#csm 220

[killua]

not my ass having to move to ohio because yoru turned my fucking state into a sword

[sugar-grigri]

#CSM221 : how Fujimoto criticizes imperialism in two chapters

Yoru does not fight foolishly, or more precisely, Fujimoto does not do so for the sake of a gag, for the pleasure of action and sensationalism, but to talk about war and nothing but war.

Yoru tries to present herself in a certain light, having understood the meaning of family: but not only does she use her kin, her children, as weapons, which is not the meaning of family, but that is precisely what war does.

She pretends that she wants what's best for you, that she is doing good, that these sacrifices are necessary, and above all, that she herself does not need to fight, but YOU need to fight.

War may well claim that she has changed, that this time it is a war for good! You will see that this umpteenth war is justified! But it is only a game played between two entities, in which everyone else, the people, are the gunpowder, the literal weapon, the necessary but useless casualties.

And what is chapter 221, entitled "Safe Battle," about? The fact is that war has only one goal: death. Without it, it loses all meaning. Yoru's power falls without its presence because sacrifices are no longer made.

Despite all the stated objectives of current conflicts, death is the only objective, destruction is the only order of the day.

Yoru proclaims with understanding, "Family!" But she denies her humanity (Asa)

And forgets her big sister: Death.

[heroesnvillains]

can't have shit in detroit

[sugar-grigri]

I can't help but see Yoru as the embodiment of both Denji and Asa's sexual trauma, perhaps in the hope of correcting what I perceive as a flaw in Chainsaw Man. Denji's sexual obsession is often mentioned, but much less so is Asa's complicated relationship with sexuality: her disgust for physical contact, her violent—almost punitive—reaction after touching the boy she loved, for fear that this gesture would upset her perception of her body and herself.

Yoru can then be read as that instinctive, dangerous zone that unfolds in a mind marked by trauma. She is the one who most naturally aligns with Denji's raw and uncontrollable instinct, which is why she takes the initiative, hurts, surpasses Asa, and speaks for her. She emerges exactly where emotions become too heavy or too threatening to be dealt with directly.

I have come to see Yoru as the swamp where Asa and Denji's feelings meet in a twisted and indirect way: two teenagers unable to communicate their emotions in any other way. It is Yoru who reveals what Asa really feels, it is she who receives Denji's tears—as if the trauma itself appropriates the emotions that the characters are unable to recognize as their own.

And what could be more fitting to represent this inner invasion than a demon of War? A demon capable of invading nations and bodies, the United States as well as the locked hearts of two teenagers—where the most violent conflicts are not necessarily the ones that can be seen.

That's why we arrive at this moment where Denji and Asa interact this time in their inner worlds while their outer demons confront each other; the intermediaries must be killed.

[zaziecurie]

Yoru, in previous chapters (paraphrased): I have made a contract with the governor of California in which all its citizens will be my meat shields if I don't attack the state itself.

Yoru, in chapter 220: Anyone remembers "Dancing in the Streets" by Martha and the Vandellas? No? Anyway... Michigan Sword!

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She still has 48 states, a federal district and 5 inhabited territories to use, by the way…

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Final thought: An entire country infamously known for its obsessive and destructive love of weapons and religious fanaticism is slowly turned into a weapon itself in all senses of the word, including the sacrifice of millions of lives, by a powerful devil?

Fujimoto please...

[ryanthel0ser]

Yoru personally I would've taken Florida as a sword, way more dangerous things to use in there

[nyan-bynary]

Okay but yoru specifically having ownership over the state of michigan it means that that's the state the US willingly gave away TO her it's a state they had abandoned

[nyan-bynary]

God I fucking love yoru she's got the power of friendship and michigan on her side