The moment that Naruto’s parents put the Nine-Tails monster Kurama inside him turning Naruto into a Jinchuriki life took a turn for the worse even though he was the son of The Fourth Hokage.
The inhabitants from Hidden Leaf Village feared and were scolding him for having one of the strongest nine-tailed demons. Naruto’s schoolmates teased and abused the boy because he was an unstoppable monster.
Even though he’s a social outcast Naruto does not allow the sneering eyes or the harsh behavior of his family and friends to derail his dream of protecting them that he ultimately achieves through his emergence as the Seventh Hokage.
Naruto’s unbreakable positivity hides his actual struggles from the audience and diminishes the impact his situation could be having on the story If he wasn’t so irritably positive despite the circumstances.
In the story of Chainsaw Man, however, the demons and anxieties of Denji are more evident. After being cut up into pieces, his real suffering starts when his devil-loving friend Pochita returns him to life through his heart, turning Denji into Chainsaw Man.
Chapter 36: Denji is thrown into the downwards spiral after Katana Man accuses him of being the sole one of them without the human heart.
The words are particularly significant because Samurai Sword is a devil-human hybrid. From that moment on, Denji struggles with his identity, and wonders whether Samurai Sword was right.
In the future, Denji’s worries become apparent when he is unable to react to movies that are bad similar to other patrons at a local cinema, and expresses concern to his partner, Makima.
However, his resentment about his lack of humanity is proven every when a devil strikes Denji, with the aim of taking his heart. Demons don’t have a heart like a human and they’d rather have Pochita.
There’s also an alarming moment in the past when Denji does not feel any emotion after a friend is killed, while others are in tears which fuels his fears.
While Chainsaw Man’s pain is more intense than Naruto’s, both lives are suffused with irony. For Naruto even though the residents from Hidden Leaf Village scolded him, Hidden Leaf Village treated him with disdain, Naruto still wants to show them that he’s worthy to be their Hokage.
It’s an unwavering display of moral grit and respectability. For Denji He’s so focused on his inability to feel emotions of sadness or grief that he isn’t aware of the fact that he’s loyal and passionate to the point of breaking as are human emotions.
Naruto’s character is, once again, more positive, since it highlights his pureness and capacity to forgive. Chainsaw Man’s story isn’t as charming and sometimes heartbreakingly ignorant.
All of this is changed after the death of a lot of members of Chainsaw Man’s acquaintances near the conclusion of the first episode of the series. This causes Denji to enter a deep depression.
He is unable to even taste food and the eating of which was always incredibly crucial to him, as one of his main objectives when he was living in poverty was to consume food that was not rotten.
The reality that Denji suffers from depression could be the reason he speaks of the removal of Pochita out of his body, as taking the heart from him.
This is important because Denji has always pondered his heart as it is the doorway for human feelings, and this proves that he has finally gotten beyond his fears.
However, the pain that Denji is suffering from being Chainsaw Man is incontrovertible and much more difficult than Naruto’s.