Chainsaw Man - Peak Fiction in the making

I've been wondering if Bat shouldn't be one of the most upper tier demons considering how it is ingrained to pop culture, though it seems more like people think it is cool rather than scary.
Being seen as cool rather than scary does seem to take away from the strength of the demon. It’s why Makima was able to take on ChainsawMan so easily compared to how Poockita was in hell, people had started to love him rather than fear him.
 
I kind of doubt they have batman in this universe. It just has "eek it's in my hair" level power which is apparently decent.
Fox devil is the weird one to me. It seems pretty monstrous but who the fuck is scared of foxes? Like I know it's a bit of a thing in Japan but even that seems like 50/50 between "they might trick you or something" and jerking off to em.
 
Being seen as cool rather than scary does seem to take away from the strength of the demon. It’s why Makima was able to take on ChainsawMan so easily compared to how Poockita was in hell, people had started to love him rather than fear him.
he's so adorable you wonder how it's possible for him to be strong
 
Being seen as cool rather than scary does seem to take away from the strength of the demon. It’s why Makima was able to take on ChainsawMan so easily compared to how Poockita was in hell, people had started to love him rather than fear him.
In general Chainsaws are at a weird position where they aren't even weapons and their appeal is more heroic characters battling some evil than vice versa, not to mention their existence is very recent unlike the other devils. It might explain its unique power but that's probably reading too hard into it.
I kind of doubt they have batman in this universe. It just has "eek it's in my hair" level power which is apparently decent.
Fox devil is the weird one to me. It seems pretty monstrous but who the fuck is scared of foxes? Like I know it's a bit of a thing in Japan but even that seems like 50/50 between "they might trick you or something" and jerking off to em.
Vampires are more of a "bats are scary" kind of deal. Also the Fox demon is pretty shit, plus there might be a regional thing where the abilities of demons depend on the beliefs of people in an area, which would make a lot of sense.
 
How many episodes is the anime going to have? If it's only 12/13 we won't be getting bomb girl or the assassins, which is a shame because the manga really gets weird after what the anime is probably going to be covering.
 
Surely that'd be the vampire devil?

I spent a lot of time around chainsaws as a kid and they are... very alarming. Not something you relax around. I can totally see the connection. That and movie serial killers I guess.

Tangentially that's the reason it kinda bothers me that Denji's sound like a wimpy electric variety. Reading the manga I always imagined them as the much more worrying throaty exhaust-spewing type you'd fuck up Fern Gully with.

there might be a regional thing where the abilities of demons depend on the beliefs of people in an area, which would make a lot of sense.
Their strength at least, yeah. We've seen them actively feed on fear and get stronger in a given situation so it makes sense that if you're something people are only scared of in a particular place then you'd hang around that place where you'd get more juice in the moment.

Kind of an interesting tree-falling-in-the-woods idea since devils exercise power only by fucking with others, so it might always be relative in this way. Like they're all kind of the same when they're just at home watching tv right
 
How many episodes is the anime going to have? If it's only 12/13 we won't be getting bomb girl or the assassins, which is a shame because the manga really gets weird after what the anime is probably going to be covering.
I think it would have 12 which would make sense. So I think this will end with the Katana Man fight ending. Then a second cour would probably cover Bomb Devil and Assassins.
 
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I read 12 yesterday.
I too am sad about having to wait for Reze's thigh gap.

If the Zombie Devil can exist then it would make sense for a Vampire Devil to exist.
yeah he starts out fighting the tomato devil and in the OP it looks like he's fighting some sort of pastry or an IUD or something devil so they get pretty specific.
vampires aren't a subset of bats anyway; they turn into other shit depending on the myth so they'd definitely get their own one.
 
How many episodes is the anime going to have? If it's only 12/13 we won't be getting bomb girl or the assassins, which is a shame because the manga really gets weird after what the anime is probably going to be covering.
Its 12 episodes, but this is probably one the first season, or first cour of the first season, so we will probably get 12 more episodes covering the second half of Part One.
 
Its 12 episodes, but this is probably one the first season, or first cour of the first season, so we will probably get 12 more episodes covering the second half of Part One.
Hopefully it will be 24 since the optimal amount of episodes is: 8 for bomb girl, 8 for crazy psycho lesbians and 8 for HOLY SHIT. We're at about the one third point for the first season and I don't think there is a good dropping off point without padding or cutting the other arcs
 
Its 12 episodes, but this is probably one the first season, or first cour of the first season, so we will probably get 12 more episodes covering the second half of Part One.
Yeah, no. Unless they cut A LOT they are absolutely not going to be able to fit the last "half" of part 1 after katana devil in 12 episodes. Its going to have to be 24 minimum to cover bomb devil, gun devil and control devil.
 
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how could you hate kobeni
she is just too scared, crazy, and adorably pathetic to hate
Kobeni is ironically the most well adjusted person in the cast cause I don't think I'd be super calm if I worked a job where I'm constantly at risk of dying in horrible, albeit interesting ways for a government pension, which is what I find endearing about her, even the part where he's crylaughing hysterically after kicking Katana Man's ass. She's not my absolute favorite female character in the series so far, but you can be best girl and still not get the crown.

RIP Himeno :(
 
Kobeni is ironically the most well adjusted person in the cast cause I don't think I'd be super calm if I worked a job where I'm constantly at risk of dying in horrible, albeit interesting ways for a government pension, which is what I find endearing about her, even the part where he's crylaughing hysterically after kicking Katana Man's ass. She's not my absolute favorite female character in the series so far, but you can be best girl and still not get the crown.

RIP Himeno :(
i respect that when Kobeni had to get a job, it was either dying horribly, or whoring herself out, Kobeni chose the prospect of dying horribly
 
Got a fairly decent amount of extra cash, figured I’d treat myself to a birthday present and bought the full set of Part 1. Didn’t realize it was just 11 volumes.

Also, the end of Katana Man arc is about midway through the manga, so I guess the anime did pace it out right.
 
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