Chainsaw Man - Ch. 137 - Chu Chu Lovely Muni Muni Mura Mura

[Yaboyhg80]

 

[alacaelum]

NOW WE TALKING.

She is trying to kill him, she is a keeper.

But I won't lie... the first pages of him refusing... I fell for that, should have known better, but Fujimoto-sensei still can get me, and he has my undying respect for that... and the Old Boy's corridor fight homage was " CHEF'S KISS".

 

[Lightbrand]

So that guy set Denji up to get beat or did he not do enough background check?

Why should Denji listen to anything he says at this point?

 

[ahoy555]

As always, I have no idea what's going on. Great work!

 

[Fari]

Knew the song but had no idea the lyrics were like that before lmao.

 

[bradsterj]

He had me in the first half.

 

[MilkmanDan]

This is genuinely the least awful date Denji has gone on.

 

[ezekielico]

It's a real song

For the love of god I need CSM to get adapted until the end only for this chapter with this song, it will be glorious

 

[mellowsnake]

wut

 

[Kani1337]

For the love of god I need CSM to get adapted until the end only for this chapter with this song, it will be glorious

That's amazing hahahah love Maximum the Hormone. They did the ED for episode 3 of the anime as well.

The fight scene reminded me a bit of the oldboy coridor fight scene

 

[D3f4lt]

Gotta say, if this is something being cooked by the emo this is bound to escalate poorly, otherwise I feel like the pacing is kind of odd

 

[MrDDA]

Thi

That's amazing hahahah love Maximum the Hormone. They did the ED for episode 3 of the anime as well.

The fight scene reminded me a bit of the oldboy coridor fight scene

This had to be the reference

 

[flxsemi]

So this is sex 2...

 

[rudezki]

I mean.. Everything's perfectly logical in this chapter... to someone.

 

[smart_fella255]

HAHAHAHAHA HOW DO PEOPLE READ THIS SHIT HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

 

[Weebskeuten]

Dennis......Just a bit more, youre almost a responsible individual.

 

[Eighty-six]

What the fuck is Fujimoto cooking?

His lungs, with whatever he's smoking.

 

[LoopStricken]

HAHAHAHAHA HOW DO PEOPLE READ THIS SHIT HAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

Right to left, usually.

 

[catsdontsmile]

I thought we had a deal! Does denji get to do her after knocking her out?

 

[mlgduck01]

lmfao what is happening in this chapter. Is this all just a fucking hallucination?

Well, I'm willing to wager a guess so far as it relates to the overarching themes of the manga - I could be proven entirely wrong by the next chapter, and I don't care if I am, but it's fun to guess in the meanwhile. I think this chapter touches on the recurring idea of intimacy as violence - in the first part of the manga, one of the things that Denji longs for is sexual intimacy, as he states multiple times, and more subliminally, for meaningful interpersonal relationships. The pursuit of these desires comes at a high price, resulting in essentially everyone he loves being killed, and all as part of a large machination to bring Denji closer to Makima so she could more effectively control him. It's been suggested by many astute and avid chainsaw man fans that these recent chapters have shown Denji being moved once again towards that state of deprivation that makes him more pliable - loss of the ability to be chainsaw man, the threatened loss of his family, and here in this one we have a bone being thrown Denji's way- the potential for the intimacy that Denji craves, even if it's in this bastardized form (forced, and against his better intuition). In this way, we see intimacy once again being wielded as violence against Denji - moving him closer to a particular goal. The seemingless random violence of the chapter, while possibly literal (we don't know yet) could also be metaphorical for the violence Denji has experienced through being controlled and played. It is a battle of him versus the many, a collective unconscious of competing wills and desires that want to subjugate Denji's own wills and desires to theirs. It makes sense for the violence here to be seemingly random and overwhelming, as that's what Denji is up against in terms of being able to live the life he wants. He succeeds, at least for now, but he must confront a more personal form of violence, vested in the under classman. If Denji "wins," I'm assuming it to mean he will recognize self respect for himself and see that intimacy cannot be forced and can only evolve under natural conditions (as it has done with Asa). The pieces just can't be put into place. If he loses, I imagine that we will see a Denji more like his original appearance, a dog chasing a bone.