#csm 182

The tagline in JP specifically mentioning "transferring hope By Mouth" is... peculiar with the context of the removal of the mouth devil and its return by Yoru's hand in her assertion of her conquest in the form of her motherhood. If one were to read Pochita's removal of Mouth as a means to separate Denji from this cycle from his pathologised happiness in what he has tasted.

Bringing back my sushi analysis from ch.170, it's quite apt with Barem's ordering of the sushi and the specific types of sushi that were served, egg sushi that's usually sweet, the tamagoyaki as a humble dish one makes at home, and then to the neutral tasting raw squid followed by the luxurious heavier tasting tuna and finally, Nayuta's head echoing ch.71-81.

C'mon Denji, it's snow!

Speedpaint below the cut!

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"Lindo"

I feel like the reason why Yoru quickly switches up on her grief is because

a) She immaturely brushes off her family's deaths because they benefitted her goals, like a "I should be happy that the deaths of my very children weren't in vain", something like that Which is why Yoru thinks that Denji can do the same (even though, unlike her, he didn't willingly sacrifice his family)

And part of that strong appeal and sentiment also comes from the fact that they're dead, a thing of the past people had fond memories of about hykw fam as a unit, as characters and their dynamic with Denji.

Absence makes the heart grow fonder as the saying goes.

These characters have been gone in the manga for a few years now save for the cameo in notably Falling and Eternity when Denji and Asa bond over their trauma, their hunger, for love. And it's love and the pain it brings that haunts Asa and Denji with the ghosts of their family. It's what keeps these characters alive to the fandom. Even in accepting their death.

You want to see them again knowing you can't, you hope by some miracle they'll come back being as they are the way you knew and loved carrying with them the nostalgic normalcy that was lost along with them, that you can never truly go back to because of the weight that loss holds for you.

But the beauty of this still lies in the fact that they're gone and will likely continue to be, because it's the parts that feel good that you don't want to let go of, that remain.

(This is relevant to my gun aki post-canon au brainstorm rotting with a specific theme I've been playing around in my head)

But also relevant to death devil thoughts. The contextualisation of death as construct and memory, and we can see Aging feed into that with fundoshi dude too, the desire to turn back time and avoid the inevitable, the unchangeable, to return to what we deem to be happier, more pleasant times.

Aging's world returns Denji and Asa into being children because neither Chainsaw and War are "mature enough" to talk to Aging. Fundoshi dude is sent to Aging's world due to his fear of aging. And it's here that Denji is reminded of his aging with the snow, from when he was still in the role of a "younger sibling", when he was still the one being taken care of.

The way to return to the real world is to live out the cycle of a full tree, to be reborn. Aging's world as a quasi-womb like hell is for devils. The Chainsaw as a tool for cutting down trees while also being a birthing device. Makima's name being a tree sandwiched between the words "mama" while being the mother Denji desires, who he cuts with the Chainsaw made of Power's blood to go on becoming Chainsaw Man.

Resulting in the birth of Nayuta whom he raises, in his sharing of Power's blood that he drank in his care for her as the "elder sibling" what Makima establishes to be his family. The blood that restrains Makima as she's absorbed into Denji into the blood Power instilled in his body for him to preserve their bond even in another lifetime.

The Control Devil's shared sisterhood with Denji in his ghost of family and Makima, as well as a horseman with War and Famine, channeled through AsaYoru to revive the Chainsaw Man over and over again in the shadow of Death... The fruit of a tree falls to its roots... Denji as a fruit that will grow into a tree, emerging and falling as a fruit again to repeat the cycle as Chainsaw Man and as a child...