Chainsaw Man Assassins Arc PV: Fans Realize the Gun Devil Arc Is Coming Too

Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 104)

• How far is the Chainsaw Man Assassins Arc gonna go? From the PV it looks like they're taking it all the way through the Gun Devil arc, huh.

  チェンソーマン刺客編はどこまでするんだろ。PV見たら銃の悪魔編までかな？

  — @しげ-g6p7 likes

• I wanna see it go all the way to the Darkness Devil.

  闇まで見たいな

  — @あいうえおおお-h2i1 likes

• I think we'll get the Darkness Devil for sure. But judging by this PV, it looks like it'll reach the Gun Fiend too.

  闇は見れると思う！ でもこのPVから見るに銃の魔人までありそう

  — @くまもち-l3p1 likes

• If that's the case then the Gun Fiend fight becomes the finale... brutal.

  だとしたら銃の魔神戦が最終回になるよね…えぐぅ

  — @yao-yao335247 likes

• I was planning to mentally prep for the hell that comes AFTER the Assassins Arc ends... not during it.

  刺客編終わってから地獄展開の心の準備しようと思ってたのに...

  — @ままままま-c2c3g15 likes

• Wait, does season 2 end on the Gun Fiend? They're literally coming to break the viewers...

  もしかして銃の魔人で2期終了？ 視聴者の心を壊しに来てる…

  — @gL62eh5V32 likes

• The Gun Fiend arc... I want to watch it but I don't want to watch it.

  銃の魔人編は観たいのに..観たくない( ノД`)…💔

  — @みゃ-t4v0 likes

• Hold on, they're actually doing the Gun Fiend part... I don't wanna see it.

  ちょっとまって銃の魔人のとこやるんや、、、 見たくないって

  — @rty-l9g0 likes

• Wait, is the Assassins Arc going all the way to volume 9?? So we're getting a BAD END???

  あれ刺客編もしかして９巻までやる感じ！？ つまりBAD ENDってことですかい！？

  — @user-kr4bs9lo3v0 likes

• The Assassins Arc proper is exactly volumes 7-8, up to Kishibe's "I don't wanna see anything anymore" line. That's too long for a movie but too short for a TV cour, and the Denji-Power scene at the start of volume 9 can't really be a season 4, so honestly the best move is to make it a TV anime and tack the volume 9 stuff onto it.

  実際資格編として取扱されてるのは7巻から８巻ピッタリで岸辺のもう何も見たくねぇのところまでなんだけど映画にするにしては長いしアニメにしては少ないし、9巻冒頭の話のデンパワのシーンは4期としてやれないから、アニメにして9巻のところもくっつけてくるのがいいな

  — @てんみそ白味噌14 likes

• If it's one cour, the Assassins Arc and the Gun Devil arc both fit, but the runtime ends up juuust barely too short.

  1クールなら刺客編と銃の悪魔編は入るだろうけど、それだと絶妙に尺が足りんのよな

  — @ay-rn3oj0 likes

• Season 1 adapted 38 chapters, and the Assassins Arc plus the Gun Devil arc is 27 chapters, so there's plenty of room.

  1期が原作38話分だったんだし、刺客篇+銃の悪魔篇で27話分だから全然足りる

  — @Vanilla62 likes

• So the ending is probably a movie again, runtime-wise?

  これ最後はやっぱ尺的にも映画？

  — @とぅーや-b1c0 likes

• If it's a movie, it'd be structured cleanly like the Reze arc, travel in the first half and That Stuff in the second half.

  映画やったらレゼ篇と同じで、前半旅行後半アレで構成が綺礼に出来るんよな。

  — @toshitake66710 likes

• So in the end the Assassins Arc is a TV anime, not a movie, huh.

  結局刺客編は映画じゃなくてアニメかぁ

  — @電ノコマン3 likes

• I really hope they go all out on the Darkness Devil.

  闇の悪魔はメチャクチャ盛られて欲しい

  — @YouTuber_yv57 likes

• It was already so striking in the manga, so I can't wait to see how they direct the Darkness Devil's entrance in the anime.

  漫画でもかなり印象的だったから闇の悪魔がアニメでどんな演出で登場するのか楽しみ

  — @ダラボッチ1 likes

• What I'm most curious about is how they'll handle the Darkness Devil's lines.

  闇の悪魔のセリフをどう表現するのか1番気になる

  — @KurimuraAiri0 likes

• If they fight the Gun Devil, there's a bit of direction I want for the Makima fight: just for the Public Safety Squad 5 episodes, swap the KICK BACK OP cast from the Squad 4 members to Squad 5.

  銃の悪魔と戦うならVSマキマ戦のときにやってほしい演出があるんたよね対魔特異5課の話の時だけOPを4課メンバーから5課に変えたKICKBACKにしてほしい。

  — @omega_arufa14 likes

• Having to see brainwashed Reze in the OP every single episode is gonna hurt...

  毎回OPで支配されたレゼ見せられるのキツいわ…

  — @gL62eh5V31 likes

• If the Assassins Arc ends on that "ding-dong"... I can't.

  刺客編ラストは"ピンポーン"だったら…😢

  — @AKUMA-y2z121 likes

• It ends with the doorbell ringing and the ED kicking in the second Denji opens the door, doesn't it.

  チャイム鳴ってデンジがドア開けた時にEDで終わりじゃないか。

  — @ことはx6 likes

• Do these people have no hearts?

  人の心とかないんか？

  — @ほたる-h51410 likes

• Denji getting run over along with the enemies will never not be funny.

  敵諸共に車に轢かれるデンジずっと面白い

  — @薔薇月姫71 likes

• Look closely and the car's license plate reads "POWER" lol

  よく見たら車のナンバー「パワー」でワロタ

  — @takebayasi5 likes

• I love Kobeni's little "huh?" face at the "it's not my fault" moment so much.

  ワシのせいじゃないのとこの 「ぽへ？」って顔のコベニちゃんだいすこ

  — @シックス-f4w1 likes

• I'm still not over the Reze arc...

  まだレゼ編引きずってます、、、

  — @ぽい-s7b0 likes

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