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marlowe1227.Chainsaw Man # 12 by Tatsuki Fujimoto - So this one is the beginning of the new story and there's only one published work left to check out at the library and then my watch begins. Or I could pay $3/month to read the next 30 chapters online. And we don't get Denji until later in the book. Instead, we Asa Mitaka, an awkward high school girl who can't even speak. And the one time that people actually seem to like her, she smashes the class mascot - a headless chicken who is somehow alive. Also the popular girl and the teacher are demons who kill her. But then she's the war demon just like Denji is the chainsaw demon.
Oh yeah, Denji's back and he seems to have taken a bit of a step back in character. Ok, he can still be friends with girls and hopefully he will meet Power again, but he's also hoping to get laid from his reputation as the Chainsaw Man. Also he's a bit of a bastard when the demon gives him the choice of rescuing the high school student with his life ahead of him or the car full of old ladies. He ignores them both and saves the cat.
Ha. So this seems like a step back from the devastation of the ending of the last arc, but that's ok. And Asa is a fun character.
228.Fire Punch # 8 by Tatsuki Fujimoto - This is the last book in the series and the fuck if I know what's going on. Fire Punch is back or he's not back. Or he's gone burning but he lost his humanity or something. The world is ending and then the one character becomes a tree. The one character could be his sister or not. And he lives 100 years and dies or doesn't. Whatever. It ends with a big tree. And the two characters hugging after thousands of years.
229.Sweet Poolside by Shuzo Oshimi - This one is about hair. And the author is talking about the manga at the end with a female avatar but his Wikipedia doesn't say that he's trans so I'm going to just keep the masculine pronouns until I have to change it. But a boy without hair gets obsessed over a hairy girl who can't seem to shave herself. So he shaves her. And he gets more intimate with her (and he keeps seeing her pubic hair - these are teenagers.)
Yeah for the most part I was worried that this would turn into one of those mangas, like the kind of Manga that your friend tells you about when you recommend manga to her and she thinks that all manga is just pervy shit for incels? Actually true story, that happened. I had a friend who was going "well I guess I should read some comic books." And I recommended comic books. And some were manga and she had a reaction and I said that there are a lot of great manga and she just assumed that I was being a creepy incel for recommending. When I pushed back (the same way I did when a friend said "I don't read fiction" - ex-friend) she unfriended me. Like an entire medium she dismisses.
Granted, I also dismissed most anime and manga. And a lot of it was crap.
Anyhow, this one has a heartwarming ending that is going to not really endear anyone to manga or me for that matter. They get jealous of each other and then she wants him to shave her and then she wants him to shave her pubic hair. He can't (because shit, who the fuck wants to nick anything down there) but as he's reluctant she goes swimming and he sees it all and he says that her bush is beautiful. Right there with you, dude. But also yeesh.
But also it's kind of sweet because they both feel like they accept each other. He likes that she's hairy. She envies his hairlessness. They learn that they don't have to hate their body hair situation.
So that's sweet but also yikes.
Oh yeah, Denji's back and he seems to have taken a bit of a step back in character. Ok, he can still be friends with girls and hopefully he will meet Power again, but he's also hoping to get laid from his reputation as the Chainsaw Man. Also he's a bit of a bastard when the demon gives him the choice of rescuing the high school student with his life ahead of him or the car full of old ladies. He ignores them both and saves the cat.
Ha. So this seems like a step back from the devastation of the ending of the last arc, but that's ok. And Asa is a fun character.
228.Fire Punch # 8 by Tatsuki Fujimoto - This is the last book in the series and the fuck if I know what's going on. Fire Punch is back or he's not back. Or he's gone burning but he lost his humanity or something. The world is ending and then the one character becomes a tree. The one character could be his sister or not. And he lives 100 years and dies or doesn't. Whatever. It ends with a big tree. And the two characters hugging after thousands of years.
229.Sweet Poolside by Shuzo Oshimi - This one is about hair. And the author is talking about the manga at the end with a female avatar but his Wikipedia doesn't say that he's trans so I'm going to just keep the masculine pronouns until I have to change it. But a boy without hair gets obsessed over a hairy girl who can't seem to shave herself. So he shaves her. And he gets more intimate with her (and he keeps seeing her pubic hair - these are teenagers.)
Yeah for the most part I was worried that this would turn into one of those mangas, like the kind of Manga that your friend tells you about when you recommend manga to her and she thinks that all manga is just pervy shit for incels? Actually true story, that happened. I had a friend who was going "well I guess I should read some comic books." And I recommended comic books. And some were manga and she had a reaction and I said that there are a lot of great manga and she just assumed that I was being a creepy incel for recommending. When I pushed back (the same way I did when a friend said "I don't read fiction" - ex-friend) she unfriended me. Like an entire medium she dismisses.
Granted, I also dismissed most anime and manga. And a lot of it was crap.
Anyhow, this one has a heartwarming ending that is going to not really endear anyone to manga or me for that matter. They get jealous of each other and then she wants him to shave her and then she wants him to shave her pubic hair. He can't (because shit, who the fuck wants to nick anything down there) but as he's reluctant she goes swimming and he sees it all and he says that her bush is beautiful. Right there with you, dude. But also yeesh.
But also it's kind of sweet because they both feel like they accept each other. He likes that she's hairy. She envies his hairlessness. They learn that they don't have to hate their body hair situation.
So that's sweet but also yikes.
