#csm 152

[kajiuna]

Chainsaw Man is back!

[sugar-grigri]

I love the reference to cooking in the last chapter, especially in a chapter that's all about suffering.

Why? Because it reminds me of the Falling Devil, who in order to mentally "fall" her opponents to the heights, exploited their traumas. Her whole arc is a formidable metaphor for the reaction we must have to our own suffering.

So when the spear weapon tells Denji to scare them, Denji asks him if he wants to be cooked and thus traumatized. If Denji has to scare, he'll do it just as meticulously.

[iridescentscarecrow]

i'm going to be sick. hard as fuck panel and -- the horror of this, the grim absurdity of it, the way denji leans into that feeling, wants that feeling, he's grinning, don't you see, under the metal of the chainsaw:

this is the karaoke scene echoing outwards but this time the Violence emanates from denji. thinking about how the weapon hybrids' bodies smear the pages, limbs and sharp lines and the chainsaw man: chaotic and primal within it. the previous chapters where's he's not at all a participant in this Violence as the hybrids tear themselves apart on their own, and now: he tears through them. the house burns, and so does his attempt at a normal life, at what pochita let him want and so told him to want, it ends and it all makes sense now, doesn't it?

and he tells nayuta to leave. she's the only human resembling face focused on in the last few pages, she's the unwitting creation of all of makima's twisted love, the subversive product of part one's otherwise obvious nightmare, the sort of Moral of the story. and she's told to leave.

god. genuinely, there's something so visceral and real about fujimoto writes victimhood, about how it builds itself around denji. about how he inhabits it. i'm going to be sick.

[ddenji]

i loveee this panel. the way that their severed legs are intertwined, the way that spear’s legs look like they could be attached to denjis body, the way that denji is latched on to spear’s upper body and if you took all the blood and guts away it could almost be a hug or tangled embrace. muwah fujimoto does weird body horror so good & i like how this one could be something akin to intmacy if not for… everything else that happens in this manga.

[amsonia-najma]

Denji and Nayuta in chapter 149:

Denji and Nayuta in chapter 152:

[add1rall]

Nayuta at the end of chapter 152

[pockethep]

On one hand I’m glad Chainsaw man in chainsawing all over the place…but on the other side it feels like Denji has given up. He’s facing another mental break moment like in Part 1 and while part of him doesn’t want Nayuta to get wrapped up in everything so he tries to push her away so she doesn’t get hurt by him or their enemies, I think another part of him wants to be rid of his responsibilities entirely.

This fight wasn’t even a fight, it was a one sided massacre.

Bonus Nayuta being a scared child in the background…

[medcat33]

there was some discussion on Twitter about Katana Man potentially “saving” Denji (coming to kick his ass again + inadvertently snapping him out of his current state) in the upcoming chapters, so this was my take on it :3