#csm 181

[sibblank]

tragic how denji, compared to most horny manga characters, is very respectful of others and would never dream of doing anything nonconsensual, yet still hates and punishes himself for it, not even because of anything he does, because of how he allows others to manipulate him.

[iridescentscarecrow]

i love this moment, the way yoru wields the disposability of asa's body over her; the way this is followed up w/ her disposing the twig she is unable to weaponise.

the two's relationship is crouched on such levels of intimacy & utility — & especially w/ the revelations of the last few chapters, that undercurrent of fear from early p1 hammering back home.

i'm also really normal about yoru kissing denji in the end. i think like in part obviously with prior chapters — the stress on "growing up" with the backdrop of normality made me very invested in a domestic horror-esque direction for asa & denji. factoring yoru in here makes it even more interesting: you already have this — threat of war, mother figure slash nationalist icon, who operates through possessory violence — superimposed on the body of a teenage girl. & the fact yoru articulates this through denji — her inability to possess (as part of her claim to power) in this world turns into a frustrated recourse towards sexual ownership over him (who is simultaneously internalising the idea of "punishment"). this is right at the heels of her stopping herself from hitting him because of his "stupidity."

it's intensely fucked up, especially because it re-enacts the earlier scene of SA [yoru vav asa & denji in that alleyway]. there's a dispossession of asa's own body. "hasn't this happened before?" asa & denji: thrust into the idea of "growing up", mediated on having your body taken away from you, having your body be violated without your consent, all framed into a kind of "romance", into cycles of abuse & Family well trodden, within aging's picturesque land which swallows you up into its landscape and transforms you into its history, in the end.

[noven-warsh]

I kind of want to write an actual post on this with some cool pictures from the manga and all, but this little diagram perfectly explains my thoughts for yoru and denji's "relationship" at the moment

[quaint3]

Can someone please give him a genuine hug before I loose it

[poop-benedict]

CSM #181 SPOILERS

It's so interesting to see Yoru like this again, so pathetic. Especially so soon after her show of power and dominance in the last few chapters. She's been completely overtaken, literally rendered powerless.

So, she takes her frustration out on Denji, indulging herself in him. She's genuinely attracted to Denji, whether due to Asa's feelings bleeding through, or her own. And it seems like she gets off on taking what she wants from him, on having power over him, like previously when she literally had his balls in her hands. Him being Chainsaw Man probably has a lot to do with that.

She's covering up her insecurities over being powerless, by abusing Denji. It's awful of her, pathetic and more than a little sad.

[blizzic]

Will someone PLEASE let this boy say fuck

[swaggy-kat-me0wy-meow]

CSM 181 SPOILERS

Yoru in her attempt to "comfort" denji torments him even further, she doesn't feel bad for Denji, she doesn't even see Denji as Denji but as a tool, a weapon, as "Chainsaw Man"

she feels bad for herself and will find anyone but her to blame for her misfortune she is self centered, and refuses to "grow up"

she refuses to learn from any mistakes she makes, she will persist in her ways until she breaks everyone until she gets her ways, this kiss is venomous to Denji, in this place where time loses all meaning and wallowing in self-pity is what the tortured souls victims of the aging devil suffer until losing their sanity, this is salt in a wound trying to pass as disinfectant, Yoru doesn't just lack the ability to feel empathy and to understand what harm she causes, she outright refuse to. "All is fair in love and war" every under handed tactic every disgusting deed is fair

[sugar-grigri]

2 gap chapters

congratulate our son, he deserves it