Chainsaw Minute: Chapter 158-160
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Chainsaw Minute: Chapter 158-160

Manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto

In this rare triple feature we deep dive into Asa and Fami's latest prison hijinks.

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] So it's quite interesting that New Zealand is actually really well known for their chocolate and has some of the best chocolate on the planet due to the unique diet David

[00:00:07] I'm looking at the time right now, and it is actually time for

[00:00:30] I'm David and this is your DOSA JANESLOMAN

[00:00:35] You can join us every Friday where we see what masterpiece Fugin Moto put out

[00:00:38] I'm Jordan and if you're looking for regular Shonen Flop goodness

[00:00:41] You can find our next episode our first thoughts on from dusk till dawn this Monday

[00:00:47] And just reminder that these recordings are open to everyone so listen and chat along with us on the Shonen Flop Discord every Tuesday

[00:00:53] At 6 p.m. Eastern when there's a new chapter out

[00:00:55] Find a link to an inner Shonen to hand on our site and then Jordan what was your devil this week?

[00:00:59] So I have the personal trainer devil David

[00:01:02] You see me and Steph recently signed up for a gym membership

[00:01:07] And they were like oh yeah, you want to do a personal personal trainer

[00:01:10] This is how much it costs per month and we're like yeah

[00:01:13] We didn't we didn't try a month you know that'll give us like a good place to start

[00:01:17] So we we sign up and then we read the contract afterwards and they automatically sign us up for six months

[00:01:23] Which is bullshit?

[00:01:24] Thankfully there is like a consumer protection clause where we can get out of that if we notify them in like three days and

[00:01:31] They were basically like I don't think you can do that and then we were like well

[00:01:35] We talked to our lawyer about it. And they were like oh okay. Yeah, I guess you could do that the snow problem

[00:01:40] Yeah, sure

[00:01:41] So like yeah, that's what I fucking thought so yeah how how about you David so

[00:01:47] Listeners is trying to surprise I am sick. I just got back from New Zealand. Jetlag actually wasn't so bad

[00:01:52] Nice but enough about that Jordan the plot number before

[00:01:56] Chapter one fifty eight

[00:01:57] Guilla Teen

[00:01:59] It goes it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes

[00:02:02] Guilla Teen

[00:02:03] Yeah, also just a heads up listener. I was gone for a while

[00:02:07] So we're doing a triple feature with three chapters covered this episode

[00:02:10] Yes, family summons the guilla Teen Devil was slices all of the guns and clothes off the guards

[00:02:15] But I know he families that she blatantly told it to kill them

[00:02:19] Asa asks her why she didn't just summon this fucking devil in the first place and Fabi says her devils are kind of weak and

[00:02:25] Have restrictions and houses like what are the restrictions and families like it's a fucking secret because

[00:02:30] Fabi smart and is like I'm not gonna tell you how to defeat me. Asa popcorn David

[00:02:36] Yeah

[00:02:37] The guards assume that they're here to rescue some of the members of the chaiselamian church

[00:02:41] Namely, assuming the leader of the church with the fake starter

[00:02:44] Hagashi Yama co-bainy's brother in a coco

[00:02:47] The villain from Samurai Jack the stoic guy with a night patch

[00:02:50] Asa tells them to leave because they're here for chaiselamian

[00:02:53] Which just makes them follow instead because they want to meet him talk about some chaiselamian followers

[00:02:59] Hey, I feel that I feel that yeah, so Jordan. Why was that weeks chapter 10 on 10?

[00:03:04] I love family so much like there's a moment where um you see me is like

[00:03:10] Fabi I'm not gonna follow you anymore. Let us go. Let me be on my own. Oh my god, and she's just like okay

[00:03:16] It's like

[00:03:17] Fabi this is bullshit. Oh my god. How could you do this? I'm kicking you out of the devil hunters club, and she's like okay

[00:03:23] Fabi does not give a fuck about anything. She doesn't give a shit about any of this

[00:03:27] She's like yeah, whatever man like I don't give a shit about this fine

[00:03:31] Biggest sigma male in all chaiselamian. She is she's fucking great

[00:03:36] I love the guillotine devil

[00:03:38] Yeah, it's just a fucking bird

[00:03:42] It's head is tilted like famises kind of yeah, it's the French Revolution devil which was in my notes

[00:03:48] But I saw dude racks posted about that in the chat too. Yeah. Oh my god

[00:03:52] I also like how awesome like deflects an attack on her and yours just like damn nice parry

[00:03:58] Asa shit

[00:04:00] Do you know so that Fujimono seems to like drawing birds a lot like do you think that fami brought a bird-based devil

[00:04:06] Just to fuck with the war devil which is in the owl-based devil. I don't know

[00:04:10] That didn't really occur to me that'd be funny if you if she did um, but yeah, I don't know

[00:04:15] Maybe this is all super thematic

[00:04:18] I've noticed the art seemed to be pretty good in these chapters in particular the painling was exquisite like when she's doing the kick

[00:04:24] It really leads the eye off the page and into the next page

[00:04:27] Fujimono is definitely experimental with his painling in interesting ways

[00:04:30] But this is almost like an a curatoriama like really well thought out of way of drawing your eyes in particular

[00:04:36] Elements by the way RIP king yeah, you never lived to see the end of chains on me in part two or dragon ball

[00:04:42] To see yeah fuck

[00:04:45] Okay, but yeah, no this is a good chapter. I really like this one

[00:04:48] Yeah, I had just well-balanced of action quality and just yeah

[00:04:52] Just family beef the knock giving a fuck queen mad respect to family

[00:04:56] Yeah, and I will say that it seems like Austin your who are actually starting to like each other more

[00:04:59] So we'll see if that goes but I'm sure awesome

[00:05:01] We'll find some way to horrifically fucking up and piss your who off

[00:05:04] Yeah, or you know the reverse in some way because yours just violent as fuck yeah

[00:05:10] Do you have anything else to add or should we go to the next chapter?

[00:05:13] I think it's really funny how it's just like you guys must be here for them and they're just like the fuck are these guys?

[00:05:18] Yep, I've never seen this made before in my life. I've ever seen it. I don't know who these people are

[00:05:26] All right well enough about that Jordan the plot summary for chapter 159 attack on samurai

[00:05:34] The trades leader must have felt very clever with that name instead of attack on titan

[00:05:37] Yeah, you got to be an attack on titan thing

[00:05:40] But yeah anyway you see me is following Elsa and Fami to meet chainsaw man

[00:05:45] But a coco and he got Shiyama are following him mainly because they just have nowhere else to go

[00:05:50] A coco literally says that and he got Shiyama

[00:05:53] Just kind of doesn't know how to get out of the place

[00:05:54] They think that they find an exit

[00:05:56] But it's actually just a big padded room filled with pseudo chainsaw man

[00:05:59] A middle aged guy with an eye patch appears suddenly outside the door popcorn David

[00:06:05] He asked the chainsaw me a church members wise wife had to transform when she was a good person

[00:06:09] She made him lunch every day David. God that's how you get into heaven yeah like literally

[00:06:16] That's what he says I think and I love how he's like I never did anything wrong. I just cheated on my wife for six months

[00:06:22] What's wrong with that

[00:06:24] Yeah, he's got this short. He's definitely got the affair double

[00:06:28] Feel I feel that because I also have never done anything wrong in my entire life at all. Yeah

[00:06:32] I haven't even cheated on anybody so there you go

[00:06:35] Yeah, the infidelity devil is probably actually pretty strong yes

[00:06:38] Your kicks Fami out of the way is katana me a burst through the wall just like cool aid man

[00:06:43] Oh, yeah

[00:06:44] When the nail feed drops from the ceiling now. It's just like oh my god. That's katana man's music

[00:06:49] Bunk out

[00:06:52] And Jordan why was that week's chapter 10 out of 10? It's you can tell I love the guy who's just like

[00:06:56] I've never done anything wrong in my entire life. Oh, yeah

[00:06:59] Except for that time I cheated on my wife for six months like why is this happening to me

[00:07:03] Also David did you notice that like for some reason they've decided to call katana man samurai sword man

[00:07:11] Yeah, I saw that

[00:07:13] Well katana me it is a kind of a long name longer than samurai sword

[00:07:17] Thought they just called him samurai yeah, but still it's like you could just call him katana or just call man

[00:07:23] Man, but it seems like they're they're calling him samurai sword and samurai for short

[00:07:27] But it's just like do you think people reading shown and jump don't know what a samurai sword is like they don't know what a katana is

[00:07:33] I don't know. I wonder if they change strange later. It's like how um in one piece they call him or a kundog instead of a tanuki

[00:07:39] Oh, which is like I also feel one piece readers would know what a tanuki is yeah

[00:07:43] Although to be fair. I don't think they ever actually call him katana man when he first shows up

[00:07:48] I don't think they actually give him a name

[00:07:50] It's just kind of like well he uses katana so I guess he's katana man

[00:07:54] It's just like just because I'm a man and katana doesn't make me a katana man

[00:07:59] Apparently god that just reminds me of like the scene from a samurai

[00:08:03] Samurai cop with the samurai cops like um, this is a katana it means Japanese sword

[00:08:10] And then there's katana and suicide squad

[00:08:12] god, what a stupid move where it's like I she steals your soul. I recommend not be killed by her

[00:08:17] Like fakes. I'll have someone else murder me instead

[00:08:19] I heard that movie was bad

[00:08:21] But like I was on a trip one time and just kind of in a hostel and somebody had it on and I was watching

[00:08:26] I'm like holy shit. This is awful

[00:08:29] It's so much worse than I thought it was

[00:08:32] God but anyway enough about suicide squad

[00:08:36] Fuck

[00:08:37] I do think that James Gunn could make an awesome live action version of Shane's Law Manlo

[00:08:41] James Gunn's like he's proven to be a good director

[00:08:44] Honestly, but aside from that shit. I

[00:08:48] Love how ossa needs to kick family out of the way and families just getting tossed all over the place

[00:08:54] It's really funny and now it's like whoa ossa you don't have to like be careful how hard you kicker

[00:09:01] You don't you don't have to do that you just push her out of the way. That's is like I only have one arm

[00:09:06] Yeah

[00:09:07] By the way, I think this is like the second mention of the word God and chains on him

[00:09:11] Yeah, like um the eye patch guy different from the different from a coco different. I patched out different from the youtuber

[00:09:19] Well, he's super eye patch guy. That's true and a wolf but um

[00:09:23] He yeah, he's basically like is there really no god like why does this keep happening? Why is this happening to me

[00:09:30] He's such a dick like he's looking at his wife who is suffering

[00:09:33] Like why is this happening to me like a plus asshole writing?

[00:09:37] Foodie moto. It's so funny. Yeah, oh man anything else you want to say about this uh chapter

[00:09:42] This was a really short chapter but a fun one yeah

[00:09:45] But yeah, anyway could be chainsaw man it could be you it can even be me we can all be chainsaw man

[00:09:50] Because I still don't know Dennis has chainsaw man no

[00:09:52] I really like the guillotine devil which is just like so fucking useless

[00:09:57] Yeah

[00:09:59] Even famiously alright this guy was fucking useless

[00:10:02] Killing your useless. Yeah, which we'll see in the next chapter so Jordan how about we dive into the next chapter

[00:10:08] This is chapter 160

[00:10:11] That for which the hot beats

[00:10:14] Katana man recognizes aza because I refuse to call him samurai sword man

[00:10:18] He recognizes her immediately as a devil hunter and says that her poetry book is going on sale next month

[00:10:25] Nail asks him if he's a fan and he's like no no no definitely not no

[00:10:30] He then goes on a tirade about how the world is messed up because of chainsaw man

[00:10:34] And the yakuza are actually heroes

[00:10:36] But the eye patch guide from last chapter tells them to kill these kids

[00:10:40] Yoris is to stop because they're here to fight chainsaw man too

[00:10:43] Which surprises Katana because he didn't even know dengie was here popcorn David

[00:10:48] He refuses to kill the kids because he's not going to defend his grandpa's murder

[00:10:51] And nail is just kind of sick of killing children

[00:10:54] Imagine that eye patch guy

[00:10:56] eye patch guy goes nothing personal kid and teleports behind nailing Katana and disappears when Katana slashes that him

[00:11:02] He says he's going to find someone else you can kill them all Katana says his heart beats to kill chainsaw man

[00:11:07] And Yoris says that her heart beats to kill chainsaw man too which clearly impresses him

[00:11:11] I just yeah, so I think the thing that seems out to me is why this week's chapter 10 out of 10

[00:11:15] We see that the eye patch guy much like Madoka is a smurge person in the world

[00:11:19] It says get out of the situations when they get tough just like famous Kaka fuulah character Sean McKenzie where I ran away

[00:11:25] Which situations got dangerous?

[00:11:27] Yes, David's famous character who survived like six sessions. Yeah six or seven sessions because I just ran away when it was dangerous

[00:11:34] It's impressive and it works. I don't know what to tell you the show star secret technique

[00:11:39] Oh man, but like god again

[00:11:41] Fammy's great causes like hey, fammy can you do that again?

[00:11:44] And fammy's just kind of on the ground bleeding from her mouth

[00:11:47] That she's just like you think I can really do she doesn't say anything though. It's just how she looked at her which is great

[00:11:52] Yeah, this is just so great Fuji mo no like Fuji most comedy game has been so strong in the shark

[00:11:58] Yeah, we also get more about how Katana man really does have this man data against dengy for killing his grandpa

[00:12:06] Like he did when we first met him but like it's still going

[00:12:09] You know he's still just really fucking hates dengy which that's fair. Yeah, I mean who doesn't

[00:12:14] I mean, I don't I also really appreciate that we see another moment where ossa is really bringing in the value to yoru

[00:12:20] Where she realized that she could just kind of use talk no jutsu to diffuse the situation in a way that you know

[00:12:25] Yoru never would have been able to because ossa just has this very surgical

[00:12:29] Stupidity that just works really well in the groundwork of chate and saw man's universe

[00:12:34] You have to be a little bit stupid to do well and change some man. It's just that's just how it works

[00:12:39] You have to be a little stupid and crazy. It's like how um

[00:12:42] I was watching free run in one of the most powerful characters her ability works because she doesn't understand the actual

[00:12:47] repercussions of how our ability should work in natural physics no spoilers no spoilers

[00:12:51] We just started watching free run too

[00:12:54] That's why I'm talking very vaguely it's literally just they don't realize how their power shouldn't work

[00:12:58] And it just does because they want it to I love that you know sometimes too much knowledge gets in your way, you know

[00:13:05] Good that's why I dropped out of grad school hey

[00:13:08] I really like how uh when they turn on the i-patch guy

[00:13:12] He's kind of like katana man if you don't do this then uh

[00:13:15] You're not gonna get your syndicate back and then he turns to nail and is like and you'll never be able to open a business

[00:13:21] My head can't it's a bakery

[00:13:23] Honestly, that's where I went too. I'm really interested in figuring out what business nail wants to open

[00:13:29] Like a hardware store that's too fitting. It's too fitting. You're right

[00:13:33] It's like in service wars where they had the the guy with the bagels with like

[00:13:37] Bro no spoilers. Oh fuck my bad

[00:13:40] You'll have to listen to that episode soon listener

[00:13:44] By the way one last thing is I have to say the artwork was really solid this week

[00:13:47] Like the crosshatching a katana man like there wasn't any panels

[00:13:50] I was like what Fuji mojito just kind of fucked up, you know

[00:13:52] He's been really good recently like these Pat all these chapters have looked great

[00:13:56] Yeah and put they've been coming out weekly

[00:13:58] So I wonder if he got additional assistance for changes workflow because like he's doing

[00:14:02] Four chapters in a row at the very least which I don't think he's done a while

[00:14:05] Do you think that like when he has a week break? He spends that extra week making multiple chapters so we can stay like a little bit ahead

[00:14:13] I'm sure he doesn't sit on his hands. I know I think the dandondonga does that too where he does like the really hard spreads in the extra week

[00:14:20] And Fujimoto did dandondong did the guy did work for Fujimoto, so maybe learn it from him

[00:14:25] I genuinely would wonder if he just hasn't proved his technique or his assistance to be able to better optimize his workflow

[00:14:30] Like for instance the guy who makes what is it eaten zero

[00:14:33] He just has a super optimized process which is why he like he like works only 40 hours a week to make manga. Wow

[00:14:39] That's nothing for manga

[00:14:41] Super quick drawing wow yeah, so like he literally like doesn't work weekends. It's crazy

[00:14:46] That's god

[00:14:47] It's the fact that that is not common is sad

[00:14:51] It is but it shows you that like if you really make it your goal to do it to optimize the artwork

[00:14:56] It is possible it is possible but you can see the art suffers for it

[00:14:59] But hey, let's imagine live a good life. I've never read eaten zero

[00:15:02] I don't know anything about eaten zero

[00:15:04] It's by the guy who made rave master and fairy tale oh

[00:15:07] I see okay, so we've read one of his words. Yeah. Is that anything like re-zero?

[00:15:12] No, they're all unreliable

[00:15:14] And thank you dude rocks his name is hero of mushyma uh mushyma here all mushyma

[00:15:19] I think hero mushyma is the main character from die katana

[00:15:23] No, that's hero me a moto my bad because fucking John remera all right anyway

[00:15:30] All right, Jordan we're gank off topic is everything else you want to toss in um

[00:15:35] To I do like how um nah that's good okay

[00:15:39] Well, Jordan. I want to say thank you so much for all your hard work on the show me a great host

[00:15:43] Do you think they are actually there to fight chain some and did they say that earlier?

[00:15:48] Like I feel like they haven't really talked about their goals here

[00:15:52] I don't know. I mean Yoru definitely actually wants to kill chains on him. Yes, that has been a consistent goal

[00:15:58] But I don't know what ossa's plan is and I think fanny might just be well fanny once

[00:16:03] Chainsaw man to become powerful enough to stop the death devil

[00:16:06] Yeah, I feel like ossa was kind of stretching the truth like she wasn't fully lying

[00:16:12] I mean yeah Yoru wants to fight chainsaw man again

[00:16:15] Although she it has kind of been uh established that the chainsaw man

[00:16:19] She really has beef with his pochita. Yeah, but I'm sure she'd still fight chainsaw man again in the opportunity

[00:16:24] I mean who wouldn't

[00:16:25] All right, but Jordan

[00:16:26] I think that's all we have time for to talk about what chainsaw man because this was a really long one

[00:16:30] This was three chainsaw man minutes three whole minutes of chainsaw

[00:16:36] The triple feature chainsaw man let's race yeah, and Jordan

[00:16:39] I want to say thank you for all of your hard work on the show and being such a great ghost

[00:16:43] Thank you David for all the work that you do on the show and editing and everything else

[00:16:48] Oh no problem you find us on twitter at show and flop cast tumblr show and dash flop our website show and flop dot com

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[00:17:09] And you know I bet you know who else is locked up in this prison

[00:17:11] It's a little bomb lady name reason

[00:17:13] Okay David all right well whatever I'm looking at the clock and it looks like the chainsaw minute is passed oh no

[00:17:21] Bye