Chainsaw Man Manga Concludes After 8 Years - No Part 3, Just The End

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Chainsaw Man Manga Concludes After 8 Years – No Part 3, Just The End

Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Chainsaw Man manga concludes after 8 years - no Part 3, just a thank you and the end... or is it?

Published Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:57:07 -0500
by Rich Johnston
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Article Summary

• Chainsaw Man manga ends after 8 years with Chapter 232, confirming there will be no Part 3.
• Official statements from Shueisha and Viz Media say this is the final conclusion for Chainsaw Man.
• One last coda, Chapter 233, is teased for the Japanese release of the final volume in June.
• Chainsaw Man has sold 35 million copies worldwide and will see its last English volumes released by 2027.

Last week, bestselling manga Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man came to an end with Chapter 232, titled Thank You, Chainsaw Man. Serving as the final chapter of Part 2, and, as confirmed by Shueisha and Viz Media, the end of the entire series. No teaser for Part 3. No post-credits stinger. Just a stark The End! and an invitation to look forward to Fujimoto's next project. However, there is a suggestion that there will be a final coda, Chainsaw Man Chapter 233 to be released at the same time as, and part of, the Japanese collection of the final volume.

Chainsaw Man launched in Weekly Shonen Jump back in 2018 with Public Safety Saga Part 1, then shifted to Shonen Jump+ for the Academy Saga, Part 2, in 2022. And it even gave Denji, the Chainsaw Man, a happy ending, of sorts, by way of a retcon or two. The final Japanese tankōbon volume collecting the series is scheduled to hit shelves in Japan on the 4th of June. Volume 21 of the English language adaptation by Viz Media will be published in the US on the 2nd of June. Volume 22 is out in October, and the final volumes 23 and 24 are expected in 2027.

Chainsaw Man is a dark, violent, chaotic, and often deeply emotional shōnen-style manga mixed with horror, black comedy, romance, and existential weirdness, devils exist as supernatural beings born from human fears, and Denji, a dirt-poor, orphaned teenager drowning in his late father's massive debt to the Yakuza, scrapes by as a low-level devil hunter, helped by his only companion, Pochita, a chainsaw-headed devil dog. As part of a death pact, the two merge to become a Devil-Human hybrid, and now Denji can transform parts of his body into chainsaws, such as arms, legs, and famously his entire head, becoming Chainsaw Man…

At the beginning of the year, Chainsaw Man had sold 35 million copies worldwide, including physical volumes and digital editions. In 2021, it was the seventh bestselling manga, but as of this year, it had risen to the number two spot, boosted by the movie, and has regularly filled the US bookseller charts… and looks like it still will, at least until 2027.

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