gimme the GOD drat candy posted:there had to be some reason why demons were afraid of another demon when they are all quasi-immortal. demons simply had no reason to fear death by violence, whether by chainsaw or otherwise. so instead, the chainsaw demon had an aberrant ability completely unrelated to chainsaws. it did kind of come out of nowhere, but it was consistent with the rest of the story and setting. My personal, and needlessly stupid, theory on something that didn't really need expanding is that it started as a bluff since otherwise what kept other bigger, stronger, devils from just loving up the new chainsaw guy; who's afraid of chainsaws besides trees and the occasional lumber jack? But then much like batman all it took were a few small time clowns to be utterly terrified of the thought and suddenly whoops, now everyone's afraid of this weirdo in the clown suit which only makes his job easier; so once devils believed he actually could wipe them from existence, the chainsaw devil could. But really, chainsaws are just cool and the series would be less cool if it was about like. Explodeman and his explode devil exploding everyone out of existence.
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Scallop Eyes posted:This being chapter 98, and not Part 2 chapter 1 males me think Denji is still the protagonist, and this was just the villain setup.I'm fine with being wrong though. I was just thinking about this earlier and it'd be pretty neat, imo, if this like "part" of the series was basically an inversion with this new more villainous character as our protagonist while Chainsaw man fills a role more akin to the gun devil in the first one. A sort of overarching, if rarely seen but highly influential, goal.
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Lily Catts posted:ah yes, Chainsaw Man SEED Destiny Except interesting and good instead of bad and boring.
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I liked the part where there were dogs.
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chiasaur11 posted:It's going to have a presentation at the Crunchyroll expo this August, which is supposed to show another trailer. Netflix in Japan said it was releasing in October, but it's not certain. Oh, cool! I was kind of expecting the answer to be "no clue" especially after I google it and all of the top results were really outdated articles that just said variants on "2022 but no news otherwise" 
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I R SMART LIKE ROCK posted:I can't tell if war is going to soften a bit and empathize with Asa. which causes her to have more control or if this is a fake out What if when war finally gets the nukes back, it doesn't actually use them - because then it wouldn't have them anymore. It just wants to sit on them like eggs in a nest.
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Bread Set Jettison posted:
This was my insane theory the moment I saw her based solely on her hair.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Asa made the right choice, I'm not sure if Denji did though. Cats always land on their feet so basically he saved the one creature who would have been fine on its own. But that cat also has a fuzzy lil face and is probably feels really nice to cuddle so who's to say what's really right and wrong here? Power liked cats
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Dumb theory: This is how he's trying to find the new Power. Putting out just enough that someone might catch on, especially if there is any lingering connection in there; but not enough to snag every weirdo in the country.
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Aug 31, 2022 14:26
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War will date Denji, never realizing he's the chainsaw man, and Asa will hate every minute of it.
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ImpAtom posted:It isn't like Denji was ever not a dumbass, but he just became a bit more aware of the people around him because he had spent a lot of time with them. He's now back to basically having nobody (though presumably an adoptive daughter + bucketload of dogs) and so he's having to learn about people all over again. Those dogs are raising that child.
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Al-Saqr posted:Lol how the hell does this human society even keep functioning if anyone can make a pact with the devil and be a mass death machine. It seems like most devil pacts don't actually give you much power, honestly. It looks like most of them go the way of the zombie devil in that the devil just goes "lmao, sucker" and basically just uses your flesh for its own ends.
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Kobeni clearly has a contract with the car devil.
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i flunked out posted:The two friends I introduced to the show both asked me if Makima was a devil at the end of episode 2, and both said it was the eyes that gave it away... It's a lot more obvious in colour when you see her right next to power and they both have like orange eyes with yellow designs so it's more apparent that she doesn't just have weird eyes. She has very specifically coded weird eyes. Fabricated posted:The buildup of Makima is just really well handled. She does all her weird grooming stuff with Denji, then the train scene happens and you wonder what the gently caress is going on, then you see the actual aftermath of the train scene and realize something is REALLY off, then you finally see her in action and THAT is even more shocking. The fact that so many fans of this series don't pick up on something being awkward, uncomfortable and just plan off with Makima until she's looking straight at the camera and talking about her plans is still hilarious to me because the series is not very subtle. It's one of its highlights, I think.
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Elfface posted:Ooh, time for baseless speculation... Alternate time line where Denji became Pchita's heart instead.
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Flair posted:Given the trend in Shonen manga, perhaps we have finally come across a Copy Devil. The plagiarism devil.
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Fabricated posted:I wonder if the club president actually has a part of pochita in him. Maybe that part of him that got nearly launched into orbit (before it pulled out a part of itself and threw it back to earth) touched back down at some point. My wild theory is that like, Pochita was what remained of the chainsaw devil after escaping and eating a ton of devils and getting hosed up in a big war right? So I guess maybe we're going to find out what happened to the rest of his body or whatever.
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Lt. Lizard posted:Lol, due to Katana Man being designed with a permanently open mouth, I was convinced that he was screaming like a maniac in every single action panel. Him being mostly silent in the anime just feels wrong to me. I absolutely did not imagine him as dour as he's portrayed in the anime, but it works.
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Lt. Lizard posted:Yeah, I don't know why the deal with Prime Minister is considered so mysterious. He is (presumably) just an ordinary human. Makima would have him under control and agreeing to the contract in under three seconds. Because mysterious things are powerful and cool and have intrigue. If it came out tomorrow that the contract was just that he gave her like, 10% of everyone in Japan's life span in exchange for her protecting Japan from the gun devil or something everyone would just kinda be like "oh" instead of all this talk about what the deal with the deal is.
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A Sometimes Food posted:Honestly given how all of them seem to have become hybrids I'm suspicious that maybe weapon devils just are prone to doing that. Obviously not universally given Gun. But maybe the fact that weapons are meant to be wielded by humans makes their devils predisposed to it. I feel like there's some sense to this, possibly. Weapons are created by humans for human. A weapon on its own, honestly, isn't that scary but becomes infinitely more terrifying when there's someone wielding it. Anyway, this is just a prelude to my greater fan theory that the car devil is another weapon devil.
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So here's a weird question that I'm probably going to have to re-read the series to get a satisfying answer to any time soon: did the lady with the snake demon contract actually die? I can't remember how that fight went, but watching the anime I've only now noticed that her eyes are red and distinctly not human looking which is probably just the snake theme going on; but still.
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lih posted:she was confirmed dead by makima using her contract via her corpse against the gun devil Thanks, I started re-reading the series anyway and just got caught up to the anime to confirm for myself so I might as well power through and finish it again anyway. I love how the pacing is. Shame I wasn't on to something there though, guess she's just got weird eyes.
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Finished my re-read and two things do jump out at me though! First being that Denji mentions he remembers being able to "Fight like that" in regards to being able to pull out Pochita and keep fighting as just a body. Which, personally, I think makes me lean more on the whole "fake chainsaw has something to do with some manner of body parts somewhere" since apparently chainsaw man was fighting the four horsemen and weapon devils before vanishing. If he threw pochita out, maybe someone took the empty body. Secondly, it seemed to met at least Nayuta still seemed to have some vague memory/instinct to bite Denji how Makima bit him, which might lead to finding power one day in the distant future. Different people, different personalities, but vague memories of who or what they used to be doesn't seem too impossible.
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Happy Landfill posted:Ended up re-reading part 1 in it's entirety again today. Meant to only read up to where the anime was while I was getting my oil changed but ended up reading all of it. There was a lot that I had forgotten from my first read, like Power coming back as the Blood Devil, and stuff like that. Goddamn this manga is good It is, and I love how its so fast paced that it's really easy to just read, and then take a break when the short arcs end because it doesn't usually leave you hanging on huge cliffhangers or dangling plot threads for too long. I'm looking forward to seeing where the anime ends because I'm absolutely convinced it's going to be the defeat of Katana and that scene will be great.
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Dec 18, 2022 09:56
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What if it's just the Bad Date Devil, everything's taking too long, it's repetitive, everyone's trapped around people they don't like and don't get along with.
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I read Fire Punch. What a strange series.
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Last Celebration posted:I kinda wonder if Denji’s a vegetarian now? He probably still likes food a lot but I can see him just avoiding red meat at least pretty much forever. Or he just got over it completely, either or with him! You think anything would put Denji off of eating food?
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Ragnar34 posted:Just realized, if the aquarium purchase works, Asa will have found a fantastic workaround. I thought she had to feel guilty about it though? I thought she just had to feel attached to it, which doesn't necessarily mean guilty. But surely she feels attached to this place after spending so long researching and planning out the perfect date.
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Steve Yun posted:
I think the reaction is more because he is a winner. He always wins. Look how much he's won! He's winning so much. 
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Steve Yun posted:Man, the writings so good Denji's growth through the series has been really interesting. He's still Denji no doubt - but the character at the start of the series compared to the one in the more recent chapters has absolutely changed, despite still being dumb as hell and extremely impulsive. And so much of that character development is owed to his friendships with Aki and Power, and the horror show that goes on with them and Makima. Like, comparing Denji in both eternity devil arcs; I don't think Denji, in the first one, would ever have reacted to Asa the way he did in the second. Bread Set Jettison posted:It’s one of the most amazing, emotionally charged fights I’ve ever seen and I am legit not prepared for it to be animated I feel it could go really well or really badly, but the team that did this first season I think would probably nail it.
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Speaking of Kishibe; I've had a weird theory for a while that has absolutely no bearing on anything, but I can't help but wonder if he's contracted to the future devil. When the future devil is first introduced they mention another devil hunter once gave both of his eyes up for its power, and it's around the same time Kishibe starts training Denji and Power, combined with the fact that he's always drawn with like, dull glassy eyes that I've always kind of taken as an anime signifier of blindness to some degree and the way he's able to avoid Power's attacks coming from behind a door; it's just an arbitrary connection I drew.
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I just hope one of the rules is that she has to greet every single dog like a person, because that's always funny.
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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 Meowy has become the lord of the house, mark my words.
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I, also, don't think he's death - but if he was; his loss could easily be handwaved away as him wanting to keep his cover. If he's pretending to be a regular devil hunter for whatever reason, showing up out of nowhere and just kicking every rear end would probably be super suspicious vs. the story of being the guy who just manages to survive every fight like a cockroach. So if he does have some weird long term plans that involve Denji, he probably doesn't want to be seen as too strong or too weak. Of course given how I'm perpetually wrong about everything in this series, that probably means he is Death.
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Das Boo posted:Defeat Devil. I actually like this idea. I feel like the author wouldn't have focused on the conversation they did if it didn't matter to some degree, so the people guessing in this kind of vein of defeat, loss or resignation feels like it fits the vibe of the scene with people kind of giving up and killing themselves, following a conversation where one guy's trying to argue for why he wants this thing now that he might finally be able to afford it only to be shot down on how that's a bad idea.
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Weird that the true villain of the arc gets revealed in a flashback like that.
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Ranzear posted:Aww dang, we're gonna be left hanging for two weeks? This would kind of make sense because I don't think she's actually succeeded at anything, has she? Even when she's being competent. When she holds snake lady at knife point, they capture her; but snake eats her. She manages to save Denji before that, but the villains still get away. Every time she does well, it's still in a situation where the plan goes bad somehow.
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