Jujutsu Kaisen #1

The opening volume of Gege Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen arrives with an arresting cover: a pink-haired young man stares back at us with unsettling red eyes, his face marked with tattooed lines and a streak of blood, while a grotesque mouth — belonging to Ryomen Sukuna — grins from the palm of his outstretched hand. The contrast between the boy's almost vulnerable expression and the dark, cursed energy swirling around him sets the tone for a series that clearly doesn't shy away from the eerie or the dangerous. Published by Ki-oon Shonen in 2020, this first volume is a striking introduction to a world where something ancient and malevolent seems to be sharing more than just a body.