Chainsaw Man was easily one of the most popular and talked-about new series of the Fall 2022 anime season. While it seems likely that the anime will return for a second season in 2024. That’s a long wait for viewers, here are the similar anime as Chainsaw Man
It's filled with eccentric and, potentially dangerous, characters, from a devious information broker and a surly bodyguard with anger-management issues to an underground doctor and the mysterious "Headless Rider." Ikebukuro has many secrets, and plenty of tension boiling beneath the surface. The only certainty is that Mikado’s life will never be the same again.
Chainsaw Man and Blood Blockade Battlefront (Kekkai Sensen) have plenty in common, from humans having to live with otherworldly creatures to these same groups fighting both with and against one another.
ID: Invaded is an odd series that presents itself as perfectly serious despite its outlandish premise involving "id well"-diving technology. Like a non-dystopian version of Psycho-Pass, the show is concerned with serial killers and their psychological makeup, albeit being a bit more black-and-white in its messaging.
If Chainsaw Man shares some DNA with any other modern anime series, it’s Dorohedoro. Unapologetically and viscerally gruesome, the anime's violence is only matched by its ghoulish comedy. That includes one of the best baseball episodes of all time (which just so happens to feature, among other characters, an undead Frankenstein's Monster-like sorcerer and a gigantic domesticated cockroach).
Although not quite on the same level of gore as Chainsaw Man, the amount of bloodshed in Akudama Drive was enough to warrant plenty of censored scenes in the televised version. Nonetheless, the intentionally zany and colorful nature lends the series a cartoonish feel.