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7/25/2025, 9:10:12 PM
FC neither makes sense and it's also just...bad.
I would be perfectly fine with it if the story actually focused on Asa and Yoru's relationship for a change, if they preserved their dynamic from Justice where Yoru urges Asa to be more devil-like, be violent and selfish to get what she really wants and stop making excuses.
In the actual Fight Club, the dynamic is perfect because the story is ENTIRELY about Narrator and Tyler's relationship, through the Narrator's eyes we uncover Tyler's mysteries, where he lives, what he does for a living, his ideals, his danger...only for it to be the Narrator himself, which is brilliant.
Part 2 doesn't do anything near that with Asa and Yoru's relationship because for some ungodly reason, Fujimoto decided to sideline their relationship. Their relationship has a steady progression from volumes 12-14 up until the beginning of Falling:
In Justice, Yoru possesses detachment from human values and can read Asa's mind perfectly, so she cuts through Asa's lies, she tells her that she doesn't reeeally care about the people she hurt and that she should just kill her bullies and her best friend, with Asa denying and avoiding it at every turn, dismissing it as "scary stuff she doesn't want to think about".
In Aquarium this is put on a hold for us to see how Asa behaves without the influence of an evil devil on her head, how even cornered she can't drive herself to hurt another for her own gain.
Then in Falling their relationship reaches a breaking point, Yoru is frustrated at Asa's disobedience for her own survival and Asa can't trust Yoru because she knows nothing about her and she is abusive.
And then it all just...stops.
The next time we see them Asa and Yoru are suddenly friends when none of the points above were ever addressed, Asa is missing 2/3 of her character and the story focuses completely on their obsession with Chainsaw Man/Denji, we're just left to assume that Asa is just that naive.
I would be perfectly fine with it if the story actually focused on Asa and Yoru's relationship for a change, if they preserved their dynamic from Justice where Yoru urges Asa to be more devil-like, be violent and selfish to get what she really wants and stop making excuses.
In the actual Fight Club, the dynamic is perfect because the story is ENTIRELY about Narrator and Tyler's relationship, through the Narrator's eyes we uncover Tyler's mysteries, where he lives, what he does for a living, his ideals, his danger...only for it to be the Narrator himself, which is brilliant.
Part 2 doesn't do anything near that with Asa and Yoru's relationship because for some ungodly reason, Fujimoto decided to sideline their relationship. Their relationship has a steady progression from volumes 12-14 up until the beginning of Falling:
In Justice, Yoru possesses detachment from human values and can read Asa's mind perfectly, so she cuts through Asa's lies, she tells her that she doesn't reeeally care about the people she hurt and that she should just kill her bullies and her best friend, with Asa denying and avoiding it at every turn, dismissing it as "scary stuff she doesn't want to think about".
In Aquarium this is put on a hold for us to see how Asa behaves without the influence of an evil devil on her head, how even cornered she can't drive herself to hurt another for her own gain.
Then in Falling their relationship reaches a breaking point, Yoru is frustrated at Asa's disobedience for her own survival and Asa can't trust Yoru because she knows nothing about her and she is abusive.
And then it all just...stops.
The next time we see them Asa and Yoru are suddenly friends when none of the points above were ever addressed, Asa is missing 2/3 of her character and the story focuses completely on their obsession with Chainsaw Man/Denji, we're just left to assume that Asa is just that naive.
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