Review of Chainsaw Man

The animation: Gorgeous. The plot: Decent (kind of a similar narrative to "American Gods" or "Fire Force" with its own style and twists. The music: Fun and engaging The dialogue: Decent The downside: A very dumb concept for the main character. You have this theme of demons and magic, yet you decide to make your character have...wait for it...chainsaws. Probably one of the most mundane, mechanical, human-invented creations to try and merge with a biological thing like a person. It makes no sense. It's another disappointing example of a lack of imagination from the writer's standpoint. You could easily create some neat creature/demon with rotating objects andinvent a system to fit, but instead went with a power tool. It's like they decided it would be a good idea to combine a mecha with a person. If that's the case, why go with demons? It would be good if it were a thoughtful parody like "One Punch Man" or "Spy X Family" but it isn't...it does take itself seriously and wants to be gritty like Demon Slayer or Fire Force, but the concepts are like a 10-year-old thought them up. (Hey guys, what if he had, like, chainsaws on his arms and his head turned into a chainsaw? Wouldn't that be crazy and cool?)

They do a lot of things well in this show, but it's just really hard to get around the silliness of the main character design.