news culture Chainsaw Man: Shueisha celebrates the success of the MAPPA anime
Among the major releases of the year 2022 on the anime side, Chainsaw Man has clearly illustrated itself as one of the best manga adaptations of this year. MAPPA’s work has sublimated Tatsuki Fujimoto’s line to give life to an excellent, wacky, twisted show, with daunting clashes and full of twists and turns. A work that has logically seduced fans and that the Shueisha has decided to celebrate this week with a short video.
Chainsaw Man: The anime of 2022?
If you follow manga and anime news, it’s hard to miss the Chainsaw Man phenomenon. The adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s work by MAPPA, the most fashionable animation studio of the moment, was a hit on the networks and on the Crunchyroll streaming platform. Spectators were seduced by the studio’s once again exemplary work, but also by Fujimoto’s screenplay, which mixes a ton of genres to offer us a story as hilarious as it is moving, with a universe full of twists and turns. bloody clashes.
A total carton, or almost. If the anime allowed to inflate the sales of the manga and monopolizes the top of the Crunchyroll charts (4.9/5 average for more than 190,000 reviews, a record for the platform), some fans would have fault with the MAPPA studio. A petition has been started to redo the animeon the pretext that the seiyuu (Japanese dubbing actors) do not correspond faithfully to the characters and that MAPPA’s drawing would distort Fujimoto’s line too much. So far, this petition has collected just over 2,600 signatures. Too little to spoil the party.
La Shueisha celebrates anime
As the anime wrapped up this week with the release of the twelfth episode, Shueisha, Japan’s most famous publishing house that handles the release of Weekly Shōnen Jump and oversees Chainsaw Man, celebrated the success of anime with short video (available in the player at the top of the article). The video features visuals drawn by Tatsuki Fujimoto with quotes from each of the characters and ends with an animated image of Reze, a pivotal character from the arc on which the anime concluded.
Regarding the adaptation of the “Bomb Girl Arc”, nothing is certain yet. The anime just ended by briefly introducing Reze who is to meet Denji. These final few frames, both in the anime and in this video, hint that MAPPA’s work may continue. A good half of the first part of the manga is ready to be adapted. It remains to be seen whether the success of this first season, as substantial as it is, will or will not lead to the start of new episodes.
As a reminder, the anime ended around chapters 38-39 of the manga (volume 5). If you want to continue the adventure through the manga, you can find all of the following chapters on the Shueisha Manga Plus application. Everything is available for free. In the meantime, we are posting the opening of this first season here, just to end the year 2022 in the best possible way.
