Chainsaw Man Just Made It Impossible to Hate Its New Villain

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Warning! Spoilers ahead for Chainsaw Man chapter 100!

Mangaka Tatsuki Fujimoto introduced his new villain War Devil as the perfect threat for Chainsaw Man's next protagonist Asa Mitaka when he launched part two earlier this month, but now the antagonist's personality has taken such a surprising turn that readers are actually compelled to like the devil.

The relationship between Mitaka and her devil was originally a simple one. The War Devil forces a young girl to make a contract with her to help find and destroy Denji, the eponymous devil with a chainsaw for a head. To get her way, the War Devil threatens the poor Mitaka and whenever she needs to take matters into her own hands, the villain puts her host into compromising situations regardless of how they might affect her. Readers, like Mitaka, obviously began to view the War Devil as a major threat after just one chapter of this. They therefore automatically felt inclined to despise the villain for manipulating their poor hero, hoping that either Mitaka would overcome her tormenter or that a devil hunter, preferably Denji, defeated her.

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But chapter 100 of Chainsaw Man begins to portray the War Devil in a very different light. The least shocking of the two is when the devil asks her host if they should sell some shoes that Mitaka's very insistent school devil hunter partner Yuko forces Mitaka to wear earlier. But, earlier, Chainsaw Man's new villain the War Devil recognizes what's happening when Mitaka is bullied and actually offers to take care of the situation for her.

The implications behind how the devil reacts to bullying imply that she's aware of how this ubiquitous form of harassment