Well, folks. Our eyeballs are falling out and the last two weeks have felt a little like cramming for an exam— which is very funny considering none of the leads have been in college for a minute— but we did it. The Spring Semester demo that isn't really a demo is up!
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Let's be synthetic for once (I'm sure I won't be able to). But this is surely the most philosophical chapter in the whole of CSM.
The whole chapter is an insult to what Pochita is. The greatest contempt that can be shown.
I'm going to ask you 3 questions, each of which calls for a philosophical answer.
Does the demon of aging really care about living?
Why does they want to be eaten by CSM?
Is Chainsaw Man really... messy?
The answer is actually in this line. Chaos.
What is chaos? I'm not going to play the expert on Greek antiquity. But I can say with certainty that the Greek chaos is in no way disorderly. Even if this may seem contradictory.
Greek chaos is not disorder, it is what exists even before the beginning. That which exists before the light itself.
Now I'm going to ask you, how can these old fogies teach Pochita a lesson ? Control chaos ? Hold the power of Pochita?
Fumiko always thought she had Denji. In itself, she got it. But the mistake she made was not only in thinking she understood Denji, but even more fundamentally in thinking she understood Chainsaw Man.
First observation: Fumiko is worse than Barem
I don't like making meaningless comparisons, especially in a work like Chainsaw Man where whe
Pochita is basically chaos. Because he has the power to make disappear. He can either decide to start again, or to reappear and end. Its power allows it to precede existence.
When you were reading this chapter, did you ever wonder how many times things had disappeared and reappeared without you noticing? I'm not talking about disappearing into the collective unconscious. But to see something reappear without you even realising that you've lost it. What this chapter tells you is that Pochita's power is above all an opportunity. Everything that disappears and appears is part of his choice.
Holding a newborn baby. Having an idea. To create. They are nothing more than things whose existence we discover through our senses. The birth of a thing lies in the moment when something is brought to your attention.
What we have here is a power of creation rather than inhibition (to the Anon who asked me this question, I haven't forgotten you) . I had previously analysed the fact that Pochita explained his power by the disappearance of the hearing.
The more 'silent' a chapter is in terms of dialogue, the more it speaks to you. Especially when the chapter itself talks about sound. And th
He continues to do so with the disappearance of the mouth. The second lesson Pochita gives you is that he is the beginning itself. Birth itself. Or the demon of birth.
Why would the demon of old age want to be eaten by the demon of birth? Because old age is obsessed with youth. The discussion in this chapter is your answer. Aging does not want to die. And the demon of old age is not looking for disappearance. On the contrary, what he's looking for is a rebirth.
But the demon of old age is a primal fear!!!!!! He's super strong, he's not scared of death.
Yes! But he’s terrified of being closer to an end than a beginning. That's what old age is all about.
In French, the chapter is called 'coup de vieux', which means feeling old, often because of the gap with the younger generation. This gap with the beginning of life is precisely what explains the objective of this demon.
I also don't want people talking about Denji or Pochita symbolically wanting to protect young people. This is not the case. Enough has been said to emphasise the fact that the very church that spoke of CSM as the hero of the younger generation did not resonate at all with Denji.
On the contrary, Pochita is the most.... Paternalistic of all in this chapter. You want to be young? So lose what allows you to scorn. Don't talk like an infant. Worse: keep quiet.
It’s fair to interpret all these elements as traumatic elements of Denji. I'm not here to explain each of them, I think that everyone can see through them a part of Denji's tragedy. And it's also very interesting to see analyses explaining that these are things that the reader is aware of, not Denji. (Denji fought Aki, the snowball fight was Aki's hallucination, so Denji wasn't aware of all that, for example).
But you have to take it all the way. What brought these elements to you? What are you holding in your hands? That manga called Chainsaw Man, right?
We said it here. What is born is nothing more than what is brought to our attention.
Continue to interpret everything in relation to Pochita. Denji is simply the key to understanding its mystery.
A devil carrying the weight of what precedes existence.
It seems pretty clear now that Pochita is targeting devils that are directly associated with Denji’s trauma from Part I. Lets also quickly go over last chapter because I think the dialogue is very interesting from this chapter. Makima told Denji to memorize the shape of an ear, Pochita ate it.
Octopus: Denji sucked an octopus for Fumiko
Mouth: Kissing and Eating Makima.
Snow: The whole scene with Aki and the snowball fight.
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