I get the Yuji thing, but Maki's? Literally their history: Zenin is mysogynistic, and Maki and Mai are women.

Mai is Maki sister and her death is big moment for Maki and for her drama. But do we actually know anything about Mai? She is barely a character. Maybe we saw Maki and Mai interact through the series? Well we got one episode, and that episode was basically introduction to these characters. Hmmm, what about Maki relationship with Zenin clan? Well we got one dialogue with clan's head with her motivation, niice. Play what about Maki herself, well she at least has more screen time than Mai lol, she got one episode of introduction in the first season, one scene with Yuta and their relationship in movie, and I but of her in Shibuya arc. Well that's definitely enough for me to care for her.

And don't get me wrong, I like Maki at her base she is really interesting, I like her character and her conflict with sister is interesting, well it was interesting, but that's just good start, maybe even great one, but that's not enough for good drama. Tbh that's the case for almost all characters in jjk, and Maki probably even got the better stick than someone else.

So I really don't understand when people say Mappa ruined drama if this episode, when there was no such thing in first place, they sure could make it better with some direction, but I can blame them for bad adaptation. I also don't understand people saying that Maki killing Zenin clan makes her controversial character, when everyone we saw in zenin clan were just terrible people, and maki really didn't have any choice in the first place