#and denji is so abused

[nerves-nebula]

love csm so far and i can kinda guess right off the bat that Makima isn't like. a great person or whatever. But the scenes with her and Denji make me SQUIRRRMRMMM like girl STOP TOUCHINGGG HIMM WHATTTT FDSFSDF

cause he's like. 16, right? I remember when my lil brother was 16 and like. OOF that's a BABY, practically a FETUS.

this isn't an indictment of the show btw I love it and im pretty sure this is on purpose. its making me uncomfortable but I think that's a good thing. I'm just saying when I went into Chainsaw Man this isn't what I expected! (to be fair I didn't know a ton about it going in tho)

anyway GOOD SHOW SO FAR

[yugiohz]

i think chainsaw man should’ve been published in a different magazine, I don’t think most shonen jump readers can handle csm

[qcoded]

Redrew a panel of Makima and Denji w/ these two :P aghhh the blood on their clothes looks a bit weird 😭

[monzterzack]

i sometimes wish we had more complex and interesting takes on popular media, but then i see what people have done to chainsaw man and steven universe and im like “ya know what?… im happy with discussing the nuances of this shows with just close friends”

[angelfrogs]

My feelings on Yoshida are...mixed. On the one hand I understand that he is young and in a very toxic environment that encourages pretty amoral behavior, but on the other hand he is a pretty smart guy and should know when his orders are cruel and he should defy them. What he does next will really shape my opinion on him: will he stick by Public Safety or will he aid Denji?

That’s completely understandable. Personally my favorable opinion of him really because of his amoral and atypical behaviors. I think he’s one of the most fascinating characters in part two. There’s so much we don’t know about him, like why/how he joined public safety in the first place (originally in part one he’s introduced as a private hunter temporarily hired by public safety to protect Denji, which leads us to even more questions about his past like how long has he been devil hunting but I digress) I think because of this he’s a very strong parallel to Denji (to me he and sugo are the main non asa parallels) he’s clearly to some extent been raised in life threatening situations/raised killing devils and he also seems to have one devil connection that he relies on and even occasionally acts familiar with. I think the difference is Denji was always treated as expendable and Yoshida has been treated as talented. It’s technically speculative but I think that really ends up explaining a lot about their behaviors. Yoshida is very smart, and he is young and vulnerable, I think him following through with public safety’s cruelty is in fact because of all of those things. I think that where Denji is controlled by ignorance Yoshida may be controlled by information. It’s not hard to convince a kid that the reason he lives while others don’t is because he’s smart enough to make the cruel decisions. But given how upset and frustrated he seemed each time he failed to put Denji on the path with the least public safety intervention, amongst other things, I think it’s safe to say he doesn’t want to be cruel. But it remains unclear if the want to stop being cruel outweighs the “smart” safe decision of staying where he is. Especially now that he’s already lost once to Asa/Yoru. Especially because it’s extremely possible he knows the fate that he could receive if he’s caught disobeying/defecting. No matter what he does I think I’ll always like him as a character, though I really do want him to defect, but honestly what I’m most interested in is answers about his past and current situation. If I had to give guesses on what his fate will be I think he will either die defecting or apologizing for not defecting but that’s just my two cents lol! This manga is always keeping me guessing!

[tariah23]

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[coffinsister]

Mate how am I supposed to take for real your call out document if one of the offenses listed there is "Pro-ship"

[basofy]

well what i was fearing could happen to denji since himeno happened..

though i believe the theory that makima had already abused him but this time we saw it happen

poor denji and poor asa

[tricksterlatte]

There was this post I saw awhile back that asked what was the one thing you would get pretentious about since everyone has at least one. I didn’t reblog it at the time, but my god if I have to see any more bad faith or media illiterate surface level take about Chainsaw Man, I’m going to become the literacy devil

[cuntstable]

ive been saying that what makes denji csm a not only bearable but genuinely likable girl obsessed teenage boy protag is above all else the fact that hes been a raging misandrist from day one and people are FINALLY realizing that thats the case

[cacaitos]

see for the thing ive observed abt the way the female-to-male predation types of portrayals happen to go, that imo for some reason use like extra stablished power dynamics to like. *justify themselves happening in the first place (like ex mothers that are yk. v straighforward menaces in a kid/teen's inmediacy), is that i will give fujimoto the acknowledgement of partially avoiding doing so by virtue of him not having much respect or shame for himself and his story analogues.

[paeonie-s]

WE NEED TO GET HIMENO CONVICTED !!!!!!!!!!

[ocdhuacheng]

Makima: I like this boy named denji

denji:

[stackslip]

feeling v normal about makima tonight folks

[yachl]

when ppl watch csm and are like “omg im so uncomfortable with how denji is being treated/groomed” like yeah that’s the point….. you’re supposed to feel sickened by this entire system

[mhrsb]

people will see pedophilia in any light in whatever media and immediately say it's fetishization