hear me out. i know i'm gonna get downvoted to hell for this, but hear me the fuck out. i unironically love the part 2 ending, and i don't care who knows it.

but think about it. TF (you know this absolute gremlin consumes media 24/7) knows that all the GOATed stories come in trilogies. to cement csm up there with star wars for all eternity, he has to drop a part 3. it’s law.

and look, there's literally rumors that the exact ending to part 2 was leaked/discussed by some random anon on this very subreddit years ago. which means? 'he is watching'. he is actively prowling r/chainsawman right now. either stealing our brainrot theories or straightup posting his own unhinged ideas disguised as a shitpost to test the waters. i mean, this is the exact same guy who faked being his own little sister on twitter for months. the man has loose screws. it is 100% in character.

anyway, that brings me to my crackpot theory for how part 3 starts. put the fries in the bag and listen:

remember how anticlimactic Makima dying felt at the end of part 1? like yeah, power's blood blah blah, but it always felt a bit too easy, right?

what if... she didn't actually die?

what if, right before she went down, she slipped a chain or a psychic tentacle straight into denji's brain? meaning the entirety of part 2, every single panel, has just been a massive, hyper detailed mind fuck simulation inside denji's head.

why? because makima realized manipulating normal relationships and killing people off one by one wasn't enough to break him. denji's willpower is too damn stubborn. she needed to target the core: she needed to get pochita to voluntarily give up on denji and leave him for good.

so she locks his physical body away and throws him into this custom, gaslighting matrix simulation where she can bend reality even harder. she runs him through the absolute ringer, situationships, found family trauma, getting dismembered, public humiliation, all of it just to break his spirit so completely that pochita gets disgusted or hopeless enough to sever the contract.

and the grand finale of the simulation? pochita finally gives up, eats himself inside the dream to escape, making him vulnerable for one second so real world makima can finally take total control of the chainsaw devil.

once she dominates pochita, she uses his bullshit reality cutting powers to rip the barrier between earth and hell wide open. earth becomes hell. and then the actual horsemen death, famine, war in their terrifying, primordial, nonhuman eldritch forms step out and bow down to human form makima.

and then? denji finally wakes up.

he snaps out of the simulation just in time to see this absolute apocalyptic hellscape, completely hooked up to a matrix style umbilical cord chaining him to makima's throne.

anyway, thoughts? or do i just have afew screws loose like TF?

So I was trying to find a theory on what that crescent shaped devil was. Knowing fujimoto loves TV shows/movies I started to look up bad guys and noticed this crescent moon shaped guy. Then I realized the show was called "Denshi Sentai Denjiman"

Then I realized maybe there might be a connection there and since Denshi is a popular show in the 1980s.

So I started to dig for information and found similarities between both chainsaw man and Denshi sentai denjiman.

Slide 1 - the 3 main villains of Vader clan looked a lot like the 3 devils in chainsaw man ch 230. Left has a crescent head, middle has a whole in head, and right has horns.

Slide 2 - I was reading into the denzimans and realized there were similarities of one the green Denzi with denji. Losing his father's and being sent back in time as well as working with a powerful dog.

Slide 3 - the main villain in vader clan had similarities to the control devil. Especially the part where she was defeated but then part 2 has her return.

Also worth noting the sequel to Denshi sentai denji, Sun Vulcan, has a villain named Führer Hell Saturn. He was inspiration from the movies Star Wars, Darth Vader, which fujimoto loves star wars.

Source: https://x.com/LiuDibuja/status/2073150199602524579

Makima saying how she want to use the black chainsaw man(pochita) to end famine death war is somewhat a lie or atleast a excuse for her deeds as the story slowly progresses you can see her idea of her being a necessary evil become more of a obsessed fan i feel like because makima see herself as a necessary evil(2x) she use one of humanity greatest fears to aside her actions against humanity and denji and her own foundation of people and if she truly want to make humanity happier she would aslo allow herself to be eaten by black chainsaw man(pochita) which would take slavery out

The fact that pochita beaten ww2 devil nazi devil and many other devils that should be physically impossible to even hurt at best and not to mention how all the horseman specify want him out of every powerful devil in the system

Probably the best way to understand the ending, just saying:

In The Alters, you play as Jan, a space worker stranded on a hostile planet. To survive and escape, Jan uses a mysterious technology to create alternate versions of himself called "Alters".

Each Alter represents a different life path Jan could have taken... For example, Jan might create an Alter who:

- Became a scientist instead of a worker

- Chose a different career

- Made different personal decisions

- Has completely different skills and personality traits

They're essentially alternate versions of the same person, (shaped by different choices in Jan's life.)

The interesting part

The Alters aren't just disposable clones. They have their own personalities, memories, emotions, and opinions.

So the game asks questions like:

(Again: If another version of you had made different choices and maybe a different "life", would they still be "you"?)

How this fits in Chainsaw-man?

In the Chainsaw Man ending, we see a new Denji who never met Pochita and whose life was essentially that of a slave, without even a pet like Pochita to give him comfort. He never expected others to give him anything in return, even when he did them a favor, like "holding Asa when she was falling"

The old Denji taught Pochita to appreciate his dreams, gave him food and shelter, and in return, Pochita lent him his power to hunt devils for money, offering companionship and love. Later, Pochita gave him superpowers, allowing Denji to change his life and chase the dreams he had shared so often.

This made Denji expect the same from other people, not realizing they had their own dreams and agendas, and that the world didn’t revolve around him. His innocence made him easy to manipulate.

The new Denji understands his place and no longer feels the need to chase his dreams, expecting nothing from the world. He lives a sort of “ignorant bliss” like Quanxi, with both only interested in attractive women and violence, These are the things that the new and old Denji share deep in their souls also...

Power is the same liar, lazy, and blood-sucking devil she was before she considered Denji and Aki her brothers, because in this time-line struggling with PTSD from the Darkness Devil and feeling vulnerable, Never happened with Power!

Asa, who had been a selfish, privileged girl, judged Denji for how he looked and smelled, refusing to even talk to him after he saved her from "falling" in Bucky (Man, Sometimes it seems like she might even fall on purpose to play the victim, just like Yoru suggested, right?) This is also a defense mechanism for Asa, so respect it. She is kind but very scared of people because of how she grew up, okay?

When Denji was about to speak, she quickly assessed his social status as lower than hers, much like when she called him "almost a criminal” to Yoru, Remember? and go after high-status, popular guys, probably the blonde ones...

A lot of people don’t really understand Asa Mitaka damn...

Dude this ending is so bad but at least is very realist, right?

Anyway, I could go even further than that, but let’s stop here since you guys dont like to read this texts. if I made the cool edited cards with cool images and Italian brainrots like Tung tung surrur you would love it!

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