HEY SO! Turns out there's a pretty big detail hiding in plain sight I haven't seen anybody notice or mention. I've already posted about how weird this moment is, Denji's response clearly shows that he ate Yoru's allies, but if so what gives? Where are they?

Ok but how fucked would it be if Locust's headless corpse just got up and kept fighting. Death no longer exists after all, and we've seen Locust fight while being basically decapitated.

Chainsaw Man prediction: that bug guy was the Pain Devil. The locusts released in Revelations were not allowed to kill, only to inflict unimaginable torture. In a world without pain or death, Yoru will be unable to show dominance, and thus wont "win" even when an opponent is incapacitated

It feels like the fandom consensus is that Mree guy was imitating a cicada, but what if he was imitating a different animal instead?

I’m on the fence about whether Yoru purposely brought Asa out or if Asa got frightened enough to push her out But, more importantly, if Asa is experiencing everything Yoru’s experiencing first person this raises serious questions about the whole “slice Yoru up until she surrenders” thing

Denji has Yoru's allies strapped to him when he begins eating the pawns. Then a pawn Denji eats is lampshaded as "not important to this world". When Yoru intercepts Denji, her allies are gone. But we saw every devil Denji ate, he didnt eat her allies. Then Denji goes to hell and the devils are gone.

i have thoughts about denji's first and only thought here is "cheater" like i think its very telling lmfao

Revelation 9 (paraphrase) "Then out of the smoke locusts came upon the earth. Their torment was like the torment of a scorpion when it strikes a man. In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will desire to die, and death will flee from them." chat someone tell me if this is good

Getting back into Pratchett with Going Postal, and he is so damn good at quickly setting up great main characters. I've barely even gotten into the book and I'm already sold on Moist as the protag.

Asaden fans: "I can't believe how much Denji loves Asa, they are so perfect for each other :)" The scene they are posting about:

Aging devil has been eaten before. Death eats devils when they are turned into pawns. Denji is currently eating Death's pawns. The story has already questioned what will happen when Aging is eaten, set up a contract that occurs when Aging is eaten, and set up how the Aging Devil *tastes*

What an awesome chapter, following up Yoru's shonen hero schtick by having Denji act like a villain is great. Killing the people she cares about to hurt her and giving her the classic "we're not so different" speech.

Just saw this on twitter

Hmm…interesting

Other than some of Yoru's allies, the one devil I really think that Denji will eat is Aging Devil. Nothing about the contract actually prevents Denji from eating Aging, it just stops Aging from forcing it. And the question of what erasing Aging would do has already been raised by the story.

Bringing back jeannesfangs's theory here to point out that the moment Pochita (who wasn't part of the Aging contract) switches out control to Denji (who was), Yoru's bang fails to do any visible damage whatsoever.

Csm 222 “I still belong to me”, he says, with his head entirely consumed by chainsaw man and this new consciousness given to him as a result of being known as chainsaw man

Is it weird that this page is the biggest reason why I think Nayuta will come back into the story? Because Fujimoto loves to set a promise, then develop it in a more fucked up way that still satisfies the promise (the plan to break Denji's contract, "worst possible way... for the chainsaw boy").

I'm working on a Chainsaw Man theory post about the Weapon Devils being Yoru's lost children. But I'm honestly having trouble writing the thread because it feels too self-evidently true. It baffles me how rarely I see the theory talked about.

friend pointed out to me a cycle with denji. "i commit violence - makima likes me. i commit violence - the public likes me. i commit violence - yoru likes me. i commit violence - asa likes me?" whatever world this boy makes isn't going to be very good i think

ohhh MAN

oh. aha. ahahaha. I think I have it. what if the event that causes a fear of death to suddenly explode is humanity remembering that death exists.

Some notable things in regards to Death Devil's plan. 1. Despite Death saying that Yoru wanted to erase her, Yoru is immediately unhappy with the development and 2. Despite Death saying she is trying to find a way to kill herself to save humanity, Yoru says that's exactly what activates her powers

I think one of the reasons Chainsawman feels honestly more human and mature than a lot of anime/manga is that it is deeply unashamed. Like on a way that it wasn't present in the medium for a long time. It allows their characters to actually, truly, be fucking messes, that fuck up like ugly.

this was so fucking good, not much to say, just... wow

Incredibly underrated page of CSM

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I mentioned it in Thabreakmaster chat but I’m guessing the “reveal” is that Asa’s mom was really abusive and controlling, and Asa has been coping with the fact she felt relieved in a way when her mom died. That’s why she’s *so* self-loathing and self-destructive.

Fight Club theory has merit, but a lot of the explanations I've seen gloss over the logistics of why Yoru resurfaces in Asa after she dies in Chapter 98. My personal theory is that *if* Fight Club Theory is true, it will also come with the reveal that the potoo bird wasn't Yoru, it was Death.

It's funny to see how CSMs story clashes with the powerscaling community. The current discourse I'm seeing there is that Yoru is fraudulent for not earning her powerup and getting her strength from world events she didn't cause. Guys... I have some unfortunate news about every devil in the series

Man Yoru's perception-based powers are so ridicuolously powerful, especially now that she's learn to weaponize subjectivity like Asa. Since she views Pochita as her ultimate foe, she can just declare that the fight is for the entire world, and it works.

Excited to see what Fujimoto is planning to do with Death's friends. He went to the trouble of introducing hoodie girl in the first arc of Part 2, I believe they will be more important than most people think

This sequence and panel in particular becomes hilarious from this perspective because I see now— Yoshida is smug. He’s smug because this is literally the most the /war devil/ can “harm” him.

i think fandom would do well to bring back the concept of "a reading" which is different from "a headcanon". a headcanon can be anything and is total fun. a reading works with the text to come up with particular interpretations of the work, its characters, etc.

Yoshida is confused when Denji asks if he’s here to offer him a manipulative favor as an individual, because he assumed Denji would’ve been filled in on the plan and his role within it. But then he realizes that somehow, Denji has been left in the dark.

I can't even put into words how perfect it is that Yoshida's goodbye to Denji is a handshake. It's so bleak in a way that's hard to even describe.

The only version of this theory that I think actually works is this one, the idea of Public Safety ripping Reze's devil out to make Yoshida the new Bomb Hybrid (because he's somebody they can control) works really well.

I just noticed the soccer ball. Weren’t Asa’s classmates playing soccer in 98?

He couldn’t say that he had a good life, because it never belonged to him. It was always owned by the abusive people in power above him. He could only say that he was assigned to a good role. Reaaallllly close to crying at work right now.

Before Asmongold became the least informed talking head in US history, he was on a long arc of getting depressed about how shit WoW became once it became pay2win. But the origin of this depression was his central role as a community organizer in a struggle against monetization.

probably a fairly lukewarm observation given… everything but it stands out to me that the girls denji sees as “good girls” are ones who provide him sexual enticement or appeal

The next time we cut to Yoru she'll most likely be at the Tokyo Devil Detention Center right? Feels like the most natural way to group up the cast.

a sexual abuse victim screaming out a song about the gleeful acceptance of rape while the boy she’s with reconciles this as “normal” it’s just so goddamn on the nose man

Oh fuck oh shit oh fuck oh shit

"... " "Yes, I am alive. " #csm212

what did fuji mean by this

it’s why she calls denji and yoshida- teenagers four years younger than her- “senpai” even outside of the context of pretending to be a highschooler. she still sees them as more mature than her.

the other thing about fumiko’s character that has fallen into place with this chapter is her juvenile and childish behavior. she’s still emotionally fourteen, frozen and unable to truly grow ever since her mind was fractured by the contract

This made me think that this also goes the other way around. Denji doesn’t care much about the fate of the world but he does care about girls being into him. Early on we see Miri being showered with attention by a group of girls, which Miri hated and Denji was clearly envious of lol