Anime 44511 Chainsaw Man Reviews Filter Check 3

Chainsaw man is the fulfilment of shonen, the zenith of the medium, the apex of creativity…. At least that’s what you thought I’d say, right? In reality, chainsaw man is nothing more than a cheap gimmicky shonen that plays on the horniness of teenaged males, relies on shock value and uses flashy animation to make people overlook the mediocre plot.

For the past 2.5 years now, I’ve heard nothing but incessant hype from CSM stans on twitter and Reddit about how this series is so peak and so gas etc etc., and like most of the things these kids hype up these days, this was overblown. ... It seems like all MAPPA have to do is give kids some sakuga and nice designs and people lose their minds.

The whole idea of a dude getting manipulated by women into doing their bidding simply by being promised sexual favours or a boob grab is so painfully stupid and dull that I genuinely wanted to throw my remote at the tv at points. I love fanservice in anime, but this wasn’t just that. It was something way worse. Throwing up in a dude’s mouth during a kiss, grabbing titties while on a literal shitty toilet, etc. etc. it’s like the show relies on shock value consistently to keep it going. That didn’t resonate with me at all.

Then there’s the makima simps. As I said earlier I’ve seen people hype up this series for years like it was the second coming of Christ and a massive part of that hype was the Makima dog walking memes/cosplays and just general thirsting over her character in general. Of course when we finally got to the anime and got to see her I was underwhelmed. She’s a conniving manipulative obviously evil character that has really no redeeming qualities. For the life of me I can’t see how people fell for her. Even her design is OK at best. This really extends to all the girls in this series too. It’s almost like just how Denji gets manipulated, so too were readers/viewers of this series into falling for these toxic women.

The first half of my review makes me seem like a hater.. well I am. But I still will always give credit where credit is due. There are some scenes in this show that will absolutely knock your socks off and leave your jaw on the floor with how beautifully rendered and animated they are. Some fight scenes in Chainsaw man are just exquisite works of art. We’ve come to expect this from MAPPA and it shouldn’t come as a surprise, but the production levels are top notch.

The CGI is pretty wonky at times, but for the most part I think it worked well. The 2D animation and art is obviously incredible. Voice acting castings were good with the exception of Makima who for me had a voice that didn’t really fit her. I don’t quite know how to describe it, but it just doesn’t sound right.

Chainsaw Man is one of the most popular anime in recent years and truthfully I can’t understand why. Other than the MAPPA sakuga and Fujimoto twisted fetishes, I don’t see much to speak of from the anime. The story feels like an early 2000s generic shonen rip off that relies on shock value and gore as its primary tools. I know this won’t be a popular opinion or one that receives a lot of backing, but I just don’t think this show is very good. It’s not even top 5 of this season, nonetheless the year.

Chainsaw man gets 6 out of 10.

One of the greatest disappointments ever seen in anime. Not recommended for good plot/development connoisseurs.

Once people have seen/read a certain amount and variety of any recreational media and have lost the "teen" in their age, they tend to get more genuine and generous with the overall rating, but also that exposure gives them a more critical eye to the media in question.
With the internet becoming a widely and massively accessible platform, and globalisation going full throtle, the popularisation of anime worldwide came in like a storm, the basic principle consumption=demand=more production gave anime/manga a bigger stage to shine on and bigger audience, but that ... essentially became one of its worse demons. It meant that the hungry consumer would eat anything regardless, so the quality bar, in favour of quantity was dropped to unrecognisable levels in the last 15 years, dropped and devolved to CSM level. Not that great anime was not made in those years, however, what once was a condition has now become a bonus. The balance plane of art, music, animation and plot has so heavily tilted towards one side that a great deal of newer anime depends in large amounts on fan service, fantastic art and animation, intriguing or unique character design, and has sadly nearly obliterated the demand for quality world-building, plot/storytelling/narrative and any sort of development or reasonable characters.

CSM anime sees to all of the above, at a whole new level. It is simply badly made, a very poor execution of a series that had great potential based on the first episode, however, crashed miserably with every single one to come after. It has no direction, no purpose, no plot thus far, no narratrive and a catasrtophically failed world-building, so what the viewer is left with is a devastating bundle of anitiheroe-only cahracters, great animation with slightly botched CGI, mediocre music and a distinctive atmosphere but nothing substantial like a good plot or development to keep them all tied together.
The "plot" is so all over the place that at episode 10 out of total 12, the viewer is still to figure out where the story is going, the reason for which largely at fault is the pacing and randomness. The action scenes have no build up, are very sudden, and the viewer's angle dramatically changes too fast to follow, while the non-action scenes are painfully slow, stale, taking up a big amount of time overall the episode and a good count of them contribute nothing to the story (putting the kettle on, dressing up, brushing teeth, making breakfast, brushing and styiling hair, daily life things in great detail and length). The juxtaposition of those scenes creates a significant disbalance in the storytelling and doesn't provide anything of value. It's actually strainful and confusing how the series jumps from one to the other at random before suddenly returning to the previous. This type of animation tends to an audience that has low bar for plot but high expectations/demand for quality art, usually one that is new to anime and certainly has very little base to compare it with.
The characters are arguably some of the shallowest ever created and animated. Disregarding the sex/food/sleep/repeat-driven teenage protagonist of the series, the rest of the characters are adult, yet act and behave on the same level as the aforementioned teenager. Characters are randomely introduced and randomly disposed of, some serve absolutely no reason or puspose and bring nothing into the series. There is no depth, no development, no intelligence, no relief, no justification in any of them, down to the last one flat, unreasonable, half-baked, overdone and forgettable, some are simply cringy.
The only thing that holds the series just so it does not fall below the generous 5/10 average score is the beautiful art, however vision pleasing motion pictures are not enough to redeem a virtually non-existant plot, bad storytelling/ world-building and absolutely disagreable charachters, essentially dismanteling the very prerequisite of anime.
The whole glory of this series lies in it's gore, detailed art and animation, dark atmosphere, fan service and seemingly quircky characters, it has nothing to offer other than that to make it worthwhile, it's just that, average with potential to become even less depending on the last 2 episodes to come.

This is only my opinion, I value story more than anything in a series, animation and art style are irrelevent to how much I will enjoy it, I appreciate well-written characters, fan service is fine in medium quantities as long as it is not a plot device/center piece of the story, I believe pacing is crucial in a series. It doesn't have to be perfectly balanced to be enjoyable but if there is no plot, any recreatinal platform of choice simply becomes meaningless.

The anime has an overreliance on CGI, though it's fortunately passable, but loses some marks due to bad CG messing with immersion with sudden quality changes in how things are animated.

As far as the plot goes, it start out strong in the first two episodes, then drops off a cliff. Episode 6, for example, could be completely cut from the series without anyone except those who read the source material noticing. The anime does somewhat "redeem" itself in the final 3 episodes, although two of them are basically just a training montage. Still, it's not nearly enough to pull a season that's ... mostly garbage out of the trash bin for me.

The majority of the characters are garbage-tier, and the majority of the decent characters get killed off.

In no particular order:
Denji (the MC) is basically a hobo without ties to anything. He's an okay character, but not terribly interesting. He has no real motivation throughout the entire season other than "existing", which is just bland and disinteresting.
Aki is one of the few passable side characters of the series, but even his well-rounded "leader" personality is pretty vanilla/bland.
Power is just an annoying and largely incompetent narcissist. It's really a shame that she's so underpowered for all of her talk.
Himeno is one of the few decent side characters, giving out strong Misato (EVA) vibes. Ultimately though, we don't see enough of her.
Kobeni is the absolute worst characters of the series. She's simultaneously a whiny, useless crybaby in 90% of the series, but then randomly becomes competent when the writers need to insert a character in and can't think of anyone else to use.

Later on in the season, when they randomly decide to kill off a ton of people, the "main" characters fight two people who wipe the floor with them, utterly decimating a group of them, only for them to do a 2-episode training montage for two of the survivors. One of them proceeds to 1v1 one of the people who literally just killed an entire squad (including them) earlier on, and win without anywhere near as much difficulty as we saw literally just a few episodes ago. The other BBEG goes up against one of the weaker ones and doesn't even use the power that decimated the entire squad earlier, and is instead overpowered without a fight.

The writing of this series is garbage. The characters are almost all annoying or disinteresting, and the entire season feels like a filler season of an sub-par anime.

Chainsaw man was hyped up by the anime community and MAN I don't get it. The dude just likes touching boobs. This show is essentially the Minoru Mineta Shonen. There are times when I PRAY, I BEG to the lord, the motivation is going to evolve from sexual desire to a more intimate desire of friendship or love OR that he'll realise, sexual desire is a very shallow desire and he won't find fulfilment. He has a moment of this more complicated line of thinking but then a girl in the show will offer him the opportunity of OPPAI or a kiss and that's it ... man, all his blood goes to the brain. It's clear the creator of the Manga just wanted to draw some soft-core porn while people pretend it's deep.

Aside from main character being a man-slut the symbolism is very bluntly done and doesn't leave much up to the viewer to think about. Some of the side characters are interesting and the general background plot is interesting but when your watching all this through the eyes of OPPAI man it's massively diminished.

T.R.A.S.H

like it or not chainsaw man is one of the most hyped and waited-for animes and undoubtedly the biggest anime this year with over 500k people having it on their list before it even begins and about a million at its end in just 3 months.
I didn't read the manga but for the last 2 years, I heard that the anime is gonna change the shounen anime definition, but did it deliver what I hoped. of course not it was the biggest disappointment, and from what I saw that some of the manga readers were disappointed either from the heavy use of CGI or the ... pacing, etc.
IMO it is one of the most over-hyped and overrated and over popularity animes I've ever seen
I mean it's just another action Shonen and is no better than anything we’ve had in recent years

CSM is not the worst anime. But it is not an anime that I would recommend for someone who has self-respect.
this anime has a specific audience and fans and I am not one of those who just wanted legalized porn
I am shocked by how many fans of this trash I mean you can find much better and respectful anime
I've watched over 200 animes and I have almost never seen a kiss or touching oppai or a character(Himeno) ask a 16-year-old boy "wanna do it?"
I basically watch shounen and anime in general because it is a clean or semi-clean industry away from Netflix shows
and I am just writing this review to prevent new watchers who have self-respect "run! don't watch it"

summary
Denji is a boy whose father committed suicide after paying off debts.
Denji gets to know Buchi, a demon dog in the form of a chainsaw and helps him live in exchange for helping him live by killing demons to pay off his father's debt. They sell him his eyes for sale and one of his testicles until he pays off a small amount of debt and lives on scraps of food or garbage. One day, the gang summons him to a secret place, and then it turns out that they are giving him to another demon to kill him with pleasure. In moments, Denji turns into four pieces, completely torn on the brink of death, so that Buchi gives his heart for Denji, and the chainsaw man appears for the first time to cut and kill everyone in the place.
Denji uses these new abilities to brutally eliminate other devils, supernatural creatures born from the fears of humanity. Denji then joins the Public Safety Devil Hunters, an official organization authorized by the Japanese government whose mission is to protect civilians from devils by hunting and eliminating them.
This is just the beginning of the anime. The anime is heavily filled with gore, ecchi, and killing.

I will talk about some points about the anime
-the main character is the worst you can find in any anime and I think if he was replaced by anything else the anime would have been way better he has the most irrelevant and illogical life goal and it's not just a temporary one! no, it develops and increases more and more from touching an oppai to the worst his motivation is going to evolve from sexual desire to a more decent one and you can't convince me that this is normal under whatever circumstances he witnessed
-fan service is what this anime is and I think if the writer minimized it a little the anime would be so good but I think the writer just wanted to give us the worst things about the anime industry plus a little story I was shocked by the number of inappropriate scenes featured within the episodes. For those unused to such scenes and I think it would be acceptable only for hentai fans
-Chainsaw Man reached a new level of disgusting in episode 7 presenting the worst scene any anime could have of course, it is pointless and that reflects the writer's character and this anime fan type who were upset because it was censored
-Denji’s voice actor once proves to be a brilliant choice for the character as he has the worst VA I ever heard, his voice makes me disgusted
-side characters are annoying uninteresting and have bad personalities.
-characters VAs sound too much as if they are reading the script. This removes any immersion or depth from the series, as it sounds forced and too obvious that the VAs are acting.
-the animation is very good and there are also very good camera angles but there is heavy Cgi which was not so bad it made the scenes less satisfying and there were over-animated scenes that looked so weird and awkward that the way they move starkly different from other animes.
-the characters' design (faces) in anime was empty and emotionless and cold just like Sitama

-there is not a single remarkable ost and some scenes in the anime feature too much silence that I don't even remember ever hearing a good one, making it unsettling and even borderline boring for some watchers
-the pacing is not good because too many things happen in one chapter of the manga, making it incredibly difficult to keep track of what is going on and what aspects are vital to the story, and due to the fast pacing, some characters' deaths are glossed over. They could be alive on one panel and dead on the next.
-the opening is very good also the endings are very good but I find it pointless to have 12 different one
-imo there is not much of anime only fans that loved the anime i guess they are just manga readers' fanbase

Before this was released, people were like omg chainsaw man. It ahs to be peak. My friends really said that it deserves a 10/10.Some even said it would be at the level of AOT S3 P2. So I had my expectations high for this. And guess what , it disappointed. It failed to amaze me in every aspect.


It is better to say the good things first so I'll start with it's good points. Now it has some uniqueness to it. So much gore in a shonen anime, that's out of what you expect. 2 or 3 episodes were good. Denji is not a trash ... mc from my perspective. Some cliiffhangers were truly unexpected.

Flaws:

Firstly, the female characters(except makima cuz I haven't read the manga) are just in one word CRINGE. From Himeno's puke kiss to Power's shitty attitude all of them managed to be so unlikable that I dont even know it was possible for characters to be so insanely unlikable.

The plot is nothing amazing and the first 5 or 6 episodes were just bs. Then it kinda kicked in but still doesn't manage to satisfy the hype. Shock value was used to simply drive our attention away from the plot that is not that good. Now it is sad that the community hyped it like it was going to be a masterpiece lol.

First off the animation looks great and the fight scenes looked pretty badass. Almost everything else though.. I did not enjoy.

Denji is probably the worst mc I have ever seen in an anime. He has no charisma whatsoever. He is not an endearing character we want to protect because of his bad life until the point the story starts. For that to happen he would have to be a better person with a good heart, which clearly isn't the case here. He also isn't a very funny or inspiring character that we enjoy to see because he is amusing or makes us want to ... root for him to fulfill his dreams. And he also isn't a badass cool character every boy dreams to be. No, Denji is just a plain boring character that in most shows would be some side character because he is a little edgy and maybe gets a short spotlight for a cool fight or something.

All those attributes that would make a main character are completely absent in the Chainsaw Man. I often read that he is a very relatable character because of his realistic dreams. Which is utter rubbish! Denji's dream is to have sex with a girl he has somewhat of a crush on. I'm sorry to break this to some people, but that is a side quest. If this is your main goal in life you should think about some changes in your life. That is a fun side activity, not something your life should revolve around. But it is for this mc, which is as mundane as it can get.

This mc has no agency whatsoever, he is just dragged along by his "supporting cast". But I couldn't get into any of those side characters either, because they are either boring or just straight up horrible people, or both and I couldn't care less when any of them died, fake deaths included. In a decent show Aki would have been the protagonist and to be perfectly honest I am more or less convinced that he actually is. He still lacks a bit of emotional depth for that, but he would have definitely been the better choice, since he actually has a goal beyond touching a boob or getting a girl to kiss him. But that's the next thing about the show, almost all of the cast show very little to no emotion. Yeah I get it, "they live in a world with demons around, they had very hard lives and death is only a step away for them at all..." Aah will you shut up?! Yes, they have hard lives, but guess what, so do many others, in the real world and in anime, yet they still possess human emotions. It's like the Katana guy said, Denji has no conscience left, is he even human anymore? Who knows, if he is, he sure as hell isn't showing it.

I really tried to give this anime a chance, considering how hyped it was, hell after the trailer I was actually fired up, but things kept on dragging and just got worse over time. The last couple episodes were probably the best of the anime, which isn't saying much since I was bored out of my mind for most of the show. I cannot comprehend why this show is getting the spotlight it is getting. Not even the setting is very original, they are hunting demons, yeah.. haven't heard of that one before... Everything about this show up to this point just screams average at you. That's already including the good animation, if it wasn't for those this would be far below average.

Overall I think this show has a terrible and unoriginal story with one of the worst, if not the worst mc in anime history. The animation is great, I will give Mappa that but that can't save the boring and lackluster story as well as characters. Chainsaw Man is actually very well represented by it's mc who is a giant simping unlikeable disappointment of a main character with no agency whatsoever. 4/10

I started this anime with high hopes for the "strong and capable" female characters I kept hearing about but I was quickly disappointed. In the first few episodes the main character's greatest motivation is to touch a woman's boobs. At first it starts off as a crush on a specific girl - Makima (he falls on her boobs due to "low blood pressure" and says they smell great), but later we find out that it doesn't matter who the girl is because he wants to grope Power's boobs too even though he doesn't like her personality. As a woman, that made me feel very underappreciated, ... made me think that even if men act a certain way in front of me, all they are interested in at the end is sexual gratification, not me. Denji does not see the women in this show as equals to him, they are first and foremost women a.k.a. boobs. Someone might argue that it's just a gag or it's normal because he's a teenage boy but that doesn't excuse the blatant objectification of women, on the contrary that is part of the problem. The show doesn't reprimand him in any way and in fact, up until where I stopped watching there were hints that Makima is interested in him. If this wasn't a sexist anime, written by a person with zero insight into gender equality, it would be unthinkable for a strong female character to go for a guy that wants to pleasure himself sexually with random women even the ones he does not care about as people.
As for the female characters themselves, technically Power is a genderless demon that has taken over the body of a girl and Makima is a "boss" that has to answer to a committee of old men (and she's not bothered by a random boy (Denji) she just met to fall on her boobs or lay on her lap because she's "so cool").
I really wanted to enjoy this show because I see the potential and I think the story might be actually good, but I can't get over the poor portrayal of women. My message for female viewers who are sick of the horrible representation of women in anime and in all media in general, don't waste your time on this.

I don´t know much english, sorry.

Denji is a teenager who lives with a chainsaw demon named Pochita. Due to the debt left behind by his father, he has been living a life on the rocks as he pays off his debt by collecting demon corpses with Pochita. One day, Denji is betrayed and killed. As his consciousness fades, he makes a contract with Pochita and revives as "Chainsaw Man", a man with a devil's heart. (SOURCE, ANIMEFLV)
Denji is a demon hunter, but there came a day where he practically had to choose between life and death, since he knew things about the demon hunter agency.
He ... literally was like; Makima telling Denji, you are going to be my pet (dog specifically) You are going to have water, food etc, what do you prefer, that or die?
Honestly, from my point of view, the plot seems to me to be the simplest there is, Demons vs. Humans, nothing more.
And on top of that I honestly find it very boring.

2:
Let's see, I'm only going to talk about 5 characters (Makima, Kobeni, Denji, Power, Himeno)
Makima: I find his personality unfortunate, and within my likes and values, it seems ridiculous that he treats his people as his slaves and/or pets. He is a plane character who shows no empathy for anything, no sadness or anything, he is asentimental or something. Nothing of development or evolution is shown, which I don't like. He is a character that nothing has been explained to you in the series so far, so I'm not going to talk much, if i say something wrong.

Kobeni: Let's see, honestly, she has no personality, development or evolution, she's always scared, she's afraid of demons (TOTALLY LOGICAL), but I don't like the way they portray what she feels at all times, no I can talk more because literally her personality is living scared (LOGICALLY)

Denji: Honestly, I really like Denji as a character, he has a very good development and very good evolution, I totally understand what it's like not being able to live in contact with anything because of the Yakuza and the debts your father left you, but there are some things I do not understand.

First of all is: Denji, why did you sink so low by admitting to being literally Makima's dog? You even barked at him, man.

Second thing: I can't admit that you're a slave, yes, you can be a free slave, have everything you've never had etc, I don't care, you're still a slave when Makima orders it.
I understand that Makima can be your "savior" and all, but honestly, I would rather have been killed than accept being Makima's slave/dog.

Third:
I honestly don't understand how you could enjoy your first kiss, worst of all is that you ate it.
It's disgusting and ridiculous. I don't understand how people could enjoy watching that.

Four:
It's silly that you want to f... with Makima, there are many better women for you, Denji.
Your dream of touching a boob is the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my life, I swear.

power:
Let's see, I don't know much about her, but: I like her personality, she has a good character, but it's the same as with Denji, I can't allow to be Makima's slave / pet. Both Power and Denji have sunk very low.
No evolution or character development is shown, it's always the same he started appearing in the series.
And finally, Himeno:
Look, from my point of view, Himeno is the badly done attempt of a cute girl, nothing of development or evolution of her character is shown, it is only shown that when she gets drunk, she wants to f... Aki and Denji, that I find it unfortunate for the point of view that exposes women. Himeno's death was decent, let's leave it at that. Himeno's background with Aki, the same, it's very simple, they were friends and that's it, he wanted to try cigarettes but he was underage and she gave him one to smoke when he was 18 etc.
In fact, the post-credits scene is Aki smoking her cigarette, honestly it was more or less good.

FINAL OPINION
It is a series that I have not been able to enjoy or that I have not been able to appreciate, but from what I have understood, it is highly overrated. I wouldn't recommend it for myself, but you can watch it, although I think the only thing that will happen to you is that you will waste your time if you think like me. You may like it, so, without looking at my likes, I would recommend it.

truly awful. I wanted to like this, it seemed fairly interesting and I liked the art style and it seemed like I'd have a good time for it. But holy shit is this an overrated piece of trash! There isn't a single interesting character in the story, all of them are annoying and the anime tries to add some depth by inserting sentimentalist backstories in between scenes, but it's so lazy (wow, you have to feel attached to this character because.. theyre funny and they have a traumatic past!) and all of the characters are just so one-note and there wasn't a single moment where ... I wanted them to stick around for longer. The worst offender of this is the main character, Denji, who may be one of the most annoying characters in anything I've seen. An annoying/silly/morally bad main character isn't necessarily a bad thing, but he is insufferably annoying to the point where I wanted to stop watching it because of him. There's no depth to his psyche, he's a character written to make teenage boys laugh, and normally this wouldn't be that terrible of an offense, but the faux sentimentality and the sudden increase of stakes in the season makes his character so offensively annoying. Another quite dumb element was the 3D animation, which looked uncanny and I predict it won't age well. The world-building is also extremely shallow, uninteresting and derivative.
As for the redeeming elements, the action was somewhat fun but ultimately it's hard to care when it is impossible to care about any of these characters. And the art style is good. There's some fun-to-watch moments every once in a while and it didn't seem to be heading towards a bad direction in the first episodes, and there were some interesting ideas throughout, but this just feels like such a disappointing failure. Sad!

Where do I start with this anime?

The first episode was probably one of the greatest first episodes I've seen. It establishes the overall tone of the show while giving us insight into the protagonists background and motivations. The soundtrack played AMAZING music at the BEST moments, and helped to hype up the action and storytelling. The first episode built up a storyline that you would think the main character would embark in. A poor loner, whos only friend was a demon, forced to hunt other demons to pay off his dead fathers debt to the yakuza. After being driven close to death, he merges with ... his only demon friend to survive in hopes of one day living a normal life.

Sounds like a good story right?

Well as it turns out, everything said in the first episode had no weight to the story whatsoever. It turns out that in the second episode, our protag gets everything he's ever wanted! He gets good food, a place to live, and lives a semi-normal life. Sure, its not the most ideal situation, but Denji doesn't care. No... What motivates him isn't being a free man, nor is it living a normal life. It is... Breasts! He instantly falls in love with the most soulless, boring female character because he wants to cop a feel! He saves a couple people because... Breasts! He goes from being a super likeable character that has a lot of room for character growth and development, into an annoying and stupid dude that only thinks with his penis. All within 3 episodes!

Now, I'm not going to say much about the soundtrack, because whoever made the soundtrack absolutely KILLED it (in a good way) and the music synced up with the scenes perfectly.

The animation was also pretty good, with some awkward CGI moments sprinkled in.

The animation and soundtrack might be good, but a good story is what creates a good show, and a good show can not be made when the foundation of the story is the main character's perverted nature.

When the blindness googles of the sexyness of the female characters and the cuteness of the mascot is taken off, this show has nothing of value, but people rode of the hype train and never took those googles away.
The MC is one of the worst types of characters, a mindless pervert who takes advantage of female characters in danger to help them in trade of sexual favors, which all of them happily agree.

Main Character:
The problem in having such a bad MC is that the story and the rest of the character derail together with them, the fights have no sense of stakes due to ... the MC being so OP, and the other characters (borrowing 1) are very 1 dimensional, mostly used for sex appeal, instead of calling out on the MC's bad actions and being a jerk to others for no reason, they reward him and praise him for it.
In a "what if" scenario the show had a half-decent MC instead then:

The Story:
It's pretty simple and nothing special at all, there's demons, they have dumb looking heads, and you have a squad dedicated to kill them. All of the twists the author tries to make end up in plot holes for the sake of just having them for shock value. Considering this point to not being devalued by the existence of the awfullness that the MC is, it is still a 4/10, a very inferior version of Jujutsu Kaisen (as a recent example).

Animation / Music:
The only saving grace of the anime, done by the amazing MAPPA Studio, they really did try to polish and sparkle a turd.

In conclusion:
Just because the female characters are sexy, the mascot is cute, the action is good and gory, these things just help out with the hype, but at the core, the story is incompetente and the characters are awfull, which is a problem also present in the manga (where said problems get progressively worse as it goes). In the end it lives to serve the fantasy of a MC is a jerk and a pervert where everything goes his way, and every "problem" the author makes the MC go through is nothing compared to everything he gets for free.

I said I completed it, but I lied I couldn't finish the last episode.

I am going to start off with the fact that I am a manga reader, and I did not like the manga in the end, but I was still enjoying it at this point in the story in the anime. I had higher hopes with the anime given that it was shown to be a high budget project with amazing animation, but the last episode was giving me Berserk flash backs so I noped out of there. I'm not going to go into details about it, but at it's core the story ... is really bad, characters are bad aside from Aki and it's going to be a poorly explained mess when this is all over. The fight scenes are atrocious, plagued with CGI and terrible choreograph. I know they didn't have much to work with from the panels in the manga because it was mostly simple movements, but I was expecting like different angles, dynamic movements, and close up and all that to make the fights a lot more fun but it fell even below my expectations of the worse case scenario. It seems like MAPPA bit off more than they could chew, with all the projects they had because this is an embarrassing attempt on of the most hyped series to come out in years, and feels like a soulless cash grab from the crazed fanbase and everything about this season felt passionless. They've only proved the doubters right, and alienated new viewers who didn't drink the koolaid, but there's always going to be the die hard fans who would defend this abomination.

This anime is one of the examples where you shouldn't have over-hyped an anime made by an A-List production company. Personally understand why people likes it, and dislikes it .... Started cringing at the first episode and this could be the cringe-iest graphics i have seen this season, probably the entire anime list in 2022. Personally ain't good at drawings, but I know animes are unique in it's arts and drawings, not a piece of work rendered in 3D. It's awfully lazy and disgusting, if Martin Scorsese watches anime, he would have say "This is not anime".
Chainsaw man is utterly over-hyped, generic "animated" series made ... by an A-List production studio who thinks 3D-artworks are the future of anime.
Read the manga, way better than the "animated" series.

This anime started out pretty interesting, until all the weird BDSM, sub-male/dom-female fetish crap started really becoming pronounced.

When the adult male protagonist acts like a subservient dog human, is there meaningful character buildup? Does it relate to the plot in any way? Does it improve the anime in any way? No... It's extremely forced and awkward, I swear it's like I'm watching someones personal fetish movie, or perhaps propaganda that's the next step after the "permavirgin shy protagonist" meme we've all been seeing for the past 20 years... It totally pulled me out and was unable to continue watching.

Thus far, the story seems ... pretty predictable. It tries to do some twists and seem really smart, but it's really not showing anything we haven't seen several hundred times before, and I found myself saying.. "Ohh I remember when it was already done in this and this anime."

I highly don't recommend watching this anime unless you are sexually degenerate and get off on weak submissive males prostrating themselves for random females...

Edit: and based off all the howling memes I saw after writing this review, this show is just softcore domination porn for weak limp wristed boys who ate too much soy and vegetables growing up. May god have mercy on their souls.

Would be a great series if not for that annoying ugly delinquent charao mc. Always want to punch the screen everytime that dumb prick appeared or opened his mouth. Always rooting for the villains to kill him or make him suffer. Really can't stand that jerk ugh. This is always the case with delinquent & charao type dudes in any anime & games. They're always annoying, ugly, & unlikeable. Absolute worst male mc ever of all shounen animes that I've ever seen with no redeeming quality whatsoever. Everyone else was fun & likeable like Makima, Power, Aki, Himeno, even Kobeni was still bearable. The OST ... & music were nice, and animation was good though. But the enjoyment was almost non-exist

This anime is a true reflection of its era, specifically the 2010s, (this one in 2018) and what do I mean by that? It was a decade where the question of whether something should exist seemed to lose importance, as almost anything was thrown against the wall, stuck and it gained traction. This phenomenon was fueled by the abundance of free-flowing money, where authors were capitalizing on shock value to generate attention and revenue through social media overreactions.

However, as we transition into the 2020s, there's been a market correction. Consumers have grown weary of these superficial stories, realizing their lack of substance and intrinsic value ... to the point where they shouldn't exist. It's a strange era of entertainment that's thankfully fading, as people become desensitized to excessive shock-value content.

And One standout example that marked this trend's demise is "Chainsaw Man". hyped as the ultimate shonen but ultimately fell short as nothing more than a shock-value story that lacks depth and is permanently stuck in the shadow of JJK & DS.

Anyways, Let's dissect its elements starting with the main character. The protagonist isn't a true protagonist but rather a supporting character, the character in every story that is just there and never gets the spotlight or romantic conquest typical of main characters. This is why people say he is not your typical Shonen MC without realizing it because of the simple fact that he is the sidekick to a lead.

This narrative choice was not great, and the author believed it was since it hadn't been done before without understanding the reasons why certain character dynamics exists, like a Batman is batman and a Robin is robin.

The supporting cast is forgettable, lacking depth or development. The story, plot, and world feel pieced together as if generated by a machine instructed to combine elements from successful manga tropes. In essence, there's a glaring absence of genuine effort, with the narrative relying heavily on borrowed references from movies, TV shows, archetypes, and characters from other notable IPs. The author's unapologetic admission to this practice further underscores the lack of creativity, mistakenly perceived as ingenuity.

Perhaps this is why corporations are eager to integrate AI into the creative process, as we approach a point where AI could generate similar stories in seconds, bypassing the months of research and development spent by uninspired writers sifting through fandom wikis.

this anime is for all cuckolds and simps on the world,
if denji see power, he dont remember about makima.
makima and power dont give attention to denji, he couls even die.
Aki is the same like denji-kold for makima, he love makima for a completely different reason, but why those girls dont like him.
And what the hell doing with died demons yakuza? why even yakuza doing there? plot is poor but only reason is making this anime is popilarize being cuckolded.
I think its shame to call it good or anime.
HE IS A DOG HAHA FUNNY. HE LICK HER FEET HAHA FUNNY
I want to better anime ... in future

Csm is not good.

-The main character- is as bland as one can get, a typical shounen protagonist that unreservedly gets a power up out of no where. But unlike other generic shounen protagonist that have at least a noble goal this guy literally just wants to touch boobs. This ungodly cringey and corny approach to writing a relatable horny incel singlehandedly pisses me off and makes me want to drop the show. I am still watching it but that is mainly due to the beautiful artsyle and animation. I don't believe the CGI is bad.

-When it comes to the story- it is also as generic ... and uninteresting. How many of "human becoming a demon and fighting demons" stories do we need? It's the new age "dark" shounene trying to follow in footsteps of AoT but they'll never succeed, because unlike these shows AoT had a very complex and intricet story covered by this simple layer, while this simple layer is the entire concept in the case of CSM. The shows is dark only in its gore, the themes are bland.

-I would like to say that this is a bad show that you can just enjoy by turning your brain off but even that is sometimes impossible with how badly written the dialog is. It's so corny that it shocks you and wakes you up. This is one of few times while I genuinely feel like the author wrote this just to express his weird sexual fantasies.

The overall concept of this show is interesting, I’ll give it that.

I am the type of person that loves a good “down on their luck MC,” who then discovers/is gifted an ability to do something they couldn’t before. Then, decides to save the world with their new capability that concurrently brings them on a journey to discover themself.

However, while Denji fits some of this criteria, the reasoning for his motive makes me dislike him as a protagonist. The thing that drives him to do what he does is: he’s a horny teenager, and he doesn’t want to die a virgin. This is ... really off-putting for me because it takes away from the serious elements of the show and makes the moments that could be more serious and heartfelt and makes them pervy and weird. And not funny or endearing in the way I think the writers wanted it to be.

Further, I feel that many people are forgetting the fact that Denji is literally a 16-year-old boy, and so far, all the women that have promised/attempted/done sexual things with him are much older women. And this is really what deterred me from further watching this show. It was genuinely uncomfortable to watch those scenes.

I don’t necessarily think his motives of wanting to experience “love “is bad, I just think the way that they handled this and the people they chose as his potential love interests were not the best way to go about achieving that.