Crunchyroll announced this monday that it will stream Chainsaw Man to more than 200 countries. The anime adapts the manda of Tatsuki Fujimoto and will have Japanese and English subtitles plus English dubbing. Chainsaw Maw will also get Brazilian Portuguese, Latin American Spanish, German and French dubs. Crunchyroll also released a new trailer to hype up even more anticipation for Denji and Pochita's debut.
Ryuu Nakayama (episode director of Jujutsu Kaisen, Black Clover and Rising of the Shield Hero) is directing the anime at MAPPA, with scripts of Hiroshi Seko (Mob Psycho 100, Attack on Titan). Kazutaka Sugiyama (Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation) is the character designer, with Kiyotaka Oshiyama (Space Dandy, Rockman.EXE Beast) designing the demons. Kensuke Ushio (DEVILMAN crybaby, Ping Pong) composes the music.
Fujimoto debuted the Chainsaw Man manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in December 2018. The manga ended chapter 97 in December 2020, and the second part of the manga launched on July 13 of this year. Also in December 2020 the anime adaptation was announced by MAPPA, the studio responsible for hits such as Banana Fish, Yuri!!! on Ice and Jujutsu Kaisen.
Crunryroll describes the story: "Denji is a teenage boy living with a Chainsaw Devil named Pochita. Due to the debt his father left behind, he has been living a rock-bottom life while repaying his debt by harvesting devil corpses with Pochita. One day, Denji is betrayed and killed. As his consciousness fades, he makes a contract with Pochita and gets revived as "Chainsaw Man"--a man with a devil's heart."
