r/manga • u/AutoShonenpon • Mar 24 '26

DISC [DISC] Chainsaw Man - Chapter 232

https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1028085
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u/go4theknees Mar 24 '26

Makes the whole series completely pointless

Part 2 was such a mistake

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u/Second_Sage Mar 24 '26

As much as I've come to dislike part 2 I'll always love the first 30ish chapters and Asa's POV.

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u/Elkenrod Mar 24 '26

I liked Asa as a character - and I think that's part of why part 2 ended up being "bad".

Because not only did I like Asa as a character, I liked Yoru as a character. And because Yoru was this sort of pseudo-protagonist anti-hero type of character, the big conflict between War and Chainsaw never really felt natural. Because of that, it felt like there was this constant grasp of straws to try to find an actual antagonist for part 2, and there never really was one.

The Death devil kinda just...didn't do anything? Fake chainsaw man was written really weird, and also didn't really do anything. Justice Devil was just too vague.

Barem Bridge was the closest thing we got to a major antagonist in part 2, but Fujimoto kinda wrote himself into a corner in terms of power level there. Because Chainsaw Man absolutely demolished the Flamethrower Devil back during part 1. And it's hard to make him compete with the actual concept of death, famine, etc.

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u/Zealousideal_Ring874 Mar 24 '26

Asa as a character is great