MAPPA opened its 15th anniversary presentation with the one a lot of people were waiting on: the first trailer for Jujutsu Kaisen Season 4. The series got its earliest moving look of the next season, and the room reacted the way you'd expect for one of the biggest anime on the planet.
The take: it's a tease, not a date. The trailer confirms the season is in motion, but MAPPA kept the specifics close. Read it as a statement of intent — the machine's running — not a calendar entry.
The first trailer, finally
Season 4 had already been announced, so the news isn't if — it's the first footage. That matters. A trailer is the moment a project stops being a press-release line and starts being a thing you can see. For a fanbase this size, the first images set the whole conversation for the months ahead.
Still pointing at 2027
The release continues to read 2027, and information stays limited. No episode count locked in public, no firm window. That's normal for a MAPPA tentpole this far out — they show you something to hold the room, then go quiet while the work happens. Patience is the price of the polish.
Why JJK still leads the pillar
Jujutsu Kaisen is core mainstream anime — the kind of title that pulls numbers outside the usual fan circles and lands on the same For You pages as the music and the sneakers. A first trailer for its next season is automatically a big-name beat, exactly what this pillar is built for. Watch the trailer, then go re-run the Culling Game in the manga while the wait plays out.