With the airing of the season 1 finale, at the moment marks the ultimate Chainsaw Man Tuesday of the 12 months. Although our squad of dirtbag foremost characters have been by means of so much by means of the 12 brief episodes of the collection, none of them have suffered as a lot as Kobeni Higashiyama.
Chainsaw Man is the story of Denji, a down on his luck teenage boy who, up till a number of weeks in the past, thought he’d die with out ever touching a boob. For the time being, he’s merged with the Chainsaw Devil and has been employed underneath risk of loss of life by the Japanese authorities to battle different devils. Denji is a foremost character, and whereas lots of horrible issues have already occurred to him, there’s no less than the pretense that he’ll study from it.
Kobeni Higashiyama will not be a foremost character. She’s a fellow satan hunter alongside Denji, however she doesn’t have his powers of the Chainsaw Devil — no less than, none she will share or wield in the meanwhile. In reality, she doesn’t appear to have any powers in any respect. Kobeni spends most of her time screaming and crying when confronted with the ultraviolence Denji turns into accustomed to. If Denji’s journey is of discovering what fashionable life is all about, Kobeni’s life is a slapstick routine. She’s already trapped within the rat race. She doesn’t need to be there, however she doesn’t have a alternative. Her mother and father informed her she wanted to become profitable to ship her brother to school, and she had a alternative between being a satan hunter or a intercourse employee.
Although I really feel dangerous for Kobeni and the never-ending stream of distress she experiences, having her round in Chainsaw Man is like having a personality from a Coen brothers film in my trendy, hyper-violent anime. She’s kind of like Brad Pitt’s character in Burn After Reading, in that she has no concept what’s happening and is consistently in great hazard, or like Barton Fink, in that she largely makes the unsuitable decisions and is consistently, inexplicably moist with sweat, tears, or some combination of each. Unlike her fellow satan hunters, she will’t even preserve her cool upon seeing the eldritch terrors she’s presupposed to battle. She reacts like all common schmuck would; screaming, crying, and begging for mercy.
What’s most hilarious about Kobeni’s struggling to me is she doesn’t even get to die. As her colleagues drop like flies round her, Kobeni, for no matter motive, stays alive. By the time this season ends, virtually each one of many satan hunters Kobeni is aware of have been killed. But not Kobeni. Though she longs for the candy embrace of loss of life, she as an alternative has the privilege of waltzing as much as the season’s ultimate confrontation, and will get blood splattered on her face for her hassle. When her fellow satan hunter Aki asks her why she’s nonetheless doing this job, she solutions bonuses are arising quickly.
What Denji learns about all through Chainsaw Man is the mundanity of the trendy world. Things that appeared magical, virtually mythological to him earlier than turning into a satan hunter, like touching breasts and hanging out with ladies, end up to not be as life-changing as he assumed. But whereas Denji is likely to be on a journey of self-actualization, most of us watching are like Kobeni. Nothing particular occurs to us. The universe doesn’t bend itself towards ushering alongside our private improvement. We all simply need to preserve going to our shitty jobs till they kill us, or we get our bonuses. Kobeni could also be handier with a knife on the finish of the season than the beginning, however no grand future awaits her. With her luck, she’ll by no means die.
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