Hidden Inventory

The narrative jumps back to 2006, a year that found Satoru Gojo, alongside Suguru Geto, still in their second year of school. Reputed as the strongest of their cohort, the two are handed a job: bring the Star Plasma Vessel safely to where Master Tengen waits.

Geto stalks back alleys soaking up cursed spirits, muttering moral mantras to brace himself against the filth of the work ever since a turning point he refers to as that day. A flashback then sets up the present: grade 1 Mei Mei and grade 2 Utahime probe a cursed mansion in Hamamatsu City and wind up caught in a looping hallway barrier. Mei Mei tests Utahime, who reasons that the corridor is a straight line stitched into a loop and suggests sprinting it apart in opposite directions. Their scheme lines up with Gojo leveling the entire building to free them, having shown up as backup once the barrier warped time across two days.

Back at Jujutsu High, Masamichi Yaga reprimands the trio for neglecting to raise the curtain they had pledged, and Gojo expresses that he sees scant reason to keep jujutsu hidden from regular folk. His ridicule of Geto's protector ideals builds toward a near brawl before Yaga reveals their fresh mission: escort the Star Plasma Vessel and, in his stark words, erase her. With the vessel's whereabouts leaked, two parties close in: the Time Vessel Association and the curse user group known as Q. As Geto nears the hotel room, a bomb hurls the girl out of the building; he conjures a flying spirit to snatch her midair. Gojo turns aside Q soldier Bayer's thrown knives with Infinity, while inside a nearby skyscraper Shiu Kong offers a man who now goes by Fushiguro a contract on the vessel's life.

This entry kicks off the second season and the Gojo's Past Arc, airing in Japan on July 6, 2023, and drawing from chapters sixty-five and sixty-six plus a page out of chapter seventy-six. The anime leads with Geto's monologue and substantially broadens Mei Mei and Utahime's mansion stretch into a full exploration and quiz, whereas the manga sprang them loose before they had even moved. A clutch of new faces arrive, among them Geto, Riko Amanai, Misato Kuroi, and Toji Fushiguro. Tengen's technique has to merge with a vessel at intervals or risk mutating into a threat to humanity.