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Fujimoto answers you directly in this chapter (yes)
How about reading CSM differently? Or at least cut it up differently? Because the more the chapters progress, the more a certain pattern seems to repeat itself: Part 1 sounds as if Fujimoto is unveiling CSM in its purest form, then Part 2 sounds as if CSM is responding to its own reception by its fans.
I've already said many times that Fujimoto likes contrast in form and in writing, and this chapter, though brain-numbing, simply follows Fujimoto's own rules, only in an even more accentuated way.
To prove my point, I recommend you reread chapter 133 "Protest", which for me speaks directly to the divisive image represented by Fujimoto and his work Chainsaw Man.
I've already done an exhaustive analysis of it, but let's get one thing out of the way: Fujimoto answers his fans in part 2.
Whether it's by posing a heroine who seems incompatible with Denji, hating the figure of CSM which is nonetheless the work in which she's included, whether it's through the themes addressed by part 2, the question of dual identity, creating antagonists like Fake!CSM, setting up a church (us) around CSM
We're in a work that speaks for itself, as chapter 137 confirms, and for this very rule, we refer to the previous chapters (an eternal restart).
Chapter 136, entitled "Normal Life", refers to a more-than-CENTRAL theme in Chainsaw Man, the nerve that irrigated the whole of Part 1 Denji's disillusionment, a bargaining chip for the former antagonist, Fujimoto takes his fans by the hand and puts them back into the game they know.
We see what we'd all expected to see, a Denji who doesn't know how to fit into normal life, who's not cut out for
In my previous analysis, I explained how not only is Denji incapable of having a normal life, not only because of himself but also because of Yoshida, who offers him this life, and above all because of Fujimoto, who abruptly breaks the rhythm of his own chapter with this aggression, frustrating (I'm sure on purpose) his own fans.
What Fujimoto does is make you think you were reading in the right direction, showing you a Denji depressed by his normal life, and like a child amused by not wanting to be predictable, he breaks what would otherwise have been a logical thing to see. I mean… Who could have foreseen such a title?
Chapter 137 simply follows the same logic: Fujimoto has foreseen your frustrated reactions and knows full well that you've become attached to Denji, hoping that he'll break out of the cycle of manipulation.
He plays you in this chapter by setting up a confident, emotionally well-adjusted Denji who pushes this stranger away, reminding her of the rules of respect and consent.
It's not just Denji's thoughts, the way he would have liked to act, it's also the way YOU would have liked him to act.
Now I can explain why these chapters, which break with the previous ones in their absurdity, are surely the most important in CSM.
Many had pointed to the famous cinema reference in chapter 136, others had even noted that chapter 136 constituted chapter 39 of part 2, responding to Makima's date with Denji in part 1 in the same chapter.
But chapter 39 of part 1 wasn't just interesting for the cinema scene, it was the one that set the rules for understanding CSM.
In fact, it was this chapter to which chapter 93 responded, with Denji's ideology (in favor of bad movies) confronting Makima (against bad movies).
In the same way, the second chapter 39 (the 136th) also seeks to lay down rules
Chapters 136 and 137 have never been more responsive to CSM fans, stubbornly denying them what they want.
What Fujimoto does is to return to cinema in its purest form in the second half, using the codes of the middle-aged male slasher.
That's why the two high-school students go to Fujimoto's karaoke bar, because you're going to find yourself in its purest essence: having fun with the utmost absurdity.
It's no longer a question of representing cinema, as in the two chapters 39, but of making cinema.
But why a slasher? Think of the mythical slashers that traumatized a generation… Yes… The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a work that has achieved cult status for having opened the door to a new trend in American horror cinema: the slasher movie. Nothing represents a slasher movie more than a chainsaw-headed hero?
Inspired by the Italian "giallos", slasher movies feature a masked killer, a gang of youngsters and the killings of the serial killer in question. Fujimoto takes up this theme in his own way: Denji doesn't kill with his iconic chainsaw, he's not masked, and it's the young couple who hold the beats and the shady men who get killed.
If we go back to the depression we all expected to see, it's actually more complicated to understand: Denji's depression at being trapped in a type of writing that's too serious for him.
Here Denji follows the rules of the game, enjoying himself by killing all those old people, saying ironically: "not bad this normal life".
Because this scene is perfectly normal in Fujimoto's karaoke.
In itself, Yoshida was right. Indeed, no, Denji is not the hero of the normal film that was unfolding before them. Because they're not in normal life, it's projected onto the screen. CSM's reality is an absurd slasher. It is in this slasher, in this false normal life, that the protagonist, Denji, is.
Denji is the protagonist of another film. And maybe in this one, the world needs Chaisaw Man.
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"You aren't the protagonist of this movie"
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okay fujimoto’s ideas about love are a huge part of this manga and im loving the development of asa being someone who loves both denji and chainsaw man which was kind of the whole point of part 1
everyone else either wants chainsaw man as a weapon without considering denji or denji without acknowledging that he’s chainsaw man too. asa has fallen for them both in different ways and denji being loved as both himself and chainsaw man was what he wanted by the end of the first part
now that she’s interacted with them both at length i cannot wait for her to learn that theyre actually the same person. i just know the reveal is going to be chaotic
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Of course, it’s possible to choose both….
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Thinking about the posible consequences of chapter 112.
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mirror
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BEWARE OF FAMI
I need you to follow me on this but... I like to find answers to questions raised by new chapters in previous ones.
As I've often said, even if Fujimoto likes to set up funny or seemingly innocuous scenes, nothing is innocuous and everything has a meaning. Nothing could be more normal than for a film fan to follow Chekov's rule of the gun.
But here our rifle is not a rifle, nor is it a chainsaw. It's a fridge.
Didn't it strike you as odd when, in one of the previous chapters, Denji introduced the rules set down by Nayuta, rules that seemed like common sense, like don't rummage in the fridge.
Now let's connect the dots. I don't think Nayuta set up these rules with Fami in mind, but it's just a more meta reading key that Fujimoto gives us. A key to understanding which side Fami is on.
Don't open the fridge = don't contract Fami.
Fami seems harmless and extremely funny, wanting to save mankind for the pleasure of eating pizzas and swallowing bread faster than her shadow. But there are a few things I'd like us to understand.
If Makima has made you remember one thing, it's that you shouldn't trust the characters' claims: as far as I'm concerned, those at the head of Chainsaw Man, notably Fami and the fake Chainsaw Man, want to give all their power to a new chainsaw demon, making the real Chainsaw Man weaker and more ineffective. By literally taking the wind out of his sails and setting up a new champion: Asa Mitaka.
Part 2 focuses on parasocial relationships. You really don't find this page strange? I've seen a lot of people rave about how badass Asa has become. PRECISELY! She's not supposed to be, we've seen that Asa wasn't made to be a heroine (I don't mean that in a negative way). The sword must be something that belongs to her: so what's in her hands? She's clumsy, so why does she look so confident? The only way she can fight properly is when she's possessed by Yoru: where are the marks?
All this to say that this page does not represent Asa Mitaka. It's a rumor, a collective opinion that people project onto her, maybe even a rumor. In any case, just like people with Chainsaw Man: an idealized portrait.
Seriously, don't you think that between Yoshida's dilemma and Fami's, we're trying to paralyze Chainsaw Man as much as possible? Isn't it contradictory to want to help Chainsaw Man by depriving him of his function? By inviting his intentions?
The aim is not to help Chainsaw Man, but to weaken him, to paralyze him, to bring to the fore not a first, a second, but a third Chainsaw Man.
No, Fami is not an ally.
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💤💤
#asaden#chainsaw man#art#csm 2#csm part 2#chainsaw man part 2#asa mitaka#denji hayakawa#csm yoru#yoru is a potoo birb#csm manga
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Background practice!!
#chainsaw man#art#csm 2#csm part 2#csm#csm manga#artists on tumblr#chainsaw man part 2#chainsawman fanart#csm fanart#artwork#forgot to post on tumblr again
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Qui est-ce qu’ils regardent mal au loin ?
[a line up of the chimera ants (king&guards) in suits, all looking smug and staring to the left. Meruem’s fit is military inspired, Pito’s is more school uniform, she’s carrying a head-shaped handbag and gripping Pouf’s arm, Pouf’s wearing a marbled multicolored suit and holding a violin case, Youpi has a more relaxed, pleated red suit]
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What if i decide to log in to my deviant acc to start posting there again but the thought of seeing my old artworks there makes me wanna rip my face off as i cringe hard ❤
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Actually it's an old one but idc
Thought about them while drawing WAAAAAAA I MISS THEM
Technically this is one was the first because I wanted to only draw Denji in suit buuutt my pen slipped... I always try to squeeze in asaden in my art like my life depends on it FUKKKKK
Want him in my pocket
Lmao twitter going down makes me post all my art on tumblr rn
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Happy asaden cuddling because why not ❤️
I enjoyed sm doing the lighting, I wanted to convey a calm and warm atmosphere and I think I nailed it !
What if...my heart couldn't take it anymore
Bonus
Actually it's not the first time I used Jessie and Jane as a reference (this one is from january)
I might...have an idea for an asaden animation with an audio from the camino with jessie and jane... thinking...but I have already wips so it's not my priority buuutt I already have the storyboard
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asaden in a nutshell
Comic idea credit to: @/tinyangryghost at twitter
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Meow meows
#asaden#chainsaw man#csm 2#art#csm manga#csm part 2#chainsaw man part 2#asa mitaka#denji hayakawa#artists on tumblr#MY LITTLE POOKIE BEARS
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