Chainsaw Man is peak fiction for people who think “I’m hungry and horny” is deep character writing. Denji isn’t a tragic figure, he’s a walking loser. A simp with trauma who solves his problems by either killing something or begging a woman who’s clearly trying to kill him to go on a date.
He doesn’t process grief, he punches it, sniffs it, or dreams of motorboating it. His whole arc is “I’m sad, but maybe boobs will fix that.” And when that doesn’t work, he just resets like a gacha character with brain damage.
Yet somehow Asa Mitaka is the problem? Because she thinks? Because she feels guilt, shame, loneliness, you know, emotions? That makes her a "broody shoujo self-insert"? Bro, Denji’s entire personality is a pornhub search term with abandonment issues. Asa at least acts like a real person. Denji acts like a Reddit post made flesh.
The irony is wild: Asa gets hated for being “too serious,” when this is a series where Denji’s trauma is either a joke or a plot device to justify his selfishness. He doesn’t grow, he consumes. Food, validation, women, attention. Chainsaw Man fans treat emotional maturity like it’s a filler arc.
“Oh, her powers are lame!” Bro, Denji’s power is “chainsaws but on more limbs.” Asa turns guilt into weapons, it’s literally metaphorical. But nah, let’s go back to our king Denji whose life goal is to kiss someone who isn’t vomiting in his mouth this time.
Asa doesn’t ruin Chainsaw Man, she exposes it. She’s what happens when someone in this blood circus actually reflects instead of repressing everything with a smirk and a massacre. And that scares people. Because if Chainsaw Man isn’t just “haha trauma go brrr,” then maybe, just maybe, it has to grow up.
And God forbid that happen