Chainsaw Man - Episode 12 discussion thread

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This concludes season 1 of Chainsaw Man!

Rate the episode on a scale of 1 to 5

4917 votes, Jan 02 '23

4077 5 - Really Good

582 4 - Good

197 3 - Average

20 2 - Bad

41 1 - Really Bad

[u/Mark_XII]

Holy crap that fight scene. With the epic CGI!

The music gave me goose bumps! See look at them

The requiem for Himeno was done to perfection

And I can't be the only one who freaks out everytime I see those stairs Reze walks on. The fist time and last time she was shone. Idk why im so in love with these stairs but im glad the anime did them justice.

I can't be the only one who likes the stairs right??

[u/[deleted] → u/Mark_XII]

That epic 30 second fight scene? When the first lasted at-least half the episode?

Honestly to me this seemed lazier than any episode they've made yet, and that's what they call finale caliber? When season 2 is yet to receive the go-ahead? Yikes. I just hope they don't fuck this up, because I love the show

Edit: half* not have. Spelling failure

[u/CubingGiraffe → u/[deleted]]

Since you're commenting every where figured I'd try to give you an actual reason the pacing feels off here for an anime only lol.

Chainsawman is fast.

Denji is significantly stronger/smarter than he was in those arcs. The first encounter with Katana/Sawatari takes forever and several people die because they weren't prepared. His whole plan fighting Katana is to kill him in one definitive strike by catching him off guard. With Bat he just recently got the Chainsaw body and had very little fighting experience. At this point he's been trained by the best Devil hunter in Japan.

Also saying the "fights" for Bat/Eternity last longer is dishonest at best. Eternity fight is, really, a minute or two at the start of an episode where Denji eventually wears it down. Bat, while a longer fight for see above, is still over quick because a decent portion of the bat runtime is also devoted to Leech. Almost all "fights" in Chainsawman happen quick because they aren't isolated events with evenly matched combatants most of the time.

We're told at the beginning of the story that the Gun Devil kills millions of people, worldwide, in five minutes. Aki kills Leech with one move. Makima kills several of the Yakuza guys in seconds. Even when Katana/Sawatari arrive, they put Denji and Aki out of commission in less than a minute each, Sawatari literally disappears Ghost.

There will be longer lasting arcs, and even the next fight should be decently longer, but I'd be surprised if it lasts more than an entire episode just for the "fight" portion (still think it will be 2-3 after the fight starts). Just like in Jujutsu Kaisen, especially during/after Shibuya, fights can be over in a few seconds because some devils/devil hunters are just that strong. And even matches often come down to tricks, luck, or a combination.