The most awaited Chainsaw Man anime released on October 11, 2022 and the opening sequence of the anime was released before the official release of the anime. The opening sequence sin then has garnered over 11 million views.

The trailer also boasts a number of Hollywood movie references in its entirety. Click here to check the references.

You can check the opening here:

Recently, the more staff of the anime was announced which includes the Shark Fiend, Katana Devil/Katana Man, Angel Devil, etc., along with their VA comments.

Where the most interesting comment came from the Shark Fiend VA, Mr. Natsuki Hanae, who stayed true to his character of Shark Fiend and said this:

Mr. Chainsaw! strongest! Mr. Chainsaw! Best!
Mr. Chainsaw! strongest! Mr. Chainsaw! Best! Mr. Chainsaw! strongest! Mr. Chainsaw! Best!
Mr. Chainsaw! strongest! Mr. Chainsaw! Best! Mr. Chainsaw! strongest! Mr. Chainsaw! Best!
Mr. Chainsaw! strongest! Mr. Chainsaw! Best! Mr. Chainsaw! strongest! Mr. Chainsaw! Best!
Mr. Chainsaw! strongest! Mr. Chainsaw! Best! Mr. Chainsaw! strongest! Mr. Chainsaw! Best!
Mr. Chainsaw! strongest! Mr. Chainsaw! Best! Mr. Chainsaw! strongest! Mr. Chainsaw! Best!

Check rest of the VA comments here.

Other cast of the anime includes:

• Kikunosuke Toya as Denji
• Fairouz Ali as Power
• Tomori Kusonoki as Makima
• Shogo Sakata as Aki Hayakawa
• Shiori Izawa as Pochita
• Mariya Ise as Himeno
• Karin Takahashi as Kobeni Higashiyama
• Taku Yashiro as Hirokazu Arai
• Kenjiro Tsuda as Kishibe

In addition, the official Twitter account of VIZ Media announced on Oct 8, 2022, that they will be releasing Chainsaw Man: Buddy Stories in the Summer of 2023.

Chainsaw Man: Buddy Stories is the franchises’ first light novel originally released in November 2021. It was written by Sakaku Hishikawa, with Tatsuki Fujimoto providing special illustrations.

The light novel contains four stories revolving around, in the words of VIZ, the iconic characters from the manga, including Power and Denji, Kishibe and Quanxi during their partner era, and Himeno and Aki around the time they first met.

The four stories are titled as follows:

• Chapter 1: Master Detective Power and Her Assistant Denji
• Chapter 2: The Taste of a Nine-year Old
• Chapter 3: The Day We Became Buddies
• Chapter 4: Dream of Enoshima

Chainsaw Man anime will start airing in Japan on Oct 11, 2022.

Ryu Nakayama is directing Chainsaw Man anime at MAPPA studio. Hiroshi Seko is writing the scripts, and Kazutaka Sugiyama is designing the characters.

Other staff members include:

• Kensuke Ushio: Music
• Makoto Nakazono: Chief Technical Director
• Tatsuya Yoshihara: Action Director
• Kiyotaka Oshiyama: Devil Design
• Yūsuke Takeda: Art Director
• Naomi Nakano: Key Color Artist
• Yohei Miyahara: Screen Design

 Chainsaw Man anime will have 12 episodes with a different ending theme song for each episode.

The opening theme song of the anime KICK BACK, will be performed by Kenshi Yonezu and is composed by King Gnu and Daiki Tsuneta (from Millenium Parade).

Maximum The Hormone will also be performing an insert song in the anime. 

Crunchyroll will be streaming the Chainsaw Man anime in over 200 countries and territories across the globe, except Asia, while Media Link, which run Ani-One YouTube channel, brought the rights to stream the anime in Asia, including China.

Chainsaw Man is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto. Its first part was serialized in Shueisha’s shonen manga magazine Weekly Shonen Jump from December 2018 to December 2020; its second part began serialization in Shueisha’s Shonen Jump+ online magazine in July 2022. Its chapters have been collected in 12 tankobon volumes as of October 2022.

Chainsaw Man follows the story of Denji, an impoverished young man who after making a contract with a dog-like devil named Pochita, he fuses with Denji, 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 the world.

In North America, the manga is licensed in English by Viz Media, for both print and digital release, and it is also published by Shueisha on the Manga Plus online platform.

As of October 2022, the manga had over 16 million copies in circulation.

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