Denji

*"Maybe I became a devil hunter for a really shallow reason, but I’m willing to die to keep living like this."*

## **Summary**

**Denji**, the protagonist of "Chainsaw Man," is a young Devil Hunter encumbered with his deceased father's substantial debt to the Yakuza. Initially leading a life of destitution and struggle, Denji's fate takes a radical turn when he is killed by a Zombie Devil, subsequently being resurrected by his pet devil, Pochita, who sacrifices himself to save Denji. Denji’s character is characterized by his raw and simplistic desires for food, security, and companionship, stemming from his impoverished upbringing. He is portrayed as tenacious, often crude, and is driven by a fervent desire to experience a better life, marked by simple pleasures and fulfillments. His motivation also remains anchored in his promise to Pochita to live a worthwhile life. In terms of abilities, Denji, fused with Pochita, gains the power to transform into **Chainsaw Man**, a devil with a chainsaw blade protruding from his head and arms, capable of slaughtering other devils. He can start his chainsaw mechanism by pulling a cord from his chest, symbolizing Pochita's pull start mechanism. When in this form, Denji demonstrates enhanced strength, speed, endurance, and regenerative abilities. He can recover from severe injuries as long as he consumes enough blood, which also fuels his transformation and abilities. His powers are not fully understood and seem to be evolving, revealing more profound and extraordinary capabilities as the series progresses. Denji navigates through a world rife with allies and enemies, often blurring the lines between the two. He is enlisted by Makima, a high-ranking Devil Hunter, and serves under her, initially viewing her as a symbol of his newfound stability and developing a complex and tumultuous relationship marked by admiration, dependency, and manipulation. His comrades, Power and Aki, oscillate between roles of friends and rivals, with their interactions defining significant aspects of Denji’s journey, personal growth, and understanding of his identity and desires. Denji's relationships are laden with contrasts—between sincerity and betrayal, affection, and violence—reflecting the chaotic and unpredictable nature of the world he inhabits. Denji's journey is a tumultuous and evolving narrative, from his endeavors as a Devil Hunter to his confrontations with different devils and the unraveling mysteries of his existence. His experiences are a myriad of battles, betrayals, losses, and fleeting joys, emphasizing his struggle with his human and devil nature and the contradictions of his desires and duties. Denji faces various adversaries, like the Gun Devil and Santa Claus, each encounter unraveling more about the world’s intricacies and his own being. The tumultuous events surrounding Denji, coupled with the revelations about his identity and the true nature of devils, serve as the core pivots around which the intricate and dark narrative of "Chainsaw Man" unfolds.

## Denji

### **Output:**

#### Physical Strength

* Uses Pochita as a chainsaw to kill the Tomato Devil.
* Even as a kid, manages to bisect a small, weak devil.
* Beats up Aki after Aki beat him up.
* Denji and Aki fight once again, Denji eventually winning due to targeting Aki's balls.
* Decapitates a Fiend with an axe.
* Despite having his head bashed in and getting juiced by the Bat Devil, can still cling on to the Bat Devil.
* Denji and Aki compete to see who can make Katana Man scream the loudest from kicking him in the balls.
* Punches Beam away after he jumps at him for a hug.
* Denji and Power fight off some of Santa's dolls.
* Down Makima with a chainsaw infused with Power's blood to mess up Makima's ability to regenerate.

### **Defense:**

#### Blunt

* Takes a beating from Aki.
* Denji and Aki fight once again, Denji eventually winning due to targeting Aki's balls.
* Survives but is knocked unconscious by Power smashing his head in with a hammer.
* Survives being juiced for his blood by the Bat Devil.
* Takes but is downed by a kick to the chin from Kishibe.
* Barely survives getting rammed by Kobeni's car.

#### Piercing

* Withstands being stabbed through the torso with a sword, running from zombies for a while before getting swarmed and killed.

#### Endurance

* Despite having his head bashed in and getting juiced by the Bat Devil, can still cling on to the Bat Devil.
* Stays conscious after getting his tongue bitten off and then having his hand sliced off.
* Pulls his chord after getting blasted by the Gun Devil Fiend.

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* Denji and Aki fight once again, Denji eventually winning due to targeting Aki's balls.
* Punches Beam away after he jumps at him for a hug.

### **Misc:**

#### Chainsaw Devil Hybridization

* Pochita functions as a chainsaw.
* Bonds with Denji's body as the two are dying, giving Denji another chance at life and turning him into a hybrid.
* Drinks a bit of the Bat Devil's blood to regenerate enough to pull his cord.
* Just a short drink of blood helps him recover from his neck being snapped.
* Is fine after being killed by Kishibe over 20 times.
* Regenerates from being killed by the Curse Devil.

## Hybrid Form Denji

### **Output:**

#### Chainsaws

* Tears through a horde of zombies, slaughtering them all and the Zombie Devil.
* Tears apart and kills the Muscle Devil.
* Cuts apart Bat Devil's hand by forming, then slicing a wing off him.
* Slams the Bat Devil through the side of the building they landed in, then catching a car it throws at him, then tosses it back at him.
* Tears apart the limbs of the Bat Devil, then tearing him apart enough to leave a pool of guts and gore, saving Power and Meowy.
* Despite being low on blood, still puts up a fight against Leech Devil.
* Cuts the Leech Devil with his head chainsaw barely out.
* Tears apart the Eternity Devil for over 3 literal days until it finally decides to give up.
* After Denji gets transformed by Himeno, he and Katana Man brawl. The two tearing the area up and Denji making quick work of the grunts helping Katana Man.
* Denji and Katana Man clash blade to blade as they start their fight, immediately clashing through the walls of the building they are in.
* Katana Man is still able to take off at least one limb each time he uses the Sword-Draw Dash on Denji, although Denji is able to block at least some of the hits and then eventually bisect Katana Man in the middle of one with a chainsaw in his leg.
* Denji riding Beam fights Reze and the Typhoon Devil, the four causing vague damage to the area.
* Tears apart the Typhoon Devil.
* Wraps Reze in his chains and then pulls her into the water on the docks.
* Clashes with the Darkness Devil for a moment before getting slaughtered.
* Tears through Santa's dolls with ease.
* Cuts into Santa after setting himself on fire to bathe her in light.
* Cuts up Santa even more, then winning a tug of war against her and her dolls, and then slamming her and blowing up a car on her.
* Denji and the Gun Fiend brawl, tearing through a neighborhood and the people living there as they fight.
* Denji can barely fight back or harm the Gun Fiend as it tears through the area and him more.
* After Denji is fed some blood by some locals hoping he will save them, Denji fully regenerates and manages to kill the Gun Fiend.

### **Defense:**

#### Blunt

* Takes but is downed for a moment after getting blasted by the Bat Devil, the blast blowing holes through the buildings behind him and collapsing them on him.
* Despite being low on blood, still puts up a fight against Leech Devil.
* Denji riding Beam fights Reze and the Typhoon Devil, the four causing vague damage to the area.
* Tanks being slammed through every floor of a building until he hits the first floor by Santa Claus.
* Gets smacked away by Santa into a gas station hard enough to blow out the interior.

#### Piercing

* Zombies trying to swarm and eat him do effectively nothing.
* After Denji gets transformed by Himeno, he and Katana Man brawl. The two tearing the area up and Denji making quick work of the grunts helping Katana Man.
* Denji and Katana Man clash blade to blade as they start their fight, immediately clashing through the walls of the building they are in.
* Katana Man is still able to take off at least one limb each time he uses the Sword-Draw Dash on Denji, although Denji is able to block at least some of the hits and then eventually bisect Katana Man in the middle of one with a chainsaw in his leg.
* Tanks getting shot by the Gun Fiend with a shot that cracks the floor.
* Denji and the Gun Fiend brawl, tearing through a neighborhood and the people living there as they fight.
* Denji can barely fight back or harm the Gun Fiend as it tears through the area and him more.

#### Explosive

* Takes a lot of blasts from Reze that blow apart vehicles and walls of the buildings they hit, but is eventually left as nothing but a crispy piece of torso.
* Denji riding Beam fights Reze and the Typhoon Devil, the four causing vague damage to the area.
* Takes getting blasted by Reze multiple times, using the damage to use the chains of his saws to grab her.
* Not really bothered by a car ramming into him fast enough to blow up.

#### Endurance

* Getting his arm blown off doesn't stop him for long.
* Continues to fight the Leech Devil despite being beaten around.
* Survives being telekinetically broken all over by the Darkness Devil.
* Sets himself on fire so he can jump on Santa and try to drown her in light.
* Continues to fight Santa while on fire, regenerating from the burns and the attacks from her dolls faster than the damage.
* Gets back up after losing much of his body to the Gun Fiend.

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* Tears through a horde of zombies, slaughtering them all.
* Is faster than the Bat Devil.
* Despite being low on blood, still puts up a fight against Leech Devil.
* Cuts the Leech Devil with his head chainsaw barely out.
* After Denji gets transformed by Himeno, he and Katana Man brawl. The two tearing the area up and Denji making quick work of the grunts helping Katana Man.
* Denji and Katana Man clash blade to blade as they start their fight, immediately clashing through the walls of the building they are in.
* Katana Man is still able to take off at least one limb each time he uses the Sword-Draw Dash on Denji, although Denji is able to block at least some of the hits and then eventually bisect Katana Man in the middle of one with a chainsaw in his leg.
* Denji riding Beam fights Reze and the Typhoon Devil, the four causing vague damage to the area.
* Wraps Reze in his chains and then pulls her into the water on the docks.
* Denji and Santa are fairly even in combat.
* Runs from an army of Santa's dolls.
* Can defend himself and Power from the Gun Fiend.
* Denji and the Gun Fiend trade blows, the Gun Fiend faster as Denji can barely block his shots at times.
* Denji can barely fight back or harm the Gun Fiend as it tears through the area and him more.
* After Denji is fed some blood by some locals hoping he will save them, Denji fully regenerates and manages to kill the Gun Fiend.

### **Misc:**

#### Chainsaw Devil

* Has Chainsaws that come out from his head and arms.
* As long as he can pull his cord in his chest, he can transform into his Hybrid Form.
* Can retract his Chainsaws.
* Can manually grow the chainsaws from his limbs, like his feet, to a set length. Denji using this to walk on walls.
* Breaks off a chain and wraps it around Santa.

#### Regeneration

* Regenerates from having his arms torn apart by the Muscle Devil.
* Tears apart the Eternity Devil for over 3 literal days until it finally decides to give up.
* After Denji is fed some blood by some locals hoping he will save them, Denji fully regenerates and manages to kill the Gun Fiend.

### **Weaknesses:**

#### Chainsaw Devil

* His powers depend on his amount of blood.

## Hero of Hell

### Debut

Death, Resurrection, Chainsaw (Chapter 83/Episode X)

### **Output:**

#### Chainsaws

* Blitzes and tears apart the Hell Devil.
* Quite literally tears his way out of Hell.
* Blitzes and tears apart Makima.
* Decapitates a man so fast it doesn't even appear like he moved.
* Decapitates another man.
* Tears apart an ice cream truck.
* Blitzes and kicks Quanxi through multiple buildings, blowing out the sections hits, and then tears apart Katana Man in the middle of his own Sword-Draw Dash.
* Tears Reze apart.
* Chains up Makima and her hybrids with a chain each, then bisecting all four of them.
* A Pochita remnant throws a chunk of the ground and then takes out Makima's hybrids and goons in a brawl.
* The Pochita remnant and Makima brawl in CQC to see who would win, Makima winning and pull out the heart.

### **Defense:**

#### Blunt

* The Pochita remnant and Makima brawl in CQC to see who would win, Makima winning and pull out the heart.

#### Piercing

* Undisturbed from attacks from the Whip Devil and Spear Devil.
* Saves Kobeni from being hit by the life-draining hit, but is downed himself.
* The Pochita remnant tanks attacks from Spear Hybrid, Quanxi, a bunch of zombies, and the Flamethrower Devil.

#### Explosive

* Undisturbed from attacks from the Flamethrower Devil, Reze, and blasts from Makima that send him into the atmosphere.
* The Pochita remnant tanks attacks from Spear Hybrid, Quanxi, a bunch of zombies, and the Flamethrower Devil.

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* Blitzes and tears apart the Hell Devil.
* Quite literally tears his way out of Hell.
* Blitzes and tears apart Makima.
* Decapitates a man so fast it doesn't even appear like he moved.
* Kicks Quanxi through multiple buildings, blowing out the sections hits, and then tears apart Katana Man in the middle of his own Sword-Draw Dash.
* Blitzes Reze.
* Chains up Makima and her hybrids with a chain each, then bisecting all four of them.
* Saves Kobeni from being hit by the life-draining hit, but is downed himself.
* A Pochita remnant throws a chunk of the ground and then takes out Makima's hybrids and goons in a brawl.
* The Pochita remnant and Makima brawl in CQC to see who would win, Makima winning and pull out the heart.

### **Misc:**

#### Chainsaw Devil

* If he eats a Devil, the concept they embody will cease to exist from history.
* Pulls out his own heart, throws it back to Earth from space, and regenerates.
* Creates a copy of his hybrid form with a piece of his heart.

### **Weaknesses:**

#### Devil Physiology

* The growing love for Chainsaw Man, with help from Makima, weakens him, as the fear lessens.