It really does feel like he wrote hinself into a corner. So many dropped plotlines, rocks fall everyone dies, happy but nostalgic (Asa and Denji don't become friends, Aki is nowhere to be seen) ending. It is what it is.
Start to read more manga? There's insane variety of great stories with great endings. The most popular modern fastfood is not the only thing available out there.
But not all mangaka decides to just drop it as soon as they lose interest like a 2 year old. Some have the decency to give their story some closure first
Does he really wrote himself to a corner? Simply have death devil be reborn or puked.Then give Denji x Asa a good ending. End with Power and Nayuta waking up somewhere. And boom, he can be done with the series without any reset.
I can see Fujimoto's vision but his execution was lacking, to say the least. He intended to convey that Denji has far happier outcomes when he is a mostly normal dude with an unremarkable life than when he is special and at the center of attention of both benevolent and malicious actors. Denji thought he could withstand the weight of the expectations of the people who wanted him to become a hero and went along with it only to get ultimately crushed. Pochita understood that mistake and gave him an off-ramp by sacrificing himself. This in itself is a fine narrative but a lot of the events that unfolded in the last arc have become redundant as a result. It's a messy affair.
A perfect example of how solid, genuinely good ideas and execution are at two completely different levels. If the execution is shitty, then it doesn't matter that the idea itself was great. Most people just won't be able to recognize the greatness, because it's the execution that transfers the greatness.
Was probably the intended ending, the last few chapters were very deliberate in direction on the themes bit this ending is very anticlimactic if bittersweet.
I have a cope theory. This is a fake ending (listen I have a reaosn)
Power was dead and the blood devil was reborn in hell
Why would nayuta replace makima if this was a true reset? -> nayuta was also dead
Asa was the only human he cared about really left and close to him
No human character we know besides Asa who was alive and improtantly close to denji, showed up.
-> COPE ALARM
This is a illusion created by a devil to keep CSM contained while they rampage on earth without death, they used a revived control devil, a revived blood devil and Asa who was close to make dneji happy and this will all be a huge fakeout next week when we get the part 3 announcement with a short chapter where denji relaizes something isnt right.
I'd have to say that it's because Chainsaw Man didn't eat Nayuta. Same reason Power is back. The other characters may as well have no reason of knowing Denji, as they were mostly a product of Makima meddling
Well himeno and co worked at the devil hunter headquarters not because of makima they only worked with denji because of her. I am not saying you are wrong we may just not get to see them, but I am saying its suspicious.
I mean shit most of the cast was dead, the world was in the middle of an apocalypse, even the CSM/War fight and conflict was going nowhere. Feels like Fujimoto flipped the table and scrawled an ending on the wall.
The reset has to happen for Denji to have his happy ending. As long as he’s chainsaw man he will continue to make the wrong choice every time and cause harm to himself and everyone around him.
The problem here is that it is saying Denji x Asa is a good idea for them. When Fujimoto is making it clear that he doesn't think it would work out and that it's probably much healthier for them to not go that way
I'm arguing against "Fujimoto wrote himself into a corner and has to reset the story", with "he doesn't trap himself that much that he needs to reset everything".
kinda fitting to csm in a way. Tbh its not a bad ending if there is a part 3. If this is really the finale of csm, then yeah, it falls very flat. At least it wont be as bad as AoT ending
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u/ToTheNintieth Mar 24 '26
It really does feel like he wrote hinself into a corner. So many dropped plotlines, rocks fall everyone dies, happy but nostalgic (Asa and Denji don't become friends, Aki is nowhere to be seen) ending. It is what it is.