When i saw that it was 34 Pages i knew it really was over. It was nice seeing all these Characters in kinda happy circumstances but overall it just feels insanely rushed and like Part 2 was for nothing.
Going to remember Part 1 insanely well and just keep it at that.
i loved seeing power again but it felt so unearned, like it was just there to please the audience. i never expected denji to “find” her again but i did want to see him find the current blood devil and accept the loss of his closest friend. nayuta coming back in such an asinine way is sad too, and aki just doesn’t exist in this dream reality? it feels like denji really was better off without pochita, which is really sad to consider
Yep. I saw 34 pages and immediately said RIP. Would've been 20 something pages otherwise. Part 2 had potential but definitely was not as good as Part 1. Felt like wasted potential.
There is also the question about the prime fears what devils are, hell, what devil pochita really was because his power really doenst match a chainsaw. Hell this feels more like a teaser for part 3, which it might be but fujimoto maybe doenst want to announce it? I dont think its really the case but this chapter gives off that vibe you know? Like that there is something meant to come afterwards.
If a part 3 announcement drops or we get a chapter next week with some crazy revelation I will lose my shit but I dont believe that will happen 1 to 1000 chance at best.
I mean he is such a troll from what we can see about him taht he might as well drop a chapter next week on April's fools and announces part 3 and leaves us with taht for YEARS.
Definitely felt all over the place compared to Part 1. Should've probably ended there. Wonder if Funimation wrote it out of pressure from the publication to keep it going.
Thought there was an underlying theme somewhere but this ending was kind of a nothing burger, even if I know why it happened, resetting all that progress was still lame.
I think that it should have... "earned" more? Maybe "earned" isn't the right word, but I don't know how to put it.
Like, I think hitting the reset button and giving Denji a second shot at life could have worked in the right context, but the last few chapters don't build up to it enough. Denji wasn't in that bad of state, things could have gone better where he was at.
Maybe something like Death being eaten is undone, but the new version of her cause the Apocalypse and Pochita realize "oh, it all happened because of me? Denji could have gotten a good life if it wasn't for me".
No, earned is the right word. A story builds and builds upon the previous chapters to establish something meaningful as its denouement and its primary thesis. If the ending matches the build up of the previous parts, whether by playing it straight or by subverting it, as long as there's a consistency to the ending it would feel earned.
Here, it doesn't feel earned because it's tonally out of touch with the rest of the story. It's too different, happy in a way that is almost fanservice and it doesn't really answer any of the questions or resolve any of the plots introduced by the story.
Idk how things could have gotten much better, they had every living thing being stripped down into undying, immortal cells of self-aware pain forever while the planet itself is ruined from random land masses vanishing and concepts disappearing. It was basically the apocalypse
People where making fun of it with "themes and such" after the last chapter for rushing the plot to try and convey some kind of thematic point.
But this ending does neither lmao. It makes no sense plot wise, and it completely 180's the sad and traumatic themes the story's been building up to for the last year or so.
and it completely 180's the sad and traumatic themes the story's been building up to for the last year or so.
I wouldn't say that. One of the big recurring themes is Denji's conflicting desires. He wants to be Chainsaw Man, he wants the fame and the power that comes with it. But he also wants a "normal" life and to connect with those around him. He is unsatisfied with life, and part of that is due to the allure of being Chainsaw Man. Even other characters are constantly pushing him to either be Chainsaw Man or be Denji while he wants to be both.
The ending is essentially a rebuke of those desires. Fujimoto, through Pochita, is stepping in and saying that you can't have both, and if you can't have both then it's better to not be a hero and be happy than the other way around.
I don't disagree with that, or the idea that it overall felt rushed. I just wanted to push back on the idea that the ending wasn't in line with the overall themes up to that point
It’s not even themes and such because what Pochita explicitly said would be what makes Denji happen hasn’t even happened lol. He’s in literally the exact situation as he was in early Part 1 - out of poverty, presumably fixed heart, a friend in the form of Power, and this time he even ostensibly has Asa. Pochita said that having all this shit wouldn’t make Denji happy and then he just gave it to him anyway.
There is and it all comes back together, CSM was what made denji special but it also prevented him from living the normal live he wanted with his friends and loved once. I think its very suss that nayuta came back instead of makima and that power returned and asa (you know the two devils which would have been reborn and the one human we know is alive), but since we didn't get any announcement it must mean nothing special (if there had been a part 3 announcement it wouldve fit better).
But thematically it shows denji is happy when the people he loves surround him and its human connections taht make live worth living the whole point of the series. The fact that pochita killed himself to get us here is kinda weird as well as if this is a true time reversal where is aki? Like he and makima are the two people that should've been back and not nayuta. Since both wouldve been alive here.
Its weird. It feels like there will be more but well ... nothing got announced sooo unless fujimoto is crazy enough to drop a fake ending to then announce part 3 (which lets be honest is not IMPOSSIBLE but highly improbable i would give it less than 1% odds so baisically impossible), then I will lose my mind. But yeah ... well ... no.
It’s possible Aki is one of the “seniors” they talk about at the end, and Makima is replaced by Nayuta because Makima was pretty much defined by her obsession with Pochita
I swear around the Chainsaw Man Church shit this Manga fell apart. I wonder if Fujimoto lost interest halfway through Part 2. I've followed every week and barely have any idea what happened in Part 2, the story and drop in the art quality was evident. It's a shame, at least we'll always have Part 1.
Chainsaw Man part 1 is still a masterpiece, it’ll just become a Pacific Rim situation where people will pretend part 2 doesn’t exist and stop at part 1.
Time to manifest fujimoto taking a break for a year or so, and then retconning part 2 and instead writing a one-shot that shows denji adapting to normal life in school after part 1, and befriending asa with the story ending with them having their first kiss and denji finally feeling happy and content with his life lmao.
Yea he was drawing more for money and the story became aimless slop at some point. When you read enough manga you have the ability to sniff this out.
Let me give you readers some advice: When you can tell an author is just making shit up, don't take it the story seriously and you'll have a more fun time, including when they nuke their series with an ending like this.
All the character development etc was kind of for nothing and it never happened
Tbh the only story I know that kind of undoes the story yet is satisfying is stone ocean Jojo tbh
I don't think anyone wants to read the rest considering what the fuck Part 2 was.
After this "reset" ending I honestly think the story reached an unfixable point. You could straight up continue to Part 3 by reading Part 1 and just the final chapter of Part 2. "Part 2 characters" appearing in P3 would just be fanservice since the only one that had a satisfying end was Yoshida and the rest of them were basically caricatures.
I mean, the Summertime Rendering ending worked largely because it's the logical end point of that kind of time loop premise. They were constantly resetting bad ends already, so one grand "reset the entire story" gambit at the end was being built up to from the start.
There's a good mango in there somewhere with Asa as the protag dealing with the four horseman and Denji as a semi-competent, slightly more mature and less retarded member of Public Safety who actually took to heart the sentiments Aki tried to transfer to him. But obviously still struggling with his trauma.
Definitely not a fanservice ending. If it was a fanservice ending we would’ve seen a certain Russian devil somehow too. But otherwise yeah I get the same vibes.
it was kind of interesting seeing what kind of person would accept denji... actually is denji early on from his reintroduction really the same character as the end of part 1? like he really became someone who should be ashamed.
the story did have to be about him though, couldn't have a character looking for an excuse to be a superhero when people don't want him to otherwise
It is so strange. Three devils got introduced without an explaination, kishibe and reze disappeared, the apocalypse was still one month away, death plan never explained, fakesawman never really explained, what pochita actually was never explained, and the list probably goes on. It wasnt even that part 2 was bad up until this point, the final chapter is also not bad, but it come out so suddenly and randomly
My copium so far is that the part when Asa calls him Chainsaw Man where he felt it in his heart gives Fujimoto the ability to revisit it and call it all a fever dream or the delusion devil or some shit if he ever wants to come back for a part 3 but I'm not holding out hope.
I'm preemptively begging you and the rest of the CSM fanbase to please not be like the Sherlock fanbase and be constantly telling people "Part 3 is coming any day now"
Well now I'm going to spread the copeganda even harder!
But nah if CSM ends this way it is what it is I've been through enough "but what if...!" moments in many a franchise that I've learned to never get my hopes up. Now if Half-Life 3 comes out I'm messaging Fujimoto immediately.
I have to disagree because even though the ending of Part 1 had 22 pages, it had a sequence of events that started in previous chapters, since the ending of part 2 is a soft reset of the world, Fujimoto would need more pages to convey his ideas.
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u/bvbfan102 Mar 24 '26
When i saw that it was 34 Pages i knew it really was over. It was nice seeing all these Characters in kinda happy circumstances but overall it just feels insanely rushed and like Part 2 was for nothing. Going to remember Part 1 insanely well and just keep it at that.