Chapter 83

The Shibuya Incident gets underway. A sprawling curtain laced with special conditions has sealed civilians inside the district, each one made to plead the same demand: bring Satoru Gojo. As four squads of jujutsu sorcerers stand by beyond the boundary, the curses lying in wait below the city ready their trap for the strongest sorcerer.

The record opens at 7:00 pm with a four-hundred-meter curtain dropped over central Shibuya. Ordinary people can enter but never leave, while sorcerers and managers pass freely though their signal is jammed, forcing all communication outside the boundary. Kiyotaka Ijichi briefs the Nanami Team, made up of Kento Nanami, Megumi Fushiguro, and Takuma Ino, at the Tokyo Metro's Shibuya Station. Nearby, the intersection outside Shibuya Mark City sits eerily empty after the crowd was drawn toward the perimeter, all chanting for Gojo, as Akari Nitta relays the scene to the Zenin Team of Nobara Kugisaki, Maki Zenin, and clan head Naobito Zenin.

Naobito grasps that the civilians were coached into the demand and that brute-forcing the barrier is impossible, leaving the smart play as hunting down the curtain's caster; still, every team waits, since the higher-ups want Gojo to clear the incident alone. The Kusakabe Team, just Panda and teacher Atsuya Kusakabe, holds near Jr Shibuya Station, tasked like the others with sealing the perimeter and catching anything Gojo misses. Kusakabe notes the trapped civilians remain relatively calm, yet refuses to reenter because special grade curses lurk in the Hikarie Building. At 8:31 pm, Gojo enters the curtain, moves through Hikarie ShinQ's crowded mall, and descends toward basement level five where the subway runs. At Aoyama Cemetery, the Mei Mei Team with Yuji Itadori and Ui Ui learns a second curtain has appeared and rushes toward Meiji-Jingu-Mae Station. Down on the Fukutoshin platform, Gojo finally faces Jogo, Hanami, and Choso, telling Jogo not to make excuses this time.

This Shibuya Incident Arc chapter ran in issue 50 of 2019 and introduced Atsuya Kusakabe and Ui Ui. Its pages were spread across Episode 31 and Episode 32. The installment marks the formal start of the Shibuya Incident and centers on barrier techniques, namely the Curtain.