Since beginning in 2018, Tatsuki Fujimoto’s “Chainsaw Man” has been one of the leading manga in the world.
About a poverty-stricken teenager, Denji, who gets possessed by a devil that promotes world-ending chaos, it has attracted not only a large audience in its home country of Japan but also a gigantic fanbase in the West.
“Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc,” which premiered last year, grossed over $163 million worldwide and opened #1 in North America the weekend it premiered.
On Sunday, Fujimoto penned the ending of his story, shocking fans worldwide that there wouldn’t be a continuation of the story they’d been following for almost a decade.
“Chainsaw Man: Part One” in the manga ended in 2020, prompting fans to believe that the announcement of the ending meant that Fujimoto was merely signaling the end of “Part Two,” with a third part coming out that would be the climax of the entire series.
That’s not what happened.
On Sunday, “Chainsaw Man” came to a close with its final chapter, leaving fans and even detractors alike stunned at how everything went down with one of the most popular manga of the past decade.
Spoilers for the ending ahead.
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In the final chapter, the events of the entire series are reset, with Denji transported back to the opening chapter. While Denji survives and some of the series’ plot points are kept intact, much of the development that unfolded over the series is ripped apart, with connections that took years to build brushed aside.
Fans, aghast, took to social media to grieve and air out their frustrations with Fujimoto’s final chapter, some believing he “quit” on the fandom that had supported him for the past eight years.
“Man, I have really complex feelings about this,” said one user on Reddit. “I feel like I would have really loved this ending, but it feels like Fujimoto got bored with writing and just skipped to the planned ending in the middle of an arc. So instead of a super satisfying ending, it feels out of nowhere.”
“Yeah, you can see Fujimoto is 200% done with this series,” posted another fan. “This was a speed run of an ending.”
“I’m getting downvoted to oblivion,” chimed in another in a thread discussing the final chapter. “But I can confidently say Fujimoto started to hate working on this manga somewhere in the middle of Part 2.”
While social media, Reddit, and the rest of the internet are ablaze about the finale and why Fujimoto ended it the way it did, we might never find out why the famed writer decided to end his most popular series with all of it being a dream.
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