Chainsaw Man

Learn the differences between devils, fiends, and devil hybrids in the new Chainsaw Man anime and manga with detailed descriptions.

Together, they form the Chainsaw Man, which is easily the strongest devil hybrid in the manga series. Denji, our protagonist, is a devil hybrid between himself and the chainsaw devil named Pochita. Even the ability to turn into their devil form only lasts temporarily for the fiends in Chainsaw Man. Instead, she is the control devil who has a human like apperance. Usually, this leads to the elimination of all consciousness of the human part, but at times, shared control of the body is also possible. As the name suggests, hybrids are a result of a merger between humans and devils. The most reliable way to kill hybrid devils is to remove all the devil elements from their bodies. For example, the fox devil embodies the fear of foxes and has a strong jaw and sharp claws. We have compiled this guide to help explain the differences between devils, fiends, and devil hybrids in the Chainsaw Man anime. But if they die in the human world, they are reborn in hell. In the world of Chainsaw Man, devils are supernatural creatures that are born in hell and prey on human fears. Chainsaw Man presents us with one of the most interesting worlds that we have seen in mangas or animes lately.

Denji becomes Chainsaw Man on Crunchyroll in October. Tatsuki Fujimoto/MAPPA/Crunchyroll. One of the most anticipated anime releases of 2022 will finally stream ...

[Jujutsu Kaisen](/culture/entertainment/jujutsu-kaisen-0-stream-the-anime-movie-on-crunchyroll-in-september/)) is Kishibe and Tomori Kusunoki plays Makima. This marks the first on-screen iteration of Tatsuki Fuijmoto's popular manga, and we will finally get to see Denji, Makima, Power, Reze, Pochita and all the characters come to life. [Crunchyroll](/tech/services-and-software/crunchyrolls-nintendo-switch-app-brings-anime-to-you-wherever-you-are/) at 9 a.m.

MAPPA's adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto's action shonen is revving up to be something fun.

Because the rest of the show is in 2D, a CG Chainsaw Man that’s also operating on a different framerate from the rest of the 2D world looks out of place, particularly when he’s in minimal motion. After determining that he’s a human/Devil hybrid, Makima gives him the choice to join her in hunting other Devils or die, and he easily accepts. After initial bits of stumbling as he gets used to the extra weight that comes with his new form, Denji starts moving around the battlefield like a bloody force of nature. Whatever MAPPA does with the debut season of their first series, Chainsaw Man’s already carved out an impressive, bloody niche for itself. He’s a good boy, yes, but the show doesn’t go out of its way to make him anything more than a dog that just happens to have a chainsaw for a face. It’s a shame, then, that the CG used to bring Chainsaw Man to life (and used earlier throughout the episode) can sometimes feel out of place. But in the same way that the show is blunt when it comes to its protagonist’s debt, Chainsaw Man doesn’t try too hard in regards to Pochita. Chainsaw Man starts out with a slower, almost melancholic mood rather than the often playful (but no less melancholic) vibes that Jujutsu has successfully operated with over the course of a You’ll find the call quality is enhanced as the four built-in microphones are used to suppress any ambient noise and amplify your voice those on your call only hear what you intend for them to hear. Aided by a dog-Devil with a chainsaw on his head named Pochita, the two have spent years gradually chipping away at Denji’s debt while the teen continues to live in poverty and long for a better life. Colors are muted for much of the episode’s runtime, as if to mirror Denji’s exhaustion and hopelessness, but they bloom towards the end during two key conversations between him and Pochita. [recently returned](https://gizmodo.com/chainsaw-man-manga-returns-shonen-jump-denji-pochita-1849170231) manga of the same name by Tatsuki Fujimoto, Chainsaw Man is set in a world where monstrous beings called Devils exist on Earth, and Devil Hunters are tasked with eliminating them.

The anime adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto's popular “Chainsaw Man” magna, the series centers on Denji, a teenage boy living with a Chainsaw Devil named Pochita.

If Chainsaw Man follows a similar release schedule, the first episode should premiere on the streamer around 12:00 p.m. No official Hulu release date has been announced, but we have an idea of when Chainsaw Man might debut on the streamer. [“New on” list for October](https://decider.com/article/new-on-hulu/) notes that Chainsaw Man will be available to stream beginning Tuesday, October 11. Attack on Titan episodes were available on Hulu the same time they debuted on Crunchyroll in the United States. PT) on Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2022/10/07/heres-the-exact-time-the-chainsaw-man-anime-begins-on-crunchyroll). As his consciousness fades, he makes a contract with Pochita and gets revived as ‘Chainsaw Man’ — a man with a devil’s heart.”

Following the release of the first episode of Chainsaw Man in Japan today, MAPPA released the official opening theme movie for the series, “KICK BACK” by ...

Chainsaw Man Part 2 [began](https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2022/06/20/chainsaw-man-manga-part-2-revs-up-in-shueishas-jump-in-july) serialization on the Shonen Jump+ digital manga magazine, Shonen Jump app and Manga Plus app on July 13. Due to the debt his father left behind, he has been living a rock-bottom life while repaying his debt by harvesting devil corpses with Pochita. for episodes 1-3 is scheduled to release on October 26, Volume 2 featuring episodes 4-7 is scheduled to release on November 23 and Volume 3 featuring episodes 8-12 is scheduled to release on December 28.

The first part of “Chainsaw Man” left many people with an existential crisis: While the plot itself ended on a bittersweet—and dare we say, hopeful—note, there ...

[“Chainsaw Main”](https://www.pennlive.com/life/2022/07/chainsaw-man-part-two-how-where-to-read-online-latest-chapters-scans.html) part two comes out Tuesday, Oct. “Chainsaw Man” chapters are typically free for a week or so after their release. Yes, there was a lot of plot points skipped above. By the end of the chapter, Mitaka ends up actually warming towards Bucky, then accidentally crushing him. (ET). [“Chainsaw Man”](https://www.pennlive.com/life/2021/07/chainsaw-man-what-we-know-about-the-anime-adaptation-so-far.html) is being released by Viz Media to read [for free](https://www.viz.com/shonenjump/chapters/chainsaw-man) in all its gore-filled glory.

Chainsaw Man is the most violent new anime of the season, but rich lore and a confidence in its mysteries makes for a strong start.

It definitely feels as if these violent battles will be what audiences most talk about in Chainsaw Man, but thankfully that’s not all that the show has to offer. It relishes and glorifies grisly moments that the manga otherwise dwells on with a certain passivity. This premiere hammers in the dark nature of this world, but it’s not completely void of levity and silliness. This is hardly a fresh anime trope, but hopefully Chainsaw Man manages to avoid the same pitfalls that held back these at-one-point similar seinen series. This first episode looks gorgeous, but there’s equally impressive sound design, especially when it comes to the vicious massacre in the final act when Denji’s Chainsaw Man form first reveals itself. This excess can function at the series’ surface level, but it’s also led to a trend where stylized expressions of magic, energy, or even violence can become powerful metaphors for the internal problems that consume us all.

We break down the climactic fight scene in the first episode of Chainsaw Man, the new supernatural horror action anime from studio MAPPA based on Tatsuki ...

One of the standout shots of the entire fight, and one which can be briefly glimpsed in the third trailer for the series, is when the Zombie Devil, in a fit of pain-induced desperation, grabs Chainsaw Man with one of his entrail tentacles to fling him across the room and smash into a nearby concert support beam. It’s not until the last third of the episode, after Denji is betrayed by his yakuza employers in exchange for a contract with the so-called Zombie Devil promising power, that we get to see Denji fully cut loose to rip and tear into action. After a momentary pause, Denji wastes no time leaping into action, darting past the Zombie Devil’s defensive line of droning masses and propelling himself forward to pierce the Devil’s skull with his head-mounted chainsaw and arm blades. From start to finish, the climax of Chainsaw Man’s debut episode is an exemplary feat of craftsmanship made possible only through solid production and careful planning that enables these artists and animators to do what they do best — make dope shit. From Hiroyuki Okiura and Mitsuo Iso’s work on the blistering shootout between Motoko Kusanagi and the spider-tank in The exact origin of Devils is unknown, though what is known is that these monsters are manifestations of negative feelings and emotions shared across the collective human subconscious, similar to the phenomenon of “Curses” in Jujutsu Kaisen.

Based on the original manga written by Tatsuki Fujimoto, Chainsaw Man has premiered its long-awaited first episode on Crunchyroll.

The episode jumps back and forth between Denji's early days of meeting Pochita, and his experienced devil-hunting days, which have clearly taken a toll on both his mind and body. Any worriers that the anime wouldn't be as gory or as brutal as the manga can rest easy, because Denji rips and roars through a hoard of zombie devils in bloodthirsty fashion. The final act of the episode shows the Yakuza's betrayal of Denji, as they turn to zombie devils and impale both him and Pochita with their swords. The licensing was purchased by the popular anime streaming service Crunchyroll, and the first episode of the [long-awaited anime series](https://www.cbr.com/things-chainsaw-man-manga-readers-are-excited-to-see-animated/) has now been released. [anime does a wonderful job](https://movieweb.com/best-sci-fi-anime-movies-ranked/) of introducing both Denji and Pochita as characters that both love and need one another. The original story of Chainsaw Man follows Denji, a down-on-his-luck man who absorbs an insurmountable pile of debt to the Yakuza when his father dies.

The hype surrounding the new series is real, and the culmination of a long effort to popularize anime and manga in the U.S..

The acquisition of the Chainsaw Man anime is a coup for MAPPA and Crunchyroll. The anime adaptation of Chainsaw Man arrives not long after the manga series returned from hiatus and began its second story arc. Chainsaw Man is the culmination of a long effort to popularize anime and manga in the U.S. Nine years ago, Crunchyroll and Hulu premiered Attack on Titan in the U.S., and that turned out to be the biggest anime series of the past decade. The series premiere is a panel-for-panel adaptation of the first chapter of the manga. The yakuza forge a new partnership with a devil and leave Denji for dead in a dumpster at the scene of a massive ambush. Netflix licenses and produces a lot of popular anime, and its high-profile launches in recent years led many fans to assume Chainsaw Man would premiere on Netflix in the U.S. The first episode of Chainsaw Man, as in the first chapter of the manga, follows a scruffy young man named Denji as he wanders the countryside with his strange puppy, Pochita, a “dog” that’s really a devil with a chain saw protruding from his forehead, and a pull cord for a tail. In the meantime, Denji and Pochita chop trees, hunt other devils—who have migrated to Earth using the power of human fears—and sell Denji’s expendable organs to make a living. Now, Denji and Pochita live together in a darkened shack, subsisting on scraps of white bread; Denji dreams of the day they’ll afford to eat bread with jam. The Chainsaw Man anime is part of the subculture’s broader success story of the past decade: a resurgence of big-budget action anime (after a drought that began in the last 2000s and ran through the early 2010s) and an explosion in international manga readership. In December 2018, the manga artist Tatsuki Fujimoto published the first chapter of Chainsaw Man, a modern twist on the figurative deal with the devil, in Japan’s Weekly Shonen Jump.

Here's a complete list of all movie references we spotted in the Chainsaw Man Opening, and we will update it weekly with each new episode.

Chainsaw Man doesn’t shy away from gore content, and with this scene in the opening, it seems like the anime even celebrates it. Chainsaw Man opens with the attack of a tomato devil, which opens up the possibility for a direct reference to the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. The closest replica of such behavior in the real world is shown by the Leucochloridium Parasite, which gets a brief reference in the CSM opening. Each of these holes is cleverly shaped in the initials of the anime series — C, S, and M. If you are an MCU fan, then this movie reference would be the easiest to spot in the Chainsaw Man opening. While most movie references in Chainsaw Man’s opening were direct and complete recreation of the scenes, there were some subtle ones too. Continuing the celebration of classic horror movies, the Chainsaw Man opening scene uses an angel devil to reference Jacob’s Ladder. It seems like the anime creators are true fans of Quentin Tarantino as another one of his hit movies, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, gets a reference in the Chainsaw Man opening. [ fiends and devils in Chainsaw Man](https://beebom.com/chainsaw-man-devils-fiends-devil-hybrids-difference/) here), is a mysterious character in the CSM universe. In the opening, we can see Chainsaw Man fighting another character in the exact same location where Sadako and Kayako fight in the movie. And while this franchise got another movie in 2022, the opening of Chainsaw Man takes inspiration from the classic 1974 film by Tobe Hooper. That’s why the Chainsaw Man opening has a direct movie reference to this evergreen hit.