I’m so done with the way Fujimoto is handling Asa Mitaka in Chainsaw Man Part 2. Like, how do you fumble a character THIS hard? She had everything set up to be cool, and Fujimoto just said, “Nah, let’s make her boring and useless and take away her screentime.”

Every time Asa does something cool, it gets thrown away. Remember when she roasted Denji on the rooftop, called him a loser and walked off? That scene was hilarious, should’ve been a moment they called back on. But nope. Gone. Yoru even got pissed about it, but later when Asa actually finds out Denji is Chainsaw Man, Yoru just shrugs like it’s whatever. Hello??? That was supposed to be a big deal!

The timeskip is actually criminal. Yoru spent the whole manga being a pushy psycho, always telling Asa to turn people into weapons. Then, offscreen, they suddenly become BFFs? Asa even says she forgot Yoru’s a devil. Are you serious? You don’t just forget the demon living in your head who’s been nagging you to kill your crush. Fujimoto just didn’t want to write their dynamic anymore, so he skipped it. In the current arc we've been swapping between them and they've exchanged a total of like, twelve words!

Also, Asa became the leader of a 350,000 member Chainsaw Man Church during this timeskip, but we never see how that affects her. Like, shouldn’t Yoru be jealous? Shouldn’t Asa be freaking out about being famous? But nah, the story’s just like “whatever, moving on.” So what was the point of all that setup? Wasted.

The reveal that Denji is Chainsaw Man should’ve been a HUGE deal. Asa should’ve been freaking out. But nah, she just accepts it like it’s no big deal. That was one thing that the story was setting up, the drama, the saltiness, and Fujimoto just skipped it. Even Nayuta's warning meant NOTHING in the end.

Now we’re at the part where everything’s going crazy, Death Devil shows up, Yoru’s being weird, Denji’s being a dumbass, and Asa’s just doing NOTHING except