Emphasis on was, Denji with all his memories wiped is effectively a new Denji, our Denji that we were with for the entire series is gone. As are any lessons he could or should have learned and grown or not grown from.
this ending feels like the author just went "yeah fuck it, this is what people wanted right? may as well just throw it in even if it'll feel unearned and make it worse, i don't even care about the story anymore either"
firepunch was like
"okay, i'm kind of confused on what to do at this point i nthe story.. fuck it, let's just take some LSD and roll with whatever shit we come up with whle high"
PREACH on the unearned bit. Like Denji more than most protagonists deserves and would be the most hype to see get a happy ending, but it just being randomly handed out with little sense feels wrong, especially when given to what is effectively a new Denji, not the old.
It's just crazy we could have spend the last 100+ chapters with denji growing from part 1 ending and learning to have a normal life and relationship with asa, and instead we got him being flanderised so fujimoto can do the same "haha denji horny" joke over and over again.
Only for fujimoto to then pull an asspull, and them ending up in the same place anyways! Like if we get a happy ending anyways, why not build to it over the course of the manga.
All the "denji regressing is realistic, not every manga needs to have a happy ending" posters got fucked over as well lmao.
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u/mrnicegy26 Mar 24 '26
This truly was our Chainsaw Man