A few quick things: The Spider Devil never really got a chance to do anything strong. She fought some zombies, got sent to Hell, and fought one of the literal strongest characters in the verse. Then she died. So basically, she never really got a chance to show off her true strength. Devil's fear only increased their base strength. The effect and potency of their ability remains the same regardless. This is why the Muscle Devil and the Skin Devil can have pretty hax abilities despite not being physically strong at all. Additionally, all Devils increase in strength according to the overall fear of Devils. The fear of Devils isn't entirely based on just phobias, but fear in general. (Other strong emotions also count, but it's mostly fear) For example, I can count on one hand the amount of people who are deathly afraid of katanas, but imagine someone sprinting at you with a katana at full speed with murderous intent. It's not just overall fear, but potential fear. That's why the Weapons are so powerful, because they all revolve around the same fear of being severely injured. Building off of the last one, the Chainsaw Devil is the strongest Weapon because he doesn't just represent the fear of getting maimed by a chainsaw, (again, not kanayaphobia, but the potential of getting hurt by one) but also the extremely loud noise caused by them, their association with horror villains, and the general idea of deforestation and possibly even climate change. The Weapons are the only Hybrids we've seen, but that doesn't mean there couldn't be other Hybrids out there. Maybe the fact that they're already based off of human things makes them easiest for things like the USSR to use. Throughout CSM, most Devils are quite weak, maybe comparable to the largest apex predators of our world. Even the strongest ones are no more of a threat than small natural disasters. The Gun Devil didn't even exist until the late 20th century, and no Devil besides a Primal Fear comes anywhere close to them, and the Primal Fears have never left Hell anyways. Even more so, Contracts have always been a thing. There has always been a way for more friendly Devils to grant humans a small amount of their power to protect themselves, the only thing is that in the modern day, only Public Safety can (legally) make Contracts for the same reason that only they can use guns, since if anybody was allowed to make Contracts, there could be bad apples that cause chaos and make the malevolent Devils stronger. Fictional characters most likely can't become Devils. I guess it depends on if it's fiction for the sake of entertainment or religious mythology. Someone like Thanos wouldn't be a Devil, but a satyr probably would. As for individual people, they can't become Devils since a single human can't embody a concept. NAZIs? That's a concept. Jackie Chan? Not a concept. Asa/Yoru is just a Fiend with highly intact brain, so Asa and Yoru can take turns controlling the body.

Something interesting, which may explain some of the plot holes, is the potential that devils may also get stronger if feared by other devils, hence resulting in devils with specific powers becoming strong by rampaging in hell, and becoming feared by other devils, this could apply to Pochita, the death devil, the primordial fears, etc. Additionally, the fear of wild animals and other organisms that aren't human may be included in the fear factor as well. I cannot confirm any of this though, so it's just an idea.

One thing that I think explains why Pochita is so strong is due to the feedback loop you where talking about. He just isn't getting the fear from humans, but from other devils. It's mentioned that the sound that most devils remember as the last thing from their past lives is the sound of chainsaws, so I feel like that give the theory some backing.

To me it always made sense that the hybrid devils were all weapons, because weapons in real life are really only something to fear because of other humans. There’s probably a tendency for those types of devils to do that for that reason, although considering Pochita there may also be some sort of emotional attachment there too.

I have a 3 personal theories that might explain the spider devil being weak. Makima said the imagery of getting ran over would make the car devil formidable but Maby it’s because that imagery is of you getting killed or affected. Maby people’s fear of spiders doesn’t involve getting killed by them, we’re instinctively afraid even from the non venomous ones, so there for that reason since you don’t have an imagery of them killing just an imagery of you getting instinctively freaked out by them scurrying around instead of them killing you, therefore the spider devil doesn’t get better at killing when more people fear it it just gets better and better at, you know scurrying around when more people fear it. Theory 2 is that Makima weakened it, the fact that it’s so submissive and Has a portal zipper which I theorize was it being cut in half and made a contract it’ll survive and get brought back by the idk teleporting zipper devil if it submits to makima therefore she deprives it of blood so it doesn’t get it’s strength back and rebel against her. Potential explanation 3 is it’s not weak at all and just busted it can solo goku, we’ve only seen it fight either a bunch of zombies or the darkness devil. Therefore it’s busted and can solo top tiers but ended up with the Jogo treatment and never got to prove it.

Chainsaws were originally used for childbirth. But it is also associated with horror and violent death(Also they were used for amputations). So the Chainsaw is both closely related to Death and Birth and gets a power that allows him to remove devils from the cycle of death and rebirth

For the weapon devil thing it could be explained that since weapons are man made and used by humans that they are more attracted to hybrid contracts than other devils and that it’s just something ingrained into them without them even knowing it or realizing it

The death devil being the strongest does fit the theme of the story ie the four horsemen with death being the most feared one of all. Since all devils aim to kill humans rather than make them suffer as much as they can, it makes sense why characters in the universe may fear death more than suffering. I'd love to see a suffering devil tho Also i found ur channel like 2 days ago and i gotta say keep cooking bro 🔥

"Fujimoto, this is crazy. You are crazy" Yeah, man, welcome to the party

Outside of your death devil point which I think is a massive stretch, (death is definitely the most widespread fear among humans), yeah you brought up some good points. You could argue the spider devil was weakened and not at full potential due to Makima and then fought one of the like 5 strongest devils ever in the darkness devil

7:56 The fears include from the devils too I guess And actually I heard of other negative emotions can also counts into how strong a devil can be. About the Death devil, people can fear about other people's death. It's not only from those are facing death itself. Lastly the hybrid contracts, I think it make sense. I mean they're tools, so they can exists while having physically without a consciousness.

I personally think the whole “Erase Concepts from existence by eating them” would fit much better with the “Death Devil”

**The cockroach devil appear** "one of the most powerfull devil in the entire world"

I'm pretty sure the author literally did watch Texas Chainsaw a just decided to make the chainsaw the most powerful devil

5:43 He got his powers from a REALLY one sided deal Imagine being told "dude you're going to get absolutely demolished one day if you take this offer"

i think this video is very well made and brings up really good points, but i gotta say i think reasonable theories exist for most of them: my biggest stretch is that i think the reason the chainsaw devil is so feared is because humans don't really fear it: devils do. we know that they actively hunted devils in hell, and we know devils have fears, so it's pretty reasonable to conclude that those fears feed into other devils. So if they just kept throwing themselves at devils, they'd get more and more feared, and the idea that specifically chainsaws scare devils so much could lead to the powers it gets. again big stretch but it's my best bet the fear of death being the most powerful, even in our own world is a reasonable claim, but in universe it gets even worse. we know for a proven fact that there IS an afterlife, but it's ONLY hell. dying would be a lot less comforting if it means you get sent to the place where all of humanities fears live. the weapon devils could be that weapons are more feared when wielded? like regardless of your fear of swords, someone armed with a sword is scarier then one sitting on a stand. spiders would be significantly weaker if they were getting kill stolen by devils humanities past could be a lot better if it was hard for devils to gain fear? like, tomatoes aren't scary already, but if they're only growing in a certain region then even less people would be scared of them. that's not even touching the higher birth rates of today leading to more people scared i think these are all loose theories, and i do think these all constitute valid plot holes, but it's fun to theory craft answers to them

I'm so glad you made a csm video :) Love your content bro

In all seriousness, I think a video on fanmade stands (specifically the "Get in the robot" ones) would be genius. Like some of them are pretty intresting and funny

In regards to the tomato devil: I realized recently that 1 devil can embody multiple fears, the tomato devil probably has aspects of public shaming (notice the eyes) famine (notice the mouths) and of crops going bad (notice the arms)

One thing to note, is that the devils strength is based on the location. The Japanese supposedly thing spiders are cute, so the spider fiend is friendly as a result.

SPOILERS: Chainsaw Man being that powerful actually makes a lot of sense. Why? Because devils strength isn’t based only on humanity’s fear, but also devil’s fear and probably every living beings fear. So, the chainsaw devil initially was born from humanity’s fear of chainsaws, hence having powers related to chainsaws. But, he slowly became way more powerful by being one of the most murderous devil in hell. By constantly killing a lot of devils, some of them started following him like a cult, but most devils started being incredibly terrified of him. By being the most feared devil by devils, he gained the ability to erase their name, cementing the fact that he is devil’s most fearsome ennemy and killer. This all may seem like speculation, but it’s been stated by Makima that he is the most feared devil in hell. Also, multiple devils such has the eternity know about chainsaw devil and also remembers the sound of chainsaws just before they have died in their last life, meaning that chainsaw devil has killed so many devils so many times in hell, the fear of him is now ingrained into their soul, like he was himself a primal fear but for devils.

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I had a similar though as to "The World Problem" and I rationalized it as that the earliest/strongest Devils let (or even helped) humanity develop into a modern-like setting so that humanity would have more fears thus leading to more devils.

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I assumed that yes only weapon devils could make hybrid contracts, also Pochita is definitely the forgotten devil or something.

Since the strength of devils correlates to the fear around it, that would likely imply a direct correlation of devil lethality/prevalence to the population of the world. So it would follow to some extent that due to the exponential nature of population growth that devils would only be a "recent" problem. Furthermore the spread of information would be very limited in the time before the technological era, therefore, its would be fair to assume many concepts which become devils may not be very well known. The ones that could qualify as primal fears which don't hinge on the spread of information would then likely be too strong to die in hell. Those are just some of my thoughts which may help to explain a bit of the reasoning behind the historical setting of chainsaw man, regardless, loved the vid hope you do more chainsawman in the future.

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If the question was not explained then it probably will be explained since the manga haven't ended, I always find it funny when people start nitpicking the story when the story haven't even ended especially with Fujimoto. Also Fujimoto has been creating devils with names that have other meaning than what it seems, with the falling devil not only having the ability to control gravity but also have the ability to cause negative emotions, and the Fire devil not being something like Agni instead have the power to morph people into what they desire representing the burning passion of people instead of just fire, but the devil itself works like fire as the more contractor it have the stronger it gets.

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im sure its been said before, but the reason chainsaw is so strong is because they can delete devils from existence (why chainsaw can do that is another question, like you pointed out, but whatever). This makes every devil, quite reasonably, shiver their timbers. hence the power.

In medieval times the tomato devil would be pretty powerful because people used to think tomato’s were poisonous. They thought that because they were eating tomatoes on lead plates and be cause tomato’s are acidic they would soak up the lead causing people to die of lead poisoning.

that mathematician, dreamy line was so good

Alright so chainsaw devil probably is so strong because it went rampage and got extremely feared of at some time. However I do agree that their name and existence disappearing doesn't make sense. Also with the weapon hybrid contract thing, it just makes sense that they could get used as a hybrid because they can be used as a normal weapon.

Glad to see a CSM vid, last critique is goofy tho

the chainsaw devil is feared by other devils because he can erase them, that fear might be why he is so strong. the story also supports this idea, with the fact that the only thing the devils remeber from hell is the chainsaw sound and the devils that were afraid of the chainsaw devil, like the eternity devil or the future devil.

I was skeptical when I saw the video title, but I do agree with all of these complaints especially the idea of the death devil being the final boss.

Your last point reminds me of Chu Chu Lovely Muni Muni, which is a 2007 song being sung in a karaoke room (goated chapter btw) even though this series takes place in the late 90s

If it makes you feel better almost all of your grievances have been mentioned in one off dialogue or are meant to be ambiguous to make room for a reveal later

I was scared of Voldamort when I was a kid so is there a Voldamort devil?

death is too quick to be scared of, since it will happen eventually. I feel like it's easier to be afraid of things that cause death rather than death itself.

What I find funny is that fuji specifically stated that he left things open ended on purpose in part 1 and I could totally see him using csm or hell to say devils weren't on earth till recently or something else like that

10:57 love the sayonara eri reference that shit made me cry

Good day when Chewie uploads

oh my god such a good video

As a side note; devils can also get stronger by eating other powerful devils. This is why chainsaw is strong, it’s ability was uniquely suited to eating other devils, so it ended up eating some of the strongest devils in history. The chainsaw’s ability also made it feared most by other devils, which is where most of its fear based strength comes from. Other devils, not humans.

I love csms power system cause its so wacky nothing is defined its chaos, I love nen but i love the devils too things dont always have to be laid out, powerscaling isnt everything

Also, with the death devil and csm, both of those are most likely just in context of the series, csm is feared by devils and death probably comes from the mayhem that devils cause and people fearing their own random deaths

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I think I saw some explanation that weapon devils are just easy to become hybrids because they are easier to control or something because well they are weapons

I'd love to see more CSM videos from you

i have watched this whole video only to listen to my favorite outro music but what i get at the end?!?😡😡 I'm very disappointed chewie! i will cry tonight!

this might be another chewiedog1 nager but i haven't started chainsaw man so I am gonna have to sit this one out man :(

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Wait, I thought after 2:35 sound disappeared from video... I guess that beep made me deaf for aroud video length...

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While this is pure speculation, my main theory is that Pochita had some kinda of relationship with the Death devil unknown to anyone, even Famine and War. But not that it actually is Death or Life or some BS like that. Maybe Pochita just befriended Death. I mean, for the Death Devil it makes way more sense that everything it eats is erased. The death devil could have made a contract with Pochita (I know that contract are between devil and humans but the series is weird enough that this limitation can be avoided, example, the puppet with darkness devil). Also, for death being the strongest... idk, I think it is definitely a tie between Pain/suffering and death, many scary things like spiders are scary because their association with death, other scary things like chainsaws are scary because it's association with Pain. And some things are scary because of both. Is a complicated thing and really subjective, why isn't violence stronger than gun? isn't gun a subpart of violence? I don't really mind chossing Death as the scariest/strongest, even if it isn't in our world it does fit the book of revelations apocalypse vibes for the chainsaw man universe, and it isn't like death isn't actually scary (and maybe in the chainsaw man universe there's concrete proof that no sort of heaven exits, that would add some points to Death)

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I argue the Vampire Devil was already shown. In the Hero of Hell double-spread, there's a flayed devil with giant fangs. Likely a reference to Vlad Tepes' muscle-like armor from the film, Bram Stoker's Dracula.

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My dear Chewiedog, it's incredibly simple: What is the most populous organism on the planet by biomass? The tree. And what do trees fear? Why, chainsaws of course! Add in to this that trees are famously cowardly beings and the answer is quite clear. That's why the Chainsaw Devil is so strong, and also the reason why the Dutch Elm Disease Devil hasn't been used yet - you've got to save a powerhouse like that for the property's later life.

10:44 there is like that one horror garfield mansion game devil?

People only fear suffering because(normally) suffering leaves to death, all fears are Instinctively linked to death that is why he is so strong (I guess)

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Could be that the fear of being forgotten devil was weak and just fell into the chainsaw devils lap and had to make a contract

I will say the overall tone in csm is a lot more grounded in a way and that makes the deaths in in feel so much more inpactful and there’s more to lose cuz compared to jjk as cool as Toji or gojo are, they’re extremely fictional and is shrugged off if they’re thrown through buildings and live where as in csm all the devil hunters are just humans at the end of the day so when they're up against makima or the darkness devil, you can feel this massive gap in power cuz there’s only so much they can give up when making these contracts to fight devils it’s not like they can rely on their brute strength to fight these devils ya know

4:49 this section is the best section of all sections ever sectioned

Very good video, I agree with pretty much all your points Manga spoilers I like to think that the reason we only ever see weapon hybrids is because Makima purposely chose weapon hybrids to use in her collection. Because they're so strong. And the weapon hybrids that hunted Denji (katana, bomb, arrow) happened to be confident enough because they were weapon hybrids. Other types of hybrids likely exist but we never see them because they aren't considered useful or deadly enough. But yeah it would've been nice to actually see other types of hybrids despite that so your point still stands

Im kind of on board with the death devil being the strongest devil because hes clearly going with a four horseman theme. And additionally, death, unlike suffering, is something that ALL humans have to reckon with. Death is one of the few things no humans can escape Additionally, the weapon devil hybrids are 100% rule of cool

I find that the reason the chainsaw devil is so op is because he is the name of the show

pochita is the death devil it’s been foreshadowed so much so far and chainsaws make sense for a death devil design

"monsters dont just grip me that way"

Nice and epic vids keep doing the content

the chainsaw devil could be the fear of being forgetten bro

as a fan i am obligated to watch this

reading comprehension devil is strong with this one

I think a fact that cannot be explained throughout a read through of chainsawman is that the weapon hybrids are actively stated to be groomed into the way they are like katana man being indebted to sawatari after stating that (not really quoted), she made him the way he is and reze due to backstory piece togethers state she was part of a russian ww2 experiment which relied heavily on the use of bombs during the cold war, where she herself could be assumed to have been trained and groomed into taking on becoming the bomb fiend for the USSR's convince.

Can you make a video about jjk

well i mean death is a primordial fear which is something completely natural to us

These plot holes make the series fall apart under it's own weight basically ensuring no satisfactory ending can ever happen.

My theory on chainsawmans erasure is that, because he was the “hero of hell”, known for killing devils- this granted him the ability. It also explains why he’s so strong, the series even mentions that he’s the “devil feared most by devils”. The chainsaw devil, and chainsawman gets most of their power FROM the feat it elicits from devils. And what would devil fear manifest as, according to Fujimoto- who says death is the most powerful fear? An ending to their life. But devils can’t traditionally die, because they are resurrected. So what if the devils fear of chainsawman transformed into a fear of their life ending… for real. So the chainsaw got the ability to erase devils, from the fact that it’s the devil that is feared most by devils. And the greatest fear for humanity, which creates devils, IS death. The true kind. It checks out in my brain anyway. Great video!!

you play isaac? there was a trinket and a song from the game

Bro, let Fujimoto cook. You gotta wait

well crazy how no one said this, but the chainsaw devil get the power from the fear from other devils, including humans. That's why it's so op

this is why death devil is the most feared: almost every fear is directly or indirectly tied to the unconscious fear of dying. even physical suffering. this is not just me talking, many psychologists will agree with this thesis.

"Is there an Agni Devil" Ahaaaa what a funny joke! 15 chapters.

The dissing of devilman is crazy

This video just feels very silly tbh. It's very entertaining, though. I'll give you that lol

I am incredibly terrified by tomatoes so this seriously offended me. Be better man…

What would the chewiedog1 devil look like

my head canon has always been that the reason that the Chainsaw Devil is so strong is because so many devils fear it

7:31 Pochita became strong because in addition to being feared by humans he was feared by Devils as well, this increased his power several times. This is due to the inexplicable power to erase concepts by devouring the Devil who embodies it. How does he have this power? Why does he have this power? I have no idea and probably no one else does, except Fujimoto.

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yo chewie unless im stoopid doesnt the chainsaw devil get power by killing devils instead of humans (the more devils that fear it the stronger it gets)

i would definitly say that death is the most feared "thing". Most of the other more prominent and strong devils get there powerd due to the existence of death.

I watched the anime though didn’t read the manga so I can only imagine what the Ocean Devil could look like in this universe, it does make sense that catching a bullet is a very strong fear but I live in Europe where you only see guns on policemen, so thalassophobia is the next big thing, it’s one of the most anxiety-inducing things, this Devil would be CRAZY powerful even if many people aren’t actively afraid of the sea, because the sea has it all: unbreathable, dark, cold, unknown, unpredictable. I have a theory that there can be Devils created from less common fears that are as strong as those coming from tangible fears because they feed off instinctual aversions.