This is crazy lmao

          • purpleworm [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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            4 days ago

            Chainsaw Man starts circa 1997 but history has been warped by several factors, implicitly due to

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            Chainsaw Man erasing the history and memory of Nazis, atomic weaponry, AIDS, and other important historical features

            though at the same time it takes place even in a very different universe than ours even beyond Devils because of elements that

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            Chainsaw Man also erased that have seemingly cosmic importance, like “Four possible conclusions other than death at the end of living beings’ lifespans,” which suggests the base state of the universe was a much more bizarre fantasy situation that Chainsaw Man dragged down to the lower fantasy of Devils and Hell being the only fantasy elements (a distinction that only exists on a meta-textual level, of course) before averting the reality of that world by also eating a bunch of real things.