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Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat

https://csm-cafe.jp/

Looking forward to revisiting a lot of food trauma

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 08:26 on Jan 18, 2023

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Terper
Jun 26, 2012


Stairmaster posted:

i could fix her

yeah? well i could accept her as she is. you don't like the murder? grow up. the atrocities are part of her and ive decided they're funny

Archer666
Dec 27, 2008
So next chapter gonna be like this I guess?

Bad Seafood
Dec 10, 2010


If you must blink, do it now.
I don't know much about dogs, but I always appreciated a detail someone else pointed out to me: huskies are very friendly, but they're also incredibly noisy and difficult to control.

That Makima owns like seven and they're all well-behaved is a great bit of foreshadowing.

The Lord of Hats
Aug 22, 2010

Hello, yes! Is being very good day for posting, no?

Foxfire_ posted:

Food ¥15,000
Rent ¥25,000
Aquariums ¥1,000,000
Mummy Movie Marathon ¥2,000

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

A measly million yen can't buy an aquarium, you moron!

Space Cadet Omoly
Jan 15, 2014

~Groovy~


Foxfire_ posted:

Food ¥15,000
Rent ¥25,000
Aquariums ¥1,000,000
Mummy Movie Marathon ¥2,000

someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

Buy more Aquariums.

GhostofJohnMuir
Aug 14, 2014

anime is not good

Bad Seafood posted:

I don't know much about dogs, but I always appreciated a detail someone else pointed out to me: huskies are very friendly, but they're also incredibly noisy and difficult to control.

That Makima owns like seven and they're all well-behaved is a great bit of foreshadowing.

an example for people who aren't familiar with how willful and vocal huskies can be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw5M-4Fo2wE

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat


more cool poo poo bout Devil powers not being bound by the laws of physics

Makima presumably swings her sword at these three and their heads fly off but Quanxi’s arms are not touched

It’s even more mysterious because we don’t see Makima swing her sword, she walks out to meet Quanxi with it and after the decapitation we see Makima without a sword

wonder how the anime will portray weird things like this

Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 19:59 on Jan 18, 2023

Eimi
Nov 23, 2013

I will never log offshut up.


GhostofJohnMuir posted:

an example for people who aren't familiar with how willful and vocal huskies can be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aw5M-4Fo2wE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBGqKwWhrOQ

usenet celeb 1992
Jun 1, 2000

he thought quoting borges would make him popular

Steve Yun posted:



more cool poo poo bout Devil powers not being bound by the laws of physics

Makima presumably swings her sword at these three and their heads fly off but Quanxi’s arms are not touched

It’s even more mysterious because we don’t see Makima swing her sword, she walks out to meet Quanxi with it and after the decapitation we see Makima without a sword

wonder how the anime will portray weird things like this

Maybe it's something that's in the same general realm of her other known abilities to borrow other people's contracts/abilities as well as to exchange any mortal wounds inflicted on her with other people; maybe she was able to 'borrow' the head-cutting properties of the sword and use it up in the process.

Or she just commanded them heads to pop off.

Squidster
Oct 7, 2008

✋😢Life's just better with Ominous Gloves🤗🧤
Asa's face grows visible scars when she's possessed, right? There's no way Denji doesn't know exactly what she is, although he's probably still trying out to work out her deal.

I think his threat that she might be killed isn't something inherently dangerous about his home, but more that he'll be forced to kill Asa if she tries to pull any poo poo there. He's willing to risk himself, but not MiniMakima.

https://twitter.com/theAndrewKwan/status/1615814791989235754

Scholtz
Aug 24, 2007

Zorchin' some Flemoids

Squidster posted:

There's no way Denji doesn't know

Please reconsider ever saying these words

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

I don’t think anyone but Asa and the reader can see the scars. I think Denji would have reacted. The only previous evidence we had was when Toru asked out Yoshida. However that’s the first time Asa was experiencing out of body and the untethered textbox imo is hers.

I just don’t think it’s likely Denji doesn’t do a big “bwahhhh” if suddenly scars popped up.

Brightman
Feb 24, 2005

I've seen fun you people wouldn't believe.
Tiki torches on fire off the summit of Kilauea.
I watched disco balls glitter in the dark near the Brandenburg Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time, like crowds in rain.

Time to sleep.

Bad Seafood posted:

I don't know much about dogs, but I always appreciated a detail someone else pointed out to me: huskies are very friendly, but they're also incredibly noisy and difficult to control.

That Makima owns like seven and they're all well-behaved is a great bit of foreshadowing.

Foreshadowing? Do we see the dogs before the Gun Devil fight? Pretty sure the cat's outta the bag and it's just kind of an "oh, of loving course" moment.

Rohan Kishibe
Oct 29, 2011

Frankly, I don't like you
and I never have.
My theory I just came up with is that, yeah, the difference is for the reader, but Asa always has the scars and only notices them on Yoru.

Bad Seafood
Dec 10, 2010


If you must blink, do it now.

Brightman posted:

Foreshadowing? Do we see the dogs before the Gun Devil fight? Pretty sure the cat's outta the bag and it's just kind of an "oh, of loving course" moment.
You know, I don't remember.

Time to reread the whole manga I guess.

Steve Yun
Aug 7, 2003
I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.
Soiled Meat
Went out and watched Texas Chainsaw Massacre because of the op

Famtastic movie, just neat how much of it was used as the roadmap for every slasher flick afterwards

(Free with ads on Tubi)

CharlestonJew
Jul 7, 2011

Illegal Hen

Squidster posted:

Asa's face grows visible scars when she's possessed, right? There's no way Denji doesn't know exactly what she is, although he's probably still trying out to work out her deal.

I think his threat that she might be killed isn't something inherently dangerous about his home, but more that he'll be forced to kill Asa if she tries to pull any poo poo there. He's willing to risk himself, but not MiniMakima.

this post is a fundamental misunderstanding of the story in many, many ways

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

If Denji is so stupid then how could he come up with and lead Operation: Super Smart? Maybe read a loving book about getting a clue

Das Boo
Jun 9, 2011

There was a GHOST here.
It's gone now.
Denji has proved himself by taking care of a cat, a half-dozen dogs, and a Damien- I think it's time we trust him with a girlfriend.

As long as he promises to feed her and take her on walks.

Space Cadet Omoly
Jan 15, 2014

~Groovy~


Denji doesn't notice the scars on Asa's face whenever she's possessed by Yoru because he's too busy staring at her boobs.

Babysitter Super Sleuth
Apr 26, 2012

my posts are as bad the Current Releases review of Gone Girl

I think the critical mistake people are making here is that denji isn’t just a moron and he isn’t secretly smart. He’s got a level of base cunning and guile entirely separate from his intelligence; he’s stupid like a fox.

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

I don't think he's stupid I think he's someone who grew up incredibly isolated working for people taking advantage of him. He's uneducated as we can see in multiple scenes when he struggles to read or do basic maths. He's also unsocialised as you can see from pretty much any interaction with girls he has. Even outside of the explicit errors in judgment he makes, there's stuff like not wondering why Asa is asking him out now after their last interaction where she called him a loser. Or just not being bound my a lot of social norms like when he ate the cake without utensils. He's not dumb because he makes these mistakes, he's just never had a chance to learn a lot of things we take for granted. IMO he's not stupid because he has shown the capacity to learn both from his pre-CSM life and in what we see of him during the manga. When he decides to sleep in the bed during the first infinity arc it's not some Luffy level dumb guy move like the other characters react to it as, it's a perfectly sensible thing to him as that's the kind of thing he had to learn to survive growing up. It seems unfair to write those off as some low animal cunning vs just the normal skills you'd have to learn when living as an outsider.

He's also shown from the very first chapter to have the capacity for emotional thought and empathy that is also a form of intelligence. When the zombies are rushing him he thinks about it's understandable that they still wanted more as he wanted more when he should have been just happy with Pochita and that wanting a better life isn't inherently bad. He also finally understands power a bit when she loses Meowy and he thinks about the day he thought he lost Pochita. There's a lot of surprising depth to his emotional insights and thoughts throughout the manga that I don't think a stupid person would have. He's also shown to be able to learn "common" normal people skills as the manga progresses. So imo Denji isn't stupid he just lacks a lot of basic skills because he never had the chance to learn them whether they're academic or interpersonal.

Wonton
Jul 5, 2012
The guy pours gasoline on himself, immolates himself proclaiming the power of light.

Sometimes Denji is mega smart!

Jerkface
May 21, 2001

HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE DEAD, MOTHERFUCKER?

Wasn't it Asa seeing her own scars and then realizing she was out of body? Its just an internal way to differentiate the characters

The Notorious ZSB
Apr 19, 2004

I SAID WE'RE NOT GONNA BE FUCKING SUCK THIS YEAR!!!

Jerkface posted:

Wasn't it Asa seeing her own scars and then realizing she was out of body? Its just an internal way to differentiate the characters

That's how I read that scene. The scars are for us and Asa to differentiate when they've changed control, but otherwise we haven't been given any reason to think others see a physical change in Asa when Yoru is running the show.

Supersonic Shine
Oct 13, 2012
Somewhere down the line, I want Denji to fondly reminisce about Power while Asa fumes with jealousy so hard that steam pours out of her ears.

I Am Fowl
Mar 8, 2008

nononononono
You know, I love a good, eerie Makima.

https://twitter.com/BlackSalander/status/1581784050020548610

EmmyOk
Aug 11, 2013

Jerkface posted:

Wasn't it Asa seeing her own scars and then realizing she was out of body? Its just an internal way to differentiate the characters

At the time there was the possibility it was Yoshida commenting due to the text bubbles being between them in their own panel. By now I think it being Asa’s comment is the only possible reading of it.

Flair
Apr 5, 2016
So the Control Devil living at Denji's house seems to be just as violent as her predecessor given that Denji seems afraid of breaking things at home.

Foxfire_
Nov 8, 2010

I'm hoping Denji's house rules aren't related to Nayuta at all. They're because they have 10 giant floofy dogs that'll get super excited and cause chaos at the slightest provocation

Asa steps on a squeaky ball and is buried by a wave of amped up huskies

Foxfire_ fucked around with this message at 04:00 on Jan 20, 2023

SyntheticPolygon
Dec 20, 2013

The house rules are because this is Denji's first time having a girl over and he doesn't want Asa to embarass him.

Nuebot
Feb 18, 2013

The developer of Brigador is a secret chud, don't give him money

Foxfire_ posted:

I'm hoping Denji's house rules aren't related to Nayuta at all. They're because they have 10 giant floofy dogs that'll get super excited and cause chaos at the slightest provocation

Asa steps on a squeaky ball and is buried by a wave of amped up huskies

Meowy has become the lord of the house, mark my words.

cuntman.net
Mar 1, 2013

denji made a contact with the bedtime devil

Lt. Lizard
Apr 28, 2013

Flair posted:

So the Control Devil living at Denji's house seems to be just as violent as her predecessor given that Denji seems afraid of breaking things at home.

I really hope not. Nayuta being just a younger version of Makima would make the entire Part 1 feel hollow. I trust in Denji's parenting skills. :colbert:

chiasaur11
Oct 22, 2012



Lt. Lizard posted:

I really hope not. Nayuta being just a younger version of Makima would make the entire Part 1 feel hollow. I trust in Denji's parenting skills. :colbert:

She can be part of a loving family, and is going to be a better person, but it's still the same base material, and that might mean a lot of habits in common.

Bare minimum, she has the same bite.

Lt. Lizard
Apr 28, 2013
"Randomly kills her caretaker for fun and is a lethal danger to any unsuspecting guest" kinda fails the "is better person than Makima" part. Which is why I hope the whole thing about rules is Denji being either overly dramatic, or a dumbass.

sockpuppetclock
Sep 12, 2010
itll go like this
https://twitter.com/_osulan/status/1615468968201920520

Elite
Oct 30, 2010
He said “worst case scenario”. It may not be representative of a typical experience!

The worst case scenario of eating a peanut is death.

(Peanut Allergy Devil: Does absolutely nothing to 99.5% of people, death touch vs remaining 0.5%).

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Inflammatory
Apr 22, 2014
random gut feeling i have no confidence in: denji's thinking long term and just thinks if any of the rules are broken then nayuta won't grow up happy and will become another makima

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