Yuta Okkotsu, Yuji Itadori's new rival, is also friends with some of Jujutsu Kaisen's most prominent sorcery students.

Yuta will be a highly relevant character in the next season of Jujutsu Kaisen

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The second season of Jujutsu Kaisen it further raised the quality of this great anime by adapting with incredible animation by Studio MAPPA two of the story arcs most valued by fans: 'The Stellar Plasma Vessel' and 'The Shibuya Incident', probably Jujutsu Kaisen's most dramatic arc to date.

One of the biggest surprises that the Shibuya arc left us was the unexpected return of Yuta Okkotsu, whose next mission is to end the life of Yuji Itadori due to the destruction and chaos that Sukuna caused in the popular Japanese neighborhood. Although these words position the sorcerer as a new adversary for Yuji, Yuta achieved long ago create a strong friendship with some of the most beloved characters of the entire series. Who are they?

Jujutsu Kaisen 0, the work that reveals the identity of Yuta Okkotsu's best allies

Thanks to the movie'Jujutsu Kaisen 0', the official prequel to the popular manga created by Gege Akutami, we were able to see part of Yuta Okkotsu's past, from the origin of his bond with the Queen of Curses to his confrontation against Suguru Geto, the main antagonist of the feature film. The work also revealed the identity of Yuta's best allies: Maki Zenin, Toge Inumaki y Panda.

Jujutsu Kaisen: who are Yuta Okkotsu's best allies?

At first, Maki didn't want to see Yuta as an ally or someone she could trust.

The origin of the friendship between Yuta and these sorcerers It was also exposed in said film. And the young student of Satoru Gojo, after enrolling in the Tokyo Metropolitan Magic Technical College, had to share class with these characters, constantly train with them and work as a team on more than one occasion to face the curses they had to defeat and thus continue their training.

At first, Yuta couldn't fit in and gain the trust of his teammates.. They came to see our protagonist as a potential threat due to the presence of Rika, a powerful special curse that protects him and follows him everywhere. Maki was especially hard on himas he considered that Yuta was extremely clumsy in his training and was not worthy of being considered a Special Grade sorcerer.

The passage of time and some important experiences shared between them made the young Zenin and our protagonist will begin to get along wellto the point that Maki revealed the curious reason why she wears glasses or her greatest ambition: to destroy the Zenin Clan from within. Yuta also earned the appreciation of Panda and Toge Inumakimanaging to carry out a mission with the latter that was greatly complicated due to an annoying curse that Suguru Geto invoked to test our protagonist.

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