The ending of the Chainsaw Man manga has been dissected left and right, with fans writing extensive theories and essay-length analyses trying to rationalize its peculiar conclusion.
However, it is safe to say that the ending, along with all the convoluted explanations it has birthed, are reaching far beyond what was ever actually on the page.
Ever since the Chainsaw Man chapter 232 released, many have wondered what pushed author Tatsuki Fujimoto to wrap up the story abruptly and leave fans without any proper conclusion or closure.
Now, the author’s latest interview, or chat, with director Kohei Kadowaki, who is helming the upcoming movie We Are Aliens, has certainly given more insight into the bizarreness of Chainsaw Man Part 2’s final stretch, and maybe even a better understanding of why the manga’s ending is the way it is.
Fujimoto Reveals He Had No Control on Chainsaw Man’s Story
According to Fujimoto, he did not have enough time to plan out the story due to the hectic weekly serialization schedule.
Drawing 19 pages every seven days stripped away any luxury to write an advance plot or engage in creative dialogue with himself, forcing him to jump straight into storyboards and simply trust the characters and let them do whatever they wanted.
“When you have to draw 19 pages in seven days, you don’t have time to write a plot first. When I do one-shots, I write a plot before doing the name (storyboard), but during serialization, there’s no time for that, so I go straight to the name. You’re so hounded by deadlines that you have no choice but to trust the characters and grab whatever is nearest to you,” Fujimoto noted.
This intense process could very well be the reason why the manga felt increasingly directionless towards its final stretch, with the author admitting that he lost control of the plot.
However, rather than resisting this chaos, he came to enjoy the process.
“You lose the luxury of overthinking things. Things slip out of your control, right? I personally enjoy things being outside my control, so I just roll with it, but if you can’t enjoy that, you can’t survive serialization. So you simply have to trust them,” the author said, explaining why he chose to trust his characters so much.
This process was quite different from how Fujimoto handled his one shots, with the author noting that he has ample time to craft a story using his experience, which made the process enjoyable.
“With one-shots, you have the room to reflect deeply and converse with the story—in fact, that’s what makes it fun. It’s fascinating, isn’t it? Digging into your past and transmuting it into a story.“
Chainsaw Man Manga’s Ending Is Exactly What Fujimoto Wanted
While many fans may assume that Chainsaw Man Part 2’s lack of closure is an unintended consequence of serialization fatigue, Fujimoto’s previous statement suggest that this absurd ending is exactly what the author was gunning for.
In a previous interview with Da Vinci Magazine, Fujimoto revealed that he tries to move away from the conventional plot progression by incorporating unrelated events, gags, and detours to divert the audience’s awareness, before adding how much he loved the ending of the cult classic, The Big Lebowski, which according to him was pretty meaningless.
Fujimoto explicitly stated that he wanted Chainsaw Man too to give fans a similar feeling once it ended.
“Do you know of the movie The Big Lebowski? That movie really made me think ‘what even was that?’ when I was done watching it. Nothing was resolved, wasn’t everything pretty meaningless! But still, the protagonist had development, and the story progressed, there was this sublime absurdity that I loved. I want Chainsaw Man to give the reader that kind of aftertaste too.“
Fujimoto never intended to hand readers a tidy, all-encompassing resolution. And the hopes for a third part of the manga too might be misplaced as the author noted the following in his conversation with Kadowaki .
“The moment I finish drawing, I feel, ‘I’m so glad I drew this.'”
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Not a fan of the wording here for this article – “many have wondered what pushed author Tatsuki Fujimoto to wrap up the story abruptly and leave fans without any proper conclusion or closure.”.
It is not a statement of fact that there was no “proper conclusion or closure”. For those who aren’t shonen-brained looking for generic endings, there was a lot of excellent work done with how the series finished. There was a lot to like thematically and there was plenty of conclusion and culture.