Elite posted:

Asa only has plot armour in the sense that she doesn’t have Hybrid level immortality, so there’s a limit to what terrible things Fujimoto can do to her. So he was okay making her lose an arm a few chapters back, but doesn’t want to kill her off.


I wonder when the other chainsaw man will turn up again. He seemed to have a vested interest in helping Denji and Asa out.

Lamebot posted:

drat, black chainsaw man has to appear now if only to break katana man's brain.

chiasaur11 posted:

His ex-potential-girlfriend.

I was thinking why this arc felt so weird, and I figure part of it is that this is maybe the lowest tension Chainsaw Man has ever had. Asa and Fami keep running into difficulties that get comedically undermined, so it's hard to feel like there's any threat. Contrasts pretty hard with the mood at the end of Denji's last arc that kicked this off.

SyntheticPolygon posted:

I wonder why someone who does not like Asa as protagonist, has not been feeling the last few chapters where she has returned to being main character.

Truly mysterious

Electric Phantasm posted:

Don't forget they lost Guilly too poo poo's hosed...

Elite posted:

Asa would get more powerful the less you understand about her mechanics and/or economics.

ImpAtom posted:

I have to admit I don't really get the 'no tension' thing. Asa/Yoru and Denji are like the only people who are extremely unlikely to die at this moment and in the case of both of them a whole lot of things can happen that are genuinely worse than death. Like Asa's down an arm and Denji is in loving boxes, and the world's most talented murderblender just walked into the room.

Like poo poo it takes all of a chapter for things to go from good to loving Terrible in this series and just because things are funny doesn't mean there isn't tension. The Eternity Devil thing was goddamn hilarious but it also was the cast basically trapped in a horrible situation that involved Denji doing something batshit insane to escape.

Blockhouse posted:

Given what happened the last time Black Chainsaw Man fought the weapon humans he wouldn't have that long to register it before getting completely eviscerated

e: to be clear BCSM is the Pochita-controlled form, not the entirely separate guy we saw that one time

symbolic posted:

gently caress you mean there's no threat when everyone involved has the uneasiest peace treaty possible and then also suddenly one of the most lethal characters appears. why are you like this

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

quanxi has a type (female fiends). i don't know about the rest of them, but asa should be okay. well, as okay as she ever is.

chiasaur11 posted:

I mean that we've repeatedly had a situation where Asa is in danger, then had it undermined for comedic purposes. Public Safety has Asa surrounded, guns at ready? Gully shows up and strips them naked. Katana shows up, Asa talks him around to being on her side because he's a fan who knows about her poetry book. Eyepatch talks tough, and runs away like a Joestar. Fami seems like a menacing unreliable ally, she gets booted in the head repeatedly.

It's like when Kobeni's car ran over the Immortal brother. It took characters who were a dramatic threat, and then went with a comedic situation that broke the tension. (This contrasts the comedy from the Family Burger chapters, which drew on the threat being very much present, but in a ridiculous situation.)

It's not "Phew, Asa made it through for the moment!", it's "Haha, Asa's in a goofy situation." And that repeated undermining of tension means that Quanxi doesn't read as a threat as much as she reads like the setup for another punchline.

It could pivot in a moment, of course. Rapid shifts are a Fujimoto standard. But normally Chainsaw Man keeps the tension high through the entire action part of an arc, with something looming in the background as another threat even when it gets rid of the current main threat (like Santa and Quanxi still being out there when the Immortal Brothers get undermined, or the Typhoon killer's death revealing that Reze is much, much scarier than he is). Here, we're getting the undermining, but there's no imminent issue (Death's a ways off right now, as far as we know) to keep up the tension when Public Safety looks like a bunch of goofballs. It creates a different mood than any previous arcs. Not bad, but very different. And it stands out all the more because the Denji chapters leading directly into this were some of the most grim and dramatic in the series.

cuntman.net posted:

ImpAtom posted:

Asa is a teenager!

Bread Set Jettison posted:

Flavahbeast posted:

Well probably a lot of Power was the dead human. Some art Fujimoto released after the end of part 1 shows a blonde woman walking away from Denji and Nayuta, presumably Power's human half exiting the story

https://twitter.com/CHAINSAWMAN_PR/status/1367490229691707403

chiasaur11 posted:

That looks more chestnut than blonde, and given Nayuta's 'parentage', I think Makima's a more likely candidate. Not that it's a one-for-one match with anyone's regular look, but Makima is a bit more central to Denji's life, and much more central to Nayuta's even if Power is pretty important.

gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

we still don't know where the heck nayuta came from, right?

Popo posted:

Give her the bodies back! Quanxi deserves happiness!