Reviews tagging 'Grief'

Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

9 reviews

gentle_sol's review

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious reflective fast-paced

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

5.0

A mix-mash of gory violence, slapstick humor with all the bizarreness you could never expect. It's quite challenging with a number of triggering content and over-the-top violence but if you're willing to venture through it you will find its tiny little beating heart. At its core Chainsaw Man is, in a way, a story about a boy's searching for a way to survive the world -- and love. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Toxic friendship, Alcohol, Child abuse, Death, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death of parent, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, Grief, Mental illness, Violence, Adult/minor relationship, Abandonment, Blood, Cursing, Injury/Injury detail, Kidnapping, Body horror, Cannibalism, Car accident, Gore, Gun violence, Toxic relationship, Genocide, and Domestic abuse

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

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+

vulcandropout's review

dark emotional funny inspiring reflective sad fast-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

2.0

You get way more than you thought you would get where theres a guy with a chainsaw for his head.   A lot of the gimes it feels like actually means something

  But I kinda wish it never existed.  I watched the anime awhile ago and it pissed me off so much.  Then the library had p much all so I spent all day yesterday and today reading them.   The more I try to make it so I can be alive the more I want to die.  I have kind of given up on even just living a normal life.  I am just surviving until I get to see babymetal.  I am too tired to keep going on. And this manga was really validating everything I feel.  And I hate it because it killed all the chars I liked including gay ones just to bring a ped-phile back to life forcing her victim to take care of her. Not onlt that but continuing to put his entire life aside for her happiness.  Completely making all his character deveolpment on finally being able to kill her and wanting to think for himself worthless. He lost everything he ever had because of her.    So it validated me but at the same time.  Validated my abusers so much more. I feel worse but now I have to watch the anime again.  And there is nothing else I feel like doing. I feel like I am just skin . Existing for the sole purpose of reading / watching garbage.  It has always been this way.  I have always been in the clutches of my abusers so the only thing I ever had was fiction. But I really do not feel like doing anything else rn but being with chainsaw man and I hate it. Whenever there is a char like me he has to get the worst of it. And it never gets better.  I don't want to be stuck with a ped-phile haunting me my entire life anymore. I want it to stop. I want to live a normal life or just fucking die. I really want to help others even though I hate people.  But it would be nice to just.  Have something to eat and have my meds with my cat everyday.   I don't know.  It is so fucked all the time.

Without the ped-philia. I think one day I will easily be able to edit it out and pretend it never happened if I don't kms b4 next year lol.   Besides that. This is a good read if you want to be depressed with someone and look at pictures of monssters.  There is a lot of pages with no words. I actually felt like I was in those fights.

Idk if it shows my warnings but since i read it all at once its for chapters 1-134  not just the first book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pedophilia, Blood, Gore, Hate crime, Sexual assault, Body horror, Death, Gaslighting, Sexual content, Vomit, Suicidal thoughts, and Adult/minor relationship

Moderate: Death of parent, Cannibalism, Grief, Toxic friendship, and Torture

Minor: Child abuse, Slavery, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

foldingthepage_kayleigh's review

adventurous dark emotional fast-paced

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

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual harassment, Murder, Gore, Blood, Violence, Death, Grief, Animal death, Body horror, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Death of parent

mir_frog73's review

dark funny mysterious tense fast-paced

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

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gore, Death of parent, Death, Torture, Chronic illness, Animal death, Vomit, Violence, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Body horror, and Blood

Minor: Terminal illness

rorikae's review

dark sad fast-paced

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

3.5

 3.5/5 

‘Chainsaw Man’ by Tatsuki Fujimoto is a brutal start to a series that follows one young man who under tragic circumstances makes a deal that gives him the ability to transform into a half chainsaw, half human being. With these newfound abilities, he joins the Public Safety Devil Hunters agency who fight against devils so that they won’t overrun the world. 

This series starts out with Denji in pretty dire straits and throughout this first volume, that is compounded through the brutal scenes of violence. Denji as a character isn’t particularly engaging. He has a tragic backstory but in the present time he’s solely focused on eating well and getting a chance with a girl. His personality is basically these two aspects. I hope that further installments will continue to develop his personality because it’s pretty dry so far. The other characters in the Public Safety Devil Hunters agency are more interesting and appear to have moderately more fleshing them out. I’m interested enough to keep reading though if this series stays one note, I likely won’t read more than a few volumes.  

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, Animal death, Blood, Violence, and Murder

Minor: Suicide and Death of parent

annikaa's review

adventurous dark fast-paced

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

4.0

there was a lot of talk about boobs for sure.. not 100% sure how I feel about it yet, but it has some interesting aspects.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Blood, Gore, Violence, Body horror, and Death

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Grief, and Toxic relationship

Minor: Death of parent

bookishcryptid's review

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

4.25

Interesting and original with a fascinating mix of characters. Can’t wait to read more!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Blood, Body horror, Death, Gore, Grief, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Violence