
Rating: | Average 4.8 / 5 |
Alternative | Chainsaw Man Manga, チェンソーマン, Chensō Man |
Author(s) | FUJIMOTO Tatsuki |
Artist(s) | FUJIMOTO Tatsuki |
Genre(s) | Action, Drama, Horror, Mature, Shounen |
Type | Manga |
Release | 2018 |
Status | Ongoing |
Summary
Chainsaw Man Manga (Japanese: チェンソーマン, Hepburn: Chensō Man) is a Japanese manga written by Tatsuki Fujimoto which is based on the tragic story of a boy named Denji.
Denji is a poor guy whose parents died and left a huge sum of debt amount on Denji. He sold some organs to pay the debt which his father took from a yakuza.
The yakuza give takes to denji to hunt down the devils to make money to pay back the debt.
He owns a devil dog named Pochita who assists him in hunting down devils. The dog resembles a Chainsaw.
Once the yakuza trap him and he is nearly killed by a group of devils and Pochita merged himself with denji to save his life.
And that dog revived as half-devil, Chainsawman.
Denji kills the devil that killed him and then he joined the government devil’s hunters as a team as he is partially half devil.
The team leader Makima persuades him to join the devil hunter team with his other teammates Aki Hayakawa and Power to being avoid hunted by them.
It’s serialized in Shueisha’s weekly shonen jump magazine from Dec 2018 to Dec 2020.
Its second part was announced and will be serialized in Shueisha’s shonen jump+ online magazine. Viz Manga licensed in English in North America to print both physical and Digital released.