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One thing i like about P2 is how ominous Pochita looked both times he popped up in Denji's mind. I hope Fuji triples down on him being Denji's ally, but not necessarily humanity's friend. (We had that a bit in late P1 when he abducted Kobeni to go on a date for Denji, when he killed that random icecream vendor for no reason)
"You wanna be famous and make a lot of money? Sounds fun Denji!"
"You wanna fuck devils up? Hell yeah that's what the chainsaws are for bro"
"You wanna rape that girl? Aight whatever makes you happy Denden"
"You want to burn down humanity because they killed your adopted devil daughter-sister? Say no more."
!!!! i've been really intrigued by this new development too! tbh the chapters surrounding nayuta's dream, denji's nightmare, yoshida's place in public safety and the following dismemberement have been a really nice breath of fresh air after the growing stagnancy i've been personally feeling around part two at that time. "how can you do that without your legs?" gave me such thrilling goosebumps, a nice reminder that pochita is a devil too, and that it extends to his pure love for denji. this train of thought compliments the conversation that nayuta creates around the theme of nature versus nurture nicely, her conflict with denji, as she eggs him on to also abandon humanity, detach himself from its identity, and embrace the devil in him more. his desire for family in her, a devil, outweighing his connection to humans, yet the sacrifice he makes out of her to emulate the role of the csm. there's something here to dig into with these three: in how pochita requests that denji take the new control devil under his wing and grant her a world equal to her heart, in how makima rejected her nature as a devil to find that lost sense of belonging within humanity, and in how nayuta opposes her by rejecting humanity (for what i suspect are similar reasons no less! makima is rejected by her sisters, her kin, as humans do with nayuta!) and wishing to embrace her nature and kinship with devils and the horsemen instead. pochita putting the emphasis on the control devil and the world she needs rather than the good of humanity as a whole is a distinction worth noting in contrast with his care and love for denji, i like it and would love to see if there's more to it!
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