The "Mahoraga is untamable" take makes zero sense within JJK's power system. Here's why.
I’ve seen this take repeated so many times here, that the Ten Shadows technique is basically a tragic joke because "no user in history has ever tamed Mahoraga," leading people to assume it’s literally impossible without outside help (like Sukuna).
But honestly? If you look at how Gege structures cursed techniques, that assumption just doesn't hold up.
Every single innate technique in JJK is designed to be fully mastered and utilized by its user. There isn't a single other technique in the verse that gives you a massive, core component of its kit just for it to be completely unusable. Why would the Zenin clan, one of the Big Three, hypocritically obsess over a technique whose literal peak is just a suicide button? It doesn't fit the logic of the world.
Yes, based on what we saw from Megumi, taming it seems impossible. But we have to remember Megumi was a teenager who barely scratched the surface of his potential and had massive mindset issues. He absolutely did not show us the full scope of the Ten Shadows.
And when people bring up the historical users failing, they don't account for how brutal the past eras actually were. Ten Shadows is weak at the very beginning when you only have the divine dogs. In eras like the Heian or Edo periods, which were absolute bloodbaths, most users probably got killed in battle way before they could even grow enough to think about Mahoraga. On top of that, the technique is incredibly rare. We might literally be talking about only 5 or so people in history who ever inherited it, so the sample size is tiny.
Slight spoiler about Megumi's development ahead:
>!Which brings me to the biggest missing piece of the puzzle: Mourning Tiger (Tiger Funeral).!<
>!We never got to see what the base Tiger shikigami does. It feels very reasonable to assume that this final, unrevealed shikigami holds the actual key to defeating the General. Either Tiger Funeral has some sort of high-output, single-shot destructive capability specifically designed to bypass Mahoraga’s adaptation (maybe a kamikaze-style binding vow move), or it unlocks a supreme technique within the 10S kit itself.!<
Plus, we know how Totality works. If a 10S user plays their cards right over a lifetime, losing other powerful shikigami along the way to stack their abilities into a final, absurdly buffed Totality fusion, the scaling changes completely.
The historical users failed because taming Mahoraga is just a crazy high-level endgame challenge. It's meant for someone who has fully mastered the technique + has unlocked domain expansion (imagine duplicating the Tiger's technique). Again, this seems more reasonable to me then to assume that Mahoraga is just a kamikaze when all else fail. Like, come on, there are better ways to create a kamikaze move, if you wanna do that you won't design Mahoraga.
What do you guys think?