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INTEREST: Chainsaw Man's Power Gets Figure With That Pose

Soooooo, canonically, the toilet she's sitting on is currently clogged with her poop. Just saying.

I know there's a lot of jokes and memes going around at the moment about the CSM fanbase failing to grasp the ridiculously unsubtle themes of the manga, but wow, what better way to tell people you completely misunderstood the point of that scene than with a horny figurine.

I guess we should expect the 'bath' version in a few months' time

Guile wrote:

fathomlessblue wrote: I know there's a lot of jokes and memes going around at the moment about the CSM fanbase failing to grasp the ridiculously unsubtle themes of the manga, but wow, what better way to tell people you completely misunderstood the point of that scene than with a horny figurine. And what exactly was the 'point' of that scene?

spoiler[That attempting to sexualize someone you have no rooted connection to based on purely on physical wants rather than genuine attraction or understanding is ultimately a hollow experience that leave you feeling empty and unfulfilled. I mean a character in the following chapter basically spells that out for Denji (again, CSM isn’t big on subtlety).

Something I genuinely appreciate is that CSM used that scene to subvert audience expectations, only to slowly establish Denji & Power as one of the few truly great platonic m/f friendships to come out of a shounen title, to the extent that when a similarly intimate scene between the two occurs later on, it’s almost absurd to Denji that he would consider her in such a light. It makes a deliberate contrast between the two scenes to show how far Denji has come. I love Fujimoto for doing that.

I mean ultimately a lot of people really like Power, so buy what you like I guess. It’s just morbidly funny & more than a little tone-deaf to me that people would take a scene that was meant to gently admonish Denji for relying on primal urges over establishing genuine intimate connections, and come away with “Hell yeah! Power’s grabbing her tits like a boss!” Never underestimate the power of memetics I guess.

Then again, I am a huge Eva fan, & given how End Of had Asuka screaming about the otaku audience (framed through Shinji) for simultaneously objectifying the women of the cast while also trying to use them as an emotional crutch - only for that franchise to sell more merch than even God could keep up with, I don’t know why I’m surprised at anything anymore. Author intent holds little sway in the face of business.]

Guile wrote:

fathomlessblue wrote: I know there's a lot of jokes and memes going around at the moment about the CSM fanbase failing to grasp the ridiculously unsubtle themes of the manga, but wow, what better way to tell people you completely misunderstood the point of that scene than with a horny figurine. And what exactly was the 'point' of that scene?

spoiler[That attempting to sexualize someone you have no rooted connection to based on purely on physical wants rather than genuine attraction or understanding is ultimately a hollow experience that leave you feeling empty and unfulfilled. I mean a character in the following chapter basically spells that out for Denji (again, CSM isn’t big on subtlety).

Something I genuinely appreciate is that CSM used that scene to subvert audience expectations, only to slowly establish Denji & Power as one of the few truly great platonic m/f friendships to come out of a shounen title, to the extent that when a similarly intimate scene between the two occurs later on, it’s almost absurd to Denji that he would consider her in such a light. It makes a deliberate contrast between the two scenes to show how far Denji has come. I love Fujimoto for doing that.

I mean ultimately a lot of people really like Power, so buy what you like I guess. It’s just morbidly funny & more than a little tone-deaf to me that people would take a scene that was meant to gently admonish Denji for relying on primal urges over establishing genuine intimate connections, and come away with “Hell yeah! Power’s grabbing her tits like a boss!” Never underestimate the power of memetics I guess.

Then again, I am a huge Eva fan, & given how End Of had Asuka screaming about the otaku audience (framed through Shinji) for simultaneously objectifying the women of the cast while also trying to use them as an emotional crutch - only for that franchise to sell more merch than even God could keep up with, I don’t know why I’m surprised at anything anymore. Author intent holds little sway in the face of business.]

fathomlessblue wrote:

Thank goodness Fujimoto wasn't trying say anything with this story.

Actually, the message of CSM is so simple it's almost funny.

Guile wrote:

fathomlessblue wrote: I know there's a lot of jokes and memes going around at the moment about the CSM fanbase failing to grasp the ridiculously unsubtle themes of the manga, but wow, what better way to tell people you completely misunderstood the point of that scene than with a horny figurine. And what exactly was the 'point' of that scene?

spoiler[That attempting to sexualize someone you have no rooted connection to based on purely on physical wants rather than genuine attraction or understanding is ultimately a hollow experience that leave you feeling empty and unfulfilled. I mean a character in the following chapter basically spells that out for Denji (again, CSM isn’t big on subtlety).

Something I genuinely appreciate is that CSM used that scene to subvert audience expectations, only to slowly establish Denji & Power as one of the few truly great platonic m/f friendships to come out of a shounen title, to the extent that when a similarly intimate scene between the two occurs later on, it’s almost absurd to Denji that he would consider her in such a light. It makes a deliberate contrast between the two scenes to show how far Denji has come. I love Fujimoto for doing that.

I mean ultimately a lot of people really like Power, so buy what you like I guess. It’s just morbidly funny & more than a little tone-deaf to me that people would take a scene that was meant to gently admonish Denji for relying on primal urges over establishing genuine intimate connections, and come away with “Hell yeah! Power’s grabbing her tits like a boss!” Never underestimate the power of memetics I guess.

Then again, I am a huge Eva fan, & given how End Of had Asuka screaming about the otaku audience (framed through Shinji) for simultaneously objectifying the women of the cast while also trying to use them as an emotional crutch - only for that franchise to sell more merch than even God could keep up with, I don’t know why I’m surprised at anything anymore. Author intent holds little sway in the face of business.]

I mean ultimately a lot of people really like Power, so buy what you like I guess. It’s just morbidly funny & more than a little tone-deaf to me that people would take a scene that was meant to gently admonish Denji for relying on primal urges over establishing genuine intimate connections, and come away with “Hell yeah! Power’s grabbing her tits like a boss!” Never underestimate the power of memetics I guess.

Then again, I am a huge Eva fan, & given how End Of had Asuka screaming about the otaku audience (framed through Shinji) for simultaneously objectifying the women of the cast while also trying to use them as an emotional crutch - only for that franchise to sell more merch than even God could keep up with, I don’t know why I’m surprised at anything anymore. Author intent holds little sway in the face of business.[/spoiler]

I know there's a lot of jokes and memes going around at the moment about the CSM fanbase failing to grasp the ridiculously unsubtle themes of the manga, but wow, what better way to tell people you completely misunderstood the point of that scene than with a horny figurine....

I've read the manga, understood and love its multi-layered story, and yet I see no problem with this figure. It's all in good fun, and it most definitely illustrates Power's quirky personality in statue form based on, in a lot of ways, a very pivotal scene in the early chapters of the series.

What was so deep about the toilet scene lol?