Chainsaw Man Chapter 195, Kill Me Tears Review: The Fourth Horseman.

After so many memes in the fandom about different characters being the Death Devil, it seems that Fujimoto has finally revealed her in Chapter 195, “Kill Me Tears.”
The chapter begins with Asa turning her finger gun on herself, but she is thankfully too scared of death to end it.
She then goes back to aiming at Denji and threatens to kill him if he does not kill her.
Asa’s reasoning for doing so is that Yoru is planning something much worse than the extinction of humanity, so she wants to stop Yoru before she can accomplish it.
Asa calls herself an idiot for thinking that she could be friends with a Devil, but Denji responds, “I think you could be friends.”
This is a great callback to Part One where Denji was confident in being friends with Devils, due to his bond with Pochita.
However, after much insistence from Asa, Denji relents and attempts to kill her with a chair, only for Asa to jump out of the way and humorously call him a murderer.
She states she was not mentally prepared to die, and Denji responds that nobody is, even him, and he can come back to life.
This paints a grim picture of Denji’s constant deaths throughout the series since, despite his immortality, they still impact him.
In the end, he is able to temporarily appease Asa by convincing her to have fun with him shooting buildings.
This was a great scene between the two.
It built upon Asa’s growing fear of Yoru and showed Denji’s opinion on his constant deaths.
Fear of death is a clear theme in this scene and the entire chapter, which makes it very fitting that Fujimoto ends it by supposedly introducing the Death Devil.
We see her arriving as a transfer student at the school, where the other students are preparing for the festival Fami talked about last chapter.
The supposed Death Devil nervously introduces herself, claiming she is here to save everyone, ending the chapter.
It is strange that the Death Devil turned out to be such a nervous wreck.
I mean, she should theoretically be the strongest Devil since every human fears death.
For her to end up with a personality similar to Kobeni is pretty funny.
That is, if she is the Death Devil because she could always be the reincarnation of the Control Devil.
This seems unlikely though because Nayuta was a kid when she reincarnated, and this new Devil looks like a teenager.
Assuming she is the Death Devil, her saying she is here to save everyone is especially interesting.
Combine that with Asa’s terror at Yoru’s plan, and it makes me think that Yoru may actually turn out to be Chainsaw Man Part Two’s big bad.
Perhaps she intends to kill the Death Devil so there can be constant war with no death, which will empower her?
Either way, I am looking forward to seeing how the Death Devil (if this is her) will interact with the other horsemen.
Her and Yoru will obviously be at odds but what about Fami?
Overall, “Kill Me Tears” is a great chapter.
Fujimoto used the theme of fearing death to supposedly introduce a Devil fans have been anticipating for a while.
The fallout of her arrival should be interesting.

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