Jujutsu Kaisen Redefines the Culling Game with a Bombshell Maki Twist
Warning! Spoilers for Jujutsu Kaisen Manga Chapter 190
After wiping out several branches of her family clan, Maki Zenin enters Jujutsu Kaisen's Culling Game with a new attitude and newfound abilities that threaten to disrupt the games' carefully crafted rules.
The Culling Game was initiated by Kenjaku as part of his pursuit to «evolve humanity» and harken a «new age of jujutsu sorcery» with him as the central power. A massive «battle royale» in specially connected colonies across Japan, the Culling Game involves players Kenjaku created, as well as anyone outside the colonies who voluntarily entered into one. Forced to enter the game in order to save Megumi's sister Tsumiki, and find a sorcerer who could free Satoru Gojo from the Prison Realm Yuji, Yuta, Megumi, and other students from Tokyo's Jujutsu High School must comply with the game's onerous rules which require them to kill others or be killed by having their curse techniques removed. The Culling Games also ban communication between colonies and prohibits escaping the colony system once participants enter into it.
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The rules of the game seriously limit Yuji and his classmate's ability to accomplish their goals without killing others or getting killed themselves. Enter Maki Zenin. A «sorcerer» to which the rules do not apply. Maki has always been an outlier in the sorcerer community. Having almost no cursed energy, she nevertheless had strength, speed, and durability at near superhero-level proportions. After her twin sister, Mai sacrificed herself, in Gege Akutami's Jujutsu Kaisen #149, to save Maki by removing the last vestiges of cursed energy she retained, the limits on her physical
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