EmmyOk posted:

Mahoraga is almost certainly nuked. There is a small chance Sukuna dismissed it before it got eradicated. We did see the Dharma wheel disintegrate so Mahoraga's adaption ability is definitely gone.

The Ten Shadows can all be destroyed but their power remains available to the user. That's why when one of the Wolves was annihilated Megumi could resummon it merged with the other as a super wolf. That's what the Totality aspect of the ability is. It's the same thing Sukuna used to create Agito out of a bunch of the shadows. The real loss when a Shadow is destroyed is the flexibility the technique has with multiple summons is reduced.

I assume Maharaga could still be summoned as part of a combination using Totality. However he does seem a somewhat special case so I'm not sure how easy it would be to do that or you could guarantee he kept the adaption ability. The wheel being independently summoned also implies imo it may be a separate tool that is now permanently gone.

We also don't know how long it takes for the power of a destroyed Shadow to be usable for Totality or even if Totality can be done off the cuff. Sukuna summons Agito without warning but we don't know if he did that on the fly or if he prepared it during the month after Gojo's return. My feeling is the shadows are off the table unless Megumi comes back.

The exception to destroyed shadows are combination shadows that are not Totality. Totality is a permanent merging of shadows that can't be undone. Megumi's combination Frog and Nue aren't official shadows so it doesn't matter how many get destroyed they don't count as destroying Nue or Frog.

PringleCreamEgg posted:

It really feels like the author and editorial had some strong disagreements about what happens to Nobara and so we end up with Schrödinger’s Nobara.

However I currently cope by convincing myself that Nobara is fine, but they had to trick Denji into thinking she is dead or out of commission because they want Sukuna to think Nobara is no longer a factor. Meanwhile she is standing by ready to drive a nail into his finger at a key moment or as the last ditch backup plan.

Taima posted:

PringleCreamEgg posted:

Still waiting for the “actually that isn’t Suguru Geto, that’s Kenjaku who was also once a Noritoshi Kamo” to significantly matter. Geto could have just been a really talented jujutsu wizard and I don’t see how anything would change.

Taima posted:

This is almost under-selling it; he cratered almost everything. All of the politics, the sorcerer families, really even the concept of fighting geographically located curses as a duty to society that characterized the original manga intentions. Jujutsu High? Gone. Kyoto and all of the students who were clearly supposed to grow alongside Yuji? Gone. Principal Yaga? Done real dirty.

Fabricated posted:

I feel like with some fairly light text editing you could cut multiple volumes out of the culling game and no new reader would notice.

Jerkface posted:

Why not? he's still a genius and should have his arm back. give him a cursed tool, give him a new CT. Miwa is around and she apparently cant fight!