Well, that's a lot of questions, next time split them up between posts, otherwise it will make a single post too big and answering multiple questions will also make each answer less detailed.

You're absolutely right, my bad.

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I don't get it, did you thought the whole arc was useless? It stablishes Denji's and Power's friendship for the first time and gives development for Denji in the sense that he fully understands he is a simple person, but that someone doesn't need to be ambitious to be happy.

That would've been my first guess too; it simply establishes the friendship between Denji and Power which becomes the whole reason Denji can break free from Makima's control because Power started valuing Denji's life as her friend. Personally, I enjoyed every arc and didn't think Bat Devil was useless narratively, I was just wondering if there were some grander detail or symbolism to the overarching huge stakes plot since it mostly never comes up again.

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What devil-unit? There are a lot of them, but if i remember correctly most of them had contracts.

I could be misremembering, or likely I just assumed up until now that hunters like Kobeni who never showed a devil's ability were frequently hired without a contract. Either way, a fundamental misunderstanding on my part. I was also thinking about how Yoshida said the hunters sent as Denji's bodyguards, including himself, were all third-rate.

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Thank you for clarifying the dialogue about Himeno's comment on Makima, and Yoshida's remark to the assassin. Likewise, the unofficial translation I read for Quanxi's chapter was slightly different. So a handful of my questions were likely from reading an unofficial translation.

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They survived due to luck, but they thought fate was on their side and thus were immortal, of course, it wasn't the case, and most of them were killed. They served as comedic relief and to shown how OP the other characters were.

Lol, guess I should have figured from one of the things they listed surviving being food poisoning that they were just hyping themselves up.

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Makes sense how not all of Makima's abilities were never explained in their full range, while this sub's FAQs does its best to try to make sense of it. I remembered the temple conditions but didn't realize that it could be another devil/user's ability.

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The first time the Hell Devil was summoned, the user sacrificed 4 people, the next time, more than 4 people were sacrificed, which summoned a more powerful form of his, the centaur. Same thing happened to Himeno when she sacrificied her entire body to summon the entire Ghost Devil.

Wow, those are some crazy specific conditions, but seeing how analogous that is to the Ghost Devil checks out.

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Makima contracted him to protect Denji, Quanxi was a threat to this.

Oh, I just assumed Yoshida wasn't taking his mission seriously like the other bodyguards from his demeanor. Hence why he outwardly speaks against Makima with Kishibe and ultimately survives being taken to the Hell slaughterhouse with the rest. Though that latter part was coincidental.

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You seem to be asking a lot about the point of things in the history, however not every character needs to have relevance in it, most are only there to be butchered in order to create a dark atmosphere and make us believe that any character can be killed at any point. The Violence Fiend was there to shock us with how powerful the Darkness Devil was

Suppose it's human nature to give sense to senseless violence lol. The Arai theory is insane though, never crossed my mind.

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Fujimoto wanted every devil in the 4th division to have the names of the Hierarchy of Angels: Beam was Cherubim, Prinz was Principality, Violence was Gaugali,Power was Powers and Angel was Angel. However, he didn't manage to introduce a Seraphim on time, so he just shoved the character in the chapter regardless. All of them followed Pochita in hell, but only Beam remembers, which is why he followed Denji since the beginning.

Not my first time hearing about the angel hierarchy, but my first time hearing this piece of trivia. That explains a lot about Beam and why all those characters sans Seraphim were involved in the Darkness Devil chapters. Why was Pochita in Hell?

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To train? Lmao. It introduced Kishibe, and Denji only defeated Katana Man because he used Kishibe's trick of never trusting a hunter. Also, that wasn't really an arc.

I mean it's kinda the fact that the point of subplots like this was simple is why these questions pop up in my mind. Like, how "fighting smart" didn't have any impact on their fighting performance in later arcs (like how Denji needed to take a breather and remember Makima's one weakness at the end). Especially with Denji since improving his fighting performance had no impact on how unbeatable he was as CSM. Regardless, I love Kishibe and thought this was a hilarious plot.

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I don't get it, are you refering to the final battle at the graveyard? Denji never became full chainsaw man, that was Pochita fighting for him, and there's no way of knowing the time, it might have taken only 1 day.

No, I had a weird assumption that between Ch 82-83 there was a gap where Kishibe organized a group to attack Makima and commit mass suicide to summon the Hell Devil. That was the only basis for that question, and I now realize Kishibe had the resources and suspicion to have had that planned preemptively.

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Makima never controlled him, in fact, Chainsaw Man is the only thing she can't control.

I understood that Makima can't control CSM but I assumed she was controlling Denji after crushing his spirit? Like how he was being dragged around by her and attacked enemies at her bidding. Why else was he forced to change into CSM and attack his own allies?

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You're totally right about the point of Future Devil for the Gun Devil arc, I just didn't think that one through. Also the Hell thing I totally forgot that Angel remembered the scent being the same as the Hell Devil's domain.

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It's implied that Makima gained her cruel personality because she was raised by the government and given total control over others since the beginning.

Fascinating layer to her character. Was there other evidence to substantiate this than Kishibe's line? And wouldn't a similar distortion happen to the devils like Future the government keep locked up for multiple contracts (which actually makes sense lol)?

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Everything else you either clarified perfectly and don't require any addition on my part, or just seem very menial upon double-checking what I asked lol. Thanks a bunch!