There comes a moment in every manga reader’s journey when they’re no longer dazzled by the sheer variety of genres, styles, or outrageous storylines—the moment when a manga about killer goldfish or a warrior with lethal nose hair no longer sounds awesome, but exhausting. I reached that benchmark somewhere around the time I read The Qwaser of Stigmata, a manga so utterly preposterous I felt uncomfortable even summarizing the plot in my review. So when I heard about Chainsaw Man, a manga whose premise is pretty much summed up in the title, I filed it under Things I Don’t Need to Read. Then I saw this image: My first thought: whoa. And then: cool. And so began my Chainsaw Man read-a-thon. The character atop the shark is Denji, an ordinary young man...

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