Category: Finished Series: Action

Another week and another piece of Chainsaw action with this being the episode with the most anime original content to date. Public response looks to be brimming though as for myself I find that I am both impressed and a little disappointed. I don’t mean to be a downer though as I hear Japanese twitter fans are hounding staff over dumb things.(They even got Fujimoto to stop pretending to be his sister on twitter, those monsters!) It’s just that to be perfectly honest I was really looking forward to a moment that was to come just after credits, and not for the reasons you likely expect. I had a full write up prepared to put to paper today and now I have to save it till next week. I was also going to complain about this covering less chapters than I hoped, only to look at the manga to find we covered three chapters instead of the usual four so it wasn’t a massive departure. Not to mention this is another post where I just don’t know how much I have to talk about until I type it so let’s just see how this goes. This also marks the first time I had to dig out the Japanese title for the episode because someone at Crunchyroll forgot to put the episode title on the video. I really don’t want to dog on you guys but really with the subtitles, server troubles and this, you make it far too easy.
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Chainsaw Tuesday has come and gone again and these week long waits are really starting to drag. Feels especially frustrating with an episode like this where the action just makes the minutes feel like seconds. It also makes my job difficult as episode content is sparse and straightforward with little for me to add. Still I can try and see how far I go with this post. Haters of CGI may be relieved to know that this action scene had considerably less of it but once again I reiterate that I am having a hard time distinguishing which from which. Also those concerned about source loyalty can rejoice as this is pretty much as loyal as you can get. Though I still have issues with Crunchyrolls translator using phases that make understanding the situation harder. I understand that you are underpaid but I would think it wouldn’t be too hard to consult maybe the manga translation to make your job easier. As another piece of advice for crunchyroll, maybe consider upgrading your servers? The third week in a row that Chainsaw Man managed to bring the site down which yeah, taking that into account this show might be doing rather well.
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Enter week two of Chainsaw Tuesdays and we have a quieter episode this week with the primary focus being the introduction of our main cast. We are near the end of volume 1 of the manga though that did resort in the cutting of a scene. But before getting to that I would give an overall impression of this episode being good. We got some laughs and it set up things for the next. It did the job it was meant to do though that may not wow people still looking for Chainsaw Man to deliver the answer to the hype it’s gotten. I think crunchyroll’s translation continues to muck up a bit thus making jokes land not as well or muddy certain lines with greater implications. CGI haters can relax as we have a fully 2D episode…I think. I will go into that but my confidence in telling the difference has been put down a notch. Also for those interested Crunchyroll has announced that the English Dub of Chainsaw Man will be debuting next week on the 25th. Which kinda shoots my plans of covering it weekly with the two episode delay but I am curious as to whether this could lead to grabbing a more mainstream audience. Chainsaw Man so far has landed pretty well but I think it has an appeal that could extend even to non anime watchers, with the only detriment at the moment being its subtitle only release.

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Landing finally after all this time with anticipation high and does Chainsaw Man land like a superhero or splat like the other guys. To give early judgment, I would consider it a success as it did what a first episode should do. Would that match the hype built up for it? No, but quite frankly nothing would. This episode was beautiful, Ushio did fantastic on the soundtrack and direction was excellent. I am aware that the voices Denji and Makima are different from what people imagined and personally I did feel a degree of dissonance which may need more time to fade. I expect more of that when I check out the english dub of the series. True be told I planned to include a section for it in this post but sadly Cruchyroll is late with that dub despite it being completed. Still I feel the Japanese actors did well for what little I can do to judge their performances. We got a good opening with my personal favorite touch being the movie references as Fujimoto is a well known movie nut. A nice blend of well known and fairly obscure as well as seeing as we got Pulp Fiction and Big Lebowski alongside Jacob’s Ladder, Constantine and Killer Tomatoes of all things. This thing is likely a litmus test for how well you know your movies. Full disclosure, I failed having only caught the Goodbye Eri and Big Lebowski reference but I know you looked them up too.
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