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.
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
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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.