it's interesting to me how often people analyze chainsaw man without taking into account the setting. the type of society that characters inhabit is so deeply entrenched in grim bureaucracy that spills into how characters interact with one another as much as loss and interpersonal drama does. the way that people talk about denji and makima's relationship in particular is odd because of how often the physical aspect of their interactions are discussed alone, despite existing and developing in tandem with this dehumanizing backdrop. denji and power having no rights and kobeni being at the mercy of her family/employer is played for laughs as much as it's used to reinforce that this is an abnormal world that makes abnormal people. makima and reze are implied to have been raised by their respective governments. makima uses her status to control denji as much as she plays into his romantic/maternal wants. handing over some aspect of your body to demons are formalized as "contracts" by an employer that has a mass graveyard for employees KiA. around the episode 4 mark I started seeing more complaints about the brownish desaturated palette and morose, discordant direction the anime chose to go with and I thought "no...that's about right. an adaptation for a setting like this should feel like a cross between Brazil (1985) and invader zim."
me, scream singing while driving: HE SAYS BILL I BELIEVE THIS IS KILLING ME AS A SMILE RAN AWAY FROM HIS FACE WELL IM SURE THAT I COULD BE A MOVIE STAR IF I COULD GET OUT OF THIS PLACE
the real problem with necromancy is all of these necromancers are pursuing immortality instead of dying so all the good necromancer names are taken for like centuries at a time. the other day i met a guy who called himself skull james