Denji’s Choice! Chainsaw Man Chapter 218 Review!

In the previous Chainsaw Man chapter, Asa recovers her past memories, how she let her mother kill her worthless father, a traumatic similarity with Denji’s past.

Chainsaw Man Chapter 218 is titled, “Eat Me”

This chapter has 14 pages.

The chapter begins with Asa explaining her plan to be eaten by Denji.

Denji refuses to lose Asa, to kill her but Asa says that she is already as good as dead due to the horrors her body has been used to inflict.

At first, Asa believed that she could reason with Yoru whenever the latter thought of evil things.

However, Asa realizes that with America empowering Yoru, the world spiraling into war, Yoru will no longer give up her body.

Asa and Yoru have a unique dynamic, being a “half-Fiend” essentially, and now Yoru has regained the full Devil powers, which means that she is much closer to a Hybrid, a human who has been fused to a Devil through a Contract and has control over them as a tool (hence why all Hybrids so far are Weapon Devils), except the dynamic is inverted, with the human side being the tool.

Asa tries to give a positive spin to Death’s world, a world of only Devils, that Denji already resembles one so he can fit right in.

Asa feels that even if she returns to a normal life, she cannot sleep anymore after everything.

All of Yoru’s atrocities and her own actions throughout and especially recalling how she had a part in killing her father, have made her unable to accept herself.

She tripped and fell, indecisive and letting others, like her mother and the mother-like Yoru in her brain, decide for her.

But now she wants to make a choice without tripping or letting things happen and she chooses to die.

Ironically at the hands of the man who saved her life.

So now she wants to save Denji from Yoru by sacrificing herself.

Fujimoto’s first work, Fire Punch, traumatizes his fanbase with the idea of imparting the will to live into another person.

Mainly Luna, the sister of the Agni, the protagonist, and Togata.

This is also bringing back memories of Power, who sacrificed her own life to save Denji in the final arc.

This seems to be a pattern that could hint towards Chainsaw Man ending now.

Is This the End for Asa’s Arc and Chainsaw Man as a Whole?

You can already see the parallels here.

Yoru and Asa are basically Sukuna and Megumi from Jujutsu Kaisen but Megumi has less active resistance as an agent due to the Bath.

Furthermore, Asa’s guilt mirrors Denji’s rapid decline at the start of the Control Devil Arc.

Makima had spent the entirety of Part 1 giving Denji everything, only to take away that normal life.

Denji’s guilt over killing Aki made him want to willfully be Makima’s dog, rather than his initial wish to touch her melons or, more intimately, be her lover, an impossible dream.

In this state of weakness, Makima lets him witness her momentarily kill Power to further break him until Pochita could emerge.

While Part 1 was about Denji becoming human, only to lose that humanity because of one woman’s control, here in Part 2, Yoru, the inner Devil of the protagonist Asa, is the real monster seeking to destroy Asa’s sense of self, slowly letting her experience atrocities to worsen her sense of guilt.

The Gun Devil arm being used against a civilian area to fight the Chainsaw Devil was the impetus for all of that guilt to chain Asa to Yoru’s dominion until, ironically, she remembers her own door.

Denji would remember his own door through Makima when she revealed that Denji had killed his father in self-defense as a child.

There are inversions in the dynamics responsible to the transition from ignorance to enlightenment, with different focuses of finding humanity and overcoming guilt, only to lose the battle in the climax.

So this could be the sign that the current arc of Part 2 might be the final arc or the penultimate one.

Fujimoto has not announced a final arc but the signs are here.

The protagonist’s life is on the line right now and Denji alone has the choice.

To kill yet another loved one to save the world or to risk letting the War Devil get her way in exchange for stopping Death.

There are two world-enders, each embodying opposing outcomes.

A Holy War

In the real world, Fami (the real one) gives her blood to Pochita to revive him.

Yoru’s floating head condemns Fami for interfering in her “holy war”.

The term “holy war” is quite fitting for the times as that connects to Fujimoto’s least favorite country, the United States of America, and the campaign of terror on the Gaza and Palestine by Israel, a heavily protected ally of the United States

Some radical elements of American religion, including white evangelicals, have seen everything Israel does is for the pursuit of a holy war in preparation for the Third Temple, a restoration of ancient Israel’s glory before the End Times.

Yoru was fully empowered thanks to America, the country she loves most because it makes her more powerful, terrifying and beautiful.

This resurrection is painted in this paradoxical beauty through the US anthem, revealing how institutional and essential war is to the very life of America.

Yes, war is dressed in beautiful formality and terrifying to those who are left utterly powerless, for that is the point.

Furthermore, as the War Devil, Yoru sees war, her essence itself, as sacred, so Fami trying to bring back Pochita would undermine Yoru’s victory.

Yoru, the War Devil, is waging a holy war to ensure that war itself is the norm, that humans are immortal and constantly bringing suffering while also dominating each other in an endless cycle.

Fami revs Pochita up to revive him but then as Yoru is about to point the Gun Devil arm, her eyes and face change back to Asa.

Denji’s Decision

Asa momentarily regains control and turns her finger on herself, blowing off the top half of her head.

Miri Sugo turns into his Sword Hybrid form and chops up Yoru’s body into pieces to stall Yoru’s regeneration.

After being called by Miri, L’il D calls for Guilly, the Guilottine Devil, to mince Yoru, who was close to fully regenerating.

With her regeneration stalled twice, Yoru was wide open for sure.

Death, together with Fami and Miri, call for Chainsaw Man to eat the War Devil.

However, instead, Pochita slices up all three of their heads at once while holding down the Guillotine Devil.

Pochita’s pose is similar to Denji’s in the cover of Chapter 23: “Gunfire”.

This shows that Pochita intends to save Asa, rather than see her die.

Since the start of the current arc, Denji has chosen selfish desires that coincidence with maintaining his individual dignity over the fate of the world and that includes ensuring Asa has her own freedom to live as well.

Now that he knows her fully, including her own door, Denji intends to have her life her own life too.

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