Chainsaw Man may have ended on the page, but the argument around Denji’s finale is clearly not dead yet.
Earlier in 2026, Tatsuki Fujimoto wrapped up Denji’s story in the Chainsaw Man manga. As expected from this series, the ending did not land quietly. Some fans are still processing the big final swing Fujimoto took with the Chainsaw Devil, while others have been debating whether the ending was genius, frustrating, or somewhere in between.
At San Diego Comic-Con, ComicBook Anime spoke with Ryan Colt Levy, the English voice actor for Denji, and his read on the finale is much more positive than the loudest online reactions might suggest.
According to Levy, he has been discussing the ending a lot recently. He acknowledged that online spaces can make the response feel messy and angry, but said his in-person conversations with fans have mostly been positive. His view is that Fujimoto was not writing Chainsaw Man just to satisfy readers. He was telling the story he wanted to tell.
That is a very Chainsaw Man answer, honestly.
Levy said the finale felt like the right stopping point for the version of the story he had always understood. He also connected the ending back to the manga’s earliest pages, saying he felt Fujimoto had been aiming at a specific idea from the beginning. In his interpretation, Chainsaw Man works partly as a breakdown of shonen manga itself — especially what it means to be a hero, and how Denji measures his own value.
For fans in Malaysia and SEA who follow anime heavily through weekly discourse, this matters because Chainsaw Man has always been more than just gore, devils, and chaos. The loud part is the violence. The sticky part is Denji being a messy, hungry, lonely kid trying to understand what a decent life even looks like. So when the ending divides people, it is not just about plot mechanics. It is about whether Fujimoto’s emotional thesis actually paid off.
Analysis / inference: Levy’s comments also show how differently anime and manga conversations can feel online versus face-to-face. Online, the hottest take usually wins. At conventions, fans may be more willing to sit with a weird ending instead of instantly branding it as trash or peak.
The interview also touched on what Levy is most excited to perform when Chainsaw Man continues as an anime. His answer: the Darkness Devil sequence.
Manga readers already know why that is a big deal. The Darkness Devil material is one of the series’ most surreal and unsettling stretches, and Levy called it scary, strange, and highly unusual on the page. He sounded especially confident because MAPPA is handling the anime, praising the studio’s work on the first season and the movie for pushing style, craft, and personality.
The next anime project is Chainsaw Man: Assassins Arc. One important detail remains unconfirmed: MAPPA has not yet announced whether Denji’s return will be a new season or a movie. What is clear from the source is that this arc will not be the end of the anime adaptation. There is still a lot of manga left for MAPPA to bring to screen.
So, if you bounced off the manga ending, Levy’s take probably will not magically change your mind. But it does frame the finale as something intentional rather than random shock value. And if you are mainly here for the anime, the bigger headline is simple: MAPPA eventually adapting the Darkness Devil could be one of Chainsaw Man’s most talked-about moments yet.