Jujutsu Kaisen

[Munsu]

1) I think Panda rankings just went by official rankings. For example, Curse Voice fellow is strong against curses, but against humans he plays support/sneak attack. Or in this case, not at all - he's just going after the actual goal. Maki can't kill curses without a cursed weapon (can she even make her own cursed weapons, or must she be forever reliant on someone else even if it's a merchant/smith?)

2) I think it was also deliberately there to alter our expectations given that we know Maki vs Miwa was going to happen.

Well, all the instructors agree that she should be second grade, and he who spends a lot of time with her should know better.

That said, when he showed the rankings he mentioned "By my guess, this is where EVERYONE stands", so it very well could be that his guess was only for the other school solely and went with official rankings for his school. I had interpreted it as he was assigning levels to everyone, including Maki, based on his experience.

[Buffalobiian]

Well, all the instructors agree that she should be second grade, and he who spends a lot of time with her should know better.

That said, when he showed the rankings he mentioned "By my guess, this is where EVERYONE stands", so it very well could be that his guess was only for the other school solely and went with official rankings for his school. I had interpreted it as he was assigning levels to everyone, including Maki, based on his experience.

He went with official rankings period. Even against the enemy he was guessing their official rank. Many know that Maki is as good as 2nd Grade, but they all refer to her as 4th grade because that's what her rank officially is.

The point of that scene was to show relatively strength (albeit incorrectly), and to make us think that both Panda and Maki were punching above their weight in their respective fights.

Based on these fights, I'm guessing that you have to be at least S grade to use Domain Expansion properly.