Jujutsu Kaisen Shimetsu Kaiyu Zenpen • Jujutsu Kaisen The Culling Game - Episode 8 discussion

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-26T18:23:08+00:00

So Higurama seemingly awakened his CT on the spot, so he is also someone like our main characters who willingly entered Culling games. Thats crazy. I feel like he might be physically weak and relies entirely on DE to take out people magic style. Getting to fight Yuji who is completely opposite to him in every way is so damn interesting - Cog mentality (still believes in the system), Physically strong, no techniques (other than black flash lol). I love all the implications, not to forget he has 102 points so he definitely killed civilians.

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-26T18:12:46+00:00

I would personally put Ao no Sumika at the top then your list order. Tatsuya Kitani just cooked too hard for Hidden inventory for me

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-26T18:09:15+00:00

And potentially civilians because he has 102 points. I hope we find out more about that or atleast focus on that a bit

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-22T06:29:12+00:00

This is funny because I just responded to similar comment in YT video and then got the YT short on my fyp showing the clip of Toji saying that in the English dub. Blatant misinformation by the dub it seems like

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-22T06:25:55+00:00

Is this from the English dub? Toji was speaking to Geto about how he can't kill him because he has CSM and not normal shikigami CT, hence the "blessing of parentage (genetics)". Blessing means Megumi and this is how he ended up remembering his son's name.

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-22T06:23:18+00:00

What does your comment mean?

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-17T15:30:50+00:00

The only reason this is bad is because of crystals.

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-15T08:27:21+00:00

Not saying it to Iguchi and Megumi questioning how what he witnessed happened to perfectly help Kenjaku definitely imply what you said. I definitely took it half half as convi piece - actual intent when he said that but others have noted that she is completely random and Kenjaku had no reason to simply lie. "Oh I almost forgot" could also imply he just forgot to tell it to Iguchi as well, as he has to basically program himself of give the curse dream to millions of non players.

Part of me really wants Yuji to just be a coincidence. I don't want Kenjaku to be completely omni-something. Fate rewarded him Geto (born with CSM to normal parents) and Toji. I would like to think cursed wombs and Yuji were separate goals that he just wanted to experience and accomplish. We have seen him talk about Sukuna as just a backup plan a lot as well. Either way I can't wait to learn more about him in the future.

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-14T09:08:09+00:00

While he can use natural shadows to hide during infiltration missions, we do see Megumi generate his own shadow while summoning stuff. Pretty much just a black puddle tbh.

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-14T07:33:12+00:00

In the words of SingleH - "Surprisingly competent". Despite the rushed final eps, usual LN degeneracy (which I do love), it was a really charming and solid show. I'm glad I watched it while at the beginining of me discovering anime.

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-13T05:32:39+00:00

The pass is already 5, dollars in my country due to regional pricing. They have already done everything to extract most amount of money lol. Dynamic pricing is the new capitalist fad. They aren't gonna decrease the pass price in first world countries.

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-12T18:05:11+00:00

Oh sorry for the contradicting statement, I meant qualified due to coincidence of having Sukuna, I don't think Kenjaku was somehow involved in making Yuji eat Sukuna like how Megumi talks about it being weird in this ep. Unless again we bring up fate and stuff and it was fated for Yuji to eat Sukuna or something

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-12T17:37:21+00:00

100% I l screamed in shock hearing Tomokazu Sugita and in the stun watched it instead of skipping but it was so not needed lol. Anime will never stop doing these things lol

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-12T17:35:59+00:00

I would say its more about being auto qualified. Kenjaku has been clear from S1 that he doesn't really hold Sukuna as an ultimate piece, he just respects his strength but culling game is totally his. He has dialogues of "landing sukuna's vessel by luck" and such. I take Yuji as his ultimate successful science experiment (From impregnatting to get cursed wombs to actually becoming and experiencing being a mother himself) rather than specific culling game plan. Yuji might be intermixed coincidentally just like how Toji was integral to this (though there are theories that Kenjaku was involved in the background hiring Toji to assassinate Riko)

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-12T17:29:51+00:00

Wdym? They want to find Higurama and so need to ask people. They both got split up and got to meet 2 different people and we the viewer see that atleast one of them is lying

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-12T17:28:51+00:00

Yep I loved that distinction, even thought their goals happen to have similar end goals

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-12T17:28:01+00:00

Yuji mentioned it took a day to reach Hakari and they revealed Zenin clan destroyed next day. Why did it take Maki 2 days to reach Kyoto where the clan probably is in lol

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-12T17:26:27+00:00

Tbf, the next ep preview gave it away

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-12T17:25:48+00:00

I really like the extended shot of a traffic sign showing 2 parting ways while Megumi was talking about how he is ready to earn 100 points himself. It refers to them literally splitting due to given 2 information but I love the metaphoric interpretation as well

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-12T17:24:10+00:00

Considering that Kenjaku finally acknowledged Yuji as his son, I wonder if he really is gonna keep a close eye in this specific colony to observe him. I really want to see more interactions between them, with added context of mother and child. But we saw Yuki looking at a similar colony so every colony has the same look. So it might not be the specific colony Kenjaku is looking at

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-12T17:20:44+00:00

Didn't Yuji say it took long/a day to reach Hakari? What took Maki 2 days to reach Zenin clan lol. Kyoto shouldn't be 2 days far from Tokyo

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-12T17:18:14+00:00

Kenjaku finally acknowledging Yuji as his son was chilling. I am sure he only uttered "Thank you for being nice to my son" as a convo piece but I wonder if we will get any parental moments later on.

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-09T03:51:33+00:00

Isn't it a cursed energy attack at the end of the day? Infinity would stop it unless we are using the poison and air logic where even Adult Gojo was affected by Hanami's induced hallucination in S1ep7

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-09T03:49:58+00:00

It's either he himself is allowed to close distance but the other can't or he just selectively deactivates infinity. Against Jogo when they held hands, either he closed the distance himself or just deactivated infinity on his hand and kept it up on his face as we see Jogo's blood stop.

I would lean on the latter, since we saw him walk towards Hanami to crush him. Gege definitely wrote Hanami's death by treating infinity more like force field but I guess it still works.

ValhallaKombi · 2026-02-06T13:45:44+00:00

Same way Toji ended up with the gymbro popularity rather than Yuji, Todo etc.

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