The dude rain replied to can't see anything beyond surface level aesthetic.
On the other hand, the way rain replying, as usual, is snobbish as hell.
You're assuming a whole lot from one person's single sentence reply. As I said you could see a series, get what it is, and still not like it or think it's pointless. Why assume someone only sees surface level storytelling just because they didn't like something?
I don't know, if you actually pay attention, it's not hard to understand Chainsaw Man as it is; a deconstruction of 正義の味方 narratives framed through a "hero" who from the start has literally no ideals or self-drive to speak of. That is literally the entire crux of the narrative and is one which influences every narrative decision, from the "darker" secondary protagonist who ends up accomplishing nothing but his own self-destruction, the main villain who is built around their idealism and lack of humanity, and fight scenes which end up desperate scraps for survival with zero glory.
Chainsaw is one of my favourite manga ever, so I will step up to defend it.
Bolded the final part for emphasis, cause that's the crux of your entire "argument." In short: "I like this series and how dare you not like it too." Especially since your very first sentence in your reply to me is "This series is amazing and if you didn't like it you must not have paid attention." I did, and did not like it. I tried reading it on several occasions and guess what, still did not like it. Nothing about it resonated with me, and I didn't care for the plot or characters. I could go on about how everything you said doesn't matter one damn bit if the story and or characters do not resonate with the reader but your response tells me that I'd be wasting my time as you're willing to defend this series from any perceived slight which I really don't understand. Do you get some kind of fulfillment from this? Does Fujimoto pay you to arrogantly shut down anyone who as a slightly dissenting opinion of CSM? Like the original poster only said they didn't like the over the top gore. What does that have to do with not getting or getting the series? You're not even applying "deconstruction" correctly in this case because for that to work Denji would have had to be the typical shonen protagonist from the start and
then gone down the path of darkness as the logical conclusion of the typical shonen tropes,
or how the typical story telling archetypes that the shonen demographic prefers would be perceived if applied differently. Neither of which seems to be CSM's point.
Dude, it's fine if you like CSM, but if you're so insecure that someone else mildly implying they didn't care for how it conveys it's story is enough to get you to run to it's defense (badly) then I dunno. You do you but that feels like a waste of time to me. That'd be like me replying to every post praising the series and replying with "You must not have paid attention because CSM is shit." Which would be easy for me to do, but I won't because it's pointless, and I wouldn't want someone doing it to me when I'm talking about a series I do like.
Deconstruction as it is commonly defined as taking a troupe and seeing how would this trope play out with Real Life consequences applied to it, making the portaginist not have ideals like a typical hero of justice makes this fundamentally not a deconstruction.
(another definition of deconstruction is taking apart a trope or a narrative to expose the inherent contradiction in them, but chainsaw man doesn't do that as well)
You have to actually use the trope you are trying to deconstruct, making denji someone without ideals at the start makes it fundamentally impossible for chainsawman to be a deconstruction of this particular trope.
Baiscally you can't deconstruct a narrative if you are not using its most basic troupes.
Oh you said what I said but conveyed it way better. Kudos to you!
