I know I have really no right to mention this as I’m not solely in the Chainsaw Man universe, but I just realized something that I wasn’t sure would connect.
The original invention for a chainsaw had nothing to do with wood or violence - but I had everything to do with trying to help someone give birth.
Around the late 17th century, Scottish doctors by the name of John Aitken and James Jeffray, created an item that was to be used in symphysiotomy, which was to widening of the pubic symphysis. What this means is that it was suppose to force open the canal opening/cut it open because babies had often had trouble being able to get out of the birthing canal due to their heads. This instrument was a prototype that was a hand cranked chainsaw with a chain like from a watch, specifically for this medical purpose, and would be later made into a more refined version of a chainsaw by orthopedist Bernhard Hein in 1830s. It wasn’t until 1883 when the chainsaw would be used for the purpose of only for board cutting, with later inventions going to what we know as straight wood cutting as time passed.
Yet another thing I’ve noticed is that when Pochita/Chainsaw man actually eat someone, they disappear from existence - does not matter if you’re a devil or a mortal or a concept - you are erased from memory, history, and from the face of the planet. The funny thing about life is that you cannot stop life from being born - every generation before and after will continue on until the end of days - yet because of that it has put pressure on living beings to adapt or die in the process. Many species have died and have been forgotten about from this, and while there are the rare skeletons and impressions left in dirt or rock, to show they existed, they cannot tell the story of how they got there, and the way they died. Nature will take and often bury those that came before us, along with the history and knowledge they once had. It would be appropo to assume that even certain concepts and ideas have been lost and forgotten to time and history, and there’s no way to be able to get them back even if we have books, documents, fossils, etc that we could look at and judge an estimate. Life, even if it’s abundant and constant, has always taken and removed metaphorical ideas and objects, and made us unable to remember them unless we actively try to preserve their history, or try to seek them out.
So it made me think of the idea of Pochita - and maybe another devil - had fused together to create an entity that both erases but also allows life to flourish. Why they refer to him as mainly Chainsaw man because he is neither the former or the latter anymore - they had created a new entity, and that’s what is present as of right now. Heck, even the organ scarf I’ve seen him have makes me think of an umbilical cord - something that often happens to babies while they’re still in the womb - and desperate to get affection like a baby that lost its mother cause the dude just wanted a hug.
Idk, maybe I’m bullshitting and maybe this theory doesn’t come out as true, but it’s a pattern I’ve noticed, and was curious if someone else thought it up.
