It’s time to talk about one of the best girls in the series.
Major Chapter 253 spoilers ahead!
Summary:
- Chapter 253 featured a fight between Sukuna and Maki.
- Readers think Maki never had a chance to defeat Sukuna.
- They still think that she’s incredibly strong.
Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 253 has just been released, and the Maki hype is back… sort of. Fans are very happy to see her in action, and fighting Sukuna for that matter! But seeing Maki so easily defeated by him made them question a lot of things.
Is she like Toji?
Although Maki was born a non-sorcerer, her determination and extraordinary physical abilities allowed her to survive until now. Fans saw her as a parallel to Toji, who was never a curse-user, either, but was one of the best fighters in the series.
Toji managed to defeat the strongest special grade sorcerers, Gojo and Geto, and seemed to have done it quite effortlessly. This is how we understood that one doesn’t have to be a curse-user to be a complete menace. And that’s why manga readers expected the same heights from Maki.
She never stood a chance against Sukuna
It goes without saying that Maki is an incredibly skilled fighter, she’s proven it many times. But fans still find it weird that some people expected her to battle Sukuna and succeed.
Sukuna fought and defeated Gojo, he fought Yuta, Yuji and Rika at the same time, and these are truly the strongest characters in Jujutsu Kaisen. It doesn’t matter how much Maki tries to develop her abilities, she’ll hardly be as powerful as these sorcerers.
That’s why manga readers think that Maki going one-on-one with Sukuna was meant to have an unfortunate outcome. We still don’t know if she survived Sukuna’s hit or not, but we have hope that Maki will come back one more time to help everyone else defeat Sukuna.
Maki is still very strong
While it’s obvious that she’s nowhere near the King of Curses’ level of strength, it’s impossible to deny that she’s capable of great things. In Chapter 253, Sukuna himself says that he was very excited to fight her. And their encounter brought him to ecstasy.
Fans think that Maki is not only meant to be a parallel to Toji but she has to overcome him and become even stronger. And they think that she might already be stronger than him. Maki just doesn’t have the same arsenal as Toji, but if we’re speaking about raw abilities, fans bet she could defeat the man.
And manga readers really hope that Chapter 253 was not the last time they saw Maki. The story just has to show us how powerful she can be, and we believe that we’ll find it out soon.