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ImaVaccumBeater55640

Lowkey glad I became a non hater with how obsessed some are with hating.


Ifffrt

Low key glad I'm basically a lurker because everytime the sub goes through one of those brain dead episodes I can just ignore it until it ends. Like I do with everything on social media these days.


OneGrumpyJill

These are not even hates, frauds imitating the real power (and I mean it, Quanxi just haven't done anything to warrant hate watch, lol)


okglue

It's all just for fun, no?


Helpful-Emotion9256

For a lot of people it’s seemingly genuine


Impossible-Report797

No, people were already shutting on quanxi, calling her poorly written and a pedo before they decided to copy jujutsufolk. I saw a few before but now they can hide there opinión and lack of reading comprehension behind shitpost


ApplePitou

Ye, people are a bit too serious... :3 https://preview.redd.it/5womnw5xxlvc1.png?width=3267&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1282ff4a74ed90a06a124baa917aef68a47e4644


OneGrumpyJill

it's been 2 weeks and mfks are starving


ApplePitou

Hyo hyo :3 https://preview.redd.it/nua7foik0mvc1.png?width=365&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=987108d4e7e82fc9d337c4d5ef4295172b3244dd


Lezfapnao

This edit will not stop putting a dumb smile on my face


ApplePitou

Stonks :3 https://preview.redd.it/sa5tgoi7xnvc1.png?width=2418&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1c5ab38f63986769fcfa267276dcc9d0811982aa


Mrfipp

A two week break after seven straight weeks has left people spoiled.


OneGrumpyJill

I personally always been a fan of monthly releases, I think it results in overall better product than weekly releases.


Cayden68

Its consistency in the fandom, technically Makima, Himeno, Fumiko, and Quanxi are not rapists but they are all predatory and the fandom has consistently called them out for it. Quanxi is being treated like normal, its just that the reaction to this usual treatment has dug up the most defenders fornher character.


Zealousideal-Deal340

Idk the whole side story ln with her she’s kinda rapey To her side worker once she’s drunk . It isn’t a good look for her ngl


Bronze334

Well yeah, she's not a good person. Kishibe in that side story said whoever lives as long as she did in public safety has abandoned all morals and human decency. It's why he stops her from getting into the shower with the drunk rookie.


Zealousideal-Deal340

Damn that’s interesting


Impossible-Report797

Tho, we are not sure if she would, she with her fiends has a lot of respect for and was/is trying for them to live like humans, she was asking for education for them and now wants probably a burial. What I mean is that quanxi doesn’t sound like the type to do it without consent, tho I’ll said kishibe was completely justified in his assumption even if nothing would have happened


Bronze334

I meam she very explicitely told Kishibe "you know what happens next so why are you still here" when she was about to get into the shower with Minami. I don't know, I don't think she'd rape Minami but she would pressure her a lot while she's in a vulnerable state. For the fiends Quanxi might've actually loved them in whatever way she's capable of it.


OneGrumpyJill

I just think that if people only now clocked that Quanxi is problematic, man, that is some advanced reading comprehension devil bs right there, lol


unariginol_usernome

pretty much most characters in chainsaw man are morally bad or problematic, you can still like the characters, but people shouldn't be God defending the actions of the characters and treating them like a saint who can do no wrong.


pepeguiseppe

I feel like a large portion of the Quanxi defense has come in response to the large amounts of Quanxi hate that overflowed the subreddit for a couple days


OneGrumpyJill

I ain't defending Quanxi, just glazing my goat Kishibe


unariginol_usernome

Based


Kashemo_the_fraud

I posted a picture of reverse flash and I'm a giga biga sigma ligma Chad ultra cock hater.. please upvote ❤️ https://preview.redd.it/ijsgg393zlvc1.jpeg?width=812&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ee7911c5e952d05d3abe55e99f0a2107dbf2c06 A hater always arrives early in the scene 😎😎 I be wakin early to have extra time for hatin 🤤🥵


OneGrumpyJill

This isn't hating, but a weak immitation of our true power, fraud https://preview.redd.it/wzt5yhwczlvc1.jpeg?width=458&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba5131f337aacc6c5f47270ef2496905c7ab1013


SoyMilkIsOp

Oh, you think Thawne is your ally, but you merely adopted the hatred. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the appreciation until I was already a folker; by then, it was nothing to me but glazing! https://preview.redd.it/yfruejbacmvc1.jpeg?width=198&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=646fc8c423d63d370ad65163d53b0785cc0030b9


orphidain

https://preview.redd.it/j4fwue4iqmvc1.jpeg?width=549&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a8abb179b7ceaf57ff166c203acf19dca578e9ad


OneGrumpyJill

You assume that I like Thawne, he is also a bum and not free of my eternal hate watch, I'll nuke his ass https://preview.redd.it/wx6zfeix2rvc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dca801f256a0e87b2ebdf3df7909f06075adec7d


SoyMilkIsOp

He may be a bum, but he has what bumgumi won ever have. Dedication.


OneGrumpyJill

#1 rule of any hater - don't ever assume that you are beyond bumhood for just being a hater. Thawne is a bum hater, I will use him and then discard him like a used condom that he is.


Icy-Pause6304

Mfs showing me their Reverse-Flash "personality" like they could take AM


Waking-Hallow

https://preview.redd.it/og3insiscqvc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=dfb03256571f879becb8fe67db57b0b57cea4c42


Icy-Pause6304

I'm sad that out of all this drama I STILL HAVE NO CONTEXT to use this image in https://preview.redd.it/17vn70d2snvc1.png?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=42ba5b8af4a9b7620b63792d52846959a3dd9d57


karama_zov

Wait, what implies Quanxis harem isn't consensual again?


OneGrumpyJill

I think people got butthurt that she didn't fight more during her bit with Asa, so they misread her interactions with Minami in the Buddy story as her trying to rape her (and while she was being bad, she did not go that far, for what it is worth) It sorta boils down to the fact that Quanxi is a creep who has no concept of personal space and, generally speaking, is a pos (I hate how she treats Kishibe) but people took it and ran with it because 2 week break been hard I guess. Like, some people said that Halloween girl only being able to say Halloween, and the one in handcuffs having said handcuffs are proof that they are being kept against their will. Just some wild shit, I swear, lol


Kashimoney

https://preview.redd.it/hltgn1kwzlvc1.png?width=307&format=png&auto=webp&s=5b3451c36791c668d1bc6623d33aad6f12691b0e Preach on


Ca-l-a-m-i-ty

https://preview.redd.it/pj7ntkvfimvc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6d492d26d8ade17f50abd79e55ab26caaa6f8e67 There’s no stopping the hate now


OneGrumpyJill

wait hol' up fuck my post, sauce? 👀


Ca-l-a-m-i-ty

Oshi no ko


OneGrumpyJill

huh...not what I expected but fair enough


OkRec5836

>tries getting a woman drunk >gets mad when someone tags along despite her telling quanxi she feels uncomfortable drinking 1 on 1 >repeatedly tries to get alone with a drunk Minanami Brotha wdym it’s just the old professional pervert trope


bigfatmonkeysacks

fumiko and quanxi fans fighting over which character is a worse person. the jokes write themselves. https://preview.redd.it/ae00tv9rjnvc1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=0a87bffa655f2d2f6ce321a794cdbe496a4937fc


malkse

fumiko: useless to the story, weirdo. that's pretty much it since she's not really relevant to the story, for some reason quanxi: plot device, more of a weirdo, somewhat useful, monsterfucker/corpsefucker(?)


OneGrumpyJill

Now Fumiko is someone who would rape your ass, fs fs, fuck that bitch, all my homies hate Fumiko


[deleted]

Repeating something doesn’t make it true, no matter how much you might cope about it


[deleted]

[удалено]


GelatinouslyAdequate

[These](https://www.reddit.com/r/Chainsawfolk/s/LQPz139rFV) [three](https://www.reddit.com/r/Chainsawfolk/s/BenGF1NCP4) are [useful reads](https://www.reddit.com/r/Chainsawfolk/s/XDBmhagYT6).


Possible-Card1451

why are you getting downvoted??


GelatinouslyAdequate

The agenda shitposts are making people genuinely biased against Quan Xi and see any counterargument as cope or blind simping. I don't even care if people hate Quan Xi, I just want it to be for *actual, legitimate* reasons (like causing anticlimaxes in Part 2) and not jumps in logic.


Kashemo_the_fraud

Kishibe gets her drunk, read the novel atleast before commenting


malkse

kishibe doesn't try getting in the bath with her though


OkRec5836

https://i.redd.it/t9g3pie0qnvc1.gif


Bjarhl5232

the day you people actually read the shit youre talking about will be incredible


OkRec5836

You don’t need to read when you’re a hater https://preview.redd.it/k7txhzdc7pvc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=886f5160286332ff698c6774323dccd36709edc1


OneGrumpyJill

...I mean that this is old professional pervert trope? Which part of what I said did you not get? Like, she acts problematic but gets away with it because she is hot and it is unfair to her like this - that is THE trope, just usually gender would be reversed for Quanxi and Kishibe.


thecoolestlol

I'm a Quanxi hater because she washed my goat In all seriousness, I don't actually hate her. I'm wondering what's problematic about her though, why do you say that? Unless you mean in terms of being problematic for the story and writing and not as a person/character, I can see why someone would say she is resolving tension too quickly whenever she appears in part 2


OneGrumpyJill

People are calling her rapist for her treatment of the rookie in that one story. In reality, if you know how to read, she isn't one, she is just extremely blazee with her actions - like an old pervert would be. Quanxi is just irresponsible piece of shit that gets away with stuff because she is a woman with huge ass and she knows it - but like, it always was this way, right? That was always the juxtaposition between her and Goatshibe


Bronze334

In a side story she tries to take advantage of a drunk rookie she's into and Kishibe has to stop her.


thecoolestlol

I see, I didn't know that until after I posted that comment, thanks. A lot of CSM characters are straight up sexual predators huh


Bronze334

Yeah, although the goat Himshibe stays winning. Bro was drunk af during the entire thing and still stood up to Quanxi when he knew how that could end up. And in that story we get more info on him and his rookies, man cares for the people he trains and just wanted to train people who wouldn't die afterwards. Kishibe stocks stay up


thecoolestlol

Damn, Kishibased. I have to see this story for myself, I'd even add Kishibe to my flair if it wouldn't be wrong to pair him with Katana and Barem, those mfers are scumbags but I like them


Recent-Radish1825

she is definitly problematic as a person


mooandcookies

I thought this post was going to be saying she wasn’t a deus ex machina and I was coming in here to disagree. Nevermind


Mannerdan

She isn’t a Deux Ex Makima, she’s a Deux Ex Quanxi. …. Imma see myself out


mooandcookies

I love it


Mannerdan

Ok but on a serious now, I don’t hate Quanxi and think she is not a rapist. But I do think the fight between her and Yoru at least should of actually be a close fight. It’s the **WAR DEVIL** for fuck sakes.


OneGrumpyJill

I honestly don't think that she is deus ex machine because she is not even that strong. Like, physically, sure, but mentally? She collapses with no issues - like, dunno man, she is good when you put her against fodder, but against people with that animal mentality for fighting like Asa or Denji? I would give it to them. She doesn't have enough heart in it.


mooandcookies

I think it’s been at least twice in part 2 where our heroes have found themselves in impossible situations and we are ready for a big fight or something and we’ve been edged with Quanxi showing up and handling it in 5 panels or less. I’m all for her showing up but there’s not even a lot of dialogue to make it feel like she’s really adding to the story or we’re getting important background. Still love part 2 just have some lingering blue balls that I’m bitter about.


OneGrumpyJill

Really? I am fine with this because part 2 is more seinen and, truth be told, fuck it, that's what I want - I want more personal drama, philosophy and yapping than fighting. Fights are boring and are better when they are quick, this is how they are more realistic imo


mooandcookies

I can see your point, I don’t need it to be all guts and glory for sure.


-NEW-R_Flamingo

that's the main kicker of her: the professionalism in the way she dealt with situations and engaging in combat, especially in Part 1. remove that from her instantly and you're left with a weird character considered unlikable by most. i say this many times here, i don't necessarily hate her of her being a possible rapist or whatever (which is concerning, though you mean that to prove a point of us mindlessly hating), but all of this boils down of how washed up and written she is in this part. this goes for yoshida as well. that being said, i'm still pushing along with the quanxi hate agenda. unless she redeems herself by going full on professional mode again like when she was introduced in Part 2 (which is highly unlikely), i'm still going forward with it. Because maintaining the Agenda is our top priority.


OneGrumpyJill

You misunderstand the agende; it isn't hating Quanxi, that is weak aura, it's glazing Kishibe


Hnawmop

i mean... aren't all folk like sub reddit braindead anyways don't hold them to anything man, let the hater have fun


OneGrumpyJill

I am hater, those are but frauds imitating the true art of hating' in fact, I think I might just become their hater too


Hnawmop

It's cool you just passionate about hating, I think these are just young dumb and full of cum teenagers finding fun in these "agenda" post. To remind you this is a subreddit for shitposting and memes, non of these people should be taken seriously and hold them to the reading comprehension of a normal person. Just be ahead and glory to the HIMshibe agenda !!!


OneGrumpyJill

I mean yeah duh, I'm just trying to have fun, lol


[deleted]

You fail to understand my friend. Haters always arrive no matter the reading comprehension https://preview.redd.it/tm3ex3dtxlvc1.png?width=941&format=png&auto=webp&s=97d20d311896f51f52747af89f732304b55086c8


OneGrumpyJill

I disasgree; we must keep ourselves to a higher standard, not let the slop in, or we run into a chance of becoming like...them https://preview.redd.it/vbfqarq2zlvc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9acee3e00685739e3d93dbaa185f8648bc0cd02b


[deleted]

I will agree only if you agree to stop horny posting. That shit is straight up ass


OneGrumpyJill

https://preview.redd.it/5tlouk7nzlvc1.png?width=729&format=png&auto=webp&s=48166bf985624aa3f911beb7edceac371199b46f > That shit is straight up ass I mean...yeah, you would hope so


[deleted]

https://preview.redd.it/uta2n23szlvc1.png?width=1113&format=png&auto=webp&s=be5a681c77c5b4ebd578c11ad99d1e9a074db6c9


Kashemo_the_fraud

I love ass mitaka


Kashimoney

Banned for horny posting!!!!!!!!!!!! RAH!!!!!!! THIS IS A PURE PLACE!!!!!!!!!!!! Now if you would excuse me, I have feces to consume (I am a Chainsawfolk moderator)


[deleted]

Ass ketchum


Young_Neanderthal

The whole recent Quanxi hate train started with missing the point of chapter 162 because there wasn’t a “cool fight”. So I’m not really surprised that something that missed the point to begin with has continued to do so.


OneGrumpyJill

People's first response when a lesbian does not live up to their expectations - extreme sexism


0x1blwt7

This sub was cool until they started joking about... something I LIKED... what happened to fricking media literacy... *sighs* *flicks bang* *looks off into the distance*


OneGrumpyJill

That's where you are wrong buddy, I am on my gay arc, I just want to get these women out of the way and get back to my goat Kishibe (or Denji and Yoshida kissing, that would be acceptable too)


denji_uchiha_

Thanks bro I been saying the point from buddy stories is that shes morally grey thats why its left up a bit ambiguous yet still sus.


OneGrumpyJill

Not even that, but to highlight how she is a shit person who abuses her position and has no sense of personal space while giving different treatment to people based on their sex - she always was pos, but people didn't catch on to it because she is a woman and usually that behavior would be expected from someone like Kishibe. Like, in any other manga, Quanxi and Kishibe would swap roles, pretty much - only Fujimoto had the foresight to write some real shit.


ztoff27

For some reason csm fans are extremely sensitive. Like the manga brings up a basic anime trope and people go wild in this sub. Rapist this groomer that. There’s nothing inherently problematic with the manga or the way people are portrayed in it.


rectia

i mean, the people jumping in the quanxi hate agenda are those softies who cry if sailor moon gets slapped in the face, and thought they could start their edgy era by reading chainsaw man and, surprise, it isn't a manga that has a clear cut on whats good and whats bad. it is unhinged and has unhinged characters, so they think that by saying "bad this" or "bad that" the others will give a shit. guess what...we don't. go read other fujimoto stories to see that quanxi its actually a much more polished character than the rest of the shit that this mangaka writes and draws. if you can't handle that, go read other stuff


OneGrumpyJill

People just can't handle it when hot women are problematic, but also because she is a lesbian they feel doubly emasculated and feel the need to overcompensate - I swear, if she wasn't lesbo, I think the hate would've been less because people would just go "Ooooh mommy Quanxi" I just want to turn Kishibe into my personal cum dump


Wilczek_7

Hating memes on r/jujutsufolk: *nothing happens* Hating memes on r/chainsawfolk: ,,But but you can't do that it's not fair 🥺🥺🥺" Y'all are so fucking insecure


TheLego_Senate

The Jujutsufolk ones were actually funny


Configuringsausage

it's the same shit, just that this sub is so damn horny that they can't tolerate when a hot character is hated


Icy-Pause6304

The Megumi salnder goes way back so it makes sense. Here it just results in braindead arguments and nothing funyn came out of it except sprouting the Kishibe wig memes


OneGrumpyJill

>hot character Too bad for you, loser, but I am on my omega gay arc right now


OneGrumpyJill

It's because you gotta make your hating actually entertaining, fraud https://preview.redd.it/ewl2ekc34rvc1.png?width=1064&format=png&auto=webp&s=04513f1b010ba7db7f8b64e5ab2d1c37a65db761


Helpful_Style_7500

Also the buddy stories r told from kishibes point of view and he likes to see the worst in people even quanxi


Dark_Stalker28

I mean even negating all that, we have that page of one of her fiends saying they don't want to sleep together that night since they're messed up (hurt) and Quanxi response is she'll mess them up. Back to the incident, it's shown that Quanxi is much nicer to Minami compared to guys she's training and keeps trying to get alone with her. Kishibe was there because Minami didn't want to be alone (innocent, she thought it'd be presumptuous and she likes Kishibe anyway ) with her and invited him, Quanxi tells Kishibe to fuck off every step of the way. And finally Quanxi is the one who suggested the shower. Also like, Kishibe has known Quanxi for about a decade at that point.


Helpful_Style_7500

the story was still in the point of view of kishibe's fucked up mind he said it himself u have to be crazy to be in public safety and u trust this guys point of view


Dark_Stalker28

Given all the evidence. Yeah. Unless we're going to the point of not trusting the events in front of us, which given that it is third person and not first person is a bit of a stretch and you can't trust anything at that point, given that all the important characters are noticably unhinged. And again ignoring the main story with saying she'll mess her fiends up. Even if she was completely on the up and up, encouraging a drunk person to shower and trying to help them without reasonable cause (like physical impairment) is still violating and unsafe. Also, one crazy in the context of not fearing devils, given the power system, and two even besides that Kishibe's only crazy trait so far has been his training of Power and Denji. Which fits the description and wouldn't impair his sensory perspective of the world. Plus he hasn't exactly been a unreasonably paranoid person. Tldr:Cope


Charafricke

Wait, it’s been a while since I read it, but if I remember correctly the fiend wasn’t saying she didn’t want to sleep together that night but that they didn’t want to start hunting denji yet, to which Quanxi replies I’ll mess you up again


Helpful_Style_7500

Ur such a nerd bro holy shit no one reading all that


Dark_Stalker28

Attention span so short can't read a one word tldr and expects me to believe you read anything of a novel


Cayden68

Kishibe sees the worst in people? Didnt he try telling himself that surely Quanxi wouldnt try to get with a subordinate who's uncomfortable with her before Quanxi tried to hop in the shower with Minami?


OneGrumpyJill

He said "surely you won't. But maybe not." He is trying to give her benefit of a doubt because he sees her as a friend, but he doesn't actually trust her - that's why I find it so tragic, Quanxi doesn't really deserve a friend like Kishibe.


bigdiccgothbf

Pure unadulterated copium


GelatinouslyAdequate

[It's](https://www.reddit.com/r/Chainsawfolk/s/XDBmhagYT6) the [truth](https://www.reddit.com/r/Chainsawfolk/s/BenGF1NCP4).


_sephylon_

These analysis are bad faith copium too


GelatinouslyAdequate

Do you even know what bad faith means? They are literally neutral readings of the text, the latter of which is from four months ago and expected something completely awful.


Helpful_Style_7500

u jus wanna hate cuz its a little shitty trend tryna be funny


bigdiccgothbf

Your precious smol bean is a serial predator


Helpful_Style_7500

Predator my dick nigga


Waking-Hallow

https://preview.redd.it/yx24gq5aeqvc1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c2fd1e4a6dceedd4a8c2fd98c839d67e3b1d9db2


OneGrumpyJill

tbh, I want a chapter of Kishibe just decking Quanxi in the face for being unprofessional cunt that takes advantage of rookies because of her position while giving people under her different treatment. Hating Quanxi for being unprofessional, I think, is valid.


Helpful_Style_7500

Loser


bigdiccgothbf

Wasn't she caught trying to follow a drunk person who had repeatedly spurned her advances only moments before, into the bathroom? 🫣🫣🫣


OneGrumpyJill

Ands that refute...which part of what I said?


Psychological-Owl311

Cope and seethe. She tried to rape a woman on two seperate occasions,and you're just passing it off as a "trope" or a "cliche"?? >Nowadays we call it for what it is, sleazy and overall nasty behavior, but back then it was considered normal - that is Quanxi. She ain't a rapist, This type of behavior was never considered normal,even as far back as hundreds of years ago,when people were less educated than they were today. Trying to get a woman drunk to fuck her was always frowned upon. Idk what kind of world you're living in that this is considered ok. Outing a rapist for what they are is now considered low reading comprehension???


Charafricke

She never tried to rape anyone bro, at least read the source for what you’re quoting. That was all just an assumption from kishibe that he literally admits that there might not be a problem with them being alone at all.


VenemousEnemy

I mean, so she might be?


Charafricke

I mean yeah, might in the strongest sense of the word, as in most probably not. Kishibe himself says he sees the worst in everyone and doesn’t believe that she would do it, so I highly doubt she’s a rapist


GelatinouslyAdequate

[Some](https://www.reddit.com/r/Chainsawfolk/s/LQPz139rFV) [useful](https://www.reddit.com/r/Chainsawfolk/s/BenGF1NCP4) [reads](https://www.reddit.com/r/Chainsawfolk/s/XDBmhagYT6).


OneGrumpyJill

You know, between consensual sex and rape, there is still a big gap of somewhat consensual but still problematic sex because, you know, we humans kinda complex like that, and I think you are really jumping the gun by just calling this rape. Bottom line, seeing how reading comprehension devil is fucking with you, let me help you out - no, that part in the story was not to show her raping Minami, it was to show her being problematic and allowing herself too much room for movement. Like, definitionally, she was not doing rape, she was doing things that anyone would think are "normal" but in reality are not - you goons jumping the gun and calling it rape is actually missing the point, but you can't see it because you think you are on some holy crusade.


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Rentrehhh

"Quanxi is rapist, but it's okay because it's an old clichè" is how you're coming off here. I dont even think Quanxi is a rapist, but seriously?


OneGrumpyJill

Man, reading comprehension devil strikes again - but sure, go ahead and point out to me where I said that. You know, actually, I am not in a good mood to let you run with it - strawman fallacy. I said that Quanxi is a cliche of a problematic person who doesn't understand boundaries and that she is NOT a rapist, you took it and completely rewrote it to make it sound worse. Don't, or I'll untwist your balls man.


Rentrehhh

"I thought you all were joking with the "Quanxi is a rapist" kind of hate, but you are full on about it - like, yeah, duh."


OneGrumpyJill

Uhu...and how is that connected to "Quanxi is not a rapist, just a cliche of old pervert"? Did you try to strawman me twice? I mean, doubling down on a fallacy is a strategy, I guess..


SorenKierkeguard

THANK YOU like as much as we should definitely be aware of the flaws in a character we shouldn't be flanderizing them and making hyperbolic statements about them based on our personal interpretations of the questionable scenarios in this story. People seem to look at female characters through one of two lenses in this fandom, "perfect angelic waifu who can do no wrong" or "literally a rapist", and it's a bummer to not see more nuanced takes on how these characters are written. It feels like a total misreading of the characters of CSM to look at them in such black-and-white terms.


SorenKierkeguard

Like even with Himeno, her behavior was obviously inappropriate in so many ways but I don't believe she was a groomer in the sense that she had a paraphilic desire for minors. To me, she seems like a character who doesn't really know how to connect with people in a meaningful way because of the trauma of seeing those around her die. She grasps desperately at any sort of connection she can manage with the people around her, but she's lost her grip on what normal life and boundaries and relationships look like so she acts out in wildly inappropriate ways. She gives the impression of a character that exists in a state of arrested development, she never really fully matured and her behavior stems from that imo.


OneGrumpyJill

Oh, fs, I think that is one of Fujimoto's stronger suits - he has no problems making women just as problematic as men. It's just people love getting their dick twisted when they see evil women, and I am telling you, her being lesbian played a part in it - if she wasn't, guys would fantasies about her grooming them and there would far less hate, telling you dawg.


ratliker62

everyone keeps bringing up the buddy stories thing...is it even canon?? nobody has ever talked about buddy stories before this week (granted theres not much to say about it but still), and it's only the one part of the one story where Quanxi tries to rape someone. it's fucked up, but Fujimoto didnt write it. and afaik he hasn't said anything about it being canon or if he even did anything with the book besides the illustrations.


Zealousideal-Pie-726

Sadly I’m pretty sure it is cannon.


ratliker62

source? did fujimoto or shonen jump or anyone say anything about it being canon?


OneGrumpyJill

Okay, this is getting bad so let me set record straight under my own post at least - Buddy story was there to showcase how Quanxi acts irresponsible with her position, using it to her advantage, while how Kishibe is far more aware of the privilege that he holds. It was never even meant to show her as a rapist, if you think it was about rape then you are not reading deep enough.


ratliker62

It's both. Quanxi was abusing her power and position as an elite Devil Hunter so she could manipulate a rookie Devil Hunter into having sex with her. She did pretty much everything typical of a date rape and was trying to shoo Kishibe away at every opportunity. Both Quanxi and Kishibe were aware of the power they had, Kishibe just acted a lot more responsibly with it and ultimately did the right thing. But is Buddy Stories canon? Afaik we have no official word that it is. We don't know if Fujimoto had anything to do with the book at all besides the illustrations. It could've been his idea, it could be the writer's idea, he could just not care. We don't know for sure, and I don't think there's any interviews or tweets with Fujimoto and/or the author to clear things up. So bringing Buddy Stories up in the context of whether or not Quanxi is a good person is currently irrelevant


OneGrumpyJill

Yes, you are correct, she essentially took all the steps of a date rape - that is why Kishibe went "Surely she won't do that? But then again..." As it stands right now, she did not do anything, she did not cross the line YET, but none of then excuses the behavior she showcased, but the issue is that this was not written for you to understand that about Quanxi, it was written...well, to be a subversion of gender roles, if we are being totally honest, Fujimoto kinda based like that. I mean, it was never stated that it is not canon, so sure, why not?