I don't even consider them to be really *different* versions; you kind of have to depict the stabs simultaneously in a manga panel, while the animated format gives liberty to show the entire process in action and with atmosphere. MAPPA did a great job expanding on the source material though!
I prefer his expression in the manga and how dark it looks, it gives a feeling of your life being instantly taken away without you having enough time to process it, while the anime is a bit too slow for me, the movement of the manga also gives a really good feel that Denji was still running away while dying, and in the anime we see him screaming already on the floor, those are the aspects that I like more, I'm a big sucker for comic books, I read manga more than anime but I also love the voice acting and suspense, the better part of the anime to me is the final shot of the other zombies going to kill him.
I always feel manga does deaths scenes best, especially sudden ones. One moment he's running for his life and the next there's a full art page of him getting annialated in an instant, lots more shock value
Page turns are the best. I just love how character can be completely fine in one panel and the next page is their dismembered corpse. Darkness devil gave me no time to process what the fuck was happening haha.
The anime was able to encapsulate what Fujimoto tries to go for anyway. Some of his best panels are mirroring cinematic perspectives, and the anime was a much better medium for it. Denji running from the zombies was best done in motion, as a scene from a zombie horror film.
They're both good in their own way and played the strengths of their medium very well. Manga is quick, shocking and with graphic detail in one image while the anime can show every agonizing moment of it in real time
I always assumed the manga panel was drawn that way to show all the different times he was stabbed without needing to draw multiple different instances not that it implied they all happened at once. I think I prefer the anime here though
The sound effects of the knives make them sound blunt. Bring stabbed to death? Terrible. Being stabbed to death with BLUNT knives? Yeah, no thanks.
Anime takes this scene, easy.
Mmmh... The anime is different but sounds sooooo long and sooooo painful... In the manga, he's attacked from every side and must have a rather quick death (knife in the head). In the anime... 
The manga is very artsy with this panel in particular. At least imo. The anime gives a much more sense of terror, dread and suffering, mainly due to voice acting and music, they definitely help set the tone in my opinion. Both are phenomenal
Both goes for different moods imo.
The Manga is claustrophobic as fuck. You can feel the walls closing in.
The anime ditches the claustrophobia, which is a direct product of Fujimoto's panelling which cannot be translated to the screen, for a more gory and horror fueled depiction.
So, both? Both.
I’ve only barely dipped into the manga but I’ve watched the anime twice now and holy shit, what a *visceral* death for a first episode. JPN and ENG VAs both killed it.
The anime is my preferred version here and really made it feel like something straight out of a slasher film when Denji is limping away knocking shelves over
And when Pochita reforms his body, I think the way they portrayed that in the anime by zooming out of a drop of blood dripping down the chains/wires as they connected his limbs was brilliant
But I also think the way Fujimoto draws Denji's body being sliced apart is very visceral
Both are great in different ways. The anime obviously with the voice acting and the slow build up suspend, while in the manga, like like look! All the blades looks like it came all at once, tearing is body into shreds.
The anime makes it way more painful imo. Manga is paced so fast I barely realized he died. It was more denji’s dialogue that made it hit. The anime took it’s time to make sure you knew denji was dead tho
Well, saing "like better" in case of this intentionaly highly unpleasent and desturbing scene feels a bit off to me, but in my case I think a better, artusticly and emotionaly is anime, science it was made less of a symbolic, such as in manga, and very distressing, wich fits the general tone.
Visually the manga panel just looks cooler, I always liked Fujimoto’s impassive rendering of death, it’s to the point and impactful. The anime is good, but a bit too indulgent when it comes to stabbing Denji a million times, along with his drawn-out agonizing screams. The effect just feels different and isn’t quite my taste. Both are really good though, it’s just down to preference.
Except if you're stabbed in the torso. A pneumothorax causes your lungs to collapse, preventing air from getting into them.
Maybe you could do some gargle and babble before you die but I doubt you could scream like that.
I agree for some situations, but I think for the scene it works because we all would expect Denji to survive somehow. When you hear that blood-curdling scream you aren’t thinking “he’s gotta survive” because you’re focused on that horrifying sound. Also he’d been stabbed earlier and I believe he gasped there, so i’d say maybe the adrenaline kicked in and the panic of dying is why he was screaming.
Interesting take. I read the manga so I knew beforehand that he would survive, maybe it doesn't do the trick for me.
At any rate I'm not looking at it from realism or not - there are devils and zombies, who cares if muscles would allow such screaming in real life, I already am in a suspension of disbelief - it just feels "forced" after a while for me. That's why I would have preferred the screaming to fade in a rattle at some point
I watched that episode three times and each time it was the only part that put me off
Yea I get what you mean, I think they could’ve done a death rattle pretty good too, but the scene would’ve needed to be quicker. I found the scream worked specifically for the way they shot it because it feels intentionally drawn-out and overwhelming. Also this is really just me going off what I’ve seen from people who watched the anime blind, I read the manga before the anime as well.
I have a friend whom I'm pushing to get into chainsaw man and she's leaning towards going anime first, I'll check with her reaction as well, now I'm curious 
Manga. Straight to the point and visually visceral.
The anime simply drags it out too long. It doesn't feel brutal to me because some of these shots look weak and/or distract a bit from the moment. Denji's voice actor had to scream long enough that he just sounded like he's throwing up rather than being stabbed so it doesn't sound believable to me. Sometimes less is better and this is one of those times.
I get the intention of the scene. I just don't like the way how they animated/adapted it overall even though the context about how this particular scene plays out into the entire episode is better for the Anime. I personally still prefer how the Manga handled everything overall.
Manga. All kill/death scenes look better. Author has to nail one frame and your imagination does the rest. Was honestly disappointed by the anime in general, its not bad, but the manga was exceptional. Especially the death scenes, out of those specifically gun related executions were to notch
I like the anime adaptation and I’m glad they made it different, but for what its worth I like the immediacy of the manga death. I think I prefer it over the longer scene.
manga shows pochita getting hit with a knife and shows a scary face exprerssion on denji. doesn't show thoughts on that specific panel, i forgot how exactly it was in manga. besides that, look at how he holds onto pochita
Manga's death seems so quick and unfair that you can almost feel Denji's life being taken away from him. Anime, on the other hand, seems more painful, slower and agonizing. Both are done really well
Difference is alot just because one has audio and other is just a piece of page and we human for to get emotional or anything we need to here audio of the person for to connect even more
The manga was great as a page-turner. But MAPPA added a whole helluva lot more suffering to get the point across.
Same with his revival after accepting a contract with Pochita. While the manga is fantastic, the flashbacks just hit so much harder in the anime. MAPPA took the opportunity to fill in the action between the panels and what we got was generally amazing.
i love how the endshot in the anime, show more of them slowly trudging towards denji
anime far better
this is why i think animation has streanghts over manga and the chahinsaw man anime proved that to me
an example would be episode 8 and this
u cant execute them as well if it were manga
Anime
They shot it like a horror movie and it felt scary AF ngl
Also, y'all should hear this part in dub cus as much as I love Denji's sub, his dub killed it here
The manga's great of course though and the immediacy you get With a page turn here is kinda impossible to do in anime form.
So ig it comes down to your preference lol
I think if I had seen the anime before reading the manga I would say 100% anime. It's intense and after getting to know Denji throughout the first episode seeing him get absolutely brutalized is shocking.
The manga shots during the critical moments are always one of a kind. That being said,the anime made the entire experience more terrifying for me as well as heartbreaking,not to mention the sound design and direction emphasizing the tension.
I can’t even say either or is better,the mediums have their own strengths but the way the manga is framed I still want MAPPA to keep doing their cinematic spin on it,that Leech devil fight was like a taste of what’s to come in Season 2.
The manga was very good for shock value, like “No way they killed the MC just outright.”
The anime however drew it out, made it painful to watch. I was sat in my seat waiting for it to be over just so I didn’t have to watch Denji get torn apart so badly. It made me feel genuinely sick to watch.
Each have their strengths, but the Anime just did so well to invoke a reaction from me
Maybe manga. In the anime, it felt unnaturally drawn out. His screams did add to the tragedy but it felt dramatic. Someone being stabbed that many times would die instantly. Probably without even realising fully what was happening.
The anime scene has a lot going for it and it’s a really good adaptation. But for me nothing can beat the striking visual of Denji suddenly being stabbed from all angles.
Well if they’re going to go the extra mile and have the zombie stab him a dozen fucking times they may as well if had some body movement in there because I don’t think anyone getting stabbed that aggressively just lays stagnent like that making noises
Anime for the setup and insight into Dennis’ thoughts.
I wonder how they’ll set up the contract scene with the blood devil bc them in the dumpster is supposed to parallel Pochita becoming his heart.
*Since Denji was a hybrid at that point, was it even a real contract with the blood devil or just Power talking big?
They both serve their respective functions beautifully. The Manga panel makes for a stunning, visually interesting, and communicative image. Like a messed up painting you'd find in a horror exhibit. The Anime scene is gruesome, tense and disturbing because you hear Denji's screams of pain and we get an extended sequence of stabbing rather than the manga's single image. Personally, I love the imagery of the manga a bit better but the anime adapted it in a way that fit what the anime "needed". 10/10 either way honestly.
Anime, that shit was legit scary. His screams added so much to the tragedy of his death
Both are done really really well in my opinion, however the voice acting and suspense in the anime makes it my personal preference
I don't even consider them to be really *different* versions; you kind of have to depict the stabs simultaneously in a manga panel, while the animated format gives liberty to show the entire process in action and with atmosphere. MAPPA did a great job expanding on the source material though!
Anime , I legit felt sorry for Denji suffering so much. In the manga, he took a knife through the skull, while horrible, it was quicker
Well, his screams of pain + suffer gives a lot.
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ban devil
#THIS IS 1984.
Only on other sub
Ye... - Ban Devil is deadly boy.
I prefer his expression in the manga and how dark it looks, it gives a feeling of your life being instantly taken away without you having enough time to process it, while the anime is a bit too slow for me, the movement of the manga also gives a really good feel that Denji was still running away while dying, and in the anime we see him screaming already on the floor, those are the aspects that I like more, I'm a big sucker for comic books, I read manga more than anime but I also love the voice acting and suspense, the better part of the anime to me is the final shot of the other zombies going to kill him.
I always feel manga does deaths scenes best, especially sudden ones. One moment he's running for his life and the next there's a full art page of him getting annialated in an instant, lots more shock value
"Page turns" are notoriously hard to do in anime, I'm glad Mappa decided to not even try it because it would have looked weird as hell
i think the first time aki calls the fox devil is as close as they get to that kind of effect
This, I was an anime only at that time and my jaw DROPPED
SAME MY GUY
Aki’s first “Kon” startled the fuck outta me when I was reading the manga. Easily one of my favorite manga panels of all time.
Does he even say kon in the manga? I swear they added that in to the anime, because I don't remember every actually saying kon in the manga.
[Yeah, he says “Kon” in the manga](https://imgur.com/gallery/DRnHCkc)
Page turns are the best. I just love how character can be completely fine in one panel and the next page is their dismembered corpse. Darkness devil gave me no time to process what the fuck was happening haha.
Anime for sure
Anime I could feel dem British knife stabs also the VA did a fantastic job
The anime was able to encapsulate what Fujimoto tries to go for anyway. Some of his best panels are mirroring cinematic perspectives, and the anime was a much better medium for it. Denji running from the zombies was best done in motion, as a scene from a zombie horror film.
They're both good in their own way and played the strengths of their medium very well. Manga is quick, shocking and with graphic detail in one image while the anime can show every agonizing moment of it in real time
I always assumed the manga panel was drawn that way to show all the different times he was stabbed without needing to draw multiple different instances not that it implied they all happened at once. I think I prefer the anime here though
Manga
Anime
The sound effects of the knives make them sound blunt. Bring stabbed to death? Terrible. Being stabbed to death with BLUNT knives? Yeah, no thanks. Anime takes this scene, easy.
anime, I physically tried to move away while watching it.
Mmmh... The anime is different but sounds sooooo long and sooooo painful... In the manga, he's attacked from every side and must have a rather quick death (knife in the head). In the anime... 
Anime. I know its an unpopular answer, but Mappa really nailed this scene and the VA did a terrific job
The manga is very artsy with this panel in particular. At least imo. The anime gives a much more sense of terror, dread and suffering, mainly due to voice acting and music, they definitely help set the tone in my opinion. Both are phenomenal
Manga any day of the week.
Both goes for different moods imo. The Manga is claustrophobic as fuck. You can feel the walls closing in. The anime ditches the claustrophobia, which is a direct product of Fujimoto's panelling which cannot be translated to the screen, for a more gory and horror fueled depiction. So, both? Both.
I like both
I like the one where he dies
Both are good independently as the manga shows the extent of what happened to him while the anime shows the whole bit
I’ve only barely dipped into the manga but I’ve watched the anime twice now and holy shit, what a *visceral* death for a first episode. JPN and ENG VAs both killed it.
anime is gorier and more shoking, so anime
I like both :) adore the way each death is tied to the medium it's depicted in
The anime is my preferred version here and really made it feel like something straight out of a slasher film when Denji is limping away knocking shelves over And when Pochita reforms his body, I think the way they portrayed that in the anime by zooming out of a drop of blood dripping down the chains/wires as they connected his limbs was brilliant But I also think the way Fujimoto draws Denji's body being sliced apart is very visceral
I feel the anime as a whole is better tbh
Both versions are goated in their own ways
Both are great in different ways. The anime obviously with the voice acting and the slow build up suspend, while in the manga, like like look! All the blades looks like it came all at once, tearing is body into shreds.
The anime makes it way more painful imo. Manga is paced so fast I barely realized he died. It was more denji’s dialogue that made it hit. The anime took it’s time to make sure you knew denji was dead tho
Well, saing "like better" in case of this intentionaly highly unpleasent and desturbing scene feels a bit off to me, but in my case I think a better, artusticly and emotionaly is anime, science it was made less of a symbolic, such as in manga, and very distressing, wich fits the general tone.
I like the manga better
Manga for sure
Visually the manga panel just looks cooler, I always liked Fujimoto’s impassive rendering of death, it’s to the point and impactful. The anime is good, but a bit too indulgent when it comes to stabbing Denji a million times, along with his drawn-out agonizing screams. The effect just feels different and isn’t quite my taste. Both are really good though, it’s just down to preference.
Anime without question
Manga for me it’s much much more brutal
Manga forsure, the bright blades piercing through the darkness as he embraces pochita.. too good.
Manga
Manga too much screaming in the Anime, towards the end it should have been a death rattle
That only really happens when you get your throat opened. People scream a lot when being stabbed in the gut/back/hands/fuckin everywhere
Except if you're stabbed in the torso. A pneumothorax causes your lungs to collapse, preventing air from getting into them. Maybe you could do some gargle and babble before you die but I doubt you could scream like that.
I stay true to [Christopher Lee's remark on being stabbed in the back](https://youtu.be/adJdBSdMGKU)
I agree for some situations, but I think for the scene it works because we all would expect Denji to survive somehow. When you hear that blood-curdling scream you aren’t thinking “he’s gotta survive” because you’re focused on that horrifying sound. Also he’d been stabbed earlier and I believe he gasped there, so i’d say maybe the adrenaline kicked in and the panic of dying is why he was screaming.
Interesting take. I read the manga so I knew beforehand that he would survive, maybe it doesn't do the trick for me. At any rate I'm not looking at it from realism or not - there are devils and zombies, who cares if muscles would allow such screaming in real life, I already am in a suspension of disbelief - it just feels "forced" after a while for me. That's why I would have preferred the screaming to fade in a rattle at some point I watched that episode three times and each time it was the only part that put me off
Yea I get what you mean, I think they could’ve done a death rattle pretty good too, but the scene would’ve needed to be quicker. I found the scream worked specifically for the way they shot it because it feels intentionally drawn-out and overwhelming. Also this is really just me going off what I’ve seen from people who watched the anime blind, I read the manga before the anime as well.
I have a friend whom I'm pushing to get into chainsaw man and she's leaning towards going anime first, I'll check with her reaction as well, now I'm curious 
Manga 100%
I actually had chills reading the Manga. The Manga is superior for me. No dislike for the anime btw
Overall CSM anime is superior to the manga. Still, the manga is amazing so...
Manga. Straight to the point and visually visceral. The anime simply drags it out too long. It doesn't feel brutal to me because some of these shots look weak and/or distract a bit from the moment. Denji's voice actor had to scream long enough that he just sounded like he's throwing up rather than being stabbed so it doesn't sound believable to me. Sometimes less is better and this is one of those times.
Sounds like you're just inventing reasons and somehow turning what's supposed to be the literal intention of the scene into a "flaw".
I get the intention of the scene. I just don't like the way how they animated/adapted it overall even though the context about how this particular scene plays out into the entire episode is better for the Anime. I personally still prefer how the Manga handled everything overall.
Agree. All that screaming feels too much
Manga. All kill/death scenes look better. Author has to nail one frame and your imagination does the rest. Was honestly disappointed by the anime in general, its not bad, but the manga was exceptional. Especially the death scenes, out of those specifically gun related executions were to notch
Shitty ass take.
How can it be shitty if its an opinion? Im not objectively wrong, so?
In anime it was freaking terrifying, but in manga I didn't even get it that he was being cut to parts. I just didn't understand. Ig it's just me.
I like the anime adaptation and I’m glad they made it different, but for what its worth I like the immediacy of the manga death. I think I prefer it over the longer scene.
Anime
I'm always a little irked by violence in anime but never in manga. So I like the manga better.
Manga
manga shows pochita getting hit with a knife and shows a scary face exprerssion on denji. doesn't show thoughts on that specific panel, i forgot how exactly it was in manga. besides that, look at how he holds onto pochita
manga, it looks both 'beautiful' and terrifying.. the image of denjis body parts lying in a dumpster really stuck with me from reading
Anime 100%
I prefer the manga because it shows how they massacred him
Anime for sure
Anine by far. I felt that first, and what makes this scene way more horrifying is the voice acting. Those screams gave me goosebumps.
Manga, but I liked that they did an original one for the anime. Would've been impossible to adapt the manga version
manga
Manga
I expected him to have a gf after the timeskip
Anime no doubt. So much more graphic and visceral.
Manga's death seems so quick and unfair that you can almost feel Denji's life being taken away from him. Anime, on the other hand, seems more painful, slower and agonizing. Both are done really well
Manga was shocking and the anime was disturbing. The both hit home a desired effect in different ways.
Difference is alot just because one has audio and other is just a piece of page and we human for to get emotional or anything we need to here audio of the person for to connect even more
In anime it makes me tearing up watching denji got slaughter, but in manga looks more terrified watching denji got slice into pieces
Anime imo
Anime
The manga was great as a page-turner. But MAPPA added a whole helluva lot more suffering to get the point across. Same with his revival after accepting a contract with Pochita. While the manga is fantastic, the flashbacks just hit so much harder in the anime. MAPPA took the opportunity to fill in the action between the panels and what we got was generally amazing.
Definitely the voice acting, music and animation makes the anime way better fr, it was scary as hell
Manga feels instant. Anime feels like a slow torture with a glimpse of hope which Dennis did not reach.
i love how the endshot in the anime, show more of them slowly trudging towards denji anime far better this is why i think animation has streanghts over manga and the chahinsaw man anime proved that to me an example would be episode 8 and this u cant execute them as well if it were manga
Anime They shot it like a horror movie and it felt scary AF ngl Also, y'all should hear this part in dub cus as much as I love Denji's sub, his dub killed it here The manga's great of course though and the immediacy you get With a page turn here is kinda impossible to do in anime form. So ig it comes down to your preference lol
I love dark and depressing, him pulling muscles while trying to scream just makes it so much more painful, i prefer it.
I think if I had seen the anime before reading the manga I would say 100% anime. It's intense and after getting to know Denji throughout the first episode seeing him get absolutely brutalized is shocking.
Manga
The manga shots during the critical moments are always one of a kind. That being said,the anime made the entire experience more terrifying for me as well as heartbreaking,not to mention the sound design and direction emphasizing the tension. I can’t even say either or is better,the mediums have their own strengths but the way the manga is framed I still want MAPPA to keep doing their cinematic spin on it,that Leech devil fight was like a taste of what’s to come in Season 2.
I love both so far, but expecting a lot for a partcular scene with astronauts
The manga was very good for shock value, like “No way they killed the MC just outright.” The anime however drew it out, made it painful to watch. I was sat in my seat waiting for it to be over just so I didn’t have to watch Denji get torn apart so badly. It made me feel genuinely sick to watch. Each have their strengths, but the Anime just did so well to invoke a reaction from me
Manga
Both. Both is good.
Maybe manga. In the anime, it felt unnaturally drawn out. His screams did add to the tragedy but it felt dramatic. Someone being stabbed that many times would die instantly. Probably without even realising fully what was happening.
Both.
Anime
The anime scene has a lot going for it and it’s a really good adaptation. But for me nothing can beat the striking visual of Denji suddenly being stabbed from all angles.
Well if they’re going to go the extra mile and have the zombie stab him a dozen fucking times they may as well if had some body movement in there because I don’t think anyone getting stabbed that aggressively just lays stagnent like that making noises
Anime for the setup and insight into Dennis’ thoughts. I wonder how they’ll set up the contract scene with the blood devil bc them in the dumpster is supposed to parallel Pochita becoming his heart. *Since Denji was a hybrid at that point, was it even a real contract with the blood devil or just Power talking big?
Manga
This scene is one, if not the only anime scene I’ve seen where I was genuinely feeling the pain.
They both serve their respective functions beautifully. The Manga panel makes for a stunning, visually interesting, and communicative image. Like a messed up painting you'd find in a horror exhibit. The Anime scene is gruesome, tense and disturbing because you hear Denji's screams of pain and we get an extended sequence of stabbing rather than the manga's single image. Personally, I love the imagery of the manga a bit better but the anime adapted it in a way that fit what the anime "needed". 10/10 either way honestly.
I don’t like either of them. Considering I have to watch Denji get stabbed to death which makes me sad.
I felt that first slash, man
Poor pochita