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DicktheCat posted:This is very rare these days, a straight up action chapter. Denji was the POV character all the time in part 1. We just regularly got other people's viewpoints too, like Himeno and Power and Aki and even Aldo. (Just not Makima.) Meanwhile, we're getting Asa's viewpoint almost exclusively, save for an occasional beat for Denji. Also, what changes are you thinking of? I doubt Nayuta's up to anything too sinister, but there could be something, yeah.
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DicktheCat posted:This is very rare these days, a straight up action chapter. I qualify your statement because there is a bit of thoughtfulness in the beginning of this chapter. This ongoing conflict since the Falling Devil manifested has been about self-forgiveness, being able to move beyond your internal and external conflicts, and the inherent vulnerability with forming a bond with someone else. These are all problems that Denji has had in the past and that Asa is experiencing them now. And in this current chapter, because of Denji, Asa realizes that she can live through these hardships. For someone who recently feared the pain of death more than death itself, Asa is willing to hurt herself to save someone else, leaning into that inherent vulnerability with forming a bond with someone else.
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The Notorious ZSB posted:I'm mostly annoyed functionality that existed in the Viz app disappeared without me understanding it was going to happen. My SJ subscription always allowed me to read those chapters in the Viz Manga app. Is it a big change? No, I got the other one and read the chapter, but yeah just seems silly especially when the apps themselves are indistinguishable from one another besides the coloring of the menus (red vs yellow). I'd understand and appreciate it more if there was a functional difference between the apps to the naked eye. My favorite manga reader app thing is that in the EU, you cannot pay for the shonen jump app due to licensing. It’s all free! But you can read each chapter only once ever after which it becomes permanently inaccessible
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Electric Phantasm posted:Someone did the math in another thread, but for the price of subscribing to both Viz and SJ you get 7 chapters in Kodansha's app. No, see, this is actually the perfect way to increase traffic to MangaDex
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ugusername posted:Man Fujimoto really thought that people couldn't relate to a literal trash eating teenager that wanted boobs. So he gave us Asa. Idk, I think he just wanted a main character who’s broken in a different way than Denji and had a devil that was far, far more toxic.
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goblin week posted:My favorite manga reader app thing is that in the EU, you cannot pay for the shonen jump app due to licensing. It’s all free! No that's a third app, we have that one too and it has a different catalog than the SJ app.
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goblin week posted:My favorite manga reader app thing is that in the EU, you cannot pay for the shonen jump app due to licensing. It’s all free! Okay yeah thats worse
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No chap, but https://twitter.com/itslittletunny/status/1658545843119480863
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No sir, I do not like Wet Pochita.
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So I just finished reading Firepunch. I bring it up here because it gives an interesting look into Chainsawman's themes. 1) I think Firepunch artwork is better which is strange since it's an earlier work. I like Fujimoto's scratchy, almost insane looking characters, but Firepunch was a final draft versus CSM's first draft look. 2) Firepunch tries to have introspective themes but the gore and doom gets in the way of it a lot of the time. Narrative pieces don't get a chance to breathe like CSM. CSM does have gloom and doom but its' cast circles back around to a reinforcing of the previously explored themes, like Himeno's fear of losing more friends, Power's lack of power after confronting the darkness devil, or Denji just haphazardly navigating all this bullshit he is put into. 3) Firepunch does have some really good questions and narrative uses for its central gimmick. People have blessings, these blessings can be used in the wider world and have a real impact on the world. 4) Firepunch just hilariously offs characters. It's like a rocket launch. Sometimes their arc detonates spectacularly on the launch pad, sometimes they get past the clouds before detonating. Sometimes the rocket doesn't detonate but plows into a barn full of animals. CSM lets the arcs finish (unless you're a disposable mook) in a satisfying (and sad!) way. If folks like CSM Firepunch is worth your time. Just be prepared for a rougher experience. Oh and there is no humor in Firepunch. Only sadness. And fire.
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Donkringel posted:there is no humor in Firepunch. Only sadness. And fire. One of the main villains’ primary motivation involves genociding all of humanity in the name of watching Star Wars. The gently caress do you mean there’s no humor?
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AnoHito posted:One of the main villains’ primary motivation involves genociding all of humanity in the name of watching Star Wars. The gently caress do you mean there’s no humor? Not to oversell it, but this was perhaps the funniest gut punch in any manga I've ever read. What an amazing turn. And yet its still thematically relevant to the themes of Fire punch people create their own reasons for living, no matter how pointless and dumb it may seem
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Fire Punch starts off pretty rough and it is a loving ride of total and complete madness the whole way through but it's got a lot of really interesting ideas and when it hits it hits real hard.
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AnoHito posted:One of the main villains’ primary motivation involves genociding all of humanity in the name of watching Star Wars. The gently caress do you mean there’s no humor? It may have been because I binged it, but there was so much going on it didn't really register as humor for me. I just came off from seeing a mountain of corpses and one character going "Oh yea, I'm a crazy old person but isn't it wacky that I have this motivation?!"
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Fire Punch is so bleak and often simultaneously absurd that it feels like black comedy at least sometimes.
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Fire Punch is basically the Aristocrats joke (which means its funny)
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FirePunch cranks it all to 11, just because, and then since its beyond the scale of sensibility just gives it up entirely in the finale and yeah. It's an odd one, got some good stuff, but its hard to take too seriously because its so beyond bonkers.
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Fire Punch has this air of extreme cynicism about itself that I think Chainsaw Man lacks, and makes the latter the far better read for me.
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I agree that CSM is way better. I liked learning where that smiling agni picture came from though.
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yeah everything is terrible forever in Fire Punch. I still really enjoyed it because it gets buck wild. which really feeds into where tf is CSM going to end up
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I'm glad I read Fire Punch so that when it was announced he was working on a series called Chainsaw Man I nodded and said "yes immediately I will read it thank you"
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Fire Punch got me a date so I’ll always have a soft spot for it, buckwildness aside
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CharlestonJew posted:Fire Punch got me a date so I’ll always have a soft spot for it, buckwildness aside I am sure you and your and your sister/maybe not sister/clone had a great time.
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Fire Punch spoilers For me, what makes Fire Punch work despite the extreme darkness of the setting is that it isn't actually nihilistic. The Star Wars joke is hilarious, but it's also a direct statement of the theme of the series. Despite how much of a lovely nightmare the world is and everyone's lives, everyone keeps on going and finding new things to live for even when they're actively stating they want to die. Pretty much everyone refuses to give up even at the absolute worst of times and multiple times while Agni says to himself he's done he on instinct just keeps going on anyway. There's something really powerful about the sheer degrees Fire Punch goes to for reinforcing this over and over again, even in the ending despite how batshit it gets. It's an unbelievably rough around the edges series, but the core is genuinely really strong.
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Hi everyone please look at this great sticker I just bought 
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Happy Landfill posted:Hi everyone please look at this great sticker I just bought take me to this happy place. how can I find it?
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I R SMART LIKE ROCK posted:take me to this happy place. how can I find it? https://trxyland.com/products/chainsaw-man-vinyl-stickers?variant=43154539741347 There's a Denji and Aki, too  I also got a Rowlet pin from her. She's got cute stuff!
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Happy Landfill posted:https://trxyland.com/products/chainsaw-man-vinyl-stickers?variant=43154539741347 gently caress why is everything so gosh darn cute. my wallet is going to hate me
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I R SMART LIKE ROCK posted:gently caress why is everything so gosh darn cute. my wallet is going to hate me She has incredibly cute stuff and I'm a sucker for enamel pins.
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130 https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1016546
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"What kind of Devil even is that thing?" Literally my thoughts just before I got to the panel lol
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So the Chainsaw Man videogame is going to have a kicking rad vehicle section
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7 Days! 7 Days! 7 Days!
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The incredibly consistency of Denji being such a loving idiot he doesnt know whats going on or whats happening as he effortlessly trounces the devils attempts to kill and eat him are so funny Denji's greatest gift is the ability to just "roll with it" , Asa could learn a thing or two from him!
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"WTF am I even reading?" - me reading this chapter, and also most previous chapters.symbolic posted:god drat those spreads
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Electric Phantasm posted:"What kind of Devil even is that thing?" Same!!!! What a sick chapter.
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