Chainsaw Man Vol 1: Volume 1

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Tatsuki Fujimoto won Honorable Mention in the November 2013 Shueisha Crown Newcomers' Awards for his debut one-shot story Love is Blind. The first volume covers the origins and Denji’s arrival with a group of civil servant demon hunters.

He also described it as a successful mix of "workplace comedy, horror, and action series", in contrast to most shōnen. That said, the first couple volumes don’t do a whole lot to dismiss this impression, and I completely understand those that are turned off by this. It’s like reading Naruto for the first time when you were 13 before everything became entrenched in timelines and family trees. The first volume sold 18,000 copies in the United States in 2020, and the eight volumes collectively sold 623,000 copies in 2021. According to the manga's editor, Shihei Lin, Fujimoto is heavily involved in the production of the anime series, stating: "Fujimoto-san has seen all the Chainsaw Man 's pitch documents, story structure, scripts, and even the storyboards.After this, he can transform into the devil-human Hybrid known as Chainsaw Man by pulling a cord on his chest. Following her "read-a-thoning" of the series, Katherine Dacey of The Manga Critic commented that she finished it with a "grudging respect for Fujimoto's excessive, ridiculous creation, which entertained and repelled me in equal measure. Kishibe organizes a raid to rescue Denji alongside cowardly Public Safety operative Kobeni Higashiyama.

million copies sold, [110] while volumes 12–14 were among the best-selling manga volumes from the same period. Dupree stated that the "crass, crude, and purposefully lowbrow" humor is one of its defining characteristics, adding that there are multiple jokes where it feels like half the punchline is that the series, "in all its gleefully nihilistic indulgence," was published in the same magazine as other "bleedingly sincere and family-friendly" titles like One Piece or My Hero Academia.

Normally if I'm reading fight scenes on any manga I read, I always cheer on the people involved in the fight. There was some paneling that I struggled with and had to re-read because they were intense action scenes; nevertheless, I thought that the design work behind the demons/devils was quite interesting. On December 19, 2020, it was announced that the second part, "School arc" ( 学校編, Gakkō-hen), would feature Denji going to school.

A warm, unsentimental and beautifully-observed book for our times' Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days 'If I were in bother I'd want the Ballybrady bunch at my back. I'm not sure if I'll individually rate the rest of the manga in this collection on GR and rate each instead in a wrap up video but we'll see. 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. This gripping manga series delivers a relentless rollercoaster of action, horror, and dark humour , all expertly interwoven into a story that defies convention. The events take place in 1997, in an alternate timeline where the Soviet Union still exists, and many events such as the Holocaust, AIDS and nuclear weapons have been erased from history due to the consumption of their respective Devils by the Chainsaw Devil, with only four powerful Devils known as the Horsemen (Control, War, Famine, and Death) remembering the events.Betrayals, sacrifices, and shocking revelations reshape the dynamics of their group and propel them deeper into the heart of darkness. According to NPD BookScan, the first three volumes of Chainsaw Man were ranked among the top 20 highest-selling manga volumes in 2021; [116] it was the best-selling manga series in 2022, with eight volumes featured on the top 20 highest-selling manga volumes. This is a moving and funny debut novel set in a quirky coastal community you will be desperate to visit after reading. One day, after accidentally killing her class' pet Chicken Devil Bucky, she is confronted by the Class President who has made a contract with the Justice Devil. A browser game commemorating the release of the manga's fifteenth volume was released for free on August 4, 2023.