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If she breathes-

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Chainsaw man

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Just went to the grocery store and it is very close to midnight and so everybody there was pretty scrungy and tired and maybe whacked out, buying shit like cocoa puffs and cake (I was buying candy and ice cream so no judgement) and people were looking at me weird and I only realized until after I got home that I am like fully made up in a nice outfit and was very smiley and giggly bc I was listening to funny podcast and probably appeared to them completely out of touch with the reality of the situation I existed within

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Behind the scenes of Godzilla (1998)

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I AM SO NORMAL I AM SO NORMAL I AM SO NORMAL ABSOLUTELY NORMAL

THE UPDATE MADE ME SO HAPPY I'M LITERALLY JUMPING AROUND MY ROOM AND BITING EVERYTHING THAT SURROUNDS ME RRRRRAAAAHHHH

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ya yee’d yer last haw, t h i e f -

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I cannot believe that is not a made up song

(after all Fujimoto literally put them in his own karaoke place)

Here’s an edit from Ninjarastic so you too can experience how fun this scene is

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It was in that moment he lost his final marble ☆

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Fujimoto answers you directly in this chapter (yes)

How about reading CSM differently? Or at least cut it up differently? Because the more the chapters progress, the more a certain pattern seems to repeat itself: Part 1 sounds as if Fujimoto is unveiling CSM in its purest form, then Part 2 sounds as if CSM is responding to its own reception by its fans. 

I've already said many times that Fujimoto likes contrast in form and in writing, and this chapter, though brain-numbing, simply follows Fujimoto's own rules, only in an even more accentuated way. 

To prove my point, I recommend you reread chapter 133 "Protest", which for me speaks directly to the divisive image represented by Fujimoto and his work Chainsaw Man. 

I've already done an exhaustive analysis of it, but let's get one thing out of the way: Fujimoto answers his fans in part 2. 

Whether it's by posing a heroine who seems incompatible with Denji, hating the figure of CSM which is nonetheless the work in which she's included, whether it's through the themes addressed by part 2, the question of dual identity, creating antagonists like Fake!CSM, setting up a church (us) around CSM 

We're in a work that speaks for itself, as chapter 137 confirms, and for this very rule, we refer to the previous chapters (an eternal restart).

Chapter 136, entitled "Normal Life", refers to a more-than-CENTRAL theme in Chainsaw Man, the nerve that irrigated the whole of Part 1 Denji's disillusionment, a bargaining chip for the former antagonist, Fujimoto takes his fans by the hand and puts them back into the game they know. 

We see what we'd all expected to see, a Denji who doesn't know how to fit into normal life, who's not cut out for 

In my previous analysis, I explained how not only is Denji incapable of having a normal life, not only because of himself but also because of Yoshida, who offers him this life, and above all because of Fujimoto, who abruptly breaks the rhythm of his own chapter with this aggression, frustrating (I'm sure on purpose) his own fans. 

What Fujimoto does is make you think you were reading in the right direction, showing you a Denji depressed by his normal life, and like a child amused by not wanting to be predictable, he breaks what would otherwise have been a logical thing to see.

Chapter 137 simply follows the same logic: Fujimoto has foreseen your frustrated reactions and knows full well that you've become attached to Denji, hoping that he'll break out of the cycle of manipulation. I mean… Who could have foreseen such a title?

He plays you in this chapter by setting up a confident, emotionally well-adjusted Denji who pushes this stranger away, reminding her of the rules of respect and consent. 

It's not just Denji's thoughts, the way he would have liked to act, it's also the way YOU would have liked him to act. 

Now I can explain why these chapters, which break with the previous ones in their absurdity, are surely the most important in CSM. 

Many had pointed to the famous cinema reference in chapter 136, others had even noted that chapter 136 constituted chapter 39 of part 2, responding to Makima's date with Denji in part 1 in the same chapter. 

But chapter 39 of part 1 wasn't just interesting for the cinema scene, it was the one that set the rules for understanding CSM. 

In fact, it was this chapter to which chapter 93 responded, with Denji's ideology (in favor of bad movies) confronting Makima (against bad movies).

In the same way, the second chapter 39 (the 136th) also seeks to lay down rules

Chapters 136 and 137 have never been more responsive to CSM fans, stubbornly denying them what they want. 

What Fujimoto does is to return to cinema in its purest form in the second half, using the codes of the middle-aged male slasher. 

That's why the two high-school students go to Fujimoto's karaoke bar, because you're going to find yourself in its purest essence: having fun with the utmost absurdity. 

It's no longer a question of representing cinema, as in the two chapters 39, but of making cinema.

But why a slasher? Think of the mythical slashers that traumatized a generation… Yes… The Texas Chainsaw Massacre is a work that has achieved cult status for having opened the door to a new trend in American horror cinema: the slasher movie. Nothing represents a slasher movie more than a chainsaw-headed hero?

Inspired by the Italian "giallos", slasher movies feature a masked killer, a gang of youngsters and the killings of the serial killer in question. Fujimoto takes up this theme in his own way: Denji doesn't kill with his iconic chainsaw, he's not masked, and it's the two young men who hold the beats and the shady men who get killed.

If we go back to the depression we all expected to see, it's actually more complicated to understand: Denji's depression at being trapped in a type of writing that's too serious for him. 

Here Denji follows the rules of the game, enjoying himself by killing all those old people, saying ironically: "not bad this normal life". 

Because this scene is perfectly normal in Fujimoto's karaoke.  

In itself, Yoshida was right. Indeed, no, Denji is not the hero of the normal film that was unfolding before them. Because they're not in normal life, it's projected onto the screen. CSM's reality is an absurd slasher. It is in this slasher, in this false normal life, that the protagonist, Denji, is.

Denji is the protagonist of another film. And maybe in this one, the world needs Chaisaw Man.

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Chainsaw Man Chapter 136: A Normal Life

I mean, between Denji's offer to Yoshida in a prior chapter, and the movements of this one, I'd be pretty hard pressed to say this is a normal life. At the very least though, yet another super important chapter for Denji's character, and I'd love to break down why.

Right away, Denji is alienated from himself as people not only use Denji, but Chainsaw Man as well to start a heated discussion based around their own beliefs. Neither cares about what Denji says, and instead focus on their own opinions of Chainsaw Man, who stands right in front of them.

The idea of dehumanizing and isolating Denji as a character remains incredibly strong through these chapters, and it's such an amazing feat. Literally ripping his heart out, removing him from his own conversations, Denji remains isolated from what's allowed him to live and dream for so long. And in the eyes of those that have never seen him as Chainsaw Man? He's a nobody, a scapegoat, a problem child with nowhere to go.

Anyways, Yoshida swoops in for the kill, whisking Denji away to Fujimoto's favorite location: a movie theater. Here, Yoshida pulls a nasty one-two punch. First, he degrades Denji, lowering his self-esteem, his self-worth that's carried solely by Chainsaw Man. Yoshida ensures that Denji is reduced to purely 'Denji' in this moment, before revealing Yoshida brought Denji here because of a girl.

While it's pretty funny, it's an incredibly degrading moment for his character. Isolating Denji from what makes him Denji, Yoshida batters and bruises the poor boy to the point the all he wants is consolation and love. He's always desired attention, and it always came from Chainsaw Man. Being denied that aspect of himself, the very desire that kept Denji going, he sinks further into himself and regresses in what it is that he wants. He doesn't need a connection, he doesn't need actual love, he hardly even needs attention. What he needs is what's right in front of him at this moment, someone that Denji believes to "see" him. It's an incredibly sad moment that marks the new rock bottom for him as a person, as he stares up from beneath the water to see the reflection of Chainsaw Man that remains outside of his reach.

And one last thing. This is what Denji sees "normal" as. That isolation, the loneliness of being just another person. No friends, no family, nobody that will talk to him and see him as he is: the devil hybrid that saved the world. The boy who killed his own friend, who lost his first love, who's best friends have died to save him. That aspect of not Chainsaw Man, but Denji, has been ripped away and left him with a Pochita-shaped hole where his heart should be.

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Experimental yoru and Asa sketch

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I understand that many of you were disappointed by this chapter, that it's not something you wanted to revisit. My analyses aren't there to cry genius when I see questionable writing either. I can only agree that Fujimoto is an author who consciously knows what kind of emotion his writing will deliver. And I can see that in this chapter, given the brutally rushed pace, he has deliberately set out to frustrate you.

That's why I wouldn't say that this chapter is bad, because I have the impression that Fujimoto arouses the desired emotion and that a manga, especially CSM, isn't there just to thrill and enthuse you.

I'm waiting to see the next chapter, but what Part 2 shows us is that it's written with a fine-tooth comb, so don't give up too much hope for what's to come.

Never forget that CSM is a tragedy before it's a comedy.

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It doesn't take much analysis to know that Chainsaw Man is a part of Denji, and one of his sources of happiness.

You can see it in his posture alone. As can be seen between chapter 103 "Denji Dream" when we discover one day that he is Chainsaw Man, and chapter 136 "Normal Life", which is no longer a dream that has suited him for a long time.

I know we're going to invoke the fact that Denji has ALWAYS had bad posture: it's true. But what I can invoke in return is that he doesn't have the same attitude when he positions himself as Chainsaw Man.

"Denji" just Denji is not an identity that suits Denji. Yes, paradoxically.

He's not normal, so why should he become just a man when he's Chainsaw Man?

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Think skipping school to hang out would make us ordinary high schoolers? ☆

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I practiced drawing diff faces with the csm characters but this is kinda old

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