#chapter 232

[liverfeeding78]

[redrum-alice]

Chainsaw Man chapter 232, but it's TimeBomb

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[headlezzzlimeknight]

A personal positive take on the ending of Chainsaw Man

Hi! against my will i keep being shown horrible takes, whining and ragebait over Csm 232 and the series end as a whole! so i would like to give my own take here as to why i liked the ending!, strap in cuz it's a bit long! first i wanna get something out of the way: There are reasons to complain or be dissatisfied and in all honesty, yes, fujimoto might've been tired of the constant work he had to put in, maybe it felt a it rushed, too cheery. ultimately though..

Deep down i know this is exactly what I wanted and the ending it needed.

I'm happy about that

A while ago i had adiscussion that chainsaw man couldn't end on a depressing note, it just didn't make sense to make it so an abuse victim would be dead or in hell forever; It would be mean spirited and pointless towards the entirety of the manga's ideals and themes.

I can see and I would understand why someone would be upset at the reset. However, i hold my stance i had during that argument:

Denji was broken, WAY too broken by part 2. In part 1, as he's offered to be free and run away with Reze, he says he was beginning to like his job, that He got along with aki and power and didnt saw them as annoyances, he stayed behid to watch over power over his own feelings, he had grown to appreciate life Pochita might have said denji was not happy fully

But Makima saw otherwise "You were happy even in poverty, So i had to make you even happier and have that happiness be the norm"

Denji was happy with aki and power, truly happy, he just happened to dream for more, its just who he is, its human nature

Part 2 Denji wouldn't have stayed with someone as he did for Power, he was too lost on trying to keep himself together and alive by means of hedonism, sex, food, companionship in general Denji is an abuse victim

He needed rehab, a loving family to show him he doesnt need to be selfish and hedonistic to live, just routine and stabilty, genuine care

Power and Aki were that rehab

And they were taken from him

After that he subscribed to the whole "perpetual motion machine" mindset. the thought that loved ones don't matter, that they can be replaced as anything else, an obvious cope from him. Part 2 denji was fundamentally broken; People, animals, any kind of victim of abuse can be rehabbed for the most part.

The brain however has a limit - A point where a dog won't trust ever again, where it will look out for itself and itself alone, where it won't recognize the hand that feeds and will only see the food, no matter how much care the one's around it want to show Denji was broken mentally the moment they took power and aki from him, even as he got Nayuta, he let her die to get his fix of his favorite coping mechanism -- An addict, just like his father.

Add to this the word sinking into chaos: it literally ending He couldn't hold on to the promise of family, or a girlfriend, the dreams of food and school he once had There was nothing, just him and a woman. How do you date in the end of the world? You don't It's why He only saw sex

The ending does feel a bit rushed. Maybe fujimoto got tired, maybe this was the plan all along It doesn't really matter

By the end of part 2 Denji wasn't just dumb and had done mistakes, He was completely unfixable, utterly unsalvagable, broken to a point of noreturn Taking him to a point before the snapping of his mental state is the only way he could be saved

Sappy? Convenient? Lazy? Rushed? You could say that. I don't care.

Because anything less than a happy ending would be needlessly cruel and would completely shit over Denji as a character and the themes of the manga "Buh buhbuh,, nothing happened if it was reset, there was no arc no development"

Denji continued to get worse, He was never gonna get anywhere

In all honesty it's not about his development in universe

It's about the meta narrative that comes from us being the ones to see all he went through

It still matters because we got to see it, cuz we read it

It still matters because it showed us the type of people all the characters are, in their good and bad moments

In happiness and suffering

Denji was always fighting a losing battle, even as he was so fixated on the same shit over and over in part two, as i said, it was all but a way to cope as the world slipped through his fingers like sand

What he really wanted was a normal life, that was his biggest dream; Part 2 didnt have one to after he relapsed into being chainsaw man, there was nothing left for him, no way to be happy or lead a normal life. This is what's best for Denji and the story, no other ending would make sense thematically or narratively

I'm happy

You can dislike it or think it's childish or lazy or rushed or something but I'm genuinely happy with this

It's what Denji deserves as much after so long

thank you for reading, I like chainsaw man a lot :3

[onlyasaden]

asaden icons from chapter 232

sad day for the csm fans but at least we got asaden

[m0logix]

yeah, no. (csm spoilers)

i retract myself, this was an shit ending ngl. and before u come here with the argument of "oh, fujimoto js wanted to give the feeling of the movie 'The big lewoski' ending" no. the ending of csm doesn't have any remote feeling like that movie. i mean like... c'mon, you literally can not forgive this;

and like, at some sort of point, i understand the ending... okay, it's an alternate timeline... okay, pochita is erased... apparently. which means all of part 1 and part 2 were completelly meaningless! denji's growth? pfft... what's that? Oh, Asa's and Yoru's dynamics and character development?? nah, that can be answered late! oh, you're asking about Aki? nah, fuck u Reze? oh, she's just.. well, being an weapon for the russians, once again! cool! santa claus roams free, yoshida is still alive (sadly) and all ur arcs were fucking erased! oh? you ask about Fami's ending? man FUCK you! she ain't special enough for it 😅😭😭😭😹✌️ fakesaw man? NAH, he's just a fraud. Miri? who's that again? but hey! at least it has good writting, right?... ... ...right? like, dude... what the fuck is this??

u can NOT convince THIS guy is the same guy who made THIS:

OR THIS:

oh, yeah, the end is total FIRE writing, isn't it?

unc does NOT have it anymore 😅😅😭 this is literally an "say that again" type moment.

this is like... god, such a sad, fucking horrible ending. at least jjk ending had kind of an... good ending while gege was FUCKING SICK. they closed almost all of their plots but csm just... fucking didn't do anything. my god did i love the first 100 chapters of part 2, they have an special place on my heart, like Denji's and Asa date, Nayuta's appearence, Yuko, Death Devil, Yoru... but then things got crazier and... idk, it just got larger and larger, part 2 could have ended way easier and way before this shit ass ending.

fujimoto stripped Power's complexity to just an denji's love interest. Nayuta's personality doesn't have sense neither, like... why is Nayuta... Nayuta??????? Nayuta was Nayuta BECAUSE OF DENJI!!! Makima was Makima because of the government. do you see the point here?????? Nayuta SHOULD be like Makima since the governement took her. moral of story is; nothing ever happened. the end. why? because fujimoto got fucking tired of csm. i just don't have hope for the anime adaptation of this manga. not because i don't think they're gonna be bad, hell, i loved reze's arc movie and the 1st season when they came out... but MY GOD, i already know how it's gonna end. and it's shit. the only good thing i see from this ending is that Powy's ass somehow got fatter... don't ask how. like, it got ridiculously bigger. did she get a BBL or sum...?

[cheese0mlet]

so im hopping on the csm hate train after that last chapter.

[every-tsurumi]

[kurobelladonna]

Some AsaDen to celebrate the final chapter!