Can fujimoto salvage this somehow?
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It’s gotta be said, Japan is really embracing all the shit that Fujimoto has been very firmly against. Like this is the guy who had a nuclear war set to the Star Spangled Banner in his manga and now the prime minister is kneeling to Trump and pledging to defend Taiwan. And she’s pretty popular, even with young people! So he sees all that, on top of the fact that part 2 has never been as popular as part 1, and it’s not too surprising he decided to end it.
I really do miss the early part 2 stuff, those first few Asa chapters are some of the funniest manga I’ve ever read. Fujimoto is a legend for “don’t come to school tomorrow.” But the direction has been pretty mediocre for a while now so it could just be burnout or a lack of good ideas as much as anything else. Idk, it was a fun ride.
Fujimoto saw Japan vote for real life Makima and decided that it’s not worth it anymore.
I would love to subscribe to Asa Starfish facts.
lmao if this is the ending it’s so poorly done. The direction is fine but the execution is garbage.
No shade at the author though, he’s clearly burnt out and the industry is incredibly extractive.
I thought it was cute.
Well, that sure was an ending. Not the worst thing possible, I suppose, but I do still feel it kinda came out of nowhere.
I have to imagine Fujimoto wanted out of his contract or whatever, was kind of bored with Chainsaw Man, and totally burnt out from weekly releases. It wasn’t a terrible ending, just not fleshed out and insanely quick. We were knee deep in the shit just two chapters ago, and then all of that is just gone and it’s like “yeah it’s over.” Thematically it makes sense, so it’s not awful or anything, just rather sad that it all just ends so quickly and there’s little permanence or growth.
I don’t even blame him for feeling that way. The manga industry really needs to change so that mangakas aren’t literally killing themselves to keep up with these release schedules.
100%, Chainsaw Man should just be like a monthly release or even longer. Honestly there’s very few manga that could not be improved by only releasing volumes, no weekly releases at all. It’s insane the industry as a whole still does weekly releases.
I’m high on the copium that we’ll eventually get a part 3 because it feels like the perfect Empire Strikes Back style ending for the second act in a story, with the setup being a kinda meta Eva-esque premise that we’re stuck in the same story and need to get out/resolve it for real this time.
But as The End? Heeeeell naw
Idk if I want CSM to continue at this point. There’s so much baggage now that unless Fujimoto has something very specific he wants to do with it, a fresh start might be more compelling.
I think if 3 part does happen it will be after fugimoto takes a break and writers other stories.
Oh yeah definitely, dude should take as long as he needs
Yeah summarizes my feelings for it. I reread the the first and last few chapters and I couldnt see other ways than roughly this. Wasnt the worst, wasnt the best. A solid shrug on my part.
I think no, and that’s ok. I have made peace with that, lol.
I gotta sit my disappointment for a minute
He just needs to show Denji gaining a final transformation and then using that to destroy the US and then we can talk
Idk the US was kind of thrashing him before he lost his powers, fights a nonstarter now.
still dont know what kind of devil Pochita is. Anyone have any ideas? 🤔
shonen ending devil
the main character devil
Pochita is the FAFO devil.
Oblivion
chapter 232 spoilers
He really did it, he did “MAN (fights with chainsaw).”
Great ending, fujimoto escaped his contract with the shueisha devil and can now write things other than vainsaw man to make the shueisha devil more money. Some things were weird, apparently Aki is not present so is the gun devil erased or is Pochita deciding that Aki was a bad influence on denji and power to them and to himself. Makima was also erased so I’m guessing pochita had control over what they restore.
I liked the meta take, part 2 felt like it was veering off a cliff in terms of scope. I’m pretty sure years later we will hear how the shueisha devil abused fujimoto and he decided to end the story to preserve his own health.
The long battle scenes from fujimoto have never been my favorite parts of his work. Ending is definitely somewhat of a cop-out but I think fuji was digging a hole these last few months.
Now give me the kobeni spin off you coward
It’s honestly the worst part to me that we never found out what was going on with Kobeni
She became a pro DDR player.
Pro-
player.
Okay I read it
That was like reading some kind of fixfic fanfiction. Everything’s basically better than before, but in a very empty feel-good kinda sense.
With this in mind, I can only assume this means Fujimoto is hunkering down for a Part 3 in the future
That was hilarious
Does Fujimoto want to salvage this? No.
I think his roughest, yet best ending was Fire Punch. His best ending was definitely Chainsaw man part 1. For all other one shots, his endings have been about alternate universes, fake outs, ironic twists, etc.
This is totally in line with his usual approach, it came out of nowhere, but I can see what he is thinking: Denji, having learned absolutely nothing was about to fuck War and Asa (with Yoru probably lying about her consent). I could see how this deity would make the decision to put a stop to Denji’s bad decisions.
Will people ever understand what Fujimoto is trying to say? Nah, the reading comprehension devil is more powerful than the gun devil.
Still sad its actually coming to an end now
I liked it
Now that midsawman is over, fujimoto can get back to his true magnum opus: Fire Punch 2
