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Chainsaw Man 1x03 Reaction (Patreon)

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2025-08-02 20:05:29
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2025-08-31 22:30:00
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happy to say we watched 4 episodes and absolutely lovee everything so far

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YawnSong

I’m so haaaaappy!

Dammy Oshikoya

I’m so glad😊😊😊……can’t wait for the rest of the season. Truth to be said fellows patreons, I kinda want them to get CSM done so they can hopefully do Steins Gate and 86 Eighty Six because…my god, PEAK FICTION right there and the discussion after will be long af

bondbond53

Wow so unexpected that you love it, surely those commenters were right I thought *sarcasm*

TeaDrinkerReactions

I did a review for this originally rather than a reaction for anyone interested. The rest of the series from episodes 5 - 12 are all reacted to on the channel if anyone would like to watch. https://youtu.be/1lKEksTwhpo

hman70

Yes! I knew this show would be right up your alley. Folks just aren't used to any kind of sexual content or themes that explore intimacy/lust or abuse in their shonen anime, they were being way overprotective of you guys imo. Now that we know you're bought in I'm counting down the weeks to certain episodes :D

Rogelio Buy

Yesss i'm so glad you're enjoying it. People warning you must have thought you don't have enough media literacy which is crazy to me becasue you're one of the few reactors who actually try to understand the meaning of everything you watch

caprisun annihilator

I feel like people who think csm is too much have not been watching anime long bc... this series not even top 100 weirdest works of fiction.

Lau

im sooooooo glad youre enjoying it so far!!! this is the first time i rewatch it since my first watch back when it aired and its got me so hyped

priscilla

I started the show with you girls and binged the whole thing and now I am reading the manga. Loving everything so far! So glad that I picked it up.

bondbond53

The power the Bat Devil showed relates to bats being able to emit echolocation sounds in order to move during the night, avoid obstacles and hunt.

My Toasty Toast

Steins Gate/Eighty Six will have to wait until after Frieren season 2, next anime has to be 12-13 episodes

Unholy

Oh nice cool to hear. It can be very extra lol

Jack SV

I’m glad you girls are enjoying this anime. This might open the opportunity for some other animes like Neon Genesis Evangelion in the future.. one can only hope lol <3

bondbond53

Fun Fact: The ED for this episode is by the same band (Maximum the Hormone) that did Death Note's second OP, you know the batshit crazy one lmao

cosmotron

Yeah, I figured you would like the show a lot. I said before that it feels like people treat sensitive material in animation as if it is somehow 'more' explicit than in live action or something. Like, there's definitely a conversation to be had about how some anime portrays or explores sexual themes or otherwise, but I feel like you could *also* say that about plenty of live action shows too lmao. Anyway, I'm not a manga reader (though I have unfortunately been spoiled on a few things) and I really liked this show, and am looking forward to whatever else it has in store.

Robert Dirk H.

For clarification: - Season 1 - Movie (2025 in theaters, 2026 on Crunchyroll) - Season 2 (probably 2027) - Seasons 3-5 (after that) :D And now a little bit about the production: Season 1 was directed by Ryū Nakayama. Fujimoto is a film nerd, which why his manga panels have a very cinematic feel and also reference well-known scenes from films and series. Ryū Nakayama therefore aimed for an animation style similar to Hollywood films, with calm cinematic scenes and heavy body movements, virtually no exaggeration or deforming representation of characters, similar to what you know from Fullmetal Alchemist, for example, where Edward is briefly drawn with four tentacle arms and a very cartoonish face to create a funny scene. Japanese fans were angry because they didn't like it at all. The movie, which will be released in theaters in two months, therefore has a different director. This will be an interesting experience for many fans, because many cannot clearly determine what influence the director has on the anime. We also had a director change between Attack on Titan season 3 and season 4, but we also had a time jump, a character design change, an animation studio change, and a genre change. It's difficult to point the finger at something and say, “That was the director's work” :D

bondbond53

Yeah now I actually see 0 sense in people not recommending NGE to them

Robert Dirk H.

Since we also get an explanation of how devils come into being: Lola alone is responsible for the Tomato Devil in episode 1 :D

petitcorbeau

Since what you care about in shows are the characters, I knew you would like it. The characters in this show are great. I mean it's only 4 episodes for now but there is no way it's going to end up like cyberpunk for you like some people have said.

Isaac

Milena "I have it on tape!" hahahaha

hman70

Counting me as someone very upset with how Nakayama was treated after his beautiful work on season 1, one would hope that the massive downgrade in visual fidelity and detail apparent in the movie's trailers would allow them to pump out a new season much faster than 2027. But that's probably wishful thinking. Also lightly push back on "japanese fans not liking it at all" being the reason they pushed Nakayama out, certainly there were fans all over the world who had complaints about the style, I think the primary factor was making him the fall-guy for the poor blu-ray sales in comparison to the contemporary JJK season 2 which broke sales records for MAPPA. Thankfully the happy ending to all this is that Nakayama landed on his feet as the leader of his own studio, one where he's proud not to be working his staff on insane unrealistic deadlines.

Robert Dirk H.

@hman70 I completely agree! I have no idea what kind of criticism he had to endure because of this. I really can't understand it, especially since Fujimuto was also involved in the production and supports the adaptation. It reminds me a bit of Naruto vs. Pain, where the director Atsushi Wakabayashi also received a lot of hate for his adaptation. And you're right that there was global criticism, but Blu-ray sales are heavily dominated by Japanese fans. The fact that the figures were so low suggests that Japanese fans were rather dissatisfied. I also recently found out that Ryū Nakayama runs his own animation studio now! I wish him every success with it!

tanasia

yeahhhh 😭❤️

MJ

My boy Denji raised himself. He had no one to tell him right from wrong. He had no one else but pochita by his side. He sold his organs to pay a debt he couldnt afford. He has always dreamed of being with a hot chick. Last episode he said he has no friends. There is no doubt that the way he grew up is a big reason why he acts the way he acts. He is extremely desperate for some human connection.

MJ

It will definitely not end up like cyber punk for 2 reasons. 1. This show focuses on characters unlike cyberpunk 2. This show will have many seasons which help You get more attached to characters. Cyberpunk only had 10 episodes.

Celina Copeland

I feel like the girls would love the characters and relationships in demon slayer! Highly recommend

Daniel Molina

Episode 3’s ending is my favorite. Maximum the Hormone is the perfect type of unhinged that matches Chainsaw Man, they should give them an opening for a later season 👀

Kalli

What I most admire about CSM is that Fujimoto isn't afraid to give his female characters some actual crazy. In a lot of other anime, I feel that authors usually try to play it safe with female characters to make them more palatable to a mainstream male audience, but Fujimoto writes his characters like they're actual people on stimulants and I love that sm. And we love traumatized consent king Denji.

Sebastian

the blonde guy in the opening who looks familiar is based off the actor mads mikkelsen so that might be what milena was thinking of. in fact the entire opening is full of movie references pulp fiction, the big lebowski etc. https://youtu.be/ow0eoZJ1QvA?feature=shared

Sazid Rahman

I’m surprised nobody mentions the intro has a lot of pop culture references. They haven’t realized it yet.

bondbond53

And he seems resentful towards men and not just in a heterosexual "ew dudes" but deep down I think it relates to all men making him suffer throughout his childhood. My misandrist king

Milen Karabadzhakov

TBH there's quite a few sad extras (especially if it's a denji flashback, poor boy :( )

Jonathan Wang

The first time I watched this I had no cats, now I have 2 (+1 that ran away D':), and it just hits different.

sand_fl

glad you're enjoying it, i am one of those who thought you'd not enjoy it that much, similarly to edgerunners. i've read the first part of the manga and while it's not my favourite i did like it. i still need to read the rest.

My Toasty Toast

Blonde guy in the opening looks like Mads Mikkelsen, but he also looks like a mix of Reiner and Hannes from AoT

Robert Dirk H.

I only read Chainsaw Man Part 1 too (Season 1 - Movie - Season 2). Part 2 (Season 3 - 5) seems to be so different, that I'm able to wait until it's finished to continue :D

tanasia

i am one of the people who personally like part 2 even more than part 1. if you like characters/plot more than action you will probably like part 2 more!

nellie

I love Power so much

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sand_fl

well, now i'm definitely curious about part 2 but i want to finish Vinland because the last chapter was published so i want to read from where i stopped and then i also want to keep reading frieren but i have little to none spare time atm.

Daniel Molina

If you have limited time i would prioritize Vinland first, since its finished you can get that strong sense of resolution. Frieren manga is great but it goes on random hiatus very often for months at a time in the middle of arcs so its hard to remember the small details in between long breaks.

sand_fl

vinle is definitely my priority. i stopped reading when i finished volume 13 (the English edition), so the last official translation when i was reading and since i knew it was close to finishing i decided to wait until it was all published so i only have about 40 chapters left which i'll probably read in one day. probably next wednesday since i have the day off. i started frieren but then stopped because i was reading many books and then never picked it up again, but i definitely want to read it.

Sneed

Job application devil

Flubbedsquid

I gotta say I just love the idea that a giant demon bat monster is like "this guy's blood smells like cigarettes? Gross..."

Jack Hoff

Girls when you read comments you have to think about how stupid the average person is. Then think about how 50% of people are dumber than that.

Stevenmcd4

newish here, has anyone ever suggested love is war to them?

Patrick

I think the show lays out what it’s doing, so when those ‘moments’ come it’s a logical extension of the set up. It’s not like ‘wow this was out of nowhere’. I’ve watched LM long enough to know they pay attention to these things and not just plot and hype moments, so I was pretty sure they would like it.

Jack Hoff

Have you girls ever seen the movie Evil Dead? If you have you'd understand it's not just humans who are of afraid chainsaws.

Iwa

yeah like the cake one right ? Or am I mixing things ?

Iwa

I definitely agree that the treatment Nakayama received was unfair, given that he did a great job contributing to the anime, but to say that there was a “massive downgrade” between season 1 and the movie is a bit too much. The animation may seem more “simplistic,” but it's not a technique used to speed things up and simplify the task. Rather, it's a conscious choice to be more faithful to the manga drawings. The biggest difference is the change in colors, which seem much warmer than the very dull animation we we had in season 1. Personally, I love it and I think it fits Fujimoto's vision, but it's a matter of perspective, of course. In any case, I don't think we should belittle Tatsuya Yoshihara's work on the film, which looks phenomenal with animation that seems to surpass season 1 (we'll probably have sakuga everywhere). I just hope we don't lose too much of Nakayama's very cinematic direction.

Robert Dirk H.

It's harder to say which episodes you should watch together in the next few episodes, but I would definitely watch 6 and 7 together, and 8 and 9.

GB

Personnaly I think of Chainsaw Man as being a manga/anime "disguised" as an action shonen anime. I'm not really sure what its true genre is beneath the disguise as I'm not well versed in genres, so I'd call it a "Fujimoto work" beneath as I find all his works to have some kind of common theme/feeling.

40kandPizza

CSM uses a dude with a chainsaw head to tell one of the most powerful stories about human nature and human feelings and connections that I've ever encountered. It only gets better from here!!!

Daniel Molina

The same thing happened to me with Vinland! Volume 14 got printed recently so i bought it, after i finished it i just continued reading the fan translations and little did i know i had caught up 5 days before the final chapter released. Literally perfect timing 😮‍💨 Enjoy 👌🏽

Jack Hoff

It's Seinen. Like One Punch Man.

Vitor

Your discussion about How Denji "tricks" himself into thinking he doesn't care about people is super interesting and i agree with most of It. I am excited to see your discussions of the episodes to come!

Yoshi444

Perfect start for the romcom genre

Eric

"It only gets better from here!!!" Something that will be true until, like, nearly the end of the adaptation!

Eric

Seinen is a demographic, not a genre. Same with shonen. The genre is an action/thriller.

Eric

(And it should) lol

tanasia

same. i watch a whole lot of videos essays and read many discussions but i don’t think i’ve heard people bring this up! (bring this up blatantly i mean. people discuss denji and his motivations a lot.)

Jack Hoff

Yeah it's a demographic but they're consistently more thoughtful since they're for an older audience.

Vitor

True. It is really impressive how well they already understand Denji, even with just 3 eps

Asura Swiper

I think he was referring to the story in general so if we're counting the manga, it really does get better and better for the rest of part 1. Astronomically so, too. The second half of this part makes season 1 look meh in comparison, and season 1 was already amazing.

Asura Swiper

It's on Shonen Jump +, which is for experimental manga that don't exactly fit typical shounen audiences but still want to reach a large audience.

Paolo

Denji tells Power that her speech is creepy because in Japanese she speak like a old men. The author did this to emphasize that even though Power appears to be a young woman, she is still a demon possessing a corpse.