Ep. 1

Summary

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Denji is a sixteen-year-old Devil Hunter trapped under the enormous debt his father left to the yakuza. He survives by selling parts of his body and killing Devils with Pochita, the small Chainsaw Devil who is also his only companion. Denji describes modest dreams—eating bread with jam, dating someone, and living an ordinary life—but the yakuza boss lures him to a warehouse and reveals that his gang has contracted with the Zombie Devil. The transformed gang dismembers Denji and throws his remains into a container. When Denji's blood reaches Pochita, their earlier promise becomes a contract: Pochita replaces Denji's heart in exchange for seeing Denji pursue his dreams. Revived as a human-Devil hybrid, Denji pulls the cord in his chest, grows chainsaws from his head and arms, and destroys the Zombie Devil and its followers. Public Safety Devil Hunters arrive the next morning. Their leader, Makima, recognizes that Denji is unusual and offers him a choice between being killed as a Devil or being kept and fed as a human. Denji accepts her offer.