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entirely neutral on the chainsaw man ending because of how it felt forced to finish rather than allowed to reach a natural conclusion. I think I'll try to step away from it for a while before rereading it to see how I feel about it as a complete story versus a serialized story, but I think you can at least read the ending as compatible with some of the themes of the manga, in that denji's other life is still fundamentally with the same power structures in place and all that has changed is a few contingencies in people's lives to make them slightly more joyful but not better. Given everything that has happened in the story it does feel at least purposefully bittersweet.