku tricking the US government into speeding up his plans.

Maki and his bloody knife

• Maki will end the genin clan by himself.

Maki Janine has a huge exposure in the opening sequence of JJK season 3. She probably received the most frames besides Yuji Itadori and Kenzaku, making her a major character in the third season.

One of the best frames in the opening shows a still shot of Maki holding a bloody knife and/or dagger. While manga fans are aware, Maki is undergoing an awakening, which will grant her extraordinary powers.

Like Yuji, his hands will be stained with the blood, not of innocent people but of his entire clan. The knife in his hand probably represents his cruel actions towards his clan. However, this may also be the same weapon Maki's mother used against Naoya.

Dead Mother painting featuring Yuji and Kenzaku

• Kenzaku interfered with Yuji Itadori's birth.

Egon Schiele's 1910 painting Dead Mother was also referenced in the opening of JJK Season 3. The anime used Kenzaku as the mother, while they used Yuji Itadori as the child around the 0:52 mark. The frame looked beautiful and terrifying, knowing how Yuji had been impregnated into JJK.

It's no secret that Kenzaku used Yuji Itadori's mother Kaori's body, turning her birth into part of a long-running experiment. This is why Choso considers Yuji to be his younger brother, as they were both born from Kenzaku's intervention.

Y-shaped crossroad painting

• Megumi and Yuji will be separated in the calling game.

The opening of JJK season 3 also featured a Y-shaped crossroads painting by Tadanori Yokoo in art references. This time, JJK placed Rin Amai and Remi at a Y-shaped crossroads, apparently referencing their roles in the calling game.

When Rin walks to the left, Remi is on the right. In the JJK manga, Rin and Remi trick Yuji Itadori and Megumi Fushiguro, who are looking for the angel, Hana Kurusu. Instead of helping Yuji and Megumi, Rin brings Yuji to Higuruma, while Remi leads Megumi to Reggie Star and her team, further delaying their mission.

Release date

October 3, 2020

network

TBS, MBS, CBC, Tulip Television, BSN, tys, NBC, HBC, RKK, i-Television, SBS, IBC, BSS, MRO, OBS, TUF, RSK, TUY, tbc, RKB, SBC, KUTV, RBC, UTY, RCC, MRT, atv, MBC

directors

Ryohei Takashita, Masataka Akai, Chie Nishizawa, Daisuke Tsukushi, Tomomi Kamiya, Kakushi Ifuku, Ken Takahashi

The authors

Hiroshi Seko

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  Yuichi Nakamura

  Satoru Gojo