Chainsaw Man
a review by AkumATayshou
a review by AkumATayshou
I see some people saying that the grey pallet of color in the first episode makes the show less interesting, but for me, it's a big idea. Think, Denji is a orphan boy, with a debt to the yakuza that his father let behind after commit suicide, after this he knows the chainsaw-devil and they pass to survive helping each other in a world that just don't care for they life, Denji sells parts of him body to try to pay the debt, and his unique dream it's just be a normal guy just for a moment, eat bread and rest for a while, without the uncertainty that he will live one more day.
With this in mind, how it's possible that the color pallet to be colorized and beautiful, if we are in the mind of Denji's, so we see what he see, a grey world without color, having just one single friend and nothing more, nothing less.
One thing that I need to mention it's the direction around the animation, because, it's very common see a looping animation in anime adaptations just taking some frame of the manga and animation that in some few frames, but here in chainsaw-man we have all the animation around the scenario, a construction of the place and other things like the sound in the background that it's relaxing, sometimes pass the sad vibe, sometimes a little peace. And the CGI was pretty good, not perfect OBVIOUSLY, but pretty good, the action sequences are very good and beautiful.
You can easily make a connection with the real life of people that live in bad conditions, where nobody's even knows of their existence, and they need to fight to survive one more day, fathers and children that pass hungry and a constant pain. So it's very easy to sympathize with Denji in my opinion, and I say TO ME, because much other people need a expository dialogue or a loud soundtrack emotional screaming "oh look to our protagonist he suffer so much sympathize with him please!!", I like this stories too but for Denji this will not be functional.
I think that the personality of everyone in this anime is very real to me, because it's like they say in the anime itself, you need to be crazy to live in this world, of course the world referenced in the show, with demons and people that kill you easily if they need. So I think that Denji's reaction is very believable for me, because, after all, he is a boy that literally lost everything, so, how can he cries? how can he feel the pain of the lost after lost so many things, same to the others, everyone suffers in his own time, own way.
This gives a value to the show, we see everyone doing what need to do to survive one more day, maybe the last day of her lifes, and they know it. Now take everything that I say and combine with the fact that we have amazing charisma characters, that do with you mind with they, and be worried about what could happen, since everyone can die at any moment.
The show goes so smoothly that sometimes Denji even don't appears, but you don't even realize it, because the show have characters so good that you just keep watching to see what will happen next.
Certainly one of the highest points in the show, the principal trio, Denji, Power and Aki. Power is a infernal demon and Aki, a guy that hate demons and wanna kill all of them, kinda ironic when you realize that his family now is composed by two demons (except for Denji, but Aki considers him a demon too).
It's so pacific when they are all in scene, you see that friendship growing and becoming like a real family slowly, I'm very anxious to see the second season precisely because of these three in particular, the way they will care one of the others (and I know it because I read the manga) is much beautiful and delicate.
One complement the other, and this function very well.
Soundtrack is very good, I already downloaded the opening and the ending of the first episode (I frequently hear them) and the villains are very good too, I don't talk much about them because I don't wanna give much spoilers or something like this, maybe this is my worst review because I'm writing this two months since I watched the show, so my memory it's not so fresh but I think that I say all that I need and wanted to say.
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