#Weekly Shonen Jump

Chainsaw Man: Japanese Fans React to the Ending — "Part 1 Wrapped Up So Clean, I Never Expected a Part 2"

When Chainsaw Man's manga wrapped its Part 2 story in June 2026, Japanese readers turned the comment section of a reaction video into a genuine post-mortem of the ending. The most-liked comment argued Part 1 closed so perfectly that Part 2 must have been forced into existence, and the recurring theme was 'the buildup got skipped, but the punchline was fine' — alongside real affection for new character Asa Mitaka and even a wordplay theory defending Tatsuki Fujimoto's ambiguous finale as intentional. Through all of it, one thing barely wavered: readers still trust Fujimoto, whatever he does next.