for real though this panel from chainsaw man fucks me up REAL HARD i absolutely need to talk about how the figure in the distance is the devil embodying the primal fear of the dark and it manifests amidst a row of astronaut corpses praying for salvation. astronauts are meant to explore and shed light on creation’s greatest unknown: space. but it’s the unknowable and infinite quality of space that makes it so overwhelmingly terrifying. space is the ultimate darkness and therefore one of mankind’s greatest conceptual enemies as no amount of progress has ever, or could ever, vanquish the fear of the dark or the dark itself and therefore humanity’s pioneers are strewn in an altar of gore to illustrate that futility and limited, fragile existence in the cosmos in one of the most terrifying panels ever put into manga.












