The way you haunt the narrative, the way your absence has made everything go to shit, the way you plotted, the way you organized. She was genuinely the necessary evil
#csm151
denji and 5 stages of grief- 🧵
1- denial: he's given a choice. he chooses it refusing his identity as chainsaw man that it'll be okay if he doesn't transform. he's denying his core of existence, lying to himself normal life is the best.
All the setbacks and suffering everyone's put Denji through culminating in that smile
They wanted Chainsaw Man and that's exactly what they're gonna get
What and end to the year of CSM chapters. And what a year it’s been. One long, slow descent of Denji from the heights of Falling Devil Arc, saving his crush from the horrors of hell, and then it all just comes apart. It’s a bold direction to take Chainsaw Man.
Actually this is a parallel that is fair to make between these two. Both are part of an organization trying to prevent the same event. However one side wants to bring out Chainsaw Man by harming Denji and the other wants to suppress Chainsaw Man and protect Denji #csm151
My interpretation is him finally accepting himself. Finally fighting for himself. He broke free from makimas control, and now he PERSISTS going after what he truly wants.
Deciding for himself. As his normal life falls apart.
THIS IS SO FUCKING GREAT. He’s laughing because this feels RIGHT. It feels good. I just know it does. It feels incredibly freeing to finally overstep everything that’s been holding you back all this time.
Seeing barem so pathetically jealous of denjis peace... flames being his punishment, even though his normal life was nothing but a prison in itself. Its a callback to asa's own caretaker drawing her cat because she doesn't deserve to have more than anyone else.
Ugh.. this is actually painful asf
Denji's been laughing on occasion like this since the beginning of Chainsaw Man. While sometimes I thought it was him thriving on the insanity, it's not that. It's his trauma response. All this needless death and suffering is driving him insane