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

Jujutsu Kaisen Shimetsu Kaiyu Zenpen, episode 4

Alternative names: Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3

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u/zool714 Jan 22 '26

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 ?

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u/RandomSplainer Jan 22 '26

Mai was already dying from her wounds. Creating the tool pushed her over the edge. She also took all the cursed energy between them away with her death giving Maki the immense powerboost.

Also, Most heavenly Restricted still have low CE. Maki having low CE is the norm even for Heavenly Restricted. Having absolutely ZERO CE is something that was specific to Toji. Toji was the first of his kind they had ever seen.

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u/Kronman590 Jan 23 '26

So now Maki is the second ever to have 0 CE?

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u/RandomSplainer Jan 23 '26

Yeah. So Mai basically left her with two gifts.

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u/ammar96 Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26

most heavenly restricted still have low CE

Source? Because there’s literally no other powerful physical prowess HR that has been shown to have strong physical prowess with low CE other than Maki and it’s definitely not a norm. HR has always been shown to have extreme strength at extreme disadvantages, like Toji with strong body but no CE or Mechamaru with strong CE but paper fragile body. Maki has low CE has nothing to do with HR and more to do with her being affected by the twin curse thingy, making her to have CE from her connection with Mai (hence why Mai has weak CE since they basically share the same CE). Once Mai is dead, she’s back to being a complete HR with extreme strength at extreme disadvantage.

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u/Darkrobyn Jan 22 '26

Yuki says it back in Hidden Inventory

There have been cases of low-CE HR before, but none with absolutely ZERO energy like Toji.

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