With this chapter Makima is consecrated as one of the most Machiavellian, manipulative and bloody villains in the whole world of anime/manga. It is amazing how the author of this manga could have created a character that really causes trouble with his actions, and by doing so, shows how well developed and thought-out this character is. This chapter, besides leaving me speechless with its final pages, was a quite revealing chapter, since it not only shows us how manipulative Makima can be (something I had seen before, but in this chapter we can see that facet completely) but also reveals an important fact in Denji's life.
Now without further ado, the review of chapter 82:
Chainsaw Man 82 "Always Eat a Hearty Breakfast", begins just as the last chapter ended and shows us the corpse of "Power" smashed on the floor before the incredulous and totally shocked look of Denji, while Makima as if nothing was happening, invites Denji to drink tea. Once inside the house, we see Denji totally affected psychologically by what he has just seen, however he still does not believe what has just happened, so he asks Makima if he is in a dream. Hearing this, Makima laughs very hard at Denji , asks him to take off his shirt and begins his villain monologue.
All this in order to make him pay for his sins. And at this point in the chapter, the greatest revelation of this manga is made, and that is that in the beginning, Denji is presented to us as a child whose father had committed suicide because he had many debts, debts that later Denji would have. However, in this chapter it is revealed to us that after a night when Denji's father was drunk, he wanted to kill his own son, but Denji inevitably had to kill his father in order to survive. Burying this memory in the depths of his subconscious in the form of a door which he himself always warned never to open (or was it Pochita himself who warned him?).
Because of this, Makima completely manipulates Denji, telling him that a person who has done this cannot have a "normal life". In this way, breaking not only sentimentally with Denji, but also psychologically, the chapter ends with the protagonist lying down and totally surrendering to such revelation and manipulation.
Without a doubt one of the hardest chapters of this manga, it reveals part of Denji's past and part of Makima's plan with Denj. However, now the doubt I have is that what does he want to use Denji for now that he has him under his complete control? We know that the demon that Denji has inside him is very strong, however, the prophecy of the demon of the future said that after the death of Aki and Power at the hands of Denji himself, the demon that lives inside the protagonist (i.e. Pochita) would be unleashed. Could it be that "Power" really died? Was the author able to kill his most popular character? With this mangaka things are quite unpredictable.
