I love how the title doesn't mention Chainsaw Man at all so it just seems like a video talking about how fucked up Father Christmas is

One thing worth adding, if we're talking about parallels between Makima and Santa Claus, is how both meet their end. The Doll Devil meets her end at the hands of a fiend she had completely ignored, the Cosmo fiend, while focused solely on Denji. Meanwhile, Makima meets her end at the hands of Denji, due to her being completely and totally focused on Chainsaw Man.

Santa Claus was one of the scariest powers in CM

In my opionion, Santa Claus was essentially a weaker version of Makima, given how her powers worked in regards to controlling others and whatnot, as well as factoring in how manipulative she was. She was Makima lite.

Santa Claus was one of the scariest antagonists simply because she knew how to flex with her powers. Thanks for the video. Merry Christmas 🎄.

I always wondered whether Tolka is feeling “guilt” towards Santa, or if it’s Santa feeling “guilt” for turning Tolka into a puppet. I feel like it might be the latter based off of Part 2 and how Asa feeling guilty makes weapons stronger, similar to how a perfect puppet can only be made when Santa feels guilty for turning the person into a puppet

What a great Christmas gift

Revisiting this arc made me realize that the creepy “one for pleasure” line the old man has about the kids was intentional misdirection from Fujimoto. The idea of Santa Claus or an old man dressed up as Santa being a pedophile isn’t a terribly original when it comes to dark comedy- in fact, I think it’s a bit in an old Shane Dawson video- but if you’ve read Fire Punch (one of his other manga) you know Fujimoto isn’t afraid to go that route. A creepy old man being the villain is easy for the reader to believe & accept, especially since a lot of media (& even Fujimoto’s own work) that handles darker topics like child abuse & SA paints the same picture of an older male abuser & a younger female victim. However, like the rest of CSM, the Santa Claus reveal subverts our expectations and challenges our conceptions of who can be an abuser and who can be a victim. If Himeno and Makima were adult men and Denji was a teenage girl, both fans and in-universe characters alike would respond far more negativity to their sexual/romantic advances towards him, but just like the real Santa Claus who was actually controlling & manipulating her partner, people don’t expect female characters to be predatory. Women are expected to give rather than take, which is why Makima was able to hurt Denji the way she did. Whereas Denji was immediately put off by being offered unconditional support and help from Beam, another guy, he accepts whatever Makima has to give without a second thought. This is not to say Denji is sexist or anything, just that Makima purposely played into his expectations by giving him a happy & fulfilling life only to take it away and push him to his breaking point.

I just realized Reze would probably just slap tf outta her. Santa isn't a skilled fighter, she was getting worked by Quanxi, and Reze creates fore/light in a way.

I re-read the international assassins arc in full colour, and it made me realise how cool Santa Claus was, including her fight with denji and Quanxi.

Honestly the most underrated villain in the series and my personal favorite

I hope everyone has had a wonderful Christmas this year!

The international assassins arc was so cool, but seems to be overlooked. At least during most online discussions. It also has one of the coolest reveals with Cosmos.

I think the moles on her face is a call back to jojo because Dio on his left ear has three moles. And in the JoJo manga it was stated that the three moles are. Significant of evil and good fortune meaning that Dio got very lucky.

Probably my most favorite fight when Denji shows up. He goes above and beyond in living up to the hero of hell's name as the Chainsaw Man

She is a very underrated character and villain in my opinion. I feel like people completely forgot her despite being the villain of the arc. Anyways I love her blue hair so much, she's so cute. Great video!

Kinda would've liked her backstory but she works nonetheless , kinda felt as if darkness devil stole most of the spotlight from her in that arc but she for me exists as that borderline creepiness that exists between Eldritch horrors and street level villains , she hints that she has hundreds of thousands of puppets around the globe , every last one enough to take on her will ( just imagine that , a glooming darkness that lives forever and ever via puppet strings and can strike you anytime anywhere) She's a world ending threat if you think about it and Everytime she speaks it kind of comes unhinged terrifying

Doll Devil and Control Devil also seems like a great parallel - both sort to manipulate others though through different means

Finally, Santa Claus might be the most underrated character in chainsaw man writing wise.

Probably the funniest video to release this time of the year lmfao

i'm sure Santa and Doll devil are the same entity. It seems something she wants to keep hidden since she talks about having a contract with him to quanxi but when in front of darkness she refers to herself as the doll devil, probably because it would be detrimental to lie to darkness. He is probably made of a consciousness spread between the perfect dolls

Santa Claus' daisy chain possesion thing really freaked me out. It's like Invasion of the Bodysnatchers on steroids

i honestly thought that santa WAS the doll devil, kinda like the Makima of Germany. also i would like to see a summary of the novel

I really hope that is a season 2 of Chainsaw Man comes out, they will plan it out in such a manner than Santa Claus will debut in December

Santa's doll devil form really reminds me of that one painter that survived the holocaust and ww2 and painted morbid alginations of thin bodies and monsters. I don't recall his name though, but hopefully someone knows what I'm talking about! His pieces were a way for him to cope with his traumas and express the horrors of war he witnessed and lived through. If I knew more about him off the top of my head, I could probably find more connections and share my theory a little better.

“The delicate and dangerous devil divination distributor disturbingly designing a definitive doll” interesting

I find it interesting how much of a chess Game was that arc. Public security never intended to protect Denji, their goal was Santa, a really powerful and dangerous entity under the orders of another country. While Santa's objective wasn't killing Denji, her goal was Makima, a really powerful and dangerous entity under the orders of another country. Maybe it's because of how "easy" Santa's defeat looks, but Santa was basically Germany's Makima. This arc could be resumed as "Makima vs Santa" and Makima "barely" won. Santa tried to use Hell and Darkness devil to kill Makima while Makima used Quanxi and Denji to "kill" Santa.

to me the super doll version looks heavily inspired by coraline, you get the spider like aspect from mother, and the dollification of the button eyes too, with the blue hair, like if coraline had gotten buttoned and merged with the other mother

More on the guilt part, if i remember correctly when Angel touches people he steals time from them that he can then convert into weapons. We know he feels pretty bad about that so it looks like guilt does plays a major part in devil powers in general, i'm sure there are more examples if we look closely enough

The only thing that had me questioning Santa Claus is what did she had to exchange for receiving such a terrifying ability?

This is how I interpreted it: Santa Claus doesnt have a "Real Body", it has grown to be a hivemind of perfect dolls and dolls, perfect dolls have been groomed into becoming such, and so require alot of time and energy to be made, and we know there are many of these spread through out the world. The woman is just one of these perfect dolls. We see tolka in a bed with teddy bears around him, so I do certainly think that Santa first takes children and raise them for years for the purpose of making one of these dolls, im not sure how that would work with an old man like the german one, so I must assume that this has been going on for a good while, expanding the hivemind slowly over decades. Unlike normal dolls, we see that Perfect dolls are all able to make contracts and retain some level of autonomy and self control. thats evident from the woman making a contract with the hell and curse devils, and with Tolka, now a perfect doll, being controled by makima into making a contract to take everyone back to earth. So that confirmed that these perfect dolls are still able to be just as human as any one, but are part of a collective hivemind that they call a family. You have an interesting point with santa claus being taken to the library of halloween, but the way I see it, like i said, even tho they are a hivemind to an unknown degree they still are treated as individual humans, yet that connection serves to share knowledge with eachother, so what I think happened, is that that one doll (the woman) did get her individual mind destroyed by the overwhelming knowledge of the universe, and that was shared amongst all dolls in the hivemind she was part of too. (assuming there could be more hiveminds, were other people to make a contract with the doll devil too). In other words, I dont think the woman is the "true body" of santa claus, just another one who was groomed into one, maybe the original body has been long gone and the hivemind survives on the perfect dolls created (after all even when the woman dies her dolls are still around) I just wish we could get more exposition on santa claus, I honestly found the woman so interesting both as a character and as a villain, that I was kinda sad taht we didnt even get as much as a first name to her. (me and my friend have taken to calling her Ekaterina or Katya just cuz we wanted her to have a name lol)

Makimas chains ⛓️ reminds me of how each person puts their hand on someone's shoulder then the next person touches someone else shoulder and so on to dollifying reminds me of a chain of sorts.

I believe the confrontation between Makima and Santa Is a battle of dreams, both formulating their owns aspirations and the expectation for their puppets, but Denji is enlightened by the flame of knowledge like the prometheus myth and turn be able to walk a little in the fraction of darkness(the unknown, but he reminds his power is limited and the bigger the light the biggest is the shadow he makes.

this REALLY helped me understand what was happening in that arc. nice video!

11:05 I guess you could say they inherit the will of The Boss.

I honestly hope Santa Claus doesn’t return. Her defeat was so powerful, satisfying, and final to me.

Let me be honest, before I read chainsaw man manga, this video was the most confusing and absolutely terrifying video I ever saw recommended to me

Those presents gave me PTSD.. and those elves.. dear lord.

Absolutely the cheekiest upload date for this

I also see a lot of the Other Mother from Coraline in the Doll Devil's design

I think the way Denji killed Santa Klaus by burning himself was a direct reference with Fire Punch, also a Tatsuki Fujimoto manga

I like how during the usual "Meti alliteration" at the start of the video, you only showed SC herself at the end. A nice tying in of the character's themes into the video's editing.

So like, just now a thought appeared. Devils in Chainsaw man are based on the fears of humans, bigger the fear stronger the devil. So the saying "We have nothing to fear except fear itself" popped into my head. Do you think there is a "FEAR" devil? And to that end who do you think would be stronger Darkness Devil or Death Devil?

I had no idea Fujimoto took inspiration from Dororo! Love that story~

Masterfully written/spoken and edited analysis thanks for the vid!

I thought this was going to be about how scary Saint Nick was. Santa Claus is scary both the puppet master and the one that sneaks in to your house to leave gifts.

i JUST finished this arc a few days ago, i was on the edge of my seat the entire time

Good choice of bgm, a fan of persona as well

I've read Chainsaw Man over 3 times and I always appreciate these videos analysing characters and the series selectively. Santa Claus was the most unpredictable thing I've read or watched and I usually see things coming a kilometre away. It's so well handled. I'm still reading Fire Punch, so I'm still not quite familiar with the way Fujimoto writes but it is brilliant from how Chainsaw Man went and how Fire Punch is currently going. Great video as usual, I'll always appreciate these as they give so much more insight when seen from other people's perspectives and analysis.

i would love to hear about Hirofumi Yoshida when we get to know him better ;)

I just love how persona music can pretty much fit with anything

I always learn something new from your videos. Keep up the good work and Merry Christmas

This was a real treat for the holidays thank you

But in the end, Halloween was better than Christmas.

Merry Christmas! Thank you for the fantastic video.

Santa Claus was really a major part into solidifying the International Assassins arc as one of the best if not best arcs in Chainsaw Man

Definitely talk about Buddy story’s your work gets me hyped up for reading the 2nd part

This is hands down my favorite arc! I feel it was a bit rushed though. Can’t wait to see it in the anime

I recently found your channel and i haven't been able to stop watching you make perfect videos I especially love your chainsaw man videos

Funny to think that Halloween is inmune to Gojo's domain

Great Video as always! Your videos (and the anime) is what made me Read the manga, so couldn't love more your analysis videos. Also didn't even know about these buddy stories, would be very nice for you to cover them!

19:45 Buddy Stories would be great to see

10:00 see, I interpreted that differently. I read it as, SHE felt guilt, for lying to and manipulating him, and betraying him to turn him into a puppet

I think the connections to American Mcgee's Alice series is an especially interesting detail to the character of Santa Claus. As if you didn't know, the main villain of the second game,Alice Madness Returns, is a being known as "The Dollmaker". I would be very surprised if Fujimoto didn't use this as an inspiration for the doll devil's design and abilities.

Please talk to us about the Chainsaw man Buddy Stories!

This was such an amazing and educational video!! It helped me understand so much. There was so much going on during this arc that I felt a bit lost when it came to Santa Claus. I think I might go back and reread this now! With this understanding and information it'll be more enjoyable i think. Great job. You've earned a sub!

I was just thinking when the next video was. I know it'll be a good one!!

10/10 Thumbnail. Wasn’t expecting this video today for some reason.

I love that you released on Christmas

great content to be talked about CSM. Merry christmas.

Merry Christmas Thankyou for the video

I'd be quite interested in hearing your takes on the light novel

perfect christmas special

It makes me sad that so many people dont even remember Santa Claus, it's such a good character

Was wondering when someone would make a video specifically for Santa Claus, glad it ended up being u who made one of the first. Also, was waiting for the next csm targeted vid, so this was perfectly timed! Thx babe :)

This a great surprise!, Also when i first read read the manga the doll devil santa claus was so scary

Love your chainsaw man videos.

Genuinely thought that you were going to say Santa Claus (the real one kinda, not from csm) originated from like a horror story in ancient Japan, I was wondering what the thumbnail was about, and it took me 40 seconds to realise this channel was meti's.

your Chainsaw man Videos are so elite bro i Love em

Its a Christmas miracle Meti made this

Sweet I was waiting for this one

Fujimoto be like "I'm not explaining shit, you figure it out"

yes meti, do buddy stories. i love your dissections

all the transformed dolls remain conscious but unable to control themselves is the most disturbing aspect of this devil

i feel like chainsaw man is one of the only stories that confuses me the more i see stuff about it. i might have to just watch it lol

Babe wake up new chainsaw man character analysis by meti just dropped

unrelated question: when a Devil is consumed and their fear erased, does it actually change history? because stuff like the Nazis and nuclear weapons apparently don’t exist anymore. but history is extremely delicate; even one changed event could result in the present being significantly different. the Nazis and nuclear weapons are _major_ parts of history, and if those don’t exist, the present world and politics of Chainsaw Man should be vastly different from ours. the only notable difference in that world that I recall is that the Soviet Union never collapsed, but that’s only one difference.

She was really evil but I can understand her desire to kill Makima

santas one of my fav antagonists, shes just cool and terrifying and i just like characters with odd names for some reason

This was the scariest chapter for me, happy holidays mate :]

Her devil design actually reminds me a lot of Tsutomu Nihei's designs from Blame and Aposimz

I can’t wait for this arc to get animated

Merry Christmas

love your analysis!! would also love to hear your thoughts on the buddy stories as well

If you look at santas face, you will notice the shadows look A LOT like the darkness devil's face, very cool detail

Perfect Christmas video

I never knew there were CSM light novels, I hope you make a video on them in the future.

This was a fantastic video

S3 of CSM is gonna be WILD

she is cute