Omg They’re Dancing. (Unedited On The Right)

Winter Capes

A comic? Featuring the Triple Cone Cup Champions? Impossible.

Winter has arrived in the Kingdom, and Kouign-Amann doesn't have anything warm to wear. Luckily Prune Juice was nearby to help out.

Only for him to not have anything warm to wear, but Capsaicin came to the rescue!

I wish they interacted in DR:S 😭

I'm like super normal and not unhinged in the slightest (I spent 3 days formatting, printing, and binding a niche internet story about sci fi football into a 280 page physical book)

me and whooo<33

🐶🏃‍♂️💨💨💨

Ok I have to talk about the translation here.

In JP, Yoru says 私とやりたいのか？(watashi to yaritai no ka?) "You wanna do it with me?" which ofc, has common usage in referring to participation in sex with someone.

The availability of that implication is interesting here following my recent thread about Yoru and Denji's relationship.

In that it sounds like Yoru's reminder to Denji about what their relationship is based around and who holds the leash because of it. An owner reminding her growling dog of the promised treat if he behaves.

It's a romance that operates on a level of superficiality that's thinner than every woman Denji has had that run in with so far at least with its current presentation, that it feels like Denji being thrown a bone that's well bare-bones. Esp with the appearance of Chimerasaw Man here. Like ok the hero kinda gets what he's always wanted but is this realllyy what he wants? If he just wants to get it on with Yoru why get mad that she's devilishly cruel? She's after all, his "only woman". Yoru nipping his alternative convictions to keep him obedient.

But the double entendre of the phrasing works for misdirection too!

Especially so when it's the virtuous, just replica of Chainsaw Man that Yoru takes aim at!! That it's this voice of justice that inquires Denji if his conflict with Yoru is a falsehood and Denji's like NOPE she's just that bad!!

And Yoru responds by saying it's cold, that she's going home! The coldness befalling them in Denji's awareness, his distancing from apathy, ignorance because of Yoru's actions.

The heat Yoru represents for Denji thus far in the place of his family, so he doesn't have to face the cold.

But knowing now that Famine was in fact Death kinda further solidifies my thoughts on Denji's continued distancing of what death carries for him. Death as the bogeyman essentially. Denji inching closer towards fire/sex for warmth so he's further from the cold (the snow). The poignancy of his house w Nayuta and the pets going up in flames as he leans into being the CSM bc the heat from the fire that destroyed his normal beckons to him in the wake of his loss, him telling Pochita his next dream is "I want to be Chainsaw Man". Denji reminiscing Power and Control in what is already lost as Yoru makes him hers. His family the frozen potstickers that Yoru cooks with the heat she provides through sex and romance in making him her family as the potstickers take a messy form through her cooking and love. But then Denji cooks the potstickers himself to revive that normal in some fashion against the backdrop of death with him and AsaYoru at the center strung by their family.

Just as the heat of Makima's tea warmed up his cold hands at her house in his grief over Aki as her dog, the comfort of not having to think.

AND THEN THIS????

The heroic Chainsaw Man defended, saved by the cluster of his fandom just as much as they've become his collateral.

That these civillians are made inextricable from this embodiment of Chainsaw Man as justice as what should be Denji's justice as a hero. The heart that made him a saviour to the people in the first place.

I see what is represented here to be a case of Denji's heroism being presented to us via Chimerasaw Man in Denji's actions and his heart vs Yoru in Denji's desire and material goal. The way Denji's hero's journey is officiated through Makima's promise, teaching of sex by defeating Gun.

And we see it again in Yoru's promise of sex, love by defeating Death. The notion that Denji's heroism is marked by achievement reached by being unthinking, unfeeling. Motivation pushed by plot over character nuance.

If Denji has Yoru, he doesn't have to worry about saving lives, only killing Death matters, only having sex matters.

But there's more than what meets the eye, just as fondling Power's boobs wasn't the only reason Denji cared enough to save Power, but because he empathised with her feelings for Meowy.

Chimerasaw Man using the coldness of the snow in Denji's hands and the height which his heart and body falls in his remembrance of it against him as a mirror of justice.

Him saving Asa from falling in this shared cycle of pain and grief in his inheritance of Aki's that led Aki to saving Angel.

The way we're presented w this just 2 chapters after ch.200 as its counterpoint.

What does being Chainsaw Man mean for Denji? Is Chainsaw Man all sex and violence or is there still heart behind his story despite it all, with a life like his in a world like csm.

What makes The Chainsaw Man Denji and vice versa.

whatever *tezuka-styles your deltarune cast*

Yes, I am a straight man. Yes, getting the shit beat out of me in an all-male mosh pit is an erotic experience for me. We exist

i like working at plant store. sometimes you ring up someone and there's a slug on their plant and so you're like "Oh haha you've got a friend there let me get that for you" and you put the slug on your hand for safekeeping but then its really busy and you dont have time to take the slug outside before the next customer in line so you just have a slug chilling on your hand for 15 minutes. really makes you feel at peace with nature. also it means sometimes i get to say my favorite line which is "would you like this free slug with your purchase"

so fucking cool

New costume drop. I call it Arcus Canvas

For those of you who weren't around in the early days of the anime boom, you may not know that OnK briefly collabed with Panasonic to have Ai star in a handful of commercials advertising their SOLOTA countertop dishwashing machine. It seems like the official uploads of these ads have been taken down for some reason which meant a particular vid went missing - a cute, two hour lo-fi of Ai relaxing as her SOLOTA unit does her dishes. There's a few really cute snippets of character animation and Aqua and Ruby show up once or twice, so it was a shame for it to go missing!

@oshinohoshi reminded me that I'd managed to archive it before the official upload went down and just forgot to post it on tumblr, so here it is!