It is so absurd from the get-go, so outrageous just from the title and its cover. Very distinct and iconic, I mean its a MAN, and then CHAINSAWS on both of his arms and his face.

Have you read it? What do you think of it? Have you not? Then what the hell are you waiting for!?

My friends are into it af, Idk why I haven't read it yet, but since it's my habit I already chose my favorite character: Angel Devil. + I know some stuff abt it bc they told me about it.
It's cool.
Do you have a fav, Firion?

Idk, everyone in the series is really good. I can't choose, I'm not one of those Makima-woof maniacs though at the very least lol.

My friend has been into it and said it's crazy. I think I'll see how the anime looks and if I like it I'll probably give it a read. It's a cool idea either way.

>>1 I finished the manga a while back. I'm waiting for the anime to be released, but yeah it's really really good. It's completely bollocks, but a nice story overall

>>5 who's your fav, G?

I love it! At first, I was thinking it’ll have a normal shounen pattern where Denji’s going to join an organization, friendships all around, like a grittier version of Soul Eater. But then, it didn’t have that. It was so gritty and dirty, so human. I love it!!! There weren’t Immediate friendships, but familial bonds grown over survival and each other’s company. I just hnnng the last chapters still hit me QwQ

My favorite is Yoshida cuz he managed to fight back Quanxi, and really love his eight piercings like damn

ahh! I love chainsaw man. I just started collecting the print copies! (and forgive me but power best character)

>>7 SAME!

I thought Denji will be able to prove himself as time goes and it will steadily became his daily life to hunt devils or so and so. But no, Fujimoto keeps pulling new shit up that I can't rest even a bit.

Most overrated manga I have read, ever. This is a pile of steaming shit. No idea why people love shoving garbage down their throats, but to each their own.

I loved the premise set up in the first chapter about a lonely and poor boy trying to pay off his inherited debt by killing demons and selling their bodies to the yakuza.
To my unfortunate surprise, this entire premise, that had been established for an entire chapter, just got scrapped in a few pages, which felt super unnatural. Honestly, I believe the mangaka did not mean for the story to turn this way originally and had to change course for some reason. Looking at his other works, this drastic change is not usual.

What I dislike about this manga the most, are the boring dialogue and the overly stupified protagonist. Yes, he has chainsaws as a head and arms, but he's the most spineless protagonist to pathetically crawl the fictional realm. That's probably why a lot of people like this manga. They see themselves in that protagonist. I was forced to read some of it, and I can see that some of you really enjoyed the aesthetics and world-building of the manga. But that doesn't excuse it's sorry existence.

If you want similar world-building and aesthetics, go check out Dorohedoro, which will blow your mind if you're used to reading garbage like Chainsawman.

Also check out Firepunch. A far superior work by the same mangaka.

Im not the best with sending feedback like this but here goes

As I kept reading the story really gutted me. When I first started reading it I thought that this was just gonna be some really overhyped story (which it was a little and I say this because some areas of the story were a bit patchy to me) and even considered not finishing it but I told myself that I should at least give it a chance. But I loved the twist of it, the way it started puts you into this false sense of security. The characters and relationship building through out the story was so impactful too and, although I hated her guts while reading, I find Makima's role in the story very powerful. And the world building aspects of it were very engaging, I was hooked immediately.

I will admit though, when I finished redaing Chainsaw Man I was sort of thinking to myself "What, thats it?" but I'm very eager for whats to come with this story.

I don't really like to read, but these are the comics that I like, so I'm waiting for an anime based on them.

I have read it, at first I didn't like the protagonist's personality he seemed pretty dumb, but then Makima happened and I started reading till date. The story was pretty awesome and crazy to read. Pretty interesting "what I though" was the ending(we all know it's still ongoing). But we can all agree who could have though making this guy with chainsaws in his arms and head being such a simp, would be so fun.

Also *SPoilers ahead maybe*

In the new arc the war demon is kinda cool, wanna see where it can get that idea.

got introduced to this manga through a friend either this month or the last, but i ate it up in less than a week, it was so good!! i love the style and story and everything about it, especially how the author writes emotional scenes.

*TALK OF PART 2 AHEAD*

i personally dont like part 2 so far, because it seems like Denji is back to square 0 in his character development, but hopefully it redeems itself for me soon. besides Denji i really like Asa and im glad we get to see more of Hirofumi Yoshida!! i think hes really cool, and if he becomes friends with Denji maybe Denji could have a new friendship to focus on instead of being obsessed with being Chainsaw Man.

Read chainsaw man my junior year of high school and god was it one of my favorite manga's I've seen in a while.

Enjoyed it, but i have read only 10 volumes and took a break.

Btw i recommend to check out the animes endings.

*SPOILERS AHEAD*


Really liked Himeno and feel like she was misunderstood.

Reading 9th volume was painful, but i really loved it because it was well written. Like yk, there are some moments when a character dies and you don't care, can't feel anything even if you wanted, but here it was just pure suffering. Idk, maybe it's just me.

I guess i should continue to read it.

>>10
Man, nobody reacted to my paragraph of a hate-letter...


Is this what a one-sided relationship feels like?

>>17 why u change ur name lil bro? That said,

>>10 I've read Fire Punch, I think the resemblance is pretty apparent with how often the author killed off his characters like dead leaves falling from the trees. And also how he twist his story.

Agni possessed infinite regeneration, but what defines him throughout the story is the eternal fire's futile attempt in burning his body since adolescence.

Little Denji befriended chainsaw devil amidst all his unfortunate circumstances, but what defines him throughout the story is his journey navigating the huge uncaring world that only wants to use his devil friend's power he inherited after they're parted forever.

Both characters are mentally immature, that's why their driving motivation in their story is a bit kooky sometimes. Denji is horny all the time because that's all he knows about happiness since childhood, with no parents to nurture him. Agni spent the rest of his childhood and teenage years suffering and getting used to the pain of burning before he could start doing anything else, being hellbent on revenge before humanizing his sworn enemy.

Wonder what mappa is going to do for chapter 167

Spoiler alert, but I adore how the worldbuilding in Chainsaw Man allows the leap of logic in the story to make sense.

Chainsaw devil has the power to erase devil names from existence so that no one ever remembers them in the past, present, or future. We and the in-universe's general knowledge knows that chainsaw is only a tool to cut down trees. But knowing chainsaw devil's reality-bending power, an argument could be made that the chainsaw tool used to have all sorts of uses before the concept of those functions got erased from existence, and so there might've been a world before where chainsaw's existence-erasing power made complete sense using concepts that no longer exists in this world to logically explain its power.

It forces us to imagine an unimaginable world, like imagining dimensions above our lived-in 3 dimensions. Impossible, yet made complete sense.

It's absolutely amazing and has one of my favourite scenes in fiction, being the list of names iykyk

Yesss !!! I read all of Part 1 in one sitting a while before watching the anime with friends - I've been cosplaying Power to cons for a while :>

I'm a couple months behind, i really need to catch up but it seems every time I do, I take emotional damage ;-;

I started trying to read it a little while ago, and I got as far as the end of the gun devil arc before stopping. This is going to be a rather long explanation, so bear with me. Spoilers if you haven't read it.

I absolutely hate chainsaw man as a series. Amongst the many things that I think is wrong with it, Denji sticks out to me like a sore thumb. The number one reason for why people hate Denji seems to be because of his horniness, and that's also why I hate him, but not in the same way as most. People who criticize Denji in this way fail to elaborate exactly why it makes his character unlikable, so most of Denji's defenders often assume that those who do criticize him simply can't understand the emotional depth and complexity that comes with his character. Denji is someone who is deeply traumatized, and possesses an immense need for intimacy due to the lack thereof during his childhood. This absence of love and normal human decency lead to his idea of such things being reduced to it's base form: pure instincts and hormones. Now I will say, for a 16 year old boy, that is completely normal. Boys going through adolescence often desire to participate in such things. In Denji's case, however, that desire is one of his only desires, which again, makes sense due to his circumstances. What people fail to realize is that something can both make sense and still be a bad thing. Denji represents a real phenomenon of sexual obsession in certain men, an obsession that only worsens with time. Denji is a creep. Creeps like him, in real life, are hated, for good reason. They are never given a closer look or examination, they are never given the excuse of how they were raised or what made them the way that they are. This is because none of those things matter. The past is not an excuse to be used for the facts of the present. You are what you are, and no amount of tragic backstory can excuse it. When murderers stand trial, and are declared legally insane, they are not simply released back into the street. It's not their fault that they ended up a murderer, but they did in fact murder someone. Those actions still have to be accounted for regardless of reason.

I knew someone once, a creep. His actions, behaviors, and thought processes echoed Denji's near perfectly. While I haven't actually read past the gun devil arc myself, I have received quite a bit of spoilers for everything past it, so I am well aware that Denji does not stay that way. You aren't exactly supposed to like the way that he is at the beginning, and I understand that completely. Characters develop, and they grow past their faults as the story continues. That's how fiction works. But in real life? Creeps rarely develop past that point. In fact, it only ever gets worse. I watched the development of this person throughout the years, I watched them worsen and worsen, tragic backstory in mind. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't move past it. Eventually, it reached a point of no return, an action so heinous that it couldn't be excused. I guess that's why I hate Denji as a character so much. He echoes everything I found disgusting about the real life person I knew, but he is spun in a positive light. Denji is unrealistic in that sense. He gets better. And I think that's why so many people relate to him and his struggles. That sexual deviancy is something that you don't get over, so seeing someone do so, seeing someone like that capable of being liked by others is pleasing.

And it's clear that this was probably the intention for Denji's character if you take a look at the author, Tatsuki Fujimoto. Among the many things we know about him, we know that he is, and was, much like Denji in real life. Makima herself was based off of an experience from his youth in which he realized that he is a masochist and likes overbearing, unreasonable, and attractive women. He speaks like Denji. Much like how Denji consumes Makima as an act of love, he consumed his pet goldfish because he felt bad about it being picked apart by ants. Even Denji swallowing anything with nutritional value can be traced back to Fujimoto's teenage tendency of eating anything he could find.

My hatred for Denji's character brought me to a standstill at the end of the gun devil arc. I had just watched every single one of my favorite characters get killed off in the past arc and that one, being Angel, Aki, Beam, Violence, and Cosmo. Some of those characters I feel needed to be expanded upon, but I will not get into that. Upon realizing that all my favorite characters were dead, I started to wonder why I was even still reading. The only two left of our main people were Denji himself, and power. Power being an unappealing character to me personally, and Denji, as stated, being hated, I didn't see any reason to continue. And so I didn't. I want to finish with the statement that none of this was thrown as shade towards people who enjoy chainsaw man in any way, it is just generally my opinion of it. To each their own!