Chainsaw Man - Peak Fiction in the making

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Who wanna bet that when Part 2's ending is adapted (in like 2038 or smth), anime-only watchers will eat it up and glaze it becauae of "muh theme and message"?
 
Blazeuser56 said:
Who wanna bet that when Part 2's ending is adapted (in like 2038 or smth), anime-only watchers will eat it up and glaze it becauae of "muh theme and message"?
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Mappa aren't retarded, they aren't going to sink a decade adapting the trash fire that is Part 2 as is. There are three options open to them.
  1. Cut it down and adapt it solely as movies, switching things around to make a coherent narrative and maybe build up to this ending better and cutting off unresolved plotlines and fakeouts (like everything involving Fami)
  2. Don't adapt it at all and end it in part 1 like Usagi Drop.
  3. Go full Kyoani and just rewrite it. Ideally it's going to be remembered as the definitive version.
 
Not even my love for Power will make me like this shit, what an absolute trash ending. I will reiterate from before, I didn't think I'd live in a world where fucking Jujutsu Kaisen has a better ending than Chainsaw Man, yet here we are. At least JJK didn't have practically the entire story matter to nothing in the second to last chapter.
 
...well that sucked. Can't even be mad it was so abrupt.

Seems less an actual ending and more like he ran out of motivation, wrote a single chapter to tie shit up and called it a day.
 
After Pochita ate himself, my desire for a Part 3 was basically an amalgamation of Parts 1 and 2, in a new timeline where Chainsaw Man doesn't exist, but Denji is still the protagonist, and previously dead characters would return, like Power, or Aki, or Makima/Nayuta. I guess that's what we got, it was all just crammed into one chapter, but there are way too many unanswered questions. If Pochita is the Chainsaw Devil, then how do chainsaws exist in this timeline? Did someone reinvent them, or was he actually a different devil? When Denji's heart thumped upon seeing Asa, it looked like Pochita; how come? Where is Makima, and why is she Nayuta in this timeline? What of the other horsemen and the Gun Devil? Even if we don't get a full Part 3, I hope Fujimoto at least does a one-shot to give us more answers and a satisfying conclusion. Maybe that's me huffing pure copium, but maybe someday if he decides to return to this series, even in a limited capacity
 
Jar-Jar Fanboy said:
After Pochita ate himself, my desire for a Part 3 was basically an amalgamation of Parts 1 and 2, in a new timeline where Chainsaw Man doesn't exist, but Denji is still the protagonist, and previously dead characters would return, like Power, or Aki, or Makima/Nayuta.
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Considering that the Four Horsemen and Great King of Terror overarching plotline went absolutely nowhere, and that the last two chapters could have been shoved in at any point of Part 2, they might as well just wrap it up and show some stories of Blood Devil Denjiman and Power being regular Public Safety devil hunters. Which it kind of did, but for only one chapter.
Could probably fit a oneshot, or maybe a bonus feature when the box set releases.
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Jar-Jar Fanboy said:
If Pochita is the Chainsaw Devil, then how do chainsaws exist in this timeline?
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I do not think he had an answer for this. Barem hinting to some esoteric use for chainsaws was probably more a nod to the rampant fan theories than it was about hinting at any potential reveal.
Speaking of hybrids, I nearly forgot that Katana (he still has no name lol) and Miri just die as gorey set dressing between Yoru and Denji's showdown. What a waste of characters, Miri especially, his small journey throughout was neat to watch.
Jar-Jar Fanboy said:
Did someone reinvent them, or was he actually a different devil? When Denji's heart thumped upon seeing Asa, it looked like Pochita; how come?
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That was my main question too. Wait, if you sacrificed yourself, why are you, chainsaws, and the word chainsaws here?
Without further explanation, I guess we're just supposed to assume he saved a little bit of himself so Denji could build back the fear of Chainsaws one devil at a time. That's the only thing that logically follows for me.
Jar-Jar Fanboy said:
Gun Devil?
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Imagine if Aki is doomed regardless but he gets a little more lucky and becomes the Gun Hybrid. Wow, that idea you had about meshing together the worlds of Part 1 and 2 sure sounds cool right about now.
 
Time to shill Asano Inio again. He should have gotten popular instead of Fujimotor fr.

Read Oyasumi Punpun, read Dead Dead Demons, read Mujina into the Deep, NOW!
 
Blazeuser56 said:
Who wanna bet that when Part 2's ending is adapted (in like 2038 or smth), anime-only watchers will eat it up and glaze it becauae of "muh theme and message"?
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Fae Supremacist said:
Mappa aren't retarded, they aren't going to sink a decade adapting the trash fire that is Part 2 as is. There are three options open to them.
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I don't really know where anyone gets this idea that Fujimoto is some brilliant "narrative writer" and demand tight knit storytelling when in reality, he's a thematic and emotional writer. He doesn't really care so much about the plots as he does trying to evoke emotions from a reader. Look Back, Goodbye Eri, Just Listen to the Song, Fire Punch are all really more about their themes than anything else. He's always been a very weird and bizarre guy who will happily give his stories left turns whether they make sense or not.

That being said, he's also very reserved in his storytelling. He very much would rather just come out and say everything on face value that he wants to say, and leave everything else up to reader interpretation. Almost all of his works have some kind of open ended non-ending. If anything, he treats them like movies. He's a big fan of letting the audience do work for themselves, and is a very firm believer of Less Is More. Both of which are tropes that aren't really commonly seen in manga. Right before Part 2 came out, Fujimoto released Just Listen To the Song, basically telling the audience just shut up and let him do his thing. Yeah, Part 2 spun it's wheels a bit with the final battle but I think when you go back read it in aggregate, or it inevitably gets animated, the experience will be different.

I don't think Fujimoto is done with this world either. Last chapter I said that Part 3 would probably someday come, but I said it might not even be called Chainsawman, and I stand by that. I think Fujimoto wants a break to do other things but he'll come back to it, someday when he's ready. In fact I fully expect an entire one shot that will basically say exactly this in manga form. Why would he do that? He's a fucking lunatic. I'd put my money on it though.
 
TFW you realize the ending is just Fujimoto rewinding the story back to the last point the series was universally liked
Eddy G. said:
Chainsawman eating himself and in Modulo Yuji is ending Curses and Sorcerers being born.
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Thats the funny part about Modulo's ending: Yuji admits his plan DOESN'T end curses being born. It literally does nothing but ensure a sequel can't be made lmao
 
Terror Sandwich said:
Jump should be more open with letting their big hit Mangakas go into indefinite hiatus.
For both JJK and CSM feel like their writer just gave up and rushed an ending.
It's better to leave the series unfinished then getting a shit ending... I guess it's obviously not as profitable.
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Lol, this isn't really a Jump problem. Tons of mangaka are allowed to rest and go on hiatus. Chainsaw Man Part 2 is also Jump+, not Shonen Jump. So it's Lin, not Nakano or anything.
Party Hat Wurmple said:
Again, I don't really think that's the case. The whole conflict of Part 2 was people telling Denji to Not Chainsawman when he wanted to Chainsawman.
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Oh? Did you forget that the entire part started with a girl named Asa?
 
Blazeuser56 said:
Who wanna bet that when Part 2's ending is adapted (in like 2038 or smth), anime-only watchers will eat it up and glaze it becauae of "muh theme and message"?
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Wouldn't surprise me, its what anime only AOT fans did for their dog shit finale. Anime fans just continually prove to be even more retarded than Manga fans, which is a VERY low bar.
 
Chilson said:
Wouldn't surprise me, its what anime only AOT fans did for their dog shit finale. Anime fans just continually prove to be even more retarded than Manga fans, which is a VERY low bar.
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Objectively, you can say that anime presentation tugs more hearts. Things like voice acting and music and the like can calm people down.
 
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