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"the side that will take care of me."

reze asks "will you run away with me to the country?"

"can't i stay here where there's good food and friends and still see you?"

yoshida says "if you turn into chainsaw man again public safety will kill nayuta"

"my new dream is to be chainsaw man"

asa says "kill me so i can save you"

"we'll make our own world"

i feel as though i didn't realize up until now that those decisions were kind of selfish in a way. in my mind, before now, choosing the third option made sense, especially when denji is put in so many unfair situations. from what i've consumed, normally "choosing the third option" ends up being the unexpected solution that works/solves the protagonists problems, but not in chainsaw man.

"whichever side takes care of me" boy neither side wants to take care of you 😭😭😭

"we'll make our own world" denji then proceeded to create hell on earth.

i'm not 100% sure what fujimoto wants us to take away from this particular aspect of csm, and maybe i'm getting ahead of myself, but here's a few interpretations on my mind: that choices made by ignorance or arrogance never work out well. or maybe it's that life is unfair sometimes and you gotta deal with it anyway. that you gotta be realistic to a degree when opposed by adversity.