Chainsaw Man Chapter 172, Bzz! Boom! Chomp! Review: Called It.

In my review for Chapter 171 of Chainsaw Man, I predicted that Pochita would instantly kill the titular Special Division 5 at the beginning of the following chapter.
I was so confident about this that I literally titled the review, “They’re All Going to Die.”
Well, surprise, surprise, Chapter 172 begins with Pochita immediately slaughtering all of the newly introduced Fiends and their handler.
One of the Fiends seems to have successfully avoided the attack, only for them to immediately lose their head in a moment which had me laughing at the darkly comedic timing.
With Special Division 5 dead, the Devil Hunters of course throw Special Division 6 at Pochita.
Because that totally had a chance of working!
The 6th Division gets wiped out quicker than the first and I have to wonder what exactly Public Safety’s plan is?
Are they just going to throw Divisions 7 through 100 at Pochita individually and hope that they eventually kill him?
Well, whatever plan they do have is going to be next to impossible to communicate now that all of the characters have no ears.
In a disturbing panel, Pochita seems to be lining up the heads of the various Fiends he killed to eat, and he starts with the Ear Devil.
This removes the very concept of ears from the world so now people can’t hear each other.
It is pretty funny to think that Public Safety thought having the Ear Devil fight Chainsaw Man was a good idea.
Seriously, who’s afraid of ears?
Now they have only made their jobs harder, since they can no longer communicate using sound.
Did all of the competent people at Public Safety die, leaving only the idiots?
We’ll just have to see as the story progresses if their plan is as idiotic as it seems or if there is something more to it.
I doubt ears will stay gone forever, though.
Having the characters unable to communicate through sound for the rest of the story would be difficult to pull off.
So, how will ears return?
Well, Pochita will probably throw the devil representing it up again.
And who better to accomplish this task than Yoru?
She did promise to make Chainsaw Man throw up nuclear weapons at the beginning of Part One.
The chapter ends with her realizing Chainsaw Man has taken a concept away, her expression angered.
Looks like the long-awaited fight between the War Devil and Chainsaw Man is about to begin.
Yoru and Asa may be the only ones who can stand up to Pochita, since they were empowered by the growing fear of war.
I am really looking forward to this fight, which has been built up since Asa rescued Denji from Public Safety.
Let’s see how Fujimoto pulls it off.
Chapter 171 is yet another solid Chainsaw Man chapter, which shows off the power of Pochita, while hyping up the fight between him and Yoru.