Chainsaw Man is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto. Its first part was serialized in Shueisha's ''shōnen'' manga magazine ''Weekly Shōnen Jump'' from December 2018 to December 2020; its second part began serializati ...

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television series based on the

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series of the same name written and illustrated by

Tatsuki Fujimoto is a Japanese manga artist, known for his works '' Fire Punch'' and ''Chainsaw Man''. Early life Fujimoto was born on October 10, 1992 or 1993, in Nikaho, Akita Prefecture, Japan. He started drawing at an early age. He had no preparatory school ...

. The series, produced by

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, was announced on December 14, 2020. It adapts the first 38 chapters of the manga series. The series is directed by Ryū Nakayama (director) and Makoto Nakazono (chief episode director), with scripts by

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, character designs by Kazutaka Sugiyama, and Devil designs by Kiyotaka Oshiyama. Tatsuya Yoshihara is serving as action director and Yūsuke Takeda is directing the art. Naomi Nakano is the color key artist and Yohei Miyahara is designing the screens. The music is composed by

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. The series follows the story of Denji, an impoverished young man who makes a contract that fuses his body with that of a dog-like

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named Pochita, granting him the ability to transform parts of his body into chainsaws. Denji eventually joins the Public Safety Devil Hunters, a government agency focused on fighting against Devils whenever they become a threat to Japan. The series was broadcast on

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and other networks from October 12 to December 28, 2022. The opening theme song is "

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" by

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, while each episode features a different ending theme song.

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has licensed the series outside of Asia, and began streaming an English dub on October 25, 2022.

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licensed the series in Asia-Pacific. __TOC__

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