Chainsaw Man review

zuultek5
Apr 02, 2021
Okay, this is my second review so I hope I get my oppinion through as intended. Here we go.

I discovered Chainsaw Man by zapping through the recent updates in the site that I read at, and it caught my attention. I read one chapter to see what it was all about, and I can't say that it got me hooked, but I read every chapter available at the time in an hour or so. I treated it as kind of my guilty pleasure, seeing that it was not anything revolutionary, and it was pretty basic, but I found myself enjoying it. Now, with the latest chapters, I think it has improved a bit, and is not as bad as I thought.

The setting and story is as generic as the most generic Japanese crap you can think of. A world with demons where people are hired to kill specific demons yadda yadda, generic. But what I found while reading is that Chainsaw Man doesn't give a shit about its setting. What it focuses on is on its characters. We are introduced to a cast of characters that might give an impression as to being also generic, and at first they kinda are, but as the story moves forward you see that Fujimoto-san wanted to give a twist to what we're used to. Denji comes forth as every shonen protagonist can be, but throws that out the window by not having any dream to fulfill, he's poor and he wants to stop being it, but *spoilers I guess* he accomplishes that in the first chapter. His focus then shifts to just having sex with the girl who saved him. Yeah, pretty lame, but I guess that's the idea around his character. Another example is Aki, who may look like the typical emo "I hate the world" guy but is pretty kindhearted and has a fairly good reason for being how he is.

I can't say much for character development since at the time of writing this only 33 chapters are out, but I can feel like glimpses of change in some characters are appearing.

Art is a big concern in this manga. Tatsuki Fujimoto is not the kind of artist that usually gets me, I use to read "prettier" manga, but his grim, kinda ugly style fits Chainsaw Man perfectly. Also, Denji's transformation scenes are brutally awesome, and no-one can deny that.

In summary, Chainsaw Man is pretty good, but we'll have to see how it evolves. It can either go very good or become mediocre. Hoping for the former.
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Chainsaw Man
Chainsaw Man
Автор Fujimoto, Tatsuki
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