#csm chapter 127

[loucygoosey]

SAVE THE ASA

[fumifooms]

Holy crap Fujimoto is godly for this

The way there is so much emotion? In Chainsaw Man’s nonexistent face? This is a feat of excellent paneling and mood building AND HOLY CRAP

Wanting to save Asa is making Denji talk about his feelings?? Denji who just before cut up his brain and uses deflection and distraction as coping mechanisms and is like so emotionally unaware suddenly feels comfortable enough to share about his shitty life and his world outlook and his own coping mechanisms through talking about animals and stuff??! Oh my god

They are connecting and it’s so touching

[ellebells]

I knew this scene reminded me of something

[jestin-my-liege]

she is literally me

[saba-hawt]

OKAY THIS CHAPTER WAS ACTUALLY REALLY CUTE

[sugar-grigri]

don't let it fall

[morgenstern16]

This Reddit comment on the latest CSM chapter sent me

[denjhenge]

Fujimoto, you really have the chance to do the funniest thing ever right now...

[0menacingpenguin0]

It's really cute that first things Denji thinks about to cheer Asa up are dogs and cats, and then ice cream (and it worked!)

[degenerateshinji]

how was i crying 2 panels ago

[bittermelodies-csm]

[loucygoosey]

Wippppppppp

[fumifooms]

Once part 2 is over we’ll have to compile all birds pics bc 👀 Birds spotted once again

[roydeezed]

Chainsaw Man-Chapter Round-Up(Chapter 127)

I’m trying to write this, but all I can think about is that last page and I can’t stop laughing. We’ll get to it though. This week’s chapter was surprisingly relevant to the thoughts I had on the last chapter. That despite his circumstance’s Denji wants to keep on living, and it’s really admirable. Last chapter I said that he dulls his thoughts and doesn’t think about them or dwell on the bad stuff, but I was wrong. Really, really, wrong. And it’s really good that I was because it’s so much more interesting. Of course his persistence is still there and it’s still admirable. But it’s always fighting against real, tangible, dark thoughts. That he fully understands and acknowledges the weight of even if he can’t get over them. And this chapter shows why Asa is such a great foil to Denji. And in like so many more ways than is apparent. Let me freak out about this ‘cause I love it so much!

So first, obviously, Denji has an incredible will to live. His desires evolve as he attains them. And though he may have cited his greatest desire as sex right now, it follows the trajectory of his dreams. Denji’s fulfilling his promise to Pochita, he’s chasing his dreams and fulfilling them. That’s living to him. And when he attains it, he’ll find another dream. Maybe sex now but love and romance later. Asa on the other hand, is losing things to keep her alive. Her desire sheds more and more everyday and she’s quite vocal about it. First her cat, then the sense of belonging, then her literal life, then friend and then a potential love life as well. 

Let’s focus on the vocal quality about Asa as well. She shares a lot with Yoru. Almost like she’s eager to, which she is. It’s safe to. No one else can hear her. She intellectualizes all of her pain and tries to think it all away but she refuses to confront the core of her fears. She ignores confronting it all. Denji, on the other hand, as we learnt in this chapter, actively thinks about everything that’s gone wrong. But he doesn’t hide from it. He acknowledges it but doesn’t intellectualize it either. He said it himself. He’ll eat that crapburger. He sees it for what it is. Pain. Pain that’ll stay there for a while if not his whole life. It’s not something that should get in the way of living though.

They’re foils. They’re opposites. And opposites attract. They go hand in hand. And we see that this chapter! Like actually see it! Visually! Denji grabs on to Asa and death pulls on her and life pulls at him, gravity and not. While she reminds him of Aki and Power and brings out the fact that a lot of bad shit has happened to him, he grounds her, reminding her of the good things, that there’s things to look forward to and that someone might even come jumping through the air to catch you. They acknowledge each other’s pain and for the first time it seems like they have someone to actually open up to about it all. I’m still blown away by this beautiful visual metaphor of them bringing each other to their respective worlds. 

And getting away from analysis for a second, is it just me or do they make such an adorable couple? Like they’ve been through so much shit that I just want the best for them. They deserve each other and I mean that in the kindest and best way possible. Fujimoto’s stories have a lot of pathos and other than Fire Punch have satisfying and kind endings, though not always in the way imagined. Well a fellar can hope. 

Let’s end it off with a lil’ theory. For a while now, this end of days thing has been foreshadowed with Hell seemingly making a plan for August of 1999 if I remember correctly. I feel like it’s gonna be something of a living Hell that the demons turn the current world into. And while Denji helps Asa survive in this world, I think Asa is going to help Denji live in the new world to come. And the baggage they both bring. Denji had Nayuta and Asa has Yoru, both integral parts of their life and Asa and Denji could help each other with these parts of their lives they’re having difficulty with. Thinking about it, has it been a love story all along?

[increasinglygeeky]

Jesus christ just take it, take my asaden playlist.

[lordsmaf]

Goddamn Chainsaw Man rules