Chainsaw Man Breaks Hearts With Aki’s Most Emotional Scene Yet

Chainsaw Man’s battle against the Katana Man ended in a spectacularly bloody fashion, with the series pulling no punches in killing quite a few devil hunters. With Denji, Power, Aki, and Makima licking their wounds, the human devil hunter who struck a bargain with both the Curse Devil and the Fox Devil has some serious mental healing to do. Waking up in a hospital bed, the violent anime adaptation knows how to unleash some emotional beats when it needs to.  

Aki came into the devil hunting game knowing that the dangerous profession meant that his time on this Earth was short, and that’s before the various bargains he struck with devils greatly reduced his life span. Using his supernatural sword in an attempt to take down the Katana Man, Aki wakes up in his hospital bed and is told by the Curse Devil that he only has two years of life remaining thanks to the deal they struck. On top of this horrible fact, Aki is barely able to hold it together as he realizes that Himeno has left this mortal coil, striking yet another friend from his life. 

Chainsaw Sadness

With little to lose, it would seem that Aki is now more than willing to make as many deals with devils as possible in order to gain a serious advantage in his deadly profession, with the final moments seeing the sword-wielding protagonist being led to the basement of his organization’s headquarters. In a darkened cell, Aki is informed that he is set to make a deal with the “Future Devil”, who has appeared in Chainsaw Man’s opening since the very start of the anime adaptation and is sure to give the hunter power, but at a terrible cost.

Luckily, everything wasn’t entirely grim in this latest episode, as Denji and Power hilariously went through a new training regiment via the mysterious man known as Kishibe, who murders both Fiends dozens of times in an effort to sharpen their skills for the battles that lie ahead.

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