The Jujutsu Kaisen anime recently celebrated its five year anniversary since airing. Alongside that milestone, we at New York Comic Con had the opportunity to sit down with (appropriately) five members of its outstanding English dub cast, including voice actors Adam McArthur (Yuji Itadori), Robbie Daymond (Megumi Fushiguro), Anne Yatco (Nobara Kugisaki), Kaiji Tang (Satoru Gojo), and Kayleigh McKee (Yuta Okkotsu). The voice actors talked to us about the ins and outs of voicing their characters, expressed some excitement (and depression) about the arc to come, and gave some thoughts ahead of the release of Season 3’s first episodes in theaters later this year.
Portions of this interview have been lightly edited for clarity. This interview contains spoilers for Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2.
Q: Season 2 had some very hard-hitting moments for a lot of your characters. As actors watching that action back, what’s it like experiencing it on your end?
Adam McArthur: Well, when we’re dubbing this, we’re only really seeing our own part, so the fact that we get to watch it back and see everyone, for me at least, seeing everyone else’s performance has been awesome. That’s probably my favorite part.
Robbie Daymond: Yeah, they tried to call “Rabbit Escape” “Fleeing Hares,” and when I saw that they listened to me that that was wrong and it made it into the correct cut, that’s when I knew we had a banger season on our hands.
Kayleigh McKee: Yeah, same. I got to say, “I will kill Yuji Itadori myself,” which was not how they had originally localized it, but I’m very glad that they kept it the manga line. I think that it came across a lot better, and that made me happy.
Kaiji Tang: I mean, I stopped watching after that Nanami episode, personally, so I don’t know.
Anne Yatco: Wait, you didn’t even watch the next episode?
Kaiji Tang: Why would I watch anything after the Nanami episode? Oh, ohhhh.
Anne Yatco: Wow, betrayal. Betrayal. Listen, I got to make a little suggestion, and I got to call Mahito a little b*tch, so Season 2 is perfect. No notes.
Q: Looking forward to Season 3, without spoiling anything, what kind of vibe shift can we expect from Season 3 vs Season 2?
Robbie Daymond: I hear Season 3 is going to be a lot more lighthearted, way more Jujutsu strolls. I hear not only there’s a baseball episode, there’s a beach episode, a soccer episode, and a baking episode.
Adam McArthur: It’s going to be more trauma. Thank you.
Kaiji Tang: I tell my friends all the time who are fans of Season 1, enjoy it while you can, because it’s the most normal the show will ever get. And after Season 2, it just kind of ramps. So, a lot coming down the line for sure.
Anne Yatco: But also, Season 3 kind of breaks it open — without going into any details — and I think people are going to really enjoy the new rules for this new world happening during the Culling Game. It’s going to be really cool.
Kayleigh McKee: You’ve heard of tournament arcs in anime. This is tournament arc of trauma. Trauma is the point.
Q: For Adam and Kayleigh, your characters’ fight is one that’s locked in from the beginning of the season. Is it exciting to face off against each other, even if only from behind the microphone?
Adam McArthur: I definitely think so. There’s this unspoken rivalry between Kayleigh and I about who the true MC [main character] of Jujutsu Kaisen is. I’m about to prove all the haters wrong, you know what I’m saying?
Kayleigh McKee: We’ll see about that. No, I’m legitimately extremely hyped. Because our characters haven’t gotten to interact yet, so the fact that they get to interact in such a…
Adam McArthur: Epic way.
Kayleigh McKee: Yeah, it’s just going to be so sick. Young me always wanted to do bad*ss anime fights, and to do one across from a friend is just going to be awesome.
Q: Which of you have read ahead and know what’s going to happen, and which of you have not read ahead?
[Every actor raised their hand]
Kaiji Tang: We’ve all read ahead (laughs). We know where we’re going.
Adam McArthur: Yo, we’re putting to bed the myth that English VAs don’t read the manga and study ahead of time. We are very well studied for JJK.
Q: Which scene thus far has been the most difficult for you to record?
Kaiji Tang: I mean, for me, it’s not so much the acting difficulty, right? Sometimes there’s a technical difficulty to the scenes. For example, the “throughout heaven and Earth” line that I had. The problem with that line is our English version is so much longer than the Japanese. So if we were to do it line by line, it would have never fit the lip flaps, right? So we had to do a little bit of surgery on the line to retain the original line as it was, so it wouldn’t be localized to heck, you know what I mean? Stuff like that, for me.
Adam McArthur: I think for me, a lot of the stuff that was pretty difficult was all the heavy emotional bits in Shibuya. Yuji getting his body back from Sukuna. That’s kind of like the first moment where we see him breaking down and feeling the weight of everything that Sukuna had done. That, and then you have Nanami, and you have Nobara, and all these moment to moment. So in the anime, like viewing the anime, you get to watch it week to week. But as a person doing that, I’m going in for 15-minute sessions, losing my mind in the booth, crying on my car ride home, and then have to be normal until the next week when I go and do it again. So yeah, it was a tough headspace to be in throughout season two.
Kayleigh McKee: Yeah, for me, the hardest that I’ve had was filming the movie. The ending — the last few moments of the fight, and then the extremely emotional ending, I was exhausted. And by the time we got to there, they were like, “Okay, now you’re gonna bloody murder scream, do this huge attack, and then I need you to break down sobbing like you never have before.” And I had already been there for a couple hours, and I was very tired, but I was also very raw, so I just threw everything I had left into it. And it was challenging, but it was fulfilling as well.
Robbie Daymond: Nothing is hard for me. I’m a very good actor, thank you. (group laughs)
Anne Yatco: Nobara’s last episode, she has this moment where she’s kind of like thinking back on her life and her friends, and if everything has been worth it coming up to this point. And I think for me, the tricky part is separating me and the actor, feeling very emotional about having to say goodbye for a while to a friend, you know what I mean? And then also honoring what’s happening in the scene where she’s actually very zen about it, and coming to terms with herself. So threading that line was really a challenge for me.
Q: Has the way you approached your character changed at all moving into Season 3?
Adam McArthur: Yeah, I think for me, Yuji’s sort of going to live in that place that we saw at the very end of Season 2, this sort of resolved, kind of knows what he has to do. Now he’s ready to just thrash some curses, and yeah, living in that headspace. But what I am also excited for is we’re going to see some fight scenes that really drive home Yuji’s character. And he still is a good boy, no matter how much bad stuff happens to him, and I like that.
Kayleigh McKee: Yeah, I mean, Yuta has been gone for like a year, growing as a person, gaining more experience. He’s a lot more confident now because he has these friends, and he’s also, he has a more mature solemnness about what he has to do, and that makes him very different from how he was in the movie. He’s grown a lot. So yeah, absolutely it’s changed, and I’m very excited to show that evolution of the character. It’s not often that a character changes that much during the course of you portraying them.
Robbie Daymond: Yeah, I think for Season 3, I’m going to try a different voice. Like, (in a cartoonish voice) Domain Expansion! (group laughs) Something like that. Do you guys like it?
Kaiji Tang: Yeah, you know, I’m planning to go really method. I’m going to watch the entire season inside of a box. So it’s going to be nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Anne Yatco: I’m going to be asleep.
We’d like to thank the cast of Jujutsu Kaisen for taking the time to speak with us, share some fond memories of past seasons, and share some thoughts as we move into the next one. We’d also like to thank New York Comic Con for hosting the guests and all organizers for making the interview possible.
Crunchyroll streams both seasons of MAPPA’s Jujutsu Kaisen TV anime, as well as the Jujutsu Kaisen 0 anime film. Season 3 adapting The Culling Game arc will air in Japan and stream on Crunchyroll starting in January 2026. Jujutsu Kaisen: Execution is an upcoming compilation film that depicts the events of Season 2’s Shibuya Incident arc and previews the first two episodes of Season 3. That film is set to release in Japan on November 7, 2025, in North America on December 5th, 2025, in the UK and Ireland on November 14, 2025, followed by screenings in regions throughout EMEA, Latin America and APAC.
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