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[MrDollarBills]

Chainsaw Man Chapter 176



"Come to Mother..."

Spoiler:

Uh Pochita Man is about to get clapped

Spoiler:

"With her life on the line, Yoru made a binding vow..."

Between CSM, Kagurabachi, Sakamoto Days, and Dandadan, I'm really hyped for the future

And of course One Piece is gonna outlast them all somehow lol

Yoru using a technique that hasn't been seen since The Heian Era

Spoiler:

No seriously, I did not have The Gun Devil being Yoru's child on my bingo card. That was an incredible page turn.

Yeah right now Jump has a good line up. I gotta catch up on Sakamoto Days but KGB, CSM, DDN are high quality series. Maybe one of them will outlast The Immortal Oda

[DOT]

Chainsaw Man Chapter 176



"Come to Mother..."

Spoiler:

Uh Pochita Man is about to get clapped

Spoiler:

"With her life on the line, Yoru made a binding vow..."

Between CSM, Kagurabachi, Sakamoto Days, and Dandadan, I'm really hyped for the future

And of course One Piece is gonna outlast them all somehow lol

Yoru using a technique that hasn't been seen since The Heian Era

Spoiler:

No seriously, I did not have The Gun Devil being Yoru's child on my bingo card. That was an incredible page turn.

Yeah right now Jump has a good line up. I gotta catch up on Sakamoto Days but KGB, CSM, DDN are high quality series. Maybe one of them will outlast The Immortal Oda

Spoiler:

It's one of those things which I wasn't thinking about at the time, and isn't really a big twist, but it makes perfect sense in hindsight. Also RIP Denji's mental state, dude is gonna get traumatized by the gun devil cause it'll remind him of Aki

Sakamoto Days is about to enter a prison break/training arc. And given how much I love both those things, I have high expectations.

[MrDollarBills]

Spoiler:

"With her life on the line, Yoru made a binding vow..."

Between CSM, Kagurabachi, Sakamoto Days, and Dandadan, I'm really hyped for the future

And of course One Piece is gonna outlast them all somehow lol

Yoru using a technique that hasn't been seen since The Heian Era

Spoiler:

No seriously, I did not have The Gun Devil being Yoru's child on my bingo card. That was an incredible page turn.

Yeah right now Jump has a good line up. I gotta catch up on Sakamoto Days but KGB, CSM, DDN are high quality series. Maybe one of them will outlast The Immortal Oda

Spoiler:

It's one of those things which I wasn't thinking about at the time, and isn't really a big twist, but it makes perfect sense in hindsight. Also RIP Denji's mental state, dude is gonna get traumatized by the gun devil cause it'll remind him of Aki

Sakamoto Days is about to enter a prison break/training arc. And given how much I love both those things, I have high expectations.

Gun.

Tank.

Bomb.

[DOT]

Yoru using a technique that hasn't been seen since The Heian Era

Spoiler:

No seriously, I did not have The Gun Devil being Yoru's child on my bingo card. That was an incredible page turn.

Yeah right now Jump has a good line up. I gotta catch up on Sakamoto Days but KGB, CSM, DDN are high quality series. Maybe one of them will outlast The Immortal Oda

Spoiler:

It's one of those things which I wasn't thinking about at the time, and isn't really a big twist, but it makes perfect sense in hindsight. Also RIP Denji's mental state, dude is gonna get traumatized by the gun devil cause it'll remind him of Aki

Sakamoto Days is about to enter a prison break/training arc. And given how much I love both those things, I have high expectations.

Gun.

Tank.

Bomb.

[MrDollarBills]

Spoiler:

It's one of those things which I wasn't thinking about at the time, and isn't really a big twist, but it makes perfect sense in hindsight. Also RIP Denji's mental state, dude is gonna get traumatized by the gun devil cause it'll remind him of Aki

Sakamoto Days is about to enter a prison break/training arc. And given how much I love both those things, I have high expectations.

Gun.

Tank.

Bomb.

Yeah this is bad. Fujimotor is about to have us in shambles

This was right in our faces the entire time lol.

Good writer writes good. You love to see it.

[DOT]

OP 1125:

Spoiler:

Really interesting developments in this chapter. Somewhat confirms what I've been thinking all along, that the Gorosei aren't direct puppets of Imu, they're still independent beings, but he's the reason for their powers and lifespan

I wonder how this'll be played, too many people saw Saturn die for it to be ignored, but they're all Vice Admirals and completely loyal to the WG. But at the same time, it adds another wrinkle to the Blackbeard crew's plot, because if it's covered up, they won't know he's dead but at the same time, only a few high-up members of the WG would know. Oda's cooking something there

Somewhat of a letdown that all the Punks are still alive, but it does make sense that the satellites are just extensions rather than independent beings. Vegapunk himself is dead though, at least

Also a bit disappointed to come out of the break and not see Elbaf yet, it's been so long and I'm so hype for it.

[thebuzzardman]

This looks promising

Watch on YouTube

[DOT]

Honestly, I get people saying Part 2 of CSM has been slow, but the payoff right now is going hard.

Spoiler:

"Bang."

[MrDollarBills]

Honestly, I get people saying Part 2 of CSM has been slow, but the payoff right now is going hard.

Spoiler:

"Bang."

The entire chapter had me besides myself.

She's a devil....

[MrDollarBills]

This looks promising

Watch on YouTube

This series has been in production for 4 years. The animation is amazing

Watch on YouTube

[DOT]

Honestly, I get people saying Part 2 of CSM has been slow, but the payoff right now is going hard.

Spoiler:

"Bang."

The entire chapter had me besides myself.

She's a devil....

"On that day, Asa received a grim reminder..."

[DOT]

Man, so much of the last few chapters of JJK has felt like Gege trying to fight with the audience on complaints and explaining stuff what didn't need to be explained instead of focusing on the stuff that needed focusing on

Spoiler:

Having Sukuna say "yeah, maybe next time it'd be interesting to be a good guy" or whatever is just stupid, we didn't need a half-baked epilogue with him and Mahito, especially since Sukuna never got a proper backstory. Dude was just a force of nature and it honestly worked. Trying to humanize him at the last possible second is a bizarre choice to say the least. And again with the Gojo flashbacks, let the dude stay dead lol. What a half-baked chapter to end on, a mission which is resolved over the course of 2 chapters involving 3 people we don't know whose entire story has to be exposited in dialogue, told not shown, with Yuji giving some sort of moral at the end? I've been getting a ton of Better Call Saul memes on my TikTok recently for some reason, and all I can think of is saying this chapter is some chicanery

This dude Quinton Reviews has a series on YouTube going over the Nickelodeon shows iCarly, VicTorious, and Sam and Cat, and somehow he got 24 hours of content out of that, I watched all of it and in it he says that iCarly got an ending and VicTorious got a new episode for the last time (because it doesn't really have a finale, it just kind of ends at one point), and that's how I feel about MHA and JJK

MHA got an ending (even if it left a lot to be desired), JJK got a new chapter for the last time. There aren't major plot beats left open, everything is more or les wrapped up, but it doesn't feel satisfying. It feels like the end of an arc, not the end of the manga. I think in time, with a retrospective I'll appreciate the final showdown more, but I do genuinely feel like there's a lot of wasted potential here. Especially when it comes to the main trio, cause when you think about it, they really don't spend much time together. There are 7 chapters between Nobara's introduction and Yuji's "death", and while they have 94 chapters between Yuji coming back and Nobara's "death" (79 if we take out the flashback arc) and the last 5 chapters, they're really only together for less than a third of the manga, about 91 total chapters out of 271

For comparison to Naruto, the Sasuke Retrieval arc started in chapter 172. Even if we stop counting before the Tsunade search arc, that's 138 chapters, 50% more than JJK's total with the three main characters (the JJK wiki calls Nobara a "tritagonist" so I'm alleging the idea is all 3 of them are supposed to be main characters)

I think this is my problem with JJK is, where you have a series like Demon Slayer which is very fast-paced, you can tell the writer Gotouge knew that ahead of time and wrote it knowing that. So it comes off as a complete story despite its pace, meanwhile the intro of JJK feels like it's abridged, like more was planned out that had to be cut because Gege was either bored or just exhausted from the weekly grind (which I don't blame him for tbh, that sh*t will kill you)

To me, JJK is always gonna be a series of missed potential. A good series which could have been great. Having the final panel be Sukuna's middle finger really is symbolic lol.

[MrDollarBills]

Man, so much of the last few chapters of JJK has felt like Gege trying to fight with the audience on complaints and explaining stuff what didn't need to be explained instead of focusing on the stuff that needed focusing on

Spoiler:

Having Sukuna say "yeah, maybe next time it'd be interesting to be a good guy" or whatever is just stupid, we didn't need a half-baked epilogue with him and Mahito, especially since Sukuna never got a proper backstory. Dude was just a force of nature and it honestly worked. Trying to humanize him at the last possible second is a bizarre choice to say the least. And again with the Gojo flashbacks, let the dude stay dead lol. What a half-baked chapter to end on, a mission which is resolved over the course of 2 chapters involving 3 people we don't know whose entire story has to be exposited in dialogue, told not shown, with Yuji giving some sort of moral at the end? I've been getting a ton of Better Call Saul memes on my TikTok recently for some reason, and all I can think of is saying this chapter is some chicanery

This dude Quinton Reviews has a series on YouTube going over the Nickelodeon shows iCarly, VicTorious, and Sam and Cat, and somehow he got 24 hours of content out of that, I watched all of it and in it he says that iCarly got an ending and VicTorious got a new episode for the last time (because it doesn't really have a finale, it just kind of ends at one point), and that's how I feel about MHA and JJK

MHA got an ending (even if it left a lot to be desired), JJK got a new chapter for the last time. There aren't major plot beats left open, everything is more or les wrapped up, but it doesn't feel satisfying. It feels like the end of an arc, not the end of the manga. I think in time, with a retrospective I'll appreciate the final showdown more, but I do genuinely feel like there's a lot of wasted potential here. Especially when it comes to the main trio, cause when you think about it, they really don't spend much time together. There are 7 chapters between Nobara's introduction and Yuji's "death", and while they have 94 chapters between Yuji coming back and Nobara's "death" (79 if we take out the flashback arc) and the last 5 chapters, they're really only together for less than a third of the manga, about 91 total chapters out of 271

For comparison to Naruto, the Sasuke Retrieval arc started in chapter 172. Even if we stop counting before the Tsunade search arc, that's 138 chapters, 50% more than JJK's total with the three main characters (the JJK wiki calls Nobara a "tritagonist" so I'm alleging the idea is all 3 of them are supposed to be main characters)

I think this is my problem with JJK is, where you have a series like Demon Slayer which is very fast-paced, you can tell the writer Gotouge knew that ahead of time and wrote it knowing that. So it comes off as a complete story despite its pace, meanwhile the intro of JJK feels like it's abridged, like more was planned out that had to be cut because Gege was either bored or just exhausted from the weekly grind (which I don't blame him for tbh, that sh*t will kill you)

To me, JJK is always gonna be a series of missed potential. A good series which could have been great. Having the final panel be Sukuna's middle finger really is symbolic lol.

Spoiler:

I'm not mad at Gege, just disappointed that he couldn't take his time to wrap this up properly. That Sukuna ending scene was a slap in the face to the readers who have been dying for a Heian Era story arc. The middle finger was really fitting.

In the end, at least we got to see Yuji, Megumi, and Nobara goof around one last time. But the fact that she's back and hasn't missed a beat since the Shibuya Incident just further reinforces the fact that she was completely wasted for nearly half the manga.

JJK will always be manga's biggest ball drop. I don't blame him for wanting out, but it sucks as someone who supported the series for the last several years (i have nearly all the volumes) to see it end in such an unsatisfying, rushed way.

Maybe MAPPA will give JJK the Bleach treatment?

[DOT]

Spoiler:

I'm not mad at Gege, just disappointed that he couldn't take his time to wrap this up properly. That Sukuna ending scene was a slap in the face to the readers who have been dying for a Heian Era story arc. The middle finger was really fitting.

In the end, at least we got to see Yuji, Megumi, and Nobara goof around one last time. But the fact that she's back and hasn't missed a beat since the Shibuya Incident just further reinforces the fact that she was completely wasted for nearly half the manga.

Spoiler:

The comparisons to Naruto are even more striking with Gege underutilizing his potentially really interesting female characters and undermining the evil spirt being pure evil lol

"I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed" sums it up quite well

[MrDollarBills]

Spoiler:

I'm not mad at Gege, just disappointed that he couldn't take his time to wrap this up properly. That Sukuna ending scene was a slap in the face to the readers who have been dying for a Heian Era story arc. The middle finger was really fitting.

In the end, at least we got to see Yuji, Megumi, and Nobara goof around one last time. But the fact that she's back and hasn't missed a beat since the Shibuya Incident just further reinforces the fact that she was completely wasted for nearly half the manga.

Spoiler:

The comparisons to Naruto are even more striking with Gege underutilizing his potentially really interesting female characters and undermining the evil spirt being pure evil lol

"I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed" sums it up quite well

Spoiler:

Sukuna not staying firm on his hedonist path was just really weird. Maybe if we got a proper back story, it would have made sense.

Literally three chapters ago he told Yuji to his face that nothing he said moved him or stirred any feeling in him. I felt it was there where it was confirmed that Sukuna was a true psychopath. I was good with that. He was evil because he wanted to be.

Then we find out that he was living like that out of revenge for Urame? The Urame we nothing about outside of her being his chef?

thanks for waiting til the last 3 pages of the series to throw that caveat out there man

[DOT]

Spoiler:

Then we find out that he was living like that out of revenge for Urame? The Urame we nothing about outside of her being his chef?

Spoiler:

I was under the impression the "cursed, unwanted little wretch" line was about Sukuna himself, that he was mad at the world because his mom didn't want him or whatever. I mean, either way it's a half-baked idea, but this is the problem, so much went unexplained that we're getting a reveal on literally the last chapter of what the big bad's motivation was all along? Stupid.

Anyways, looking forward to the sequel, Jujutsu Sensō, where Itadori Buji fights alien wizards along with his sister Nobawari who has the reincarnated spirit of Sukuna inside her as a child for some reason.

[MrDollarBills]

Spoiler:

Then we find out that he was living like that out of revenge for Urame? The Urame we nothing about outside of her being his chef?

Spoiler:

I was under the impression the "cursed, unwanted little wretch" line was about Sukuna himself, that he was mad at the world because his mom didn't want him or whatever. I mean, either way it's a half-baked idea, but this is the problem, so much went unexplained that we're getting a reveal on literally the last chapter of what the big bad's motivation was all along? Stupid.

Anyways, looking forward to the sequel, Jujutsu Sensō, where Itadori Buji fights alien wizards along with his sister Nobawari who has the reincarnated spirit of Sukuna inside her as a child for some reason.

Haha....I've had my fill of JJK. Kagurabachi has got it from here

[MrDollarBills]

First the Knicks get KAT, and now

Read on Twitter

Frieren is returning

What a good morning this is

[knickfan]

Do any of you guys go to the New York Comic Con?

[MrDollarBills]

Do any of you guys go to the New York Comic Con?

Haven't been since the pandemic unfortunately