15:32 "while denji and power are living in Dorohedoro the rest of public service is living in attack on titan" the most amazing set of words I have ever heard
I like how fujimoto used america and Donald trump as the one paying the gun devil to kill makima "cause all Americans care about is guns hurr hurr hurr" I'm not even mad I love this stereotype that japanese created for us. Really shows you who's in charge 😉
Yeah, I'm so glad that u were able to ACTUALLY understand this series based on the first season. It's an amazing adaptation, and this season isn't even the best part, it's why so many fans were complaining about it only being 12 episodes. It's because this first season only SCRATCHES the surface of this amazing series.
One thing Fujimoto absolutely loves to play with in his stories is perspective. The reason Denji is so beloved to us while so many others think of him as a joke in his world is because we know him. We know he sold his organs, would do anything for money, was severely taken advantage of even as he was risking his life. But his desires are so simple that you can't think of him as a sociopath. He is a teenager who just wants to live an easy life. To wake up in a warm bed, to a stocked fridge filled with food he likes, to spend time with people he enjoys being around. I think it's fitting that Aki is the first Devil Hunter we get introduced to, because his goal seems a lot more personal and "noble." Revenge on the Devil that took his family. But then you go and see what the other character motivations are - and it's usually money. Ultimately, what Fujimoto is saying is that you can't knock anyone's motives for joining. This is a world where you can die at any moment on the whim of a Devil. You have to live in the moment as best as you can. This is why Kishibe says that Aki likely won't survive, while he says that Denji and Power have potential. They are selfish, but their goals are very simple ones that are achieved easily. But even this gets thrown for a loop later on. Fujimoto refuses to stick to one underlying message in CSM, which makes it one of the much more interesting pieces of fiction in manga.
Chainsaw man is still ongoing with part 2 of the manga, but all I can say about part 1's story and ending is that it's really good and keeps getting better and crazier as the story goes on.
I can verify, the story only improves as it goes forward. Everything you mentioned in this video gets expanded upon in such intricate and interesting ways. Cannot wait to see the reactions to the new developments. Csm peak fiction!
Denji and Power are a good move tonally because there really is a tension between having a healthy awareness of one's own emotions, and keeping one's emotions at arm's length, because if they weren't, you know it'd hurt. a lot. emotional detachment as a coping mechanism makes for an interesting narrative because the lightheartedness of these characters jumps out at you during the times when it would be most appropriate to feel pain, and these two just... don't. they deny you a certain level of catharsis, and you become aware that they aren't getting catharsis either. to care is to lose, because if your emotions get you... if they grab hold of you, if you get invested, that's when you're done for. that's when something can be taken from you that you'd rather not lose. and for chronic losers, the smart move is to remain detached. so then we kind of get to ask ourselves one of the core questions that Denji has been asking himself this whole time, in some form or another. if you literally don't feel like you can afford to feel secure enough to care about anything... what gives your life value? how do you find what matters to you when you recoil from emotional investment like it's going to burn you? it's counter intuitive. and while the detachment of these characters can be a bunch of surface level fun, the deeper meaning has a chance to lie dormant until the characters are tested, or find themselves challenged in some way, to commit to what they really care for. and at that point, the stakes are heightened, because they finally know what it is that they can't stand to lose. this idea of what gives value to a life is incredibly important, because there's a battle going on between the people who want to exploit folks like Denji, and folks like Denji, who actually want to live their lives in the first place. after the exploitation, what are you left with? where do you draw your boundaries and say "no, this part is mine" in relation to your own self and resources? how do certain people benefit from the degradation of that boundary? and especially in a world that takes from you in so many different ways... even devil contracts will demand steep payment, like an eye, or some skin, or a year off of your lifespan. why do they want that? is the value literally just derived from how much it damages a person's quality of life to go without these things? the notion of fear has power in this narrative, so when it comes to why devils might derive value from sacrifice, all bets are off.
3:58 this is actually such an interesting observation, as the manga progresses it’s like he’s learning to become more of a person as he faces the experiences that the series will present
It's interesting to hear the opinions of someone who hasn't read the full manga. You really interrogated a story that's not even halfway told as far as you could, and you got some stuff right because of how well the story executes characterization, but also got some stuff so completely wrong because you haven't seen the whole story. I won't tell you what you got right and what you got wrong, because that would spoil it for you, but I will tell you that you should read the manga because it's legitimately one of the best manga ever made in terms of how it uses the medium of panel/sequence art so well, how much better some of its gags are when not animated, and more importantly, how reading it doesn't ruin the anime, it makes the anime better because you get to see what's being added by the anime, even though the anime does inherently take some things away, too. So, go read it! ASAP! Not just you, video creator, but also you, the viewer in the comments section! Go read this manga NOW!
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That's an interesting video description you have there. The thing about the Angel devil is that they... uhm, you know... you'll figure it out at some point.
About the ending no spoilers. It does stick the landing and go beyond it a little even. Though it technically is not over yet it also kinda is its hard to explain.
This was a really good video and super insightful and well put. I always felt the heart of the series was almost the “Chaos” and “Order” between the main trio and how they navigate through that push and pull. It’s nice to see someone explain it in a way I couldn’t.
Great analysis you have thoroughly and effectively interrogated the story so far to get a small glimpse into stuff the manga might explore a bit later on. While CSM is currently in its 2nd part I can confirm that the latter half of part 1 (basically everything after s1 lmao) are some of the best shit I’ve ever read including the phenomenal climax and conclusion. Part 2 is still a little early on but it’s still just as great as it was before so there’s no need to worry about any decline in quality. Also the video description… whose gonna tell him?
I don't know why, but seeing you make a video about Chainsaw-man felt like I fell in-to a wonderful fever dream; the idea of how you talk about things, combined with what Chainsaw-man is, seems un-real.
Well shit.. you just explained like 90% of why this show just felt like such a unique experience that just tickled some funny bone in my brain that I never knew existed... all while I'm only like half way through the video lmao. The tone of the show is wild. Fucking bonkers in how it switches while all feeling like the same show. I tried for a while to figure that out and you gave the answer: Denji is simply not built to act or react like a normal person would. He is very much just NOT an audience stand-in! So simple yet so profound... Or another possible option is he could be called a self-insert for the darkest parts of what a human could be. I knew there was some reason this show just became one of my all time favorites ever, maybe my #1 in one season, despite it not having idk, gOd-tiER plot and character development like seen in AOT, Vinland Saga, Berserk, etc. This season of anime just made me feel like I wanted to get to know the author Mr Fujimoto. To really pick apart his brain and honestly just get along over some drinks. I'd always been interested in the idea of writing stories, but this show just triggered some creative bone in me that just wants to say "fuck it go wild and be fucking weird while telling a genuine story" Because that is something I see about Chainsaw Man. It feels fucking genuine. I also just feel something honest-to-god, infinitely pure and good-hearted about the story too. Yes the story's probably gonna rip out my heart and curbstomp it a few times over and do the same to Denji x100, but at the end of the tunnel I feel like there's just gonna be something beautiful tried and learned for both of us. It's rare that I wholeheartedly and actively invest in a protagonists journey, but I am so just... excited to see where Denji goes, hoping for him to find the love that he doesn't even know he's needed all his life yet.
Honestly Chainsaw man is one of those few anime that has left me speechless at times and crying laughing. That revenge moment where they kick katanaman in the balls actually made me shed a tear, i can't even begin to explain why... The only time i had a similar feeling irl was when my grandmother had passed away, before she passed she actually told me that she's lived a happy and fullfilling llife and that it had been quite long enough for her after which she quickly started dementing and asked for euthanasia. It was something so solemn but beautiful, and i could only cry but at the same time be happy for her.
Don't want to spoil anything but I would like to say I 100% think it sticks the land. It's a bit outlandish and crazy but that is just all of chainsaw man. This part of the story I think is the least compelling part so if you've liked it so far you should, for the most part, adore the rest of it.
All I'm gonna say for 'Anime-Only' watchers is: Pay attention to Makima's eyes. They'll never explicitly say it; but if you have a functioning mass of neurons inside your skull, you'll be able to put 2 and 2 together lol
@@elsv99 I'm genuinely just ASSUMING what the reveal is based on my knowledge from the anime and my 2 brain cells, but is it less visually obvious in the manga?
Just subscribed. Your vids are real good quality, no convoluted commentary like most vids I come upon. You deserve so much more subs tbh. Anyway I was wondering what you think about Jujutsu Kaisen?
Yeah wow you’re definitely getting the point of the story a lot more than I did after just what was covered in season 1. It only gets better and *more chaisawman-y* from here on out so buckle up.
(no spoilers) I read chainsaw man, and it stays an emotional rollercoaster so don't worry it is great. Weird but chainsaw man is weird. I enjoyed everything about the second half of the manga. My only problem was that i read it to fast and finnished the last 4 in about two hours. It feels really fast but also in a good way.
For future reference staying stuff like you're a bad person for writing this, that's only going to make them want to write it more. You're challenging them 😊
It's a song called "Dance of the Evanescent" from the original NieR soundtrack, it's very short but there are a few other tracks across the game with a similar melody
I'm amazed at your lack of reading the manga I honestly had to after seeing all the spoilers litered through all of the internet haha and yeah the anime barely scratches what is to come! granted the opening does :>
"before she does something unambiguously awful" like sexually groom a minor?? i kinda think the whole point is that shes already unambiguously awful also angel devil is a boy. he /is/ my babygirl tho
Hey I'm a bad person, but I will not spoil, you're right it's easy top 10% anime, Wich is still not exactly good but yeah, the tone is a mess and characters are dislikable mainly because the author probably didn't have time to think about the whole story, and just made shit up week by week, and it worked, if anything it is honest I suppose Wich is more than I can say of most anime.
15:32 "while denji and power are living in Dorohedoro the rest of public service is living in attack on titan" the most amazing set of words I have ever heard
I'm about two weeks late, but same here!
I like how fujimoto used america and Donald trump as the one paying the gun devil to kill makima "cause all Americans care about is guns hurr hurr hurr" I'm not even mad I love this stereotype that japanese created for us. Really shows you who's in charge 😉
@@davelo3506 It's not Trump because season 1 happens in 1997, but yeah
@@Adirbal the ussr is still a thing in chainsaw man 1997. It is an alternate history fucked up by a certain devil's power.
@@davelo3506gross simplification but k
"What are we, some kind of CHAINSAW MAN?" - Chainsaw Man
Yeah, I'm so glad that u were able to ACTUALLY understand this series based on the first season. It's an amazing adaptation, and this season isn't even the best part, it's why so many fans were complaining about it only being 12 episodes. It's because this first season only SCRATCHES the surface of this amazing series.
im honestly rlly fucking excited for lovely bomb girl to be adapted
WOOF WOOF!!
@@itsjustyash2750 and to add to that, that arc is like 5 episodes at most. The assassin arc will probably be the latter half of the season 2.
@@itsjustyash2750reze movie was recently announced
One thing Fujimoto absolutely loves to play with in his stories is perspective. The reason Denji is so beloved to us while so many others think of him as a joke in his world is because we know him. We know he sold his organs, would do anything for money, was severely taken advantage of even as he was risking his life. But his desires are so simple that you can't think of him as a sociopath. He is a teenager who just wants to live an easy life. To wake up in a warm bed, to a stocked fridge filled with food he likes, to spend time with people he enjoys being around. I think it's fitting that Aki is the first Devil Hunter we get introduced to, because his goal seems a lot more personal and "noble." Revenge on the Devil that took his family.
But then you go and see what the other character motivations are - and it's usually money. Ultimately, what Fujimoto is saying is that you can't knock anyone's motives for joining. This is a world where you can die at any moment on the whim of a Devil. You have to live in the moment as best as you can. This is why Kishibe says that Aki likely won't survive, while he says that Denji and Power have potential. They are selfish, but their goals are very simple ones that are achieved easily.
But even this gets thrown for a loop later on. Fujimoto refuses to stick to one underlying message in CSM, which makes it one of the much more interesting pieces of fiction in manga.
7:06 I've recently learned that you're wrong, Denji is a self-insert protagonist, and Fujimoto is just really weird.
Yes
We're all playing chess, while Fujimotos playing checkers and winning
Chainsaw man is still ongoing with part 2 of the manga, but all I can say about part 1's story and ending is that it's really good and keeps getting better and crazier as the story goes on.
The ending is by far my favorite part of the story, and what made CSM my favorite shonen manga of all time, that's all i'll say.
Yeah it 100% sticks the landing imo
I can verify, the story only improves as it goes forward. Everything you mentioned in this video gets expanded upon in such intricate and interesting ways. Cannot wait to see the reactions to the new developments. Csm peak fiction!
A local youtuber solved Chainsaw Man without even going through half of the story. No sarcasm, just the truth.
Denji and Power are a good move tonally because there really is a tension between having a healthy awareness of one's own emotions, and keeping one's emotions at arm's length, because if they weren't, you know it'd hurt. a lot.
emotional detachment as a coping mechanism makes for an interesting narrative because the lightheartedness of these characters jumps out at you during the times when it would be most appropriate to feel pain, and these two just... don't. they deny you a certain level of catharsis, and you become aware that they aren't getting catharsis either. to care is to lose, because if your emotions get you... if they grab hold of you, if you get invested, that's when you're done for. that's when something can be taken from you that you'd rather not lose. and for chronic losers, the smart move is to remain detached.
so then we kind of get to ask ourselves one of the core questions that Denji has been asking himself this whole time, in some form or another. if you literally don't feel like you can afford to feel secure enough to care about anything... what gives your life value? how do you find what matters to you when you recoil from emotional investment like it's going to burn you? it's counter intuitive. and while the detachment of these characters can be a bunch of surface level fun, the deeper meaning has a chance to lie dormant until the characters are tested, or find themselves challenged in some way, to commit to what they really care for. and at that point, the stakes are heightened, because they finally know what it is that they can't stand to lose.
this idea of what gives value to a life is incredibly important, because there's a battle going on between the people who want to exploit folks like Denji, and folks like Denji, who actually want to live their lives in the first place. after the exploitation, what are you left with? where do you draw your boundaries and say "no, this part is mine" in relation to your own self and resources? how do certain people benefit from the degradation of that boundary? and especially in a world that takes from you in so many different ways... even devil contracts will demand steep payment, like an eye, or some skin, or a year off of your lifespan. why do they want that? is the value literally just derived from how much it damages a person's quality of life to go without these things? the notion of fear has power in this narrative, so when it comes to why devils might derive value from sacrifice, all bets are off.
People aren't satisfied with part 1's ending…? I heard good things, and I personally loved it. It was great.
3:58 this is actually such an interesting observation, as the manga progresses it’s like he’s learning to become more of a person as he faces the experiences that the series will present
It's interesting to hear the opinions of someone who hasn't read the full manga. You really interrogated a story that's not even halfway told as far as you could, and you got some stuff right because of how well the story executes characterization, but also got some stuff so completely wrong because you haven't seen the whole story. I won't tell you what you got right and what you got wrong, because that would spoil it for you, but I will tell you that you should read the manga because it's legitimately one of the best manga ever made in terms of how it uses the medium of panel/sequence art so well, how much better some of its gags are when not animated, and more importantly, how reading it doesn't ruin the anime, it makes the anime better because you get to see what's being added by the anime, even though the anime does inherently take some things away, too. So, go read it! ASAP! Not just you, video creator, but also you, the viewer in the comments section! Go read this manga NOW!
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15:33 dang. i like that analogy. power and denji are dorohedoro characters in an AOT world.
No one really talks about the ending much cause... It hasn't really ended lol
Congratulations on being one of the few anime-only's who actually understands the themes of the show they're watching. Here's a like and comment for the algo.
That's an interesting video description you have there. The thing about the Angel devil is that they... uhm, you know... you'll figure it out at some point.
How should we tell him?
@@hypebeastmemer272 idk..
About the ending no spoilers. It does stick the landing and go beyond it a little even. Though it technically is not over yet it also kinda is its hard to explain.
This was a really good video and super insightful and well put. I always felt the heart of the series was almost the “Chaos” and “Order” between the main trio and how they navigate through that push and pull. It’s nice to see someone explain it in a way I couldn’t.
Part 1 absolutely sticks the landing
i promise that chainsaw man absolutely sticks the landing
Emphasis on STICK. Like fr.. dang.. only manga readers will truly understand, after chapter 71.
"Also the best girl is the angel devil"
Girl?
you aint ready for part 2, believe me
This must of been the movie makima & denji were watching because this brought a tear to my eye 👏👏
No Spoilers: Don’t listen to what people say about the ending. You will not be disappointed.
Every time I open another CSM video essay I realize that the very reason I love is it's because of how strange it is
Here before your channel blow up. Great analysis bro
Why is Obvious Puppet shitting out video essays when he could be watching Soaring Sky PreCure?
As a manga reader. . .it gets better. The season 1 prologue is over.
Great analysis you have thoroughly and effectively interrogated the story so far to get a small glimpse into stuff the manga might explore a bit later on. While CSM is currently in its 2nd part I can confirm that the latter half of part 1 (basically everything after s1 lmao) are some of the best shit I’ve ever read including the phenomenal climax and conclusion. Part 2 is still a little early on but it’s still just as great as it was before so there’s no need to worry about any decline in quality.
Also the video description… whose gonna tell him?
I don't know why, but seeing you make a video about Chainsaw-man felt like I fell in-to a wonderful fever dream; the idea of how you talk about things, combined with what Chainsaw-man is, seems un-real.
You deserve more exposure, not gonna lie.
to go from "Are we only the humanity we havent yet lost" to "if evil why hot" is the perfect and worst way to describe chainsaw man
I feel like this channel will blow up soon. I feel it in my watermelon
In your watermelon? Bruh
Well shit.. you just explained like 90% of why this show just felt like such a unique experience that just tickled some funny bone in my brain that I never knew existed... all while I'm only like half way through the video lmao.
The tone of the show is wild. Fucking bonkers in how it switches while all feeling like the same show. I tried for a while to figure that out and you gave the answer: Denji is simply not built to act or react like a normal person would. He is very much just NOT an audience stand-in! So simple yet so profound... Or another possible option is he could be called a self-insert for the darkest parts of what a human could be.
I knew there was some reason this show just became one of my all time favorites ever, maybe my #1 in one season, despite it not having idk, gOd-tiER plot and character development like seen in AOT, Vinland Saga, Berserk, etc.
This season of anime just made me feel like I wanted to get to know the author Mr Fujimoto. To really pick apart his brain and honestly just get along over some drinks. I'd always been interested in the idea of writing stories, but this show just triggered some creative bone in me that just wants to say "fuck it go wild and be fucking weird while telling a genuine story"
Because that is something I see about Chainsaw Man. It feels fucking genuine.
I also just feel something honest-to-god, infinitely pure and good-hearted about the story too. Yes the story's probably gonna rip out my heart and curbstomp it a few times over and do the same to Denji x100, but at the end of the tunnel I feel like there's just gonna be something beautiful tried and learned for both of us.
It's rare that I wholeheartedly and actively invest in a protagonists journey, but I am so just... excited to see where Denji goes, hoping for him to find the love that he doesn't even know he's needed all his life yet.
Honestly Chainsaw man is one of those few anime that has left me speechless at times and crying laughing.
That revenge moment where they kick katanaman in the balls actually made me shed a tear, i can't even begin to explain why...
The only time i had a similar feeling irl was when my grandmother had passed away, before she passed she actually told me that she's lived a happy and fullfilling llife and that it had been quite long enough for her after which she quickly started dementing and asked for euthanasia.
It was something so solemn but beautiful, and i could only cry but at the same time be happy for her.
i pray to algorithm-sama for your video
Don't want to spoil anything but I would like to say I 100% think it sticks the land. It's a bit outlandish and crazy but that is just all of chainsaw man. This part of the story I think is the least compelling part so if you've liked it so far you should, for the most part, adore the rest of it.
This is a really great analysis, you should definitely give it a read it only gets better.
All I'm gonna say for 'Anime-Only' watchers is: Pay attention to Makima's eyes. They'll never explicitly say it; but if you have a functioning mass of neurons inside your skull, you'll be able to put 2 and 2 together lol
When the reveal happened it suddenly felt so obvious that it was shocking the community hadn't figured it out
@@elsv99 I'm genuinely just ASSUMING what the reveal is based on my knowledge from the anime and my 2 brain cells, but is it less visually obvious in the manga?
@@Magnustopheles with the sketchy art style yes it's a little less obvious but not much
the story ends with it all fading to black. Then slowly from the darkness the family guy theme plays. Yup. It was all one big cutaway for family guy
Chainsaw man is amazing even if it dosent make sense I love the anime and the manga 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Just subscribed. Your vids are real good quality, no convoluted commentary like most vids I come upon. You deserve so much more subs tbh. Anyway I was wondering what you think about Jujutsu Kaisen?
YES YOU'RE TALKING CSM
YES THE DESCRIPTIONNN
I knew I could trust you Obvious Puppet
Hm. Looking it up, Chainsaw man's manga is listed as ongoing.
So, currently, no ending *to* stick.
There is an ending its the part 1's part 2 is still ongoing but part 1 is self conteined and its ending really does land the best way.
Yeah wow you’re definitely getting the point of the story a lot more than I did after just what was covered in season 1. It only gets better and *more chaisawman-y* from here on out so buckle up.
(no spoilers)
I read chainsaw man, and it stays an emotional rollercoaster so don't worry it is great. Weird but chainsaw man is weird.
I enjoyed everything about the second half of the manga. My only problem was that i read it to fast and finnished the last 4 in about two hours. It feels really fast but also in a good way.
Over 12K views! Pls make ANOTHER CHAINSAW MAN VIDEO!!!! LESGOO all hail best girl KING POWER.
If you think chainsaw mans tone is strange, try reading firepunch.
This is spot on !
For future reference staying stuff like you're a bad person for writing this, that's only going to make them want to write it more. You're challenging them 😊
Is the idea that csm doesn't stick the landing a common one??? I've never heard that before this video
A great video, thanks
Gus sent me :)
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What is that closing music, it sounds really nice
It's a song called "Dance of the Evanescent" from the original NieR soundtrack, it's very short but there are a few other tracks across the game with a similar melody
@@ObviousPuppet Aye thank you for the telling, getting music from yt videos is always a pain, thank you!
I'm amazed at your lack of reading the manga I honestly had to after seeing all the spoilers litered through all of the internet haha and yeah the anime barely scratches what is to come! granted the opening does :>
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"before she does something unambiguously awful" like sexually groom a minor?? i kinda think the whole point is that shes already unambiguously awful
also angel devil is a boy. he /is/ my babygirl tho
Hey I'm a bad person, but I will not spoil, you're right it's easy top 10% anime, Wich is still not exactly good but yeah, the tone is a mess and characters are dislikable mainly because the author probably didn't have time to think about the whole story, and just made shit up week by week, and it worked, if anything it is honest I suppose Wich is more than I can say of most anime.