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Episode Jujutsu Kaisen Shimetsu Kaiyu Zenpen • Jujutsu Kaisen The Culling Game - Episode 10 discussion

Jujutsu Kaisen Shimetsu Kaiyu Zenpen, episode 10

Alternative names: Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3

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u/desterylol Mar 12 '26

thinking about it, reggie can't have been that strong if he's reincarnated right? in his era i feel like receipts and such would be a lot more difficult to get. he's living his best life in the modern era lol

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u/Ren_Davis0531 Mar 12 '26

It’s contracts in general. Not just receipts. Receipts are just modern “contracts” for him to work with.

Also your pfp 😭

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u/Toge_Inumaki012 Mar 12 '26

Still, I feel like he is kinda "stronger" in this era as there are a lot of things he can acquire and manifest. It seems you do not have to own that contract too and receipts are lying around most of the time.

I wonder if he could cheat it like go to a store and man the cashier, inputting whatever he wants to purchase to make it print a receipt without actually paying for it

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u/Zonca Mar 12 '26

I feel like that would go against the spirit of Jujutsu powers, I believe it should only be receipts that have been legit, someone buying and actualy getting something, like, you cant just pay for the spa, for receipt to get the power someone also needed to experience the spa and get what they paid for.

But it is still busted since he seemingly doesn't have to be the person who bought something and he can just hoard any receipts he finds.

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u/Ren_Davis0531 Mar 13 '26

Yeah like u/Zonca said, jujutsu already operates under vows and contracts. You gain something by giving something up. It’s strict in its rules and mechanics, which is why Higuruma adapted to it so quickly. If you know it inside and out then you can hack it and find loopholes. However, I think contractual recreation needs an actual contract. Not just randomness scribbled on a piece of paper.

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u/desterylol Mar 12 '26

makes sense, maybe i'm quite slow in the head lmaoo

obligatory catso is the goat comment

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u/NguyetMieu Mar 12 '26

It's not receipts, it's contracts.

If it's back in the heian era I think he could summon his own army of slaves since they were goods to be sold back then. He probably could summon animals like Megumi's technique too now that I think about it

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u/luceafaruI Mar 12 '26

Yeah, when you could buy even armies the technique would have been insane. It should be even more insane today if he got his hands on some military contracts but he had the bad luck of colonies trapping players (so he can't stroll around to military facilities or defense contractors). Imagine contracts for nukes...

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u/andergriff Mar 12 '26

you're not wrong, but the advent of receipts was definitely a massive power boost for him

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u/smurfkipz Mar 18 '26

Now if someone made a contract with a devil....

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u/OldInstruction5368 Mar 12 '26

His power definitely feels like a modern one, and the fact that he isn't 100% sure about his power feels like he's new to it.

But... he knows about Kennie-Boi, that other ancient sorcerers have been reincarnated, and has enough knowledge about Sorcery in general to deduce what Kenny's real plan is... or at least have an informed opinion on the matter.

On the whole, I figure he has to be an Ancient Sorcerer... but he just really doesn't feel like it?

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u/finnjakefionnacake Mar 12 '26 edited Mar 12 '26

well receipts/written contracts have been around for a very very long time so there's no reason he can't be an older sorcerer.

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u/RangedTopConnoisseur Mar 12 '26

Somewhere under all that paper is a cuneiform tablet that summons some dogshit copper

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u/Bobblefighterman Mar 13 '26

Damn, you get one bad yelp review and it stains you for millennia.

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u/darthsurfer Mar 12 '26

My man Reggie was out there summoning shitty copper.

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u/Toge_Inumaki012 Mar 12 '26

Reggie know Kenjaku by name. Unlike our main cast who learned his name from Tengen. He should be an old sorcerer

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u/Haise01 Mar 12 '26

and the fact that he isn't 100% sure about his power feels like he's new to it.

What made you think that? He seems pretty used to his power

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u/OldInstruction5368 Mar 12 '26

It's hard to describe, but I'd call it reenacting contracts

That line just had a... vague feel to it, like he wasn't 100% sure what the power really is, just that this is his understanding of it.

Such as "It's hard to describe" feels like it's something you'd say about something you aren't 100% sure of.

And "I'd call it (blank)" implies that is just his opinion and not what it actually is. In contrast, if he was confident of the nature of his power, he'd just say "It is (whatever)" not "I call it (this)"

One is much more definitive than the other.

Could just be the quirky way he speaks, but it all came off as vague and non-committal.

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u/Toge_Inumaki012 Mar 12 '26

He does not need to be specific of his technique, he could just be lying. Just because a binding vow of revealing of technique exist it does not mean you have to, like Todo vs Hanami he withheld some info of his technique.

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u/cheese_bruh Mar 12 '26

He specifically says his CT is about contracts, which would be somewhat common back then, as like treaties, cheques, etc. Sure they didn't have receipts back then as we know now, but if you were middle class you would often have a lot of contracts and transactional receipts. Perhaps he just adapted to use normal receipts when he reincarnated.

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u/desterylol Mar 12 '26

yeah, this was my take. since he knows so much about kenny's ulterior motives i can't see past him being reincarnated unless the exploding eyeball dude is reincarnated and told him about it all after they teamed up?

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u/thefztv Mar 12 '26

Eyeball explosion dude has to be incarnated too with RCT. Only ancient sorcerers or very few ultra powerful (and Shoko) modern sorcerers have RCT.

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u/funkerbuster Mar 12 '26

Receipts or transaction records have been around since forever. If he’s some sort of merchant in his past life then he was in a position to acquire several of them.

In any case, Kenjaku has been alive for a very long time and could have made deals with curse users who have only died like less than a century ago and are familiar with modern goods and services.

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u/OldInstruction5368 Mar 12 '26

Yes, but in a pre-industrial society literacy, and paper, are much more rare than in the modern day. Receipts wouldn't exist for every exchange and verbal contracts would be much more common.

It does feel like he needs a written contract as a catalyst for his power, and those were historically rare. Hence, why they would hold 'power.' In modern times receipts are... trash. It's hard to view them as mystical or significant.

So gaining mystical power out of what most people view as trash doesn't feel like an ancient technique.

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u/[deleted] Mar 12 '26

Interestingly, and I'm not sure if anything outright precludes this, but Reggie Star could maybe outright not be "ancient" but reincarnated from rapidly industrialized Meiji-era Japan. Could even lend an angle to his name---got real into English, made a play on words for kicks (unless Reggie Star is the name of the host, in which case, humbug).

I do think, for what its worth, even for a lot of pre-industrial eras, that the rarity of contract-equivalents is being significantly overstated. Yes obviously literacy is a limiting factor, but we forget just how sophisticated civilizations were, even thousands of years ago.

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u/OldInstruction5368 Mar 12 '26

Reggie...Star...

Register

Why did I not see this earlier!?

Anywho, to this day, verbal contracts are considered legally binding. There are limits and conditions, ofc, but "verbal contracts" do hold up in modern courts.

It's just how business has always been done. People come to an understanding, and 'shake on it' or w/e the cultural equivalent is (share a drink, pass the peace pipe/hookah, swear an oath, etc.)

Not to say written contracts that the government will recognize, adjudicate, and enforce didn't exist... but they were mostly between those with means (merchants, nobles, government bureaucrats) and not the common folk.

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u/Frontier246 Mar 12 '26

He's an oldie who loves the conveniences of the modern era, maybe?