Reviews tagging 'Suicide'

Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

15 reviews

magpi3's review against another edition

dark emotional funny hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Moderate: Death of parent

Minor: Suicide

hazelwood's review

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

Yassss the origins of my fav duo Denji and Power! This is such a silly manga, I can't wait to read the rest! 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Violence, Gore, Death of parent, and Suicide

johnnyboy836's review

dark fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Death of parent, Murder, Gore, Sexual content, Mental illness, Death, Suicide, and Grief

kiruma's review

dark emotional funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

W Reads frfr

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Body horror, Gore, Cursing, Violence, Suicide, Death of parent, and Blood

Moderate: Alcoholism, Body horror, Child abuse, Alcohol, and Blood

Minor: Child abuse

minispiderboy's review

adventurous challenging dark informative mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

this book is about people who love. Anime manga Dark stories. And who read at a medium pace.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Blood, Body horror, Child death, Child abuse, Cannibalism, Gaslighting, Gore, Infertility, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Drug use, Dysphoria, Emotional abuse, Forced institutionalization, Mass/school shootings, Self harm, Addiction, Abandonment, Ableism, Alcoholism, Genocide, Racism, Vomit, Bullying, Death, Dementia, Medical content, Murder, Outing, Racial slurs, Abortion, Adult/minor relationship, Antisemitism, Car accident, Deadnaming, Deportation, Excrement, Fire/Fire injury, Grief, Torture, Violence, Sexism, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Alcohol, Infidelity, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Medical trauma, Suicidal thoughts, Stalking, Toxic relationship, Trafficking, Acephobia/Arophobia, Biphobia, Hate crime, Misogyny, Animal death, Body shaming, Cursing, Death of parent, Gun violence, Incest, Toxic friendship, and Sexual assault

warning 18+

fieldofhats's review against another edition

lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

2.0

Truly do not understand the hype. The action is fun, the art and visuals are cool, Denji’s (the protagonist) chainsaw devil design is amazing, but the story, character interactions, and vibe are not only lackluster, but often downright bad. I was on board with the first chapter, but when Denji’s new boss started treating him like a dog in a really bizarre, not-so-vaguely sexual, manner, it lost me. The story only got worse from there when Denji decided that his entire goal in life is… boobs. I get that he’s a horny teenager, but this is not a good, nor interesting, motivation for a protagonist. The only reason I gave it two stars was for the stunning visuals and the art direction. I will not be reading further, and I suggest that you don’t waste your time with it.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Gore, Death, and Suicide

berry21's review

dark emotional funny mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

Really digged this :)

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood and Gore

Moderate: Animal death

Minor: Child abuse, Animal cruelty, Death of parent, and Suicide

dario_alv's review

adventurous dark lighthearted fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.25

While re-reading, it's very clear how much effort was made by Fujimoto in establish the world, it's logic and making sure that the story continuity is air tight. Page after page there are drops of **very** subtle hints of what's to come. 
However, for first time readers, this is nothing more than your run of the mill, horny shonen manga, with an interesting setting.
The world of devils and their public safety hunters is very well designed, even though it will be expanded on much better in later entries of the series.
The pages with Makima and Power are standouts, as they are both stylistic and faithful to their overall characterization. There is also a beautiful page of a train with some amazing composition.    
I cannot, however, give it more than a 3 starts, as for now it is still a very generic shonen.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence and Blood

Minor: Suicide

jessthanthree's review

adventurous dark funny fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Body horror, Violence, and Death

Moderate: Death of parent, Animal death, Sexual harassment, Animal cruelty, and Suicide

smallish_bird's review

dark funny mysterious sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I have many thoughts about this series and this individual volume, but for now, I'll just say this: the frank depiction of the trauma/effects of poverty and childhood neglect is one of the most visceral and relatable that I've seen in fiction so far. My childhood wasn't anywhere near the level of fucked up that Denji's was, but the financial anxiety and hyperawareness and loneliness and finding escapism in dreams/fantasies was very familiar to me. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic relationship, Blood, Violence, Gore, Murder, and Death

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Adult/minor relationship, Animal death, Classism, and Cursing

Minor: Abandonment, Death of parent, Suicide, and Confinement