damn ok

My personal ranking:
1. Farewell! Cherry Boy
2. Knitting by the window
3. Roku's Dark Pact
4. Chain
5. Enten

Knitting by the window is probably his most interesting one. It really makes me wonder what Hokazono is planning with Iori and Hakuri.

Roku's pact is also pretty good. You can really tell how much Kagurabachi is based on concepts he started exploring here. You can also see some of his weaknesses show up though. The dialogue and narration really drags sometimes and it feels like he took some shortcuts in the writing.

I just read Hokazono (Kagurabachi author)'s one shots. They're alright. My favorite is Farewell! Cherry Boy, it feels like a Fujimoto story setup executed with Hokazono's style and themes.

I wonder who is going to cause the apocalypse this time

Pochita basically returned her to her world. If he does not exist she does not have anything to be insecure about and destroy the world for. She's a country mouse for now.

Yoru's absence in this chapter reminds me of Yoshida's bear analogy. She and Asa are in their own worlds now.

Yoru and Moray and Lion are all sitting around a table playing Go Fish

Yoru is just chilling in hell now lmao, the whole reason she was like that is gone #csm232

Yoru never fought Pochita, so the Gun Devil never appeared on earth (he was probably involved in the horsemen fight), so Aki's family never got killed and he never became a devil hunter.

At least that's my theory for why Aki didn't appear #csm232

yeah idk about this one, it fits the anticlimax theme but everything else is left behind #csm232

this is actually a clever meta joke about how Pochita eating himself erased the manga as well, Fujimoto will burn all chainsaw man volumes in circulation tomorrow

and many other things

Chainsaw Man FINAL chapter bingo card

so do you guys have any theories for the last chapter?

they changed Megumi trying to grab Reggie's balls

But at the same time it's not really ambiguous at all

Kind of? It's similar to how battle shonen will often have gay-coded relationships, but turned up to 11. It's mostly an edgy sports manga with a very heavy emphasis on the meaning of self-improvement.

In the last chapter we literally see Hugo, a midfielder who preaches the ideology Ego argue against, score.

Interesting blue lock chapter. I feel like Ego is too stuck in the striker mentality. Some of what he says makes sense, but this part completely falls apart considering that people like Niko and Hiori are also standing on the field, whose egos just don't revolve around being a striker anymore.

It's insane how big Hugo is. Loki is a tall guy and he just towers over him.

FACT: Fujimoto decided to end Chainsaw Man because he couldn't stand having to work without Gege

it's so insane to do this with your breakthrough shonen jump series, a normal author would keep this kind of story direction to a one-shot #csm231

Denji was only happy when the story and conflict hadn't started yet, levels of metacommentary not seen since...nothing honestly I don't think Fujimoto has ever written like this #csm231

Fujimoto decided to fully commit to the bit and removed all stakes #csm231

what the hell is this chapter this comes so out of nowhere #csm231

csm chapter 231 bingo card

I should've seen this one coming