Chainsaw Man, the highly anticipated anime series, is coming to an end next week with its final episode of the Katana Man arc. While the anime was highly publicized and had high expectations, it ultimately slightly underperformed in ratings and sales. In response, a dedicated fan from Japan has started a petition on Change.org, a popular platform for online petitions, calling for the anime to be remade with a new director.
The petition, titled “Please remake the anime ‘Chainsaw Man’ with a new director,” details the various issues with the current adaptation, in a 700-word description of the petition. The creator of the petition, a dedicated fan of the original manga, expresses disappointment in the anime version and laments the loss of the “momentum” that made the original work so charming.
One of the main issues raised in the petition is the interpretation of the original work by director Ryuu Nakayama. As cited in the petition, many fans have felt that there is a significant gap between Nakayama’s vision for the anime and the original manga.
Another major issue raised in the petition is the overall quality of the animation. While the animation itself has been praised for its high quality, there have been criticisms of the direction and storyboarding of the show, with some feeling that the impact of the battle scenes and gags has been lost due to a reliance on realism and excessive use of drawing strokes. In contrast, on SNS there are opinions that the Mappa studio’s “Dorohedoro,” the animation production company TRIGGER would have been the ideal direction for the Chainsaw Man animation.
The music and sound design of the anime have also come under fire in the petition, with many fans feeling that the background music is unmemorable and that the sound effects, particularly the chainsaw sound, are lacking in power. In addition, there have been criticisms of the voice acting, particularly in the comedy scenes, which some feel are unsuccessful due to a lack of proper intonation and a failure to capture the essence of the characters.
The performance of the protagonist Denji in particular has been singled out for criticism in the petition. Compared to the original work, Denji’s portrayal is bleak and lacks the characteristic craziness, and Toya Kikunosuke’s casting as Denji is unpopular. Even before the anime adaptation, there were strong calls for Nobuhiko Okamoto to play the same role.
Tatsuki Fujimoto’s views on the anime adaptation
The author of Chainsaw man, Tatsuki Fujimoto, was involved in the anime adaptation from the start, as the MAPPA production team considered his opinion in every aspect of the anime. He posted a tweet on the premiere of the anime:
The animation of Chainsaw Man is recommended because the OP, ED and video are good. It seems that the video changes every time the ED is done, so I recommend it. The OP is a good song that repeats many times, so I recommend it. The artwork is also very good, so I recommend it.
Tatsuki Fujimoto on Twitter (@nagayama_koharu)
But recently, in an interview, he explained that Chainsaw Man anime is a little weird as it does not follow the original manga art style because of its animation quality. But, he said that Chainsaw man anime could ignore the original manga and animate it however it seems best.
MAPPA has a reputation for receiving criticism for its animation, particularly its use of CGI. One well-known example is Attack on Titan: Final Season Part 1, where some staff members even deleted their Twitter accounts due to the backlash. Therefore, fans of Chainsaw Man expected similar issues with the anime adaptation.
Whether or not the petition will be successful remains to be seen. What are your thoughts on this petition? Let us know your opinion in the comment section below.
Source: Twitter, Change.Org
No words just… 🤦🏻♂️
Smfh I know… Hey y’all, the animation is too good. Could you give me some still frames pleases? Smh
boo this petition. Boo these people trying to push a solid director and their animation studio out of work. Imo the show looks fantastic, and this nonsense about the poor soundtrack can only be spewed by musically illiterate types who don’t respect bass guitar. There has been CGI in animation forever, just look at Gundam! Mechs aren’t my cup of tea but you really want to say that cgi isn’t well done at least? Chainsaw man has a high level of quality and stands out with humor and grit among a sea of top 3 wannabes (looking at you my hero trash academy). Denji’s voice actor’s delivery is spot on for the energy and Blood Fiend’s makes a great pairing along with the rest of the cast.
I second leave chainsaw man alone
I agree to this but hey my hero academia a good show but i do have 1 recommendation just work yall hardest if yall do remake this amazing show
I mean the petition sounds right but I feel season two needs to be handled by trigger mapping has too many animes ongoing rn and I’m tired of them having cgi cyberpunk for example had crazy gore and art and the Frame cuts they wanted I’m pretty sure if trigger does season 2 it will be way better.
Trigger wouldn’t fit the tone at all. Mappa’s CGI is good. You can’t even see it where it really matters. They’re really hating just to hate.
Bro I just started watching and watched all episodes in one night.. I fell in love.. whoever saying it’s not good is smoking rocks. My friend recommended it. Even my girl loved it and kids.. keep up with what yall doing now and don’t allow those who smoking rocks to stop you.. alot of people don’t even know about this or are eyes on it yet because they have other worries n interest.. But I bet half a year to a year or two people start flockin..
this aint for kids lol
It’s fine how it is …I like it ..just ignore the manga..it has a lot of hard work in it😭😭♥️..the opening is gud and the artwork is pretty too♥️ sound and everything is great according to the anime…
Fk y’all’s petition, always finding something to complain about. Especially about a great studio and director
Will people ever be satisfied?
The animation’s been nothing short of a masterpiece, the action and the comedy scenes have all been well done and the voice acting and sound design have been great. Denji’s voice actor’s killed it with his performance!
The complains about AOT season 4 I could totally understand, but how is it that people are now against CSM, which is an almost flawless adaptation?
I hope the petition fails, because if it succeeds, all the hardwork the underpaid and overworked artists (which aren’t just in mappa) and the other people involved in will be for nothing.
I wouldn’t say it’s a flawless adaptation. People are allowed to be upset. However I don’t think starting a petition to make another anime is appropriate lol
The petition is going to go nowhere because petitions don’t get anything done. It’s a waste of time to even sign it.
I agree it’s theoretically solid. I’ve thought from the beginning that it didn’t hit that punk craziness that the covers give off the the super strong coloring. I would love to see triggers take on it. I’m not going to gripe forever about it but it isn’t the direction I would have taken it. I will say it says something that I bought all the volumes one after another because I was enthralled, and I’m having issues taying attached to the show.
Originally I was with you but after reading the manga and listening to what their issues were it made sense. Denji in the source is much more wacky and animated while because of the focus on realism it lost so much of its style and comedic factor. I don’t think the anime is bad I think it’s great but after reading the manga and seeing how denji and Co act I kinda wished they would have shown us a more true to the source style adaptation and used more vibrant colours since the palette used in the anime is more dull and dark. I think the key issue here is mappa are making the anime in THEIR own way and everyone was excited to see chainsaw man by Tatsuki Fujimoto imagine spiderman with batman’s style that’s kinda what it feels like.
Its almost a shot for shot remake at this point….. I don’t get how people can complain about the differences when there really aren’t any.
No people get too fussy estimating it high and then just eating it low because it’s a bit wacky and the fact is more people animes or read manga to be happy. we should be greatfull to Fujjmoto as when he was a kid not television were made. Fujjmoto has done well chainsaw man is perfect the way it is now. For example when makima was driving denji to tokyo we probably laughed at least once. In addition chainsaw man would be really boring if denji was serious, smart and perfect at what he does and power is the smartest fiend but one of the weakest fiend. So let Fujjmoto as he is one the best director anime i have ever watched
I agree. I’m enjoying the adaptation but it’s definitely missing the whackier aspects of the manga. I think Power could have been done better too, although most of her best beats have survived so far.
While I wouldn’t mind seeing them goof off more, the tone of the show strikes a good balance between humor and Edgelord without turning into a Tokyo Ghoul sob story. Some levity is still there in CSM for as much as you can expect with makima being deadpan badass and having Denji on the total opposite of that spectrum. It’s going to feel more like AoT’s Hanji v. Levi as terms of humor goes in the show and it makes sense given how the mortality rate sucks in public safety. This isn’t some school anime about goofballs, they’re devils after all.
The anime is honestly better than the manga
I think that the people held the manga so high and had their own expectations that didn’t align with studio.
If he had start a petition we might as well start a petition for the underpaid but overworked employee who have to take this bs as well
Okay that’s a big stretch. The show is far from a masterpiece. The over reliance on subpar CGI is depressing. It makes most of the large scale fights look cheap and rushed. The show needs to be looked at intensively going into season 2 or it isn’t gonna last much longer.
If you honestly believe that they use “subpar” cgi then you don’t know the difference between good or bad cgi. Watch any episode of Overlord to see what actual subpar cgi looks like.
Also, who made the rule that anime has to be 100% hand drawn? I believe their incorporation of cgi was made as an artistic decision and should be appreciated rather than ridiculed as “over reliance”.
But that’s my 2 cents…
It is subpar cgi. You want to see how good chi looks? Watch spiderverse. It is not artistic decision. They use cgi so that there able to pump out as many shows as they can which hurts the product. It isn’t to be appreciated
I totally agree with you and i have zero dissappointment on both the manga and the anime, and the seiyuus did a great job and nailed the characters personalities such as power, and not all anime must have popular seiyuus so the unpopular ones could shine as well tbh, 10/10 recommended and worth watching and reading
Don’t worry change.org petitions never go anywhere lol.
You’ve obviously never read the manga. Sure the anime may be “good” but when you compare it to the original, it’s far from good.
It reminds me of the live action Cowboy Bebop, it wasn’t bad on it’s own. But compared to the original, there is no way it lived up to the hype.
I think people forget about Full Metal Alchemist. They literally came out with a whole other series to follow the manga closer (Brotherhood)… it’s not that absurd of a request!
I have and odds are more recently than a bunch of the people not happy with it (literally multiple read throughs in the last couple months). It’s pretty 1:1 dialogue included if you ask me, idk what the problem is. The adaptation is perfectly fine; I like the anime better for the most part and it’s probably a bias towards motion and sound to sell the action. Probably the best TV animation for an action title I’ve seen this side of Demon Slayer. Things do change in adaptation and directors and production executives have their visions and to an extent know what they can get away with with regards to their resources and time. Could just be I try to be mindful that these are very different mediums with very different artistic, time, and budgetary constraints.
Idk why you’re dredging up FMA for your argument, it was the most popular anime of it’s time; nobody was demanding a remake because they thought it wasn’t “good enough”.
I waited to Binge Chainsaw Man, got impatient and watched everything that was out yesterday. I was worried seeing all the hate online, but I loved it as well, thought Mappa did a great job.
I read the manga, and agree Trigger may of been a better studio for this. Also biased because Trigger is my favorite studio by far. However Mappa is still doing a good job, and I don’t understand why people are so upset. It’s basically scene for scene, and the jokes are still landing for me. My only gripe is the color palette, but I enjoy bright vivid animes. Doesn’t make CSM bad though. People are to sensitive.
Mappa has so many anime to handle,,,I think ufotable can take it
Uh, Ufotable doesn’t hire freelance writers and story editors. They have their own script team.
There was more realism on the anime and I liked it. The only thing that disappointed me is that they planning to make only 12 episodes and there’s still so much story left. I love Chainsaw man and would like to see the rest of the story animated
They’re obviously going to animate the rest. Did you really think that it was over 🤨
They obviously would animate the rest but probably not all of them included in 1 season man, give the mappa staffs a break😥😥
And here I have to suffer watching Toei ruin all my childhood favourites like SM and Dragon Ball Super. People need to get a grip, the animation was great and it’s of high quality.
How did they ruin super for you whats wrong?
I take it they’re talking about how the Bulk of Super was produced in two months, as Toei wanted to ride off of Resurrection F.
Interesting in theory, but *HORRIBLE* In practice. Super has been socially cursed for all the rushed animation shots, that while fixed nowadays, made the Show a Laughingstock and meme’d.
You do not rush animation. You give people TIME to make it. TOP was fantastic! The first half of Super was robbed.
Aside from Animation, Some story elements of Goku Blacks’ Arc maybe as well. Many are not fans.
Otherwise that’s it in my book that I can think of.
Give time to Animation. Do not rush or cut corners.
As soon as I saw Trigger mentioned, I knew the kind of “fan” we were dealing with. I love Studio Trigger, but MAPPA has this. The pacing is fine, the animation is fine. Literally just making up things to complain about.
I’m just reading into this, so I’m unaware of the context of some of the issues. Can you please explain the relation between Trigger and the kind of “fans”?
What a pitiful world where this is what people like the petitioner are wasting time on…Aside from that sad reality check, CSM is a great anime, my wife and I have enjoyed every episode. The creator’s, editors and show runner’s deserve a lot of credit, Thank you for a great anime!
It’s valid if you don’t like the adaptation. I’m enjoying it though it’s not perfect.. but it’s an adaptation. A creative re-engineering of a manga into an animated feature. So if you don’t like it, just stick to the manga. Problem solved
Now you sound like a sound and logical person. Those kinds of qualities are rare in these content hungry gremlins
I dont have any thoughs about this, cuz I dont even watched the anime lol just read the manga
Then why even comment on it?
I thought it was bad enough here in the U.S. What more do people want like holy… people are so ignorant and think they would do a better job, like no you don’t the anime itself the fights voice acting and the music itself all of it is so good, if you hating then your just thinking of yourself tbh.
The only valid complaint is how MAPPA has set the tone to a much more serious one compared to the manga, but even then the gag scenes with Denji and Power still hit the same.
The voice acting tho? Nothing wrong with it
The music and sound design? Nothing wrong. What people are actually complaining about the chainsaw noise? Lmao
The animation? Literally been fuking flawless. Sure, the cgi scenes are questionable at times, but they really aren’t that bad when looking at everything else.
People that complain at the small stuff like
Fr bro
Well to be fair MAPPA is the one who asked the author explicitly to alow them to animate the manga, the author gave the go ahead for them to change the story to their liking because the author is not the one who asked for his work to be animated, fans are just to hype and has too high of an expectation.
I mean MAPPA is the one who’s doing their job here and we are just watching it, so if ypu want something better then do it yourself. The one who posted the petition is probably a shut-in or a weeb who ups his expectations whenever somebody reaches his previous expectation.
Nah if there ever any anime that need to be remake its tokyo ghoul.Also Shikimori is not just cute needs remake just because they dont really follow original source.Chainsaw man is alright the way it is currently but whats bad is just they need to quickly announce Second cour or season 2.
I also think critiques of the direction are legitimate. However, unlike the petitioner, I do not want to see a new adaptation with a new director because this one has destroyed any love I had for the original series. And, to be honest, you can enjoy the show all you like, as you have a perfect right to do so, but that doesn’t mean people with higher standards or expectations aren’t allowed to be disappointed.
The pretention in saying “higher standards” and not “different taste”. 😂 That’s the thing. It’s a difference in opinion. People can be disappointed. That doesn’t make them right. It’s a work of art, and art is subjective. Like it or don’t. That’s fine. It’s the tendency to say “Oh, they got it WRONG” rather than “they made something I don’t like” that comes across, at least to me, as grating.
This is literally one of the highest quality anime adaptations of a manga in history. These people are insane.
I’ve watched all episodes so far and I’m hooked to the series. I think the art style and animation are great and definitely a step up for CGI animation in anime and honestly I don’t think any of the CGI segments would work without it and specially the nightmare it would be to animate in traditional animation. Knowing how much fluff anime has with the constant pumping of content to supply demand, Chainsaw Man’s anime adaptation is far from average.
This screams CSM fanboyism.
These diehard fans are so certain their little manga is nothing short than a lifechanging flawless masterpiece that they overestimate it.
I didn’t like the manga as much as other people did, and I absolutely despise the fandom. But I do enjoy the anime, and think it’s more than fine. I do agree on the CGI, altough I expected way worse *cough* AoTS4.
What we need is a petition to uncensor the puke that denji drank.
But seriously though, wasn’t the mangaka heavily involved with the adaptation? Soo maybe you’re all directing your grievances towards the wrong people.
YES, definitely, for purely artistic reasons of course. And the scene would have benefited tremendeously from a looney tunes style back-and-forth action with mentioned substance 😅.
During the kiss I meant. Not something kinky, womit eating, etc. 😇
Madness, the anime is awesome, calm down, it does what it needs to, and I’ve enjoyed every second of it, can’t wait for more.. jeez! Not like it’s a disney ‘remake’ ..get a life!
Don’t touch the adaptation, Studio MAPPA must stay.
Studio TRIGGER’s “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners” was an emotional experience, but graphics and animation in the “Chainsaw Man” anime is superior, thanks to the team of top-level animators working on it and usage of rotoscoping, that is a refreshing experience.
Music choice, different outro every time – delicious experience, opening is wonderful and on another level.
Makima. Makima having soft voice is more than an icing on the cake, it is crucial for her character, so her Voice Actor fits the purpose. I am not going to spoil anything for those who didn’t read the manga, so I will point out that Tatsuki Fujimoto was creating her character from his youth, he knows better how she should sound like, and he is part of the anime adaptation production team already.
Anime titles are very different at this moment: SpyXFamily, Demon Slayer, Konosuba, My Dress-Up Darling, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Arcane, Chainsaw Man – different stories, animation styles and emotions they deliver. I want them to keep being loyal to themselves and continue to be unique. It is fine when you don’t like something about a product, until you have options to choose between – Don’t touch the adaptation, Studio MAPPA must stay.
Rotocosping sucks. It never looks good!
New this mid tier too much hype anime would end badly lmao
Everything about this article and that petition is unhinged. The anime is a faithful and phenomenal adaptation. Some people need to learn some critical thinking and stop drawing nsfw fanart
the animation didnt even entered the main plot. the first arc is makima, and thst will be like 4 seasons in anime? that would be the first actual season of the storie. you still can’t even compare them with that very few amount of storie. the problem is thst the anime production is not made for thoose long format arcs and they will try to SELL small pieces of a plot thst wont make sense until you have st least 4 of them to actually comprend the first arc.
The anime adaptation is f amazing. Ofc there are things that I would have done differently, and a million things other people would have done differently too, so what lol.
The real upset is that people can’t settle for a win “we got a cool adaptation of a manga we love” nah, instead let’s throw a tantrum bc things didn’t go my way. Like the complains are not even coming from the mangaka but from a bunch of randos
Best anime since Samurai Champloo. I love this so much and do not want anything to change about it or it’s director. JP voices are good and the english dub is perfect. Animation is the best. The fight scenes give me goosebumps. I love this Anime studio, don’t stop the amazing masterpiece you’ve begun.
I am disappointed on whoever said this because of the uncomplete story and saying that it needs a remake with a new director like you haven’t seen the next season and the fact that the animation was criticized is even worse.
Chainsaw man is my favorite anime this season. My only complaint is that I have to wait for them to make more.
The cgi quality and amount of it on this anime is indeed tragic. I have no simpaty for studios that prioritize cutting costs over quality. Cgi needs to improve a lot before it can be used like this. 80% of this anime is cgi/rotoscope! Way too much.
The comment about the music and sound design being forgettable makes absolutely no sense to me, honestly the music is one of my favourite things about this show. The massive disrespect aside, I think the creator of this petition just has no idea what they’re talking about.
All of you are BABIES, atleast it gets a half decent anime adaptation
CGI anime looks tacky anyway. Perhaps if it looked less computerized I’d have actually watched it
I have no words. I get people are never satisfied with ANYTHING but this is just ridiculous.
chainsaw man is epic the petition needs to be dropped the person is clearly not a fan and it sounds like they are just a little butt hurt because it wasn’t made the way they wanted it I say continue on with the next season ( 2 ) 💞
Everyone hyped this anime, so far its been a forgettable waste of time. I was hoping for so much more out of it. Feels like someone from the US got a hold of it and broke it.
Give it to Shinichiro Watanabe and Bones, they’ll know what to do.
I have been an anime fan for 40+ years and chainsaw man is an amazing new look that excited me. It’s been a long time since any anime has done that. Changing it now risks losing that excitement. So in my opinion, leave it the way it is. So sit back, relax and see just how long this anime can keep the energy up.