#csm chapter 1

[anisaanisa]

Pochita…I might die while I'm fighting devils. If I do, you'll be my one regret. You could starve to death. Or get killed by another devil hunter. I heard some devils can take over dead bodies. If you're one of them, then…I wanna give my body to you. If you wait til after I'm in the ground, I bet even the Yakuza won't come after you. Then you could leave this town, and then…yeah. I want you to live a normal life…and die a normal death. Make my dreams come true for me.

Denji, Chainsaw Man | チェンソーマン (2018—) ☆

[anjasitdown]

Love how Denji's more self-aware than what we give him credit for

[sakuraalexis]

Parce que tu crois, que je suis un esclave, une épave, de l'amour. Tu puises tes joies et tu forges tes armes, dans les larmes, sans secour. De mon cœur lourd.

I did this drawing last Valentine's day and I think it's my favorite CSM and 2024 piece. This piece was also really inspired by this Charles Aznavour's song.

Its available as an A5 print for 5€. Pm me or leave a comment so we can figure out the postal fees to your country.

Materials : Acrylic markers on white paper sketchbook.

bonus : my first really fugly Makima drawing lol

It was done on MSPaint.

[smply-sktchng]

Chainsaw Man Chapter 74 with Excerpts from Mystic by Sylvia Plath

“The air is a mill of hooks —

Questions without answer

…

I remember

The dead smell of sun…

Once you have seen God, what is the remedy?

Once one has been seized up…

…

Used utterly…

What is the remedy?

…

[degenerateshinji]

✌️

[numbmontezuma]

Man i don't know if this is controversial or not but the art in part 2 has felt so inconsistent ever since the switch to weekly, note that i don't know anything about art but the fact that pochita can look glorious in one panel but a blob of charcoal in the next is crazy.

[ma-e-by]

[wurm-food]

Asaden nation it’s time to KILL

[basofy]

she was just a little baby i miss her sm 😭😭 she fuckin that shit up eat eat eat

little ugly baby

[mrshayakawa]

they are never beating the allegations

[galaxynajma]

The chainsaw man light novel is way thicker then I thought it would be

I thought it was going to be the same size as the jujutsu kaisen light novels but alright

It’s like a little less thicker then a Normal Csm manga Vol

Anyways

Bi panic ( kinda weird to see kishibe smile that much)

Sadness

[noven-warsh]

Considering the events of this week's chapter I'd like to drop my small hc that I've had before all of this-

The apartment Denji and Nayuta lived in is the same apartment that Denji and Power rented with Aki's money

(i don't know if my hc lines up with the canon since he probably switched homes for his apartment (maybe the place where he ate makima was different from the one mentioned above) but I'm keeping this)

[ar0acecactus]

It's really cute that first things Denji thinks about to cheer Asa up are dogs and cats, and then ice cream (and it worked!)

[bittermelodies-csm]

[sugar-grigri]

I loved reading some of your theories, they're enlightening. If I may ask, how many times do you reread a manga or a scene in order to catch up these details and connections between seemingly unrelated events? That kind of global vision must require multiple readings. Do you also follow some kind of process or have you interpreted media for a long time?

HEYYY!! Thank you very much, it makes me happy to see that people like my theories!

I couldn't tell you exactly how many times I read a work before analysing it. If we take Chainsaw Man, by dint of analysing it almost every week I'm beginning to know the forty or so chapters of Part 2 by heart.

If I can give you a few pointers on my method...

First of all, I'd say that the more media you consume, in any medium (manga, books, films, series, even music!), the more you train your brain to interpret.

Because knowing how to interpret is correlated to your reading experience. It familiarises you with narrative biases, script construction, different ways of presenting the same theme, but also different authorial habits.

Fujimoto follows the rule of saying as little as possible, while other authors make extensive use of the narrator, such as Jun Mochizuki, who likes to place the story through the prism of his main character (Oz / Noé).

The more you like an author, the more familiar you become with their writing style. Which makes you more responsive.

As for my personal experience, I use a lot of different media. For example, I love classics, which are books that are complicated and not always very explicit. Especially when the authors take an outsider's point of view and play with chronologies, or even use a very wide range of characters.

But if you're waiting for a precise method, it must be your own. Once again, interpretation is personal. Nobody reads the same way.

When a chapter of CSM comes out, for example, I read it first... to find out. Generally I shout, I cry, I don't understand anything, but I let it settle. The first reading is essential because it's the only reading you won't intellectualise. It's an accumulation of pure emotions and it's the rudder that helps you understand what an author wants to provoke in you.

Then I reread the chapter, several times, until I see other things, the narrative construction, lines that tickle me, the breakdown. I also always look at the chapter title!

I write down my ideas in an unconstructed way and then compare them with the overall work (part 2 for CSM). Because mangaka write from this point of view, a chapter is just one piece of the jigsaw, so it's essential to stand back and understand its contribution to the rest.

Here's hoping my vague advice helps a little <33

[bytedykes]

giggling to myself about the chainsaw man wedding chapel still. the reveal that the csm church is entirely student-run. the reveal that they think the usa is shooting psychic laser beams at them or something and also chainsaw man can sniff out these beams. the reveal that they are all getting child married... the reveal that we are NOT done with Kill Asa but in fact are heading directly into Kill Asa... 2!!! the fact that kobeni's brother is there