In fact, the series seems poised to be the biggest breakthrough in mainstream American anime viewership since Attack on Titan. Chainsaw Man is the culmination of a long effort to popularize anime and manga in the U.S. These days, there’s no shortage of buzzy battle shonen series- Demon Slayer, My Hero Academia, Jujutsu Kaisen, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure-with massive crossover interest in both the anime adaptation and the original manga. In the U.S., it’s still secondary to comic book culture, but it’s now commonplace in bookstores, at box offices, and on streaming services. The Chainsaw Man anime is part of the subculture’s broader success story of the past decade: a resurgence of big-budget action anime (after a drought that began in the last 2000s and ran through the early 2010s) and an explosion in international manga readership. This week, the anime finally arrived, premiering Tuesday and simulcasting in the U.S. The hype for Chainsaw Man snowballed into a critical mass. These first impressions lingered for more than a year without confirmation of a premiere date, while the manga series wrapped its first story arc (known as the Public Safety Saga) and went on hiatus. The earliest trailer was an exquisitely grim and blood-splattered showcase of some of the most striking animation of its generation. In late 2020, the acclaimed studio MAPPA announced its plans to adapt Chainsaw Man into a television series. But the anime would indeed follow not longer after. even before it had been adapted into an anime series, which tends to boost book sales. It was the rare manga series to build a substantial readership in the U.S. A couple of years into its run, Chainsaw Man topped best-seller lists and sold out volumes all over the world. In December 2018, the manga artist Tatsuki Fujimoto published the first chapter of Chainsaw Man, a modern twist on the figurative deal with the devil, in Japan’s Weekly Shonen Jump.
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