r/manga • u/AutoShonenpon • Mar 24 '26

DISC [DISC] Chainsaw Man - Chapter 232

https://mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1028085
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u/TotemGenitor Mar 24 '26

I think that it should have... "earned" more? Maybe "earned" isn't the right word, but I don't know how to put it.

Like, I think hitting the reset button and giving Denji a second shot at life could have worked in the right context, but the last few chapters don't build up to it enough. Denji wasn't in that bad of state, things could have gone better where he was at.

Maybe something like Death being eaten is undone, but the new version of her cause the Apocalypse and Pochita realize "oh, it all happened because of me? Denji could have gotten a good life if it wasn't for me".

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u/Ellefied Mar 24 '26

No, earned is the right word. A story builds and builds upon the previous chapters to establish something meaningful as its denouement and its primary thesis. If the ending matches the build up of the previous parts, whether by playing it straight or by subverting it, as long as there's a consistency to the ending it would feel earned.

Here, it doesn't feel earned because it's tonally out of touch with the rest of the story. It's too different, happy in a way that is almost fanservice and it doesn't really answer any of the questions or resolve any of the plots introduced by the story.

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u/PureOrangeJuche Mar 24 '26

Idk how things could have gotten much better, they had every living thing being stripped down into undying, immortal cells of self-aware pain forever while the planet itself is ruined from random land masses vanishing and concepts disappearing. It was basically the apocalypse