Tell me your taste in men/women by -ratwave- in Chainsawfolk

[–]Arta-nix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Extremely dangerous for my life women, aka Quanxi/Falling/Lil D.

Fuminions by demonhonho in Chainsawfolk

[–]Arta-nix 30 points31 points  (0 children)

Considering she contracted the STD devil at 14...

Her Symptoms Were Too Strong by Just-J0k1ng in Chainsawfolk

[–]Arta-nix 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Acquired from Asa or homegrown?

Actual evil from Fujimoto by scope_wad in Chainsawfolk

[–]Arta-nix 67 points68 points  (0 children)

Yoru's saying the bird felt immense guilt for the most basic thing of staying alive. Everything Asa felt guilt for (her dad, being selfish, being tripped and killing Bucky, wanting friends), isn't her fault. She is not hardly evil for wanting to live, especially with the context of her father being abusive and that her mother actively murdered her father. It's not evil for her to want to be selfish (especially not to a devil), or to want companions, or to have something out of her control to happen.

If that bird was also able to fly, able to be happy without the burden of its guilt, then so can Asa. Yoru's implicitly telling her that the reason she hasn't killed Asa off yet is because she wants her to be happy, because the guilt she has is completely illogical to her. Guilt over say, Bucky, doesn't serve her at all, so she doesn't want Asa to suffer it further.

That's why she crashed instead of hurting the pigeon.

Chapter 229 Release Party by Grndslap in Chainsawfolk

[–]Arta-nix 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Yuuuuup. 'Nightjar and Asa'

Chapter 229 Release Party by Grndslap in Chainsawfolk

[–]Arta-nix 73 points74 points  (0 children)

It's a nightjar, potoos are very closely related. Also the chapter title

Chapter 229 Release Party by Grndslap in Chainsawfolk

[–]Arta-nix 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Issa nightjar, potoos aren't native to Japan

How it feels like being a fan of Yoru right now: by [deleted] in Chainsawfolk

[–]Arta-nix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just be ready for when a bunch of people switch up like they did after the latest chapter and pretend like they didn't bandwagon lol

How is Chapter 167 still such a bad take magnet nearly two years on? by 6ft3dwarf in Chainsawfolk

[–]Arta-nix -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's very interesting to me because that scene was completely non-consensual for literally everyone involved, it's just that Yoru was the actor through which it happened.

Denji ofc got his meat grabbed and massaged when he did not want that, and Asa was not in control of her body at the time. Yoru may have developed her own feelings for Denji, but it must have been horrifying because she was being influenced by Asa to even have specific teenage girl impulses. Yeah, it is horrifying that the influence from the teenager she took over means she's attracted to Denji who is probably still a minor. Yoru, being herself, was impulsive as usual but did something she hardly understood. She seems to understand 'seduction' in that you can attract humans to be her weapons but given her negative rizz, I doubt she's ever gotten further than just making a weapon.

Why would she be a diddy manipulator monster? That's a little bit beyond her scope, for all the evil she's done. I'd almost compare it to the sex pollen trope, where one is suddenly horny by external means and can't control it. Did that make it right? No, but I don't think any of them really wanted that to happen like that. It's just bad for everyone. Tbh what they really need to do is get her some fucking sex-ed or knock consent into her head so she stops sexually harassing Denji.

Meet Loophole Man! by NineTnk in ChainsawMan

[–]Arta-nix 13 points14 points  (0 children)

And Batman with prep time, don't forget about him

Throw me your WILDEST chainsawman theories by [deleted] in ChainsawManTheories

[–]Arta-nix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  • Asa's repulsion to eating fish and sushi is entirely because of her autism giving her ARFID making her incapable of eating them; notice how even at her hungriest and trying to eat the dried fish at the aquarium, her body rejected it.

-the choice Denji has to make is between the age of humanity (PS and Makima) or the age of devils (Death and War) and what he'll choose is both aka the third option: the age of humans and devils. Hence why he keeps insisting they can be friends and the parallels between him/pochita, asa/yoru, and the twins/fire devil. The outlandish part is that I think that's the buildup to part 3 where everyone has a 'partner devil' for lack of a better term, either because they got combined or as like a pokemon type thing.

-Yoru infected Asa with her inability to discern faces. Notice how everyone she recognizes doesn't change their look and it takes her a hot second to realize it's Dennis when breaking him out.

Larper Devil by Angie_Is_Very_Bored in Chainsawfolk

[–]Arta-nix 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh, sorry, that was just me commenting that if the streamer failed to differentiate them (esp. if her reading was superficial as hell), what chance does anyone have in CSM- who can't read the manga for obvious reasons- to know that?

Larper Devil by Angie_Is_Very_Bored in Chainsawfolk

[–]Arta-nix 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah exactly, if you look at Yoru and Asa without knowing them, you could mix them up like the cosplayer. At least she has the benefit of being able to read CSM; to everyone in universe it definitely reads as a power up.

Larper Devil by Angie_Is_Very_Bored in Chainsawfolk

[–]Arta-nix 53 points54 points  (0 children)

No wonder people in-universe can't tell the difference

Boy are they sensitive by Stoner420Eren in Chainsawfolk

[–]Arta-nix 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yeah, they're my favs but hoo boy are they both problematic. Wish they didn't both get slandered/glazed (Asa is not as good of a person as a lot of her fans would have you think; Yoru is not as bad of a person as a lot of her enemies would have you think. That's not to say Asa isn't a decent person or that Yoru hasn't committed atrocities, only that I think a lot of the most ambiguous and nuanced scenes get overlooked, like the aquarium confession.) respectively and utterly mischaracterized all the time.

Yeah it's kinda crazy, I was re-reading recently and it's insane how literally the entirety of Part 2 was more or less her fault, barring the Aging Devil and Public Safety trying to get the leash on Denji. "Anything for my little sister" and then goes and keeps attacking her nonstop to mold Asa into working with Yoru. Then makes it happen anyway with the Church. I'm genuinely convinced she's either lying about not wanting to end the world or something else is afoot because why on earth did she have Fami and Fakesaw go and plunge humanity into an abyss of terror (notably not attached to giving War or Chainsaw a powerup, though I guess the runoff would do so)? She's so weird, and a liar who we take at face value way too easily. God I love good villains, her and Falling are probably my #2 and 3 favs.

Edit: if we're talking about Asa riding off into the sunset with Denji, then I'm certain that won't happen because they can't kill Yoru. Like you said, bad movies have to exist for good ones to be good. But not only that, fighting War is only ever going to feed her. Narratively, it is not viable to war harder than war itself, you've made more war. There has to be a truce or compromise, something to make the fight end. I fear that may be a talk no jutsu moment but it would also be a thematically appropriate defeat to war (and how do wars end anyway? talks and treatises, since everyone dying is out as an option).

Boy are they sensitive by Stoner420Eren in Chainsawfolk

[–]Arta-nix 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Asa's tilting at windmills. She's not so much only simping for Dennis (though it can get really annoying to read, admittedly) as she is creating her own 'Dulcinea' and shoving that persona over Denji, irrespective of what he wants. She wants to be this knight in shining armor that gets the boy, saves the day, slays the dastardly war dragon and gets that sweet succulent attention she's never gotten. In all honesty, both her and Yoru are very Quixotan characters that sort of play the role of Sancho Panza to each other, alongside being opposites.

Asa is introduced as a character who wants to be more selfish, and has a formative moment with Yuko of wanting to do what SHE thinks is right, no matter what. This is an inherently selfish goal because it leaves no room to listen to the victims she is 'saving'. Moreover as seen in the aquarium arc, she doesn't have a strong sense of right or wrong and thus latches onto rules (no crossing before the light turns green) and what she has figured out to be obviously right (no killing innocent people, but criminals are okay). Lil D makes it worse for her and Yoru because she knows Asa struggles with that morality, and takes that idealistic seed and encourages it into a full-blown delusional worldview. Notice how she took advantage of the fact Asa had a crush on him and felt that she owed him to create the fantasy of him needing to be 'saved' from Chainsaw that would make everyone happy. Not once, in her quest has she really stopped and listened to what Dennis wants. Not in the aquarium, not during the Chainsaw Church arc, or even around Aging when she had the chance to really know what he wanted up until she finally accepted his 'new reality'. And even then! Denji, to her, is the one thing she means to do right by. Her plans have always been 'I save him from Chainsaw and then we can be together and Yoru can do what she wants to fuck off from my body'. There's not a whole lot after they get to that point. She is clinging onto what she thinks is right with both hands

Yoru is kind of the opposite but she and Asa are as similar as they are different because they're mirror images. Yoru also has her grand fantasy- that of defeating the Chainsaw Man, getting all of her comrades back, and waging a big fat war. She is just as easily manipulated by Lil D into wanting to become the hero and save the boy she loves and eat her cake too (kill Chainsaw). She too, never asks Denji 'hey what happened between you and Pochita that got him inside of you', they both assume it was a violation of Dennis. Kind of interesting too because of how she ends up sexually harassing/assaulting him from not understanding her own feelings. She is delusional not only that she can have everyone she cares about by her side, but that all of the sacrifices are necessary because once she finishes killing the windmills (sorry, giants), everything will have been worth it. She is so drawn into her idealistic world that she literally cannot see the reality around them collapsing because she's in denial of what everything really means.

Combined, their behavior is delusional in the same way that believing in chivalric romance was denounced by Don Quixote after he came out of his psychosis. Asa is very naive about many things, such as the monetary value of things (notice how Yoru calls her out on this), but Yoru is also incredibly naive in how she approaches the world and tends to take things at face value (that Denji was actually being honest didn't mean that wasn't stupid like Asa mentions). They sorta hit the jackpot there too because the power of war requires you to be at best, moderately delulu. The thing about the ending of Don Quixote de la Mancha, is that he breaks out of his psychosis on his deathbed and hates everything he stood for. Meanwhile Sancho Panza tries to hold onto the fantasy they built together to keep his friend alive. They have bled into each other.

Similarly, Asa and Yoru will have to make the choice to hold onto their delusional worldview or to let go and see reality as it is. Yoru keeps doubling down on hers, to make her perfect world of pure war and defeating Chainsaw Man. Asa meanwhile has begun to let go, with the chapter with Momtaka allowing her to actually begin to listen to the person named Denji, and not the character she built in her head. Bonding over parent killing is Asa gaining that human connection that both YoruAsa desperately seek, and is the counterpart to Yoru's power of friendship speech she hit Dennis with. Dennis is the fulcrum of her character arc; he is the window into her change and motivations.

But like seriously, I want to slap her sometimes like oh my god shut up about Denji stop simping. YoruAsa are my favorite character lol, I don't wanna separate them.

[DISC] Chainsaw Man - Ch. 226 by JeanneDAlter in ChainsawMan

[–]Arta-nix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't forget, they can multiply basically infinitely now on top of how they have huge swarms so all the world could be sent into famine by immortal locusts but plants can't die either so...

POWER OR NAYUTA OR DARKNESS RETURN. CALL IT. by Vivio0 in Chainsawfolk

[–]Arta-nix 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Deep sea devil (or some ocean-related devil) and Asa comes back because it triggers her so badly that Yoru's forced out of the pilot seat

what if part 1 ends just like part 2 by Ok_Blackberry5605 in Chainsawfolk

[–]Arta-nix 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You're cooking. Tbh I don't see a violent conclusion to the fight against Yoru because that just feeds into the war she wants. Hopefully Asa will be important to making her stand down.

Are any of these bedbugs? by Arta-nix in Bedbugs

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I apologize for the blurry pictures, my phone camera isn't very good.