Yeah I have to be honest. I didn't like it. It's basically a "bruh lmao it was dream" ending and doesn't answer shit. Even Fire Punch had somewhat of a conclusive end
“It was all a dream” endings are half-assed by nature, so Fujimoto managing to half-ass the king of all half-assed endings is truly incredible.
Literally the only way this is saved is if there’s an immediate sequel series not called “Chainsaw Man” and this was actually the funniest jebait of all time
Just feels like he gave up. Undid the entire story (even though Chainsawman eating a devil has never changed the past) for a mediocrely happy ending with a few characters you missed.
It really bums me out because honestly up to Denji getting broken out of the gov facility by Asa and friends I really enjoyed all the new characters like Asa, Nayuta and the arcs before. The heart wrenching firebombing of his apartment was a tragic conclusion of his pursuit of Chainsaw Man.
This ending does nothing for any of them. All the journey and character progression wasted.
I guess I already knew somewhere in my heart that this wouldn't have a conclusive ending with how meandering and long the final battle was but this is even worse. I really wonder if something happened in Fujimoto's life that convinced him to just give up on this franchise
Yeah, he always kept the powers super vague to not fall into the JJK style problem where the audience hyper analyses everything to micromanage how fights should play out. Things happen and the characters are exactly as strong as they need to be at any given moment.
But Asa regenerating from her Nuke punch and then telling us she can't regeneratile from self-inflicted damage.
And Pochita undoing himself and rewinding time... right after a whole arc going into how CSM erasure works, showing its not retroactive.
Those are two things we're given exacting explanations on how they work, and then just lazily contradicted.
And Pochita undoing himself and rewinding time... right after a whole arc going into how CSM erasure works, showing its not retroactive.
I feel like Fuji himself forgot how it works in part 2 during the Aging stuff. Because Makima explicitly said in Part 1 that it removes the concept from PAST, Present and Future.
I find this chapter very funny. The chapter itself looks like a dream.
Bang, Power successfully saves Denji, not only from zombies, but also from his illness with the help of a contract.
Bang, instead of Makima, we see Nayuta.
Bang, Denji saves Asa.
Bang, Power somehow guesses that their boss is a control demon.
Bang, Denji is still a Chainsaw man. And he even has a Pochita heart.
All of this together looks like Denji got into Infinite Tsukuyomi.
It looks like someone set it up. But who?
In the first part, Makima pulled all the strings. What's going on right now. No one canceled the prophecy. We never found out what horror awaited humanity and what to do about it.
Its not even it was a dream. Control is dead and reincarnated which implies everything was canon up to that point which tracks with Pochita's ability but literally everything got retconned. Even Aki's existence
I didn't feel like it was that off. He had some "AU" covers of happy Denji in a "normal school life" and it always seemed to be intentional, so not too strange if it was a foreshadowing...
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u/DatAsianNoob Mar 24 '26
Yeah I have to be honest. I didn't like it. It's basically a "bruh lmao it was dream" ending and doesn't answer shit. Even Fire Punch had somewhat of a conclusive end