MAHORAGA vs SUKUNAS Domain Expansion Blu-ray REACTION!! [Thunderclap] Jujutsu Kaisen S2 Episode 17

[@FlexiejayAnime]

WELL THIS WAS FKING INSANE!!!!!! 😱😵‍💫 MEGUMI WHAT?!! ...This show does things to me I've never experienced with any other show. I hope you enjoy the Blu-ray version of this absolute mammoth of a BATTLE! And regards to the subtitles: Makora (I believe) is the Japanese pronunciation, it’s just a more direct spelling to how it is said - Mahoraga is just the English translation) Enjoy watching my mental breakdown - Love you ALL!! ❤‍🔥

[@divyanshsahai]

Flexie - you are becoming just like other reactors who just skipped past the story. Please don't do that. Please pay attention to details. You didn't even properly understand the TEN SHADOWS TECHNIQUE and the fact that Sukuna used Reverse Cursed Technique on Megumi, which is basically the healing technique. Pause the video as many time as you want but please understand the plot. Otherwise, you just gonna be one of those reactors who watch anime just for FIGHTS. nothing more than that. Please don't turn into that one. If you don't understand something, Just reply to my comment. I will explain it to you without giving any spoilers.

[@Fr_frr]

Uraume is Sukuna's servent who Cook's food for Sukuna

[@hitlinho]

@@divyanshsahai dude stop being a weeb. First time I watched it I didn't get it at first, but in my second rewatch, third, forth, so on, I completely understood all of it. She will get it in time and also she has the help of youtube comments. So don't stress yourself.

[@RandomPerson-ui3xv]

btw its name is not makora nobody calls him that they call him MAHORAGA 🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥💯

[@HEAVEN-e9e]

Tシャツかわいい

[@Kleed44]

Crazy but true detail: the MAPPA animators were so unhappy with their working conditions (rightfully so) especially for this episode and because they were forced to sign an NDA and couldn't say anything, they got out their feelings by having one of the office buildings in this episode match their office down to the same amount of desks and chairs and had Sukuna demolish it. These animators are so creative and deserve better - I'm so grateful to them for giving us this and more!

[@martinjoster3282]

LMAO, incredible

[@kiwiabrainlessfruit5792]

@@martinjoster3282 You can even see Pochita in one of the frames around the beginning of their fight, like, after Sukuna pulls out Mahoraga's finger out of Yuji's hood

[@martinjoster3282]

@@kiwiabrainlessfruit5792 lmao??

[@chikao9532]

Crazy if truev

[@dontdoitwhy8518]

That is not entirely the case. The animator who did that said that he did not have a reference for that building, and since he thought the Mappa building looked similar, he used the inside as a reference.

[@Katalin04]

Yuji : *comes back* Sukuna: "Let me play a song for you, cozo!" You are my special...

[@ahmadyasin911]

okay joke's a side, i honestly love it the way they put that song at the end when Yuji seeing everything cuz that song if you see the lyric it's like Sukuna saying to Yuji to suffer more

[@Just._.Koukie]

I love how u pause the moment and try to understand the situation!! Many reactors don't do that and just continue without understanding a single thing, keep up these great videos!!

[@Reyesm02]

Mahoraga is still one of the coolest designs and powers Gege has come up with

[@NotAHippopotamus]

It looks so fucking cool, man

[@mehdikafi6537]

you mean makora

[@jamaicaqueens22]

That's a translation error ​@@mehdikafi6537

[@Itachi951000]

@@mehdikafi6537 In English, they translated it as Mahoraga. That's why English speakers call him that contrary to the rest of us. In the French manga transcription for example, it was Makora since the beginning. And the anime merely confirmed it as I was wondering why people were calling him Mahoraga. Mahoraga are a race of deities, while Makora is the name of a specific god who is one of the Twelve Divine Generals in East Asian Buddhism, which is clearly what this shikigami is supposed to represent. So not sure why they chose "Mahoraga" in English.

[@mehdikafi6537]

@@Itachi951000 yeah i mean ''mahoraga' is so annoying to say, and why they gave him such a lame translation, i mean makora is easy to say, calling him mahoraga is just confusing since its not his name

[@voidofthegodhand7463]

The way the subjugation ritual works is The 10 shadows comes with 10 shikigami for the user of the technique to summon. Divine dogs are given by default no subjugation required, however the rest of the shikigami need to be subjugated. So the 10 shadows user has to summon them separately and win against the shikigami in a fight in order to successfully subjugate it. After the ritual is complete they can summon the subjugated shikigami with full control, if you go back to season 1 when megumi pulls out max elephant for the first time he says "i just recently tamed this one", meaning he successfully completed subjugating it on his own. However, the subjugation ritual works differently when an outsider is present. Successfully defeating the shikigami with someone else voids the ritual meaning the 10 shadows user does not gain control over the shikigami from defeating it with someone else in the ritual. Thats why megumi says in this episode even though it makes the ritual useless, it still can have a purpose in certain cases. By summoning makora on haruta, he forcibly dragged haruta into the subjugation ritual, in hopes that makora would kill haruta and himself. Indeed he was sacrificing his life to make it happen. However Sukuna did not want Megumi to die therefore he stepped into the ritual and defeated Makora himself which saved megumi. Because the subjugation ritual was voided in this case by Megumi dragging Haruta in, he is free to summon Makora again in the future to subjugate it if he wants, or pull this suicide move again even if Sukuna defeated it.

[@phantomix3956]

Well that's crazy good explanetion

[@bohdanpyzh2712]

It's symbolic that the dogs are the most loyal shikigami

[@ericgunner4121]

Golf clap this comment. Bravo.

[@pexeforad4gua]

Sukuna also use this fight to test if he was able to subjulgate mahoraga by himselft when he takes the body and use it against gojo

[@ac1d290]

@@pexeforad4guadon’t be putting spoilers like this in the comments for people who don’t read the manga, weirdchamp

[@MasterrofDisguise]

Crazy that Megumi was gonna summon this thing back in S1 Ep1 💀

[@Misaki_Mei504]

That was because of the stress he had and because at the moment he had not trained anyone as strong as Todou and then with Sukuna, if you think about it in both contexts, he had little damn energy, his body was bad and he had a lot of stress because of the situation like that. That makes sense and as I said, at that time he had not faced opponents as powerful as them.

[@MasterrofDisguise]

@@Misaki_Mei504 yep makes sense

[@rituahh]

if he did the manga would have just eneded right there

[@cosmicsapientia2447]

@@Misaki_Mei504 too many words, just say bumgumi and move on

[@stavik96]

Megumi be like when he hits his toe on a table.

[@Syntex366]

Mahoraga’s adaptation technique is so incredible that during that sequence where Sukuna and it were almost dancing with each other, Sukuna was basically throwing “feint” slashes (like how Todo can clap but not use his technique) at Mahoraga to confuse it and make it unable to block or avoid his dismantle technique when he would activate it at random. Mahoraga adapted so that it could tell whether Sukuna was going to use his technique or was doing a feint motion, and that allowed it to move in on Sukuna during a feint and actually land a blow.

[@sarmientojosesarmiento8768]

I think it was in the sketches of the chapter, where they say that at that moment Sukuna wanted him to learn to feint, that is, to learn to lie and thus corrupt his "divine" state, that's why Sukuna had that face when Mahoraga feints a kick and then he threw a punch that connected

[@Csal92]

Wild storytelling through combat

[@anusaukko6792]

@@sarmientojosesarmiento8768 That's just the episode producer making stuff up that he likes, it's not really relevant to the canon of the series besides an anime-only ''fun fact''

[@GaionSputro]

Its Makora.

[@Querez8504]

​@@GaionSputroThey say both, which I don't understand. Do "Makora" and "Mahoraga" refer to different things?

[@Kal911]

17:57 "You showed me, Megumi Fushiguro!" it's a very important line, Sukuna is referring to something he figured out in this battle.

[@Exsyvfx]

not really, Sukuna knew it way earlier! He figured it out in S1, when he fought Megumi after ripping Itadoris Heart out!

[@Kal911]

@@Exsyvfx I guess you didn't get what I mean.

[@Exsyvfx]

@@Kal911 You said he figured something out in this one fight in Shibuy, which is not true? Am i missing some?

[@Kal911]

@@Exsyvfx He figured out the way to do something.

[@AdityaMutke]

The subtitles in this version of blu ray was wrong sukuna said "now you've fascinated me " , fushiguro megumi instead of you showed me

[@Itachi951000]

Note to Flexie: Summoning Mahoraga doesn't, in principle, require self-sacrifice. It works like the other shikigami. The Ten Shadows technique allows you to summon ten shikigami. The two dogs (now there is only one as you know, the other got killed) represent the first shikigami (or you could say "base shikigami" as they are granted to the user, so no need to fight and tame them). The 9 remaining shikigami have to be tamed one by one. You have to summon them and then subjugate them. In other words, you have to defeat them 1v1 and then they recognize you as their master and obey you. So Megumi defeated Nue (the bird) and Max Elephant for example to be able to use them. If you involve allies to defeat the shikigami, then the subjugation ritual is void. Even if you defeat it, it won't obey you. You'll have to summon it again later to tame it alone. It has to be 1 versus 1 fight between the user and shikigami. Makora/Mahoraga is kind of the final boss of the shikigami (he's one of the Twelve Divine Generals in East Asian Buddhism, so a god). The reason he immediately attacked Megumi after being summoned is because Megumi hasn't tamed it yet. That's the only problem here. If Megumi subjugates it, then it will recognize him as his master and obey. Megumi just isn't strong enough to do that yet and thus summoning it amounts to suicide. Summoning a shikigami you haven't tamed can only be to tame it obviously, so you're de facto THE enemy in its eyes and it will attack you. If you involve more people like Megumi just did with Haruta, then they're enemies of the Shikigami as well. No Ten Shadows technique user in history has managed to tame Mahoraga and we can easily see why. His adaptation ability is overpowered. He's ridiculously strong even without it already as we can see but with it, even if you were strong enough to keep up... the longer the fight goes, the greater the disadvantage for you as it just adapts to everything you throw at him, rendering your attacks and your cursed technique itself useless. This is why the only way to win is to have some crazy powerful attack able to oneshot it before it can adapt like Sukuna did, something impossible to (nearly) everyone else.

[@cracuss31n52]

Now the problem is taming the guy, there are discussions around on how to kill Mahoraga with only the 9 shadows and the only thing that came to people's mind is using the bull in a treadmill to built up power. Yeah, I think Mahoraga is beyond what a single user of 9S is capable of it takes Sukuna or Gojo to kill him with maybe Yuta, Yuki, and Kenjaku that can kill Mahoraga.

[@jabezkatsak8471]

I’m SO glad you watched the blu ray version so you can get to see Vincent Chansard’s INCREDIBLE animation since nearly half of his work wasn’t put into the original release, he animated SO MUCH for this episode and has stated that he’ll never work for Mappa again because of the awful schedule, there’s also another animator that was going to animate just as much as Vincent called Weilin Zhang, he was supposed to animate over 1 minute of content but literally only 6 seconds of his animation was used in the original release, but since Weilin didn’t come back for the Blue Ray, THIRTEEN animators came in to finish his animation for the Blu Ray

[@ashrafuzzamankhalid3465]

For one animator they had to bring THIRTEEN... You have to take a minute to digest how much of an insane animator Weilin Zhang is...!

[@jabezkatsak8471]

And some of the animators aren’t slouches either, they’re some of the industry leading animators out there right now. Edit: and Weilin is still so young too…

[@gamebond6248]

True. I felt their disappointment when episode was aired. I am glad atleast they were able to do more with blu ray. I hope they don't work with Mappa ever again because I hate to see the talents of hard working and specially young in this case being exploited.

[@dontdoitwhy8518]

they only cut the subway part, which was like 8 seconds. That is not even close to half, lol. You all exaggerate everything

[@jabezkatsak8471]

⁠​⁠@@dontdoitwhy8518 to be fair I only saw Vincent’s genga once when he first posted it on twitter, and it also seems like half his work got fucked anyways with all dimming and ghosting, even in the blu ray version they blurred his incredible backround animation before mahoraga goes into the pool, so I wouldn’t say exaggerating, more like misinformed lol thanks though!👍

[@valisparda]

Fun fact: the original episode renamed Sukuna’s Domain Expansion: Malevolent Kitchen. Also, Dismantle and Cleave were called Fillet and Dissect. Honestly, it fits because both Sukuna and the animators COOKED this episode.

[@Misaki_Mei504]

That was because it was a joke on the part of those who translated the subtitles and the rest of the pages only copied what they saw. If you know Japanese you would realize that the name has nothing to do with what they put on that occasion in the subtitles. In fact, even in the manga it says something else, not that

[@randomverse1501]

Manga readers be like 👀👀👀

[@アニメのためにセックスする]

@@randomverse1501 He cooked them alright

[@temporal_paradox]

Honestly I'm not sure what the intended names are, but the alternatives are appropriate to Sukuna's character for reasons mentioned mostly in supplementary material.

[@stryfe0]

Rule of cool. Dismantle, Cleave & Malevolent Shrine sound WAAY better than the names you find more fitting

[@ShadowfightTRR]

Sukuna gathers more fans every time he appears

[@LuciusArtoriusCastus.]

@@lucifertheend thats just great bro! go ahead and give out more spoilers like this please!

[@alexanderkenway]

@@lucifertheend chill bro why spoil

[@cheekguardian1378]

​@@lucifertheendDelete

[@KingAizen1]

​@@lucifertheend chilllllll homie

[@gerharddamm5933]

Fuck Sukuna, all my homies hate Sukuna

[@bohdanpyzh2712]

If Mahoraga's ability description makes you think it's unbelievably OP, that's because it is

[@altervisi7748]

"are you guys enjoying my panicked questions?!" Yes.😂

[@kedardeshpande2330]

THAT....THAT WAS THE REAL SHIBUYA INCIDENT....

[@ASH_CROW1511]

Thousands of people died in the shubuya incident. 23 wards were wiped from the map.

[@DoomGroove]

fun fact: since you’re watching the blu ray version of this season, they actually extended the fighting scenes between Sukuna vs Mahoraga with also some changes to the animations look!! so some of these scenes aren’t in the original release on crunchy roll 🫣

[@quegs]

So clarification: I believe Megumi was Dead dead, except for the fact the summoning ritual had his death listed as “Pending” until it was complete. If the summoning ritual had finished (either by Ponytail dying, or in the crazy impossible universe where Ponytail somehow beats Mahoraga), Megumi would be Actually Dead for Real. Sukuna interrupted the ritual as an outsider and “voided” the contract, stabilizing Megumi beforehand with Reverse Cursed Energy. That’s the only reason Megumi is alive at the end of the episode.

[@MCDEMON-OG]

What do ya mean crazy impossible? My dude defeated two main character Megumi and nobara you need anything else? And even survived rage nanami if it was not for sukuna then my boi would have one shot mahoraga

[@martinjoster3282]

"With this treasure I summon, Lv100 raid boss Mahoraga" Truly insanity frfr, bro basically starts the ritual to unlock Big Maho as a summon, and ropes the enemy into the side that's fighting it - at which point once a side loses (either Mahoraga subjugated or everyone else dead) the ritual ends and deaths are confirmed Megumi barely survived thanks to Sukuna saving Haruta, stopping the ritual from being concluded, healing him and ending it by beating it as an outsider frfr

[@plarkour8238]

There's a lot of little details in that fight between Sukuna and Mahoraga that really showcase how great a job Vincent Chansard did with this episode. He's a French animator and solo animated this episode. When Sukuna says "you've done it now!", he's referring to Mahoraga bringing in cursed energy to the fight. As in Sukuna has to take it seriously. And he really enjoys it. Sukuna laughs like a giddy teenager that Mahoraga can also see his technique. This fight used very concise ways to expand on the type of character Sukuna is. When Sukuna pauses in the fight and makes Mahoraga jump, he's just faking him out to fuck with him. He realizes Raga is adapting to his technique so he switched up his game to mix in fake out slices to throw Raga off. Raga begins punching the air because he can't tell if Sukuna is throwing real slices or not, so he tries to anticipate them. Then when Raha adapts to that, he throws his own fakeout punch at Sukuna and it lands. This is probably the best fight scene I've ever seen in my life.

[@plarkour8238]

Also - the main song used in the fight scene is called "Thunderclap"

[@justacasualguy13]

solo animated this episode? are you nuts? yes vincent did a lot of work for the episode, and arguably the best looking cuts, but to say he was the only one is just disrespectful. there are 44 key animators, 5 chief animation directors, 1 assistant animation director and 1 animation director, with 4 episode directors to boot. obviously plenty of other people worked on the episode but this is the amount of people who worked on the animation department. dont spread blatant misinformation.

[@markistador5491]

All of the faking out stuff was done by weilin zhang (probably spelled that wrong). Vincent didn’t have that much in this episode.

[@KuthGoblin]

i really hope they will extend gojo vs sukuna fight like they did to this

[@justacasualguy13]

@@KuthGoblin my guy the fight was 14 chapters long, it doesnt need to be extended.

[@fromiizone]

This is legit one of the most overwhleming episodes ever in a positive way. Specialz playing over Shibuya's wreckage and Yuji's breakdown is so fitting that it brought me to tears unexpectedly.

[@roxojones]

I GOTTA ADMIT, YOU HAVE LITERALLY ONE OF THE BEST REACTIONS IVE EVER SEEN ABOUT JUJUTSU IORGAJR I CANT STOP LAUGHING!!!! PLEASE KEEP THE GOOD WORK!

[@elfinseacerca1795]

She's overreacting for sure.

[@randomverse1501]

Any Slight inconvenience occurs and Megumi be like : I summon you MAHORAGA 😂

[@iampotsataja]

Same as Aki from csm

[@JampaS2]

10:01 someone noticed the effect in the "dismantle"??? Bro that was so cool

[@Lupaftw]

Listen sorcerers, there are two elephants dancing atop of ant colony! just so you know, we are the ants

[@moutiaRP]

Other than the divine dogs Megumi has to summon and kill the other 8 Shikigamis in a 1v1 in order to be able to control them. If more sorcerers participate in the fight Megumi won't be able to use the Shikigami afterwards. As for Mahoraga, in the history of all ten shadow technique users no one managed to kill it in a 1v1. Back then, the head of Zen in summoned it got killed like Megumi, and then Mahoraga proceeded to kill the head of the Gojo clan even though he had the six eyes and limitless.

[@Exsyvfx]

*9 Shikigami, but yes.

[@christiankirby8092]

divine dogs count as 1 shikigami even though there are 2 of them. similar to how the rabbits are one shikigami and not over a million.

[@Kenn_eddy200]

Probably the best reaction I've seen to this episode. The silence at certain moments was enough. Just the right reaction to the overwhelming intensity of what was a stellar episode. Thank you for this. Keep up the good work.

[@felipemontero1087]

Just for your information: The Shibuya District has give or take 235.000 people living there With Halloween, it can baloon up to 300.000 Considering the ammount of people that have been killed already, somewhere between 3000-5000 You can have an idea about how many people Sukuna killed this episode

[@justacasualguy13]

the shibuya district is quite a bit larger than a 140m radius, but a lot of people did die, yes

[@felipemontero1087]

@@justacasualguy13 yup. A lowball estimate is arround 30k to 50k. A bigger would be 120k to 160k. So… Sukuna killed tens of thousands for no reason

[@Ruritsu]

@@felipemontero1087 Tbf he would have def died if he didn't open up the domain and kill that boi. And to be clear he did need to keep the radius high for the fuga to actually kill but that's manga spoilers info.

[@felipemontero1087]

@@Ruritsu I’m up on the manga. So I know he would have died without the Domain

[@Ruritsu]

@@felipemontero1087 I just meant he didn't exactly kill all those people for no reason. And I hid the spoilers for anybody who hasn't read this yet.

[@氏家正人-k8m]

Thanks a lot for your great ^2 reaction🤩....definitely no-mercy insane / killing ep, it is JJK ! so speechless...!😵‍💫 i hoping next.

[@01Pancake_soup]

Megumi really summoned Mahoraga against haruta...💀

[@Misaki_Mei504]

You didn't understand anything then, Megumi used it since he didn't have any cursed energy, he himself mentioned that in the last chapter, without mentioning that he could no longer summon any Shikigami to help him escape since everything went away with the He fights with Toji and if he barely fought against him, his body was too damaged and tired, not to mention his stress from going through all that that I already mentioned and feeling Sukuna close, I mean he had to do it yes or yes since he didn't have any left. For nothing more than that and apart from being new, he couldn't think of anything else.

[@friz8697]

i mean he sensed sukuna near too , that's probalby the most logical reason , he summoned it hoping mahoraga would attack sukuna too + he was about to die , and you know megumi LOVE to summon mahoraga 😭 so yeah best and worst condition to summon mahoraga LOL

[@01Pancake_soup]

@@Misaki_Mei504 aight bruh

[@Wouldyoulose98]

@@Misaki_Mei504then he could’ve summoned another one other than a creature that has the potential to destroy the whole world if it had enough time to adapt,something like a tiger or whatever

[@b-trunksed5902]

@@01Pancake_soupthat response made your comment look worse😭🤦🏿 .Like you just proved you have no arguments

[@lyn_obregoso]

God, your reaction is so wholesome! 😭 You're now my favorite! It makes me want to watch the whole season again! 😤

[@NotAHippopotamus]

The episode I've been waiting for 🫡

[@raydeleon8218]

Best reaction I could ever ask for. Well done… ps./btw, the ending still smashes my soul.

[@vgautamkrishna5197]

✨ YOU'RE MY SPECIAL ✨

[@Aru-00747]

Big fan sis i love your videos

[@stefanzahassely]

If this is how they animated Sukuna vs Mahoraga, imagine what they do with Sukuna vs Gojo. I wouldn’t settle for anything less

[@charlemagne5826]

You're definitely one of the best reactors out here right now! Loved this one and all your other ones! The Channel growth has been crazy and much deserved!

[@josephsale3019]

damn i know youre done watching this season 2. Watching your reaction is priceless and genuine, you're so lucky, you able to see the 100% progress of sukuna vs mahoraga's fight in Blu-ray too. We witness this episode with 80% progress only. Just happy for you, you witness such extreme fight that makes you're jaw drop hahah

[@iamza_gdb]

i’m glad u watched this blu ray version

[@someyellowfellow9106]

I've been waiting for you to react to this episode for so long. The fact that you got to see the blu-ray version first is the best. W reaction. Favorite reaction channel by far

[@webster9169]

"I dont know if i can handle anymore" JJK: "Lets find out"

[@tokiomitohsaka7770]

My favorite episode of any anime. It was an absolute masterpiece.

[@Mercy_TS]

The funniest part about all this is that megumi was about to summon this thing on todo in episode 8 right before inumaki and panda came to help him, like he was ready to potentially destroy the school just to win with todo who didn't even want to kill him

[@Abreinan]

Your reaction and facial expressions for this episode were incredible. That look of pure excitement was so sweet

[@avogrigoryan6551]

Finally I've waited for this episode so much))

[@yogeoo]

I was waiting for this video since you started jjk 🙏😭

[@sebastianpm13]

I really enjoy watching a show with someone that is entertained as much as me, best reaction I have seen of this episode so far

[@curvyscoliosis8758]

27:28, the moment of realization that he was going to use that on Todo. 😂

[@yedhukrishna855]

Bro you can't blame the kid for doing that after taking a punch to the dome from todo

[@jesseberger5173]

I think this might be one of my favorite reactions ever😂

[@dfxralte8786]

"YOU ARE MY SPECIAL 🗣️🔥🔥"

[@TheReelGamer98]

I'm so happy that you realized how often megumi was going to summon mahoraga. Man was literally going to pull out a nuclear bomb at the slightest inconvenience. In season 1 when Todo started beating him up because he didn't like Megumi's answer for his type of women Megumi was going to summon mahoraga, for Todo 🤣

[@Itachi951000]

I don't know why people keep pushing this silly narrative. No, he wasn't going to summon Mahoraga against Todo. He tried to summon it against Sukuna twice (Season 1 Episode 1 and 4), against Hanami (Season 1 Episode 19), against the Cursed Womb before going for Domain Expansion (Season 1 Episode 23) and then against Toji right before the latter asked his name (Season 2 Epsiode 17). Nothing hints to him summoning Mahoraga against a fellow student, regardless of how much of a dick Todo was being. It makes no sense. He didn't make the pose or pronounced the incantation. The look in his eyes merely changed and Todo felt the kid was deep down unhinged lol.

[@TheReelGamer98]

@Itachi951000 This has to be Mandela effect lol. From looking it up you are correct but I swear that man made the hand signs in the anime.

[@FFFr3sHHH]

Thats not true because that would be absolutely stupid and megumi isnt that dumb, thats basically killing the entire jujutsu high cast if gojo wasnt there just bcus megumi got a little pressed

[@emyrstarlaw5132]

You're by far my favorite reactor right now and since you started Jujutsu Kaisen I was waiting for this chapter, and you certainly didn't dissapointed!

[@FlexiejayAnime]

Ah thank you so much!! 🙏🏻🔥🥹

[@nafian_n]

Just imagine when gojo vs sukuna fight was animated

[@opsoo2229]

Can you shut up please?

[@Charsept]

Back in season 1 Sakuna told Yuji something along the lines of "many people will die because you live". This is proof of that. For a nice guy like Itadori, knowing he is partially responsible for all those deaths has to be rough on his psyche.

[@denkerbosu3551]

Imagine being cut down to atoms by one type of cut, and everythinf around you is being cut to atoms by ANOTHER type of cut at the same time. Sukuna's insane.

[@CrackerMan5291]

The emotional comedown from this episode is so intense, we still have more to go, so much happens in the coming episodes both phenomenal and gut wrenching. Gege gave us a masterclass in story telling with the shibuya arc

[@Rez-Ace5]

So on the off chance that you read this, here is how the subjugation ritual of the Ten Shadows works. So the technique user starts with the Demon Dogs already subjugated and has to battle each shikigami and defeat it alone in order to use that shikigami. The ritual allows for you to bring others into it so that you may have something of a trial run at understanding what you are up against, but if you defeat the shikigami, you are not able to use them. Only if you defeat them alone can you then call upon them. So every shikigami Megumi has besides the Demon Dogs, he has had to battle. The one other rule is that the ritual only ends when all participating are dead, or the shikigami is. And if an individual dies while the ritual is active, they are kept in a limbo state until the ritual ends with the death of either the other individuals or the shikigami. So Sukuna healing Megumi kept him alive enough to live after the ritual was over. No one in history has ever been able to defeat Mahoraga. All that have summoned him have died. So when Megumi summoned it, he thought it was a confirmed death sentence for him and his opponent.

[@VarjoPira]

The OST deserves more credit. The hype of Malevolent Shrine is multiplied thanks to the music. Mappa pulled out all the stops. This is the definition of ART.

[@pritamkaushikdas8863]

The opening theme playing at the end was like cherry on top 😂

[@FryedBryce]

Itadori's VA starting in this episode, gives some of the best performances I've ever seen. This season is so insane dude lol

[@icecrazii]

I swear this episode is anime's best episodes to ever exist

[@Zenkai-9k]

Oh god, again with jjk fans not watching anything else besides jjk

[@The_Honored_One_69]

​@@Zenkai-9k Far better than Cuck Ball Z/Super/Whatever is called, clown

[@sangeethlakshmanan7778]

i actually imagined how your reaction to this crazy episode woulde be and its exactly as i imagined completely awestruck from the start to the end 😂..loved your reaction flexy❤

[@frostysupreem]

Im ready for the next 2 episodes, bring it on Flexie!!!! 😭😭😭😭

[@AwesomeJedi182]

the best aspect that makes Mahoraga so scary is that he does not stop or give up or get out of breath. Like its not that hes just adapting to attacks and defenses, hes adapting to literally EVERYTHING. And hes not going around or avoiding things, hes bulldozing through it. Hes actively constantly countering everything, and marching towards you. Theres no convincing this beast, no talking, no stopping it unless you know his deal (or are sukuna/gojo), Mahoraga has a single goal, to kill you, and it by the lord he will make sure it happens.

[@thefirsthunter7328]

Best reaction to this ive ever seen, she really enjoys what she does 💪🏼

[@goodnoodle5224]

Rewatching this with you and still being surprised as to what happens next and freaking out just the same is crazy. Like I honestly feel so bad about it cause this literally is some sick trauma of a chapter but I’m also fascinated by how dense this season KEEPS GETTING 💀

[@kingdice2578]

Today, FLEXIE learned why Sukuna is the KING of curses

[@quipsilvervr]

This fight totally just exploded outta left-field and I ended up watching it several times in a row to absorb what actually happened.

[@mallutek3644]

The subs are a little complicated to understand in the heat of battle between Sukuna and mahoraga. The things i would like to point out from what i understand is: 1) Megumi's subjugation ritual has 1 rule, that is megumi who is the user of ten shadow technique has to defeat the shikigami by himself at first in order to summon/control that shikigami. Any intervention or help from outside will count as cheating in the subjugation ritual so it is an failure process. Even if its an failure the summoned shikigami will not go until it dies or all the participants of that ritual dies. Hence that kamikaze megumi use it as an self sacrifice attack to everybody he meets by forcing them to participate in the ritual (ie. By explaining ritual process like in the beginning of episode 17) and making mahoraga to attack and kill all participants (since mahoraga can only be killed by one shot). 2) mahoraga's ability is to adapt anything and everything but he needs time to adapt to an attack. So if you make an attack that is powerfull enough to vaporize mahoraga before he is adapting he can be killed. And i think mahoraga has to be fully vaporized because even if he has some part of flesh remain he can regenerate from that part. A very troublesome foe indeed. sukuna has cleave and slice for cutting things of cursed energy objects and non cursed energy objects respectively. But the results are like same it just cuts the objects. So sukuna thought that mahoraga can adapt to any cuts in general, so after mahoraga fully adapted to his constant cutting. He immediately used flames(fuga) to kill mahoraga before he adapts to that too.

[@KodaWPLSH]

Gojo being sealed away was the catalyst for all the chaos that ensues afterwards, and now you're approaching the bottom of the pit that is the Shibuya Incident

[@Sienisota]

There were tiny scenes added that made what was happening more clear. Inumaki being there with hostages makes sense later

[@traior246]

For Sukuna's Technique, it's got 2 Slashes and the Fire The Fire alone deals high Dmg, but is slow, single target, and takes time to charge But with the Domain, the slashes would lace the whole area with explosive Curse Energy, thus basically turning what'd be a Bazooka into a full on Nuke

[@jerrygas410]

At this point , let's not forget that this is only 15 finger Sukuna. And at 20 finger Sukuna , Gojo is like "Nah I'd win"😅 JUST IMAGINE!!

[@doriyahh]

King Sukuna is goat

[@miahan8988]

Man, I want a Kit Kat.

[@christiankirby8092]

@@miahan8988 we all need a break.

[@damiancooper8365]

Some extra lore, during the scene where sukana pump fakes mahorga and maho starts shadow boxing nothing. Thats sukana actaully corrupting mahoraga and teaching a divine general how to lie. Which we see him try later in the fight

[@vgautamkrishna5197]

The thing about that ritual is you have to defeat that thing after you summon it to tame it It's so powerful that no one could do it so everyone of them died The ritual can accommodate more than summoner and he took advantage of this rule to kill him because it will attack everyone who participated in that ritual

[@aerialgod01]

*Fun fact, near the end, Sukuna is smiling because he taught a divine being to lie, meaning he corrupted something holy.*

[@Dekarowski25]

Holly shit! Is this the longer version of the episode? Cause i don't remember some of those scenes.

[@Mischievalrous]

Blu-Ray version.

[@zenitsu9393]

i was waiting for this episode

[@lemguins7031]

A lot of the Blu-ray edits were removing the ghosting and dimming of the effects. It premieres on TV in Japan first, and there's been countermeasures to ensure animations are as safe as possible for photo-epileptic people ever since that Porygon episode of Pokemon left thousands in the hospital over seizures.

[@frankraddi6872]

Yuji won’t ever be the same. Tat expression on his face was heartbreaking

[@anshvert]

mahoraga puching air was apparently him punching the slashes of sukuna as he could see em😭

[@Ricardo_Alves0]

Regarding some translations in this episode (I don't speak japanese, just sharing some info I found): Makora vs Mahoraga - you'll most likely read people refer to the shikigami online as Mahoraga. The name comes from a race of deities in Buddhist mythology, and "Mahoraga" is the original sanskrit pronunciation. Makora is the japanese reading of the name. At the end of the day, both are correct. Sukuna's techniques - that was already mentioned in some comments, but in the original airing, the translators chose some interesting translations for Sukuna's attacks. His cuts, called Dismantle and Cleave back in season 1, were translated as Fillet and Dissect. "Malevolent Shrine" was changed to "Malevolent Kitchen". The main issue with these translations are the lack of continuity with season 1, and, quite honestly, they don't sound as cool. However, they're not exactly wrong either: Sukuna IS a cannibal, so the culinary motif actually makes sense here. "Mizushi-dokoro" is an archaic term in japanese referring to the place food was prepared in palaces, so it's related to "Shrine" and "Kitchen" both.

[@Ricardo_Alves0]

27:33 it's actually a pretty fun meme in the JJK community: "Megumi summons Mahoraga at the slightest inconveniecne". Someone cuts him in line at the store? "With this treasure, I summon..."

[@williansiqueira8624]

Oh, at the end of the fight Mahogara's (I refuse to call it Makora) adaptation was so advanced that even we, the viewer, could see Sukuna's slashes.

[@santoniogonzales9855]

I’m gonna need you to pump these out I can’t wait of July to see your reaction to the ending

[@Ignys.Gengen]

Hi Flexie! It's a bit early, but I wanted to let you know that the opening does change! You should watch through it again when you reach episode 20 :) Just like in season one, there's some little changes to it as we the viewer watch and get more information from the show.

[@thatbrowguy7336]

RIP Flexie. What a freaking episode! I still can't believe that Fushiguro's technique is that strong. I also need the lore on Heavenly Pacts.

[@henlo1308]

A Heavenly Pact (aka Heavenly Restriction) is a vow placed on a sorcerer at birth. When a sorcerer has a Heavenly Restriction, they give up physical strength for immense amounts of cursed energy (as for the case of Kokichi Muta, aka Mechamaru) or they lower their cursed energy amount in exchange for physical prowess (as for the case of Maki Zenin). In some cases, a Heavenly Pact completely removes someone of cursed energy and gives them superhuman physical characteristics (as for the unusual case of Toji Fushiguro). A sorcerer cannot choose to have a Heavenly Pact nor can they choose whether to give up strength or cursed energy.

[@thatbrowguy7336]

@@henlo1308 Ooooh! Thank you!

[@henlo1308]

@@thatbrowguy7336 You’re welcome! Would you like me to explain the Ten Shadows Technique as well?

[@danielsbar373]

Your reactions have been amazing! I wish the best of luck and strength for you heart for the rest of the season. I can't wait to see

[@landonwalker665]

Ngl the subtitles on this version hit SOOOOOO much harder, especially during yujis breakdown

[@redsnowtk1678]

Dammmnn!! How crazy was this.! Imangine facing those 2 at once.😶

[@Ț卄UND乇R]

It's not cursed beast or curse spirit it's shikigami both are different Megumi can summon 10 shikigami

[@miahan8988]

Perfect choice of a T-shirt for this episode 😂

[@mopstop3910]

SO HAPPY YOU WATCHED THE BLUE RAY VERSION THANK YOU!

[@otakinnoob8704]

That fighting was insane, but bro, the itadori breakdown in the end is just peak, its way too heavy

[@believeume122]

JJK is just soooo gd good!!!🔥🔥 I can't help but love Sukuna! Your reactions get me hype all over again, because I was definitely shaking watching this for the first time. 😂

[@n.t3026]

at 8:01 the subtitles "dealiny" instead of dealing lol. the subs are also different then i remember slightly

[@SwagimirPutin]

The worst part about what Sukuna does when he is in control is when Yuji takes over again, he retains all of those memories. That's why he reacted the way he did at the end. It wasn't just seeing the aftermath.

[@audiosmurf]

To subjugate a Shikigami, you have to beat it during the subjugation ritual, but the creature can be called for subjugation as many times as is required. If you have another sorcerer present, you can't gain control of the Shikigami even if you beat it, but it does make the other sorcerer have to also deal with that Shikigami. The ritual isn't complete unless the Shikigami is beaten, or unless all sorcerers called into the ritual die.

[@vladimirzoric4481]

Watched every jjk Reaction and absolutely enjoyed it. I Hope rlly ure ready for whats coming next