As confirmed by Viz Media following a request for comment from io9, Harvey Award-winning manga series Chainsaw Man is coming to an end this month. The company, which licenses the English translation of the series from publisher Shueisha, stated, “The Shonen Jump team have confirmed Chainsaw Man is ending but details are yet to be confirmed.” The series, created by Tatsuki Fujimoto, will conclude with chapter #232 on March 25.
A dark fantasy adventure set in an alternate version of the 1990s, Chainsaw Man follows Denji, an impoverished teenage boy, who makes a deal with a demon for the power to transform parts of his body into chainsaws. However, he uses his unusual abilities to hunt down other demons. The “first part” of the manga ran in Shueisha’s magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from 2018 to 2020, and its second debuted on Shōnen Jump+ in 2022. A total of 23 volumes have been released, with ten chapters (including the upcoming finale) still left to be collected in paperback.
The series won the Harvey for Best Manga from 2021 to 2023, and received an Eisner nomination for Best U.S. Edition of International Material — Asia in 2022. An anime series, adapting the first 38 chapters, premiered in 2022, and received a film continuation, Reze Arc, last year. A second season of the show, Assassins Arc, is currently in the works, and the comic has also been adapted into stage plays, a prose novel, and video games.
In addition to Chainsaw Man, Fujimoto is also the creator of various one-shot books, including Look Back (2021), Goodbye, Eri, and Just Listen to the Song (both 2022). An anime anthology based on his pre-Chainsaw Man works, titled Tatsuki Fujimoto 17–26, was released on Prime Video in 2025, and a live-action film version of Look Back, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, has been acquired by GKIDS ahead of its release in Japan later this year.
