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[–] thethirdgracchi@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

spoilerLike 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.