Jujutsu Kaisen The Movie: Yuji-kun, Yuta-kun, and Satoru-kun Experience "4D"! Interviews with Kenjiro Tsuda & Takahiro Sakurai Also Released

■Interview Comments from Kenjiro Tsuda & Takahiro Sakurai

▼Kenjiro Tsuda, voice of Kento Nanami

――How do you feel about the fans' enthusiasm? Also, do you have any memorable episodes with fans?
A: Even before participating as a voice actor, the original work itself was incredibly popular, which left a strong impression on me.
When it was announced that I would be joining Jujutsu Kaisen as Nanami, it was on a weekend and everyone was so excited. Then the following Monday, Jump was released and Nanami died in the original manga. The temperature difference and drop during those few days was incredible. That's how intense the enthusiasm for Jujutsu Kaisen was even before I joined, and furthermore, since the first season of the anime, the animation was thriving through synergy with the original work, so I really felt the work's influence and popularity. Since it was simultaneously distributed worldwide, I felt it was gaining tremendous popularity not just in Japan but around the world. When I actually went overseas, various foreigners would approach me, and when I asked how they knew me, almost all of them said they were watching Jujutsu Kaisen.

――What were your feelings when performing Nanami's final monologue scene and battle scenes with the cursed spirits in the "Shibuya Incident"?
A: Since I knew the ending even before entering the "Shibuya Incident," when we started recording, I had feelings of both excitement that we were going to do the "Shibuya Incident" and loneliness that I would be graduating from the role. When performing, I played Nanami with everything I had so that I would have no regrets.
After finishing all the performances, I felt like Jujutsu Kaisen had ended once within myself. I thought they depicted Nanami's final moments very carefully, and while performing I felt the love for Nanami from the director and animation staff, and I have the image that everyone created that scene while feeling love and determination as each person sent off Nanami in their respective parts.

▼Takahiro Sakurai, voice of Suguru Geto

――He first appears before Gojo in the form of Fake Geto, but for Gojo, this is a reunion with the best friend he supposedly killed. Were there any points you were conscious of when performing this scene?
A: I expressed it thinking I wanted to create a moment that would make Gojo feel uncomfortable, suspicious, eerie, and confused. The purpose was to capture him in the Prison Realm, and they had prepared for an enormous amount of time for that. However, from Fake Geto's perspective, I think there was some conviction that he would definitely be sealed, so he speaks in that mean-spirited way, but in that regard, I wanted to enjoy the conversation as Fake Geto, and it's not just about expressing the role, but I think I myself enjoyed it a little.

――You have played various versions of Geto throughout the Tokyo Jujutsu High era, curse user era, and as Kamo Noritoshi, but what kind of existence is Geto to you, Sakurai-san?
A: Up until around the Tokyo Jujutsu High and curse user eras, since the anime adaptation was decided at that timing, I carefully followed him, so I approach it with an attitude of understanding his feelings, but including doubts about whether there wasn't another path, whether there might have been one, the words he told Gojo when parting ways, "I've decided how to live," left a very strong impression on me. It's not about resolve. His resolve had already been decided long ago, and he decided how to live. It's already obvious that his way of life isn't what Satoru thinks it is, and if you want to kill me for that, go ahead and kill me, because there's significance and meaning in that—I approached the recording not wanting to make the feelings of him who confronted Gojo in that way into something bad. From around Kamo Noritoshi it became a bit difficult, and I can't put it well, but I expressed it by thinking about the character's mechanics. It's a common explanation, but it's a method that feels like a mathematical or musical approach. It's a way of operating the voice as sound. From the perspective of someone expressing the character, there's a different kind of fun, but as acting, it's an unusual method and difficult. Suguru Geto in "Hidden Inventory/Premature Death" was enjoyable. I'm savoring the difference between enjoyable and interesting thoroughly with a single character.

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