Jujutsu Kaisen Culling Games Rules Detailed Ahead of Season 3 Launch

With Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3 officially confirmed for a January 2026 debut, the focus shifts entirely to the deadly structure of the Culling Games arc. This tournament, taken directly from Gege Akutami’s manga, forces participating sorcerers and players into ten distinct colonies spread across Japan, all governed by a set of unforgiving regulations.

The first critical hurdle players face is time: they must enter a designated colony within 19 days. Failure to meet this deadline results in the immediate vanishing of their cursed technique. Once inside, there is no mechanism for opting out of player status, ensuring constant engagement in the brutal competition.

The point system drives the carnage. Killing a sorcerer nets five points, while eliminating a non-sorcerer yields one point. Accumulating 100 points allows a player to exchange them for a temporary exit pass using the colony’s communication device. However, reaching 500 points as a sorcerer grants the terrifying ability to steal a cursed technique from a defeated opponent, raising the stakes significantly.

Rule 3 ensures transparency in the violence: any rule violation is broadcast publicly, immediately marking the offender for elimination by everyone else in the game. While communication devices allow for temporary exits, players are immediately thrust back into the colony after their brief respite.

Each colony operates under the supervision of a hidden manager, adding another layer of manipulation to the chaos already involving Sukuna’s resurgence and Yuji Itadori’s infiltration tactics. Survival in the Culling Games demands ruthless adaptation, quickly culling weak players and forcing alliances that inevitably break over point acquisition.

Manga readers are well aware of the severe personal cost this arc exacts on Yuji and the core group. Fans should anticipate MAPPA delivering the arc’s intense confrontations with their signature animation quality when the series returns.