Chainsaw Man’s final chapter smashes One Piece in digital views

Chapter 232 of Chainsaw Man, which concluded the long-running manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto, is at present sitting at 1.1 million views on Manga Plus, Shueisha’s worldwide digital studying app and platform. It is an unimaginable quantity that testifies to the large following garnered by Chainsaw Man over time. On the time of writing, One Piece, one other massively common manga obtainable on Manga Plus, has solely reached a million views with two chapters up to now 4 years (chapters 1053 and 1011).

This comparability is not a slight in direction of Eiichiro Oda’s masterpiece. One Piece is the best-selling manga of all time, has over 234 million views on Manga Plus alone, and has offered more than 600 million volumes. Nevertheless it’s vital that so many followers flocked to learn the conclusion of Fujimoto’s manga, regardless of the blended criticism obtained by its Half 2. The sudden ending of Chainsaw Man shocked many readers, and likewise, to their dismay, left a whole lot of unanswered questions in regards to the sequence and its world.

The spectacular views can partially be defined by the hype surrounding the announcement that such a preferred manga was ending. In truth, chapter 231 of Chainsaw Man, the place the imminent conclusion was announced, additionally surpassed a million views shortly. The legacy of a sequence too usually rests on the way it ends, and Chainsaw Man might be no exception. Followers are already dissecting the ultimate chapter on-line, on the lookout for clues to elucidate a number of the mysteries that Fujimoto left hanging within the air, such because the true nature of Chainsaw Man (the chapter confirmed that Pochita is just not, actually, the Chainsaw Satan).

Many of the dialogue appears centered across the joyful ending that Denji obtained within the finale. After Pochita ate himself, erasing his existence from historical past, a brand new actuality was created the place Denji by no means met the demon. In that world, Energy and Nayuta are nonetheless alive, and everybody is outwardly lots happier. It is a surprisingly upbeat conclusion for one of many darkest manga in current historical past, and one which contrasts lots with the ending of Half 1, which confirmed Denji cooking and consuming Makima’s physique. Some followers will not be satisfied by the sudden shift in tone and the “world reset” plot twist, however Chainsaw Man has all the time been a polarizing sequence, and I am positive that the subtleties of Fujimoto’s storytelling might be mentioned for a very long time.