It's ending in 2 chapters. This is it.

Yes my weeb I'm saying it's too convenient that he knows "the spot" where "the gang" would be hiding out after kidnapping her. How does he know where the Hishaku would be, a gang of 10 core members? How does he randomly stumble upon the Hishaku sorcerer who's just walking about in the spot? The hotel promised complete privacy so I assumed it was locked off to non-sorcerers and seemed to be filled with sorcerers so maybe my assumption there was wrong. My whole point though is a random classmate finds his way to the hotel within half a chapter to conveniently end up in front of Iori. This is half baked and plot convenient. I don't find this kind of writing to be good. As I've already said, this arc needed way more setup than this for how much it's trying to do.

All that just sounds random to me. Randomly in the "seedy" part of town, randomly finds and follows a Hishaku member, randomly ends up at the supposedly magically sealed hotel, randomly winds up in front of Chihiro, and so on. There's zero reason he should have thought the hotel would lead to Iori. The explanation is maybe 3 panels of how he ends up and it even says "somehow I ended up in this hotel".

This arc as a whole needed way more time to cook. I'm ok with her unlocking memories of her training with Samura but I simply couldn't deal with the kid from school randomly stumbling into this hotel and then conveniently getting all the chips lined up perfectly to be led to the top floor of in the middle of the ongoing hell. This feels extremely rushed for an arc that's only been 10 chapters and the villains have been pretty poor. We need an arc to expand on the Hishaku, their motivations and how they operate.

He still has his head he's not dead yet

This was a really good series until maybe chapter 30 or so around when Tatsu was trying to get funding for his movie. Post trying to get the grant from the anime studio, it feels like it abandoned all attempts at having Tatsu improve and instead basically stuck to having him draw and draw and draw. No introspection on why he was being constantly rejected, no comparing to the other winners on how he could improve, nothing. His friends helped him out, he magically got crowdfunded, he drew some more and the film just became successful. I have similar feelings about Nico's career too. She's now just a successful artist the end. Very disappointing. I wish it focused on either their careers or fleshed out their romance more and instead it did neither. Maybe around then's when the sales of the volumes and the abysmal numbers might have forced the author to consider that the manga would be axed.

I hope the mangaka finds more success with their next work.

It was really cute and fun at the start but then all the arcs kept dragging on and on. I liked the mousy girl and the boisterous boy getting together but they dragged on Taira and Azuma's arc for so goddamn long and didn't bother giving it a conclusion. The ending was way too abrupt and I really don't care about a whole retrospective at the finale of a manga where they were uncertain of the future. Focus on what happens next instead of looking back before even the beginning and explore the future instead of dumping it in one page half-heartedly. I dunno, if this went on for longer and actually showed what they go through later this would have been better but it's quite mid IMO

Felt like the pacing was moving really weirdly by the end. Lot of the nine skies dropping like flies, Yul-Geon popping out of nowhere just to be present for this final fight and so on. But the ending isn't bad by any means just a little abrupt

Still one of the best action manhwa out there and a great read overall.

Everything I'm hearing about the novel makes it sound so much worse. I'm glad for whatever changes were made to make this a pretty damn good action manhwa

One of the worst endings in a manga I've read. Crazy how much this dropped off. Not reading a sequel if it's happening but I don't think there's been any confirmation of anything of the sort. This was more than enough to prove Gege can't write for shit

There is zero denying that Fujimoto is a Michelin star chef.

But I am GENUINELY wondering how any of this has a happy ending at this point or how it is going to end at all. We're being told straight up that the whole world is relying entirely on Denji's misery and there are primordial forces that want to destroy this poor boy. I can see that maybe he finds some kind of happiness with Asa or something or is released from this hellish curse in some way but more than any other point in this series I am utterly nonplussed as to how this whole thing will end. I want so badly for it to end well for poor Denji but I cannot think of how it's going to get there at all.

However this goes, I am strapped the fuck in. This is simply incredible stuff.

Zero doubt that Fujimoto is cooking here. There's a lot going on but the big theme seems to be "loss of control". Yoru lost control of her own emotions, Denji is slowly unravelling because of Nayuta's absence and Asa's body was usurped to commit sexual assault against Denji. Poor Denji, as usual, leads a completely fucked life where he very rarely even has any autonomy over his own actions and this time, his confused mind was taken advantage of in the heated exchange by Yoru. There may have been a part of him that enjoyed it but he was clearly a victim here (doubly so cause he doesn't even realise that it wasn't Asa who assaulted him), as is Asa who no doubt is gonna freak out. Makes me wonder why Yoru suddenly disappeared to let Asa out again right when things got "messy"

I think a lot of Asa's love for Chainsaw Man affected Yoru and it's not the first time that the line between them has blurred. She got caught up in their emotions and lost self control

Don't think anyone here is freaking out. Most of the prudes are on twitter

Asa is on her way

Of all my favs you had to pick literally my top. wtf

I honestly cannot recommend this show to most people I know IRL. I can't even recommend it to most anime heads I know. But I watched this a couple of years out of college and it really did speak to me on an intimate level and nothing else has really gotten in my head the same way. The same stories of trying things out, never quite working, the FOMO, the blooming romance, the capers and the nonsense. It was so close to my own heart I could not but help fall in love with it. But it's definitely not for everyone

@Aigis You have all of AoT in your favs which is abhorrent to me /jk

S1 and S2 were great. The quality after that steadily dipped. I much preferred when they were confined to the island cause everything after was rank

I'm honestly fine with a lot of the mysteries being open ended and such

But so much of the dumb supernatural stuff completely overshadowed the mysterious, lonely, deep-in-the-night vibes of the early chapters and this final chapter was super disappointing for me in that it did nothing to bring back that early melancholy. This dropped off pretty hard for me halfway through and the ending is just a bit of a wet fart. Doesn't really feel like closure and evokes no emotions. I don't agree that it's bittersweet. The setup is clearly that they've found their love for each other

A more appropriate ending could have been Kou, in turn, prowling the night as an adult half vampire maybe giving in to his own urges and finding his next Kou with Nazuna still wandering the earth avoiding him. Or maybe not even giving in to his urges and just finding normalcy and a "happier" life but continuing to find solace in the night

The cool thing would have been to actually take away any of the major powers Sukuna has been using. Imagine we get him losing his trademark Slash and he goes "well you're gonna find out why I'm the greatest sorcerer of all time". Anything to give Sukuna a challenge. Instead some shit that got airdropped to him a few chapters ago is gone. Who cares. Even worse was the blurb that says Sukuna "expected it". HOW