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.
Episode 2
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Makima takes Denji toward Tokyo and gives him food at a highway rest stop, deepening his immediate attachment to her. At Public Safety headquarters, she places him under the supervision of Aki Hayakawa, a serious Devil Hunter who believes Denji lacks the resolve needed for the work. During their first patrol, Aki beats Denji in an alley and urges him to quit before Devils kill him. Denji retaliates, insisting that his simple goals matter as much as anyone else's, and concludes that Aki is also interested in Makima. Makima refuses to separate them and orders Denji to live at Aki's apartment, where their incompatible habits quickly create tension. On a mission, Aki explains that Fiends are Devils possessing human corpses. Denji kills one without transforming, saying he wanted to avoid damaging its body, though Aki suspects his motives are less compassionate. Realizing he needs a concrete ambition, Denji decides that physical intimacy will be his next goal. Makima then introduces Power, the Blood Fiend, as Denji's new partner. Power immediately abandons procedure, leaps from a building, and kills the Sea Cucumber Devil with a blood-forged hammer.
Episode 3
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After Power kills the Sea Cucumber Devil, Makima reprimands her because the Devil was claimed by a civilian hunter. Power tries to blame Denji, but Makima demands that the pair cooperate and produce results. Denji remains focused on his new personal goal, and Power notices his interest. She offers him a reward if he helps rescue Meowy, the cat she once cared for, from the Bat Devil. With limited permission to leave headquarters, they travel to an abandoned house outside the city. Power recalls finding Meowy when the cat was starving and gradually becoming attached despite initially planning to eat it. At the house, however, Power knocks Denji unconscious and delivers him to the Bat Devil, having agreed to trade a human for Meowy's return. The Bat Devil drinks Denji's blood to restore its damaged arm but complains about the taste. It breaks its promise, swallows Meowy and Power, and flies toward the city in search of better prey. Denji catches the Devil, transforms, and fights it through buildings and streets. Though angered by Power's betrayal, he understands losing a companion and ultimately tears the Bat Devil apart.
Episode 4
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Denji finishes the Bat Devil and pulls Power and Meowy from its remains. Power, surprised that he fought so fiercely after her betrayal, agrees to honor the reward she promised. Before they can leave, the Leech Devil appears, mourning the Bat Devil and attacking Denji. It severs his arm and threatens civilians while mocking the modest dreams that drive him. Blood loss prevents Denji from completing his transformation, leaving him with only a small chainsaw protruding from his head, but he continues fighting and manages to injure the much larger Devil. The Leech Devil eventually overwhelms him. Aki arrives before the killing blow and summons the Fox Devil, which devours the attacker. After a blood transfusion restores Denji and allows doctors to reattach his arm, Aki explains that Devil contracts require payment; using the Fox Devil costs him part of his body. Aki could recommend that both Denji and Power be destroyed for disobedience, but he offers to protect them if Denji follows his rules. Denji agrees, and Makima approves. Power and Meowy move into Aki's apartment, creating immediate domestic chaos. That night, Power privately tells Denji he may claim his promised reward.
Episode 5
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Denji finally receives the reward Power promised, but the experience feels empty and leaves him confused about why achieving a long-awaited goal brought so little satisfaction. Makima notices his mood and explains that intimacy becomes meaningful through understanding another person. She guides his hand to her body and uses the encounter to focus his attention on a new assignment: if Denji kills the Gun Devil, she will grant any wish he chooses. Aki explains that the Gun Devil appeared years earlier after worldwide fear of firearms increased, killing 1.2 million people in minutes, including Aki's family. Fragments of its flesh attract one another, allowing hunters to track Devils that have consumed them. Aki's team enters a hotel where such a fragment has been detected. The group includes Denji, Power, Aki, Himeno, Kobeni Higashiyama, and Hirokazu Arai. Himeno demonstrates the invisible hand of the Ghost Devil, obtained by sacrificing her right eye, and turns the mission into a competition by offering Denji a kiss if he succeeds. After killing a strange Devil on the eighth floor, the team discovers that every stairway and window returns them to the same corridor, leaving them trapped.
Episode 6
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The six Devil Hunters test the hotel's corridors and rooms but find that the eighth floor has become an enclosed loop. Clocks have stopped, outside communication is impossible, and the team cannot reach another floor. Aki organizes food and water while fear steadily divides the group. Himeno tells Denji how she became Aki's partner and encouraged him to smoke, then admits that beneath his severe manner Aki still wants to live. The Devil they killed earlier expands into a vast mass filling the stairwell and identifies itself as the Eternity Devil. It offers to release everyone if they kill Denji and feed it his heart. Aki and Himeno reject the bargain, but Kobeni panics and attacks Denji, while Arai begins to consider the proposal. Their terror strengthens the Devil, which rotates the floor and closes in on the survivors. When Kobeni charges again, Aki shields Denji and is stabbed. Power tries to control his bleeding, and Himeno becomes desperate to save him. Denji notices that the Eternity Devil fears his chainsaws and reasons that pain may force it to surrender. He jumps willingly into its mouth, transforms, and begins cutting through it from inside.
Episode 7
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Inside the Eternity Devil, Denji keeps his chainsaws running while the creature tears apart his body. He survives by drinking its blood, creating a cycle in which both combatants continually regenerate. Himeno watches the apparently suicidal strategy and recalls Kishibe, her former instructor, saying that Devils fear hunters whose thinking is impossible to predict. She also remembers trying to persuade Aki to abandon Public Safety and go private, hoping to keep him away from the Gun Devil. Denji's relentless attack continues for three days until the exhausted Eternity Devil exposes its heart and begs to be killed. After the team escapes, Himeno organizes a welcome party with other members of Special Division 4. Denji expects the kiss she promised, while Makima's arrival makes him anxious about receiving it in front of her. The hunters drink, trade personal information, and discuss how frequently rookies die. A heavily intoxicated Himeno finally kisses Denji but vomits into his mouth, causing him to lose consciousness. She carries him back to her apartment. Denji wakes in her bed, and Himeno, still drunk, offers to sleep with him, leaving him to decide whether to accept.
Episode 8
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Denji refuses Himeno's offer after remembering Makima giving him a lollipop and promising that his first intimate experience would remain memorable. In the morning, Himeno cannot recall the previous night. She and Denji form an alliance: he will help her pursue Aki, and she will help him get closer to Makima. Their ordinary conversation is interrupted by a coordinated assault on Public Safety. Gunmen attack Devil Hunters across Tokyo, and Makima is shot aboard a train to Kyoto. At a restaurant, a man claiming to be the grandson of Denji's former yakuza boss shoots Denji in the head and wounds Himeno. Aki summons the Fox Devil against him, but the attacker transforms into Samurai Sword, another human-Devil hybrid. Aki uses the Curse Devil at severe personal cost and appears to defeat him, only for Akane Sawatari to revive him. Samurai Sword cuts Aki down. Mortally wounded, Himeno gives the Ghost Devil everything she has, causing her body to disappear as the full Devil manifests and restrains Samurai Sword. Akane responds by summoning the Snake Devil, which consumes the Ghost Devil. Himeno vanishes completely, while Denji remains unconscious and the attackers retain control of the scene.
Episode 9
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A surviving hand of the Ghost Devil pulls Denji's starter cord, reviving him as Chainsaw Man. He attacks Samurai Sword but is defeated and cut in half. Akane and her allies load Denji's upper body into a van, intending to take his heart. In Kyoto, Makima unexpectedly rises after being shot and kills the attackers aboard her train. She meets Public Safety agents Yutaro Kurose and Michiko Tendo and requests a high-altitude shrine, thirty death-row prisoners, and the names of the Tokyo assailants. From the shrine, she performs a ritual in which each prisoner speaks a target's name and dies as that target is crushed from afar. The gang around the van is rapidly eliminated, forcing Akane and Samurai Sword to flee. Kobeni intercepts them with startling speed, using a knife and a captured gun to protect Denji, though the attackers escape. She apologizes to Denji for previously trying to sacrifice him and grieves Arai, who died shielding her during the attack. Back in Tokyo, Madoka reports that the special divisions suffered catastrophic losses and resigns. Makima announces that Divisions 1 through 4 will merge under her command, while refusing to say how much she knew about the assault beforehand.
Episode 10
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Denji and Power visit Aki in the hospital and awkwardly report that, among their immediate teammates, only Kobeni survived the assault. After they leave, Aki finally breaks down over Himeno's death. Kurose and Tendo question whether he intends to continue hunting the Gun Devil despite his injuries and shortened lifespan. Aki chooses revenge, but the Fox Devil will no longer answer him, so they order him to make a stronger contract. Himeno's sister later brings Aki letters in which Himeno repeatedly expressed fear that his obsession would get him killed. Meanwhile, Makima introduces Denji and Power to Kishibe, the veteran hunter who trained Aki and Himeno. Declaring himself the strongest Devil Hunter, Kishibe repeatedly kills Denji and critically injures Power so they can learn to fight using their unusual durability and regeneration. After dozens of defeats, the pair decide that intelligence must be their answer. They prepare an elaborate ambush at Kishibe's apartment, but he immediately detects and defeats them again, while acknowledging some improvement. Kurose and Tendo take Aki into Public Safety's underground cells. There, he meets the Future Devil and is told that a contract with it is his best remaining option.
Episode 11
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Aki enters the Future Devil's cell and receives an offer. The Devil has foreseen that Aki will die in a way it finds spectacular, so it asks to live in his right eye and grants him brief sight of the immediate future. Kishibe tests Denji and Power and ends training after they finally manage to scratch him. Public Safety then begins a major operation against the yakuza organization connected to Akane and Samurai Sword. Makima meets the group's leader, demands the names of members contracted with the Gun Devil, and demonstrates that threats against hunters' families can be answered in kind. Kishibe warns police that the newly merged Special Division 4 is mostly Devils and Fiends whose danger cannot be fully controlled. The assault team enters a building and fights zombies created by the yakuza's earlier contract with the Zombie Devil. Power joins the Shark Fiend, Violence Fiend, Spider Devil, and Angel Devil in clearing the basement. Denji and Aki continue upward. Aki finds Akane first, and she orders the Snake Devil to release the captured Ghost Devil. His new foresight helps him evade its attacks briefly, but its many arms eventually seize him by the throat.
Episode 12
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Held by the Ghost Devil, Aki remembers Himeno and realizes that fear guides the creature's attacks. He calms himself, walks through its motionless arms, and cuts off its head after receiving a reminder of Himeno. Akane attempts to summon the Snake Devil, but Kobeni captures her. Elsewhere, Denji confronts Samurai Sword, and their transformed battle moves onto a train. Samurai Sword severs Denji's arms and assumes victory, but Denji reveals a chainsaw blade from his leg and cuts him apart. After the enemy returns to human form, Denji proposes a contest with Aki: they repeatedly kick the captive between the legs as a private memorial for Himeno. Public Safety cannot interrogate Akane because the Snake Devil kills her under an existing contract. Makima reports that the recovered Gun Devil flesh has joined their previous fragment, giving the agency a stronger trail toward its target, though the attackers' exact relationship with the Gun Devil remains uncertain. Later, Denji, Aki, and Power share a meal and fall asleep at home. Denji dreams of a closed door in an alley, where Pochita warns him not to open it. A woman's voice then asks whether he prefers the country mouse or the city mouse.