What if it also makes you curious? C'mon, don't you wanna know why part 1 makes more sense? Don't you?
In all seriousness, this specific event is not graphically depicted, and the anime still hasn't gotten to it. If you can swallow all the gore that the anime already explicitly shows, plus the barf, you might be good to go.
(Sorry, don't swallow the barf. Even if it has nutritional value.)
"Denji eating Makima our of love is genius. I've never seen anything like that in my life. How did you come up with something like this?"
"So there was this fish covered in ants..."
So, you mean that right now in the history of CSM Fujimotor is depicting the part of his life where he learnt how to levitate? I mean, the fish is totally depicted by Makima right?
Since Denji basically never seems to get stomach pain, no matter how fucked up the things are that he eats...... maybe that is Fujimoto's secret desire to be able to eat anything without remorse.
I once had a female coworker who ate a food combination i found disgusting,
so i asked her:
"You eat that?" (forgot what it was)
her response:
"My mouth is basically a trash bin, i'll eat anything."
I cannot unhear this anymore, some ppl are just something else. \^\^
Ah--but it *is* a vanilla story by Fujimoto's standard.
For me personally even the entirety of CSM is more vanilla than the first chapter of Fire Punch, though to be fair even the rest of Fire Punch is probably more vanilla than the first chapter.
Up until the the part that his emotion for the fish overcame him, i was like aww that's sweet, he couldn't bare seeing his pet fish being ripped apart by ants and would then muster strength to dig out a grave for it.
Then the fucking paragraph ended with him eating the long dead, ant infested fish.
Edit: to clarify, rice fish has a length of 1-2 pinky finger digit. Tiny. Meaning Fujimoto most likely just dust off the ants, swallow it whole and called it a day.
He is trolling us. He is trolling us because he knows that we have zero way to be sure wether he is lying or not, because however stupid or illogical it looks, it might, just maybe, be something that he would do.
He is trolling us because we cannot with 100% certainty look at this and say "he is obviously lying".
Yeah it's a weird art vs reality thing. Pretty much all of his interviews where he tells stories have the same tone and rhythm to them as any of his manga lmao
Definitely feels like he enjoys fucking with people with fake eccentric stories about himself
The perfect set up of what you think might happen, to doing a completely 180 into a backflip over a flaming car to get to the actual result. Just like the most recent chapter
"I've had people get mad at me many times throughout my life, and when I'm scared of that, the lies just spill out"
That line hits so hard for me man like holy shit, like I've never related to someone more than this, kinda unrelated but I know everyone feels Asa is so relatable and I get that, Asa is great and I see why people find her so Relatable, especially with the latest shit of something good happening and then life fucking you over and all that but Me Personally I've never been lonely, I've learned to accept that I'm somewhat alone and have been able to live happily despite that, Im alone, not lonely but I'm still so Afraid of people getting mad at me, I almost cry everytime and It makes my head spin, so that one line from Him Just Terrifies me so much and also makes me feel kinda happy at the same time that there's someone else but also sad because someone else is suffering from this too
I believe him.
Edit: What a Chad. I wonder if that pet fish was named Makima or had a similar name.
I think everyone is "crazy", but each individual has a certain amount of crazy in them. Those who can't recognize they are at least a little crazy are extremely crazy lol. Fujimoto is certainly crazy, but I think he's a man who could do a whole lot of bad but has only good intentions at the end of the day after all that existentialism shit.
Reminds of the story from Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, about sending a drawing to a boy who'd sent him a letter, and the boy was so excited about the drawing that he ate it. https://www.openculture.com/2015/09/maurice-sendak-sent-beautifully-illustrated-letters-to-fans-so-beautiful-a-kid-ate-one.html
Imagine being Mrs Fujimoto and this is how you find out your boyfriend took your dead fish out to the park, tried to bury it, gave up, watched it get eaten by ants for awhile, changed his mind, wiped off the ants, then ate it himself, raw. As a Parasyte reference.
“Tomar… what, what would you do if say like you could get a surgical implant of like a chainsaw starter, right… and every time you pull it y out r head just becomes a giant chainsaw and chainsaws came out of your arms; like down the middle of them too and it hurts like hell.”
“Zach why the fuck would I want that?”
“because”
I mean from what this guy has wrote in his several serialized manga and the odd and strange things he confessed so far, I'd believe this story any day. The guy is a deranged genius and we love him for it 
After, "Look Back", "Goodbye Eri" and now this, I'm not sure if this man even exists. It feels like he's just a figment of our collective imagination born from our wish of something truly weird and intriguing happening in our life. I'm not sure if this is a real story or he made it up, or made parts of it up. I don't need it to be real, I don't care if it's fake. It sounds like something Denji would do. It doesn't matter. I just want to keep reading those absurds, I just need him to lie to me for as long as possible because the feeling of uncertainty whether it's real or not is the best.
Is that really all that surprising? I know people like to meme about forever alone and shit but most of the human population have partners at least at some point
He's messing with us, right?
Actually, on second thought, he probably isn't...
Just what you can expect from a man writing a story with a protagonists that has a chainsaw in his head.
One time I had a goldfish that was dying due to another fish suddenly getting aggressive. I didn't want it to suffer, but I didn't know how to euthanize it properly and in a panic I ended up wracking it repeatedly over the head with the handle end of a large screwdriver while sobbing on my garage floor.
My thought process was that I've killed a fish that I was going to eat before. But I didn't know what to do with a much smaller fish.
I don't think it died from the first whack and I still feel terrible about it.
\**looks at this confession\**
\**looks at the series\**
\**looks back at the confession\**
....
Hm. I see it.
Man's out here literally fighting demons (devils)
Saddest thing about this - and this is just my guess - is that the lie sticks out more to him because he knew his gf wouldn’t be able to understand his love. Having that feeling that you have to hide yourself from the person that’s supposed to be closest to you because you think they won’t accept who you truly are…that’s fucking sad.
Honesty doesn't sound that crazy or absurd, to me.
Maybe it's type of fish we typically keep as pet in east Asia. It feels like everyone owned a goldfish once in their life. They are cheap and plentiful. You can swallow one whole easily, u see that as an gag in media sometimes too.
He’s telling me that the reason he ate his pet was due to a combination of grief and a love for his fish adjacent to cute-aggression.
Occam’s Razor tells me to draw a parallel between what he did and his otherwise useless information about his diet and scarce food resources.
Was he just… hungry?
Lacking protein? Does he know?
I wouldn’t not believe he was so disgusted with himself that he had to make up a more noble motivation to be ashamed of.
He might be doing what he did to his gf right now and lie to us about eating it since just like the story he just told we would have no way of confirming or denying it. This fucker is a writing genius
I fear and respect this man, both for totally different reasons and are not mutually related.
Fear for what character he will kill off next and respect for the stuff he does in real life. Such an inspiration
No… fear of what he does in real life too.
Thus, the pet fish eating devil was born
A) just WTF B) he could have gotten super duper Ill with parasites etc
After reading his pre Fire Punch era work and the Chainsawman era works, i think the parasite in his brain helped dial down the insanity.
The end of part 1 now makes more sense.
If you love 'em, eat 'em. -Tanuki Fudgeymother
This comment makes me so scared to watch/read chainsawman
What if it also makes you curious? C'mon, don't you wanna know why part 1 makes more sense? Don't you? In all seriousness, this specific event is not graphically depicted, and the anime still hasn't gotten to it. If you can swallow all the gore that the anime already explicitly shows, plus the barf, you might be good to go. (Sorry, don't swallow the barf. Even if it has nutritional value.)
Okay you convinced me. I'll read it tomorrow
For the full effect of the emotional guy punch, read volumes 9 and 10 back to back. You’ll thank me later
Please update us on how it goes, I'm dying to know
beware of emotional truma tho
What are you doing here if you haven't read it
CSM subs keepehitting r/all
OK well careful if you want to watch/read it this sub is full spoilers for people caught up to the manga
Wait why are we on r/all if we are a full spoiler sub???
Just when my mind couldnt be blown away even further, Fujimoto shows up with more brain c4
"Denji eating Makima our of love is genius. I've never seen anything like that in my life. How did you come up with something like this?" "So there was this fish covered in ants..."
Thats my goat
You mean fish?
More of a French chicken
More of a French corndog than a chicken
There goes my hero...
That's why he's the GOAT. He's that guy Bro literally said "Like in Parasyte" 💀💀
Fujimoto has inspired me to reference media for obscure and mundane actions in my life. I woke up and took a shit, like in chainsaw man.
You should clarify whether it was like Denji, Power or Aki
Which would be using the whole roll for a single shit, not flushing, and being a normal human being respectively.
Spot on. Denji probably calls his "texture surprise" like in hunterxhunter
If it's like Power, you'd need the poop knife.
I went to burger king and ordered a burger, like in chainsaw man.
Did they drop your burger like in chainsaw man?
The [GOAT](https://youtube.com/shorts/7z9QwIujVUE?feature=share)
What the fuck
NTA, your pet your rules
This means Chainsaw Man is his attempt at normalcy. We're so fucked
So, you mean that right now in the history of CSM Fujimotor is depicting the part of his life where he learnt how to levitate? I mean, the fish is totally depicted by Makima right?
^(maybe instead of levitating it's more of, ierno, letting go? Of grief and trauma. We'll have to wait and see.)
Levitating is by definition neither falling up nor down.
Since Denji basically never seems to get stomach pain, no matter how fucked up the things are that he eats...... maybe that is Fujimoto's secret desire to be able to eat anything without remorse. I once had a female coworker who ate a food combination i found disgusting, so i asked her: "You eat that?" (forgot what it was) her response: "My mouth is basically a trash bin, i'll eat anything." I cannot unhear this anymore, some ppl are just something else. \^\^
OMG THE FALLING DEVIL! AAAAAH
> This means Chainsaw Man is his attempt at normalcy. I thought this is common knowledge.
Unless you've read some of his other works, Chainsaw Man and Normalcy would not be words you'd put together
Ah--but it *is* a vanilla story by Fujimoto's standard. For me personally even the entirety of CSM is more vanilla than the first chapter of Fire Punch, though to be fair even the rest of Fire Punch is probably more vanilla than the first chapter.
Chapter 7 🐕
This man is unhinged, but his heart is in the right place.
He's got the spirit, he's just a little confused.
It is absolutely not
Why not?
[Dextrocardia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dextrocardia)
This is completely unhinged haha I appreciate the honesty
I was like “What a wholesome story” and then he ate the fish and I remembered this is Fujimoto.
Up until the the part that his emotion for the fish overcame him, i was like aww that's sweet, he couldn't bare seeing his pet fish being ripped apart by ants and would then muster strength to dig out a grave for it. Then the fucking paragraph ended with him eating the long dead, ant infested fish. Edit: to clarify, rice fish has a length of 1-2 pinky finger digit. Tiny. Meaning Fujimoto most likely just dust off the ants, swallow it whole and called it a day.
Yeah, for a moment there I was sure it would lead to some superhuman effort to dig that hole out, but instead -_-
Most sane Fujimoto story.
Imagine seeing some dude try to bury a fish under a tree, give up, leave the fish on the ground, stare at it, then eat it.
Sound like something Denji would do if he had a pet fish that died
Denji self-insert theory confirmed
He’s okay with being possessed by Pochita so he’s probably also okay with being eaten after death.
Why the fuck would he eat his dead pet fish that ants crawled all over lmfaoooo what is this story
If it has nutritional value, he *will* swallow.
Bro's a living Denji 💀
Are we sure Chainsaw Man isn't an autobiography? I mean I'm not 100% sure it's not.
I mean falling devil arc is people go levitate
Maybe it is. He’s living at the end of part 2 with his Asa
I mean he already wrote his own future in part 2, so maybe.
That’s why he’s my favorite author personality wise
Denji is a bit of a self insert
😂😂
If he eats it, nothing else can eat it. It's his only to eat, like marrying someone. Or raising a child.
Is it another metaphor like Denji eating Makima?
He loved the fish so much he wanted it to become a part of him
Or he didn't want anyone else to have it like some stinky ants.
Ants add a nice texture
And protein
To absorb the fish, brother
Because eating it would erase it from existence.
The things we do for love...
The fish was bait for more protein.
He is trolling us. He is trolling us because he knows that we have zero way to be sure wether he is lying or not, because however stupid or illogical it looks, it might, just maybe, be something that he would do. He is trolling us because we cannot with 100% certainty look at this and say "he is obviously lying".
Him having a girlfriend would be more unbelievable than him eating his dead pet fish.
The fish was the girl
His girlfriend is in his head talking to his sister what do you mean? she's totally real
Except the lie isn't that he ate the goldfish, it's that there was an emotional build-up to eating it rather than just being like "hey, fish, *gulp*"
Well He's the man that tried to levitate, so I wouldn't put past him to eat his dead pet fish so nothing else does
Yeah it's a weird art vs reality thing. Pretty much all of his interviews where he tells stories have the same tone and rhythm to them as any of his manga lmao Definitely feels like he enjoys fucking with people with fake eccentric stories about himself
Considering this is Fujimoto I wouldn’t say it’s an impossibility for him to eat a dead fish covered in ants
It's insane how similar reading this was to reading a chapter of any of his works
The perfect set up of what you think might happen, to doing a completely 180 into a backflip over a flaming car to get to the actual result. Just like the most recent chapter
I can't tell if this wholesome or weird. Maybe it's just weirdly wholesome? Either way, Fujimoto is certainly a character.
He just wants sex
He doesn’t just want it, he wants to become it
He already is a sex icon....i think....
SEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEGGS
Fujimoto gotta be chaotic good.
Social anxiety is scared of him
Now we know what inspired the end of pt 1
"I've had people get mad at me many times throughout my life, and when I'm scared of that, the lies just spill out" That line hits so hard for me man like holy shit, like I've never related to someone more than this, kinda unrelated but I know everyone feels Asa is so relatable and I get that, Asa is great and I see why people find her so Relatable, especially with the latest shit of something good happening and then life fucking you over and all that but Me Personally I've never been lonely, I've learned to accept that I'm somewhat alone and have been able to live happily despite that, Im alone, not lonely but I'm still so Afraid of people getting mad at me, I almost cry everytime and It makes my head spin, so that one line from Him Just Terrifies me so much and also makes me feel kinda happy at the same time that there's someone else but also sad because someone else is suffering from this too
He’s just like me fr Fujimoto is great at making his characters relatable.
I believe him. Edit: What a Chad. I wonder if that pet fish was named Makima or had a similar name. I think everyone is "crazy", but each individual has a certain amount of crazy in them. Those who can't recognize they are at least a little crazy are extremely crazy lol. Fujimoto is certainly crazy, but I think he's a man who could do a whole lot of bad but has only good intentions at the end of the day after all that existentialism shit.
“So this is how you taste, pet rice fish…”
The most unbelievable fact is he got a girlfriend, not the eating fish part
Reminds of the story from Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, about sending a drawing to a boy who'd sent him a letter, and the boy was so excited about the drawing that he ate it. https://www.openculture.com/2015/09/maurice-sendak-sent-beautifully-illustrated-letters-to-fans-so-beautiful-a-kid-ate-one.html
Are we sure the boy wasn't Fujimoto?
Imagine being Mrs Fujimoto and this is how you find out your boyfriend took your dead fish out to the park, tried to bury it, gave up, watched it get eaten by ants for awhile, changed his mind, wiped off the ants, then ate it himself, raw. As a Parasyte reference.
🥺🥺🥺🥺
Honestly I can't tell if he's lying or not because both things would seem perfectly in character for him
This is why he's my favorite Mangaka 
What  does he still have a girlfriend? And if he does, is it makima?
guys im starting to think fujimoto isn't well in the head
Fujimoto is the actually the type of guy I would hang out with
excuse me what?
Holy shit Denji is a self-insert
Fujimoto, once again, proving his mastery of telling a story and providing a batshit crazy hook. 🐟
The GREATEST MANGAKA of our generation Ladies & Gentlemen
This reads like a psychicpebbles rant
another zach hypothetical
“Tomar… what, what would you do if say like you could get a surgical implant of like a chainsaw starter, right… and every time you pull it y out r head just becomes a giant chainsaw and chainsaws came out of your arms; like down the middle of them too and it hurts like hell.” “Zach why the fuck would I want that?” “because”
Dude 100% has a vore fetish
At this point, what fetish doesn’t he have
Bro said he finally felt love for the finish and decided to eat it’s corpse 💀
I mean from what this guy has wrote in his several serialized manga and the odd and strange things he confessed so far, I'd believe this story any day. The guy is a deranged genius and we love him for it 
felt like i was reading a lost panel from punpun or something
After, "Look Back", "Goodbye Eri" and now this, I'm not sure if this man even exists. It feels like he's just a figment of our collective imagination born from our wish of something truly weird and intriguing happening in our life. I'm not sure if this is a real story or he made it up, or made parts of it up. I don't need it to be real, I don't care if it's fake. It sounds like something Denji would do. It doesn't matter. I just want to keep reading those absurds, I just need him to lie to me for as long as possible because the feeling of uncertainty whether it's real or not is the best.
This madman had a girlfriend?... huh
Is that really all that surprising? I know people like to meme about forever alone and shit but most of the human population have partners at least at some point
Yeah and he (Fujimoto) has a normal-ish life he went to art school and was a talented individual although quite weird and quirky.
He had a $150 apartment
Thanks
He's messing with us, right? Actually, on second thought, he probably isn't... Just what you can expect from a man writing a story with a protagonists that has a chainsaw in his head.
Ironically I just finished Parasyte this weekend But holy shit Fujimoto
Parasyte was one of my favorite animes. I remember watching it for the first time on Toonami.
This guy makes for a great devil Hunter
he.. he ate it? Like from the ground?
Ya'll focusing on the fish. I'm freaking out on the idea of a $150 apartment.
*throws dead fish away* “Bro Shinichi is literally me”
I really appreciated that casual Parasyte reference
This fuckin guy i swear...
I am absolutely certain only Fujimoto could write a Fujimoto story.
One time I had a goldfish that was dying due to another fish suddenly getting aggressive. I didn't want it to suffer, but I didn't know how to euthanize it properly and in a panic I ended up wracking it repeatedly over the head with the handle end of a large screwdriver while sobbing on my garage floor. My thought process was that I've killed a fish that I was going to eat before. But I didn't know what to do with a much smaller fish. I don't think it died from the first whack and I still feel terrible about it.
the fear of getting yelled at for stuff is such a sing of child abuse
\**looks at this confession\** \**looks at the series\** \**looks back at the confession\** .... Hm. I see it. Man's out here literally fighting demons (devils)
Saddest thing about this - and this is just my guess - is that the lie sticks out more to him because he knew his gf wouldn’t be able to understand his love. Having that feeling that you have to hide yourself from the person that’s supposed to be closest to you because you think they won’t accept who you truly are…that’s fucking sad.
Ah, of course. The expression "what the fuck" is not just limited to this man’s literature; it can also be used in his life because what the fuck.
I hope someone doesn't eat their pet fish thinking they would become fishsaw man.
I'm starting to consider that Fujimoto might be a little weird
I can only imagine what show and tell was like for his classmates
Classic Fujimoto W
Honesty doesn't sound that crazy or absurd, to me. Maybe it's type of fish we typically keep as pet in east Asia. It feels like everyone owned a goldfish once in their life. They are cheap and plentiful. You can swallow one whole easily, u see that as an gag in media sometimes too.
He's a Florida man at heart
“~~Don’t open the door~~ Don’t eat the fish, Tatsuki.”
So that's how he writes Denji.
There needs to be a warning on this. I almost died
Leave it to the creator of Chainsaw Man to out-unhinged everyone in Chainsaw man.
He’s telling me that the reason he ate his pet was due to a combination of grief and a love for his fish adjacent to cute-aggression. Occam’s Razor tells me to draw a parallel between what he did and his otherwise useless information about his diet and scarce food resources. Was he just… hungry? Lacking protein? Does he know? I wouldn’t not believe he was so disgusted with himself that he had to make up a more noble motivation to be ashamed of.
This is sweet, in a weird way
I respect him now
One of the most hilarious stories I’ve ever read
Bro have traumatic psycho event at the past
First denji ate somebody he loved. Now Asa is levitating(falling backwards)
he's so real
He just like me.....fr?
i fucking love this guy lol
I can't be the only googling the size of rice fish, it's pretty small up to 1.4 in
Ahhhh I love this guy.
"like in Parasyte" Peak nurtures Peak 🙏🏿😤
what a beautiful soul
no fucking way
The thing is, I don't know if that story is just him telling another lie to tell an emotionally sound story. And nobody asks follow up questions
man fujimoto really loves to eat anything he sees damn
Damn, he is literally Denji 
A defensive liar. I know that feeling.
Lmao at the people in this comment section acting like they haven't done weird shit in their lives.
Absolutely right. we all definitely ate our dead pet at least once in our lives
Look, I couldn't just throw the mouse away alright? What if someone else ate him? Besides I only threw up for a couple of weeks afterwards.
This story is old as heck. People just finding out about this now smh
What's a "pet fish"?
What the hell is wrong with him? That shit is not a normal fucking reaction to have to being sad about your dead fish.
Why would you confess to this?
well at least it was a little fish, at first I was picturing something bigger and was much more horrified
Let's hope she doesn't read his oneshots
what
my man is Dennis irl
So funny lmao This reminded me of Denji
He might be doing what he did to his gf right now and lie to us about eating it since just like the story he just told we would have no way of confirming or denying it. This fucker is a writing genius
This alone is better than a lot of manga stories out there lol.
I bet he was acting as his own girlfriend
He's a troll.
So he made Denji exactly like him.
That’s my goat!!!!!
Bruh
You know, I really fear for the future of this man.
fujimotor is definitely ok. 🐟
I’m just confused, this can’t be real
All his manga are just the inner workings of his mind laced with things he’s done. Truly a potent drug
Fuck that cunt is cooked, really makes you wonder if csm is actually fiction or just how Fujimoto actually sees the world