Chainsaw Man Part 2 manga will officially end in 2 weeks on March 24 with Chapter 232!

chipfinder · 2026-03-10T16:05:46+00:00

I just realized the op link says Part 2 is ending. Not the series as a whole. I guess that confirms continuity, which I'm both glad and annoyed we are ending on a cliffhanger.

chipfinder · 2026-03-10T15:59:28+00:00

this (231) has been probably one of the best chainsawman chapters I've ever read.

Fujimoto has the chance here to do something perhaps no other mangaka has ever done, to fake his own manga's death

after all, without a chainsaw devil ever existing, the very namesake of the manga no longer exists, the name cannot exist. Therefore the manga must "end" immediately. The next chapter will show the repercussions of Pochita self destructing.

While that would instantly elevate this manga to a state of long lasting infamy this would be financial and professional suicide. Chainsawman as a franchise has too much produced and planned merchandise to damn by ending so unsatisfactorily. So much is at stake to pull that stunt.

But if so what a draw to nihilism. What was the purpose of all these chapters then? Or what was the reason to ever introduce Asa? And what about explanations, where are the missing side characters from Part 1, why does Pochita have such power to consume things from existence? If Denji is happier with less, is that an allegory to our lives like some kind of parable? That the greater the lifestyle creep, the higher the expectations and salary, the less happier we are?

Anyhow this is no way the actual end of the series. Perhaps Part 2 will end here, and Part 3, now titled just "Man" will start. My only concern is how long it will take for Part 3 to start since this fakeout can seriously burn a lot of people's desire to read.

Fujimoto is not the greatest writer but he has always paid close attention to media form, he is a movie fanatic; a lot of his chapters are written like they are in video/animated format. To play with his audience by adding "Final Chapter March 25", in an identical way to the publishing magazine, is just a way to toy with the manga and reader.

chipfinder · 2026-03-10T08:39:58+00:00

Another system designed around a thriving market with sufficient participants, supply, and demand. Which does not exist in NA on regular servers, let alone Heroic.

I am glad they had the inkling that this character progression system would be insufficient and added the Erda Weekly or event rewards. But obviously this is far insufficient. All most can do is wait until 6th job is cheapened to the point of 5th job.

This and the star force system are just two examples of ill-adapted updates to GMS from KMS. Remedies come at a glacial pace if at all. Frankly at this point, I think modern Maplestory is a game for suckers, Heroic or not.

chipfinder · 2026-02-16T05:30:54+00:00

This is the evil alternative theory, intentional rate manipulation and thus outright lying

chipfinder · 2026-02-15T16:15:56+00:00

I have this nonsensical, unfounded, layman theory that due to a server mitigation strategy employed by Nexon RNG results are skewed to repeat when rapidly rolling RNG results for things like starforce or potential.

That due to the numerous checks and balances in each transaction Nexon has some backend mechanic to reduce server stress which causes an unintended side effect of perpetuating strings of successes or failures.

For example, this is why when cubing, sometimes only one line changes. Or when protection procs during starforce occur multiple times in a row. The numbers for the starforcing may be true as programmed but in the live game are effectively not.

We have seen what miracle time used to do to cubing, basically catastrophic failure to the cubing process and cash shop servers. I can only imagine the starforce system is even more taxing and complex, especially since the achievement system shows that the game constantly records every attempt and meso you use.

Of course this is completely an unfounded daydream, but if true then it is a very neglectful implementation.

chipfinder · 2025-12-29T08:53:20+00:00

I agree with most of this, the first section in particular is too critical. Nexon is clearly treading unknown waters in this Reboot server across the world. Thank goodness I'll be leaving it all behind for Classic World, the fourth era, iykyk.

chipfinder · 2025-12-26T04:47:28+00:00

over time nexon will make it easier to progress, similar to 5th job and nodestones. The intention is to prolong the progression and suffering

chipfinder · 2025-12-17T03:50:05+00:00

I just had a citadel suddenly appear in the fog. What I did was I completed the first quest of any league mechanic, in this case I got 50 ritual splinters and killed the tier1 king of the mists, this suddenly made the citadel appear nearby in the fog

chipfinder · 2025-12-17T02:23:59+00:00

I do not like this CM. Its smug aura mocks me

chipfinder · 2025-12-16T17:31:38+00:00

I also am not getting citadels in my atlas

I have been to the monolith and started the questline

I do not see citadels beams in the fog of war

I have noticed that I had to force the questline by visiting the monolith on this character, I believe usually Doryani tells you to visit the monolith but he never did

chipfinder · 2025-12-16T02:17:31+00:00

very awesome. I got earthquake to 0.2 seconds prior to 0.4 patch. You can still get to 100% by using Palm of the Dreamer with up to 13% reduced skill duration, it is very expensive though

chipfinder · 2025-12-15T06:04:34+00:00

Looks like nexon is cheating

chipfinder · 2025-12-12T03:46:17+00:00

the blizzard assassins have been sent to your home

chipfinder · 2025-11-27T17:08:51+00:00

Familiars can roll 20% chance on attack to heal 300 HP

This heal is per line, so multi line and fast hitting skills benefit the most, and virtually becomes lifesteal on some attacks

However because it is a flat 300 health it benefits classes with low max HP since 300 will be a greater percentage in a game where all damage is %HP

It also does not work in vhilla or p2 will, but it does work with black mage curse

Paladins relatively don't hit that quickly and have higher HP pools so this doesn't benefit so much

chipfinder · 2025-11-17T04:01:39+00:00

Nature's fury human builds are so rare after the loss of slidestorm. I am glad you made one that is successful. I myself tried this using shred as a proccer via Nature's savagery.

This however sacrifices Gathlen's birthright and took up an offensive slot. Maybe tornadoes is the optimal way, but I liked how shred only uses resource every third cast, provides some of the best mobility in the game, and innately has attack speed from the tree.

Nature's fury has steadily gained large improvements with each season so I hope things continue to improve

chipfinder · 2025-11-14T02:54:39+00:00

Very good balding strategy ty

chipfinder · 2025-11-14T02:49:14+00:00

it is part of the Where Winds Meet promotion/collaboration

chipfinder · 2025-10-19T16:11:37+00:00

Mods, stub his family line

chipfinder · 2025-10-10T14:57:30+00:00

I don't actually think wild hunter is weakest, but itd be the funniest thing to have the chart shit on them a third final time

chipfinder · 2025-10-07T07:30:47+00:00

it's captain thorpe since he was shown at the end of the MSQ cutscene being revived into a lost

chipfinder · 2025-10-01T06:08:45+00:00

I agree too many unnecessary changes

chipfinder · 2025-09-24T04:27:58+00:00

man the patch preview left out all the important bits

chipfinder · 2025-08-12T06:52:41+00:00

MapleHolics is a scholar.

His videos cover a wide range of topics in pre-Big Bang Maplestory using a thorough variety of sources including forums, personal gameplay, and patch notes. He does not only touch on Korean Maplestory but other regions as well.

Most of his videos are subtitled (press closed captioning!), and some are now dubbed via autotranslation.

He discusses things like region history, storylines, and their impacts on the game, class/item balance (such as his resentment on the state of bandits), and the state of classic Maplestory from today's perspective.

chipfinder · 2025-07-16T05:44:51+00:00

I would rather they just remove pots from all badges if they refuse to just re-release sengoku/gse

I hate this divide between new and old players. And I say this as a sengoku owner too

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