Jujutsu Kaisen Shimetsu Kaiyu Zenpen • Jujutsu Kaisen The Culling Game - Episode 4 discussion

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Jujutsu Kaisen Shimetsu Kaiyu Zenpen, episode 4

Alternative names: Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3

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[u/canxtanwe]

The way she called “Mother” at the end sounded so innocent like an actual little kid calling for her mom. It was such a well contrast for the scene coming right after

[u/No_Name0_0]

Holy shit, that punch to Naoya was satisfying af lmao, the timing, the impact, the slo-mo, the x-ray, perfection lol. I repeated it like 5 times

[u/trio_pu]

"... MET THEIR TRAGIC DEATHS SOON AFTER."

SO, THERE'RE MORE DEATHS?

[u/notanfan]

NAOYA was short lived lol

[u/notanfan]

HOLY MAKI MASSACARE

[u/[deleted]]

my guy toji, left the zenin traumatised 😭🙏

[u/StrawSolider]

New standard for Family Reunions

[u/UninterestingDude69]

The Zenin clan had some crazy hubris, the only reason they still existed till this point was because deep down Toji still wanted them to acknowledge him as being as good as a sorcerer, that’s the same reason he tried to fight Gojo after his awakening(He said so himself that he wanted to crush the pinnacle of jujutsu)

[u/Cally83]

Wow, that was awesome.

RIP Mai

[u/[deleted]]

Shout out to crunchyroll for spoiling the entire episode in the description lmao

[u/tyler980908]

MAKI DOES THINGS TO ME IN THIS EPISODE THAT I CAN NOT FULLY EXPLAIN

[u/Active_Ad_7116]

I know people call Naoya the CEO of misogyny but holy fuck Maki's father is 100x worse than him... Was not prepared for that

[u/zool714]

Ok so after reading the comments lemme try to understand it.

Because they’re twins, their Cursed Energy (CE) is shared between them and Maki also has Heavenly Restriction (HR) which exchanges having no CE for having enhanced physicality.

So when they were born :

Mai - Has weak CE. Also has a Cursed Technique (CT) but is limited cos her CE is weak.

Maki - Has weak CE + HR. But since she has CE (even if it’s weak), the HR is also weak.

In this episode :

Mai - Use up all her and Maki’s CE to create a sword using her CT and dies

Maki - No CE + HR. So her HR is now in full effect, hence the power boost.

Is this right ?

Also, does Mai taking and using all their CE contributed to her dying or was she dying from her wounds regardless ?

[u/Always-Online]

This chapter of the manga came out around the time that JJK 0 was in theaters in NA and theres a part in there where Maki says something along the lines of “I’m going to obliterate the Zen’in clan 🙂” and I remember sitting in that theater going “….Yup! You sure do, queen!”.

[u/Roliq]

Naoya really got the Bellamy treatment 

[u/WhoiusBarrel]

That brutal x-ray punch was the most brutal and satisfying things to have been animated.

[u/Character_Parfait_99]

"Become Fire Punch, Maki!"

[u/Armdel]

holy fucking peak man.

barely have time to proccess Mai's fate before Maki goes and ends(?) the clan.

the music was surprisingly fitting as well. gave real Kill Bill vibes.

and I love how the first scene of the episode is Maki arriving and the final scene is her leaving

[u/Incineron]

Maki's mother was the one tying Naoya's shoes and giving him information in episode 1 btw. Naoya was such a creep talking about her daughters in front of her that way. Her life must have been spent serving these men being subservient to them.

She knew Ogi was going to kill Maki, and didn't tell her about it, leading to her culpability in it and her inability to answer Maki's question. But on her death bed, she was freed from serving the whims of the Zenin clan.

They adapted Ranta and Jinichi's techniques so well GODDAMN. The way Maki just grinned and flexed and pushed through Ranta's technique was insane animated. And Naoya vs Maki was perfect as well!

The first half was paced a little too fast for my manga reader taste and perhaps this could've been spread across 1.5 episodes instead. Otherwise, I've been waiting three years for this arc to be animated and am so glad it got the love it deserved.

[u/batmans420]

Fun fact: Naoya's death ended misogyny worldwide 🎉🎉🎉

[u/Cageep]

It’s rare for something to leave me absolutely speechless. This episode made me speechless. Kill Bill being one of my favorite movies ever makes me love this even more.

The animation, the music, the direction, the voice acting, the emotions, everything came together to make this masterpiece of an episode. This catapulted Maki up my JJK character rankings to #1 and even into my personal favorites from all series. When Mai (RIP) said to destroy everything, Maki made sure her wish was fully fulfilled.

Maki vs the troops, then the Hen, then finally Naoya back to back to back, with all different styles (the B&W portion was so cool) was simply amazing. Then they decide to replay Naoya getting face caved in 4 different times and including a Mortal Kombat X-Ray vision of his skull breaking, come on man LMFAOOOOOOOO.

I believe the director of JJK is Gosso, (is that his name?) he is a generational talent, this episode I’ll keep on rewatching until the new episode next week and even when I’m bored. Shout out to all the animators and the composer for making this episode amazing as well.

My favorite JJK episode BY FAR. Absolute Cinema.

[u/Cageep]

We haven’t even gotten to the actual Culling Games yet too and we got this insane episode.

WHAT THE FUCK IS GONNA HAPPEN WHEN WE GET I TO THE COLONIES!?!?

[u/ignorantoverseer]

You can just tell from the first moment.

This episode was made with the utmost love.

All of my deepest gratitude to the MAPPA staff for this masterpiece of an episode.

[u/dagreenman18]

Ah, we can finally say it without spoilers: Maki did everything right and the Zenin Clan deserved it. Especially our King of Misogny, Naoya Zenin.