McDonald’s teams up with popular anime series “JUJUTSU KAISEN” to launch exclusive new app featuring special garlic sauce

Expand your domain and get the first ever garlic sauce to appear on the menu, for a limited time only, on the McDonald’s app

CHICAGO, July 2, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Get ready to harness the unparalleled power of our favorite jujutsu wizards as McDonald’s partners with “JUJUTSU KAISEN” to launch a new Special Grade Garlic Sauce, available exclusively on the McDonald’s app starting today. July 9th. Inspired by McDonald’s iconic black garlic sauce JapanSpecial Grade Garlic Sauce is a new edition to our range of sauces, containing notes of garlic and soy sauce, balanced with a delicate spicy sweetness.

The new sauce pack will feature eight unique lid designs featuring fan-favorite characters from the popular anime series. Collect them all to reach the peak of your power:

• Yuji Itadori – A rare talent, unseen for a thousand years, that can resist Sukuna’s poison and become his human vessel.
• Megumi Fushiguro – A genius who enrolled in second-degree wizarding studies and was the only first-year student who had the opportunity to go on solo missions.
• Nobara Kugisaki – A strong third-class jujutsu wizard who came to Tokyo from the countryside.
• Satoru Gojo – The strongest special rank wizard and teacher at Tokyo Jujutsu High.
• Kento Nanami – A younger Gojo student who became a salaried employee but later returned to Tokyo Jujutsu High School to become a first-year wizard – the most adult of adults.
• Suguru Geto – A villain, a wizard of a special rank whose goal is to create a paradise for wizards, free from humans.
• Mahito – A curse coming from people who can change a person’s appearance by touching their soul.
• Sukuna – A king who has survived for over a thousand years and continues to threaten this world after his death.

A meal and an offer worthy of a wizard
Get Special Grade Garlic Sauce for free with any order of Chicken McNuggets® or pair it with your favorite order in the McDonald’s app for a meal fit for any wizard. Every sauce purchase also unlocks a 30-day free trial of Crunchyroll, where you can watch full episodes of “JUJUTSU KAISEN” and more of your favorite anime content. Crunchyroll trial terms apply.

Starting July 9thActivate your domain extension and go to the McDonald’s app to order a sample of Special Grade Garlic Sauce and get all your favorite “JUJUTSU KAISEN” characters for a limited time, while supplies last.

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ABOUT JUJUTSU KAISENS
Yuji Itadori is a boy with enormous physical strength, although he lives a completely ordinary life of a high school student. One day, in order to save a classmate who was attacked by curses, he eats Ryomen Sukuna’s finger, taking the curse into his soul. Since then, he shares one body with Ryomen Sukuna. Guided by the most powerful of sorcerers, Satoru Gojo, Itadori is accepted into Tokyo Jujutsu High School, an organization that fights curses… and so begins the heroic story of a boy who became a curse to exorcise it, a life from which he could never turn away.

Anime series JUJUTSU KAISENS is produced by TOHO animation and based on the bestselling manga of the same name written and illustrated by Gege Akutami. It is currently serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump, which has over 90 million copies in circulation. In the United States, the manga is published by VIZ Media. The anime series was named Anime of the Year by the Crunchyroll Anime Awards in 2021, and a global prequel film, JUJUTSU KAISEN 0was awarded the title of Best Anime Film at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards in 2023 and earned approximately 180 million dollars in worldwide box office revenue. Season 2 of the anime series was named Anime of the Year at the 2024 Crunchyroll Anime Awards.

JUJUTSU KAISEN demo page: www.crunchyroll.com/jujutsu-kaisen
Official English Facebook: www.facebook.com/jujutsu.kaisen.official
Official English Twitter: www.twitter.com/Jujutsu_Kaisen_
Official English Instagram: www.instagram.com/jujutsukaisen

About TOHO animation
TOHO Animation Studio CO., LTD.

The beginnings of the company date back to the anime series “MAJESTIC PRINCE”, which was broadcast April 2013and has since expanded to include “JUJUTSU KAISEN,” “My Hero Academia,” “HAIKYU!!,” “Dr. STONE,” “SPYxFAMILY,” “TRIGUN STAMPEDE,” “Kaiju No.8,” “Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End,” as well as films such as “Your Name.”, the “GODZILLA” series, “SPYxFAMILY CODE: White,” and “Haikyu!!: The Dumpster Battle.”

Official YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/tohoanimation

Official Twitter: https://x.com/TOHOanimation

Official English Twitter: https://x.com/TOHOanimationEN

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