Chainsaw Man Chapter 219 is the Climax of Part 2's themes as a whole
I think this chapter, and especially this page:
Are the culmination of a good portion of Part 2's theme's Most of part 2 has been about both Denji and Asa struggling to find a way to live their life and cope with their past trauma. Asa is constantly haunted by what happened to her parents, and heavily blames herself for what happens to the people around her, this leads to her fear of human connection and also her extreme loneliness, as she herself said, she's afraid of both(And this is all without mentioning the Yoru shaped elephant in the room). To cope with these feelings, she eventually developed a sort of savior complex, mainly for Denji and Chainsaw man, she desperately wants to help those around her, at the cost of her own well being and safety, like, SHE WAS LITERALLY WILLING TO SACRIFICE HERSELF FOR THE WORLD AND DENJI ONE CHAPTER AGO!! Needless to say, her outlook on her own self worth and putting everyones interests above her own isnt at all a healthy outlook
And then we have Denji. He has been a mess ever since part 1 ended, even when he was living a "happy" and "normal" life with Nayuta, you could tell he was extremely unfulfilled and depressed, after all, he does love Nayuta, but he had everyone he loves taken away from him, and he never allowed himself to work through that trauma, he never allowed himself to confront the loss of power and aki, not only that, his life has stagnated, for 2 years he has been living with Nayuta, fighting devil as chainsaw man but never getting the love he craves so much. even during this time, he was already using temporary pleasures as a way to cope with his trauma, he accepted Miri's and Fumiko's offers because, despite not knowing it himself, he was looking for the intimacy and love from sex, and the recognition and love from being Chainsaw man as a way to distract himself from his pain. He LITERALLY cuts open his own brain with a chainsaw to avoid thinking of Aki and Power, thats how much he is avoiding dealing with his trauma. And his unhealthy way of life and coping comes to its highest during the aging devil arc, after once again losing his will to live and breaking his contract with Pochita, he is at his lowest, because he lost Nayuta, his singular lifeline, and i now being forced to confront his trauma
And what is his solution to this emotional turmoil he is in? This:
After losing his family twice, he decides that he can always find a new family, so he'll be fine! ... There is so much denial in that it hurts. He still can't come to terms with the fact he lost the people he loves the most, now, hes in an EVEN UNHEALTHIER coping mechanism, believing he can just keep losing people and keep going, which is clearly false, and we can prove it with the recent chapters:
Yoshida was someone Denji barely cared about, even during their final meeting, denji was extremely reserved during it, not ever really giving him the time of day. but this one good moment they had was enough for denji to care about him, since he had LITERALLY NO ONE at this time. and despite Yoshida being someone who, minutes ago, Denji didn't care about, watching him die and his corpse being torched the same person who killed Nayuta was enough to send Denji spiraling once again, and losing his will to live, once again breaking his contract with Pochita. its clear he cant just keep going after losing people like he thought he could.
So this brings us to today's chapter.
Denji has finally realized that he can't keep living with the way things are, neither he nor Asa can live a normal life, because there are always people like Yoru, Death and MAKIMA who are trying to take their control and happiness away from them for their own benefit, after all this time, Denji has finally taken control of his own life, for the first time in part 2 he is confronting his unhealthy coping mechanism of denying his problems, him ignoring his trauma and what was done to him in the past is exactly why he is being controlled, and why he is in this current situation. Now, he will deal with his trauma by actively trying to take control of his own future and making his own life worth living while accepting and learning from what happened in this past, that's what he means by creating their own world.
And now, he is inviting Asa to do the same, its no coincidence that in this pannel, he directly mentions what happened to his father, which was something he locked away in his memories for all of part 1 as a way to cope with what he did. now he is directly confronting that fact instead of locking it behind a door. And also, notice how he changed from his child self to his adult self. Denji has finally grown from the little child that was afraid of confronting what happenened to him. Now he is a Mature young man with a full life ahead of him, he has quite literally outgrown his self-harming way of thinking and coping with his trauma.
And now he is promising to help Asa overcome her own traumas, so they can live their own lifes, not defined by what others did to them, and truly moving forward into a happy and normal life. As for what Pochita is doing in the real world and why he ate the death devil.
I disagree with the theories that Pochita did this to Literally help Denji create his own world, one without death. i think people are taking Denji's words too literally. he doesnt mean to create his own world like Death and Yoru are planning on. he means it metaphorically, removing death from the world would be him once again entering in denial, he'll forget what death means, and not be able to confront what happened to his family, WHICH GOES AGAISNT WHAT HE HAS BEEN WORKING ON ACHIEVING!!!
I believe Pochita ate her for 2 reasons The first is obvious, to stop Yoru from turning her into a weapon, since Death is Yoru sister, not only would it already be strong from the guilt she'd feel, but the death devil is already the strongest devil. so the weapon would be SUPER powerful. Second, i think eating death, and then eventually spitting her out is the "Third Way", by doing this, Pochita has a chance at neutralizing Yoru, either by doing something like denji did to the eternity devil, or by finding another way to either convince her to stop, or ripping her off of Asa, without the pressure of death on their shoulders After Yoru is dealt with, all Pochita needs to do is wait for the date of Nostradamus' prophecy to pass and spit her out afterwards, that way, he can both stop Yoru from causing her undying, unending war, and stop the death devil from being unable to stop herself from killing every human on earth through the prophecy, since at the current moment, she no longer exists. So in conclusion, what do i belive is going to happen? THATS RIGHT BABY, DEATH IS GOING TO BE THANKFUL TO DENJI FOR STOPPNG THE END OF THE WORLD AND FINDING A WAY TO STOP THE PROPHECY AND KEEP HER ALIVE, AND SINCE NAYUTA'S DEATH WAS CAUSED BY HER, SHE CAN USE HER POWERS TO REVIVE HER LIKE SHE DID TO FAMI AND GORESAW YEAH BABYYY!!! THE NAYUTA COPIUM NEVER DIES!!!!!!
This is mostly a joke, she probably wont come back, but i do think part 2 will end with Denji and Asa finally being able to find a way to live happily, now they're no longer alone, they have each other, and can help on another to move on from their past trauma and live a normal life.
