8 Manga Like CHAINSAW MAN

Much like Denji in Chainsaw Man, manga is chock-full of humans who become hybridized with some other creature and find themselves in conflict with antagonistic forces. Dorohedoro is a great example of this type of story, following Caiman, who finds himself with a reptilian head and suffering from amnesia after an attack from a sorcerer. In order to learn his own identity and find the one responsible for his transformation, Caiman and his friend Nikaido hunt down and fight sorcerers.

The Devils in Chainsaw Man originate and are born from fear. The bestselling series Jujutsu Kaisen gives us similar antagonistic creatures, known as Curses, that arise from Cursed Energy or negative emotion that naturally emanates from all living things. Yuji is a high school student and member of the Occult Research Club, which somehow gains possession of a cursed object, the finger of Ryomen Sukuna, one of the most powerful Curses in history. After swallowing the finger to protect his friends, Yuji finds himself thrown into the world of jujutsu sorcery in hopes that he will be able to eliminate Ryomen Sukuna altogether once and for all.

At the Death Weapon Meister Academy, humans who can transform into weapons, teamed up with the weapon meisters who wield them, train to become powerful enough for use by the headmaster and embodiment of Death, Shinigami. Maka and the scythe Soul Eater are one such team, and their goal is for Soul to devour the souls of 99 evil humans, plus that of one witch, in order to achieve the status of a death scythe.

Here’s another story of a human and a demon in a contract with each other, though this time taking place in Victorian London instead of an alternate ’90s Japan. The Earl of Phantomhive is a young boy named Ciel, who came into the position after his parents were murdered. He and Sebastian Michaelis, a demon who appears as Ciel’s butler and is bound to him to help get revenge for his parents’ deaths, work together investigating the criminal underworld on behalf of the Queen.

Similarly to Chainsaw Man’s alternate timeline setting, the long-running dark fantasy series D.Gray-man is also set in an alternate version of history. In this version of the 19th century, an organization of exorcists known as the Black Order defends humanity against the Millennium Earl and his army of Akuma. In order to combat the Akuma, they use rare enchanted objects known as Innocence. Allen Walker is one of the newest members of the Black Order, training to gain control of his Innocence, searching for other Innocence, and battling any Akuma along the way.