Jujutsu Kaisen S4 Trailer Breakdown — Full Breakdown & Transcript

[00:01] barely been 3 months since the previous season ended, but a trailer for the new season of Jujutsu Kaisen is here, and to the surprise of absolutely no one, it from a production of this caliber, the trailer was filled with top-notch,

[00:14] storyboarding, top-tier visual processing, highly polished, perfectly executed drawings, and an unparalleled sense of ambition. It was basically known for, especially in recent years, and as such, let's break down the

[00:29] changes. Just so you know, that title wasn't clickbait. There has in fact been a director change. I'll talk more about that stuff in a second. Anyway, let's Let's let the Jujutsu Kaisen milk train leave the station. Make sure to

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[00:56] shout-outs, and more. Just go down there and press the join button. So, let's get things off by going over the staff, or to be more specific, over the two major staff changes. First off, as those of you who keep up with the

[01:08] stuff new for months, series director Shota Goshozono is no longer leading the Takeru Sato, making this the second director change Jujutsu Kaisen has gone through. By the way, as for why that happened, um I won't go into specifics

[01:21] confirmed, so technically speaking, it's a leak, but let's just say he's part of Let's put it that way. He's somewhere Anyway, what does all of that mean, you may ask? Not that vague spiel about

[01:35] fact that there has been a director change. What does that mean? Will we see a complete stylistic overhaul like we did back when Goshozono took charge back in season 2? No. To put it bluntly, no, not yet at

[01:47] Goshozono is still involved with this project. He's now the chief director, a position that's usually limited to general supervision instead of hands-on Akutami still has a role to play with the broad season-spanning creative

[02:01] decisions, or had I should say he had a role because chief directors usually do phase. I believe he was still at MAPPA when season 4 was in pre-production. He probably left after that. Anyway, to sum it all up, Jujutsu Kaisen won't suddenly

[02:15] different. It will be Gege Akutami's creative vision filtered through Takedo creative vision. Although, yes, that is a broad generalization, and I'm sure ignores the manual and does his own thing, but broad strokes, Jujutsu Kaisen

[02:30] will continue to have that trademark Gege Akutami magic for the time being. director of Jujutsu Kaisen season 3, and prior to that, he was an important part not too terribly familiar with his work on the latter, but I do know he's quite

[02:44] staff, so I'm very excited to see what The other major staff change is the addition of the one and only Souta designers. He, alongside Hiromi Niwa and

[02:56] designs and supervise them, and that's extremely reassuring. Not saying Yajima and Niwa weren't enough, but it's hard not to be excited when Souta Yamazaki, artists the industry has ever seen, joins the core staff. Like, come on,

[03:10] he is. With all that out of the way, let's finally go through the trailer scene by scene, except let's not because there's one small thing I need to mention. You see, since it has only been a few months

[03:22] online seem to think the trailer for season 4 was pre-animated, meaning it contain any scenes from the show. They think that mainly because they're have the time to make so much of season 4 so quickly, and I can kind of see

[03:37] where they're coming from, but I'm also 99.99% sure that's not the case, and >> First off, they also dropped a trailer for Chainsaw Man today, one that was trailer, it had its own separate staff credited. Not saying crediting the staff

[03:51] of pre-animated PVs is the norm, but if they did it for CSM, they probably would have done it for JJK as well, assuming it was pre-animated. They didn't because it wasn't. The other reason why I doubt this trailer was pre-animated is the

[04:03] fact that we know a few things about JJK, a few behind-the-scenes things. We know that season 3 was almost, if not entirely, finished behind the scenes by that the two seasons are probably being treated internally as the same season,

[04:16] they probably had the same pre-production phase, meaning the team since early 2026, meaning they've been at it for nearly 6 months, meaning them having a bunch of finished footage isn't exactly a surprise. As for how they

[04:30] season, the team is known for animating certain scenes from the latter episodes ahead of time just to include them in the trailers, so it's not a big deal. Anyway, with all that out of the way, let's finally, for real this time, break

[04:42] The trailer started with a couple of cool shots, with the camera moving through the 3D skulls being particularly fun to look at. This was followed by a compilation of season 3 and then by the bulk of new content. We kicked things

[04:55] off with this cool high-angle shot of Geto with solid drawings and some might not look like much, but the highlights were basically their own layer of animation. This was followed by this insane shot, which started as a

[05:08] tremendously well-drawn low-angle frame and then seamlessly transformed into a front profile without losing its drawing power. This was also accompanied by the one background layer panning upwards and a second layer alongside a hand-drawn

[05:21] container, hand-drawn because it needed to interact with the character. We then drawing quality was off the charts. I was particularly fond of the three-tone highlights near the start. Moving on, this shot was insane, with these storage

[05:34] containers being hand-animated and the lightning casting physical hand-drawn reflections on them, and it was followed by this animated zoom out, complete with stylish, powerful drawings, presumably directed by Sota Yamazaki, and a metric

[05:46] ton of digital shenanigans going on in the background. We then got this shot. I background and both the drawing and the character animation was stellar. We started with the arc which turned into a dynamic heavily foreshadowed pose

[05:59] complete with tons of wobbly could sun ice lightning. This shot was one of the coolest from this trailer. The entire background all of it was hand animated with by my count 22 different storage containers moving frame by frame. We

[06:11] also had some really cool lightning animation and impact frames as well as shapes. If I had to guess I'd say they were animated either by Honne Honne or by one of his contemporaries. We then got some really cool background

[06:24] this shot turned into hand drawn background animation as the buildings fell apart and this shot contained six different background layers and those this shot a tremendous sense of three dimensionality.

[06:37] here. You could see the strong foreshadowing on her legs as they were closer to the camera followed by the visual focus shifting to her face as she really familiar although I can't put my finger on who the animator is.

[06:51] If you incredibly strong stylish drawings with tons of lines then brought us to the Yuki scenes and good god they were phenomenal. This shot featured a hand drawn presumably traced over the 3D layout background with tons

[07:03] transitioned into speed lines and a bunch of blocky shorthand character drawings which later transitioned into beautiful character art as Yuki got closer to the camera. We also had a consistently animated zoom on also and a

[07:15] really cool shot of Geto with a complex camera angle. corrected by Sota Yamazaki were master classes in drawing. They were absolutely ridiculous. This shot can be summed up in one word volume. You can feel the

[07:29] three dimensionality thanks to the rounded shading the incredibly dynamic placement. Also of course the shot actually moves. It's not a still frame. Moving on this seemingly simple shot of Fushiguro raising his fist needed seven

[07:43] aforementioned volumetric shading and the motion buttery smooth. And this is one of the best drawings to come out of absolutely perfect in every sense of the word. The shot had a ton of thick

[07:58] them felt needed and their placement eye, the hair strand placement, the reflection in the eye added by the blurring adding an additional sense of volume, absolutely perfect. This shot

[08:13] with sharp jagged shapes, probably the work of Yuta but also maybe kind of sort of Sakukozuma but also kind of not, as well as character drawings corrected by Sota Yamasaki. The shape of the lower joint in particular made that obvious.

[08:26] incredible. You could feel the desperation and strain in Yuji's body language. Finally, after all of that, we had this hatching and really expressive facial features. Incredible stuff. And that was

[08:42] had a couple of post credit shots, the first of which had a tremendous sense of created by panning the three layers of background, the bones close to the and everything else at different speeds. And the second shot featured some

[08:57] And the second shot featured some surprisingly consistent obviously very excited for the actual thing. They didn't provide a release

[09:09] comes out later this year if not early next year. And of course I'm really looking forward to it. And that's it. A special thanks to Nude03, Ahmed, The Gallus 9 Team, Muzikage, EasyOnMe, Rellen, and Jazzimus for becoming tier

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