#chainsaw man chapter 152

[denjhenge]

Fujimoto is pretty well known for changing up his main character in the middle of his stories. Do you think after ch. 152 we're about to see a POV shift to Nayuta?

[alicethehollow]

Chapter 152 is finally out. Denji has just completely lost it at this point.

On the one hand, this chapter felt *GREAT*. Like after so little of the actual Chainsaw Man in the manga Chainsaw Man, having such brutal action felt gratifying. But on the other hand, Denji is clearly not well. He's just lost everything, again, and he's clearly using Chainsaw Man as a way to cope right now. I think this is what Fujimoto intended though. Much like Denji, I think the reader is supposed to feel conflicted about what's happening. Only now Denji is living that high, while the reader witnesses his mental detearation. It's kinda genius really.

Although, to be completely honest, while it was glorious to witness Denji's carnage after all he's been through, he did kind of scare me. Last time something like this happened, Denji was completely broken but at the same time he wasn't really in control. It was Pochita. Now Denji is doing pretty much the same thing but of his own free will (well, as free as being insane can be). God I love this manga so much

[chainsawmac]

Oh, so Denji finally snapped, huh?

[yuzukahachimir]

CM CH 152 SPOILER ALERT.

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This isn't cool,Denji really lost it and is nowhere to be found.

Meanwhile we could laugh at the meaningless words he is saying at first, these words they have meaning after all and show his mood is sinking to the deepest.

[luckyrave]

Chainsaw Man Chapters 152-153 Livestream Discussion/Review Massage & Chainsaw Man Hunters

Denji has finally been driven off the deep end, and reawakened once again as The Chainsaw Man in what's felt like a really long time. He is left with so much thrill and excitement that he fears will cause some distance between himself and Nayuta. In this instance, Nayuta is thrown off in fear, but also shows great concern for her brother figure that she just wants to get away with him where they could both be safe together without trouble.

[blueish-bird]

Chainsaw Man is about self-destruction. It’s about self-destruction as a means of reclaiming your autonomy in an environment where you are consistently denied it. Chainsaw Man is about denial of autonomy. Chainsaw Man is about how, when you are in an environment where you are denied your own autonomy, you learn to view interpersonal relationships as interactions you have no control over unless you find a means of controlling the other members of that relationship — whether that be through methods of fight, flight, freeze, or fawn. Chainsaw Man is about how denial of autonomy is framed as love. Chainsaw Man is about how love that denies autonomy is violence.

[tokyo-chainsaw-dragon]

Denji's reached his breaking point.

[pippipdoodily-doo]

Nayuta redraw from the latest Chainsaw Man chapter 🥲🥲 (og under the cut)

Also should I go over the sketch with pen/color in her hair or just leave it sketchy

[ququoquaw]

wow denji.

[sugar-grigri]

Hey! Have you noticed the visual parallels between the gun fiend and Chainsaw man in this latest (152th) chapter?

The parallel between Aki and Denji in the last chapter

No, I hadn't noticed, and I like that others have because I might have an explanation for this parallel.

Fujimoto likes parallels, but this time he does it the other way round. Let me explain: for me, and according to my interpretation, he had already made an explicit reference to chapters 78/79 in this chapter:

Chapter 142 exploited Denji's relationship with others, but also with being a CSM, just as Fumiko's speech only reinforces the fact that even when she places herself as a victim, she reinforces Denji's position as a martyr.

Even when Fumiko argues that she saw CSM as a child, the chapter proves her wrong, whether through her unsuccessful manipulation techniques, her many contradictions, but above all her behaviour is typical, allowing Denji to deny the pain he suffered by killing his brother.

I won't go into it again ((if you want to know more, the link is above)) the only thing you need to remember here is that Fujimoto still intends to exploit Aki's death, albeit in a subtle, poetic way in part 2.

In chapter 152, Denji suffers because he has decided to; his suffering is his own, he demands it and even sees it as a means of experiencing pleasure. What's more, this chapter follows on from chapters 150/151 in Denji's claim to his own identity: I WANT to be CSM, and no one is going to stop me. The negative consequences are mine because I've decided to.

Whereas during his confrontation with Aki, Denji's identity was stolen by his "fans" (a theme dealt with in chapter 142), who positioned themselves as the only suffering parties (ignoring Denji's), and it was the frightened, bruised men and women who decided that CSM had to save them, had to act and kill.

So chapter 152 is more than an awakening, it's Denji who takes back the right to suffer if he has decided to do so. Before, it was always the others who decided, but instead of taking the plunge and saying: I'll never let myself suffer again, this time the martyr doesn't want his suffering to be taken away from him.

Because if we take away Denji's suffering, he won't turn into a CSM anymore

If that's taken away, his memories of Power and Aki are fragmented

These last two sentences are actually linked, because Denji has learnt to love just as much as he has learnt to suffer through Aki and Power. Aki's curse is to have been possessed by his sworn enemy, the Gun Devil, who reclaims his rights over the man who tried to resist him: to be there to make Aki's family suffer, always, even the second time around.

As the curse repeats itself, Aki's mind is stuck in his childhood, when it hadn't yet been broken, so he's blindly enjoying himself. Because, paradoxical though it may sound, it was when Aki realised the cruelty of this world, the loss of loved ones, that he tried to protect his family - the greatest act of love. Suffering is an awareness.

Aki had gambled on his suffering before, wasting his years of life with almost no ties. And when he began to change his perception of wanting to do something for his family, those wasted years didn't leave him enough time to protect his second family.

While he was escaping the suffering of his first family, he didn't even realise that he was causing the second to suffer. Fate was simply amused.

It is just as much for Power, a bestial being by nature who has already learnt about the suffering of losing loved ones with Meowy's kidnapping, Aki's anguish possessed at the door, bringing a birthday cake to Denji as an act of kindness, before realising that she would rather die than let Denji die. Suffering is also what brings destinies together and intertwines them.

Power and Aki are symbols of the same thing: when suffering began to be reflected in others, materialising in the fear of losing a loved one, fate turned against them.

So what Denji is doing is a narrative attempt to free himself from his fate, if he starts to fear more for Nayuta than for himself, if he stops being CSM for her, then the passage of suffering turned against oneself, there will always be someone to catch the ball. So Denji ends the cycle.

Denji will see no-one but his pain, Pochita, he will ignore even the flames that tore him away from his animal family, he will push back to Nayuta. It's a retreat into his own identity in the final chapter, a futile attempt to escape from a pain even worse than the pain of being cut in two, the pain of seeing another part of himself ripped away: a loved one.

Now we've pretty much understood the parallel. But don't forget the beginning of this post, Denji is doing exactly what Aki is doing.

Chapter 152 is the hero's attempt to regain control of his destiny, as if suddenly aware of the suffering inherent in the work, wanting to reverse it, to turn it into pleasure.

But he will not escape his fate. Denji may laugh, but only fate will have the last laugh.

[vixvaporub]

Chainsaw Man | チェンソーマン – Chapter 152 ⊙ Massage 

[shizukais]

chainsaw man chapter 152: massage

[antediluvianapocalypse]

chainsaw man chapter 111 vs 152

[homuracoded]

Some thoughts on 152

Starting here. We have chainsaw man back and he’s front and focus, but denjis lost pretty much everything of his old life now. Aki, power, makima, now the dogs? And Meowy, who helped him bond with power in the first place?

I really wanna highlight Nayuta here in this chapter, I’ve seen a lot of good thoughts on Denji here but I have a lot about Nayuta

Denji has never spoken like that to her before, she’s flabbergasted. Everything is out of control for her in the past few chapters, and keep in mind she’s the control devil. Her home and pets are literally up in flames right in front of her and her brother/guardian just shrugged her off (I should add here Denji was a lot less kind in the original translation, going as far to call her a nuisance)

I have to agree with people saying the action while incredible is a little hard to follow, you def have to read it back a couple times to really get the hang of it. I like that a lot.

I think it’s cause this chapter is almost in Nayutas pov. Her reactions, the way it’s hard to tell who’s blood is even who’s, how your not sure if your supposed to be happy for or scared for Denji

She got her wish from before, seeing Denji fight, but she’s never seen him fight like this. She’s still a kid after all. Another reason I think her offer to Denji to “join the devils side” was mostly That Middle School Urge and not her real devil side coming out, when faced with real destruction and violence she freezes. Even when Barem wobbled over to her and grabbed her by her neck. Nayuta’s used to a cushy life with a sense of control and now that’s all taken away from her and people don’t react as she expects. Right now, without control, she’s just a scared kid

On first read I didn’t realize it’s implied he ate his read. Like fully. We do in fact not see his head again. I wonder what happens to spear now… his heart is fine I think, but you can’t feet him blood without a head

Denji’s not even slicing whip, he’s just smacking his chainsaws down which is so much more terrifying. This isn’t a fair fight and he’s massacring them. The way Sugo hesitates in shock of this person they had turned into their god in such an unhinged and animalistic state. He then steps on Whips guts which is very funny to me. I’m sorry.

Sugo is so clearly inexperienced in battle and this is the second time he hesitates. He then rages and gets absolutely god smacked. Even tho he did hit Denji, his battle experience meant he could endure it while Sugo goes limp

(Cont in rb)

[possiblylando]

Chainsaw Man 152 'early' analysis

Hey look at that I WAS RIGHT

(back on my 150 post)

This whole chapter really does feel like we're in the end game. This isn't something Denji can just walk back on especially after he just starts eating spear (lol) they fucked around and found out. While I do kind of doubt this is actually going to mean Spear is erased from existance- or memory however the chainsaw devil's power really works, its not out of the question.

Looking at it from a meta perspective Spear and Whip are completely disposable as they're both nameless killers who only show up to fight and nothing else. Their death would mean nothing for the story other than Miri having less people pressuring him into being a bastard. Plus spears and whips aren't used in the manga as weapons outside of these hybrids so deleting them really wouldn't change anything. So i'd say its a 60/40 chance as to if denji is going to go through with erasing spear from existence. In retrospect this is a pretty insane chapter for Nayuta cause look at it from her perspective this is basically a villain origin story for her. Her brother who's the only person in the world who actually cares about her as an individual has just gone full murder psycho and told her he doesn't want to be involved with her anymore because he'd rather get off on killing people. Thats fucking INSANE and especially since Nayuta seems to be with the adults during this fight she could very well end up being dragged back into the same hellish system that created Makima.

Nayuta has damn near exclusively been able to live a good life BECAUSE Denji was the one taking care of her. She's a devil and any devil that doesn't work with public safety is killed and the ones that do work with them get locked away underground or get turned into tools. I've said it before but this ending goes to show Denji and Chainsaw Man are one in the same, not that we the readers could have any doubt of that. But everyone in universe seems to be unable to separate the two. Yoshida only wants Denji at the cost of CSM, Makima only wanted CSM at the cost of Denji. After this we might see Nayuta being afraid of the CSM but still caring about Denji.

Im not sure if its intentional or not but Denji's chainsaw eyes seem to be missing for the whole chapter until the end. I would say this is an intentional detail but theres one panel where he has eyes before the climax. So I don't know if this is an error or intentional.

[dogox]

Chainsaw Man | チェンソーマン – Chapter 152 ⊙ Spoiler