Chainsaw man and Frieren

Half of Denji's personality in csm anime is sexualising women

You're telling me there's no hot springs chapter in Frieren? ):

If you can relate to him, then you have problems. Because that's the kind of simplicity that alienates him from normal viewers. It's like saying that you relate to the dog in InuHiro. Denji several times was portrayed as a dog and you relate to a dog, at least that's what you said there.
And tbh, I wouldn't call him memorable either, because - like I said - he is simple as an NPC like every second shounen MC without any real depth. This is another show where the supporting characters are more memorable than the main one.

thats akshually a beach 🤓

Idk about well written or not sexualised female characters in chainsaw man, I didn't finish it but that's certainly the opposite impression than I got. Maybe by mainstream shounen standards but not compared to like, literally anything else.

edit: it's also not particularly low female viewership, as someone else pointed out, mal is 75% male user base.

listen here pal all I'm tryna say here is that denji's character writing stands out among the typical protagonist bullshit that most can't relate to .he's literally a just a normal teenage boy whos horny and doesn't really wanna do the "right thing" necessarily now when i say relate i mean most people i repeat *most* people relate to him than any typical shonen protagonist , of course denji's been psychologically destroyed and manipulated by the wrong people ,of course he would be so fucked in his head that he decides to do shit like ask makima to be her dog i mean she genuinely drove him insane .. am i saying i relate to him ? no? i haven't gone through what he's gone through of course lmao but you can see why and in which way i say i*relate* to him.. until well .. the manipulation and control that makima causes , and while it's true that some side characters are well received and loved for their writing ( only makima tbh ) denji is absolutely ome of the most unique shonen protagonists out there , you saying he has no depth is just actually a dumb statement to make .. idk what to tell ya you must've read csm blind cuz while denjis characteristics are simple ( and rare ) he has more ..MUch more depth than you think je does

@ktg So Denji, who's been deprived of a childhood, never having the chance to gain any real life experiences, and is therefore extreamly naive, who's been treated so shittily his whole life to the point he thinks being treated like a dog is an act of kindness, but no, he lacks depth cuz he's also a tennager with hormones

Very nice and simplistic thought process you got there

@DigiCat Just because there's an explanation why he lacks personality that does not make him that different from the characters that lack personality because of the author incapability to add a plausible backstory, because at the end of the day, both characters lack personality, which makes them quite similar.

@ktg You have a very narrow definition of what personality is then i guess

@DigiCat Okay, I googled it for you. This is what google says: "the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual's distinctive character."
And this definition actually the same or similar of how I would define personality and how I analyzed Denji.

Did you watch frieren?
look at the differences between manga and anime.

You have no idea how many weirdos wanked it to this scene.

@AnimeIs4Kidz My god how frustrated must one be to wank at that LFMAO

It's not even drawn to be remotely ecchi, it's a very very very tamed butt shot, i mean wanking at that would be the equivalent of wanking to a character standing with their back to the camera cuz their butt is on screen

@DigiCat
it's a 100% a foot fetish scene you would find in doujins.

And you don't masturbate because you are "frustrated", you do it because you just wake up horny thanks to testosterone.
Are you 12?

@ktg Great, then please explain your process and what you came up with to describe Denji's personality

@DigiCat I did that, you ignored it. Either refute me or admit that I'm right. That's the 2 options you have.
Ok, you have a 3rd, you could act like a kid and start crying, but I would prefer if you could avoid that.

I would say that the best word to describe Denji is wild. This is why he gets along with Power so well. Denji is straight, honest and naive. He doesn't deceive others, he says what he thinks. He doesn't care about society norms since he was isolated from society. There was no one there to teach him.


He lacks fear. He is not brave, just lacks fear. He had to put his life in danger since early childhood and eventually it became a norm for him. Katana man doesn't understand why Denji is fighting when his life is always on the line and he gets an average life in return. But Denji doesn't see anything strange in it. Earlier he did the same only to barely survive.


Denji doesn't understand himself. Since he was struggling to survive, he hasn't gone through self-actualisation. He doesn't know what he wants. We see this when he touches Powers' boobs and realises:"That's not it. That's not what I wanted".Sure, in the beginning he was talking about getting on a date with a girl, but at the same time this wasn't something he was working for. It was an unachievable image of the ultimate success.


Denji lacks empathy. He doesn't care about people in general. Why would he? His whole life they treated him like trash. At best, someone would pay him for putting his life at risk. There always was only Denji and Pochita. No one else cared

@ktg Hmm... act like a kid and start crying? But isn't "Either refute me or admit that I'm right" exactly something a kid who doesn't want to have a mature discussion would say?

@DigiCat So you are saying that asking for being mature and argue as an adult is actually immature? Definitely an interesting take.
Fyi, I ask for that because while I like arguing, most people tend to commit fallacies and they don't admit that they are wrong. For example, instead of refuting me, they commit a fallacy like start talking about what mature and what it isn't. :)