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“Is this what it’s like to be normal…?”
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denjis character arc rn is sooo good and fujimoto is so good at turning things like character goals on their head. denji’s gotten (almost) everything he ever wanted and it sucks. he’s gone from dreaming of a normal life in part 1 to feeling so empty when a normal life is all he has in part 2. it seems like theres an element of him feeling like he’s betraying himself and his goals and everything he enjoys in his normal life if he admits he wants more, but the normal life in his mind was the idealized daydream of a neglected child and the real thing is not fulfilling for him. he never was normal & normal doesn’t cut it for him, and im looking forward to seeing how he comes to terms with all of this.
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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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I practiced drawing diff faces with the csm characters but this is kinda old
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#I based their faces on actors I liked from my fav jdramas#chainsaw man#chainsaw man fanart#my art#csm#csm fanart#asa mitaka#csm reze#denji#csm power#csm aki#makima#csm kishibe#csm yoshida#angel devil#katana man#akane sawatari#quanxi#csm 136
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new csm chapter is.... something
#my art#comics#csm#denji#i love dennis#chainsaw man#I couldn't decide on the font for a long time lmao#All my life Ive been drawing girls and then I drew Dennis and hes look like girl#fan art#csm 136
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what in the sailor chainsaw moon 😭
#csm#csm 136#chainsaw man#Denji#csm manga spoilers#csm thoughts#csm manga#csm denji#chainsaw man spoilers#chainsaw man manga#chainsaw man manga spoilers
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thinking about how the yoshiden theatre scene
mirrors makima and denji's date from part one, in that it ends with an affirmation of normality. of humanity from yoshida: "is this what it's like to be normal? / yeah. it is.",
only that it's less one sided than the makima conversation about denji having a heart ever was because it's more participatory in a sense. yoshida's the same, the wording: "think skipping school to hang out would make us regular high schoolers?" how he uses "we" so much, so much i
think about fujimoto's character triad of reze, yoshida and togata. how togata and reze are tied to finding themselves in the main character and how yoshida (?? the we is telling.). thinking about the togata movie scene. thinking about the togata movie scene. thinking abou
thinking about the devil under the movie screen. its corpse under the movie they're watching play out. it's resemblance to a squid. seafood. octopus. something. it's intentional. "all that's left is to remove the body." thinking about
"you aren't the protagonist. the world won't end without you."
#and oughhh#not the protagonist. the audience. the gradual disenfranchisement of chainsaw man and therefore denji and his Being of chainsaw man. becaus#it's asa now. the protagonist is her. it's so wonderfully meta in an awful horrifying way i.#“you're the audience” yoshida says.#god. the yoshiden feels do be hitting good today#csm#chainsaw man#yoshida hirofumi#denji#csm 136#csm spoilers#crow.txt#mitaka asa#csm part 2#csm meta#fire punch#kind of
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forgot to draw em on a movie theatre date when the chapter came out my bad
#yoshiden#hirofumi yoshida#denji hayakawa#yoshida x denji#csm 136#yoshida hirofumi#ysdn#chainsaw man#csm#csm manga#csm fanart#fanart#my art#this one goes out to yoshida#love that guy#he convinced me to get a helix irl it was crazy
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Chainsaw Man vs The Cancel Culture Devil
#chainsaw man#chainsaw man spoilers#CSM 136#Regardless of whether it's real a lot of ppl are afraid of it so its devil would be
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guys the chapter that came out today (136) is the 39th chapter for part 2
guess what happened in part 1s 39th chapter
FUJIMOTO WHAT ARE YOU DOING
#csm#csm 136#chainsaw man#denji#makima#csm spoilers#I know there’s other things that line up too#this was just the first one I caught#maybe I’ll make a post showing all of them#1k
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this has the same vibes as taking your bro who just got dumped to the strip club like… dude is too depressed to be here
#csm#chainsaw man#chainsaw man manga spoilers#csm part 2#csm 136#spence.speaks#crying in the club or something
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I want her dead
I WANT HER GONE!
#chainsaw man#chainsaw man spoilers#csm part two#csm#csm spoilers#csm 136#csm denji#GIVE MY GUY A BREAK MAN#im so tried#he's too. bro's exhausted
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Neither Denji, Yoshida nor their author can achieve normalcy
Let's look at Chainsaw Man as a narrative whole. There's no point in an author dealing with a subject that's already been dealt with, except to say something additional: so what does this chapter tell us?
Entitled "Normal Life", the chapter refers directly to Denji's previous dream: a normal life became Yoshida's offer to push him to stop being Chainsaw Man.
Fujimoto knows that you've understood that Denji intends to go beyond normality. This is something we learned from the whole of Part 1: normality had already been used by Makima to manipulate Denji. Here, things seem redundant, as Yoshida follows in the footsteps of the former antagonist. On top of that, while Denji was communicating and showing a certain emotional vulnerability, he's being sexually assaulted?
Why this chapter? Why tell it like it is? Fujimoto doesn't seem to initiate anything new, worse, erases his own developments.
The answer is easy, and Fujimoto gives it to us: this chapter is frustrating because it consciously shows you that he's incapable of writing and describing a normal life.
The first few pages serve to show that Denji is incapable of living anonymously and incognito when his environment permanently gravitates around the figure of Chainsaw Man. Denji literally finds himself in a fight to his detriment, and is punched in the face in the name of his heroic identity. Back in the face.
The second page serves to show that Denji can't achieve this so-called normativity by his past, by who he is, but above all by the way he's perceived by society and his guardians. He doesn't have a normal past, so how can he achieve a normal present? The others don't see him as lambda, so how can he become one?
The third thing that will prevent Denji from achieving this normal life is the man who intends to offer it to him: Yoshida. In his equally unconventional present as a demon hunter. He tells him explicitly: he has no idea what a normal high-school student does. Normal he isn't, since a normal high-school student is a professional cover for him.
Denji and Yoshida perceive a normal schoolgirl, that is, the ordinary life of a schoolboy, as something projected and unattainable. Just like the love of a hug is unattainable for Denji and Makima. Yoshida and Denji are distanced from it by this abnormality embedded in their daily lives: a demon.
Yoshida's assertion that the world won't end without Chainsaw Man also loses its meaning. Granted, Chainsaw Man isn't the only one to eradicate demons. But who will save the world?
How can a boy whose family includes a demonic little sister, and a demonic dog who is both his heart and his family, find his way in this normal life other than by being isolated?
In this empty room, doesn't it seem more like Chainsaw Man is deliberately isolated? Trapped in this normal life he can't quite fit into. Whether it's because of his identity as Chainsaw Man, as Denji, whether it's because Yoshida offers him this girl who looks like a demon who literally followed orders to sleep with him, this sex-obsessed boy?
Why abruptly cut off Denji's realization that he's in a bad way? With this demon-like girl sexually assaulting him? Why does this ending seem so abrupt?
Because what Fujimoto is indicating is that he's not capable of writing a normal life for Denji either, that his writing will never be gentle, that his character will never be able to give himself up in appropriate, normal circumstances: that a trauma will always resurface.
Whether it's the demon that prevents him from accessing the life projected before him, or the demon that brutally cuts him off from his confessions by attacking him. Fujimoto confronts his own hero, who no longer knows what to do?
Make love? In a world populated by demons? In a world crawling with Chainsaw Man? With an author unable to depict a normal life without brutally interrupting it, frustrating his own reader?
The normal life we'd all like Denji to have: neither he, nor the man who offers it, nor the man who writes it, will give it to us.
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#asa mitaka#csm asa mitaka#yoru#war devil#csm yoru#chainsaw man asa mitaka#chainsaw man yoru#csm fanart#chainsaw man fanart#my art#csm#chainsaw man#csm part 2#chainsaw man part 2#csm 136
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