u/Shneasel

the kamo clan has blood manipulation, a very good low-skill-floor-high-skill-ceiling technique that seems to be inherited by a lot of their members.

the zenin clan have the ten shadows, an excellent, extremely versatile technique which, contrary to popular belief, isn't actually stated to only come once every 100 years, as well as multiple other great inherited techniques.

and the gojo clan get limitless, a technique that 99.99% of the members cannot use. besides, of course, one person born every 400 years, who is immediately targeted by jujuhitler and a bunch of cultists. and then its still only moderately better than the ten shadows at full potential while also being much, much harder to master.

like yeah if you get a gojo youre set for a good 80 years or so but then its 400 years of twiddling your thumbs while the ten shadows user in the opposing clan starts chanting and clenching their fists

the last slide is a photo of the woman with the smallest waist circumference ever recorded, cathie jung. she had a corseted (using corset because maki is wearing a belt and seemingly tight waisted pants, this would not achieve the same effect as a fitted corset but is... maybe slightly more fair) waist circumference of 15 inches. from side to side, the method used because i don't want to do more math, that'd be about ~5 inches (~7 or so without corset). its also worth mentioning cathie jung's organs faced severe misplacement

for everyone who isn't chapter240kenjakupilled, maki's waist would be ~16 cm while cathie jung's would be ~12 corseted and ~17 uncorseted

edit: i made a mistake in the writing on the 4th slide, the actual equation is 8.3 x 0.75. the answer is still the same because i calculated it using that equation its just a typo

like, genuinely, you don't think there'd be any consequences if she had murdered a bunch of kids? not even one mention? i don't think it'd go as far as her being kicked out of jujutsu high or having gojo beat the shit out of her or anything like people try to claim, but if she did massacre dozens of children i'm sure there'd be *some* repercussion. even just a single character going "hey, maki, that wasn't cool!", or just like, any mention of it happening in the story? because basically no one else in the main cast would fully stand with a child murderer without any thought, yet everyone seems to be on her side. even in the distant future, in a time where they wouldn't have any reason to have to side with maki because of a larger threat they needed her on their side to fight, her grandson literally idolizes her for the zenin massacre. her grandson, who is a young male member of a big 3 clan living in a time of peace. and yes, yuka does seem a bit more upset by the idea, but you really think if you were talking about how your grandma killed a bunch of little kids you wouldn't have more to say than, "you mean killed everyone"? what yuka says reads a lot more as her being upset that her grandma killed anyone period than being, like, deeply disturbed because she killed a bunch of completely innocent people.

i know some people say that it does make narrative sense to consider that maki killed every member of the clan because with any left the zenin would be able to continue, and mai gave her the command to destroy everything, and therefore she doesn't face narrative consequences because the actions she took were necessary. i think that's sort of reasonable, maybe, but also... she'd be killing a bunch of kids who were in the exact same situation as her, and more importantly, her sister. and then never express any regret or guilt about what she did. i think that'd make her pause a bit (and yes, she does kill members of the kukuru and akashi but it's not like she has much of a choice to spare people who are directly trying to kill her lol). plus, if she was acting strictly literally based on the command to destroy *everything* she'd have to kill megumi on the basis of him having the clans most valuable inherited technique and therefore being able to pass it on. and he'd have been just as innocent in the zenin clans harm as dozens of little kids.

and it's not like gege is not a writer who avoids writing guilt. yuji feeling guilty for a crime he's almost entirely innocent for is a major plotline, and he's the literal main character. the deuteragonist expresses guilt too. if a member of the main cast was killing kids, that'd be confronted *somehow*. hell, as maki fights the hei, the one member who's stated to be actually decent (ranta) gets to die a lot more peacefully than the others. maki doesn't lean down and rip his throat out and spits in his face. she stays quiet so he gets to die thinking he succeeded. shows she wasn't acting purely out of brutality, and through that gege shows that she doesn't care to mindlessly brutalize the more innocent members of the clan. for anyone who wants to say "oh she killed her mom she was capable", she's calling specifically for her mom when she was looking for her. if she was just going in and brazenly slaughtering everyone she saw theres no reason that gege wouldn't have just shown her doing that and then running into her mom and killing her. if gege's point was that she had to kill every member of the clan to fully end it, that'd work a lot better as a conclusion to that.

i'm not saying it's completely impossible that maki did kill the youth of the zenin clan. yeah, maybe the being a woman written by gege curse got maki and he did intend for her to kill the kids and then just completely gave up on writing her character. but most of the evidence that she did stemming from brief blurbs recapping the the event using "everyone" rather than "the fighting members of the clan" where everyone is most likely being used just because it's a less longwinded translation should make it obvious that one concept is doing a lot more reaching than the other.

like a 10s user summons mahoraga and as soon as it gets out of its mummy shell gojo opens unlimited void. obviously mahoraga has the ability to adapt to UV since we literally see it do so, but could it do so without anyone to tank the burden of adaptation for it prior? or does it's brain being overloaded with information from the start prevent it from adapting?