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Chainsaw Man

Chainsaw Man

2018 · Tatsuki Fujimoto

Scores

External scores — sourced from MAL, AniList, IMDB

8.7
MAL
83
AniList

Synopsis

## Chainsaw Man *Chainsaw Man* by Tatsuki Fujimoto is one of the defining manga of the 2020s — raw, subversive, and structurally inventive in ways that defy the conventions of its genre. **Synopsis (EN)** The manga is divided into two parts. Part 1 follows Denji, a broke devil hunter who merges with his chainsaw devil pet to survive, and is recruited by the governmental Public Safety organization. Part 2 shifts focus to Asa Mitaka, a high school girl who becomes the host of the War Devil, and navigates school life, apocalypse anxiety, and an unwanted partnership with a god of destruction. Fujimoto's storytelling is deliberately unconventional: major characters die without ceremony, plot threads get cut short, and the series constantly wrong-foots readers who expect standard shonen beats. Part 2's school setting inverts all of Part 1's energy to create something entirely different. **Sinopsis (ES)** El manga está dividido en dos partes. La Parte 1 sigue a Denji, un cazador de demonios sin dinero que se fusiona con su mascota diablo motosierra para sobrevivir, y es reclutado por la organización gubernamental de Seguridad Pública. La Parte 2 traslada el foco a Asa Mitaka, una estudiante de secundaria que se convierte en anfitriona del Demonio de la Guerra, y navega la vida escolar, la ansiedad apocalíptica y una indeseada asociación con un dios de la destrucción. La narrativa de Fujimoto es deliberadamente poco convencional: los personajes principales mueren sin ceremonia, los hilos argumentales se cortan bruscamente, y la serie constantemente descoloca a los lectores que esperan los ritmos estándar del shonen. El escenario escolar de la Parte 2 invierte toda la energía de la Parte 1 para crear algo completamente diferente.

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