Reviews

To describe Chainsaw Man in one word I would say Visceral. I don’t mean this in the sense that many others would use it, although it applies. Rather I mean to suggest that Chainsaw Man and Tatsuki Fujimoto feel as though they are one in the same. There is a sense that he is his character and the story is him. Ultimately, it feels to me that his brain has been opened up and created a world for us to experience. The series is marked with a sense of innocence. Of course it is violent and dark, but it seems to understand and portray things as they are, not steeped in the opinions of society. When given the choice between something that will be interesting or something that Fujimoto wants, I am sure he would pick the latter. Ironically, this is almost always the more fitting choice for the series. This property applies to every aspect of the story. One thing I find particularly charming is how every time someone’s body is opened up, we only see their intestines. It seems to me that Fujimoto doesn’t know how to draw the rest of the organs, or he doesn’t care to draw the rest of the organs. But he understands that we do not need to see a realistic anatomical explosion to convey what he is trying to convey. Why did he make that choice? Questions like this are the value of Chainsaw Man. More than a story you are learning about the odd man that created it.