I agree with the resistance, but not your reasoning. We talked about this before.
In my perspective, having a large mana pool gives you some kind of resistance to most if not all magical effects, but it's not as simple as "Having higher mana = you resist the effects of someone with lower mana". Which is why people with infinitesimally small compared to Makoto's mana can use special magical abilities that can effect him.
sometimes you misunderstood what I mean.
yes, that's what I was trying to say, because the things that bypass this resistance are not actually magical spells, right?
1)Alte's lighting is something like
anti-magic and not a normal lightning.
2)the charm is a blessing, it take time but it could effect someone with more mana, also the
nuke's radiation, it even bypass their resistance and consume the lifespan.
3)Tomoe's memory manipulation is not a normal power, like the power
Futsu gave her, the memory manipulation belong to
Root, I don't think it's a normal ability.
4)Remember the apple group, wasn't
some of the priestess ability effective on Makoto, and some Assassin skills were effective on Mio even with her magic absorption, probably the reason why Haroka who is a descendent and inherited some abilities was effective on Makoto, or Sofia's inherited absorption.
(I don't remember the fights exactly)
5)Mio's magic absorption : we know she is the darkness spirit, so her absorption is different than the others.
some of those stuff a probably wrong.
unrelated, what do you think happened to Tsukuyomi when he blessed Makoto?