r/okbuddyfumiko

Credit goes to https://x.com/khyleri/status/2045545534921056660?s=46

Link to the post: https://x.com/Lumtari/status/2053957643408978234?s=20

Sources: https://x.com/gato\_gratam/status/2007230739239338009

https://x.com/gato\_gratam/status/2007898479579000969

https://x.com/gato\_gratam/status/2008324918992134351

https://x.com/gato\_gratam/status/2011224222715236646

https://x.com/gato\_gratam/status/2014791782379254051

https://x.com/gato\_gratam/status/2049936081525563457

I want her to ruin my life. I want it to be so traumatic that I traumatize my therapist. And I want it to be unsanitary too, I'm talking about all sorts of bodily fluids. Piss, cum, saliva, liver enzymes, all of them. I want her to circumcise me with her stomach acid, dissolve my entire dick even. I want her to beat the crap out of me while I'm drunk, break every bone in my body. I want her to suffocate me to death on her G-cups, get resuscitated, and suffocate to death once again after she sits on my face and farts down my fucking throat.

The Denji from the new timeline grew up without a mother and with a drunk, abusive, and violent father whom he had to kill in self-defense. After that, he spent most of his childhood and teenage years completely alone, just surviving and working for the Yakuza to pay off the debt his late father left behind, with no one by his side.

He didn’t have a pet or a friend like Pochita, since he never met him, and he basically grew up and survived on his own (don’t ask me how).

He didn’t have a friend or an older-brother figure like Aki, since he never met him either.

He didn’t have any romantic experiences, since he never met Reze, and Asa is just a strange girl he saved.

He didn’t have a younger sister like Nayuta, since he didn’t raise her in the new timeline, and she doesn’t show any of the closeness or affection she had for him in the previous timeline.

The person (or rather, devil) closest to Denji now is Power, who treats him like a pet (she literally calls him that and even made a contract for him to belong to her). She doesn’t seem to be as close to him as she was in the previous timeline. Denji doesn’t seem to laugh or have fun with her like he used to. On top of that, it’s too complex for her to understand feelings like loneliness or even depression, since she’s immature and, at the end of the day, a devil. She literally had to die in the previous timeline to comfort Denji and realize how much he cared about her.
But hey, he’s not completely alone, so that’s something…
(And no, this isn’t slander against Power, since that’s just how her personality is. Despite everything, she really cared about Denji, I just can’t say she cares about him nearly as much in the new timeline.)

In short: Denji is probably much more starved for affection than he was in the previous timeline, since in this one he’s barely received any at all. It’s even visible in how depressed he looks in the final chapter, he doesn’t show a single genuine smile or any sign that he’s truly happy. I honestly don’t know how anyone can really think Denji, or Chainsaw Man in general, had a happy ending when it gets more depressing the more you think about it.

The last time we saw Reze (at least not brainwashed) was when she gave up on boarding the train to escape just to meet Denji at the café, even knowing the danger that would put her life in, since Makima—one of the most feared devils in the world—had Denji under her control. Reze’s “last” sight before “dying” was Denji waiting for her at the café with a bouquet of flowers in his hand, and even her final thoughts before “leaving” were about him. After that, she was revived and controlled by Makima, only to “die” again (twice) at Pochita’s hands. In Part 2, we learn that with Makima’s death, the hybrids she controlled regained their memories and original personalities and went back to being active, whether working for Public Safety or joining the Chainsaw Man Church.

So the question is: where was Reze?

Sure, there’s the possibility that she didn’t want to get involved in any conflict and simply went off to live the “country mouse” life she wanted. But at the same time, that kind of validates what Denji thought: that Reze never loved him, ran away on her own, and abandoned him. The tragedy of her not making it to the café to see him loses all its weight if Reze, by her own free will, chose to stay away from Denji even knowing he waited for her, willing to give up the life he liked just to run away with her and become her accomplice. The situation gets worse when you remember that Reze probably knows Denji killed Makima and freed her from her control. I mean, even Miri knows this since he was also saved by Denji and feels grateful for it, but apparently Reze doesn’t care that much. It’s also worth noting that unless Reze was living somewhere completely cut off from information or news, it would be impossible for her to know nothing about Denji, since he was one of the biggest celebrities in the world. She should have known about the protests against him, the Chainsaw Man Church, the Chainsaw zombies, etc. Denji was going through a lot, but apparently Reze didn’t care much about that.

Honestly, this even comes off as stupid. If Reze never wanted to be involved with Denji because it went against her “country mouse” lifestyle, then why did she go back to that café to see him even knowing the danger Makima posed, when she could have just boarded the train and escaped alone? And if she loved Denji enough to risk her life just to meet him at the café, then why didn’t she return to him after Makima died, even knowing he had waited for her?

But hey, maybe during that time Reze couldn’t see Denji because Public Safety kept her imprisoned (even while letting people like Barem and Katana Man roam free), or who knows, maybe she was doing something VERY important that kept her from worrying about him. The problem is, all of that is just theories and headcanons, since Fujimoto didn’t bother to give even a single hint about what happened to Reze after the Control Arc.

Kishibe’s case is even worse. The last time we saw him was when he left Nayuta for Denji to take care of and said he would be “busy.” We know almost nothing about him after that. Let me emphasize how serious this is: Kishibe left a child in the care of a freshly turned 17-year-old teenager and didn’t even bother to check on them, even with Public Safety, the Chainsaw Man Church, the Chainsaw zombies, and the Nostradamus prophecy threatening their lives. Like, did Kishibe really not care about Denji and Nayuta at all to the point of not even doing something so that at LEAST Public Safety—you know, the organization he worked for—wouldn’t threaten the life of his former student and the child under his care however they pleased? But hey, at least everything turned out fine, right? It’s not like Nayuta died or anything… right?

And putting Denji and Nayuta aside, why didn’t Kishibe show up when everything was in chaos? Chainsaw Church, Chainsaw zombies, the Nostradamus prophecy, the world literally falling apart—and the “strongest devil hunter” couldn’t even be bothered to show up and do something? Seriously? What’s the excuse for him not appearing?

I’m not gonna lie, this makes him look like a fraud and an irresponsible person who doesn’t care about his former student, the child he left in his care, or even the entire world.

But hey, maybe Kishibe really was busy with something that was apparently more important than the END OF THE WORLD and his former student, or maybe he died off-screen or something. But again, that’s all just theories and headcanons, since Fujimoto didn’t bother to give even a single hint about Kishibe’s absence after the Control Arc.

https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/10207682?q=himeno\_%28chainsaw\_man%29

I just like headcannoning AU’s where my boy is not in mongolian sewer pipe indentured slave living conditions. Just give him family and love on god.

Only Fujimoto deserves sewer pipe reality, itll give him perspective and make him happy.

Apologies to lack of links to org artists, these are just from screenshots I took awhile ago from Danbooru.