chainsaw man is the type of overhyped show I try to avoid to not deal with the simply on display by
their toxic fan base it's a typical Big Show in making their debut and ever since my hero
Academia came out I feel like there's been more hype around the genre with the release of Demon
Slayer to jiu jitsu Kaizen to spyx family we have chainsaw man not being any different but maybe it
is with a felt like a constant delays for the past two years in the series for it to finally
come out fans are pretty disappointed that it only got 12 episodes rather than a typical 24-25
for most other Shonen counterparts you would think for a show of this magnitude would easily
get maybe they got shafted and were left with a small budget so this is all they could get but
I guess I'll watch it anyway since it's only 12 episodes how good could it be this has to
be the most teased anime in the last decade and the only question remained was will it be able
to deliver we had a deal did we not my chest is yours for the fondling bundle away and yeah
I'd say it did that so here's a basic plot dingy has a generic sad anime backstory with no mother
to speak of and a deceased [ __ ] of a father leaving him in a massive debt in the millions
creating long-term psychological trauma and making him a dog of the Yakuza which leaves him dirt poor
on the streets killing demons selling his body for parts literally and dignity with not much
so of a second thought when doing so even after killing his way out he loses his best friend up
to this point he's still able to adjust to his new life quickly in this world everyone and everything
is replaceable even when he escapes the mob he's still the dog of makama but hey for all the dogs
loving her for her looks I believe to feed him and she doesn't insult him and also being the
only person of this point other than puccia to not immediately screw him over making his reasoning
for liking her up to this point of his life very understandable I know people hate her later on and
the anime teases the idea that she's actually evil but then she doesn't care if he's fighting for the
good guys or the bad guys it's like that moment when my friend told me he was watching Overlord
for season three and he just now realized wait we're the bad guys are we the baddies you the
entire time were on the villain side you're like huh I didn't know that chainsaw man has to be the
most intense copium infused fever dream put onto the big screen there are no moral standards and
anyone with a moral General Compass or normal human ideology [ __ ] dies like how the debt
collector told dingy he didn't care if he had to sell his body or beg he better have his Goddamn
money his dad owed him by tomorrow and this [ __ ] is like five not to mention how the show had the
Trope moral moments where the main character would have saved the civilians and give up his advantage
to help them and dingy's just like looks to his left looks to his right [ __ ] this guy by the
end I'm just laughing my ass off when samurai sword Sama is telling dingy that he's willing
to turn himself in if they allow these two to kill him as a way of atonement for all of his
sins and I'm just thinking you dumb [ __ ] do you not know who the [ __ ] you're talking to
right now you not know who the hell that boy is he's the ultimate Chad I've ever seen he don't
give a fine [ __ ] about the dead heck he doesn't give a [ __ ] about his own allies [ __ ] the only
reason he cares about makama is because she's got that [ __ ] on her and go let him smash if he does
a good job none of our main cast members have the type of moral standards we're accustomed to seeing
the hero's mindset where they try to look to see the good in a person that [ __ ] doesn't exist in
chainsaw man the concept of what is good is a single individual person's point of view each
person can have a different aspect of what makes a good person chainsaw man takes our social basis
of what is good and basically says our characters don't give a [ __ ] about that underage drinking
child home is business prostitution killing a lot of sex talk all these topics were just put into
the first episode of the anime and you were able to see from multiple characters point of views and
takes on what is bad and you saw right here the ones that weren't phased by it are the ones still
alive today you see her she's dead you see them they're dead even the woman who was going to use
dingy as a meat shield for her and Aki then try to take advantage of him mind you he's a miner still
she's drunk in the next episode she literally just dies because she wants to save Aki see that was
your fault for trying to be a hero chainsaw man is literally punishing for trying to be a hero
she could have just taken the selfish approach that she's done all this anime and used dingy
as a distraction to run normal human ideology in this world will get you killed power has ran away
multiple times where she's trying to preserve her own life we first get introduced to her lying and
bashing dingy's head just to get her cat back she doesn't stop them from trying to sacrifice zinji
to the infinity demon she's literally egging on more conflict then she also runs away from the
snake and Katana demon and then she literally says is to like what are their bosses I don't give a
[ __ ] if the human race dies or the Demon World dies as long as I live that's who power is every
important character that is able to change the plot is selfish and they'll turn on each other if
it means preserving their own life or interests each character is unapologetically selfish and
I love it like when's the last time in any of these seasonal animes you can literally look at
the cast of characters and say they're willing to up and leave this entire show to go do their own
[ __ ] literally none of them the misfit of Demon King Academy too they're all just a harem for him
Even's in the shadow you have the main guy his Harem and that's it Beaufort they're not leaving
the Mabel Guild anytime soon and I don't even know what their own interests are and I like that show
you could literally go down the list of all the seasonal anime shows so much of this is structured
around the main character it's not it's crazy they don't have any outside thoughts have to deal with
them you know that game of how long does it take you to spot the main character it's become a meme
at this point in the anime community and it's so true it doesn't take long to identify who's
important to the story and who's a background character so many anime feel soulless where I'm
watching one character navigate a world of NPCs where Side characters are willing to give their
main guy an arm and a leg to help them or devote their entire time on a Saturday afternoon to a
person they just met last week because they're the main protagonist this show eliminates dad's
distinction by having a dress code you know how you have in a high school middle school a dress
code you want to know why that's even implicated in schools so there's no bullying because rich
kids would have different [ __ ] than people who didn't weren't as fortunate as them and
their outright just shown you now you can't tell the difference between who's important and who's
not important who's a background character and who's actually going to be making it to season
two this makes your experience of watching it for the first time 10 times more enjoyable like like
you're in the real world rather than some fantasy world sure they have morning scenes but there's
barely any real crying Aki is crying over the loss of her mentor and partner with him just now
realizing that she had a crush on him the entire time and wanted them both to move away from this
industry and this go off to a quiet City and spend the rest of their lives together in peace
and dingy and power over here are stealing his basket of apples with me uncontrollably laughing
that he was even a bigger dick by just leaving him one apple from a basket of apples one of the
major factors in the anime's purpose is the main character's goal I highlight this in literally
almost every one of my videos for reviews because it's so important this usually dictates how long a
show will actually last and can keep an audience's retention chainsaw man knows this and said [ __ ]
it my boy just wants to get laid that's it there's no fantasy Demon Lord for him to go slay there's
no big title that he wants to pursue or get there's no honor or reward that he wants like
all these other characters he just wants to get laid he's just like me for real for real taking
a much different approach of making the goal or purpose of a show making it silly but ultimately
going away with the message of it dreams only matters to the person it's for and the stronger
person dictates the value of that said dream it's not how Grand or seamlessly impossible to dream is
I want to find the one piece I want to be become the Hokage or they become the wizard King what
matters is how important does a character want it how and to what length are they willing to invest
to get it and then throwing that accomplishment seamlessly out the [ __ ] window I don't know
if you guys know basketball but Shaq always had this monologue of his father taking away all of
his trophies after he won them and saying go get the next thing chase a bigger dream the same word
dingy is talking to makum about the importance of a dream and how his last one doesn't Inspire
him to and how his last stream doesn't expire him anymore or excite him as it did before he
had it she basically tells him to find something new that's going to make him focus enough to get
that and to enjoy the journey which this scene is amazing for two reasons when the message and
to the animation my God like how could you make a handshake saying this [ __ ] hot I'm like God damn
I'm [ __ ] sweating over here it's getting me kind of excited I got a chub down there let me let me
check let me check what matters is did you enjoy the ride 1000 episodes in are you still hooked on
the goal guys in life everyone wasn't meant to go in this great adventure with you but do you still
feel the same way you did the first day you did the lap chainsaw man definitely had tropes in the
anime but they were able to turn those tropes around right on their head very quickly makama
being a bad guy is not surprising or shocking anyway to me the entire organization she runs
is filled with the terrible people who will turn on each other if it means they're closer to their
goals dingy at the beginning can already tell that she's evil in episode 2. you can't compare
chainsaw man to other hero based shonen's none of the main characters are moral figureheads heck
dingy and power outright confess they don't give a [ __ ] which side and all this wins characters are
refreshingly unique and self-motivated scenes look like other animes I've seen before but it's like
a love child of all the things I loved about those shows personally my least favorite genre is horror
I didn't watch at Nightmare on Elm Street with the Inside Out flesh man with knives for hands
I didn't watch her play Corpse Party because my friend teased how there would be guts and pisses
all over the place I hate Gore and horde but I'm somehow standing up and going crazy when he does
this and this and this the gore that is drawn is presented in a way where a big baby of the horror
genre can watch it I found the gore way more tasteful than the puke scene it has any indication
of where I stand with the show this has to be one of the greatest adaptations ever and the manga
will never be better if this keeps up spoilers don't prepare you for chainsaw man they really
don't [ __ ] is wild honestly change the land not only feels refreshing but is unapologetically one
of the most themselves anime of all time instead of being bashful and being self-insert fantasy
dingy is a character that is stupid but fun just like the teenage years of your life instead of
being the archetypical shy character companies make and push down your goddamn throat and they do
it because they're afraid of the parent backlash or afraid of being canceled where we all have to
imagine and insert ourselves into the fantasies and say we've done this a lot differently dingy
is straight up his own guy he responds how people his age would respond if they were in the same
situation he acts like a total dick with a lot of of American protagonists trying to base their
comedy around shitty jerk characters insert a joke about Velma one of the biggest complaints
that that show has is there are no redeemably good characters in from the show except for
Marvel since he hasn't had a major character flaw that makes him look like an [ __ ] but because of
his simply for Velma person that doesn't respect him at all it might be out a Pity that we don't
want to hate him and we all know that they want to give these characters some type of redeemably
good quality where they have a character art that that makes it seem like they've grown but
that's not possible at this point where she's unforgivingly a wanker to any unfortunate soul
that meets her and you some of you guys want to know if that's the case why is dingy any different
dingy doesn't have a real code of honor just look how he grew up he basically is a gutter rat kid
in an abusive upbringing growing to an adult that never knew basic Comfort he's only had one
friend the chainsaw devil pochita and he's never got to live a somewhat normal-ish type of life
that's why makama is such a big deal for and he wants a piece of that dummy Mommy he's just like
me for real for real I mean this guy literally kicks a dude that is pissing him off in the dick
multiple times and says that's just how I fight dude you know how your parents taught you basic
human decency around kindergarten or whatever he's the he's the equivalent of a team that was
never taught those decencies to better himself so he doesn't do any better and that just makes him
refreshingly funny in today's clogged anime world where dudes literally either act like total babies
or like I'm too big brain free megalomaniacs dingy is simple and man is not relatable