What is up with all the philosophical hyper benefit of doubt video essays about Chainsawman?
Every now and then, I get recommended a short video essay about Chainsawman's part 2 story progression, and every time they keep offering disclaimers and excuses about how deep the series "actually" is before they make one barely critical statement about it.
It feels unnatural, like irony or realism is the go to shield for everything CSM does. As someone who followed the manga since ch 1 release, the quality drop is visible from space. Nearly every chapter for the last 2 years is a chaotic 60s read that hooks you with clever question arousing tricks and semi-cliffhangers. It's a fast food tier manga by now.
The setups from part 1 paid off poorly so far and no amount of "wait for series to end" comments will ever change that, the chapter count is already past part 1:
1) The Horsemen devils, characters with immense narrative potential that could have been born at any time, anywhere in the world, ended up being quirky high school girls in the same tiny region of Japan, all of roughly similar ages.
2) Denji continues to repeat the same mistakes and going through more and more loss, developing his character at a rate slower than even a real person would. At this point he should either be completely insane or fully developed from experience, he just feels like he's looping and there's no point to it.
3) Nayuta as a character had potential to be shown what a Control devil raised with love can do, and she was just fodder for another suffering loop for Denji. Not gonna criticize her dying, that's standard for CSM, but the execution just makes you wonder what was the point of her, Denji feels pain and doesn't do anything with it anyway. At this point he could finally learn after the 100th "he finds happiness, villain takes it away, he has a breakdown and turns into CSM" loop and it'd not have been worth it.
4) The Power promise was mentioned only once and Denji has shown 0 initiative to progress on that front.
5) Asa Mitaka has taken a bland backseat to everything Yoru does, her personality from the earlier part 2 is gone, other than "I'm in love with Denji, I'm scared of Yoru".
6) What was even the point of her becoming known and popular while CSM became hated, if it went back to status quo right away?
7) Where is Kishibe during an apocalyptic devil scenario, exactly? Or hell, what is Reze doing and why was she only hybrid not shown so far, especially after nukes were reinvented?
And many more. The advancement of the plot seems to just be done in a disinterested way. It's clear Fujimoto either lost interest or lost focus.