>>57150
>what she really wanted to do is kill Asa by having her eaten so she can then turn her kill into a totem pokemon.
Don't think that was the case, at one point Asa was lying on the floor unconscious right in front of her, if she wanted to kill Asa to turn her into a pawn, she could've easily done it.
What
>>55836 said is hard to find fault in. Although I would find it...really lame, it's just really convenient that specifically Asa's love is what's shared between her and Yoru, Asa has been frozen with fear before without it affecting Yoru, "Asa rabu too strong!" is so lame.
It makes Asa's literal role in the entire story "falling in love with Denji", which is incredibly non-specific to any trait of hers besides being a lonely teenager, it also makes Asa just an accessory to both Denji and Yoru's characters. I'm still holding out to the possibility that there is something else about Asa that made Death choose her in specific, that'll come into light when we learn of her past, especially since Death seemingly deliberately avoided turning Asa into a pawn.
It actually got me thinking of the weaponization dynamic between Yoru and Asa. When Yoru first attempted to weaponize Denji, she did so on the grounds that he fell in love with Asa (even though it was stated previously that her perception is all that matters...the whole sequence is weird), meaning that the "guilt" is shared between them...but that directly contradicts the premise of the arc? the whole idea was to get ASA to weaponize a person so her guilt would make it powerful, but if the guilt is shared between them...why didn't Yoru just go around killing people and turning them into weapons? since Asa would feel guilty about it, thus creating powerful weapons at very little effort.
I'm starting to think that Part 2 isn't particularly well written...