Chainsaw Man Chapter 168 Discussion

Dude Denji is going through it rn. That post-nut clarity is hitting HARD.

my poor baby boy ☹️

>Jerks off main character in an alley out of nowhere
>every single casuals, normies and csm bandwagonners on the internet loses their mind
>next chapter
>no consequences
>denji ? he forgor
>Asa ? cares only about the kiss
>fucking off to the sushi restaurant like last chapter could have been skipped

That is part2 writing and modern Fujimbo for you dawgs lmaoooo.

are u reading an AI chapter summary or something

>Jerks off main character in an alley out of nowhere
>every single casuals, normies and csm bandwagonners on the internet loses their mind
>next chapter
>no consequences
>denji ? he forgor
>Asa ? cares only about the kiss
>fucking off to the sushi restaurant like last chapter could have been skipped

That is part2 writing and modern Fujimbo for you dawgs lmaoooo.

are u reading an AI chapter summary or something

@sillywackygatto
Typical answer from a part2 bandwagoners, 0 argument provided, topic deviation by a lame joke, absolutely expected.
I beg Fujimoto to go back making one shots because this community is an embarassment.

This chapter could've gone in so many different ways and I'll happily call this a win.

@sillywackygatto
Typical answer from a part2 bandwagoners, 0 argument provided, topic deviation by a lame joke, absolutely expected.
I beg Fujimoto to go back making one shots because this community is an embarassment.

it isn't that deep lole

your og forum message said basically nothing about the actual chapter, you shimply cant act like you have any intellectual high ground

As always, I argue with people lacking reading comprehension, something which concerns me very much but it's how discourse works nowadays I guess.
Therefore I will proceed to explain in a few words, not like I need to say much considering the complete absence of thoughts Fujimoto has put into Chainsaw man these past 2 years.
Last chapter had everyone going crazy for something I knew in advance would have no interesting nor consequential followup whatsoever, like most thing happening in part2 to be fair. Denji's reaction was as expected, going braindead and not saying any single word of value or words at all, like he does in the entirety of part2 when something happen to him, my bad half of part 2, the other half he just screams and cry in the most pathetic way imaginable, but hey I do not worry, part2 defenders will tell me this actually had a deep impact onto his character because there was an alf-assed page of him sitting down in a shutterstock city background, not like I've seen this 10 times already.
In the same way, Asa/Yoru reaction consisted of a comedy skit, really fitting to follow the apparently extremely "deep and mature" last chapter, I had my opinion confirmed of the average IQ of part2 fans when I saw about 50 "TSUNDERU IS CUTE" posts in 4chan's /csm/ general after the chapter dropped. Because that's actually what is is, a legit tsundere comedy moment between our main girl and her alter ego because Asa is mad Yoru made her kiss her boyfriend and now he thinks she's a bad girl, something akin to the worst of the 2000s anime landscape. Once again, Asa fans, which are the most insufferable people I've ever interacted with, will tell me this is actually a deep character development moment because Fujimoto has rotten their brain.
None of this mattered anyway, time to go to the sushi restaurant for another of the 1000th one-off adventures which will kickstart the actual arc which will completely ignore what happened, probably involving a new cameo from part1. I already predict people saying "but you dont know the story, Fujimoto will bring this plot point back and it will be important", something I would have believed perhaps a year ago when I hadn't heard it a dozen of times, for sure Fujimoto will bring back this important plot point essential to the story, like he did with Yuko, like he did with the 4 horsemen, like he did with Nostradamus, like he did with fake chainsawman, I don't fear it at all. (that was obviously irony and he never brought back any, I have to clarity it because as stated before, people lack reading comprehension) Now let's wait the arguments;

@James-LastOmnic you talk like an ai, but I will bite.

None of it was particularly brushed off. The series has done what it's always done, and is going down the path of pure concision, even if it feels like many things are brushed over. From previous parts, such as part 1 even, big things that felt undermined typically come back into play in some form or another, so I don't think we have to worry about the jerking of denji to go completely ignored within the next several chapters. Everything else feels like a generally reasonable progression from the characters standpoint in 15 pages. I don't know what else we could really want from this scene. I mean, both are weaning off a very weird sexual scene, so their initial reactions are going to be reasonably scatterbrained I would say. This told us what we wanted to know. Yoru seems to feel something for denji and is confused by it, and Asa is depressed from the encounter (not just the kiss of course, but i don't think fujimoto felt it was necessary for asa to spell out as well "how dare you jerk his chicken, he will think i'm a jerker of chickens. He will think i like doing those things that involve hastily gripping and yoinking the chains of others without proper build up.")

This comes from someone that far prefers part 1 chainsaw man and does not hold much love for part 2. That said, I think the overblown reactions to this scene by both hardcore contrarians and dickriders are equally insufferable. In case you don't know what implication means, both in and out of fiction, I'm implying you as a contrarian.

Yes, just in case people were confuse from last chapter, it was Yoru who kissed Denji of her own choice not Asa. While technically it is Asa's body, it wasn't of her conscience or mind to do it.

"I saw about 50 'TSUNDERU IS CUTE' posts in 4chan's /csm/ general"
maybe the problem is that you're looking at 4chan's /csm/ general

u went and wrote a multi-paragraph rant and still managed to say nothing of actual value or substance.

@CUM_enjoyer
Thank you for your argumentation I genuinely appreciate it, unfortunantely the absolute god sent individual that I am managed to respond to everything you adressed in a post which wasn't even adressed to you before I even read your post. Mainly that for sure Fujimoto will bring back this event in a substantial way, which I know for a fact will not happen, and that you headcannon like most part2 fans something which wasn't stated, Asa is not depresssed by anything no matter how much you'll try to convince yourself she was, last pannel we see her she's blushing like a tsundere.

I need to adress this on the other hand :

To be a contrarian of csm part2 it first needs to be recognized as something of quality, which it is not in the slightest. Actually no people who ever read Chainsaw man when it was still publishing thinks part 2 is even remotely good, but part2 discourse is an echo chamber of bandwagonners who started reading chainsaw man after the anime in 2022/2023, which is why you will only encounter people talking of part2 highly because they are deeply into it, otherwise when part2 eventually finishes or gets into mainstream that its fans will have to face the reality that everyone will find it for what it is, an utter dogshit disappointment from the masterpiece of its 1st part. I deny being a contrarian and especially of chainsaw man, I love part1 from chapter 1 to 97 because I find it great, I dislike everything from 110 onwards because it is genuinely bad, 110 and not 98 because I actually had hope when part2 started and still like its pilot chapter.