チェンソーマン 24 [Chainsaw Man 24]

チェンソーマン [Chainsaw Man] #24

by Tatsuki Fujimoto

“鎧”姿で戦争の悪魔と対峙するチェンソーマン!! ヨルに対しアサに体を返せと迫るデンジは、悪魔的発想を繰り出しヨルを追い詰めていく!! 次々と概念が消滅しめちゃくちゃになった世界で、剥き出しになるヨルとアサ、そしてデンジの想い。ポチタと一緒に夢見た「幸せ」は果たして――? ド底辺血みどろダークヒーローアクション、堂々完結!!

Genres: Manga, Fantasy, Horror, Action, Comics, Comics Manga, Supernatural

176 pages, Paperback

First published June 4, 2026

About the author

Tatsuki Fujimoto 藤本タツキ (Fujimoto Tatsuki) is a Japanese manga author, mostly known for Chainsaw Man.

Awards:
- Shōgakukan Manga Award: Shōnen category for Chainsaw Man (2020)
- Harvey Award: best manga for Chainsaw Man (2021-2022)

Chinese language profiles: 藤本樹 and 藤本树.

Reviews

[Ana Fernanda · Rating 2 out of 5]

I did, unfortunately, read this

[Ben · Rating 3 out of 5]

Part 2 was a lot of fun, but part 1 was still better in regards of the story and the characters, as well as the action. The ending was also very rushed imo.

[Salma۶ৎ · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maybe the real chainsaw was the one Fuji fucking moto shoved up our asses with this ending.

[Andrea Keeler]

😭🧡 the end of an era.

Keep on dreaming, Denji 👋

[── .✦ love, shan ♡ · Rating 2 out of 5]

I haven't been this annoyed in an ending in a very long time. Especially one that had such a beautiful preceding chapters in the very same volume, Fujimoto what was the reason!!!!

[Arturia Pendragon📚 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fue un 3.5💫. Confieso que este no era el final que esperaba, bueno...para como iba la obra...parecia competencia con Gege para ver quien hacia a su prota mas miserable🤷.

[Grant.T · Rating 5 out of 5]

Screw the rest of chainsaw man this book finishes just like fujimotos newer works. Where the story could be continued but should be ended. We see denji who was perv always will be at the bottom of the higherarchy of needs. This was not a story over some chainsaw kid or character growth. But the butterfly effect is the way I see it. Once small thing changes everything. Our life is never predetermined. His pain and suffering and confusion could have been avoided. This is a good ending for this series!

[Andrea · Rating 1 out of 5]

No he entendido el propósito de esta segunda parte, muy decepcionante

[Finn · Rating 2 out of 5]

hm, definitely a way to end this story :/

[Norah b · Rating 4 out of 5]

Using this volume (presumably the final one?) to talk about Chainsaw Man now that part 2 and the series as a whole has ended

I’ve reread part 1 of this series twice or maybe even thrice, I don’t know at this point😳 and I can confidently give it a solid 9 if not higher. It’s incredible- devastating, hilarious, and much deeper than it looks on a surface level. As for part 2, the continuation of Denji’s story starts insanely strong. Having Asa as the primary protagonist is narratively very interesting, and I really enjoyed how Denji’s growth is still central throughout the story. Without getting into spoilers too much, I definitely agree with some people who say that certain parts of part 2 were much weaker in comparison to part 1, but I still really enjoyed it. I would even say that the beginning of part 2 was some of his strongest work in the series.

HOWEVER (And now I’m going to talk about the ending so if you don’t want to get spoiled just skip this paragraph) !!!!!
I felt (and still feel) extremely conflicted about the way the story was wrapped up. On one hand, I think it was great for Denji to receive a mostly happy ending. I was ecstatic to see Power back (many tears were shed), and the alternate timeline idea was very interesting and fitting with the themes of dreams and whatnot. This story has never adhered too closely to conventional storytelling so I don’t mind something like that for this manga. ON THE OTHER HAND THOUGH… I can’t help but feel like due to Fujimoto’s workload being rushed and increasingly heavy, he simply may have fallen out of love/interest with writing chainsaw man. I believe this most importantly due to the clear decline in artwork (which I don’t actually mind that much but still), but yes, the ending was ABSOLUTELY rushed and somewhat dissatisfying. Yes, it had been climbing to the end for a bit with the war and for lack of better phrasing, apocalyptic battle between Yoru and Denji and all the other (unexplained, might I add) insanely strong devils that just appeared. I understand to an extent Fujimoto’s writing style and that he had planned for his “big Lebowski” ending for CSM, but that kind of spontaneity just cannot properly explain or justify certain plot holes. What happened to the four horsemen? Kobeni? Kishibe???? Others from public safety? Will Pochita’s actual devil name really be revealed? There are certain things that I actually think are better left unexplained, but others could not afford be omitted and they were. I think for the most part I’m just feeling sad because the series I love so much has now ended, but it’s also valid to say that the ending could’ve been much more satisfying. With all of that being said though, I don’t hate this ending. I certainly don’t love it! But it was just okay for me. I found a lot of solace in a theory I saw on TikTok that says the devil who packed up Denji in 231 was actually some kind of dream devil, (based on the design) and his defeat resulted in him and pochita being forced into a dream world that was broken when pochita sacrificed himself. I’m not describing it very well, but I think if Fujimoto had the time to really explore that, it would have been very interesting and fitting for the themes of the story. (It also might be lots of cope)

If anything this situation makes it all the more clear that the weekly shonen jump schedule is becoming increasingly more demanding and arduous for these manga authors, and has resulted in clear writing quality declines (jjk, for example). I hope the public’s reaction to the ending of these two extremely popular series shows these magazine companies that something needs to change!!

Altogether, I would rate this series 8.5, but the impact it’s had on my life is hard to truly measure, and I’ve been keeping up with it for so long. This is a great manga to read if you’re unfamiliar with the medium, so I highly recommend it to anyone, or even watch the anime bc the adaptation is really good (the reze movie at least is peak).

I’m excited to get into more of Fujimoto’s work.

And yes I’ve been in such a bad slump but I’m going to try my best to meet my reading goal this year so henceforth I WILL be locking in trust

[Sol]

Some guy said this would be funny to do so I did it.

[Jess · Rating 4 out of 5]

i understand why everyone said it was a bad ending but it actually wasn’t as horrible as people were chalking it up to be. kinda juvenile but i figured it was going to go in the direction it did some way some how. part 1 was definitely leagues better than part 2 and after the absolute CINEMA of that part i was just hungry for something on the same wavelength but the switch up wasn’t horrible. anyway. what a fun ride.

[mali · Rating 3 out of 5]

i feel like i would have enjoyed the ending a lot more, if it had been spread out a little better.
tie up the loose ends, tell me about the fate of the other characters, maybe finish some of the plot lines, ...?

[Leila ✨ · Rating 1 out of 5]

Fujimoto logró lo imposible: que el final de su manga sea peor que el de Jujutsu Kaisen.

Chainsaw Man tendría que haber terminado con la primera parte. Absolutamente toda la segunda parte fue una bosta.

1.5 de 5 estrellas.

[Izzy Iz]

we can pretend this one doesn’t exist

[LightIssues · Rating 5 out of 5]

29.06.2026--Apparently GoodReads doesn't allow for more than two reviews of a single edition??? This website really needs to up its fucking game. Anyway--yeah no, it's a masterpiece in pretty much every sense; by this I mean both Part 2 of Chainsaw Man and Chainsaw Man the manga as a complete entity, which it must be viewed as. A reread has clarified a lot of my thoughts and understandings of this--insane, for example, how I never caught on to the fact that Asa and Yoru are in some ways the same character, the latter Asa's Denji i.e. a personalization of her innermost desires. Even their initial meeting mirrors Denji's and Pochita's contract--a devil makes a contract with a dying person attacked by a weaker devil who've just reminisced on what they would have liked to have done in their lives, in Asa's case to "live selfishly", followed by the image of a selfish, hateful, power-hungry Asa Mitaka; her suppressed parts given free reign and conveniently distanced from her self-perception. This is a thematic reading more so than a diegetic one, but it's pretty essential to understanding both characters, their (in)separability and role within the series, not to mention it makes clear that neither of them was ever really forgotten since they're just shades of the same person. Appropriate that *the* big new character of part 2 is so literally divided between excessive restraint and excessive hedonism as well, seeing as it's the struggle between the oppressive, mundane, soul-scorching "normal life" and the hedonistic following of any and all desires to an unsustainable extent this part really begins to focus on among other things. Not to say it's entirely about unsustainable extremes, nor that it's not sympathetic about both types of desires, it's simply that it finds its characters swinging towards extremes due to the difficulty of navigating restraint and indulgence when the world around them and their individual psychologies are so deeply, perhaps irreparably fucked. If P1 ended on a slightly optimistic note with the death of Makima and the beginning of actual, genuine independence for Denji in the first time in his life, P2 followed that up with at first a seeming about-face to another protagonist and then a fairly critical interrogation of what Denji's headspace at the end of P1 would actually lead to and is influenced by--a young boy abandoned by the State after deciding to no longer use him, only to be surveilled by it again, prey to changing and contradictory desires of the State disinterested in Denji, but plenty in itself; in his abandonment, leaning further into his attempts to use sex, hedonism, fame as vehicles of self-actualization, self-help, and love. But that can't help--the public can be easily manipulated, symbols are in nobody's and everybody's control, the imposition of the "heroic" fantasy into one's self begets a constant struggle with people who want to use it, the State is always there seeking to control and/or use you, celebrities are the new religion, everybody wants a figure to look up to especially in times like this... not even Nayuta is above creating a familial role for him to uphold and fall into, based on a level of control where she the Child will always be the only person with he the Father-Brother (again, Freud would be fascinated by CSM as much as he would be by Eva). Asa/Yoru spend so much time trying to create actual connections, but they cannot bring themselves to choose between actually opening up to another person and indulging in fantasies of being either the Saviour or the Great Queen; Yoshida cannot bring himself to transcend his chosen status as a Cog in the System even as he obviously wants to have friends and be human; Quanxi has become a collared dog; Katana persists in his delusions; dozens of characters idolize Chainsaw Man and the concept of "justice" they think he represents to the point of destroying themselves for the sake of living entirely for that concept itself; Fumiko is perhaps already gone.

Like P1, P2 is an incredibly, intensely complex work to consider, especially as it begins to engage with its own and the shonen genre's general nature, with the desires of fans for endlessly suffering Epic Male Protagonists, and these desires' relations to celebrity, media, (conceptions of) heroism and justice, how people deal with the shittiness of the world by self-forgetting escapism, especially as it begins to destroy its sense of sensible narrative and diegetic distance between character and theme for an increasing unity of emotional-thematic states and the world they exist in, revealing with each seeming non-sequitur and ramble in an increasingly more "scrambled", rough artstyle only more complexity and depth to its ideas, before ending with I now think is both a very pessimistic and somewhat bittersweet ending--after responding to trauma and abandonment by constant repetition of the same actions and the unerring following of the same ideals, the hedonistic desires of Denji and Yoru, Asa's inability to escape from her role of the Savior, Yoshida's to escape from being the Cog, Public Safety's and Death's obsession with a prophecy of destruction which they can only respond to by further destruction and control of their own, everybody's refusal to exist in a world without a Great Hero of Hell, the world dies. It's over. Pochita decides that if hedonism doesn't work out, maybe we need to idolize the life of the wage slave instead. And he's not entirely without a point--the new world is one in which the positive effects of *Denji* himself are still present, showing the very real good he could do without the confines of the heroic escapist fantasy, and one in which his life, however it looks like, will either force him to become a better person as he no longer has tragedy to contend with and must engage with himself head-on without using the crutches Pochita allowed, or at least will mitigate the consequences of whatever negative acts he might get on--the decision to set aside the chainsaw leans towards a hope. Obviously this doesn't *make sense* from a lore perspective, but it's the great thematic endpoint and I don't think it's meant to function as anything else. Its biggest issue is probably that, like Eva, it focuses so much on purely individual possibilities in a way that makes its inability to actually imagine a better world quite clear, but as far as the marginalized, used first-worlder's possibilities for something meaningful and self-improving without taking actual revolution into account, it's probably quite accurate, and it's not as if most of the critics of things remaining the same haven't also ruined their points by expressing love for the idea of Denji the Sigma Hero.

* I am, I'll say, still uncertain about Asa/Yoru's being last seen with the former saved by Denji. Does seem a little reductive of her importance, which was always in a precarious position considering the increasing power of Yoru and the shonen genre's locking-in of potential female protagonists, also very much a concern.

*The religious angle is interesting, because it's basically a continuation of the control of the State, but exists here at first as a rival and then implicitly as something of a co-worker--at least the surviving higher-ups of the Church are implied to be working together with PS (Death does not seem surprised to sense Yoshida when he saunters in for his death); there's a clear manipulation of the symbolic-cultural sphere PS doesn't really bother with; it's pro-Japanese traditionalism, anti-American nature, preying on the young and setting up marriages, appears like a parallel to the government's later attempt to find and kill children for the sake of increased longevity.

*Nostradamus's Prophecy seems less a "prophecy" (even if that came true in a roundabout way) and more a literalization of a pervasive apocalyptic feeling that gets reengineered into numerous plots with the sake of crystallizing some new status quo beneficial for fairly selfish desires--the actions of PS, the Church, Death lead to some fairly horrific destruction and deaths, and ultimately to the end of human civilization with eternal torment to boot (do we think the locusts would start eating each other or starve to death?)--and it's telling that instead of any reflection on the state of things, they can only think to achieve their goals (related to geopolitical power, immortality, long-lasting if not eternal youth, wanting to eat a lot, retaining the Status Quo) through deceit, control, destruction, and, uh, death. This hilariously is why there's so much changes in whether Denji should or shouldn't transform, based entirely on what is currently desired by whatever forms of power exist.

*There's something quite impressive how incredibly messy this comes from Falling onwards--in many ways it really is about a tragic downfall of Denji and Asa, which then corresponds to a tragic downfall of the world. Falling, Aging, Barem, locusts, nukes, Fire--so much of P2 is mirroring elements of P1 and eventually itself, and after a certain point in exclusively nasty and horrid ways. Eternally doomed to repeat the same mistakes, double down on them...

*If the Asa-Yuko arc is a mirror of the Denji-Reze arc, then it's basically implicitly arguing Asa would be better off with Yuko, right? Queerness isn't a major concern of CSM, but I think people are right to consider something between Angel-Aki, and there's something to be said about the role of gender and sexuality in the construction of a "normalcy"; usually CSM is about revealing these things as the causes for sexual abuse and preying, which is clearly the case here with everything about Fumiko, Asa-Yoru's complicated relations to desire, Denji's hypersexuality as a trauma response/coping mechanism/mental illness rising out of his icky views on sex/women and prior abuse, but there's maybe something to be said about the paralleling of a romantic relationship with that of two girls', of whom one decides to become a murderer partially for the sake of the other; of Asa's desire to be this great Female Saviour who could fix Denji which contrasts with Yoru's searching for a level of sexual-emotional control based on explicit sexual attraction; of Yoshida's ambiguous closeness to Denji, his clear desire for some sort of connection with this guy in particular, Denji's "tonguing the butthole" comment (consider Pochita showing Angel Devil too!), the cinema date echoing back to the Makima-Denji one in the Reze arc--easy to see as reflecting Fumiko in the Makima role (clearly *also* a parallel), but maybe there's something to be said about the imposition of a "normalcy" in this context that ends with breaking the two men up to institute a sexually domineering woman instead. In any case, there's a reasonable argument that queerness and its role within the functioning of "normalcy" (and ig ditto for gender roles to some extent) is another part of what this is doing.

*Idk, it's just goated. One of my favourite things. Very funny too!

24.03.2026--The Denji That Shouted "I" At The Heart Of The World

Was even released on the same week as the finale of Neon Genesis Evangelion. I'll need to reread the entire Part 2 to really make up my mind, because for now I am still...worried about how Asa's treatment in the story might or might not come across considering the whole. This series has only become increasingly hellish, disjointed, and both diegetically and structurally apocalyptic, so Asa's becoming more and more a constrained character who never really gets to escape Yoru's clutches nor Denji's immaturity makes "sense", without even mentioning the meta element of examining the average shonen where women, of course, are not the main characters. But how much is that a legitimate constraint and how much a justification of authorial ineptitude? I don't know...especially the protagonists' final meeting in here is pretty much entirely centered around Denji, and her better life from that point on is only used to reflect on *him*, and I do think the end here is actually much more depressive than a lot of people seem to think; a fan service ending expertly rendered hollow, anticlimactic, stultifying, and exemplary of a long, dull, exhausting life as a Worker (the two fantasies of the contemporary male: getting everything and being the best or romanticising the struggle of being a day worker because it becomes clear the first is unsustainable in daily life). It's clear Denji is still kind of the same guy as in early P1, and so it makes sense his desire-fantasy still treats women in such a distant, slightly objectifying fashion. In general, I'm a big fan of the increasing disregard for narrative normalcy and the clear Eva influence (truly strong in P2, not P1), where the diegetic world becomes a way to mirror internal psychological struggles and comment on genre conventions, readership wants, contemporary systemic problems...Ultimately leading to a world where not only does the combination of people's personal troubles and systemic evil lead to a hellish world, but even at worst to a genuine apocalypse. Like Eva, this is maybe a little defeated, incapable of imagining anything other than personal contentment, but the abrupt bittersweetness of the ending does rely on precisely its refusal to look away from just how shitty Denji's life would be, not in any boring attempts to situate it according to previous "lore" (like where's Katana? where's Makima? what's up with Nostradamus? etc, that stuff doesn't matter anymore), but in its essential, basic nature as an atomized, unsatisfied, sad wage slave working for a system and an occupation completely uninvested in his wellbeing. There is, maybe, hope that he could get better--certainly the specifics of this "new world" serve as a reminder of the good Denji did without Pochita or Chainsaw Man. The horrific trauma that he underwent through Makima, and the possibility of the Chainsaw Man as an utilization-realization of personal fantasy that became intermingled with public support and media popularity, and later a vehicle for coping with trauma, and his incredibly fucked relation to sex and relations--those things aren't going to take any place. But this doesn't exactly strike me as a work about the awesomeness of "normal life" anyway lol, more an acceptance of the troubles of fantasy, desire, culture, media etc...Idk lol. Incredibly complex in that P1 fashion, but yeah, I should've reread it all. I do intend to rectify that mistake soon enough, maybe after familiarizing with more of Fujimoto's work (have heard the ending here bears some similarities to Fire Punch). Might be another masterwork.

[Beth · Rating 2 out of 5]

God I feel so conflicted, not just about this volume but about CSM as a whole - especially after coming off the back of Fire Punch.

Arc 1 I felt was really good - well paced, well thought out, a lot of meat on the bones. Arc 2 felt in some places utterly directionless which I suppose does reflect how Denji feels in this Arc.

Whilst Arc 2 gave me my face char Asa/Yoru it also did literally nothing with any of it. Denji trying to choose a "normal" life and failing I thought was done, really, really well. There was a part in Arc 2 where Denji says something like "who would want to eat bread and jam every night, I want steak!" and that to me, really was the point of no return for Denji. His personality really is not cut out for the normal life, Denji always wants MORE.

But ultimately any character building is meaningless when it's not even Denji's choice for a timeline reset it Pochita's. Those last 2 chapters were so dogshit I'm sorry. Although I get it - it really seemed like Fujimoto wrote himself into a corner - what can you do when you have eliminated death, Denji's choice was kill Asa which would have amounted to nothing as we know concepts can be re-invented or Asa wins and it's gone to shit anyway. Even if they pull the Denji throws up Lil'D it would still be back at square one.... so I get the last 2 chapters, I really do. I also felt a lot of the Chainsaw Man church with how they wanted Denji to be and made him out was critical commentary on being a (mangaka) author which I thought was quite good.

Ultimately, I have lots of thoughts on this series, which is good. I am sad how it ended but I also understand it. It's hard to kill your darlings and sometimes it's best to do it whilst you've still got skin in the game rather than when you really don't give a shit.

I do think the ending is ultimately Denji still NOT choosing a normal life. But that is just who Denji is, and maybe without Pochita it won't end up so bad.

I would recommend Fire Punch over CSM any day but I am still glad I read CSM.

[Martim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Can’t believe its already over. What a series! I actually didn’t think the ending was THAT bad. Rushed? Sure. But not that bad. Denji was a great chaotic mc, leading to a chaoting, end of time ending. It’s interesting how even with this “bad ending” Fujimoto still tried to “fix” things with Pochita doing what she/he (?) did. Anyway, 4/5 just cause it felt rushed but really good manga for people who like chaos.

[Persephone · Rating 4 out of 5]

a very fujimoto ending. very happy to see a little happy glimpse into what could've been

[Magnanimous Kingdom]

I finished this series in March but didn’t review because there was a rumour going around that the final collected volume would have a secret epilogue. I thought that sounded fishy. There are never any secret epilogues. And you know what? I was right.

Same with Fire Punch, Tatsuki Fujimoto often widens the scope of the story and world to a dizzying degree towards the end. We saw Chainsaw Man chainsaw stuff for 200+ chapters. The last two chapters he erases himself from existence and we see an alternate reality. Maybe that is some metacommentary for popular manga itself. Artists grind themselves into nothing, find a hit, become popular, then what?

[Johan Wilbur · Rating 2 out of 5]

Chainsaw Man es, como otras tantas, una serie que debería haberse acabado en una parte clarísima y sin embargo, continúa y se va a tomar por culo todo el buen sabor que te debería haber dejado la parte que debía.

Aquí, concretamente, debería haber acabado en el tomo 11. Se ve, se siente y casi se palpa que eso es el verdadero final y luego le obligarían a Fujimoto a seguir para seguir vendiendo la serie.

Y esta hecha con desgana, empeora todo, los personajes son la peste negra... Hasta el dibujo, o sea, es una cosa horripilante en trama, en desarrollo y hasta en dibujo, es que es acojonante lo mala que es esta segunda parte.

Y bueno, el final en si es directamente Fujimoto riéndose en tu cara. Que puedo entender que diga "mira pues hasta aquí y chimpún". Pero madre mía, que la segunda parte ocupe más tomos que la primera y no le llegue ni a la suela... Tela marinera.

[Marta · Rating 1 out of 5]

Me he saltado los últimos 150 capítulos porque Marco me ha empezado a explicar el final y no me lo podía creer. Según me estaba hablado le he dicho como tres veces que era mentira que pasara eso. Al final he tenido que leerlo para asegurarme de que era verdad.

No tengo palabras. Mi parte favorita es Pochita diciéndole a Denji que era más feliz siendo un puto pobre y desgraciado. Si alguna vez me siento una inútil en la vida voy a volver a leerme estos capítulos, con ellos puedo ver que tan mal en la vida no me va porque está mierda final no la he escrito.

Muchas gracias, Chainsaw man…
¡¿COMO?!
Es que como llevabas una motosierra…

[Lisa · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ugh these finally just came out.
I finished the series, Idk which chapters this correspond to,
But tbh awards the end I found it pretty messy. I started not enjoying as much towards the end and I'm one of those people who felt it ended abruptly but then again what else could they do the world was ending.
But yeah unfortunately chainsaw man is not for me.
Art is super cool tho
2.5

[lari · Rating 3 out of 5]

fiquei meio decepcionada não vou mentir

[Sadie · Rating 5 out of 5]

i read all 24 books but i would reach my goal far too quickly if i logged them all so i’ll just long the final book. anyways it’s freaking amazing but the best part is international assassins arc by a long shot. i do question if i like the ending, but i recommend this series to the highest degree

[Malak · Rating 3 out of 5]

what an ending
straight up bullshit

[Rayajj · Rating 5 out of 5]

Its was a rushed but perfect ending to this series
There were no other possibilities to end this meess created

[Tia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Swing at Me
Song by TX2

[Rob Mayall]

What the f

[ashmya · Rating 3 out of 5]

HAAAAAAAAAAA this was the ending plss i don’t even mind it did feel rushed tho

the fights in this are so hard to see (this is the case for most fights in csm) it’ll prob be better in the anime

it’s so funny cus new gen fans stay cussing naruto for it’s ending but all ur faves giving u that same damn ending