Asa’s story started fairly strong, and I enjoyed the first 10 or so chapters. But as Asa was phased out of the story, and it focused more on Denji, I felt it got worse. There were still a few good moments, but it’s kinda spoilt the rest of the story, and even Chainsaw Man for me. Denji feels like a caricature of himself. Hm, writing this, I realize that it isn’t that I dislike most of the components of the story. It’s really just Denji.
EDIT: Anyway, thanks for prompting me to reflect on my current opinion of Asa Mitaka’s story, or CSM 2 as I think of it. I don’t think I ever intended that to wind up as my cached-opinion. So it goes.
Denji is indeed a caricature of himself, both diagetically and metaphorically. I believe this is a deliberate metatextual self-reference to how popular Chainsaw Man has gotten in the real world.
Asa’s story started fairly strong, and I enjoyed the first 10 or so chapters. But as Asa was phased out of the story, and it focused more on Denji, I felt it got worse. There were still a few good moments, but it’s kinda spoilt the rest of the story, and even Chainsaw Man for me. Denji feels like a caricature of himself. Hm, writing this, I realize that it isn’t that I dislike most of the components of the story. It’s really just Denji.
EDIT: Anyway, thanks for prompting me to reflect on my current opinion of Asa Mitaka’s story, or CSM 2 as I think of it. I don’t think I ever intended that to wind up as my cached-opinion. So it goes.
Denji is indeed a caricature of himself, both diagetically and metaphorically. I believe this is a deliberate metatextual self-reference to how popular Chainsaw Man has gotten in the real world.