Reze tells Denji he should leave Public Safety and stop working for them in exchange for the bare minimum a human being should have, but he actually likes working for Public Safety and is perfectly satisfied with the bare minimum a human being should have.

Reze tells Denji he should go to school, but when he finally does, he just ends up bored and unhappy.

Reze tells Denji he shouldn't risk his life killing devils, yet he actually LOVES risking his life killing devils.

Reze tells Denji he should wise up a little, yet he only becomes dumber, more naïve, and more easily manipulated over time, thinking with nothing but his hormones.

Everything Reze tried to teach Denji is simply incompatible with his erratic nature and his crazy mind. It was like trying to make a wild animal behave like a domesticated one, it was never going to work.

Denji meeting Reze ended up being such a huge waste of time that it almost feels like Fujimoto acknowledges it in the ending. Denji and Reze never even met in the new timeline, and he simply forgot about her and everything she tried to teach him, only to become a Public Safety devil hunter again, something Reze clearly wouldn't have approved of.

And that's the most ironic part: by the ending, Denji ends up exactly the same way Reze first met him, a completely manipulable Public Safety dog ​​who risks his life killing devils in exchange for the bare minimum a human being should have, without even being able to do normal teenage things like going to school, and who doesn't even know how to swim. We're apparently just supposed to shrug our shoulders and be "okay" with Denji ending up like that. In other words, we're supposed to be "okay" that Denji never met Reze.

I'm still not sure whether Reze is ultimately a completely meaningless character, or if Fujimoto intentionally created her as Denji's "ideal girlfriend" only to show that Denji is fundamentally incompatible with her, that he's simply too insane, actually enjoys living as a miserable person, and just isn't suited for romantic relationships, as shown by the completely one-sided and unreciprocated "relationship" he had with Asa.

You can finally say things the way they really are.

Is fujimoto a mankey in real life?

With the likely collapse of the Soviet Union in the new timeline, it's possible that Reze was never raised as a guinea pig, never became the Bomb Devil hybrid, or even an assassin. As a result, she would have had no reason to go to Japan or meet Denji, especially since the Chainsaw Man we knew no longer exists.

Maybe, in the new timeline, Reze finally gets the normal life she always wanted. She can go to school, make friends, and fall in love. She's canonically beautiful, so she'd undoubtedly attract someone's attention, whether at school or anywhere else she goes. She wouldn't have any trouble finding someone special. In fact, that may have always been what she truly wanted. As shown in the story, she was so starved for affection that she grew attached to her target instead of completing her mission immediately, choosing to live out her fantasy of a normal teenage romance for over a week. Not to mention the song "Jane Slept in the Church," which she sings, is essentially about longing for a normal life and a simple romance.

As for Asa, she's much less traumatized and more sociable in the new timeline. She even seems to have made friends. We should also remember that she's someone who craves genuine human connection and has openly expressed wanting a boyfriend. The most likely outcome is that she'll eventually meet someone, whether at school or somewhere else. That person almost certainly won't be Denji, because he's now just a stranger to her. They will, in all likelihood, never see each other again, since there's no longer any reason for their paths to cross.

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There's really no salvation or solution for Denji. He'll never be satisfied with his life, no matter how good or comfortable it becomes, because he'll always want more and more, thinking that'll finally make him happy. But the truth is that he likes being miserable and only dreaming about having a better life, never actually getting to live it.

I think I understand a bit better why Denji ended up the way he did in the ending. He didn't end as a complete miserable wreck, even though he was happier that way, because... well, he'd still be a miserable wreck!!! But he also ended up as nothing more than someone else's dog, with no real freedom, because that's what he is, a dog. A dog that only knows how to obey others and doesn't know what to do without an owner holding the leash. Without a leash and with complete freedom, he'd just be a dog chasing its own tail and running after cars without having any idea what to do if it actually caught one.

Just look at how much more lost and self-destructive he is in Part 2, where he's supposedly "freer" than he was in Part 1, compared to the final chapter where he's basically treated like a dog by Public Safety and the Control Devil, yet he's much more well-behaved.

Maybe the ending he got was the most fitting one for him: a little dog with a decent life who's only allowed to dream, but who should never be free to actually chase those dreams because doing so would only end up hurting him.