Chainsaw Man Trivia Quiz: Are You a True Devil Hunter?

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Denji opens the series owing money he never borrowed. His father died leaving a debt to the yakuza, the collectors transferred the balance to the son, and Denji has been paying it down by selling organs, sleeping in a shack with no electricity and killing devils for whatever the gang decides the corpses are worth. His partner in the work is Pochita, a small chainsaw devil shaped like a dog, kept alive on scraps of bread. What Denji wants is stated openly and never inflated: food that is not expired, a bed, someone willing to sit close to him.

The turn arrives at the end of the first chapter. The yakuza have taken a contract with the Zombie Devil, and they cut Denji apart and drop the pieces in a rubbish bin. Pochita, badly wounded from the same fight, climbs into the body and takes the place of Denji's heart, on one condition, which is that Denji show the devil his dreams. What stands up out of the bin has a starter cord in its chest. Pulling it sends blades out of both arms and the forehead, and the fight that follows ends with the gang in pieces across the yard.

That performance gets him recruited into Public Safety, the government's devil hunting service, where the working conditions are close to what he left. Makima, his handler, is unfailingly calm and difficult to read, and she buys his loyalty with meals and small promises. Aki Hayakawa, the roommate assigned to him, keeps a contract with the Future Devil and pays for his power with pieces of his life. Power, a fiend with red horns and a permanent scheme in progress, lies constantly and refuses to bathe, and the apartment the three of them share supplies the scenes people remember longest, mostly ones involving dinner. Devils in this world draw strength from what humans fear, which makes the Gun Devil the most feared thing walking.

Tatsuki Fujimoto serialised the first part in Weekly Shonen Jump from December 2018 to December 2020, closing it at ninety-seven chapters, then moved the second part to the Shonen Jump Plus app in July 2022, a shift from a printed weekly to a digital one. MAPPA animated twelve episodes that aired from October to December 2022 under director Ryu Nakayama, with Kenshi Yonezu writing the opening theme and a different artist supplying a different ending theme for each individual episode, a structure almost no television anime attempts. A feature adaptation of the Reze arc followed.

Fujimoto had already published Fire Punch before this, and put out the one-shots Look Back and Goodbye, Eri alongside it, all of which share the same habit of switching register without warning. A chapter can open on slapstick, spend four pages on grief and end on something closer to body horror. The genre it sits inside usually runs on a hero who wants to be the strongest, and Chainsaw Man supplies a hero who wants jam on bread, which is the engine of most of the comedy and all of the damage. The correct answers are laid out beneath the quiz once the last question is done.