I just want Part 2 to be good
Good to see people are finally waking up to Part 2 being shit.
Guys the "let him cook" phase is gone. This shit is not ending well considering all the bad writing up to this point. Literally every single P2 defense has turned out to be complete cope
"It's a slow-burn narrative"
Except it isn't because the story keeps skipping over establishing character dynamics or writing organic character development.
The plot is fucking all over the place. Nothing ever happens. Just the characters moving in circles with some engagement bait to keep readers around.
"It's more about character development than Part 1"
Look at Asa and try to say that with a straight face. She's supposed to be our co-protagonist, but now she feels like a paper-thin caricature. What made her great early on was her realistic reactions, and she's completely lost that.
"Oh someone died :| "
"Oh Yoru killed people :O ........ anyway :| "
"Oh Denji is Chainsaw Man. That's cool I guess :| "
"Oh Denji saw his little sister's decapitated head... wait what were we talking about again :| "
"DENJI-SAN NOTICED ME?!?!?!? O_O I am blushing so hard"
It's actually sad how much her writing fell off
"It's supposed to be about Denji's development"
So why is Denji repeating his Part 1 character arc?
At the end of Part 1 he used sex and food as a coping mechanism. And now at the end of Part 2 he's using sex and food as a coping mechanism. He hasn't fucking changed at all.
I've seen people try to argue that it's different this time because it's actually about his identity as Chainsaw Man, but is that is indeed the case it was poorly executed. Because you never actually see Denji come to any kind of realization about his identity. He remembers people who cared about him so he realized there's good parts along with the bad in life..... which is what his speech in Part 1 was about considering what Kobeni said immediately before.
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