Just in from Jump Festa 2026, TV Anime Chainsaw Man – Assassins Arc is finally in production, created by writer and artist Tatsuki Fujimoto. A new trailer and key visual have been released at Jump Festa 2026. Studio MAPPA will be producing the second season of the anime.
Chainsaw Man Assasins Arc key visual and trailer:
About Chainsaw Man
Chainsaw Man is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto. Its first arc was serialized in Shueisha’s shōnen manga magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 2018 to December 2020; its second arc began serialisation in Shueisha’s Shōnen Jump+ app and website in July 2022. Its chapters have been collected in 22 tankōbon volumes as of September 2025.
Crunchyroll describe the story as:
Denji is a teenage boy living with a Chainsaw Devil named Pochita. Due to the debt his father left behind, he has been living a rock-bottom life while repaying his debt by harvesting devil corpses with Pochita.
One day, Denji is betrayed and killed. As his consciousness fades, he makes a contract with Pochita and gets revived as “Chainsaw Man”–a man with a devil’s heart.
Source: Official Website
