Chainsaw Man

Chainsaw Man
First tankōbon volume cover, featuring Denji in his Devil-human hybrid form, Chainsaw Man
チェンソーマン
(Chensō Man)
Genre
Manga
Written byTatsuki Fujimoto
Published byShueisha
English publisher
ImprintJump Comics
Magazine
English magazine
DemographicShōnen
Original runDecember 3, 2018 – present
Volumes18 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by
  • Ryū Nakayama
  • Makoto Nakazono[a]
Written byHiroshi Seko
Music byKensuke Ushio
StudioMAPPA
Licensed byCrunchyroll
Original networkTXN (TV Tokyo)
Original run October 12, 2022 – December 28, 2022
Episodes12 (List of episodes)
Anime film
Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc
StudioMAPPA
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Chainsaw Man (Japanese: チェンソーマン, Hepburn: Chensō Man) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto. Its first arc was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2018 to December 2020; its second arc began serialization in Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ app and website in July 2022. Its chapters have been collected in 18 tankōbon volumes as of August 2024.

Chainsaw Man follows the story of Denji, an impoverished teenager who makes a contract that fuses his body with that of a dog-like Devil named Pochita, granting him the ability to transform parts of his body into chainsaws. Denji eventually joins the Public Safety Devil Hunters, a government agency focused on fighting against Devils whenever they become a threat to Japan. The second arc of the story focuses on Asa Mitaka, a high school student who enters into a contract with Yoru, the War Devil, who forces her to hunt down Chainsaw Man in order to reclaim what he had stolen from her.

In North America, the manga is licensed in English by Viz Media, for both print and digital release, and it is also published by Shueisha on the Manga Plus online platform. An anime television series adaptation produced by MAPPA was broadcast from October to December 2022. An anime film, titled Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, has been announced.

By August 2024, the manga had over 28 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. In 2021, it won the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category and won the Harvey Awards in the Best Manga category from 2021 to 2023. Chainsaw Man has been overall well received by critics, who have commended its storytelling, characters, dark humor, and have particularly highlighted its violent scenes within the context of the story.

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  2. ^ "The Official Website for Chainsaw Man". Viz Media. Archived from the original on May 3, 2021. Retrieved September 8, 2020.
  3. ^ 『チェンソーマン』TVアニメ化、制作はMAPPA 「ジャンプ＋」で第2部連載も決定. Kai-You [ja] (in Japanese). December 14, 2020. Archived from the original on March 1, 2021. Retrieved May 16, 2021.
  4. ^ Masuda, Hiromichi (February 25, 2021). 『鬼滅』『呪術』の次は『チェンソーマン』だ！ ジャンプ史上最もアブないダーク・ファンタジーをアニメ化する＜MAPPA＞とは？. Banger!! (in Japanese). Movie Plus [ja]. Archived from the original on February 27, 2021. Retrieved July 17, 2021.


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