PowerRankings

One cited deathJujutsu Kaisen
Does this death move the ranking?

Confirms the ladder

The higher-ranked entity killed the lower-ranked one. Record and ladder agree.

Maki Zenin vs Naoya Zenin

The killerMaki ZeninJujutsu Kaisen · rank 15
9 places
The victimNaoya ZeninJujutsu Kaisen · rank 24

Careful what is being credited. Naoya was already dead when this entry begins — taken from behind by Maki's mother, with nothing given in return — so the thing she actually puts down is a cursed spirit that came back wearing his name, chapters afterwards. The page certifies a second body, not the sorcerer. Nine rows of separation rest on other evidence entirely: what surfaced in her when the last of her cursed energy went, and a scaling line placing her body level with Toji's.

The connecting record

shownJujutsu Kaisen

Maki Zenin killed Naoya Zenin in Jujutsu Kaisen.

Not the man. She beat him at the estate and walked away, and her mother stabbed him in the back afterwards. What Maki kills is the cursed spirit he comes back as.

What each of them is ranked on

The killer · Maki Zenin · rank 15

Jujutsu KaisenJujutsu Kaisen 0comicanimationfilm

Twins in this setting count as one person and split one allotment of jujutsu, and her sister took the innate technique and nearly all the cursed energy. What the sister's death removed was the last of Maki's own — and the Heavenly Restriction that residue had been sitting on top of came up whole. She left the Zenin estate with most of its sorcerers dead behind her.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen 0 · ch. 3

    Fights among the school's defenders at Jujutsu High on the night of the parade.

  • statedJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 149

    Twins are treated as the same person in jujutsu, and Mai was born with the innate technique and most of the cursed energy.

  • statedJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 149

    Maki's Heavenly Restriction is her own, suppressed by the cursed energy she still carried.

All 7 citations
  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 149

    Mai dies producing a cursed tool for Maki.

  • statedJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 149

    After Mai's death Maki has no cursed energy at all.

  • scaledJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 149

    Her physical ability is placed level with Toji Fushiguro's.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 150

    Kills the Zenin sorcerers who come at her at the family estate.

Maki Zenin on the Jujutsu Kaisen ladder

The victim · Naoya Zenin · rank 24

Jujutsu Kaisencomicanimation
  • statedJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 111, p. 12-13

    Projection Sorcery divides one second into twenty-four frames.

  • statedJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 106, p. 11-14

    Anyone touched by the technique who cannot match its frame rate is frozen for one second.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 152

    Maki's mother walks up behind him at the family estate and stabs him in the back, and he dies without fighting back.

All 5 citations
  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 191

    Returns after his death as a cursed spirit.

  • shownJujutsu Kaisen · ch. 198

    Maki Zenin kills the cursed spirit he comes back as.

Naoya Zenin on the Jujutsu Kaisen ladder

What this does not settle

One death in one work. It is the only place the record puts these two in the same room, and it is evidence about that meeting and nothing wider — not a general matchup, not a rematch, and not a ranking of its own.

The ladder above it is argued from everything either of them has been shown doing; this page is argued from one citation.

Where the two disagree, the disagreement is the point, and it stays visible rather than being resolved by whichever of them happens to be on this page.