AKI AND POWER ARE BACK!!! CHAINSAW MAN CHAPTER 182 REVIEW

In the previous Chainsaw Man chapter, Yoru remains frustrated at being trapped in a world where people turn into trees after a thousand years. In that frustration, Yoru kisses her arch nemesis Denji.

Chapter 182 is titled, “Cute”

This chapter has 16 pages.

Yes Yoru, Denji is cute.

However, Yoru explains that it is because he looks cute when he cries.

This does sound a bit sadistic but it is possible that Yoru does feel genuine attraction to Denji’s vulnerability.

Yoru kisses Denji again but Denji pushes back, saying that he feels weird.

We all feel terrible for Denji.

The story frames him as a victim of sexual manipulation and assault.

Even as he has matured into a young adult rather than his original 16 year old state, Denji continues to grapple with his ability to live in this world as he is constantly objectified.

Denji provides a meaningful reflection on personal existence as he cannot think morally if people objectify him.

This should help people understand why Denji is perverted. Apart from a psychological longing for touch and affection, Denji is mentally immature due to a lack of education and socialization.

However, Denji’s experiences have broken his perception on relationships, “alternating between sexy and terrible.”

Through the objectification of his body (by viewing Denji as just his heart, funnily enough), Denji is unable to process himself as a person but some sort of doll or object to be mocked by someone else, which makes him view the general feeling of living as empty and absurd, which ties to Chainsaw Man’s ideas of the Absurd and Camus’s concept of existential rebellion as a means of confronting that absurdity.

Yoru seems to sympathize with Denji, saying she has lost some people (due to Chainsaw Man) but here, she quickly says that she has moved past that, as if without thinking and erasing them from her mind.

This is quite a meaningful insight as it is another example of how human devils are but they rely on their “brains”, not their hearts.

This frustrates Asa, as Yoru’s “strength” and “resolve” being on display are an insult to Denji’s struggles

Here, we see Asa reflect on her own trauma, the loss of her mother that got eaten by a devil.

She considered her regrets in life but she also realizes that while it is hard to get over the inevitable cycle of suffering and loss, Chainsaw Man taught Asa to live for something, that such a resolve can even make someone eat a “crapburger”, all to look forward to that something.

Before Denji replies to Asa’s words, Denji vomits what appears to be the Snow Devil, one of the devils listed among those consumed by Chainsaw Man in Chapter 174: “Ayyy, Aging”.

Fun fact: snow devils are a real phenomenon that occurs in nature, generated by snow rising from the ground in the form of a swirling column of variable height, small diameter and approximately vertical axis.

It is interesting that in his human form, Denji vomits a monster or an actual Devil that changes the environment of the Aging World into the past.

We now see an image of Aki and Power standing on a boat, which brings us to a never-before seen memory shared between two of the most important people Denji has lost.

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