Nope! Keeping this one secret. Here's a hint though: "Red Chainsaw Man and Black Chainsaw Man aren't the same person" remember those words, they'll be important later.

An hour later he was violating someone else's autonomy and rationalizing it as a good thing if it was pleasurable. The cycle of abuse keeps on turning on and on and on and on into eternity.

Right before this happened Denji was sexually assaulted and the experience was clearly traumatizing for him, but he had an orgasm so he was able to rationalize his autonomy being violated as a good thing.

Remember that time Denji ate a person who'd been turned into a tree and the person was screaming in pain and clearly didn't want to be eaten and when Denji was told "STOP! THAT'S A PERSON!" he casually responded "Nah, it makes me happy so it probably makes them happy too"? That was also a red flag.

Asa being objectified into a trophy that becomes property of the victor. I'm not sure if that's what Fujimoto is going for or not, but it does fit into Chainsaw Man's running theme of people dehumanizing others in their pursuits of personal pleasure.

It's less about feeling sympathy for Yoru and more about feeling uncomfortable with Denji gleefully inflicting his trauma on someone else. The only lesson he's learned from his experiences is how to better hurt others. That does not bode well for the future.

Denji has learned how to weaponize his empathy to hurt others.

You should let yourself hope for something else. I'm not trying to be mean when I say this, I just genuinely don't think Fujimoto has thought of this even though I wish he had a d would explore it properly.

I think I've figured out what this is building up to, but I don't want to jinx it by saying it out loud.

Remember that time Denji's home got set on fire and all of his pets died and Denji had a mental breakdown and transformed into Chainsaw Man while laughing manically and a lot of people were like "Denji is all better now!"? A lot of readers do not get that guy.

Denji: Hell yeah! I've learned how to weaponize my own pain to hurt others!! This is a good and healthy path I'm on!!!

ahhhh this bit is so cute

I am utterly amazed it lasted as long as it did. Someone really needs to do a deep dive retrospect on this thing because it's an absolute trainwreck, but by God is it a fascinating trainwreck.

Beautiful men fill Denji with a lot of complicated feelings that he doesn't know what to do with.

Glinda and Elphiba have the kind of gay tension that's destined to influence a whole new generation of story tellers, the impact of their onscreen love that wasn't allowed to be will be felt for decades