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Article https://screenrant.com/chainsaw-man-last-chapter-release-date/
Final page from latest chapter
Fujimoto what the fuck is this
He just stopped the story. He just said "no more Asa, no more Yoru, no more horsemen and Fumiko and Public Safety. Pochita has decided to end the story."
Asa is my favorite character in fiction, chainsaw man is my favorite fiction. But this is just batshit and not in his usual good way. If Asa just gets flushed down the drain it will be the biggest pants-shitting I've ever seen. It would make me look favourably on Attack on Titan. The next chapter better be a fucking divine masterpiece and part 3 better be shoveled into my mouth
I trust Fujimoto. Part 3 incoming.
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Like on the one hand, I get that thematically Denji is indeed trapped on a hedonic treadmill, and he was very explicitly given the choice of having a "normal life" and he didn't want to do that, instead he wanted to be Chainsaw Man, and now basically the world is ending, so resetting it all and removing his ability to "be" Chainsaw Man would potentially allow him to get off that treadmill, and therefore an ending like this would make sense for Denji and his role in the series.But like, what the fuck do we do with Asa then??? She's been totally discarded, subsumed under the tyranny of Yoru for like 30 chapters or whatever. She hasn't come to terms with her own guilt over the death she thinks she's caused, there hasn't been any sort of arc payoff or anything, and she was our main character for a good length of time. I just don't understand how this thing ends in one chapter that is at all reasonable for Asa. I'm totally with you on this one.
I mean, one of the things that I've long felt is on brand for Chainsaw Man is that non-Denji characters are disposable. Expecting closure might be futile.
I feel like it's not unfair to expect some kind of closure for the one character that was the main character of the book for dozens of chapters.
You might think that, yeah. lol.
Asa is at least as important as Makima or Aki. Its extremely reasonable to expect closure. She literally started as the protagonist, and the story just ended without any input from her
Would you describe Aki as having gotten closure?
Yeah, because his character arc actually end, in a tragedy. Asa's just vanished