Chainsaw Man: Japanese Fans React to the Ending — "Part 1 Wrapped Up So Clean, I Never Expected a Part 2"

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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 153)

• @強欲で無欲な大罪司教👍 126

  The anime should've ended with the Makima arc

  アニメはマキマ編で終わるべきやな

• @ゆいちょ-g1o👍 10

  Seriously, the anime should stop at Part 1

  アニメは1部でやめとけ

• @tetonano9111👍 62

  Even going back to Part 1, the concept itself was genuinely great — if they'd used the 'bugs get stronger as death disappears' idea well, it could've been amazing

  1部からではあるけど普通に設定自体はクソおもろくて、死が消えたら虫とかが強くなるみたいなの上手く活かしたら超面白くなりそうではあった

• @tho3653👍 111

  Part 2 was actually great up through the fight against Falling Devil. What happened to it after that? It went completely limp

  2部も落下と戦う辺りまでは熱かったんだけどなあ。なんなんだよその後のフニャチンぶりは

• @岡-k2s👍 7

  Chopping his own head up was peak. And 'whoa, did Denji actually overcome his trauma?' — the motorcycle scene after that was good too. But at some point I lost track of what he was even doing, or why, or where

  頭切り刻むとか最高だったよな おお！？デンジがトラウマを克服？した！と思ったしその後のバイクとかもよかった でも気が付くとなんか何のためにどこで何やってるのかがわかんなくなったなぁ

• @スバル-k8p👍 62

  The punchline itself was fine, but they skipped way too much of the buildup. I thought King Crimson had erased my memory of it or something

  オチはあれでいいんだけど 過程をいきなり飛ばしすぎた キングクリムゾン かと思った

• @カニカマ-g5s👍 10

  Skipping a bunch of stuff and landing somewhere confusing is very on-brand for Tatsuki Fujimoto, honestly — his short story collections are full of that. It's just that Part 1's ending was too perfect for comparison

  色々すっ飛ばしてわけわからん着地するのは藤本タツキらしいっちゃらしい。それこそ短編集とかそんなんばっかだったし。 一部のラストが完璧過ぎたのがなぁ。

• @みみずちゃん👍 20

  It was enjoyable, but the whole Bug Devil stretch at the end felt like a waste. I get that he doesn't draw pointless fight scenes, so he probably cut it — but if Denji had at least struggled against the outcome before getting devoured, instead of it just happening, I think a lot more people would've accepted the ending

  面白かったけど、最後の虫の悪魔？らへんがちょっと勿体なかった。無駄な戦闘シーンは描かない作者だから省いたんだと思うけど、あのまま喰われてすぐ終わりってより、結果は決まってたとしてもデンジが何かしら抗って喰われてこのエンドならまだ納得する人も多かったような気もする。

• @いしまる1217👍 0

  Part 2 felt like it stayed at 'okay, this is about to get amazing' the whole time without ever actually developing. The scene where the US rebuilds its power with new nukes was genuinely brilliant, but that momentum never went anywhere and just flatlined. On top of that, a lot of the new characters who still had more to give got killed off too early, so most of them never got to show what made them interesting. The finale is honestly baffling

  2部は「凄い面白くなりそうだな〜」って状態が何も進展しないまま終わった感じ。 アメリカが新しく核を作って力を取り戻すシーンはマジで天才だと思ったけど、その盛り上がりも維持できないままずっと平行線だった。あとはまだ味が出るキャラを早く死なせすぎたな新キャラのほとんどが魅力を出し切れず死んでいった。 最終回はほんと謎

• @archedirlov3093👍 6

  The real culprit is the Jump+ editorial team, honestly — I don't think it's an exaggeration to blame the comment section either. There's no way someone who writes manga that raw and personal wouldn't lose motivation after getting torn apart like that

  大戦犯ジャンプラ編集部 コメント欄のせいって言っても過言じゃないやろ あんなメンヘラ漫画書くような人があんなみそかすに言われてやる気なくならんわけないやん

• @はかばきたろ👍 13

  Honestly it just felt like he had no motivation left and was dragging it out on autopilot until the movie's release, since he figured he should at least keep it serialized until then

  やる気ないのにとりあえず映画公開時までは連載しといた方がいいからだらだら惰性でやってたという印象しかない

• @アソビニン-b8u👍 1

  It's been a hit ever since Part 1 ended, so expectations for the finale probably got too high. Same with One Piece — expectations are so inflated now that whatever ending comes, it's going to be rough

  一部の終わりからずっとヒットし続けてたから終わりに関しては期待値が高くなりすぎたんだろうな。ワンピースとかも期待値上がりすぎてラストが何来てもキツそうだし。

• @KINOKO999👍 4

  Well, with an ending like that, sales dropping makes sense

  まああの終わり方なら売り上げも下がるよなぁ

• @NoalPerfectionのあ👍 141

  People are mad about this without having actually read it closely. Sure, taken at face value the ending looks like that, but Fujimoto deliberately leaving things unwritten is the point. Pochita kept letting Denji keep dreaming — that's literally the pun: chain(saw) = keep watching a dream chain unfold, man. That's why Power already knew about the cake

  これ、炎上してるけどちゃんと読んでないから。確かに、終わり方は普通に見たらあれだけどタツキはあえて書かないのがいい。ポチタはデンジに夢を見続けさせてたから chain(連鎖)saw(見続ける)man(男)だから、ポチタによる夢の連鎖を見続けてたってことだと思う。だから、パワーがケーキ持ってたの知ってたし

• @りお-t7u👍 16

  Are you a genius or something?

  貴方は天才か？

• @NnU-i7t👍 26

  Still, it was a very Tatsuki Fujimoto ending, so I could accept it

  まあでも藤本タツキらしい終わり方だったし納得はできた。

• @みそじる-z8i👍 34

  Honestly, I really loved the finale

  正直最終回めっちゃ好き

• @舵かじ👍 11

  Was the ending really that hated...? Because I honestly loved it

  そんなに終わり方嫌だったのか… 私は正直めちゃくちゃ好きだったけど

• @とげつキョウ👍 11

  I liked that ending

  あの終わり方好きだ

• @Aojin1👍 11

  Even so, I love Chainsaw Man. Because he's human — you don't always succeed at everything. I love Chainsaw Man, damn it

  それでも俺はチェンソーマンを愛する。 だって人間じゃん。必ず成功するとは限らないし。チェンソーマン好きだぁああ

• @oyupokoa👍 4

  At this point Tatsuki Fujimoto has earned my complete trust and just owns it outright. Thank you, Fujimoto-sensei. I'll keep reading forever. I don't have money for the volumes I'm missing right now, but I'll keep reading

  そもそも藤本タツキが私の信頼を根こそぎ勝ち得て持ってて支配してるのだから。 ありがとう。タツキ先生。ずっと作品読むよ。しばらく持ってない巻数買うお金ないけど。ずっと読むよ。

• @ブランNo.1👍 98

  But thank you for creating Asa Mitaka as a character. The man's a god

  でも三鷹アサというキャラを生み出してくれてありがとう。神だよ

• @Kotogisi👍 7

  Creating Asa Mitaka is the one thing I'll genuinely thank him for

  三鷹アサを生んでくれた事だけは本当にありがとう

• @よねせいだよ👍 10

  It was still plenty enjoyable, but I bet a lot of people dropped off partway through

  全然面白かったけど途中で離脱する人は多そう

• @mwvlajth👍 0

  Honestly, I just want him to casually start serializing Part 3 like nothing happened

  しれっと３部連載してほしい