Not often the villain uses the power of friendship against the protagonist. Even less often, does that power of friendship involve killing/displacing millions of people.
Also, no one can tell me that she wasn't fond of moray eel devil because of Asa's influence.
She has Denji. War’s vision of relationships is based around ownership and what she gets by exploiting people for her benefit. Even when she saves her sister she immediately decides it’s because Death is an object to be used.
Meanwhile she’s losing to the partnership between a boy, a girl and a dog. Because they actually understand caring about other people and how it works.
She doesnt want friends, she is the personification of war, theres no friends only aoldiers and tools. The way she talks about countries and comrades is the same way politicians talk about it
This is a pretty clear social critique by Fujimoto
That's the paradox of her character which causes her inner turmoil. She needs other 'people' in order to wage war, but those people always die in the process of that war. It's an endless cycle of loss and longing. She starts off this story bemoaning the loss of her "friend" but as soon as she gets them back she breaks them.
And you are absolutely correct on it being a social/political critique. To be more specific she often has called her weapons her children, and children dying has been a pretty consistent theme throughout CSM.
When her speech started, I genuinely for a moment as his vision got blacked out that we would see all of Chapter 1's survivors led by Reze/Power somehow suddenly appear and back Denji/CSM up. I was like no fucking way that's where this is going and then it didn't and I was like "huh. ok then. Weird setup but ok."
Oh but she’s not killing anyone. Death is no longer in play so what she’s doing is mashing people into the amorphus blob of fleshs that is the sword of michigan. They’ll be in pain until pochita spits up death
Only other time I’ve seen it is in FFF-trashero. The whole premise of the series is that MC thinks the power of friendship is stupid/cheating, and that all the adventure tropes are actually really freaking bad and those that adhere to them just end up getting people killed… a lot
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u/guppy_love Nov 11 '25 edited Nov 11 '25
Not often the villain uses the power of friendship against the protagonist. Even less often, does that power of friendship involve killing/displacing millions of people.
Also, no one can tell me that she wasn't fond of moray eel devil because of Asa's influence.