#csm chapter 74

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Chainsaw Man Chapter 74 with Excerpts from Mystic by Sylvia Plath

“The air is a mill of hooks —

Questions without answer

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I remember

The dead smell of sun…

Once you have seen God, what is the remedy?

Once one has been seized up…

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Used utterly…

What is the remedy?

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[fruitylittledrink]

people really be talking about the panel where aki helps angel drink as if the panel right below it doesn’t look like angel’s resting his whole head on aki’s whole chest

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Chainsaw Man Spoilers

I like how the Angel devil is someone who’s meant to parallel so many different characters in csm, he is a representation of both duality and a lot of the major themes throughout csm despite being a side character

Starting off with Reze, who personally I think is the most obvious parallel as they’re both the two main focuses of the bomb girl arc, Angel are Reze both represent the ‘country mouse’ mindset in which they would rather live a life of comfortability and “simple pleasures” in exchange for not getting to experience every luxury the world has to offer. Those two specifically choose the country mouse because of their dislike of the city. Reze is bound to the Soviet Union and is forced to risk her life in order to carry out her missions, while Angel is forced to live a life in public safety with no actual freedom. Reze offering to run away with Denji to away from public safety is later paralleled in chapter 74 when Angel tells Aki he should “run away to the other side of the world”. Angel and Reze represent the desire for freedom and (in my opinion) love, as the actions they take near the end of the arc revolve around who they wish to be with or protect. Reze goes back to the cafe to find Denji, while Angel kills her to protect Aki from having to kill a women. It’s the only time they interact despite being so similar, Angel is forced to choose his own desire to protect someone he cares about over Reze’s freedom with Denji.

Denji and Angel also have a lot of similarities which I believe mainly lie in 1) food and 2) ignorance. Denji is someone who’s been starved his whole life, food is both important and scarce to him, in comparison to Angel who shown to always be eating something like ice cream, or even other devils. I’ve seen many interpretations of food in csm being a representation of basic happiness as well as love. Whenever Denji eats, it’s clear he honors what he’s eating no matter what it is (ie. him always eating power’s vegetables so they won’t go to waste), and him eating Makima at the end of part one is said to be an act of love—he honored her even while destroying her. Angel, despite eating so much, doesn’t seem to have much thought on what he consumes. It’s clear he likes the food he eats considering he makes a comment about how a dead devil looked like it’d taste good while on patrol with Aki, or the copious amounts of ice cream he’s always holding, but he doesn’t care about it as much as Denji. In his first appearance, he only takes one bite out of the zombie before carelessly throwing it off to the side, and if we use the idea that food represents bliss and love, it could be said that Angel eats so much because he’s trying to find to chase a feeling of comfort through food. He doesn’t care about food in the long run, but he still eats because of the idea that it might give him a small dose of contentment or pleasure. If we look at the topic of ignorance, Denji has to ultimately choose between ignorance or awareness, while Angel is forced into a life of ignorance through his memories getting erased. I believe that Angel, similar to Quanxi, represents a possible future for Denji if he chose to be Makima’s dog; he’d forget what made him feel human and content and only be seen as a devil to be used by public safety.

I’m not going to say much about Aki because it’d take forever and a day to go over the whole situation between them, but basically him and Angel parallel each other as people who seek comfort within each other after spending a lifetime of pushing others away for the sake of their motives (Angel basically not wanting to hurt anyone with his powers and Aki neglecting those who care about him to chase after the gun devil).

Himeno and Angel, to me, are two sides of the same coin. Himeno copes with the devil hunter lifestyle through alcohol, cigarettes, and sex; short pleasures that only get her by for a little while and don’t actually help her adjust to the life she’s living. Angel does something similar with food, but he also copes with isolation because a large part of his issues lie in the fact that he believes he is fundamentally evil. The parallels continue with the way they care for Aki, both of them wanting him to run away from public safety. This goes further with how they don’t believe they are worth saving, and that he has a better chance of getting out than them.

Makima and Angel have a dynamic that more so lies in the religious imagery used in csm. Makima is god, while Angel is Lucifer. Angel would probably be considered Makima’s “favorite” devil, mostly because of his unique powers, which is similar to how God favored Lucifer for his beauty and overall loyalty to him. Angel, just like Lucifer, strays away from the control of his superior. Lucifer ended up in hell after trying to overthrow god, while Angel ends up back in hell after trying to kill Makima.

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(CSM SPOILERS): Chapter 74 in a nutshell :)

[viillanelles]

just read chapter 74 of csm nobody talk to me

[kissingchoso]

fuck a bitch named makima. all my homies hate makima.

[d1isky]

I hope aki has read faust because im sure he is about to make one hell of a deal  

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Ok but let's talk about the fact that Aki changed his mind because he has grown to actually really care about Denji and Power. Deep down he's probably already worn down and tired of losing the people important to him. His family, fellow devil hunter friends, Himeno. He has spent his entire life going after the Gun Devil and obviously does not care if or how he dies as long as he gets the chance to go after it and bring it down. Simply put, he doesn't really care about what happens to him. But what happens to the people he cares about is a totally different story.

He doesn't want Power and Denji to die so he's doing his best to actually keep them from dying even if it means putting the goal he has offered up his life for behind.

But now he's going too because what's the point if both of them are going anyway? He's just so desperate to make sure they don't die.

Need I say more??? He's literally willing to give up everything for them. Knowing what's about to happen in the following chapters just breaks my heart.

[bittermelodies-csm]

[d1isky]

your weekly chainsawman review (chapter 74)

In this weeks chapter, aki and angel share one arm between the two of them, and i must admit it is rather cute. Aki and angel are talking about how they and power will probably be dying soon. “luckily” for them makima “saves” the day by offering aki a way to save power and denji but not himself. Also at the end out of nowhere angel remembers that makima killed his entire found family. 

interesting things

> for some reason the author brought up the fact that aki loves makima, but he dosent know why . Maybe its one of her powers

>Apparently we are just letting makima show off her powers now which is cool.

> angel is depressed but so is everyone besides makima in this series. 

>The side face shots of aki look pretty ugly 

>Personally i really love the eyes of the characters, and makimas are on full display this chapter.