Chainsaw Man (Japanese: チェンソーマン, Hepburn: Chensō Man) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2018 to December 2020, with its chapters collected in eleven tankōbon volumes. It follows the story of Denji, an impoverished young man who after making a contract with a dog-like devil named Pochita, he fuses with Denji, 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 the world.
A second part of the manga began serialization in Shueisha's Shōnen Jump+ online magazine starting in July 2022. 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 is set to premiere in 2022.
As of June 2022, the manga had over 13 million copies in circulation. In 2021, it won the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category, as well as the Harvey Awards in the Best Manga category. Chainsaw Man has been overall well received by critics, who have commended its storytelling and characters, and have particularly highlighted its violent scenes within the context of the story.
Setting
The story is set in a world where Devils are born from human fears. Devils are usually dangerous and malevolent, their power proportional to the fear they incite. However, humans can form contracts with them to use their power, and there are individuals specializing in hunting and employing them, called Devil Hunters. Devils originate from Hell, and exist in a cycle between Earth and Hell: they migrate to Earth when killed in Hell, and vice-versa.
A Devil may, in certain conditions, inhabit the body of a dead human, gaining some of their memories and personality; such a creature is called a Fiend. Devils who naturally have a humanoid form are said to be benevolent to humans.
The events of the story take place in 1997, in an alternate timeline where the Soviet Union still exists, and many events such as the Holocaust appear to have not occurred.
Plot
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When his father died, Denji was stuck with a huge debt and no way to pay it back. Thanks to a Devil dog he saved named Pochita, he's able to survive through odd jobs and killing Devils for the Yakuza. Pochita's chainsaw powers come in handy against these powerful demons. When the Yakuza betrays him and he's killed by the Zombie Devil, Pochita sacrifices himself to save his former master. Now Denji has been reborn as some kind of weird Devil-Human hybrid. He is now a Chainsaw Man!
After his transformation, he's quickly recruited by Makima to join the Public Safety Devil Hunters under threat of extermination now that he's technically a Devil. Now that he's living comfortably for the first time in his life, Denji struggles to determine his dreams and form meaningful relationships while killing Devils and working alongside other eccentric Devil Hunters.
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Finally made it home for the first time since my dog passed away and all her toys and stuff being where she left them is killing me. I can even tell she roughed up our bed like she liked to do before they left :kitty-cri:
Pack them up and store them both because it compartmentalises it but also because it preserves her smell
:meow-hug: :meow-hug: :meow-hug:
Yeah she had a big tote we kept a lot of her stuff in I just put them all in that.
One is a little adipose from doctor who plushy we got from a con randomly. She never played with it but it was her baby. If you step on it she’d go grab it and sit with it to protect it lol
almost lol, I'm like nine and a half. If you're not yet a teenager it's still legitimate to refer to yourself in half-years cmv
when we busting out the cake?
my wife is a pretty sick baker and i try to follow her poorly so I'll actually bake a hexbear a cake
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Covid is serious. It will still kill you. Be safe, visit your sick relatives though.
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Persona megathread and now this?
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Listening to a 25 year old women talk for half an hour about arguing with middle and high schoolers over fucking kpop and somehow she's calling them immature? Like you're clearly so pressed youre talking about it at work and showing screenshots and she referred to them as "verbally assaulting" her because they called her ugly lmao
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(the monkey's paw curls one wretched finger)
Walking to the bus stop and someone drives by and shouts "you're beautiful!" I look and it's this cute blue haired queer looking person smiling at me and I realize it's probably a genuine compliment. And I'm thinking like "hey cool that was nice maybe I should wear makeup more often."
But then it hits me - they probably would not have shouted that at a cis woman. They probably felt comfortable doing so because I am also a visibly queer cutie. But I also dress very normie, so that means I got clocked, and that doesn't feel very good. But also it was a compliment and I shouldn't let my mind go into stupid spirals like this àaaaaaaaaaaà.
So that's my morning. How are you all today?
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chicken devil was the strongest opponent
I've been looking for another Shonen since Naruto ended. One Piece is the only one I've been keeping up with recently.
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I want to say something that people think is funny or insightful. But I have nothing. So here are some stars: :china-stars: :rb-star: :starry-plough: and Stalins, :stalin-approval: :josus-stalin: :stalin-pipe: :stalin-cig: :bugs-stalin: :stalin-gun-1: :stalin-gun-2: :stalin-feels-good:
I have to work in a few hours (minor one-off shit. I'm mostly unemployed now) and I'm seriously drunk. Typos are being meticulously fixed. Not sure I can pull it off. Betting on the help of a cold shower. Shit, even less time now. Better take another swig. Nah. Better not. Or...?
People who said I should add dark chocolate to my chili, wow, I would not have expected that to be good, ty for the advice.
yeah, cocoa adds a nice flavor. you're kind of making extremely bastardized mole.