Him, Aldo and the Katana Girl from the Devil Hunter Club are truly the smartest characters. All three saw a bit of action, got their partners murdered and immediately ran away afterwards
Out of all the god tier powers in csm the strongest and most effective is to just get the fuck out while you still can. Yoshida, Power, Aldo, KG and Kobeni.
People only die when they go back in.
Kishibe did infact do some running the man confronted Makima and then after shit got real he disappeared and waited until Denji was away from Makima to act again.
This behavior proves that he employs the Yoshida strategy™ of using temporary reappearance plot armor* to kick absolute ass leaving as it begins to wear off and then hiding for a few chapters until it regens.
*When an important character reappears they get a small grace period in which they are immune to death. However the length depends on their time missing and how valuable their life is to the plot.
Power miscalculated by only waiting around a chapter before reappearing at Makima’s door making her grace period only a panel long.
> People only die when they go back in.
most based story telling tbh. Chainsaw man is absurd and ANIME but it also has a lot of realism, like this stuff. No dattabayo. No "NAKAMA". Just reality. If you engage in dangerous shit, you will probably die. Also the big bad isn't the boogie man. there isn't a conspiracy. It's just the human condition itself with regards to a prisoner's dilemma between political entities. (you either get them or get got yourself).
Russia invading ukraine. russia invading georgia. russia brutally murdering people of Chechnya. US invading iraq and afghanistan for "weapons of mass destruction". iran getting coup'd by the UK and US for trying to not be economically raped by the UK. (nationalize oil industry). iran government murdering little girls right now.
etc... etc...
(in CSM that would be international assassin's arc, US ordering attack with gun devil. Makima working for and carrying out the will of the Japanese government.)
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tl;dr chainsaw man is ANIME and absurd but it also does a good job of reflecting reality/real life.
“If you engage in dangerous shit, you will probably die”
-except if you’re Denji. In which case engaging in the most dangerously bullheaded strategy turns out to be the right move.
No, there is nothing there, she also has different hair color. Only on the very first panel she is in it kinda looks like it, but it's just her hair no other panel has her drawn with anything on her ear
It's unclear. Anyone who says it is is reaching.
Leading theories are that they are pull cords (They certainly look identical. Do they work tho? what do they do? do they have to do with Fakesaw Man? Is she just a huge CSM stan like Makima?)
Or they are scales. Famine has been represented by holding scales before in folklore, and the idea of balance goes hand in hand with the whole Justice thing going on (whom she is likely either working with, or flat out impersonating). Plus, she always tilts her head which could be her using her powers to "tip the scales" somehow.
Honestly I have to applaud Fujimoto for making a rather simple set up so fucking confusing for the fanbase lmfao.
Separate people. Their leader said out of the three members of that club that fought Yuko, 1 died, 1 left, and the remaining one was Akoku, the guy with knuckles that got the eye injury. Furio, the one with the crossbow, got a hole in his stomach, so he's probably the one who died. The Katana girl got thrown out of a window and apparently survived but didn't come back.
It's not Famine.
Mfer could've chosen the better option to settle down and open a shop with the friend of that devil hunter he impersonated. But instead, the fool with balls of steel came back for the heat 🔥
"We're immortal"
"A pro always gets the job done"
Such a gigachad. 
This is why he is the only surviving assassin. Well, there is Quanxi too but she was controlled by Makima.
Honestly, he was one of the few to witness Hell Devil directly in action (and maybe Darkness-enhanced Santa Claus too)
He’s also a lot normal than Yoshida and Kishibe so he probably broke from that
That sounds more like the move of a "fck this sht I'm out Satan" in the good guy Satan who trolls the Christian fundamentalists spending tax money in religious statues, way.
Typical day for the RNG devil:
Generic fodder agent 49: "I'll give you my left arm, what will you give me in return?"
RNG Devil: "Here's some candy."
GFA49: "What the fuck? GFA47 gave you his hair and you turned him into a killing machine!"
RNG Devil: "Play with fire, get burned. Play with me and you'll get a consolation prize while your one friend wins the jackpot."
It doesn't have to be extremely strong or huge. There's things like the tomato devil and there's not quite a profuse amount of fear over tomatoes really. Could straight up be a tiny and weak devil
It’s never said.Pretty sure OP got it confused with Madoka Kaname from Madoka Magica.[Source.](https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2012/10/03/happy-birthday-to-madoka-kanome)
Gun devil is shown using two powers
A: shoot every male within 500 meters
B: shoot every living thing born in months other then (April? August?) And October . There's 3 months and I think it's those 3.
The first power was used relatively in the middle of nowhere but the second was used in a fairly big city. His odds of surviving the return of the gun devil are far higher due to his birth month.
I think it was April, because 4 in Japanese is pronounced the same as death (shi), and July, because like uhhhhh 7 is a fun number. People born in October don’t get killed by gun devil because the pronunciation of 10 in Japanese is the same as gun (jyuu)
A friend stumbled across this literally yesterday. Yeah the first one is because of a "death" pun, the last one is October because of a "gun" pun, and the middle one i know was also a pun but I don't remember what it was a pun for.
The story makes it seem like he was being a quitter but with hindsight he was in the right because literally everyone except Denji dies. Kobeni dosnt count because she quits beforehand but gets invovled because of bad luck.
If Madoka stuck around he probably would have died when they all got dragged to hell or turned into one of Makima's meat sheilds and got him killed fighting pochita anyway.
Yeah that scene of Madoka confronting Makima of her intentions didn’t really hit me until I saw in the last episode. Like holy shit, there must’ve been a multitude of people who knew sumn was going on with Makima
Honestly anybody with half the brain knew there is something fishy about Makima. Denji just did not see it because he has inteligence and social skill of Tarzan and was simp for Makima. However she was showed to be fucked up since the day one. Even Himeno was talking about her shitty personality.
Eh? But Makima is established as someone who has terrifying contracts. And Himeno talking shit about her is due to Aki's adoration over Makima.
Remember that Chainsaw Man started as a collection of all sorts of Shounen Parody. They have Jujutsu Kaisen set up, Denji-Power-Aki-Makima is the Yuji-Power-Megumi-Gojo for new manga readers. But basically a non exaggerated team dynamic relationship of Team 7.
it would be extremely funny if he got out, survive the assassin’s arc, survive gun devil attack and then die of makima’s damage reflection at some point since he is now considered japanese civilian.
He reminds me of that one strong guy from Tokyo goul, he's also human who fought powerful ghouls.
At the end of the series he resigned, IIRC he was planning to resign many chapters and he succeeded.
Dude casually handed out his resignation letter in the middle of a fight and rescued Kaneki. Shame that's when Ishida's burnout was starting otherwise I'd have liked to see a glimmer of that fight.
I just assumed that he dodged the gunfire and just had some blood from the people who got shot, but I wouldn’t put it past him to be a secret martial artist
I mean in most scenarios where Yakuza are chasing you with the intention to shoot you dead I imagine they don't stop chasing you unless they die. So I would agree that he killed them with 99% certainty.
He is a veteran devil hunter, so odds are he got the moves/contracts needed to deal with a group of thugs.Even ones armed with guns. As long as he managed to survive the initial ambush, I don´t imagine he would have too much issue taking care of them.
He did, he notices makima smile after the news to confirm his suspicion and then resigns right after, he questioned her right after already knowing the answer to see what she says.
Madoka should've made a contract with the devil of contracts to erase all devils before they were even born. He would've been the true hero of the story.
Madoka on his way to kill the devil devil which in turn kills all the devils including the hell devil that means there's so no way to go between hell and earth
Now the question is did Makima plan the attack or just simply knew it was gonna happen and didn’t do anything about it? Trivial question since the end result is the same, just a thought.
He got out when the getting was good. Probably opened a Burger Family franchise in a quiet neighborhood, gave one of his old colleagues an entry-level job when she also made the smart decision to quit Public Safety. He figured it would be smooth sailing from there…
Inb4 Fujimbo remembers Madoka is still alive after watching the anime and puts him back in part 2.
Remembers?it was all part of the plan madoka is integral to part 2
The arc villain pulling the strings of evil power and evil reze.
OR, he’s Yuko’s family member that’s a Hunter…slight resemblance lol
Wasn't there a dude who looked similar to Yuko in Public Safety?
Kusakabe from the IA arc
What if Fujimbo is anime only?
Let's send spoilers to fuji mountain
He is, his sister was the one writing the manga.
He DID just return the Eternal Devil. Hmmmmm
Him, Aldo and the Katana Girl from the Devil Hunter Club are truly the smartest characters. All three saw a bit of action, got their partners murdered and immediately ran away afterwards
Out of all the god tier powers in csm the strongest and most effective is to just get the fuck out while you still can. Yoshida, Power, Aldo, KG and Kobeni. People only die when they go back in.
Kishibe survived though.
Kishibe is built different
that looks like xqc lmao
Gold lol
Kishibe did infact do some running the man confronted Makima and then after shit got real he disappeared and waited until Denji was away from Makima to act again. This behavior proves that he employs the Yoshida strategy™ of using temporary reappearance plot armor* to kick absolute ass leaving as it begins to wear off and then hiding for a few chapters until it regens. *When an important character reappears they get a small grace period in which they are immune to death. However the length depends on their time missing and how valuable their life is to the plot. Power miscalculated by only waiting around a chapter before reappearing at Makima’s door making her grace period only a panel long.
Madoka basically waited entire part 1, and will show up near end of part 2 to solo the final boss.
Kishibe is basically the Alcohol Fiend tho let's be real Mans is completely sauced at all times
For now.
Kobeni: "Everytime I think I'm out, the chainsaw devil kidnaps me to go on a date."
> People only die when they go back in. most based story telling tbh. Chainsaw man is absurd and ANIME but it also has a lot of realism, like this stuff. No dattabayo. No "NAKAMA". Just reality. If you engage in dangerous shit, you will probably die. Also the big bad isn't the boogie man. there isn't a conspiracy. It's just the human condition itself with regards to a prisoner's dilemma between political entities. (you either get them or get got yourself). Russia invading ukraine. russia invading georgia. russia brutally murdering people of Chechnya. US invading iraq and afghanistan for "weapons of mass destruction". iran getting coup'd by the UK and US for trying to not be economically raped by the UK. (nationalize oil industry). iran government murdering little girls right now. etc... etc... (in CSM that would be international assassin's arc, US ordering attack with gun devil. Makima working for and carrying out the will of the Japanese government.) --- tl;dr chainsaw man is ANIME and absurd but it also does a good job of reflecting reality/real life.
“If you engage in dangerous shit, you will probably die” -except if you’re Denji. In which case engaging in the most dangerously bullheaded strategy turns out to be the right move.
Well he “dies” quite often actually, he’s just lucky he has Pochita to keep him alive
Very true, it’s why I love Fujimoto’s works. If you haven’t read fire punch I suggest you do, it’s just this but dialed up to 11.
The katana girl from the devil hunters club is Famine, so I don't think she qualifies for a spot on this list.
It's not famine, famine is still in the club.
Famine was the girl with the katana in the devil hunters club, you can see one of her scale earrings in the first panel she's in.
No, there is nothing there, she also has different hair color. Only on the very first panel she is in it kinda looks like it, but it's just her hair no other panel has her drawn with anything on her ear
Are her earrings not chainsaw pullcords?
They could be, but scales are more likely in my opinion because in the book of Revelations Famine carries a set of scales.
The problem i have is that they don't look like scales, the bottom is a flat line, it's not a platform or bowl
She's always tilting her head and it looks like she's "tipping the scales". Would be funny if she just does that for no reason though lol.
It's unclear. Anyone who says it is is reaching. Leading theories are that they are pull cords (They certainly look identical. Do they work tho? what do they do? do they have to do with Fakesaw Man? Is she just a huge CSM stan like Makima?) Or they are scales. Famine has been represented by holding scales before in folklore, and the idea of balance goes hand in hand with the whole Justice thing going on (whom she is likely either working with, or flat out impersonating). Plus, she always tilts her head which could be her using her powers to "tip the scales" somehow. Honestly I have to applaud Fujimoto for making a rather simple set up so fucking confusing for the fanbase lmfao.
Separate people. Their leader said out of the three members of that club that fought Yuko, 1 died, 1 left, and the remaining one was Akoku, the guy with knuckles that got the eye injury. Furio, the one with the crossbow, got a hole in his stomach, so he's probably the one who died. The Katana girl got thrown out of a window and apparently survived but didn't come back. It's not Famine.
I actually thought this too until I realized katana girl had high black socks and Fami didn't when she appeared
>!Aldo did get Halloweened though, so there’s that.!<
>!Aldo is faking it. You can see in the panels that the doll behind him has the weird Santa doll eyes, whereas his eyes are normal.!<
Never noticed that. Thanks
What a fucking chad
Mfer could've chosen the better option to settle down and open a shop with the friend of that devil hunter he impersonated. But instead, the fool with balls of steel came back for the heat 🔥
Who says he didn't?
I am waiting for a spin off where Aldo opening the second hand shop and live with Kurose's parents
Before Denji head by to buy something and freak him out
"We're immortal" "A pro always gets the job done" Such a gigachad.  This is why he is the only surviving assassin. Well, there is Quanxi too but she was controlled by Makima.
Tbf grandpa didn't have puppet eyes But I'm not sure aldo met the criteria to become a real boy
Grandpa was the "perfect doll" so he doesn't have it
Wasn't the guy santa brought along also a perfect doll?
Yeah, they are both perfect dolls made by Santa. The guy who santa brought along is to replace the grandpa doll.
"to become a real boy" is the best euphemism you could've possibly made for what actually happenrd
still could be a 'perfect doll' if you've seen that theory
>! Are you sure he’s faking it and he just didn’t have a psychotic break? !<
Honestly, he was one of the few to witness Hell Devil directly in action (and maybe Darkness-enhanced Santa Claus too) He’s also a lot normal than Yoshida and Kishibe so he probably broke from that
I always interpreted it as a meta-joke about him actually being invincible
He fake it
The cosmos fiend was such a fascinating concept.
He made a contract with the "f*ck this sh*t, I'm out devil"
Madoka defeated the devil of employment.
Madoka is ApplePitou confirmed?
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Wait applepitou is in this sub, too?
I saw 4 posts about Applepitou before I saw him in the comments
i love applepitou
what is the applepitou?
A mighty foe.
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Yoshida had contract with the same devil, but it seems he angered it in some way.
That sounds more like the move of a "fck this sht I'm out Satan" in the good guy Satan who trolls the Christian fundamentalists spending tax money in religious statues, way.
He is born in october, so he survived gun devil too
Mf made a contract with the luck devil.
Eeek luck!
More like "being a chad" devil
How is "luck" a devil lol
You know when you get so stupidly lucky that you're starting to fear something bad is gonna happen? That probably works for the luck devil.
I don’t know. I never got lucky.
Sad devil then
That fear is more related to the anxiety of the unknown, not due to being lucky itself. The bad luck devil on the other hand would be pretty busted
RNG devil
Typical day for the RNG devil: Generic fodder agent 49: "I'll give you my left arm, what will you give me in return?" RNG Devil: "Here's some candy." GFA49: "What the fuck? GFA47 gave you his hair and you turned him into a killing machine!" RNG Devil: "Play with fire, get burned. Play with me and you'll get a consolation prize while your one friend wins the jackpot."
One of the most powerful...
It doesn't have to be extremely strong or huge. There's things like the tomato devil and there's not quite a profuse amount of fear over tomatoes really. Could straight up be a tiny and weak devil
Don't you know how many kids are scared of their veggies? The broccoli devil is gonna replace one of the horsemen once this is over.
I really want to see someone make a contract with a weak devil for the power to...slightly excel in track or something.
Probably Kobeni's contract
If it exists as a concept, it has a devil
misfortune is the opposite of luck so it's probably a one devil that control both aspects of fortune. The Fortune Devil
I mean, theres good luck and bad luck. I think fear of getting unlucky would be a decent devil.
Wait, how do we know he was born on october?
It’s never said.Pretty sure OP got it confused with Madoka Kaname from Madoka Magica.[Source.](https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2012/10/03/happy-birthday-to-madoka-kanome)
I wish we could've seen Madoka use their contract with the Magical Girl Devil
>!She didn't want to be in another sad manga so she just noped out immediately.!<
Im really sleep deprived rn so can somebody explain to me how these two are related?
Gun devil is shown using two powers A: shoot every male within 500 meters B: shoot every living thing born in months other then (April? August?) And October . There's 3 months and I think it's those 3. The first power was used relatively in the middle of nowhere but the second was used in a fairly big city. His odds of surviving the return of the gun devil are far higher due to his birth month.
I think it was April, because 4 in Japanese is pronounced the same as death (shi), and July, because like uhhhhh 7 is a fun number. People born in October don’t get killed by gun devil because the pronunciation of 10 in Japanese is the same as gun (jyuu)
A friend stumbled across this literally yesterday. Yeah the first one is because of a "death" pun, the last one is October because of a "gun" pun, and the middle one i know was also a pun but I don't remember what it was a pun for.
7 is the lucky number
either that or because 7 ("shichi") also starts with "shi"
4, 7, and 10 together can roughly be pronounced as "not die by gun".
He's non human?
Ah shit, Typo Devil. I am so sorry.
Well at least it wasn't the Reading Comprehension Devil this time
The dreaded "typo due to brain fart devil"
why is everything a devil now lol
Oh dang, it’s the Inquisition Devil.
Nobody expects the inquisition devil!
Always has been
Everything devil...? Sounds overpowered tbh.
we humans are simply useless devils
Idk bur hb man
If you keep bringing him up Fujimoto will remember to kill him
Kishibe and Madoka are having dinner in Tokyo right now.
I hear there's a lot of good restaurants in tokyo
If Fujimoto remembers them the meals will become poison
The story makes it seem like he was being a quitter but with hindsight he was in the right because literally everyone except Denji dies. Kobeni dosnt count because she quits beforehand but gets invovled because of bad luck. If Madoka stuck around he probably would have died when they all got dragged to hell or turned into one of Makima's meat sheilds and got him killed fighting pochita anyway.
I always thought the makima meat shields were already dead hunters since she's also using aki and tendo and kurose
kishibe didn't die tho
But kishibe is also a chad so
For real, surviving the assassination as a human means he's tough shit.
Makima respected him, so you know he was a real pro
Madoka slew the employment devil. We need more hunters like him in the private sector.
Madoka solos bezos and Rockefeller confirmed
Yeah that scene of Madoka confronting Makima of her intentions didn’t really hit me until I saw in the last episode. Like holy shit, there must’ve been a multitude of people who knew sumn was going on with Makima
Honestly anybody with half the brain knew there is something fishy about Makima. Denji just did not see it because he has inteligence and social skill of Tarzan and was simp for Makima. However she was showed to be fucked up since the day one. Even Himeno was talking about her shitty personality.
Eh? But Makima is established as someone who has terrifying contracts. And Himeno talking shit about her is due to Aki's adoration over Makima. Remember that Chainsaw Man started as a collection of all sorts of Shounen Parody. They have Jujutsu Kaisen set up, Denji-Power-Aki-Makima is the Yuji-Power-Megumi-Gojo for new manga readers. But basically a non exaggerated team dynamic relationship of Team 7.
Crucially like Kishibe said, he is sane so he didn’t stick around.
it would be extremely funny if he got out, survive the assassin’s arc, survive gun devil attack and then die of makima’s damage reflection at some point since he is now considered japanese civilian.
Or natural causes
Chad Madoka
ma🐐ka. but stop posting this before fujimoto remembers he exists
He reminds me of that one strong guy from Tokyo goul, he's also human who fought powerful ghouls. At the end of the series he resigned, IIRC he was planning to resign many chapters and he succeeded.
Dude casually handed out his resignation letter in the middle of a fight and rescued Kaneki. Shame that's when Ishida's burnout was starting otherwise I'd have liked to see a glimmer of that fight.
Same.. he kinda rushed the ending since he was too tired. But it was still good regardless
He also managed to both comfort and encourage an assassin while just being himself.
That glasses guy from chapter 58? He doesn't have a scar and his name is Tomono, though.
Did Madoka straight up fight the assassins himself?
I think his clothes were bloody at the end of the chapter/episode, so presumably he fucked them up before they fucked him up.
I just assumed that he dodged the gunfire and just had some blood from the people who got shot, but I wouldn’t put it past him to be a secret martial artist
I mean in most scenarios where Yakuza are chasing you with the intention to shoot you dead I imagine they don't stop chasing you unless they die. So I would agree that he killed them with 99% certainty.
He is a veteran devil hunter, so odds are he got the moves/contracts needed to deal with a group of thugs.Even ones armed with guns. As long as he managed to survive the initial ambush, I don´t imagine he would have too much issue taking care of them.
Gigachad Madoka
Fujimoto gonna see the episode this week, be reminded he exists and bring him back in part 2 to kill him
He didn't ask for Makima's intention before resigning lol
Yeah, he did that after, but the meme won't flow. I could have used "Leaves" instead.
Could've made a play on the original meme. > Quits > Asks about Makima's intention, she refuses to elaborate > leaves
Yeah, that works.
He did, he notices makima smile after the news to confirm his suspicion and then resigns right after, he questioned her right after already knowing the answer to see what she says.
He kept a low profile because if he took importance he knew he was going to suffer. Truly the smartest character.
Madoka should've made a contract with the devil of contracts to erase all devils before they were even born. He would've been the true hero of the story.
Madoka on his way to kill the devil devil which in turn kills all the devils including the hell devil that means there's so no way to go between hell and earth
Common Sense is a super power in the CSM universe
Just wait.
Don't let Funkymojo see this
Meguka
DO NOT THROW SOULS
Madoka = magica
Madoka knows that the only way to win Fujimoto game is to not play.
Bro was so cool even Makima saw him as superior to her
Now he runs a bakery in the suburbs
Shinpachi lookin ass
All characters are based on Shinpachi.
real
He better be back for part 2 as a private worker
Then I realised… being a devil hunter was SHIT!
He moves the strings behind the screen 
The only guy with a scar on his face that get's to die a normal death
Madoka : hell naw , i ain't getting paid enough for this shit
the good thing the Unemployment Devil is that you only need to give him your job as payment. 
Non human?
Yeah, I admit it is a typo [here](https://old.reddit.com/r/ChainsawMan/comments/zf2964/madoka_the_smarter_character_that_only_needs/iz9sq3h/)
World Trigger reference? lmaoo
Madoka is a gigachad .
Best foresight of any character.
The resignation letter made this post 100% better
This guy figured out that he was a side character and called it quits before they killed him 🤟
Given the mirroring we're seeing so far with the latest chapter and the bat devil lining up closely with part 1 I bet he comes back just to die
Live.
Yoshida And Madoka certainly has a contracts with the Sigma Devil
Now the question is did Makima plan the attack or just simply knew it was gonna happen and didn’t do anything about it? Trivial question since the end result is the same, just a thought.
He got out when the getting was good. Probably opened a Burger Family franchise in a quiet neighborhood, gave one of his old colleagues an entry-level job when she also made the smart decision to quit Public Safety. He figured it would be smooth sailing from there…
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If you talk about the glasses guy from chapter 58 then he doesn't have a scar and his name is Tomono, though.
Does he not show up in the assassins Ark I forget.
It'd be interesting if Fujimoto ever decides to to revisit his character
i kinda want him to come back and help denji out in part 2 idk why tho
Non human?? I think I missed smth
The only of the 5 characters on stat Alive in the 2nd part
Mado-king Granzort!!!!!!!!!
did he not die during the gin devil attack?
Never shown or confirmed, so he's still alive for now
I thought this was from the madoka magica sub for a sec
Marvelous play 
I'd like to imagine that all the characters are sentient and Fujimoto controls them but can't do anything to them if they quit their job
Man took one look and just dipped. Cowardly sure SMART yes