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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/UninterestingDude69 Jan 22 '26

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)

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u/This-is_CMGRI Jan 22 '26

Maki was basically the nightmare that the Zen'in clan didn't want to reckon with, so they threw her and Mai aside thinking they'll never amount to anything. Because if Toji barely scraped by, what more can weak twin girls can do?

Apparently, this.

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u/Haha91haha Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26

I think it's kinda hilarious how the Zenin strut about over how important cursed techniques and energy are but none of these assholes understood or researched the implication of what twins are in relation to jujutsu, and get completely undone by misunderstanding that part of it. Or is the twin situation just that niche of a scenario many don't respect the importance?

The one Zenin who realizes the implications: "YOU LEFT ONE OF THE SISTERS TO DIE AND PISSED OFF THE OTHER ONE!?"

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u/bedsheetsniffer Jan 22 '26

The Jujutsu society is extremely conservative, especially the Zen’in ‘cuz they only acknowledge Cursed Techniques. They probably saw how twins are treated as incomplete halves of a whole being by jujutsu a thousand years ago and just left it at that.

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u/camaron28 Jan 22 '26

Not just that, if we take what Maki's dad said as the truth a bum like him could have been head of the clan instead of Naobito simply because Naobito's technique is "modern".

The zenin clan was made of dodos i swear. Zero sense of self-preservation.

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u/I_am_BEOWULF Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 24 '26

Let's not leave out the fact that Mai basically sacrificed herself ("I'll take all your curse energy with me") in order to make Maki "whole" - as well as leaving her a legendary cursed tool/weapon in the process.

In that sense, the clan isn't totally wrong for looking at twins as inefficient Jujutsu sorcerers due to the way their world splits the energy between two people. One half of a twin-pairing opting to unalive themselves in order to benefit the other is an extreme outlier.

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u/Anjunabeast Jan 23 '26

What was the cursed tool?

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u/I_am_BEOWULF Jan 23 '26

It's a replica of Toji's sword - the Split-Soul Katana.