#barem csm

He started losing the plot, not really being sure what he was trying to say that he didn't already say with Part 1, and he impulsively made a very bad writing decision in an attempt to focus it together into a coherent thread and that decision instead just made everything worse. Everything kinda tailspinned from there and he got exhausted and realized he couldn't salvage things, so he just pulled the plug rather than subject himself and his readers to futile suffering.

Specifically, looking back, I think that the second that Barem killed Denji's family was the moment the manga was just screwed and thrown into a death spiral it couldn't recover from. Because, like, after something like THAT, where else was the story going to go? Yeah, there were all those other plot points, but they were just too disparate from the center story of Denji's life and devoid of emotional attachment to feel like anything more than random bullshit happening around Denji. And with his loved ones all dead, the emotional core was ripped out and Denji was left without head or tail outside of confronting Barem, and that ended up amounting to nothing (when any other series would've made Barem THE main villain and focused everything on fighting him). He no longer had any true supporting cast or motive to do anything, so what the fuck was there for him to do but stand around while a bunch of craziness he had barely any connection to occurred?

While I often hate this style of defense of bad writing, I do have a sinking suspicion that the last two chapters were - ultimately - Fujimoto saying exactly all of this to the readers. Basically admitting "yeah, I dropped the ball here and took things out of a comfort zone I could handle, I'm sorry, let's not drag this out any more". And I wouldn't be terribly surprised if at some point in the future, he does an interview or something where he says something like that if he could do Part 2 again, he'd have focused more on Denji raising Nayuta and their battles with Barem than anything else.

I HATE BAREM

I HATE BAREM

I HATE BAREM

I HATE BAREM

makima has done arguably worse stuff than him, however she has a mysterious vibe about her and a creepiness that makes her interesting to learn about. she has redeeming qualities as an interesting antagonist despite doing dispicible things like killing aki and power.

b*rem has NO cool, evil aura. he has NO redeeming qualities. he's not even hot. he's so chopped, he looks like a salamander. this guy has the NERVE to slime out yoshida and nayuta and then have nothing good going for him? the only aura he has is a brown one with decaying flies.