Chainsaw Man

I name her four posts up, homes.

According to a fanlation I found, the first bit of Chinese dialogue is Quanxi telling the fiends to take care of any stragglers, and the second bit is the fiend chuckling that a corpse is talking. (Which is a mite hypocritical, coming from what's basically a devil-possessed cadaver.)

I love how its become a battle royale now to get to Denji & they are officially all sabotaging each other.

In her effort to make sure she's the only one to get Denji, Quanxi helped out immensely by eliminating Santa's puppets ergo making the situation less complicated for him.

Yeah... but now they have to deal with Quanxi.

We can't really say things are better now.

I said it's less complicated now, not less easy.

Knocking out the puppets means the slayers can focus on fewer opponents as well as alleviating them of the moral gut-punch a lot of them were feeling in having to put down possessed civilians.

Sure its not anymore easier but its simpler.

It took me a while to understand that Quanxi was just so fast that there was a delay between her cut and its effect.

Edited by Lyendith on Mar 1st 2020 at 11:16:55 AM

And my brain immediately wondered if this means she can be her own vibrator?

Well, this is a pretty nice indicator for the upper bounds of raw physical power in this series. I wanna see Sensei in action now. Quanxi's fully human, right? No contracts?

I don't think that's been specified. At least, the chapter that introduces only says that her special ladies are fiends and she'd beat the entire world in a boxing match. So I believe all we know for sure is that she's not a fiend herself.

New chapter:

Makima has a secret admirer...and by admirer I mean assassin.

Yeah… seems like she has even more enemies than we thought.

So Quanxi actually does care about her girls. Didn't expect such a cozy chapter but it was great.

Well, her only request for payment was that they get treated like humans.

Shout-out to Aldo for making his play just in time to send negotiations to hell.

Kishibe gets more and more interesting. I dig the Offscreen Moment of Awesome. My gut is that he has humanity's best interests at heart a lot more than Makima.

New chapter:

Damn. Too many cooks in this damn pot.

And Santa still isn't joining in with his other surprises.

I AM SHOOK.

• Tolka is praised by is Master, who comments that he is now part of the family. She explains that to make a "Perfect Puppet", you need to instill a human with certain emotions. He flashes back to many moments with her, and when she touches him he goes stiff like Santa's puppets.
• Fighting with Quanxi is interrupted by Aki having a vision, and freaking out.
• Santa — the old man — runs into the mall, and extends a blade-arm. He chants in union with Tolka's master. The old man sacrifices himself and 3 of the 4 children promised to Santa are also claimed by the spell. Everyone inside the mall is sent to Hell, while the real Santa — the woman, sits on a puppet and greets the people left outside.

So it was all an extended joke about how Santa isn't real.

Now that is one hell of a twist. This series is so good man

This series is messed up.

I guess the expression "What the hell?" has never been more appropriate. Whose hand was that at the end?

Okay, when harostar said "everyone gets sent to Hell," I thought that was speaking figuratively. Hope we get to meet some dead devils.

This casts a new light on the rumors that Santa's dead of old age. I'm guessing she's had the old guy as a public face for a while now, which would make sacrificing him to drop everybody into Hell a drastic step.

The theory I've seen around is that Master is the real puppetmaster, as it were, and Santa was just her public face as a "perfect puppet". The "three for business, one for pleasure" children Santa demanded weren't because he was a pedo, but so she'd have three (plus her perfect puppet) to sacrifice for a devil contract and the last one is there to be groomed into another perfect puppet. So in other words, Tolka now takes Santa's place as Master's stooge and likely eventual fuel for a Hell Devil summoning.

I think you hit the nail on the head.

....here we go.

Everyone seems to just want to kill Makima. What's with her?

Oh boy, what a chapter.

• The Fiends and Devils in the party all freak out, because it's Hell. Quanxi's girls explain that the Primal Fears dwell here, the devils that have never known death. One of them asks permission to kill herself before they come.
• "More dangerous than some gun devil", huh?
• The Devil of Darkness appears to them. Everyone's arms are detached and fall to the ground. Tolka-puppet kneels before Darkness and states the Contract has been fulfilled by bringing Chainsaw's Heart. He asks for the power to kill Makima.
• The woman receives a piece of Darkness's flesh, swallowing it.

Edited by harostar on Mar 29th 2020 at 12:34:01 PM

Well Makina is really terrifying whenever we see her do anything