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Chainsaw Man: The Part 2 Manga Ending Landed in June 2026 — A Fan Post-Mortem

「一部で終われば良かったのに」— チェンソーマン最終回に日本の読者の複雑な反応

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Chainsaw Man: The Part 2 Manga Ending Landed in June 2026 — A Fan Post-Mortem
“Honestly, Part 1 wrapped up so cleanly that I never expected a Part 2... makes you wonder if he was pressured into it”

正直、一部が綺麗に終わってたから二部出てくるとは思ってなかった…作らされちゃったのかな

— @べるだぁ

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.

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Japanese fan reactions (excerpted from 153)

  • The anime should've ended with the Makima arc

    アニメはマキマ編で終わるべきやな

    — @強欲で無欲な大罪司教126 likes

  • Seriously, the anime should stop at Part 1

    アニメは1部でやめとけ

    — @ゆいちょ-g1o10 likes

  • Even going back to Part 1, the concept itself was genuinely great — if they'd used the 'bugs get stronger as death disappears' idea well, it could've been amazing

    1部からではあるけど普通に設定自体はクソおもろくて、死が消えたら虫とかが強くなるみたいなの上手く活かしたら超面白くなりそうではあった

    — @tetonano911162 likes

  • Part 2 was actually great up through the fight against Falling Devil. What happened to it after that? It went completely limp

    2部も落下と戦う辺りまでは熱かったんだけどなあ。なんなんだよその後のフニャチンぶりは

    — @tho3653111 likes

  • Chopping his own head up was peak. And 'whoa, did Denji actually overcome his trauma?' — the motorcycle scene after that was good too. But at some point I lost track of what he was even doing, or why, or where

    頭切り刻むとか最高だったよな おお！？デンジがトラウマを克服？した！と思ったしその後のバイクとかもよかった でも気が付くとなんか何のためにどこで何やってるのかがわかんなくなったなぁ

    — @岡-k2s7 likes

  • The punchline itself was fine, but they skipped way too much of the buildup. I thought King Crimson had erased my memory of it or something

    オチはあれでいいんだけど 過程をいきなり飛ばしすぎた キングクリムゾン かと思った

    — @スバル-k8p62 likes

  • Skipping a bunch of stuff and landing somewhere confusing is very on-brand for Tatsuki Fujimoto, honestly — his short story collections are full of that. It's just that Part 1's ending was too perfect for comparison

    色々すっ飛ばしてわけわからん着地するのは藤本タツキらしいっちゃらしい。それこそ短編集とかそんなんばっかだったし。 一部のラストが完璧過ぎたのがなぁ。

    — @カニカマ-g5s10 likes

  • It was enjoyable, but the whole Bug Devil stretch at the end felt like a waste. I get that he doesn't draw pointless fight scenes, so he probably cut it — but if Denji had at least struggled against the outcome before getting devoured, instead of it just happening, I think a lot more people would've accepted the ending

    面白かったけど、最後の虫の悪魔？らへんがちょっと勿体なかった。無駄な戦闘シーンは描かない作者だから省いたんだと思うけど、あのまま喰われてすぐ終わりってより、結果は決まってたとしてもデンジが何かしら抗って喰われてこのエンドならまだ納得する人も多かったような気もする。

    — @みみずちゃん20 likes

  • Part 2 felt like it stayed at 'okay, this is about to get amazing' the whole time without ever actually developing. The scene where the US rebuilds its power with new nukes was genuinely brilliant, but that momentum never went anywhere and just flatlined. On top of that, a lot of the new characters who still had more to give got killed off too early, so most of them never got to show what made them interesting. The finale is honestly baffling

    2部は「凄い面白くなりそうだな〜」って状態が何も進展しないまま終わった感じ。 アメリカが新しく核を作って力を取り戻すシーンはマジで天才だと思ったけど、その盛り上がりも維持できないままずっと平行線だった。あとはまだ味が出るキャラを早く死なせすぎたな新キャラのほとんどが魅力を出し切れず死んでいった。 最終回はほんと謎

    — @いしまる12170 likes

  • The real culprit is the Jump+ editorial team, honestly — I don't think it's an exaggeration to blame the comment section either. There's no way someone who writes manga that raw and personal wouldn't lose motivation after getting torn apart like that

    大戦犯ジャンプラ編集部 コメント欄のせいって言っても過言じゃないやろ あんなメンヘラ漫画書くような人があんなみそかすに言われてやる気なくならんわけないやん

    — @archedirlov30936 likes

  • Honestly it just felt like he had no motivation left and was dragging it out on autopilot until the movie's release, since he figured he should at least keep it serialized until then

    やる気ないのにとりあえず映画公開時までは連載しといた方がいいからだらだら惰性でやってたという印象しかない

    — @はかばきたろ13 likes

  • It's been a hit ever since Part 1 ended, so expectations for the finale probably got too high. Same with One Piece — expectations are so inflated now that whatever ending comes, it's going to be rough

    一部の終わりからずっとヒットし続けてたから終わりに関しては期待値が高くなりすぎたんだろうな。ワンピースとかも期待値上がりすぎてラストが何来てもキツそうだし。

    — @アソビニン-b8u1 likes

  • Well, with an ending like that, sales dropping makes sense

    まああの終わり方なら売り上げも下がるよなぁ

    — @KINOKO9994 likes

  • People are mad about this without having actually read it closely. Sure, taken at face value the ending looks like that, but Fujimoto deliberately leaving things unwritten is the point. Pochita kept letting Denji keep dreaming — that's literally the pun: chain(saw) = keep watching a dream chain unfold, man. That's why Power already knew about the cake

    これ、炎上してるけどちゃんと読んでないから。確かに、終わり方は普通に見たらあれだけどタツキはあえて書かないのがいい。ポチタはデンジに夢を見続けさせてたから chain(連鎖)saw(見続ける)man(男)だから、ポチタによる夢の連鎖を見続けてたってことだと思う。だから、パワーがケーキ持ってたの知ってたし

    — @NoalPerfectionのあ141 likes

  • Are you a genius or something?

    貴方は天才か？

    — @りお-t7u16 likes

  • Still, it was a very Tatsuki Fujimoto ending, so I could accept it

    まあでも藤本タツキらしい終わり方だったし納得はできた。

    — @NnU-i7t26 likes

  • Honestly, I really loved the finale

    正直最終回めっちゃ好き

    — @みそじる-z8i34 likes

  • Was the ending really that hated...? Because I honestly loved it

    そんなに終わり方嫌だったのか… 私は正直めちゃくちゃ好きだったけど

    — @舵かじ11 likes

  • I liked that ending

    あの終わり方好きだ

    — @とげつキョウ11 likes

  • Even so, I love Chainsaw Man. Because he's human — you don't always succeed at everything. I love Chainsaw Man, damn it

    それでも俺はチェンソーマンを愛する。 だって人間じゃん。必ず成功するとは限らないし。チェンソーマン好きだぁああ

    — @Aojin111 likes

  • At this point Tatsuki Fujimoto has earned my complete trust and just owns it outright. Thank you, Fujimoto-sensei. I'll keep reading forever. I don't have money for the volumes I'm missing right now, but I'll keep reading

    そもそも藤本タツキが私の信頼を根こそぎ勝ち得て持ってて支配してるのだから。 ありがとう。タツキ先生。ずっと作品読むよ。しばらく持ってない巻数買うお金ないけど。ずっと読むよ。

    — @oyupokoa4 likes

  • But thank you for creating Asa Mitaka as a character. The man's a god

    でも三鷹アサというキャラを生み出してくれてありがとう。神だよ

    — @ブランNo.198 likes

  • Creating Asa Mitaka is the one thing I'll genuinely thank him for

    三鷹アサを生んでくれた事だけは本当にありがとう

    — @Kotogisi7 likes

  • It was still plenty enjoyable, but I bet a lot of people dropped off partway through

    全然面白かったけど途中で離脱する人は多そう

    — @よねせいだよ10 likes

  • Honestly, I just want him to casually start serializing Part 3 like nothing happened

    しれっと３部連載してほしい

    — @mwvlajth0 likes
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