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As , the United States, potentially heads into another forever war I can only think of this quote.

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she looks much healthier now transition saved her

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deltarune begins by discarding the appearance and name you choose, then immediately proceeds to show the protagonist being called the name their mother likely chose for them. at school, they encounter susie, an outcast who's treated as a deadly monster (even by her teacher) despite the fact that she never follows through on her violent threats. kris and susie are then forced by their teacher to go into the closet, a dark place whose residents are oppressed by wider society. there, they meet ralsei, who initially covers his entire face and body with a cloak and tells them with an air of resignation that he's been waiting his entire life to meet them so he can fulfill the role of the prince of darkness that's been forced upon him. it's difficult to read it as anything other than a transfem allegory, and I struggle to imagine the kind of cognitive dissonance it would require to understand it as anything else

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THE THREE HEROES APPEAR AT WORLD’S EDGE

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STOP! before you decide you are irretrievably doomed, try one of the following options:

transition

bdsm

iron supplements

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one time i was chilling and watching some porn with some trans women in it but then i realized that it was actually just a bunch of cis women with really convincing prosthetics. and then i realized that there’s a whole industry for fake tgirl porn. and it sorta felt like watching my entire family get murdered in front of me.

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Me : I don't want death to look like a conventionally beautiful girl.

Fujimoto: She is. The originality lies in the fact that death is suicidal.

Me:

Me: Tell me more

While we wait for him to tell us more, here's my interpretation of what's to come.

1) it's by fighting against his nature that the knight of the apocalypse brings about the end of the world. If anything recurs frequently in Part 2, it's the struggle (in vain) against what we are

2) if death dies, if it's devoured by CSM, that's how the time loop will be created: explaining the fact that there are several CSMs (Fake!CSM is Denji from the future or even the real Denji) and above all the fact that Fujimoto can't be trusted.

Part 2 is really part 1 and part 1 is part 2.

Makima is obsessed by CSM, by Nayuta's love for Denji, not the other way around. Nayuta is the source of her obsession with family (where else does it come from?)

3) Pochita is the devil of life and birth, hence the fact that "Fami", death, has it as an earring: for without life, death does not exist.

4) Yoshida knows more than he lets on, and I'm sure he's trying to help Denji / CSM

5) Asa knows that Yoru's plan is to create this world without end, or rather a repeating apocalypse, by killing Death.

6) The Knights of the Apocalypse instinctively recognize each other, but don't necessarily know the fear they represent (as in the case of Nayuta with Fami).

Yoru knows that Fami is connected to her, but is unaware that she is the demon of death.

7) Nayuta is alive

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It's all about the number 2 

Asa and Yoru, Nayuta and Denji, two Chainsaw Man, two camps of worshippers versus detractors, two protagonists, a second part, the two identities of Denji, a high-school student and a hero himself, both demon and human: Chainsaw - Man. 

But before we balance all that, let's take a closer look at this chapter.

First of all, I'd like to say how rich chapter 140 is. I see a lot of people criticizing Fujimoto's writing as someone who simply sets up absurd situations when absolutely nothing is left to chance. We're reading a manga by a film buff, so get your head around Chekov's rifle. 

I'd like to remind you that Chainsaw Man is set in Japanese society. 

Ejecting a sect from a building, or even belonging to a cult that has nothing to do with a dominant, ancestral religion, is more common than in the West. 

I've seen plenty of people wondering who could be at the head of the church for making people believe such a stupid story as a violet-ray weapon that would make adults stupid.

When it's the other way around, the church is exploiting the fact that high-school students are just thinking too much. And if there's one thing that saves Denji, it's that he thinks less. 

Let's put things in context: this is the '90s, and even if the idea of nuclear weapons has been erased by Pochita, meaning that the Cold War has surely taken a different form in Chainsaw Man, Fujimoto has never denied geopolitical tensions. 

Whether it's the mention of the USSR with Reze, Makima's instrumentalization of Japan, the history of weapons, the fact that the American government sought to eliminate Makima or that countries share the remains of the weapon demon...

Countries are in tension. The church exploits this atmosphere of anxiety among teenagers who are beginning to form opinions that dissent from their parents. 

Adolescence means coming into conflict with your parents' ideas, so come up with a story about how a gun makes them stupid. It's simply targeted manipulation that exploits the vulnerabilities of individuals in the midst of an identity crisis. 

Becoming a teenager also means freeing oneself from a certain carefree attitude and better understanding of the world around us, hence the mention of Americans on the same level as adults. 

I'd like to point out that this is not just a collection of absurdities. But for that, a bit of history... I hope I'm not teaching anyone that Japanese society has been turned upside down by the United States.

Without going into too much detail, during the 19th century, Japan went through the Meiji era. The Meiji government pursued a policy of modernization with the ultimate aim of bringing Japan up to the level of the Western powers. 

To compete with Western powers such as the United States, the government relied on centralized power to control citizens as much as possible... and this involved reforming the matrimonial system. With the popularization of "love marriage", the Meiji government changed tactics: the polygamous system was replaced by exclusive "love marriage". 

The church used the same method of control as the Meiji government: reforming the matrimonial system by overturning institutions. From now on, it's no longer sex after marriage, but before it.

It's this kind of talk that just digs into the cracks that allows them to be brainwashed. But talk has never worked with Denji, who thinks concretely with what he can grasp. A date with a pretty girl, steak, sex, feeling the buttocks when he does the chair. What one would point to as perversity is what saves Denji. He thinks through his senses, his literal needs, not the abstract. 

We can't say that Miri, who thinks he's free when he's being instrumentalized, repeating that it's the Americans' fault again, or asking Chainsaw Man if he's sure he hasn't picked up any ultraviolet weapons... that he’s stupid. Because weapons have lost their memory, they have no loved ones, no stories to refer to. 

Miri convinces himself he's free, filling the void of his own forgotten history with false stories. The lack of education, of pillars, of history is what had tortured Denji, who was so easily manipulated. I'd go so far as to say that Reze is the most striking example of this. 

It's impossible to determine Barem's psychology, but he still demonstrates a third reaction to manipulation: while Denji evolves, Miri locks himself in denial : Barem manipulates in return. Revenge, reproductive mechanism, any number of reasons could explain why Barem exploits one of Denji's weaknesses: Asa. 

Now you're thinking, yes, that's all very well, you talk a lot... but what's that got to do with the number two?

The scale is the very image of dichotomy, of a relationship between two forces, two weights, two entities. And what does it have to do with manipulation? Several things.

First of all, manipulation also means taking on ideas that are not our own. It means no longer questioning them, confronting them with dissident ideas that would contradict them, or balancing them. 

To balance is also to confront two options in a dilemma. Something that's come up several times, first initiated by Yoshida, then taken up in his own way by Barem: embrace his identity as Chainsaw Man or continue his normal life as Denji?

The manipulation since the start of Part 2 has been to split up Chainsaw Man. To have separated what constitutes his essence: human and demonic. To have split his nature, which has always been that of two beings in one. 

And what if I told you that the answer lies in chapter 2 (yes, man). Here, Makima clearly explains to Denji that Pochita is not dead but continues to live with him, that he has two smells.

Fami's project is openly to separate Chainsaw Man, to cut its essence in two: the reunion of two beings. 

That's why this chapter talks about marriage, which refers to the reunion of two individuals. 

Barem would have us believe that these two choices are antinomic, that they are contradictory and cannot be fulfilled together. Only Denji can have both choices, he had already answered that. His sign of strength is two fingers. Two is Denji's strength. Becoming two is what literally allowed him to be reborn. 

Of course, Denji doesn't want to marry; he's already one with one being through a contract: Pochita. 

Pochita had merged with him so that he could live a normal life. It was never a normal life, but the life Denji wanted to live. Chainsaw Man is literally the means, a better life, the end. 

The secret to surviving the manipulation then lies literally in Denji's heart. 

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CSM#206 : What does Denji!child represent ?

((((IM BAAAAAAACK!!!!!!!!))))

As a child, Denji is not a symbol of innocence, nor is he someone who would be lectured to, nor is he his own childhood.

He is the symbol of Denji's guilt. Or.. Is he really?

More specifically, it symbolizes the very first choice that Denji considers morally reprehensible: that of killing his family, namely his father, a man who was nevertheless violent.

But in reality, I don't think this chapter confirms that Denji's morality is, in fact, wrong.

Twice he was questioned, but in exactly opposite ways.

The first time, his humanity was questioned and he was reduced to the status of a devil, even though Denji saved many people.

The second time, his demonic nature is ignored in favor of manipulating his humanity, because it is anxiety that interests the devil of the falling.

But why these two approaches ?

Because the devil of fire idealizes humanity and makes a deal with them to fulfill their dreams.

While the devil of the falling does not see humanity, she has not been saved by it; she ingests it and uses it as the breeding ground for the apocalypse.

They are both demonic boundaries, and Denji satisfies neither of them.

Denji does not satisfy the demons, and the humanity he saves only remembers his mistakes.

Denji has two choices for every action, but none of his choices will ever be right.

That's why it's the same boy who is used by the demons, one who loved him, the other who devours him, with no good answer.

Was this boy's life more important than that of the cat ?

Was Denji wrong to rush at the demon of the fall ?

Can one be moral when there are multiple possible answers ?

We would consider that there is only one choice if Fujimoto had created only one boy, but they were twins, and that face and body are used to tear Denji apart. That same face, that same body, that same universal morality is actually two.

So Denji does have two choices before him each time.

This explains why Denji cannot see what others can see, represent, and feel.

When Denji calls the demon of the fall, the chest woman, it's not just a joke. Denji thinks only with his senses, and those senses are those of a human and a devil.

So he will never make the right choice, he will never be quite the hero, nor the outcast

What this child represents is the choice to kill a father who abused him, who preferred animals to humans, and the desire to become Chainsaw Man, a devil to some and a hero to others.

What this child represents is: I don't know what else I could have done.

It is this child who sees motherhood in the devil that will cause him the most suffering

This child between the light of the city and the dark alley

It is this child who gave up his heart so that a demon would give him his

I may have failed, but I never betrayed my heart—it was in the right place, even when I was wrong.

For it is better to fall true than to triumph falsely.

But tell me... what becomes of those whose hearts are not in the right place? A demon's heart, trapped in a human body ?

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Zero suit Bridget

Hey y'all! I know I'm a bit late on this trend, but I just HAD to stick my favorite girls in this situation! And I mean honestly is anyone gonna complain about more zero suit cosplays?

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MKW✨

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Reminder that if you’re a trans girl today, you’re beautiful and I’m proud of you <3

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tfw ur trans and you put a lot of work into your appearance but you’re still afraid of being misgendered

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It's Juneteenth yall. And I'm not letting this day go unmarked.

Black people fight for everybody. We stand in solidarity with women, lgbt people, poor people all over the world of every skin color and background. Every religion and nationality.

Today, stand with us. Be with us. Tell a black person you love them. Hug a black person (with consent). Ask that hot black girl out today. Make a black person smile. Black lives matter to everybody and you matter to us.

Stand with us on Juneteenth like we stand with you all year round, and I hope a happy Pride month continues for all of us

💝