Death Battle Prediction: Yuji Itadori Vs. Denji
(Shouts out to FaZe_poopy for predicting this 2 months ago...kind of)
No original meme for this one. If Death Battle's out of ideas, so am I.
Is the Matchup Good?
Let's rewind to the Stone Age: 2022. This matchup is basically new-gen Naruto Vs. Ichigo; that on its own would be a must-have. Here's the thing: it has a way stronger inner demon angle. The demons in question are not only more prevalent, but very psychological. Yuji and Denji were demon hunters surviving thanks to the devil within, trying to use that inner evil in service of others. When that power leads to battles that get innocents and those close to them killed, it raises a powerful emotional dillemma. Why live if your existence is literally a curse to everyone around you? That's the type of "thematic connection" Death Battle can incorporate for some emotional storytelling. Not the forced Oscar bait, but something that actually adds investment to the action.
sigh
Good thing all of that stuff is totally irrelevant now!
From Heroes to Zeroes
Here's how what should have been among Death Battle's best anime matchups turned into a complete shitshow.
The first red flag was Yuji's demon - Ryomen Sukuna - dumping him for the Sasuke expy. Writing-wise, this was actually a great move for what had been a very stagnant series. Sukuna screwing over Yuji had been built up for years, but subtle enough to where the specifics were up-in-the air.
For Yuji Vs. Denji, this gutted the literal demon angle. A big blow, but not the deathnail. Not only could you argue Yuji was at his prime with said demon - making this entirely a non-issue via DB rules - but that moment brought Yuji's guilt back to the forefront. The inner demons of the matchup were actually strengthened, especially considering it added a major parallel with Denji's story. You know, where his Sasuke expy gets possessed by a demon that was also the main antagonist (earlier on, anyway)?
It speaks to this matchup's previous strength that a huge blow like that hardly slowed it down. With Chainsaw Man getting its anime and Jujutsu Kaisen exploding in popularity, it seemed like a surefire bet. Many thought it would happen in 2023, or that if it didn't, the reason would be DB just trying to avoid discussing manga spoilers.
Then Death Battle books Gojo Vs. Makima that year. It should be obvious why that one put Yuji Vs. Denji on the back-burner. By the time Season 10 wraps-up, Jujutsu Kaisen's manga is over, and that's where Yuji Vs. Denji fell off a cliff.
Denji's story was still ongoing, with major battles pretty clearly on the way for him. With Yuji's journey over, his trauma had been resolved...with some very underwhelming power of friendship BS. That sucks out a lot of the drama, and there's no work-around like before. More clear to see were the poor logistics: why risk doing the episode until Chainsaw Man - or at least Denji's time in the series - were over? Before Jujutsu Kaisen ended, it would've been an even playing field, but now Denji would have been screwed over from the jump. You wouldn't have heard the end of it if he lost back then.
Pretty bad news on both accounts, but the latter can be fixed with time, right? In-theory, sure, but not when Jujutsu Kaisen gets a sequel series before Chainsaw Man even finishes.
Oh, and sequel Yuji's barely shows up, and when he does it's just to aura-farm (Roman Reigns style). Zero interesting character development despite the sequel taking place 68 years later, and his non-story ends before Chainsaw Man wraps-up.
In the background of all this, Chainsaw Man's writing and art suffer a steady decline, leading to a trash final battle that ends the series by retconning itself from never happening.
(A page so bad it replaced "Say that again?")
To top off the shit-stained cake, this episode is coming in a season where 4 of the 5 matchups have already been shonen slop. Yuji's direct shonen MC inspirations faced each other in the premiere. Chainsaw Man showed up 2 episodes ago with Denji's mirror rival.
Talk about a fall from grace. It's not the worst matchup Death Battle's done - hell, Bakugo Vs. Reze was worse - but it's had the biggest decline we've seen.
What I'd Like to See
- The next episod-
Wait, I used that for the last Chainsaw Man fight.
Okay, fine, I'll talk about what little good we could get out of this.
- Fist-to-chainsaw brawling is still cool. With good choreography, it'll give the fight a unique visual identity.
- Yuji can use his invisible slashes to land surprise clashes and damage for some neat plot twists during the battle.
- Both fighters gore and get maimed themselves, so we should have a refershingly brutal battle on our hands.
Honestly, I could see the fight being pretty good. But that should be the minimum expectation, so it's not saying much.
Who Should Win?
Eagle-eyed readers will notice I didn't put the winner in the title again. That's because this is the second fight this season that isn't an obvious stomp. Certainly a positive, but really, the debate here is more frustrating than engaging. That's not to say I haven't had fun with it, but that's the case for damn near every episode.
Okay, let's address the elephant in the room first. Remember that Jujutsu Kaisen sequel? The author said it was a "parallel" story. Does that make an alternate universe?
How much do you want to bet he just said that to cover his ass with the non-story we got?
After mulling it over, I'm going to give Modulo to Yuji. Dismissing a whole sequel series off one vague comment that's insider baseball feels cheap. I get the argument for ignoring it - trust me, I want to - but it doesn't seem right to me.
For those not aware, Yuji's sequel aura-farming granted him some hefty notches for his toolkit. I'll discuss those as we go along.
And just for you, dear viewer, I'll cook up some Grade-A category slop while going through it. Seriously, I've gotta spice this fight up somehow, so let's look at X-Factors, Abilities, Strength, and Speed.
X-Factors
For non-Deadliest Warrior patriots, those are the intangibles; usually the mental categories at play. They got co-opted by the G1 Blog as "Tertiary Factors".
Yuji's got a lot more formal combat training and hand-to-hand skill, which would ordinarily outweigh Denji's ludicrous pain tolerance and determination. It's not like Yuji isn't superhuman in those regards either. Problem is, Yuji's fighting a dude with two extra arms and chainsaws everywhere. There's not much conventional melee combat can do against that. Hell, Yuji's sorcerer school doesn't seem to actually teach people martial arts anyway...or literally anything on-panel.
Yuji can power through blood loss and organ damage that would cause someone to pass out instantly, but Denji is a borderline masochist who fights with barely any blood in his body at all.
Yuji's a bit dumb in general, but a very skilled and fairly strategic fighter. Denji...hasn't even gone to school. Again, seems like a major advantage for Yuji, but Denji's generally shown more creativity mid-combat. I'd say that balances things out.
The last thing to mention here is Yuji's 68 years of experience. Sounds like a slam dunk for that category, but what was he doing during that time?
Probably not that much, considering it's only right at the start of Modulo that a threat "similar" to the original story's final boss shows up. It doesn't seem like Yuji was having any challenges prior, so the most we can say is that his general knowledge greatly increased. Not too relevant for a Death Battle. Meanwhile, Denji still has access to his inner demon's thoughts and memories. That includes plenty of extra combat experience and a more level-head (they're pals).
So all-in-all, Denji takes the X-Factors, mainly off desperately needed therapy. Funnily enough, the benefits that brings to deathmatches was actually a part of Chainsaw Man's narrative; quite the clever subversion of shonen's battle-hungry MCs.
X-Factors
Abilities
This one is comparatively straight-forward. Shonen MCs aren't bastions of versatility in their series, and today's warriors are pretty low on even that scale. Not a bad thing when talking about writing, and hey, it makes my job easier!
As you'd expect from Dennis Chainsaw Man, he's a fan of The Great Communicator. Aside from superhuman stats, he's got enhanced senses (smell, hearing and sight), two extra arms, an automatic heal - more on that in a second - and a whole lot of chainsaws. One coming out the head, a retractable one from each arm, and ones from his feet or legs if he wishes. Mini-ones from the soles let him run up walls; he can seperate the chains to act as grapples and restraints that slice enemies up. Even his severed limbs can generate the chains, letting him reattach them or land nasty surprise attacks.
Where he really shines is with regeneration. So long as he has enough blood, Denji can heal from basically anything barring total destruction of his heart. Should sound familiar if you watched Bakugo Vs. Reze (or if you're cool, read my prediction). Denji's isn't one-to-one with Reze's, but I'll tell you right now, it's way better than Yuji's. Yuji can also reattach limbs in a similar manner, but his actual regeneration struggles to regrow a single arm. I don't want to sell it short, since it'll be plenty useful versus chainsaws, but the dispairty is major.
Let's switch gears to Yuji. He's got superhuman stats massively boosted by his series' Ki clone, Cursed Energy. He can run out mid-fight, but this weakness is shored up by a large supply. Yuji can intentionally lag his Cursed Energy to hit after a normal strike for a cool surprise attack, and will occasionally land Black Flashes.
Akin to hitting the perfect pitch and getting fully in the zone, landing a Black Flash brings out 120% of your normal potential. The attack itself deals far more damage than a normal blow, supposedly to the power of 2.5. Based on what we actuallly see them do...this is completely false. No-one gets obliterated by Black Flashes, which would be the case if the increase was that big. Regardless, Yuji can land more than anyone else, with each Black Flash increasing the chances he lands another. It's to the point you'd think he could do at will.
That's all he can do for most of the series; impressive, but not enough to compete with Denji's kit. But for the final battle, he got a bunch of asspulls new tricks. The first he showed was that regeneration I mentioned earlier, followed by the bizarre reveal that he'd become half-human, half-demon. If you think that'd bring back the original theme to this fight, no, it's just an excuse for recycled abilities from other characters.
This ensures his blood is poisonous to others. A minor scratch from Yuji can lead you to become nauseous or vomit; intense exposure will render you to unconscious and cause a flu later. Yuji can convert his blood to Cursed Energy if need-be. Yuji manipulates this blood with a Cursed Technique called...Blood Manipulation. Not setting records for creativity, but it allows for that limb re-attachment, or an orb of blood that shoots controllable tendrils. These pierce targets with an initial velocity faster than sound.
I've seen a number of people say this is a hard-counter for Denji's healing factor. On-paper, maybe, but Denji regularly survives massive amounts of pain and bleeding that should render him unconscious. Yuji's poison isn't even lethal, so I doubt this will slow him down. Plus, a lot of it will be converted into other body parts and metal (Denji can regenerate his metal parts too).
Yuji got another Cursed Technique: Shrine, which he randomly awakens upon the reveal that Yuji's dad was the reincarnated soul of Sukuna's twin brother, who he ate alive.
Good lord, did I really just type that?
Shrine lets Yuji create invisible slashes with simple hand gestures, either on contact or from afar. They can adjust to the target's durability and can block attacks when miniaturized. They're generally faster than himself, and can travel for at least a dozen feet or so. This'll let Yuji block and cut the chainsaws with proper timing, all while slicing through his target with greater efficency and range.
Yuji also learnt how to slice the boundary between souls...somehow. This lets him gradually seperate two souls in one body. You know, like Denji and the demon fueling all his powers?
To top it off, Yuji has his Domain Expansion. Long-story short, Yuji makes a double handsign to turn his inner mental-and-spirtual plane into a physical pocket dimension, enclosed by a Cursed Energy barrier. Yuji's barrier is a sphere extending above several stories and over half a city block: the space inside is a recreation of his hometown. Yuji gains a stat-buff inside, and his Cursed Techniques are guranteed to hit. And we're talking video game logic, which the series compare it too: if one of his Techniques are used, you can't dodge it, straight-up.
This move can't be used lightly: it requires most of Yuji's Cursed Energy, to the point where it can only be used once a day. But that's only really a problem if he whiffs the Domain. Once Denji's inside, it's almost certainly game-over without a major stat advantage.
Shrine and Domain Expansion beat Denji at his own game of slashing, and targetting his soul will bypass Denji's superior healing. Ignoring stats, it's far more likely that happens before Denji outlasts Yuji. By-and-large, Yuji takes a decisive advantage this round...but there is one wrinkle in all of it. The Chainsaw Devil can consume the heads of other Devils and erase them from reality. Since each Devil embodies the fear of a concept, Chainsaw Man is wiping both from existence. Since Yuji's part-demon, this could work on him.
Now, hold your horses JJK fans. Aside from Cursed Spirits and Devils not being entirely one-to-one, this ability isn't actually doing much for Denji on offense. If he chomps down on Yuji's head...well, he's probably dead to begin with. But remember Chainsaw Man's retcon ending? The Chainsaw Devil eating its own heart caused that, done when facing immortal opponents.
If Pochita (the Devil dog in-question) decides beating Yuji is out of the question, he could do it here. Does that just erase this fight from reality and force a draw?
...I guess?
It's hardly enough to override Yuji's advantage, but certainly worth noting.
Abilites
Stats
The big one for two characters mainly defined by brute force. Remember when I said this debate was more frustrating than exciting? Stats are the reason why.
I'm gonna ease into things by talking about direct feats.
Lifting Strength: Jujutsu Kaisen often hypes up Yuji's superhuman strength with these sorts of feats. He's thrown part of a stone pillar around his height with one hand, and while weaker, a car with both hands. Even without Cursed Energy, he jumped four stories, held-up this huge wooden gavel swung by someone with Cursed Energy, and threw a metal ball so hard it steamed and bent a goalpost.
Pochita threw his heart from orbit to Earth in seconds. You can math that out if you want; but it obviously dwarfs Yuji's best - and directly comparable - strength feat.
Speed: Yuji evaded gunfire and just barely dodged Piercing Blood, which has an initial velocity faster than sound. Denji's Hybrid form can dodge, block and deflect supernaturally fast bullets. His full Devil form is moving invisible to those at his Hybrid form's level of speed.
Durability: Yuji was fairly intact after being slammed into the ground so hard this huge crater formed. He'd later just barely survive getting punted through multiple buildings, including the side of a skyscraper. Pochita was the one doing the punting, and withstood it just fine. His heart also easily withstood getting chucked at that insane speed and level of strength.
Power: Yuji can smash through building floors, causing them to collapse. Pochita did the aforementioned punt, which did substantially more damage to each building he hit. Another decisive edge when talking physical strength. But Modulo makes this comparison complicated, thanks to this feat from Yuji's Dismantle:
I'm firmly of the opinion that we can't reliably scale the dust dispersal to Yuji. Even if we did, it's only one move, and Denji stat-stomps everywhere else.
But What About Scaling?
Yuji scales well above Sorcerers who dodge Piercing Blood; quite consistent with him dodging the move. This includes Kenjaku, who did so at point-blank range. That's been calculated to be Mach 4.6, meaning Yuji should upscale to just about Hypersonic.
A Sorcerer of comparable speed, Kinji Hakari, debatably dodged an attack that was either electricity or lightning. If you accept it as lightning, then this feat is a massive outlier, sitting at Massively Hypersonic. Assuming the blast was electricity, then you get around Mach 11. Just one problem: this attack is supposed to be undodgeable, at least for Hakari. That notion is repeated several times, so even if you could argue he dodges it in the panel, the story dismisses this outright.
You'll hear people - like Death Battle - say Black Flash requires a precise application of Cursed Energy down to a microsecond, meaning anyone who can perform it is Massively Hypersonic+. Problem is, it only happens by chance. The characters being that fast is contradicted by attacks like Piercing Blood and Projection Sorcery - both only just above sound in velocity - being a problem for users of Black Flash, including Yuji.
So Yuji is baseline Hypersonic, slightly faster after landing a Black Flash and/or using his Domain Expansion. How does Denji compare?
Well, he can move faster than Quanxi can track. Why's that impressive? Because Quanxi was invisible to 49 people while cutting them apart; that'd be about Mach 16, nearly 3-and-a half times faster than Kenjaku. And remember, Denji easily speedblitzed Quanxi. Unless Yuji has a major advantage elsewhere, he's not going to have nearly enough time for those soul-splitting slices to do anything.
That brings us to strength and durability. For once, neither are that far above what I've already said. Weaker Sorcerers have created similarly-sized craters to that huge one I mentioned earlier. Being generous, this could get to over 276 Tons of TNT, over 3-and-a half times greater than Yuji's best durability feat...and over 33 times weaker than the force Pochita's heart withstood travelling back to Earth.
Stats
Case-closed. Yuji won't have time to react before Denji shreds him. If you're unfamiliar with either series, I bet you're wondering why I'm not calling this a blowout. Well, it should be, but that leads us into:
But Who Will Win?
(Heads-up, this was written before I read this year's prediction blogs for the fight. I'll have a follow-up talking about those and answering any questions people have about this one)
Before anything else, let's look at the relevant existing stats for these series on Death Battle. For Jujutsu Kaisen, Death Battle assigned landing Black Flashes to speed (ignoring the clear issues with this). This put Gojo and Mahito at Massively Hypersonic; Mahito was placed higher, at Mach 932. Both were scaled to Jogo's Maximum: Meteor, specifically the guidebook statement claiming it could turn Shibuya "to dust and ash". This makes sense for Gojo, but has little basis for Mahito. In both cases, the show's calc was 932 Kilotons of TNT.
As for Chainsaw Man, Makima and Reze were also scaled to the same two feats, one of which not changing calculation-wise. That would be the Typhoon Devil creating a storm; Death Battle took Denji saying it would cover Tokyo at face-value despite him never going to school a day in his life, resulting in 432 Kilotons of TNT. For speed, Makima "fighting" (in-actuality: just using an ability after being shot) the 20% Gun Devil was their grounds for scaling her to it moving at Mach 486. This got upped to Mach 510 for Reze, who was scaled to it via even worse reasoning.
With the sole exception of Satoru Gojo, Yuji and Denji scale well-above their series' prior combatants. That makes Yuji roughly double Denji's strength and speed. Paired with his superior abilities, he'd take a fairly decisive victory. But again, if it were that simple, I wouldn't be having a hard time making this prediction.
I'll tell you right now, they aren't sticking with those numbers. The blackboxes for all 3 of the aforementioned arguments for each series getting higher stats, but didn't give many specifics. And this is where the difficulty finally lies. For my other predictions this season, each level of leniency I seriously considered didn't change the outcome. Here, the outcome hinges on DB's assessment of numerous feats from each series and who scales to them.
For context, the show claimed Gojo could scale to Yuki Tsukumo's "black hole" and the Falling Devil's gravity manipulation respectively; the result would be Gojo being stronger (again, according to DB). For Mahito, they claimed he could potentially scale to Mai Zen'in and Yorozu's Cursed Technique, Construction, along with "various relativistic and lightspeed feats from Jujutsu Kaisen's final arc". The justifications for each were his status as a Disaster Curse and fighting Aoi Todo.
Speed
Yuji's comfortably faster than Mahito and Todo (at least, in physical speed), so it was safe to say the team thought he was relativistic to lightspeed. That level of speed is over a hundred thousand times faster than Mach 510. So if the speed gap really is that big, Yuji losing strength by the same amount wouldn't even matter. And since the ceilings of both series favor Jujutsu Kaisen, Yuji should have this...right?
Well, figuring out where they'll place Yuji's speed got a lot more complicated thanks to Modulo. In it, the main alien antagonist (yes, JJK went the Boruto route) can't even reach lightspeed without dying; just going "near" lightspeed starts tearing him apart. This guy, Dabura Karaba, hard-caps nearly every character to below lightspeed for this reason.
But - as I'm sure you're aware by now - Death Battle loves ignoring blatant writing decisions when it suits the agenda. It's totally possible we see Yuji at or even above lightspeed. Jujutsu Kaisen has a couple nonsensical arguments for being FTL they could use. But - and maybe I'll eat shit for this - I think they'll cap Yuji at being near lightspeed. Even for Death Battle, the series so blatantly confirms he can't be any higher that it should be impossible to ignore. The most likely calc we'll see is for Sukuna reacting to Jacob's Ladder, a blast of light. We know it's not real-world lightspeed because the Construction technique is needed to generate far smaller real-world substances, but that's getting ignored by DB to place Yuji at 33% lightspeed. Before you go crazy about the KE calc, the G1 Blog dismissed it, and as we all know, they're a DB sockpuppet.
As for Denji, Bakugo Vs. Reze confirms there are more impressive Chainsaw Man feats that she didn't get to scale to. That includes the War Devil's Gun Goddess, which fired two car-sized "bullets" (massive collections of human fingers, very fun body horror) from the Statue of Liberty to Tokyo. This would be about 20% lightspeed, and Pochita reacted to the attack. Of course, a projectile will lose speed the further it travels, but again, expect that to be ignored.
This places Yuji over one-and-a half times faster than Denji, but only if they cap Denji's speed at 20%. In Chainsaw Man's final battle, the USA's flag on the moon is launched to the Earth, with Denji potentially dodging it. This is most reliably about 51% lightspeed, but could be argued up to 125% lightspeed (see here). On the low-end, that's nearly...one-and-a half times faster than Sukuna's feat, and up to 3.8x greater.
I'm pretty confident Death Battle will say Denji reacted to this; it's honestly a fair assumption, and not too much of an outlier given the Gun Goddess feat. That leaves Denji with a comfortable speed advantage, so it's his match to lose unless Yuji can match or suprass him in strength and durability.
Hard Mode
This last one's going to get convoluted, so bare with me.
Death Battle could upgrade Maximum Meteor from pulverization to vaporization based on the "ash" part of that guidebook statement. That raises the feat to 79.5 Megatons of TNT, dwarfing anything they've previously given Chainsaw Man. This would be ignoring how turning something to dust means it wasn't vaporized, which the G1 Blog correctly mentioned in two prior predictions. They still listed this as a high-end for some reason, so we could see this.
The Jujutsu Kaisen mobile gacha game - which Death Battle used last-time - has a young Gojo (who Yuji should be more than comparable to) claim he can destroy an entire mountain. This is actually backed up by other characters, and would be in the low Megaton range at least. There's also this huge, nearly mountain-sized Cursed Spirit that's like a tree. The G1 Blog assumed it was sustained like a real tree...for some reason, leading to a ridiculous 377.5 Megatons. Since Mahito was scaled to this, there's little reason Yuji won't be.
The highest calc we've seen the G1 blog give JJK for physical stats is Kenjaku "surviving the inital pull of Yuki's black hole", sitting at 676 Megatons. Yuji could be scaled to this, or even the black hole itself; G1 agreed with VSBW's calc for the latter being 130.8 Yottatons of TNT. That's well into Large Planet level, but even with the show's modern brainworms, I severely doubt they'll incoprorate this. This black hole was only made with a very specific Technique as a suicide move; Kenjaku only survived due to having a specific counter, the move being held back by special barriers, and Yuki's own suppression to avoid greater damage.
Death Battle will almost certainly attribute Yuji's big Dismantle feat to himself rather than the Curses, but even KE wank for that doesn't get past the tree shenanigans, let alone G1's Kenjaku calc. The feat will be in the episode, but not a big factor.
TLDR: I'm expecting Yuji to be at least 377.5 Megatons and potentially 676 Megatons; both are Large Mountain level.
How will Denji compare? Well, he survived the Gun Goddess I mentioned earlier, which had a Kinetic Energy of 2.7 Gigatons of TNT. How they'll ration-out that number when said bullets were only destroying city blocks, I don't know.
This number gap is 4 to 7.2x times in Denji's favor. Now, just leaving that comparison as-is would be misleading. Yuji scales substantially above the aformentioned feats, while Pochita was mangled and ultimately defeated by his. Denji would still have the advantage here, but not by a massive amount.
But this isn't the limit for either. Remember that Construction Technique? The necessary mass-energy conversion for Yorozu's ultimate attack is at least 107.566 Gigatons, dwarfing the Gun Goddess nearly 40 times over. Construction doesn't actually scale to the user's physical abilities due to Cursed Energy's focus on refinement over supply, but again, that will be ignored.
But believe it or not, taking things to this level makes it worse for Yuji. Why? Well, it opens the door for Chainsaw Man's own hax-based moves to be translated for stats. Specifically, Yoru (War Devil)'s ability to create and summon weapons. It got pretty ludicrous, with her folding unspecified parts of Michigan and Oregon into swords. If Death Battle is (their version of) overly generous to Yuji, they'll decide Yoru folded the entire states into these weapons. That's at least 487.2 Gigatons, nearly 5x greater than Construction. Using some kinetic energy wank, you get 6.08 Petatons of TNT. For context, a Petaton is 1,000 Teratons...which is 1,000 Gigatons.
Not one-sided enough for you? Check this out. Yoru summoned weapons from across the world before Denji could slash her, which you can wank past 84 times lightspeed. Denji has zero reason to scale here, but neither does Yuji to Construction.
So looking at every likely scenario, Yuji is decisively outmatched in stats. Peak brainrot scenario, there's nothing he can do; aside from those stats, I could easily see them saying Shrine's durability negation paired with a Domain Expansion could give Yuji the win. But what's more likely, Yuji using specific moves in a certain way very quickly and repeatedly - including his trump card - or Denji just chopping his head off like usual?
Factoring in that Death Battle seemed to buy Construction "scaling" for Yuji, I wouldn't be surprised to see Denji's giga-wank included, either in the script or as a blackbox. And it's game-over for John Kaisen if that happens.
Category Predictions
Abilities: Yuji Itadori
Tactics: Tie
Speed: Denji
Strength: Denji
Final Thoughts
Look, put everything I just said aside for a second. Chainsaw Man's going into 0-2. The last time an anime was 0-2 on Death Battle, it got gift-wrapped an obvious stomp with Ichigo Vs. Yusuke. If Denji doesn't win here, recordology is cooked, and half my philosophy with this show goes down the drain.
I won't lie. I'm rooting for Denji here, and not just off bragging rights. For all its faults, Chainsaw Man didn't entirely lose me until that very last chapter. Jujutsu Kaisen fell off a cliff years ago, and the rocks got extra-sharp each bump. Adding in the fact that he really should be winning this really ensured I'm in his corner.
This fight's a weird case where the matchup is trash, but I'm pretty invested in the research and outcome. Say what you will about this show - trust me, I have - but it does have some diamonds in the rough. I wish that rough wasn't the complete garbage we often get, but sometimes you gotta think of the chainsaw tank half-full.
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