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Jerkface posted:I think there's a few things: That's fair. It certainly puts Yuko's sudden need to punish people she considered against justice in a different light although I'm not entirely sure how yet. Eggplant Squire fucked around with this message at 15:23 on Oct 18, 2023 |
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also the reveal that the Fire Devil has this completely bananas power to turn people into chainsawman zombies ties back to one of the undercurrents in the narrative, which is that the more primal a fear is, the more it warps reality in some way. Since the goal is to power up Chainsawman until he's strong enough to beat Death, revealing that Fire has this absolutely crazy fire-adjacent power is foreshadowing that we might start running into the "Chainsawman can eat concepts" power that was teased so many chapters ago
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chiasaur11 posted:Minor detail this chapter, compared to the main events, but with the timeline update, we now know Denji's eighteen, and had his birthday before the theater date. Fumiko Mifune Innocent
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I’m guessing they’re betting that chainsaw man aka pochita getting way stronger will overwhelm and overtake Denji. Like how control got full chainsaw man to come back through emotional manipulation, but different. Then chainsaw man… eats death? then Fami has an army of starving slaves to make her food who can’t die???
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Cephas posted:also the reveal that the Fire Devil has this completely bananas power to turn people into chainsawman zombies ties back to one of the undercurrents in the narrative, which is that the more primal a fear is, the more it warps reality in some way. Since the goal is to power up Chainsawman until he's strong enough to beat Death, revealing that Fire has this absolutely crazy fire-adjacent power is foreshadowing that we might start running into the "Chainsawman can eat concepts" power that was teased so many chapters ago Imagine how hosed up it would be if Chainsaw Man ate fire. I have no idea how the world would adjust to such a monumental change.
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considering how Fire Punch ended. there's so much runway for poo poo to go down. fighting death feels like endgame but being able to eat concepts opens a whole can of worms
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"The more contractors, the stronger their power" makes made me think of a fire spreading out of control because it was given too much fuel. Most Devils are good at making a bad situation even worse, but I think the Fire Devil is, like, really, really good at it.
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Supersonic Shine posted:"The more contractors, the stronger their power" makes made me think of a fire spreading out of control because it was given too much fuel. Most Devils are good at making a bad situation even worse, but I think the Fire Devil is, like, really, really good at it. This was more or less my immediate thought; these fools have no idea what they've set in motion. Folks always think they've got one up on the Devils and its rarely the case that's true. It's just often also true that the devils are dumbshits who don't understand people well enough to truly maximize their plans.
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Going back to the previous chapters with the real Justice Devil and it is pretty funny how the subtle details were all there. It has no eyes and is therefore blind like justice, it could turn its hand into a big hammer like a gavel, and it has one of those weird neck ties that Japanese judges like to wear that looks kinda like a bib.
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GhostofJohnMuir posted:man part 1 showed what an intense general disdain fujimoto had for the yakuza, i guess in part 2 is going to be the moonies The who?
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The unification church, a quasi-Christian new religion cult that’s been in the news lately cause the last prime minister of Japan got assassinated for having heavy ties with them. The nickname comes from their leader, sun myung “reverend” moon. The chainsaw church very clearly takes a lot of imagery from the New Religion movement of the 90s a la aum shinrikyo, but the last couple chapters have made it clear they’re a riff on the moonies specifically, since the mass marriage ceremonies are kind of a thing with them. Babysitter Super Sleuth fucked around with this message at 22:31 on Oct 18, 2023 |
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As the final boss of the hit N64 game Mischief Makers said: "Though fire, justice is served!"
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You know, Pochita eating death as a concept circles back to a lot of bog standard concepts. A bigwig doesnt want to die, so they do zany, despicable poo poo to avoid death. But this time it's using a beagle with a funny nose to do it.
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Donkringel posted:You know, Pochita eating death as a concept circles back to a lot of bog standard concepts. I think this actually would come back to something from much earlier in the series, where Denji made his Perpetual Motion Machine out of the Eternity Devil. (And indeed a good chunk of the series in general.) Not being able to die doesn't spare you from pain or injury, and the ED was literally begging for Death as his only release from Chainsawing. If anything I would say destroying Death as a concept would have everything infinitely more loving terrifying because it would remove the only true was to escape from some of the hellish horrors of the Chainsaw Man world. Leaving everyone trapped in an eternal meatgrinder with no possible escape would genuinely be a fate worse than Death considering what we know of how the universe functions.
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well, people would also forget they could ever die, so some of the existential horror wouldn’t exist either. Eternal torturous hell would be considered business as usual.
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yum posted:well, people would also forget they could ever die, so some of the existential horror wouldn’t exist either. Eternal torturous hell would be considered business as usual. Ugh I got disemboweled three times getting my mail this morning, what a drag.
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ImpAtom posted:If anything I would say destroying Death as a concept would have everything infinitely more loving terrifying because it would remove the only true was to escape from some of the hellish horrors of the Chainsaw Man world. Leaving everyone trapped in an eternal meatgrinder with no possible escape would genuinely be a fate worse than Death considering what we know of how the universe functions. The only way anyone can die before the age of sixty ( when everyone keels over, no questions asked ) is to fall in love with someone with Resurrection Deficiency Syndrome. It's a romcom between an assassin and the detective she's targeting. ( it's not a good manga, but it's mostly fun pulp! )   
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Man I haven't thought of that series in a whiiiiile. I remember it having a fascinating setting and incredible action and art, but also being incredibly uncomfortable to read at times and being insanely cruel and brutal basically nonstop I never finished it, dropped off around the time they raided some facility and it went real bad.is it worth finishing? Captain Invictus fucked around with this message at 06:35 on Oct 19, 2023 |
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Captain Invictus posted:Man I haven't thought of that series in a whiiiiile. Not really, unfortunately. Great concept, great start, slow tumble into general misanthropy. I think the genius of Chainsaw Man is that the characters stay relatively grounded and likeable despite the complete insanity of their universe.
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Jerkface posted:I think there's a few things: I guess he loving sucks at his job
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yum posted:Eternal torturous hell would be considered business as usual.
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ImpAtom posted:I think this actually would come back to something from much earlier in the series, where Denji made his Perpetual Motion Machine out of the Eternity Devil. (And indeed a good chunk of the series in general.) Not being able to die doesn't spare you from pain or injury, and the ED was literally begging for Death as his only release from Chainsawing. Remember also that, besides death, there used to be three other things that could happen to you at the end of your life, before Chainsaw Man ate them. Imagine that someone destroys three of the tunnels that lead out of a cave, and then a group of people empower him to destroy the last one while everyone is still inside.
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MachuPikacchu posted:Remember also that, besides death, there used to be three other things that could happen to you at the end of your life, before Chainsaw Man ate them. Imagine that someone destroys three of the tunnels that lead out of a cave, and then a group of people empower him to destroy the last one while everyone is still inside. maybe we end up with the rave scene from Matrix: Reloaded
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ImpAtom posted:I think this actually would come back to something from much earlier in the series, where Denji made his Perpetual Motion Machine out of the Eternity Devil. (And indeed a good chunk of the series in general.) Not being able to die doesn't spare you from pain or injury, and the ED was literally begging for Death as his only release from Chainsawing. Chainsaw Man confirmed as a prequel to Cruelty Squad.
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We all know how the whole "there is this one incredibly powerful Devil you have to kill, Denji" thing ended up with Gun Devil, so I don't believe even for a second that Death is the final boss.
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the final boss is God, and Denji must eat him
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Siliziumleben posted:the final boss is God, and Denji must eat him A Boy and His God
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goblin week posted:I guess he loving sucks at his job i was laughing about this too, but going back to last chapter the name consultant seems to be correct he's just saying the devil denji killed a while back was the justice devil. it's just the first time i think we're explicitly asked the question "well how are all of these people still contracted with a dead devil?" which was then answered this week.
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stuker posted:i was laughing about this too, but going back to last chapter the name consultant seems to be correct he's just saying the devil denji killed a while back was the justice devil. it's just the first time i think we're explicitly asked the question "well how are all of these people still contracted with a dead devil?" which was then answered this week. Falling killed the Justice Devil not Denji. People then realized the Justice Devil had never bee The one making deals
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denji should just track down the Devil Devil and eat it
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ImpAtom posted:If anything I would say destroying Death as a concept would have everything infinitely more loving terrifying because it would remove the only true was to escape from some of the hellish horrors of the Chainsaw Man world. Leaving everyone trapped in an eternal meatgrinder with no possible escape would genuinely be a fate worse than Death considering what we know of how the universe functions. Eternity Devil would thrive from the erasure of the Death Devil.
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Rid us of eternity as well chainsaw man, then what will happen? Nobody knows.
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Kwyndig posted:Rid us of eternity as well chainsaw man, then what will happen? Nobody knows. Groundhog day forever
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Farg posted:denji should just track down the Devil Devil and eat it That might kill Nayuta, though. And Nayuta comes first.
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Halloween!
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