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submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by hello_hello@hexbear.net to c/anime@hexbear.net

Actual translated quote from Fujimoto's Da Vinci Magazine interview

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Fujimoto: This might be a reflection of how, not just in Japan but now in the entire world, during the recession, social structures of control and exploitation emerged. However I don't necessarily think that being used is all bad...Consider the Mongol street children. They live in pipes under the streets and fish through trash every day to get anything to eat and afterwards to not use up their little energy all they do is sleep. As long as they continue loving this way, nothing will change, but I can't bring myself to think that's all bad. So when Denji and Pochita are living a similar life together, there are many difficulties but it's not unfortunate. That's how I wanted to depict them.

Bottom panel; excerpt from second to last chapter

Pochita (Disembodied voice): "Unfortunately, you [Denji] must have noticed too. You were far happier starving and suffering, fighting devils and eating spoiled bread in that run-down shack."


asa-explain Chainsaw Man fans it's over, Tatsuki Fujimoto has come out as Japanese (circa 1940).

I have no idea how this person was able to write Part 1 while holding all of these incoherent worldviews together. It's great to know that while he was writing Denji losing his testicles to human traffickers that he was thinking of the Impoverished Mongolian Child. power-genius

Millions of fans and the only thing he can come up with is to personally shit on each and every one of them for multiple years of serialization. nayuta-crayon (<- This character (Nayuta) has no arc and was quite literally fridged for the male lead's development which is him saying he'll make another family to replace his old one again).


Mangaka Man is NOT one of us, not even close.

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[-] Sneakytrickyyy@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know that many progressive mangaka, I don't expect anything from them, pretty ass take on Fujimoto's part

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Japan is spiritually Israeli

[-] Collatz_problem@hexbear.net 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Much closer to Britain in spirit, actually, than to Israel. Different derangements.

[-] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago

He's saying it's good being at rock bottom because none of the shit happening in the world affects you.

According to him, it's better being in the gutter starving to death than be part of the shitty society these days.

[-] Sneakytrickyyy@hexbear.net 8 points 3 weeks ago

Abysmal dogshit shrug-outta-hecks

[-] hello_hello@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

An elitist manga author from the imperial core took inspiration from the horrifying suffering of global south children and says that suffering builds character.

I think what he was trying to say that there is still good in life even in periods of extreme suffering but also fujimoto is a socially aloof millionaire who draws comics for teenage boys so I don't know if hes actually taking this to heart or just using misery as shock value.

Namedropping Mongolian children is fucking weird and its evidence that he is one of those people who watches documentaries of the global south to feel better about his own privileged conditions.

this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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