Culling Game Part 2: Secrets Fans Are About to Discover

Spoiler Warning: This article contains full spoilers for Jujutsu Kaisen Season 3, the Culling Game arc, and manga content beyond the current anime adaptation. Proceed at your own risk.

Here at Shonen Vortex, we have been dissecting every Jujutsu Kaisen chapter since the Shibuya Incident broke our brains, and the Culling Game Part 2 is shaping up to be the most consequential stretch of the entire series. The Culling Game Part 2 is not just a power escalation, it is where every thread Gege Akutami planted over four seasons finally pulls tight. Gojo’s fate, Sukuna’s endgame, Yuta’s survival, Kenjaku’s master plan, and Tengen’s role all converge here. If you think Season 3 was wild, Part 2 will redefine what this story even is.

As of mid-2026, the fandom is completely split on what Part 2 delivers, and we are here to settle it.

Table of Contents

1. What Is the Culling Game Part 2?
2. Will Gojo Return in the Culling Game?
3. Sukuna and Megumi: The Darkest Relationship in Jujutsu Kaisen
4. What Happens to Yuta Okkotsu?
5. Kenjaku’s True Role in the Culling Game
6. How the Culling Game Builds Into Something Bigger
7. Tengen and the Merger: The Real Endgame
8. FAQ

What Is the Culling Game Part 2?

The Culling Game Part 2 refers to the second half of the Culling Game arc, beginning around Chapter 195 and running through the Sendai Colony battles and beyond. It is where the rules set in motion by Kenjaku and Tengen stop feeling like a game and start feeling like an extinction event.

Key events in Culling Game Part 2:

• Yuta enters Sendai Colony and faces Ishigori Ryu and Takako Uro simultaneously
• Sukuna, still controlling Megumi Fushiguro’s body, summons Mahoraga against Yuta
• Kenjaku’s merger plan with Tengen accelerates (Read our breakdown about Kenjaku)
• The barriers between colonies begin to collapse
• New players including Hakari and Kashimo push deeper into the game
• The path toward the Perfect Preparation arc opens up

Bold claim: This is where Jujutsu Kaisen stops being a tournament arc and becomes a tragedy.

Will Gojo Return in the Culling Game Part 2?

This is the question tearing the fandom apart right now.

Satoru Gojo was killed by Sukuna in Chapter 236, confirmed by the Reverse Cursed Technique failing to restore him after Mahoraga and Sukuna’s combination attack. His body was later removed and stored. The fandom spent months theorizing a revival, and the debate around whether Gojo could return never fully died.

Here is where Part 2 feeds that hope. Several legitimate signals exist:

• Akutami left Gojo’s body intact rather than destroyed
• The Six Eyes are a generational ability, but no new bearer has appeared
• How Gojo’s Infinity actually functions as a near-autonomous technique raises questions about whether his cursed energy fully extinguished

The honest take: The manga strongly implies Gojo does not return in the traditional sense. What Part 2 gives fans instead is Gojo’s influence, specifically how his death reshapes every surviving sorcerer’s psychology. Yuta fights differently now. The higher-ups calculate differently. Even Sukuna, who respected Gojo as a peer for the first time in a thousand years, operates with a different energy after Chapter 236.

Re-reading the Shibuya arc, the panel most fans skip is Gojo telling Geto that the era of the strongest is ending. That line hits completely differently once you reach Chapter 236.

If there is any mechanism for a Gojo appearance in Part 2, it runs through the Reverse Cursed Technique research happening parallel to the Culling Game. But betting on a full resurrection contradicts everything Akutami has stated thematically about the cost of being a sorcerer. Is Gojo truly the strongest sorcerer even matters less now than what his absence creates.

Sukuna and Megumi: The Darkest Relationship in Jujutsu Kaisen

Sukuna is not using Megumi Fushiguro as a vessel by accident.

Megumi’s Ten Shadows Technique is a hereditary ability of the Zenin clan, and it is the only technique in the modern era capable of summoning and binding Mahoraga, the divine general that adapts to any phenomenon. Sukuna specifically engineered a sequence to break Megumi’s will. He manipulated the Culling Game rules, forced Tsumiki into play, and then killed her in front of Megumi as a binding vow mechanism to shatter his host’s resistance (Chapter 212).

Culling Game Part 2 Technique Documentation:

Ten Shadows Technique (Juushi Shiki)

• User: Megumi Fushiguro (hereditary Zenin clan technique), now controlled by Sukuna
• First seen: Chapter 23 / Season 1 Episode 9
• Mechanism: Summons shikigami using shadows as a medium, each requiring subjugation before use
• Limitations: Requires cursed energy from the user, and Mahoraga cannot be controlled once fully summoned, only weaponized
• Notable feats: Mahoraga’s adaptation to Infinity during the Sukuna vs Gojo battle (Chapter 229 to 232), allowing Sukuna to finally land a hit through Gojo’s Limitless

What makes Part 2 disturbing is Sukuna’s relationship with Megumi’s body is not purely instrumental. Sukuna chose this vessel specifically. He could have stayed in Yuji. The Ten Shadows is the reason, but Akutami implies in Volume omake notes that Sukuna was drawn to the tragedy of the Zenin heir specifically.

Yuji’s dark power becomes relevant here too. His Divergent Fist and expanding soul abilities mean the battle to reclaim Megumi is not just physical. It is metaphysical.

What Happens to Yuta Okkotsu?

Yuta enters Sendai Colony carrying a mission to eliminate Sukuna and his full power profile is better understood now than ever before.

In Chapter 249 to 261, Yuta faces one of the most insane sequences in the manga. He takes on Ishigori and Uro at the same time, then faces Sukuna in Megumi’s body with Mahoraga active. The triple domain expansion Yuta deploys, using Rika’s Ominous Culling as his domain, is unprecedented in JJK canon. No sorcerer had ever stacked domains this way.

How Yuta survives: He does not win cleanly. He uses a copy of Gojo’s Reverse Cursed Technique to restore himself, burning through his lifespan in the process. According to Chapter 261, Yuta’s survival comes at enormous cost, and the question heading into Part 2’s final stretch is whether he can fight again at full capacity.

Yuta’s arc is about surpassing his inherited tools. He started with Rika. He copied Gojo’s technique. Now he has to become something original. Who Yuta Okkotsu truly is as a sorcerer only becomes clear in these final battles.

Kenjaku’s True Role in the Culling Game Part 2

The Culling Game was never Kenjaku’s endgame. It is the mechanism.

Kenjaku in Geto Suguru’s body set the game’s rules in collaboration with Tengen, then modified them to serve his specific goal: triggering a merger between Tengen and the non-sorcerer population of Japan. The Culling Game is the ritual that generates enough cursed energy to make that merger possible.

Important facts most casual breakdowns miss:

• Kenjaku is an ancient sorcerer who transplants his brain across bodies, with Geto being his most recent vessel
• Geto’s soul departed after the Hidden Inventory arc events; what remains is Kenjaku wearing Geto’s face and cursed technique
• The Culling Game rules were set by Tengen as a framework, then weaponized by Kenjaku as a loophole
• Kenjaku’s actual goal is evolution of the human species through forced cursed energy saturation

Kenjaku’s role in Part 2 takes a sharp turn. He operates mostly in the background as the colonies collapse, ensuring the conditions for the merger stay on track. His confrontation with Yuki Tsukumo (Chapter 204 to 212) is one of the most thematically loaded fights in the manga, because Yuki represents the alternative path: voluntary evolution versus Kenjaku’s forced experiment.

Every villain ranked in Jujutsu Kaisen puts Kenjaku near the top not for raw power but for scope of damage. He has been pulling strings across centuries.

How the Culling Game Builds Into Something Bigger

The Culling Game is not the final arc. It is the pressure chamber that produces the final arc.

Here is what Part 2 is actually building toward:

1. The collapse of the sorcerer establishment. The higher-ups cannot control what the Culling Game has unleashed.
2. Merger of Tengen and Japan’s population, which would create a new kind of cursed being at national scale.
3. Sukuna fully awakening in Megumi’s body with no resistance left.
4. Yuji reaching special grade not through power scaling but through his unique soul composition. The Modulo ability emerging in this stretch is Akutami’s answer to how Yuji competes in a world of Sukuna and post-Gojo sorcerers.
5. The binding vow system becoming central to how the final confrontations are structured.

The complete Jujutsu Kaisen power system is built for this exact moment. Everything from Black Flash mechanics to Reverse Cursed Technique to Domain Expansion sure-hit mechanics was seeded across four seasons to pay off here.

Tengen and the Merger: The Real Endgame

Tengen Sama is the most underestimated figure in this entire story.

Tengen is an immortal sorcerer who has used the Reverse Cursed Technique to evolve past human form. Without periodic merger with a Star Plasma Vessel, Tengen’s technique evolves uncontrollably, which is what Kenjaku is exploiting. If Tengen merges with Japan’s population instead of a single vessel, the result is not Tengen becoming stronger. It is Japan becoming a single cursed entity.

This is the apocalyptic scenario Part 2 is racing toward. Every colony, every fight, every cursed technique being deployed is either accelerating or attempting to stop this outcome.

What makes Tengen fascinating rather than just a lore dump character is that Tengen is not evil. Tengen is a victim of their own immortality, and Kenjaku has spent centuries engineering the conditions to weaponize that tragedy.

The Culling Game rules built around Tengen are not a tournament format. They are a countdown.

FAQs

1. Will Gojo come back in Culling Game Part 2?
   The manga does not resurrect Gojo during the Culling Game. His death in Chapter 236 stands through Part 2 and into the final arc. His influence on surviving sorcerers, particularly Yuta, drives the action, but a physical return does not occur in the Culling Game stretch.
   
2. What happens to Megumi in Culling Game Part 2?
   Megumi remains under Sukuna’s control through most of Part 2. Sukuna uses Megumi’s Ten Shadows Technique against Yuta in the Sendai Colony battle, deploying Mahoraga as his primary weapon. Megumi’s consciousness is present but suppressed, which becomes a key plot point in the final arc.
   
3. What is Kenjaku’s real goal in the Culling Game?
   Kenjaku’s goal is to trigger a merger between Tengen and Japan’s non-sorcerer population, using the cursed energy generated by the Culling Game as the catalyst. This would effectively transform Japan into a massive cursed being, representing Kenjaku’s idea of human evolution.
   
4. How strong is Yuta after Culling Game Part 2?
   After the Sendai Colony battles, Yuta has demonstrated the ability to copy high-level cursed techniques, deploy a domain expansion using Rika as its core, and use Reverse Cursed Technique to restore himself mid-fight. He is functionally the closest thing to a Gojo-level sorcerer the current generation has produced.
   
5. What are the Culling Game rules and who set them?
   The Culling Game rules were established using Tengen’s barrier techniques as a framework, then modified by Kenjaku to serve the merger plan. Players earn points for killing other players and can spend points to add new rules. Kenjaku built exploits into this system from the start.

Conclusion

The Culling Game Part 2 is where Jujutsu Kaisen earns every setup from every prior arc. Gojo’s shadow hangs over everything. Sukuna’s grip on Megumi tightens. Yuta carries a burden no sorcerer should carry alone. Kenjaku pulls every string. And Tengen waits at the center of a countdown nobody fully understands yet.

This is not just a power arc. This is the story becoming what it always was going to be.

The question we want you to answer in the comments: who survives Part 2 that you genuinely did not expect to? Drop your prediction below and fight it out.