Audience reviews
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Nomiorus
Absolute dog crap, overhyped goonerbait. The only thing praise worthy here is the art style, but even then it feels overdone, suffering from the same face syndrome. Characters have forceful “quirky” traits that come off as one dimensional and fake. Feels like it is overcompensating instead of actually making compelling characters that doesn’t have the personality of a rock. It tries so hard to be relatable and dark but it just falls flat. I hate the way it portrays women, even if its purpose was to show that “women don’t exist only for sexual gratification” like come on that’s just common sense and if you’ve just discovered this concept by watching this I truly have no words. It still sexualizes women heavily despite that. Just an edgy slop overall and I will die on this hill. #normalizech…
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This is when I realized that sometimes people who think certain manga is good fail to specify that only certain adaptations qualify.
You know how some Hollywood movies nowadays (Sonic (2020), The Mario Movie (2023) end the movie at a point where it feels like that should be the start? Almost as if these movies know they'll be popular enough to have a sequel where the actual fun content can begin?
That's how Chainsaw Man Season 1 feels. By the time you feel acquainted enough with the characters, it's all over. "Ah, yes! This group of characters have finally reached the point where we can get to know them as a group more..... AAAAAAAAND NOW THERE'S NO MORE EPISODES TO WATCH. GREAT!
Why it has been three years and there only exists 12 episodes of anime content despite this anime seemingly…
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Honestly, if this were Aki´s story i would have watched 500 episodes, Aki should be the main character not the pervert of Denji (i think the perfect word to describe him is PAJERO in spanish).
So, i think is understandable that Denji is such a pervert, considering how he grew up, but its still unbearable. We got it you are a virgin and dont wanna die that way, but why focus the plot on his relationships with women if it's not going to lead to anything?
Denji does not have a goal beside eating and thinking of get laid, is such a boring main character, and not only because of that, also because the story itself dont wanna be more than that. Is also predictable, you can tell who is gonna die, and sadly who should die is Denji and the story should focus on Aki or any other character that is l…
Read at the sourceHydre_Ito
Upon finishing the last episode of this abomination, although I felt a hulking mass finally lift off my shoulders, my previously suppressed sense of sickness crept back up and magnified. Bile, combined with a feeling of existential dread, threatened to rise up my throat, and I thought that perhaps nihilism wasn't such a bad idea after all...
We are started off with one of the worst first episodes ever created, containing one of the worst fight scenes in the history of battle shounen anime: a zombie mini-apocalypse puppeteered by a lazy “demon”, it doesn’t get lamer than that. The episode offers absolutely nothing intriguing or compelling to make the viewer curious about what’s to come, just a weak regurgitated sob story about a teenager who apparently castrated himself in an attempt to re…
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it was just Mid! (┬┬﹏┬┬)
Sorry, I am not a manga reader, so forgive me for my rude opinion. But this is what I felt after watching season 1.
They said it was the most unique show, but was it? It was Naruto all over again. Why must every Shonen character be a miserable, useless piece of shit before they get random ass power-ups out of no wear? Also, it doesn't help when the main character has the most boring, generic backstory.
Hell, it wasn't like Naruto was any original HXH coff, HXH coff, and for some reason, literally every shonen anime tries to copy Naruto.
Also, why is it always that my mother and father died same boring, sad backstory?
Life can be miserable even without the same parent plot shit. Even a normal office worker who works 12 hours a day has a more miserable, sad sto…
Read at the sourceZephyr2004
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 m…
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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
Read at the sourceRiddlerKml
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 ne…
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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 d…
Read at the sourceChandra1337
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…
Read at the sourceNihiluskun
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 sp…
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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 mov…
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I gave it a one because it is number 1 in my heart, incredible anime, great power! The show was not predictable, well some parts were actually. Again I gave it a one because it's the best anime for me! I really liked the part with the chainsaw it was honestly very enthralling, I myself am an occasional chainsaw enjoyer so I found that part very relatable. My firancée is a big anime watcher and we watched this together, it made for some great bonding moments. If you have friends I recommend forcing them to watch this show because it's good. Once again this anime is top anime and number 1 for all enjoyers.
Read at the sourcemoustafa356780
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…
Read at the sourceGween_Gween
Imagine this. You are about to watch a series sold as a hectic action with unexpected twists and chaotic energy. You are about to watch a series that has been declared revolutionary in its genre, a series that manipulated tropes to create something unique and distinguishable. Captivating, emotional, intelligent, entertaining, juvenile. Then, when you are about to watch the show, you see a fraudulent cinematic attempt with a disgusting production, a derivative storyline, and pathetic comedic timing. Yes, this happened. Yes, this is Chainsaw Man.
Chainsoy Man is a story about a guy who comes from poverty and needs to learn how to adapt to the luxuries he starts to experience, his new toys, and his new pleasures. The peculiar characters around him are the stimulus he keeps learning from, and…
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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 s…
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Chainsaw Man is the latest dark shounen manga adaptation to take the internet by storm, and for once, I get the hype. It is a grim, action-packed series that follows an orphaned street punk desperate to make ends meet. After an encounter with a devil, Denji is transformed into a human-devil hybrid with the ability to manipulate chainsaws to fight devils. He is then recruited by the Public Safety Devil Hunters, an organization that makes contracts with helpful devils to hunt devils that threaten the world. In exchange for fighting devils, he'll receive food, housing, and possibly romance with the high-ranking devil hunter who took him in as her so-called pet, Makima.
There are a lot of characters here, but the leading players are easy to keep track of because of their distinctive character…
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Did it live up to the hype?
Short Answer:
No
Longer Answer:
Chainsaw Man or CSM for short is undoubtedly the biggest anime this year with over 500k people having it in their PTW before its release. With many claiming it to be one of the of the best anime this year but in reality CSM isn’t anything special, it's just another action Shonen and is no better than anything we’ve had in recent years. Story (spoilers for 1st episode):
CSM is about Denji a teenage boy so broke he had to sell his left nut working as a devil hunter with his pet chainsaw dog for the mafia to pay of his deceased father’s debt. Until one day his boss calls him for a job but it turns out it was a trap, shit happens and now Denji got his pet chainsaw dog for a heart and is fighting the zombie devil. And from th…
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If there's one show that can be summed up in two words that reached a level of unpredecented hype, it would be Chainsaw Man. Even before its anime announcement, fans were eager to see how the franchise would translate into anime form. It's a series that showcases the magnificent talent of a creator and their devotion to entertain us. And to my delight, Chainsaw Man lives up to its absolute hype.
Tatsuki Fujimoto somewhat earned a reptuation even before the debut of Chainsaw Man. Their previous work 'Fire Punch' earned a cult following and when his new manga debuted, fans had high expectations. What fans may not have expected is how Chainsaw Man reached to an international level of success as a franchise. With over 20 million copies sold and a Shogakukan Manga Award, you'd best bet that Ch…
Read at the sourceTheNinthRequiem
Chainsaw Man is not overhyped, not in the slightest. I’ll repeat it again for the people in the back. Chainsaw Man deserves the hype and is every bit as good as it’s made out to be. Maybe it doesn’t have as many universally appealing ideas as Demon Slayer or Jujutsu Kaisen. And its much more prickly exterior might serve as a barrier to entry for fans that have grown accustomed to the generic shounen-type stories that are regurgitated every season like that once-cute now-tiresome Christmas ornament that your family brings out every year. But I believe that it is exactly that prickly exterior derived from its damaged characters that makes this series so endearing and beloved by fans (including myself). It is the struggles, tantalizing aspirations, and challenges that the characters go throug…
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