Chainsaw Man - Reaction - S1E10 - Bruised and Battered 

Came to say this! Perfectly put

he needs a fucking refund for that last sword use

@@pushqrdx Bwahahahaha basically what I was thinking. As "powerful" as the sword was supposed to be, our first encounter was it was basically not working because the dude got revived immediately. So basically he used it and lost his lifespan for no reason. Same with Himeno sacrificing herself (might've delayed enough to stop them from killing Aki) but ghost basically got chomped by Snake before killing katana man again. Tragic, really.

if what Sawatari did to KatanaMan is basically the equivalent to pulling the ripcord on Denji, then he needs a refund ya. but if Sawatari did some black magic bullshit devil revival shenanigan then I think it's fine. but then again we just saw her sit there and revive the dude in like 3 seconds basically if he tried that Curse on Denji, Denji would come out alive in the end like it's nothing. like master kishibe KO-ing him casually

LMAO no refunds here. It's not the curse devils fault that it was used on an immortal. Pretty sure it was the equivalent of pulling denjis ripcord but if it was used on any normal person or devil it would've worked.

I definitely understand why Himeno felt the way she did, only 2 YEARS is crazy. -Morgan

Notice how he criticized himeno for still visiting her dead partner's grave but he's doing the same thing. Maybe he's not as crazy as he wants to be

he reminds me of Levi from AoT, because while he may be used to all the death around him it doesn’t get any easier to deal with and that shows in his actions

im pretty sure thats head canon but aight

@@jd7337 To be fair, he was chiding Himeno because she visits their graves every month, kinda different from Kishibe (I think that's how his name is spelt) going to Himeno's grave right after she died.

Following your own advice would be the sane thing to do.

Every time he smokes it's just gonna remind him of her too

I dont think it was because she wanted to live, it was moreso she wanted HIM to live

@@vehicularmanslaughter not really the point of op comment

Aki got the same treatment Himeno had when her partners died. This time it was not a physical attack but an emotional one. Lol i mean why show him those letters if not to make him feel guilty about it.

@@jchavs0212 what a shallow way to interpret this scene lmfao.

I think it was probably an attempt to get him to quit when he realized just how much Himeno wanted that, but yeah there was most likely some resentment going on there too. Himeno used to take abuse from anyone since she probably thought she deserved it, so I doubt the sister would’ve wanted to put the person Himeno cared about most through the same thing, but I think she probably did subconsciously blame him even though Himeno staying a devil hunter was ultimately her own decision to make

True. She went for emotional damage lol

Curse Devil out here leading the anti-smoking campaign

Smart FOR THEM.

Honestly it was pretty brilliant, and a brilliantly executed subversion. The audience expects their plan to be absolutely brain dead but they surprise us with a well-thought-out ambush.

Denji did not take into account his shadow will be seen when he attacked Kishibe, other than that it was a well thought plan.. At least for them. And Power lied, where were your 100 plans????

@@jchavs0212 if denji pulled his chainsaw’s out Kishibe has no chance 😂

@loni1771 His chainsaws are loud as hell and take a second or two to get going, which is all the time Kishibe needs

fr, like it took Denji a whole 3 days to kill it, and he could only do it because he’s a weird hybrid that can regenerate after drinking blood

I mean their average IQ combined probably doesn't amount to more than a rat

Right? Denji only beat the Eternity devil because it got sick of being tortured. So it brought the heart to the 8th floor and gave it to Denji. No one there but Denji was going to be able to beat that dude. And even he got lucky that Eternity devil wasn’t some masochist with a pain kink

Pretty big jump going from "oh shit a gun pointed at me I should dodge" to being confronted with the concept of eternity made manifest lmao

Lmao they think its typical shonen shit where someone can bust some awesome moves and thought it will work on ALL enemies.

100% spot on

There is some nuance though. Himeno may have had her vision permanently impaired but on a long enough timeline it can't be as bad as constantly having your finger nails be ripped off with each use of power.

@sialiasialis oh without a doubt, but some people would also value their eyesight more than experiencing pain from a torn fingernail and vice-versa. It really just depends on the person and their perspectives on the situation. But you are right. There is some nuance to it

@@sialiasialis. 100% and in the end the devils just like watching humans suffering, power shows that a lot. So one devil could say "haha she gave me her eye" and the other "I painfully remove her nails everytime she uses me" and then they laugh together

THE FUTURE RULES

not just that, it also shows him how much Himeno really cared for him which he probably didn’t even realize before since he was so dead-set on killing the gun devil (and also his whole thing with Makima)

She could have left even before meeting Aki. There was probably an unexplained reason that made her want to stay in the Public Safety. Aki made her give up that reason.

@@beyondviolet I think that's an important addendum, and as such I think you're both correct. The couple of lines from the letter we see really convey a lot of information to Aki that we as viewers already got to see in the episodes that led to Himeno's death. It's just that now we know that Aki knows. I think Aki knew that Himeno was interested in him, but since, like you said, he only had eyes for Makima + had his revenge quest, he wasn't emotionally available, and probably didn't fully get the extent of Himeno's affection. I think from a storytelling perspective the letter is important, but it's kind of a dick move from Himeno's sister to show it to Aki, like was pointed out in this reaction. She is grieving and probably blames Aki, like the loved ones of Himeno's dead partners blamed Himeno, so it makes sense from the perspective of the narrative. If I was Aki, I would blame myself, since there literally was something he could have done to prevent her death, even if he didn't understand it at the time. It wasn't really Aki's fault, though. She was an adult and could have quit even if Aki didn't. And it's not like Aki killed her.

@@lukecheung5777 the teacher guy said in one of the flashbacks that she wants to kill the gun devil too. Plus the guilt of her past partners’s deaths was probably a reason for her to stay as well

@@juho1891 I also think the letter could’ve been a method for the sister to try to get Aki to quit, since that’s what Himeno wanted. Like a way to honor her. Obviously it didn’t work, but he would’ve stayed on regardless of if he read the letter or not so I think it was sort of a last ditch attempt on the sister’s part. Honestly there’s a bunch of different ways to interpret her actions here since we only saw so much of her, but considering how she didn’t try to chew Aki out at all or actively hurt him (unlike what Himeno’s past partners’s families did with Himeno) I don’t think her main goal was to make him feel shitty.

here we go again with Kobeni's white knighting. I don't care if she's the Levi in this series and I don't care if she's the most human out there and it's okay to be freaking not. No it's not okay. Nothing she could do? how about not freaking out? as shown by the rest of them. I know she'll get a development because everyone of you manga readers couldn't shut up about it but at that moment the worst thing is to be panicking.

@@dimasbram7176 They all freaked out a bit and got scared, except Denji and Power. She just expedited the situation

@@abrahamholiday4998 I don't know if we watched the same series if all I remember is only one chick went bat sh*t crazy, most of them weren't even close.

@@dimasbram7176 I mean the other dude went crazy and wanted to kill denji and himeno started to break down near the end

@@dimasbram7176 Okay, you're being needlessly obtuse for the sake of you not liking a character, likely because the audience poisoned the well of the character for you, therefore you weren't allowed to arrive to your own conclusions about them yourself. So you couldn't appreciate Kobeni being a badass to make up for her previous misdeeds. I get it.

Mmmm not really

Exactly, it wouldn’t even be a fight. Kishibe would destroy him even with chainsaws 😂

@@Step43099 yes really

@@Step43099 Yes really rofl

@@tiktaco4391 N a h

Lol

So are they twins?

It'll probably end with the start of the next arc which is just an all-out slaughter. Man, the next season is gonna make this one look like prologue.

@@imjustlikedenji5954 It's crazy how excited I am for the second season even though it's probably years away at this point. I hope it comes out sooner than expected, but at the same time I wouldn't mind waiting for this level of production a second time. I'd hate to see it downgraded just to push it out sooner. My favorite chapters of the manga have all yet to happen

@@irecordwithaphone1856 I'm sure second season will put the first to shame. I also wouldn't mind waiting especially cause Mappa has trillion huge projects going on, i wouldn't want them to botch any of them, especially Chainsaw Man.

I wonder.... do you think MAPPA created a RU-vid channel only for chainsaw man? They literally love chainsaw man that much huh to go as far as establishing a RU-vid channel dedicated to one franchise. Kudos to em

@@bulegele2128 No there was a RU-vid channel before they even announced chainsawman, They even share genga frames and staff information on Twitter. They are that much dedicated to this project.

I love the detail that when Denji saw Aki sad they zoomed in on his eyes, but just for a moment, it's almost like Denji recovered his humanity just for a short moment, to me it's ike Denji is trapped inside, and for a slight moment we saw the real Denji when they zoomed in on those eyes

Let me steal your apples but leave you one 😭

Yeah idk about that one. Denji isn't a total asshole but at the same time the apple basket was gifted to Aki, he has no boundaries so he just took it. Probably hasn't ever had anything gifted to him either considering his upbringing It was a dick move to take the whole basket even if he left him a single apple

I feel as though it was kinda the opposite lol. someone who had everything taken from them is willing to take from another because that was Aki’s basket in the first place. BUT I do think it shows how denji cares at least somewhat to leave him an apple. He could’ve taken the whole thing and not left an apple lol.

@@irecordwithaphone1856 I guess I could see that. I just interpreted it a different way. When Denji was in the hospital Aki cut his apples and then used them to threaten him. Here we see Denji give Aki one of his own apples to show some sense of kindness even after refusing to let Powy have one. I think it’s a great scene either way.

It’s cool how Fujimoto portrays this. I wonder how Denji will be when he understands everything

@@jsmith8232 I think the same thing, I like that slowly he is changing his objectives and rethinking other types of problems that he never thought about or had to deal with.

Yeah Denji is just illiterate both literally and in terms of relationships, intimacy and emotions.

he just like me fr

There is also the possibility that becoming part devil has affected his ability to emotio ally process, as well, which is kind of an implication.

I haven't read the manga, so I don't know where the story is going with this, but I don't think it's just that. I think I basically agree with the reactors on this one. To me that moment in this episode was just a very human one, just some mature writing by someone who understands that people don't react to things that simplistically. Not everyone cries or even feels that sad when someone they know dies, how one reacts can depend on a lot of factors, but that apparent lack of a "correct" reaction goes so against social expectations that it can cause one to wonder what that says about them as a person. Like the reactors pointed out, I think that in itself goes to show that he's not heartless, although he's not "normal" by social standards, whatever that means. I think Denji actually reflects on how he feels a fair bit, he just doesn't know how to relate to the world around him. He doesn't know how to apply his feelings to his actions. He wants to feel safe, and loved, and he wants to experience something fulfilling--he just doesn't know how to achieve any of that, so he latches on to whatever he thinks might get him closer to what he craves. His current job has given him a sense of security, but he also feels like something is missing. I think Denji's struggles are something a lot of people can relate to. Thematically, I think it ties in with the fact that Denji has a lot of expectations for what a "normal" life is like, but a lot of his expectations don't end up resembling reality. For growing up in such extreme circumstances, he is very much aware of social norms and has expectations that a lot of "normal" people have, especially growing up, only to find out that life isn't necessarily always like that. Edit: typo

That definitely makes sense, it does make me happy though that he is able to recognize that he isn't feeling sad so he's growing just a little bit every day. -Morgan

Damn can't believe you posted that huge spoiler.

Bro, wtf, spoilers.

💀💀💀

Man I wish we got more of Arai, always loved both him and Kobeni, thought they were nice.

@@jross7287 *proceeds to bury the eye patch*

Dude, in ending 8 there was literally a scene where Aki's standing alone in front of someone's grave after giving flowers to said grave, i'm pretty sure this is himeno's grave

@@TrizzlyYT was it? Huh. Weird. I WONDER IF THATS WHY I SAID IT. THAT YOU FOR POINTING OUT THE OBVIOUS.

@@toobigtofail4232 bro i was just explaining for other people to prevent them from saying things like: "when?" You need to chill :/

@Trizzly yes, and I am thanking you. There are SO MANY people asking "when?" Opening with Dude shows you're talking to a lot of people, too. NOT just talking directly to me. Got all you're getting out of me. Keep that obvious train goin. I appreciate you and ALL you do.

I don't think so, Denji left an apple because he saw Aki being sad and felt empathy for him

My interpretation of the Apple is that it represents Aki’s choice of a healthy future vs a self destructive one. After Denji left the room Aki had a choice (visually) to reach for the Apple or for a cigarette, and I think that represents his decision on retiring and living a peaceful final 2 years vs staying and the consequences of that

@@VJ-Vice Huh, interesting. Also, can't belive they let you smoke in a hospital. 1997 Japan wilin' out.

That is a pretty terrifying thought, luckily the hybrids would only have to go through a little of that before completely healing.

Ngl, I did too. If it's after the credits, I'm not gonna know about it.

@@cctomcat321 It is the credits itself. It's directly after the shows end they have a different one each time lol.

@Dom yeah, I know. I still don't watch them. Usually because I'm on a streaming site and they have a "skip intro" function that pops up.

That will be in season 2 only

Oh boi Quanxi is...... something to say the least

"oreo" has two "o"s with different pronunciations. more like the "o" in "oh"

@@kaze.14 hee-men-oh

is One Punch Man still a thing? I thought everyone hated it lol

@@beyondviolet Nope, a season 3 was just announced haha

I thought all of part 1 was going to be aired in a single season, but apparently we're only getting 12 episodes and then we'll have to wait god knows how long

@@dibidabua maybe not even that, if you kept up with how the Japanese ratings are going in Japan for Chainsaw man, it’s not looking too good…

or smiles ig

People have different reactions to things that make them feel uncomfortable. You know this already

Everyone is different, its really not hard to understand... someone having a different reaction than you isnt "weird"

Yeah, even the VA is the same so I get it.

He's Nanami Kento in JJK and Overhaul in MHA, so he's used to voicing badasses haha