With the displaying of the season 1 finale, lately marks the overall Chainsaw Man Tuesday of the 12 months. Even though our squad of dirtbag primary characters were via so much throughout the 12 brief episodes of the collection, none of them have suffered up to Kobeni Higashiyama.
Chainsaw Guy is the tale of Denji, a down on his success teenage boy who, up till a couple of weeks in the past, concept he’d die with out ever touching a boob. In the interim, he’s merged with the Chainsaw Satan and has been hired beneath danger of loss of life via the Jap executive to battle different devils. Denji is a first-rate persona, and whilst a large number of horrible issues have already came about to him, there’s no less than the pretense that he’ll be told from it.
Kobeni Higashiyama isn’t a first-rate persona. She’s a fellow satan hunter along Denji, however she doesn’t have his powers of the Chainsaw Satan — no less than, none she will be able to percentage or wield these days. In reality, she doesn’t appear to have any powers in any respect. Kobeni spends maximum of her time screaming and crying when confronted with the ultraviolence Denji turns into conversant in. If Denji’s adventure is of finding what fashionable existence is all about, Kobeni’s existence is a slapstick regimen. She’s already trapped within the rat race. She doesn’t wish to be there, however she doesn’t have a call. Her oldsters instructed her she had to earn money to ship her brother to school, and he or she had a call between being a satan hunter or a intercourse employee.
Even though I believe dangerous for Kobeni and the never-ending circulation of distress she stories, having her round in Chainsaw Guy is like having a personality from a Coen brothers film in my trendy, hyper-violent anime. She’s type of like Brad Pitt’s persona in Burn After Studying, in that she has no concept what’s occurring and is repeatedly in nice risk, or like Barton Fink, in that she most commonly makes the improper alternatives and is repeatedly, inexplicably rainy with sweat, tears, or some mix of each. Not like her fellow satan hunters, she will be able to’t even stay her cool upon seeing the eldritch terrors she’s meant to battle. She reacts like several common schmuck would; screaming, crying, and begging for mercy.
What’s maximum hilarious about Kobeni’s struggling to me is she doesn’t even get to die. As her colleagues drop like flies round her, Kobeni, for no matter reason why, stays alive. By the point this season ends, virtually each one of the vital satan hunters Kobeni is aware of were killed. However now not Kobeni. Despite the fact that she longs for the candy embody of loss of life, she as an alternative has the privilege of waltzing as much as the season’s ultimate disagreement, and will get blood splattered on her face for her hassle. When her fellow satan hunter Aki asks her why she’s nonetheless doing this process, she solutions bonuses are bobbing up quickly.
What Denji learns about all through Chainsaw Guy is the mundanity of the fashionable international. Issues that gave the impression magical, virtually mythological to him earlier than turning into a satan hunter, like touching breasts and putting out with ladies, prove not to be as life-changing as he assumed. However whilst Denji may well be on a adventure of self-actualization, maximum folks looking at are like Kobeni. Not anything particular occurs to us. The universe does now not bend itself towards ushering alongside our non-public construction. All of us simply need to stay going to our shitty jobs till they kill us, or we get our bonuses. Kobeni is also handier with a knife on the finish of the season than the beginning, however no grand future awaits her. Along with her success, she’ll by no means die.
