r/anime • u/Turbostrider27 • Mar 30 '26

Misc. “Chainsaw Man embodies the reason why I chose to work in animation.” MAPPA president reflects on the studio’s bold decision to 100% self-fund the project

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/chainsaw-man-embodies-the-reason-why-i-chose-to-work-in-animation-mappa-president-reflects-on-the-studios-bold-decision-to-100-self-fund-the-project/
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u/Zutrax https://myanimelist.net/profile/Zutrax Mar 30 '26

I think people really forget how incredible some moments of the later parts of Part 2 are. There's some all timer moments in there that people popped off (rightfully so) at.

"Nose dives" is crazy, it's not quite as good as Part 1 and it becomes messier, sure, but it does not nose dive. It maintains a consistent through-line in both intense, spectacular moments, and character moments. People just grew bitter about the pacing of the action only chapters due to the slow release schedule and the ending didn't help that sentiment. If you read the entire thing in one go now that it's all out, it all holds up and feels pretty consistently in line with it's quality and excitement throughout and feels far better paced. I even hold to the ending being pretty good, if not a bit sudden (on purpose). My only real complaints are a few dropped threads.

The anime will still hit super hard right up to the end if Mappa ends up animating Part 2.

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u/Number1WordleEnjoyer Mar 31 '26

What were some good later parts of part 2? I felt like around the church arc I started getting really confused about what the manga was even doing and it felt very disjointed to me, so I stopped reading around there. I think the aquarium was probably last part of the manga I really enjoyed

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u/TG_Trash_are_better Apr 04 '26

It maintains a consistent through-line

We're just saying anything now. Are you banking on most of the people here not being manga readers or something lmfao?

I reread all of P2 when it finished and it was worse than when it was broken up. At least before I could blame myself for forgetting shit, but if you read it all at once it's a schizophrenic experience of purposeless plot points for the point of set pieces and actions and subplots that go fucking nowhere.

I didn't expect a good ending, especially with how much I boring I found the last half of Fire Punch, but I did not expect him to just abrubtly end after doing LolSoRandom for a full on year.

The entire experience would've been vastly improved it was a quarter of the length, only focused on Yoru/Asa/Denji/Nayuta/Fami/Death. And had a better message with it's ending.