This is not an anti asaden talking point or denji hate or whatever this is just recognizing the full implications of the events of the story.

This story is about abuse and how the forms of abuse and abusers themselves can greatly vary! You are supposed to be thinking about this!

I’ll ruminate more on it but cool, great, we’re really trying to pull true love out of this fucking broken ass relationship and completely disregarding Asa’s abuse experience in favor of making her the patient girlfriend just waiting for her man to show her the love she’s been giving him

I also think denji no longer recognizes faces, I think the first panel is actually his POV and how later in the chapter he seems genuinely confused about her being the falling devil

i think you're onto something

really like the cover art

A boy’s attachment to another one is seen as problematic and potentially subversive, so it is forcibly broken and used as a tool to wound him into compliance and isolation from any other relationships that may prove the same subversion.

beautiful analysis as always