![]() ![]() Fulfilling a promise to his master, Pochita fuses with Denji’s dead body, resurrecting his master as a boy who’s not only whole, but has a special power-one indicated by the ripcord-like symbol on his chest. Denji’s battle against these hordes is a futile one, resulting in his dismembered corpse being unceremoniously tossed in a dumpster. Denji’s fortunes go even further south when the yakuza boss lures Denji to an abandoned warehouse for an apparent job, only to double-cross him by revealing that he’s sold his soul to a Zombie Devil-another giant fleshy mass of monstrousness that mutates power-hungry souls into undead minions. Furthermore, as evidenced by a subsequent run-in with the yakuza and his henchman, during which the latter humiliates Denji by offering him 100 yen to eat a cigarette (which he does), it doesn’t gain him any respect. This means that Denji and Pochita can eat some more plain bread, but it hardly leaves them with any lasting stability. ![]() Pochita is a cute and loyal Chainsaw Devil that Denji can wield like a buzzing instrument of death, and he immediately shows off his devil-slaying prowess when he comes upon a Tomato Devil-a round blobby thingamawhatsit with myriad eyes and a sideways mouth full of human teeth-and dispatches him with Pochita in short order. Since he has no special powers of his own, Denji performs these duties with the aid of Pochita, a small, round red dog with a chainsaw blade sticking out of his head and a tail (which ends in a triangle) that serves as a veritable pull cord. Thus, he continues to spend his days and nights toiling to make ends meet-which he does, it turns out, by doing what any down-on-his-luck kid might: slaughtering devils.Ĭhainsaw Man, it quickly becomes clear, is set in an alternate world in which men and women live side by side with unholy monsters, and Denji has taken it upon himself to help rid the landscape of these creatures for a hefty price as he remarks, a dead devil usually merits a 300,000 yen sum. Desperation doesn’t come much more pathetic than this, and worse, his outstanding bill remains at over 38 million yen. While he earns a paltry 60,000 yen/month cutting down trees in the forest, he’s netted 1.2 million yen for selling his kidney, an additional 300,000 yen for trading in his right eye (whose absence is now hidden by a black patch), and something like 100,000 yen for one of his nuts. He lives in a dilapidated shack in the middle of an anonymous Japanese countryside, and his biggest dreams are to one day meet a girl-with whom he could play video games and sleep beside-and to acquire a bit of jam to put on the bread that is the sole food he can afford.ĭenji is a sad sack who’s in such dire need that, as he explains during an intro sequence, he’s succumbed to selling body parts to scrounge up money to pay the gray-haired, trenchcoated elderly yakuza boss whom he owes. Thanks to his “deadbeat” dad, whose substantial debts he inherited, Denji exists in a state of perpetual destitution. ![]() 11 following its debut at this year’s New York Comic Con-about a young boy name Denji. ![]() Based on Tatsuki Fujimoto’s award-winning manga of the same name, which premiered in 2018, Chainsaw Man is a half-hour anime-airing on Sony’s Crunchyroll streaming service on Oct. ![]()
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