Warning! Contains spoilers for Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 192!
Maki has become one of Jujutsu Kaisen’s strongest characters, but she has one major weakness that jeopardizes both herself and everyone around her. What makes this worse is that as mangaka Gege Akutami escalates the series and introduces even more powerful enemies, this weakness will become an even more dangerous flaw. And there is no real way for Maki to fix it herself based on her very nature.
Maki has always been a powerful character, largely due to the struggles that she has had to overcome. She was born to the powerful Zenin clan of Jujutsu sorcerers but lacked the ability to actually use the cursed energy that forms the basis of Jujutsu techniques. She was able to compensate for this using her overwhelming physical abilities, but her clan still thought of her as weak and useless. This just strove her to work harder, but Maki's lack of cursed energy imposed an upper limit on how strong she could become. A limit that was shattered when her twin sister sacrificed herself to imbue Maki with strength on the level of Toji Fushiguro, a man powerful enough to temporarily defeat Gojo at one point. With this new power level, Maki was able to murder her entire clan of incredibly powerful sorcerers, proving that she is a deadly threat to any sorcerer alive. Ironically, this fact is dangerous to herself as well as the sorcerers she fights.
In the Sakurajima Colony arc of the culling game, Maki has been fighting a curse that was formed from Naoya Zenin, one of her many family members that she killed. He was already incredibly powerful while alive, but as a curse it seems he is even stronger, able to move quickly enough that even Maki seems to have trouble keeping up. At the start of chapter 192 it is revealed why Naoya was able to become a curse after his death. Maki’s ally Noritoshi has a flashback to something his principal told him. Apparently, in order to prevent sorcerers from becoming curses after they die, they must be killed with Jujutsu.
Given Maki’s inability to use cursed energy, this means that any sorcerer she kills has the potential to turn into a curse just like Naoya. Based on how much stronger Naoya appears to be as a curse, this could mean that Maki would then have to kill stronger versions of her enemies after every time she kills them. And since the Culling Game has introduced many very powerful sorcerers into the story, this could get out of control extremely quickly.
The worst part about this weakness is that it doesn’t just affect Maki. At the end of chapter 192, Naoya’s ultimate curse form seemingly killed Noritoshi, who wasn’t strong or fast enough to withstand its attack. So Maki’s weakness not only makes it extremely dangerous for herself whenever she kills one of the many powerful enemy sorcerers now wreaking havoc in Jujutsu Kaisen’s Culling Game, it also endangers her allies as well.
Jujutsu Kaisen Chapter 192 is now available from Viz Media.