Smiling Friends x Jujutsu Kaisen fanart has fans begging for an official collaboration

Modified Jun 24, 2024 02:02 GMT

Jujutsu Kaisen fanart with Smiling Friends has led fans wanting a collaboration (Image via MAPPA).

Jujutsu Kaisen was recently seen in a fanart with the popular American series Smiling Friends, featuring Kenjaku and the characters of Pim Pimling and Charlie Dompler, which has fans begging for an official collaboration. The idea of an evil genius like Kenjaku playing at the beach with Charlie and Pim is something as absurd as it is hilarious, which is why fans would love to see these two series collaborating together at some point.

While both series obviously have very different tones and approaches to their respective stories, it goes without saying that a collaboration between Jujutsu Kaisen and Smiling Friends would be very funny, to say the least. Furthermore, it would be fun to see Japanese and American franchises doing something together from time to time and see how that would work.

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Jujutsu Kaisen and Smiling Friends fans celebrate a recent fanart featuring Kenjaku and Charlie and Pim

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An artist on X named @titann_13 drew an illustration of Kenjaku playing on the beach with Charlie and Pim from the American cartoon Smiling Friends. This setting is obviously a reference to the character's battle against Takaba in the manga where the latter's Cursed Technique had them simulating this reality.

The strange combination of Kenjaku playing with Charlie and Pim was enough to make the illustration go viral, which resulted in both fandoms wanting an official collaboration between the two franchises.

While it is true that it's very likely never going to happen because of multiple legal ordeals, it is still a very funny moment to witness.

For those who don't know, Smiling Friends is centered around the aformentioned characters of Charlie and Pim as they work with a company named as the series and their goal is to help unhappy people by spreading happinness. However, chaos ensues in every single job they are tasked with, often resulting in hilarious situations to witness.

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While there is no denying that these two series have different tones when it comes to their writing styles and the stories they are trying to tell, it is also fair to say that contrast makes it all the more hilarious to witness. This is something that the author of the fanart clearly had in mind and did justice to the three characters involved.

Furthermore, it also fits with the narrative in the original context of the battle between Kenjaku and Takaba. The evil mastermind did say during this fight that he didn't have this much fun in centuries, which, in a bizarre way, does fit with the nature of the Smiling Friends cartoon.

"Nah I need this to become an actual episode," someone said.

"Charlie: Kenny, this Culling Game thing…is this just Fortnite? Pim: I didn’t want to say it, but it really feels like a Fortnite riff", another person said.

"you have no idea how much i love this," someone else said.

Kenjaku in his different bodies in Jujutsu Kaisen (Image via MAPPA and Shueisha).

It also helps that the character of Kenjaku could fit with these situations, not only because of his battle with Takaba but also due to his nature in Jujutsu Kaisen. Kenjaku is a man who enjoys experimenting and trying different things, which is something that is shown by the way he birthed Yuji Itadori and his experiments with the Cursed Wombs.

"I love this lmfaoo I need wayyy more smiling friends x jjk on my tl", someone said.

"the best thing is that this could actually happen since anythings possible with takaba," another person said.

It was a very good illustration and had a lot of positive reactions on X, with fans of both series celebrating the crossover between these characters.

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Edited by Prem Deshpande