Chainsaw Man Box Set: Includes Volumes 1-11

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The times when the characters do experience a touching moment it is always due to a new impactful theme being introduced in the very same scene (only to be forgotten as the scene ends), in other words, the only memorable-ish bits in Chainsaw Man are technically filler, since they deal with ideas which are irrelevant to the rest of the narrative, they are tangents in a nonsensical conversation. That's how it is with ALL the meaning you can find in this manga, it all consists in little bits scuffed here and there. It says it's a story about dreams here, then it goes to being a story about perfection v.s. imperfection, but before that tried being about trauma, then friendship maybe, dk?!?! That's what the author was probably thinking! Which leads me to my next point: the plot twist. I thought that there must've been something behind it, but guess, what, that was it. I wouldn't have know that I finished the manga today if I didn't add it on MAL. to be fair i started to read it and really get into it because i thought the idea of chainsaw man was quiet interesting. honestly it was captivating. but slowly and surly there were just more and more plot holes that kept reoccuring. it just started to feel really lazy,

To be fair, I haven't actually seen a ton of stories with plot poison. But from what I have seen it is mostly used in a way to make the story look more dramatic when it is used in the action genre. With the horror genre, it is made to create terror to some atmosphere. Though even so Chainsaw Man is straight to the point with such an action. When death happens, it isn't used as a way to make everything look dramatic or scary, as I have said, this is madness, no bumpy road to get to what it wants to convey. Straight to the point, full stop. I must say such a technique really gives the story its ground to stand on. Even with thousands of irrelevant characters that get totally wiped off the face of the world within seconds, it may do feel as if the story has become more dramatic, or terrifying, or, well, AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH. Though I feel as if it were like a signature blessed specifically for a story of its kind. You could argue that method would be a cheap way of emphasising the mood Chainsaw Man wishes to bring and to be honest, I would agree... to an extent. Having a vast amount of deaths in a world full of chaos is obviously going to make the setting look cataclysmic, but concurrently, it isn't like killing off every single importance character is going to bring for a better story anyway, not that there is excessive plot armour to be mentioned in the story anyway. It is disheartening, but that is what the story aims to be amidst the frantic hell of a world. With narrative, most of my opinion is still the same, same chaos, some conspiracies, no one what the hell is going on, but you can be sure of hell along the road of the reality of CSM.I just wish the action would feel more impactful and engaging, but it follows the same formula every single time. Humans are mostly red shirts and the whole power dynamic between devils is convoluted. But who cares, because Denji only has to rev up his chainsaw and the mind-numbing slaughter can commence. People don't die in the story for the sake of some dramatic way to go out, or for the sake of making things look scary The adult jokes in short are this "puking on each other" and "not cleaning your toilet" after taking a dump... The series' anime adaptation began airing in October 2022 and finished airing its first 12-episode season in December of the same year. Two PVs and two visuals were released for it. The story and worldbuilding are so incredibly weak. The mangaka pushes you straight into action and from that point on you're in a rollercoaster that's only going hard downwards with no rest, meaning that there's no time to rest and therefore no time to enjoy the hype (no light without darkness yknow).

One minute they are there and next, they are gone. It's pretty much worse as the GOT last episode with killing potential characters who needed more screen time.....The story is pretty simple so far, but that is not a bad thing! It's a shounen jump manga so fight scenes are frequent and there are comedic elements as well. What sets this manga apart though is the characters and the monsters. I'll elaborate on the characters in the "Character" section, but the monsters are really great. Because of the premise, there are pretty much Now the main problem aren't the tropes or cliches since no story is devoid of those, but it depends on how u utilize them.. the word tropes has become synonymous with "bland" which is entirely wrong since tropes by definition means things specific to a genre so even though they might be repetitive, the execution can make a tropy series a great one...

To finish this off, I want to say that Chainsaw Man is good as hell. It's a smart manga that is gory, painful, frequently hilarious, and will make you feel despair like you've never felt before. But beyond the blood, guts, gore, and sex, Chainsaw Man is at its core a story about trauma, chasing your dreams, personal growth, and the connections you make with other people (for better or for worse). I wouldn't go so far as to call it a deconstruction, but if you're a shonen fan who's become a bit disillusioned with the genre, Chainsaw Man is a breath of fresh air. (Especially since as of December 14, 2020, when this review is being posted, the announcement for an anime AND a "part two" of the manga just dropped a few days ago. And part 2... oh boy howdy does it look good!)I think it can be enjoyed casually, but all in all, Chainsaw Man is a mediocre story that tired too hard to deviate from the norm, carried entirely by the hype surrounding it (which to this day I’m still confused on how it got that hype in the first place). Don’t waste your time on Chainsaw Man, read Dorohedoro instead, this was just a rip off of it anyway. RIP ANGEL🙏

Getting into the fundamentals, something to touch on is plot poison. Usually, plot poison destroys what writers try to convey because they are a flimsy way of emphasising a situation, I don't really recall a time when it has worked so effectively. With Chainsaw Man, however, the excessive amounts of deaths could be viewed as general plot poison if it weren't for the three reasons of: I won't get into spoilers, but the ending is quite disappointing. I felt as if it was pushed to go onto top speeds especially with how fast the pacing of this story is. It may leave you with an unsatisfactory taste to savour. In saying this the ending is nothing disastrous, it was just too fast which didn't allow for a proper finish as one may have liked to see with such intense build-up that has happened just before. Its FAAAAAAR from normal or relatable. Even in the end considering he got some braincells, the changes are far from significant apart from him feeling some value on being the "chainsaw" man since he is still the same..had much, if any at all, impact on the story, making them ultimately pointless. Had the story been properly thought out, maybe it could have gone somewhere and been an interesting manga. The pacing is inconsistent, flipping between being too fast or too slow, and the plot leads nowhere. Fujimoto tries to shoehorn “symbolic” moments in during random scenes to feel like he was writing something deep and important, but they never made sense and didn’t add anything to the story for the reader to interpret. Things that should have been answered were left unanswered, which I am assuming because the answer was overlooked and forgotten about. Fujimoto also handles characters and their deaths extremely poorly. Apart from the few main characters, almost every other character introduced will die in the following chapters after their introduction. Their deaths don’t leave much impact on the readers even when you can tell they were intended to because there just was not enough time to begin to like the characters. The story was riddled with tons of plot holes that also give an unsatisfying story. The ending of the story (or at least the “arc”) was also extremely underwhelming, confusing, and disappointing. I will not spoil the ending, but don’t go in expecting much. Overall, you can tell that Chainsaw Man was written because some guy wanted to draw gore and fight scenes and was forced to add a story to it. Chainsaw Man is a story which thrives in its unexpectedness. It's a story that takes you for twists and turns in its plot and characterization, but mostly through its simultaneous homage to and subversion of shonen tropes. It's a story that looks dumb as hell, with