#csm 152

Why? Because it reminds me of the Falling Devil, who in order to mentally "fall" her opponents to the heights, exploited their traumas. Her whole arc is a formidable metaphor for the reaction we must have to our own suffering.

So when the spear weapon tells Denji to scare them, Denji asks him if he wants to be cooked and thus traumatized. If Denji has to scare, he'll do it just as meticulously.

i'm going to be sick. hard as fuck panel and -- the horror of this, the grim absurdity of it, the way denji leans into that feeling, wants that feeling, he's grinning, don't you see, under the metal of the chainsaw:

this is the karaoke scene echoing outwards but this time the Violence emanates from denji. thinking about how the weapon hybrids' bodies smear the pages, limbs and sharp lines and the chainsaw man: chaotic and primal within it. the previous chapters where's he's not at all a participant in this Violence as the hybrids tear themselves apart on their own, and now: he tears through them. the house burns, and so does his attempt at a normal life, at what pochita let him want and so told him to want, it ends and it all makes sense now, doesn't it?

and he tells nayuta to leave. she's the only human resembling face focused on in the last few pages, she's the unwitting creation of all of makima's twisted love, the subversive product of part one's otherwise obvious nightmare, the sort of Moral of the story. and she's told to leave.

Denji and Nayuta in chapter 152:

This fight wasn’t even a fight, it was a one sided massacre.

Bonus Nayuta being a scared child in the background…