#csm 167

[a-tear-in-space]

Is this relevant right now

[sugar-grigri]

I'm going to say something depressing (for a change) but why do we feel that happiness, normally first experiences (first kiss, first time) are being taken away from Denji and Asa?

I think all this may be pointing to an answer that is often overlooked and yet is the first thing said for these two characters, right from the first chapter of their introduction

Denji and Asa are both dead

They are condemned to stop experimenting and to wallow in their despair.

[medcat33]

[whatisnightoff]

best way csm 167 was articulated

[local-fire-dumpster]

I had to mute all chainsawman related words on twitter today bc jfc how are you people so ILLITERATE.An entire week of joking about cutting of denji's dick and discussing how he is hypersexual only to start clutching your pearls at this? Yes what Yoru did was wrong but that's the point! What she is doing is no different then Makima!She wants to get Chainsaw Man out of denji and fight him even if it's at the expense of hurting Denji!

Some of y'all will screech about how it's only ok to portray dark or touchy subject if it's done "appropriately" and then still get butthurt when the author does as you want bc you are bunch of puritan shitheads who need everything to be spoonfed to them

[ddenji]

i technically already posted this panel but the gender dynamics in csm are so beyond anything else in shonen rn. yoru occupying a more traditionally masculine, agressive, perpetrative space here and denji always, always, always occupying the space of the female, the subdued, the taken advantage of. his wording here is so defensive, trying to deflect the act, because he is always being acted against. yoru, the living embodiment of war (a traditionally male system and responsibility!) being trapped in the body of a teenage girl. fujimoto does a good job of subverting traditional gender dynamics in some very subtle ways earlier in the manga, but this one seems far more blatant and disturbing in the context of denjis entire experience.

[swaggy-kat-me0wy-meow]

Asa is losing herself more and more to Yoru, Yoru is starting to control Asa more and more and make her does things that are more and more uncomfortable with her

and then Asa has to face the consequences of that, a kind of internal battle, taking place in her that is slowly crushing her under all the pressure and the weight she has to carry because of Yoru's careless actions

she doesn't recognize herself, the thought of sex was disgusting to her, she could not see that ever happening to her, she was not willing, and it's only getting worse as time goes on, and as Yoru gets a better grip of how to manipulate Asa's actions

[os-eclipses-tamen-son-yuri]

I'm writing a longer thingie I DEFINITELY need to sit with this one a little while just

Maybe no one else cared abt this, but one of the most striking panels from this chapter to me was the first one

It's always rain

And alleys