So Mahoraga was something Megumi was prepared to summon in S1. Sukuna even called him out for basically throwing his life and talent away. If he pulls someone else into the ritual, it doesn't count basically. So he can try again and again to subjugate this thing. As for your comment about Gojo, he said that fighting Sukuna at all 20 fingers would be tough. But that he would win. So Gojo says he's stronger than full power Sukuna. This is only 15 finger Sukuna. So Gojo would absolutely beat Sukuna if they fought right now. But Mahoraga kinda bypasses strength. If you aren't strong enough to obliterate it in one blow, it will begin slowly adapting to your techniques until it overwhelms you. We can see several instances in this episode where Sukuna looks shocked or his expression changes(compared to his fight again Jogo where he was having fun and laughing the whole time). Sukuna took Mahoraga way more seriously than Jogo. And when he saw that it was regenerating even inside his Domain, he used the flame arrow to obliterate it before it could finish regenerating.

The song "You are my special" makes perfect sense since it's from the perspective of the evil (aka Sukuna doing this to the Itadori). What an episode.

Mahoraga is the kind of summon that scales to its user and snowballs from that starting point so imagine how strong it would be if one of the top dogs were to summon it

Mahoraga IS the good guy. It goes away after the ritual. Sukuna subjecting it is not good. It allows him, if he has the 10 shadows to then summon and control him.

You guys should watch the blu ray edition added scenes. They changed so much and refined a fair amount of the animation, looks so beautiful.

There were a few translation errors in this episode Fillet = Cleave Dissect = Dismantle Makora = Mahoraga Malevolent Kitchen is supposed to be malevolent shrine

The ture MC Sukuna is just lit🔥💥💥💥

I forgot just how wild this episode was!! 😭 Whats crazy is how Megumi nearly summoned Makora aka "Mahoraga" (the translation used in the manga typically) a few times in season 1. As Sukuna himself said, if he went through summoning this Shikigami back during the Detention Center arc with 3 finger Sukuna it probably would have beaten him. What a wild ability, no wonder Sukuna is interested.

As Fake Geto mentioned, Yuji would still have control of his body after consuming all 20 of Sukuna's fingers. Sukuna only gained temporary control due to Yuji being force fed a large number of fingers at once, making the hurdle for Yuji's body to adjust to greater, thus making the amount of time for Yuji's body to adjust greater. Sukuna would not voluntarily give the body back to Yuji of he could maintain control.

Hey John and Chris. Mappa just released the new version (additional scenes) of Sukuna Vs Mahoraga. You guys should check this out. It's more epic than the televised version one.

The subjugation ritual was cancelled out because Sukuna, as an outsider, killed Mahoraga. He can be resummoned for a ritual later though, and also Sukuna took Megumi's body to Shoko so he's fine

Finally EP 17!!!!!!! Let’s go

What site are you watching? the translations are a bit off.

Just a 30% complete episode

What service are you using? I've never seen those subtitles, Makora? Bros name is Mahoraga

You said no shibuya is left. Wait till you see season 4(the shinjuku showdown)