Chainsaw Man - Ch. 143 - Rawr

[Weebskeuten]

Rawr

 

[Erricane]

Quanxi?! Please tell she's bi now at least...

 

[crimony]

it seems like when we're following Asa, the story feels pretty well-grounded because she has that overarching objective to "get away from War Devil" or "become one with War Devil". but when we switch to Denji's perspective, it gets more directionless because his major story already happened and he's now just barely picking up the pieces.

unlike in part 1, where we got mention of the Big Bad very early and often (Gun Devil, then Makima), part 2 Big Bad hasn't been made clear yet. we know there's some connection between the Four Horsemen devils and potentially an apocalypse coming, but the central characters Denji and Asa don't have a visible stake in it yet (except that acc to Famine, War Devil might be key to stopping this apocalypse).

i read most of Chainsawman part 1 and part 2 in one go recently, so maybe that biases my POV, but i don't feel that Fujimoto is running out of ideas. it feels like compared to part 1, part 2 central conflict has more setup. but i also haven't read his other works so idk if i'm missing some common pattern lol

 

[Wildfire_desu]

I'm okay with it for now. My impression is that the story feeling directionless is intentional, since it parallels how Denji himself is lacking direction and has no idea what to do with his life. Everything that had been giving the story it's structure had been removed, and it was those very same things that were providing Denji's goals and structuring his life. The effect is that we kind of get a feel of Denji's mindset.

exactly. there's this one novel by a polish sci-fi writer Stanislaw Lem, that does the same thing. extremely well conveying an unfamiliar, confusing future to a time traveler by making it impossible for the reader as well to understand what is happening around the protagonist

 

[BladeX3]

My problem with Chainsaw Man is that it's like the new block buster movies: visually it's really great and have some cool looking characters, but the story makes no sense and most characters are just some empthy shell. Like I wanted to know more about Angel, Violence, Beam, Reze, that spider girl, the alcoholic old man with the scar... (See, at the end of my list I can't even remember the names...)

 

[Exquisitus]

exactly. there's this one novel by a polish sci-fi writer Stanislaw Lem, that does the same thing. extremely well conveying an unfamiliar, confusing future to a time traveler by making it impossible for the reader as well to understand what is happening around the protagonist

Thanks for letting me know about this author. It looks very interesting. I'm gonna buy Solaris immediately. Do you have any other recommendations? Thanks again!

 

[daywithoutgames]

page 1 :
- male , white-hair hybrid : ... listen up , oko-sama , shokun . our orders are ...
諸君 • (shokun) (men's speech) all of you men (below the speaker in rank; sometimes gender neutral)

• evil hybrids : kihihihihi , heads will roll , and limbs will roll .
• katana girl ( i dont remember her real name ) : that is right , YOUR heads will roll , and YOUR limbs will roll .

• readers : we want to see the cool , weapon forms of the hybrids .
• evil mangaka : well , too bad for you . im too lazy , so i will only draw their human forms , lol .

• readers : we want to know the real names of the hybrids .
• evil mangaka : well , too bad for you . i will kill them all , without revealing their real names , lol . and actually , the hybrids are immortal , i cant kill them .

last panel :
- ... founder-sama ...

 

[Expiry]

Im hard af

 

[Wildfire_desu]

Thanks for letting me know about this author. It looks very interesting. I'm gonna buy Solaris immediately. Do you have any other recommendations? Thanks again!

the book i mentioned is "return from the stars" if i remember it right. but i'm not joking about the difficulty understanding it, it may give you a real migrane