#chainsaw man 184

[dailyuh]

drew this because I can’t stop thinking about the aging devil watching denji sprint around.

[sugar-grigri]

CSM 184 : Why is Denji running ? Because it's his turn.

Denji does the opposite of this man, he doesn't run away from reality, he tries to reach it

that's what he said in the last chapter, the real Chainsaw Man's stomach is in the real world

Yet Denji managed to vomit up concepts ingested by this other stomach

Because they're related

Why does Denji seem to have fainted at the beginning? Because he was the form of Pochita, his mind was on standby, so his mind aligned itself with what the body in the other world was feeling: dying.

And it was a vicious circle: Denji wanted to die and Pochita was dying.

Asa comforts Denji, giving him back the will to live

Then Pochita's body suddenly wakes up, spitting out what he has just swallowed.

If Pochita appears to be helping Denji, it's because his body is physically reacting in the real world.

As the heart starts beating again, the concept of snow must leave the body, the body warms up

As the heart starts beating again, a bitter taste comes to the mouth, Pochita is thirsty

Thirsty for blood, he no longer regenerates

Just as Pochita helped Denji, he asked him to help him

"My body is cold, I'm thirsty"

The cold ? the bitter taste ? things we'd rather forget ? or unpleasant things that remind us of the danger of loss and the need to live.

our fucking instincts, our motor for living, our loved ones 

So what does Denji do? Run to warm this body. Then the snow starts to melt.

Pochita has always been the heart that has allowed Denji to regenerate himself

It's Denji's turn to be the heart

No, CSM isn't counting on the death of these children to regenerate himself, he's counting on the rebirth of the child within him.

A fan of perpetual motion, because a heart never stops.

This eternal world is not eternity; on the contrary, it is the extreme finiteness to which old age returns us. This world is the last long minutes before death. Some people take the wrong path and pray to become a tree, counting on eternity, the long term, ending up rotting.

Asa and Yoru have no powers either, as their powers are derived from their brains, one of the first organs to become effective if insufficiently oxygenated.

you can't die either? not because you're eternal, but because you're already dying. if the agony has to be slow, it won't speed up to be less painful

Faced with this aging world, the challenge is not to count on eternity, but on the smallest of seconds.

So Denji runs, so the snow starts to melt again, so the heart rate increases, so the heart pumps perhaps not more blood, but blood more quickly.

Denji is the one who finally helps Pochita

To do that, he has to be like him, smiling

A lighter heart, no longer weighed down by grief

Projecting him towards comforting dreams, because they are his dreams too

We'll still have a family...

And then there are the girls who still exist..

It's your turn CSM to dream.

[taxreturnslut]

These are such important words to live by! Never lose hope, you will find a family who accepts you one day and if you lose them you will find a new group again! Never give up!

[thetownidiot]

Reading this new chapter

[sugar-grigri]

I love Denji so fucking much

[sugar-grigri]

I think I've figured out Denji's fantastic plan OMG

[taxreturnslut]

What's everyone's predictions for why denji is running around so much? I'm thinking he's trying to make himself throw up by running on an empty stomach but I could be way off base.

[sugar-grigri]

This analysis was so much fun to do, because to understand what Denji was doing, we had all the keys, because he didn't have any more than that to have come up with his plan. so i reread all the last chapters, wondering what had happened in his fucking brain? and it had to be as logical, simple and quick as possible. because my son thinks fast.