I enjoy Asa somehow managing to continue being more of a loser than Denji. Truly impressive.

And a second Kobeni has hit the manga.

Denji grinding, $10 every 20 meters should be a lot

We're in MGS 2 meta territory with Fujimoto deliberately re-doing the Eternity Devil arc from part 1, with the exact same number of characters in pretty similar roles (we got Kobeni 2.0 LMAO, probably her younger brother), right down to the central conflict (are we going to kill Denji?) - with everything possibly being justified within the narrative as someone (Famine?) probably trying to recreate the events of part 1 to their own purpose, just shittier because we have high schoolers instead of Public Safety. Sheeeeeesh I wish I could write this well.

It's nice to get confirmation on Yoshida's status as an official Public Safety Devil Hunter, but that does raise some questions as to Denji's and Kishibe's.

Asa is such a flawed character, but Fujimoto really bends over backwards to make her sympathetic- her lecturing Denji on morality without knowing his circumstances (and like, he just took $10 c'mon) while she's been ostracized because no one knows her own circumstances... damn. Also someone must have told Haruka exactly which buttons to push cos DAMN that was ice cold.

Denji's the one in Aki's position patrolling the halls this time :kitty-cri: , although in typical Dennis fashion I can't tell if he's just hustling or legitimately looking for the devil, but either way I respect it.

This shit is going to be wild when shit hits the fan and I'm just happy to be along for the ride.

still don't know if she hired the eternity devil or is doing this herself. it's different (food and water regenerate) but idk if that's different enough to mean anything
weird how this has so many of the same characters as the first eternity devil arc. kobeni 2.0: this time going boymode, eyepatch. i guess that's it, but still weird
also, nice to (presumably) finally meet the brother kobeni was doing all that for. clearly their parents fucked them both up in the same way, just with different motivations
felt real bad for asa at the end there. fake chainsaw man must die
also i laughed at how obvious it is that yoshida's following denji everywhere. can't wait for him to do some cool shit and everyone else to just be completely shocked when this high schooler starts killing people in cold blood

crazy how much i enjoy the manga compared to the anime just being kind of meh

one theory i saw on a discord server i'm in was that fake chainsaw man had a contract with the chainsaw man devil, so he can recreate denji's adventures, so kobeni 2.0 and eyepatch are either being molded by him/his power into the shapes of kobeni and himeno, or created by him, and he's what's trapping them there

Oh i'm so glad somebody posted this, i had to take my kid to a doctor's appointment.