Reviews tagging 'Toxic friendship'

Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

7 reviews

lovelymisanthrope's review against another edition

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

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

2.5

I stumbled across a copy of this manga one night when I could not sleep and thought it would be a fun read.
"Chainsaw Man, Vol. 1" follows Denji, a young man who is really down on his luck. After the death of his father, he has taken on his father's massive debt. Denji will do almost anything for money, include hunting down devils. His only friend is Pochita, a devil-dog he rescued. After Denji is betrayed by someone he trusts, he gets the power of Pochita inside of him, and becomes Chainsaw Man.
This manga was fine, but I do not think this series is for me. Denji is a highly relatable character, and I really empathized with his situation. I think most people have been in a situation of being in debt, and we can all relate that it is not a great feeling. He also loves and cares for Pochita with such care. I love seeing a character be so invested in their pet because pets are so much more than animals, they are family.
For a manga series about a main who is half chainsaw that hunts devils, I felt kind of bored. The story felt slow to me, and I just wanted to learn more about the process of hunting devils. There was quite a bit of violence, but even that did not feel like it brought the story along any faster.
I will likely not continue in this series myself, but I do think it has an audience. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Violence, Blood, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, and Toxic friendship

gentle_sol's review against another edition

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

beachmole's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny medium-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? Yes

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Toxic friendship

Minor: Alcoholism and Death of parent

minispiderboy's review against another edition

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

warning 18+

vulcandropout's review against another edition

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

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

Minor: Child abuse, Slavery, and Schizophrenia/Psychosis

namzuru's review against another edition

dark funny mysterious sad tense fast-paced

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

5.0

he just wants to touch some boobs

this is 5 for the series as a whole not just this book

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Gore, Blood, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Cursing, Sexual content, and Toxic friendship

nick13's review against another edition

adventurous dark funny lighthearted fast-paced

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

4.5

For a first volume this was something truly special and just absolutely fuckin brutal! Every fight is just so awesomely graphic and I can't wait to read more! 
Only thing I can say in negatives is that the characters are a little weak but that's also kind of the point so pretty much what I'm saying is this is great!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Death, Gore, Misogyny, Sexual content, Violence, and Blood

Moderate: Animal death, Toxic relationship, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Death of parent