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“Power plays detective at a haunted hotel; side stories explore past relationships and a beach trip.”
Chainsaw Man: Buddy Stories
チェンソーマン バディ・ストーリーズ
7.77
1,576 rank · 12,672 readers · 141 favorites
Shounen
Urban Fantasy
Action
Adventure
Fantasy
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Synopsis
Power plays detective at a haunted hotel; side stories explore past relationships and a beach trip.
Power lives out her favorite anime by becoming a genius detective—or so she wants her "audience" to believe! Denji is along for the ride as her assistant for an investigation into disappearances at a mountain hotel. Other stories center on Quanxi and Kishibe's relationship nine years after they met, Himeno and Aki's first assignment together, and Denji, Power, and Aki's dream trip to Enoshima. (Source: VIZ Media)
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Derived from 6 sampled reviews
7.5
/10
What 6 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7.5
mode 7
σ 0.96
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.96 · scores cluster tight
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.50
Running avg · Aug 2023 → Mar 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “Chainsaw Man Buddy Stories is basically a bunch of short stories, which I think is more fun than the actual Chainsaw Man main series. This spinoff develops the characters better than Fujimoto (the...”
- 8 “Chainsaw Man Buddy Stories, at first, seems like just a generic spin off, created to make extra cash with fanatic fans desperate to have everything Chainsaw Man, or Fujimoto related in their...”
- 7 “I am going to preface this review by saying this light novel is meant to be read after Chainsaw Man (up to the end of Vol. 11 anyway). Some of the stories spoil quite a bit of the series –...”
Verbosity
Short · 50%
Medium · 17%
Long · 33%
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A Light novel Publication
- Format 4 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 32m approx
- Published Nov 2021 – ongoing
- Source Light novel media type
- Ref. BS-M59388 catalog