Chainsaw Man Episode 3

Chainsaw Man episode 3 brings back Denji’s Chainsaw Man form in pretty exciting action and violence. This episode’s one-off villain brings us the Bat Devil, and I’m slightly disappointed. In the manga, I felt like the monster was a lot more foreboding. It is partly one of those things where the page turn in a manga plays a significant factor, but I also think the original image that revealed the Bat Devil was the main thing. Like this devil’s face was shadowed to the point of abstraction, with only its eyes glowing out, with its presence not only framing Power but dominating the panel with its size. And I don’t think this anime did anything in its own way to capture that uneasiness with those things that exist without the page-turn factor. And while the voice actor did an excellent job for the Bat Devil, the problem I think I’m going to have as a manga reader, in this case, is that the voices that I imagined for the monsters in the story are a lot more intimidating, to put it mildly. Like I felt the way the actor voiced Bat Devil was almost too humanly, and maybe it’s on the audio engineers for not abstracting his voice to suit the character more.

Unfortunately, Chainsaw Man is a blend of genres; dark fantasy, comedy, action and horror…