#csm 147

[jaruis]

Another collection of Chainsaw Man gifs.

[amsonia-najma]

MY WIFE MY BELOVED WIFE

Gorgeous beautiful amazing jaw dropping

[sugar-grigri]

An overlay of games

Two injured arms? What are you trying to tell us, Fujimoto ?

The interesting thing about the first part of the chapter is this page in which Denji hesitantly answers. It's another way of accentuating his existential crisis, even when he's called an impostor, Denji can't defend his position firmly and confidently.

It's normal, he's still bound by the dilemma of the public hunters who have forbidden him to reveal and be Chainsaw Man himself, and above all he's competing with the impostor for his own identity.

Denji isn't THAT scandalized by being pointed out as a wannabe CSM because he is one now, he's been so robbed of his identity that he's almost willing to become himself.

This chapter also hints at the fact that the public hunters don't agree on everything, probably because of a hierarchy or unity game. For example, some hunters only thought that the church was having fun playing CSM, not knowing that it was fighting against the prophecy of Nostradamus.

However, this information was gathered by Yoshida through his interview with Fami, but it remained highly confidential. Here again, this public hunter doesn't know that Denji is CSM. In short, information isn't leaking out of the Special Division 7.

Yoshida is the mediator between the public hunters and Denji, but also with the church with Fami. Katana, Quanxi and the possessed man with the dripping brain are the henchmen. Fumiko is the one in charge of preventing any temptation on Denji's part to get closer to the church.

But there's something else that I find even more interesting that follows this point. If we try to untangle everyone's role. We end up with Yoshida; Quanxi; Katana; the possessed one with the overflowing brain; Fumiko; Denji and on the other, on the church side, we have Fami, Barem, Miri, the weapon of the whip, the bow and finally Asa. That's six against six.

Asa's room is 606. And as I've explained several times, Fujimoto tends to play with numbers in this part 2. So I'm going to try and give you an explanation.

When I saw that not only Quanxi had her arm bruised but Yoshida had sliced Asa's arm, the first thing I thought was "a tie". On one side we have Quanxi losing her arm to protect while on the other we have Yoshida attacking with a slice. The fact remains that an arm has been lost on each side, so there's a certain balance.

Let me remind you that there are six against six in this game, and nobody has won any points yet, which makes 0. 6 0 6, ball in the middle.

I sincerely believe that what Fujimoto is setting up is a form of game, a war in which we're going to have to keep score. Barem is called Barem BRIDGE, a card game of 2. against 2. This time it's not just a game about the clan war but the whole manga: Fami and Barem on one side, the demon of Death and maybe Fake! CSM on the other

Did you know that one of the players called himself the dead man? ;))))))

I think the human usurper and fake!CSM are two different entities because the demon has twice interfered with Fami's plan by eliminating the fire demon (Yuko) and saving Denji and Asa.

But it doesn't stop there, so let me come back to a few bridge rules (I don't know how to play, so if I'm wrong, please correct me). The game opens with the "contract", i.e. declarer commits to making a given number of tricks. Just like the beginning of the game in CSM started with Barem announcing his contract with the fire demon.

A game of bridge is played in several moves, each move corresponding to a deal. Each player holds 13 cards, which they have arranged in a row to form what is known as their "deck" or "hand". Again, this is not to say that game 2 works exactly like bridge (and its horribly complex rules) but rather to emphasise the symbolism.

Every time one of the sides moves, an injury occurs, a limb is neutralised or even pulverised.

I wanted to end this analysis with the "strong" part of the chapter, Yoru's return in force. I was stuck on the symbolism of the arm, its symbolism in art and its relationship to war. So much so that I forgot to read the line: Yoru is a team player, she speaks as "we".

And then everything fell into place. There's a contrast between Yoru's exaltation and the fact that she's still missing a member. But everything makes sense with this fusion introduced by the "we".

Yoru is missing nothing, not even an arm, and Asa has become the perfect continuity of her being and her limbs.

Asa may have transformed her flat, her home, but she hasn't lost her bearings, because each of these girls has become the home of the other.

While Denji denies the duality of his being, Asa is embracing it.

While Yoru, even without her arm, feels her strength reaching its peak thanks to her completeness with Asa.

Now, don't you think that making room 606 a weapon whose number symbolizes the status quo is just the beginning of hostilities?

To be obsessed with victory, even if it means leaving your mark, isn't that the definition of waging war?

Or is it just playing a card game ?

[ddenji]

okay fujimoto is really going in on the theme of how dangerous it can be to love/want to protect someone. like nayuta has been used as a threat against denji twice now, and we know that he’ll do anything to protect her, including not being chainsaw man anymore. especially with the context of like denji knowing how crushing it is to lose the people you love, the ways that the other characters use his love against him for their own purposes is really malicious. it's so compelling storywise how fujimoto really hammers home at every chance possible how denji is driven/controlled by his desire for love, from willing to do anything to attain it in part 1, to willing to do anything to keep it now.

[denjhenge]

HOW STRONG IS SHE????

Quanxi is carrying 3 people with ease??? Something tells me she learned this from hauling her 4 girlfriends out of danger in the past.

[csm-ships-ruined-my-life]

do you think this one single panel will spawn approx. 500 fumiko x quanxi shippers that desperately try to spread their gospel before the entire ship mysteriously disappears next chapter never to be mentioned again?

[pockethep]

Y’all already know what time it is!

I will say that with Barem specifically calling Nayuta a witch instead of a demon/devil or any other word is very interesting. Fujimoto has gone on to say that he is very specific with the wording in his works, which is why there’s not instance of Christianity being used despite some symbolism and references.

But the word “witch” was also used in Fire Punch. The Ice Witch, Sulya, who was the antagonist with a main goal of watching the last star wars movie (almost as goofy as saving the world for Pizza). Could be a reference to Fire Punch given how Nayuta is now undoubtedly a reference to Yogen no Nayuta where she was the harbinger of doom said to end the world. Even in Yogen no Nayuta, one of the few ways Kenji (her older brother) and her bonded was through food.

[iridescentscarecrow]

i think at one level i really appreciate fjmt's dedication towards drawing quanxi kicking ass but there's also something so distinctly offputting to seeing her kitted out in the public safety uniform, especially when we know of her earlier departure from public safety and her assumed ignorance of its activities in part one.