Manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto
You know with a chapter title like that it’s going to be good.
What time is it? It’s the Chainsaw Minute! Every Friday David and Jordan give their thoughts on the latest chapter of the manga that needs no introduction, Chainsaw Man. Find out what’s the devil of the week and why this chapter is a 10/10.
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[00:00:00] I've been watching Lord of the Rings and I honestly think that Rachel may cite some of the things I've discussed
[00:00:04] while we were watching Lord of the Rings as part of our divorce proceedings if we ever were-
[00:00:07] Oh my god, David.
[00:00:08] David, no one cares.
[00:00:10] Nobody cares because if you look at the time, it's...
[00:00:14] THE SHIT SONG!
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[00:01:41] We love people joining in for this recording.
[00:01:43] But what we don't love is our devils this week.
[00:01:45] So, Jordan, what what happens in this chapter Jordan? Oh my fucking god this chapter. Denji wakes up in the hospital very confused to find Yoshida there. Yoshida says he doesn't know where Naeda is and that Denji's been out for a whole fucking week. It's been one week since you looked at me. It's been one week since I've read from the mob.
[00:03:00] Denji passes out again as Yoshida speaks with other public safety division agents including Fumiko.
[00:03:07] Fuck you Mikko. or something. I took that as some kind of like doctor notation like that's where they cut it at. I don't know. He's a regenerating boy, you know? Yeah. There's some public safety dude with an eyepatch who's not a wolf though. Well, you don't know that David. We haven't seen his power. It's true. Imagine he has the wolf devil when a doctor asked him to leave and he's like, well, I gotta kill chainsaw man if he tries to run and the doctor's like, take a war to get Just god. I was actually talking about fire punch today. I forgot there's a trans man in that series and it's like, I can't really think of other trans men in manga. Hmm. Well there is one in Jojo very briefly. Is there who in Jojo is a trans man? In part six they're just like, whoa, like for some reason Jolene just runs into this
[00:05:41] guy and they're like, oh man, believe it or not, he was a woman before but that's why
[00:05:46] he's in the women's prison and stuff. Right. Okay. I played Skyrim like once like five minutes of it. I forget how Skyrim goes I think you think about how when I'm watching Lord of the Rings Rachel does not recognize a single reference in any of this and it's Insane right you've mentioned that that she is somehow avoided the entire Lord of the Rings zeitgeist Yes She may be the last person to watch Lord of the Rings that was born before the movies came out to understand nothing
[00:07:03] She didn't know what an orc was I'm getting distracted anyway Jordan seen a lot of criticism where people say part two is a lot slower in this. Definitely. I feel like we've had like a five or six chapter trend where it's a lot of it's just build up like, yeah, there's some action, but it is really interesting how this different online format and Fujimoto knowing chainsaw man is very safe really has let him kind of just be much more experimental and stretch out concepts instead of those insanely fast pace that we've seen in a lot of chainsaw may not
[00:08:21] decide we haven't seen that, but this is a very different kind of stretch of
[00:08:24] chainsaw man than we saw in part one.
[00:09:21] in public safety, I guess. Yeah, and then my last thing I wanna say is,
[00:09:23] it's just so cute how much he cares about
[00:09:24] Naiyutu over anything else.
[00:09:26] No.
[00:09:27] He really, really loves her.
[00:09:28] Yeah, like he woke up in his first levels,
[00:09:32] oh no, where's Naiyutu, oh no.
[00:09:34] Very sweet.
[00:09:35] Yeah, yeah, do you have anything else?
[00:09:37] No, my back hurts.
[00:09:39] It's okay, I believe in you.
[00:09:40] Well then Jordan, I wanna say thank you so much
[00:09:41] for all of your hard work on the show.
[00:09:43] Thank you David for all the work that you do
[00:09:45] putting the show together.
[00:09:46] And then I also say, you can find us on Twitter