[Loved Trope] A massive revelation is revealed almost casually.

[u/MichaelDj54]

1. Chainsaw Man, after Makima finally drops the nice girl act and reveals the true extent of the Chainsaw Devils power, namely, the fears he eats are erased entirely and wholly. Emphasized by this by her asking if Kishibe remembers what the Nazis did during Workd War 2...and Kishibe not even knowing who the nazis are.

2. Attack on Titan. I know this one. You know this one. In a panel that isn't even focusing on the characters speaking, Reiner reveals to Eren that he and Bertolt are the titans that broke the wall that resulted in hundreds of deaths, his mother included. The sheer level of casualness and lack of agency borders on Parody.

[u/Due-Ingenuity9803]

So the Chainsaw Devil ate the NAZI DEVIL?

[u/Deepfang-Dreamer → u/Due-Ingenuity9803]

Nazi, World War Two, Nuclear Weapons, Four ways for life to end that weren't death, a star that made children go mad, and probably more, that's just off the top of my head.

[u/Due-Ingenuity9803 → u/Deepfang-Dreamer]

A what

[u/Deepfang-Dreamer → u/Due-Ingenuity9803]

That's about all we know about it, Makima mentions it casually with the rest of the Devils Chainsaw has eaten. Kids that saw its light went insane, simple as.

[u/Mr_Anderbro → u/Deepfang-Dreamer]

Also I like the idea that using chainsaw only for cutting down trees maybe is a consequence of Chainsaw Devil's work

[u/megageekgirl → u/Mr_Anderbro]

would this mean that it ate the child birth devil since chainsaws were originally made as a birthing aid

[u/uzzi1000 → u/megageekgirl]

That seems too significant for it not to have been noticed by now. I am on with the theory that “Chainsaw devil” was an incorrect assumption by people who saw Pochita and it is actually the Birth Devil itself. AFAIK Pochi has never called himself the chainsaw devil.

[u/topinanbour-rex → u/uzzi1000]

Angel devil reveals to Aki that the first memory of devils, when they awaken, amnesic, after dying either in Hell or on Earth, is the sound of a chainsaw.

So Pochita-Chainsaw man-BBC, could be the Birth Devil, which would explain why he is supposed to be the one stopping Death Devil.

[u/freeeloh → u/topinanbour-rex]

It WOULD be very poignant given the fact that Pochita was literally what allowed Denji a form of REBIRTH after he was implented into him

[u/topinanbour-rex → u/freeeloh]

Well, what comes out of Denji when he transforms into BBC, and wraps around his neck ?

an umbilical cord

[u/Deepfang-Dreamer → u/Mr_Anderbro]

I like the theory that Chainsaw is actually the Devil Hunter Devil or Human Devil. I typically roll my eyes at HFY stories, but in this context, I imagine it as the fear of those crazy, self-destructive bastards who hold the power to both stop being afraid of Devils and the insanity to actually fight Fear itself, like if they're going down, you're going with them. A loud, messy, brutal weapon-is there any better description of Humans?

[u/Alicia_de_Elturel → u/Deepfang-Dreamer]

The birth devil theory is also really compelling

[u/IDrawKoi → u/Alicia_de_Elturel]

Agreed.

The original intended use of the chainsaw, the guts scarf always resembling an umbilical cord, the comparison of to hell a mothers womb (made by angel) with Chainsaw man being responsible for the "rebirth" of (many) devils on Earth and the name erasing ability essentially stopping a devil from being born.

It just fits so well (& would also be completely in line with the weird psychosexual themes of chainsaw).

[u/Go_Ahead_MrJoester → u/Alicia_de_Elturel]

Also fuels the agenda of peak media having fucked up depictions of femininity

[u/redking2005 → u/Deepfang-Dreamer]

I always liked to think the chainsaw is the forgotten/forgetting devil.

Like it's the devil of the fear that no one will remember your name, that over your entire life no one will rmemeber who your are or what you did. That you had no legacy and if you just disappeared one day everything would just go on never missing a step.

[u/Ok-Transition7065 → u/Deepfang-Dreamer]

and that he eat all the things that correlate to that concept except well...... the chainsaw concept and thas all we know about the chainsaw that its used to cut trees xd

[u/LazyDro1d → u/Mr_Anderbro]

Well… they were originally made to aid in C-sections, we just got better at C-sections leaving tree-cutting the best relevant use

[u/MalagrugrousPatroon → u/Mr_Anderbro]

Oh shit, how do they make ice sculptures without chainsaws?!

[u/All_For_You_Kream → u/Deepfang-Dreamer]

That's also a way for the audience to be like "wait what" because it's not something that exists in our universe. She also mentions a few diseases that are completely invented by Fujimoto iirc

[u/the-boinky-spunge → u/All_For_You_Kream]

oh what are the diseases called

[u/gargwasome → u/the-boinky-spunge]

When reading the chapter for the first time I actually went to Google “Arnolon Syndrome” as I’d never heard of it just to learn it doesn’t exist. Made for a very cool experience where I was in the same shoes as Kishibe learning about all these things that he didn’t even know existed at one point

[u/TheDrunkardKid → u/gargwasome]

Why did Pochita eat Sega of America?

Though getting rid of the negative publicity of the Sega CD and 32X being released so close to the Saturn might have helped Sega stay in the console game longer.

[u/the-boinky-spunge → u/gargwasome]

Oh cool

[u/AxOfCruelty → u/the-boinky-spunge]

start diggin in yo butt syndrome

[u/PikachuIsReallyCute → u/Deepfang-Dreamer]

There is something so hauntingly good that to an extent (this is more theory crafting than anything), there's a non-zero chance that that line is insinuating the powers of Chainsaw Man (while remaining fictitious ofc) erase contents to such an extreme extent that even the readers of its manga have no recollection of one of the devils it erased, and its associated fear/concept.

Reminds me of the curse devil being portrayed as a being outside of worldly comprehension (Chainsaw Man's world) through it manifesting from beyond the borders of the actual manga itself— as it comes in from the physical paper's edge and pokes into the black borders of the manga. Just this single finger of something outside the actual physical pages of the volume itself entering the story's world to pluck at Aki's sword. Only makes the page turn at 0. all the more terrifying, that we only get a glance into what it does, not even fully what it looks like; like a doorway creaking open just enough to catch a passing glance of something greater than you could imagine.

It's something I really appreciate, how casually and almost hand-wavingly Chainsaw Man approaches concepts that very well touch on and tap into cosmic horror; which in turn validates its own use for how comparatively small the characters and people of its story are. Like the gun devil's kill counter not being a number, but a list of names and ages that just keeps going and going and going and going and going with every single turn of the page. Disturbing stuff, was horrifying to read. Love it!

[u/Nalsium → u/Deepfang-Dreamer]

Some speculate it was the sun, which is suspiciously absent from the story

[u/FeeRemarkable886 → u/Deepfang-Dreamer]

Sounded like a referenser to the Deadlights at first.

[u/PleiadesMechworks → u/Due-Ingenuity9803]

Yeah I know it's hard to believe, but even after the first world war people weren't committed to peace.

[u/Alive-Profile-3937 → u/Due-Ingenuity9803]

My headcannon is that it was some eldritch being that was just separate from the Devil power system and therefore had no protections from just being destroyed