#128 spoilers

[userarmand]

128 boys he's brought here. He said five. And you're the first he didn't consummate and drain. That makes you special. Please, man, look, I'm just a shitty little kid from Modesto. That warrants investigation.

[portalmonsterrr]

so umm I finally finished reading Thousand Autumns after 3 years, it's fully translated now so yippee!

drew this to get the pictures out of my head and maybe to get someone interested in the book and you should all look at yan wushi's gray hair and shen qiao's deer-like eyes

[dennydreadful]

the only logical way for this to play out

[letmebegaytodd]

finally found the screenshot of a comment thread on a long deleted youtube upload of the film adaptation of La bohème that I think about every day of my life

[cut3blush]

Y’all Chisaki is back and he’s still pretty

[verysadlesbian]

Okay, but the fact that Louis had a suitcase filled with drugs ready in his apartment is sticking out to me. This and also Armand saying that he drained 128 men. Like Daniel, Louis had a drug abuse problem in the 70's. As I said before, he was numbing himself, going through the stages of grief he'll never get over with, courting his own demise like he's so used to do...

[jeirtza]

asa telling denji he's gonna be perpetually bitchless because of his chainsaw head while he's actively stopping her from falling to her death 😭😭😭

[sugar-grigri]

An overlay of games

Two injured arms? What are you trying to tell us, Fujimoto ?

The interesting thing about the first part of the chapter is this page in which Denji hesitantly answers. It's another way of accentuating his existential crisis, even when he's called an impostor, Denji can't defend his position firmly and confidently.

It's normal, he's still bound by the dilemma of the public hunters who have forbidden him to reveal and be Chainsaw Man himself, and above all he's competing with the impostor for his own identity.

Denji isn't THAT scandalized by being pointed out as a wannabe CSM because he is one now, he's been so robbed of his identity that he's almost willing to become himself.

This chapter also hints at the fact that the public hunters don't agree on everything, probably because of a hierarchy or unity game. For example, some hunters only thought that the church was having fun playing CSM, not knowing that it was fighting against the prophecy of Nostradamus.

However, this information was gathered by Yoshida through his interview with Fami, but it remained highly confidential. Here again, this public hunter doesn't know that Denji is CSM. In short, information isn't leaking out of the Special Division 7.

Yoshida is the mediator between the public hunters and Denji, but also with the church with Fami. Katana, Quanxi and the possessed man with the dripping brain are the henchmen. Fumiko is the one in charge of preventing any temptation on Denji's part to get closer to the church.

But there's something else that I find even more interesting that follows this point. If we try to untangle everyone's role. We end up with Yoshida; Quanxi; Katana; the possessed one with the overflowing brain; Fumiko; Denji and on the other, on the church side, we have Fami, Barem, Miri, the weapon of the whip, the bow and finally Asa. That's six against six.

Asa's room is 606. And as I've explained several times, Fujimoto tends to play with numbers in this part 2. So I'm going to try and give you an explanation.

When I saw that not only Quanxi had her arm bruised but Yoshida had sliced Asa's arm, the first thing I thought was "a tie". On one side we have Quanxi losing her arm to protect while on the other we have Yoshida attacking with a slice. The fact remains that an arm has been lost on each side, so there's a certain balance.

Let me remind you that there are six against six in this game, and nobody has won any points yet, which makes 0. 6 0 6, ball in the middle.

I sincerely believe that what Fujimoto is setting up is a form of game, a war in which we're going to have to keep score. Barem is called Barem BRIDGE, a card game of 2. against 2. This time it's not just a game about the clan war but the whole manga: Fami and Barem on one side, the demon of Death and maybe Fake! CSM on the other

Did you know that one of the players called himself the dead man? ;))))))

I think the human usurper and fake!CSM are two different entities because the demon has twice interfered with Fami's plan by eliminating the fire demon (Yuko) and saving Denji and Asa.

But it doesn't stop there, so let me come back to a few bridge rules (I don't know how to play, so if I'm wrong, please correct me). The game opens with the "contract", i.e. declarer commits to making a given number of tricks. Just like the beginning of the game in CSM started with Barem announcing his contract with the fire demon.

A game of bridge is played in several moves, each move corresponding to a deal. Each player holds 13 cards, which they have arranged in a row to form what is known as their "deck" or "hand". Again, this is not to say that game 2 works exactly like bridge (and its horribly complex rules) but rather to emphasise the symbolism.

Every time one of the sides moves, an injury occurs, a limb is neutralised or even pulverised.

I wanted to end this analysis with the "strong" part of the chapter, Yoru's return in force. I was stuck on the symbolism of the arm, its symbolism in art and its relationship to war. So much so that I forgot to read the line: Yoru is a team player, she speaks as "we".

And then everything fell into place. There's a contrast between Yoru's exaltation and the fact that she's still missing a member. But everything makes sense with this fusion introduced by the "we".

Yoru is missing nothing, not even an arm, and Asa has become the perfect continuity of her being and her limbs.

Asa may have transformed her flat, her home, but she hasn't lost her bearings, because each of these girls has become the home of the other.

While Denji denies the duality of his being, Asa is embracing it.

While Yoru, even without her arm, feels her strength reaching its peak thanks to her completeness with Asa.

Now, don't you think that making room 606 a weapon whose number symbolizes the status quo is just the beginning of hostilities?

To be obsessed with victory, even if it means leaving your mark, isn't that the definition of waging war?

Or is it just playing a card game ?

[delzinrowe]

Bonus:

[uwannapieceoflis]

Absolutely obsessed with the way fujimoto keeps designing fucked up situations where Asa and Denji are forced together for extended periods of time

[fumifooms]

I just want to point out how Denji is solely focused on saving her, risking his life and spending his time to do so, even after Asa being straight up like "you’re repulsive and no one would ever want to be with you!!", the latter half which is self-admittedly his main motivation.

 Hero move right there, pure hearted. Nothing to gain. 10/10

[s30620]

Chapter 128: Let's Be Idols

Wow. WOOOOOOOW. Yes, sing, my tragic, doomed lesbian idols. Mai's attachment wasn't only resentment, but also regret that she didn't make up with Rin before her death. I like that her ghost aged up, not only for the visual impact, but also to show us that Mai is really attached to Rin and wanted to grow up with her. I love ships where they're such opposites but are brought together by one thing they're passionate about ❤️

[xoxobluelock]

I really don’t have the words to describe how much I need to see Sae, Shidou, and Kaiser interact 😂

[literallyjustabug]

Sketches for a thing I was working on. It's very fun to draw ruin eclipse like this.

I probably won't finish the project these were made for, maybe use them for something else.

[foxdrawdoodles]

Doodles of MAG 121, MAG 124 to 128 and MAG 130 to 131

Spoilers for The Magnus Archives, Season 4

Haven’t posted one of these in about a month and in that time Jon has gained a new scar and lost a couple of ribs. I had a surprisingly hard time drawing Oliver Banks despite the very clear image of him in my head, I am happy with the result of the drawing but would probably like to try a couple of different ways of drawing him before I settle on a design for him. The other half of Breekon and Hopes’s statement actually made me quite sad and I actually wasn’t expecting that, his statement made me feel like that feeling you get when you finish a book series (or any show or comic book series in general) you really like. Also look at that goats head! I am actually quite proud of it, it turned out exactly how I wanted it to look.

[bardic-irritation]

THE STATIC MEANS HE'S USING HIS POWERS OH MY GOD??