Denji’s only real goal in the story is to feel some tits and he’ll “hook up” with any girl as long as they’ll help him achieve this goal, pulling the plot away from action scenes and instead using the already short amount of run time to show sensual scenes containing Denji.
A lot of what happens in the show felt really unnecessary to the story, I know things don’t need to be happening in every episode, but 3 episodes in a row being filler isn’t very exciting, especially after watching the characters do literally nothing but be trapped for the last 2 episodes when it could’ve been used towards plot development, or even to make us connect with the characters more.
They introduce the plotline of the Gun Devil, an incredibly powerful Devil who Denji is tasked with killing, they need to harvest pieces of him to track him compass-style, which is a pretty interesting concept as whatever devil swallows these pieces of the Gun Devil get buffed, which makes obtaining the pieces difficult. After fighting the first devil you’d assume the plot would continue with them fighting these insanely buffed creatures, but instead they focus the plot on the slightest ounce of romance the show has, completely dropping the action plot and not really doing anything with it until they get jumped by Katana Man and are forced to train, the show ends with the fight against Katana Man and a cliffhanger that they’re finally able to track the Bullet Devil.
The show is still worth the watch despite all this, it’s not uncommon for anime like Chainsaw Man to have unnecessarily long side plots before returning to the main plot, nor is it uncommon for shounen to have sensual scenes, it definitely doesn’t live up to the hype storywise, but that doesn’t mean it fails at entertaining, it’s still a pretty enjoyable story.
