Will Chainsaw Man Receive Season 2? Latest Updates on the Anime

The highly anticipated Chainsaw Man anime, based on the most popular manga, premiered on Crunchyroll on October 11, 2022. With 12 episodes, the anime is sure to send our minds to overdrive.

Chainsaw Man includes darker themes, but its key feature is how it distinguishes itself from usual clichés. The characters’ lives have weight to them, establishing imperfect individuals we can empathize with, and the way it represents them is quite genius.

Instead of the fantastic protagonist who is good-hearted and motivated, our protagonist Denji has more basic aspirations in mind than his friends and has slightly selfish ambitions.

That weight of expectation was not lost or neglected by Studio MAPPA, the team behind the adaptation, who recently revealed to Crunchyroll why Chainsaw Man remains so popular.

This popularity of the anime in turn ensures that it will receive a second season as soon as possible.

Will there be a Season 2 of Chainsaw Man?

We estimate that the first season of Chainsaw Man, which began airing, will cover the first 39 chapters of the manga, ending with the Katana Man arc, and with the pacing of the production of each episode, the anime will end in December, 2022.

The manga is currently on chapter 98, and the popularity of the series when it first aired makes it very certain that Chainsaw Man will receive season 2 in late 2023 or early 2024.

Expected Storyline

Season 1 of Chainsaw Man has not completed airing yet, so it is difficult to predict the plot of season 2. If season 1 ends with the Katana Man arc, we can assume that the upcoming season of the anime will continue with the same arc if Mappa stays faithful to the manga.

About Chainsaw Man

Chainsaw Man is a manga series by Tatsuki Fujimoto that was serialized from December 2018-2020 and returned in July 2022 with a second part. The series also received an anime series by MAPPA.

The manga’s plot revolves around Denji, an orphaned boy who has to work as a devil hunter to make a living and pay off his father’s debt.

However, his pet devil, Pochita is killed on a mission. Denji wakes up to realize he and Pochita have become a single being, Chainsaw Man. If he does not want to get killed, he has to join the government and continue hunting demons.