Warning: Contains spoilers for Chainsaw Man chapter #146.Chainsaw Man chapter #146 has been released, and it reveals the identity of the series’ final villain. Recent chapters of Chainsaw Man have brought up how according to Nostradamus’ prophecy, in July 1999, the Great King of Terror will descend upon the world and destroy humanity. Nothing specific has been revealed about the Great King of Terror, but it’s still been set up as the biggest villain in the series.
Now, however, Chainsaw Man’s Great King of Terror has been revealed as the Death Devil, the eldest of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and the strongest of all devils.
Considering how she’s supposed to be even stronger than Yoru, Fami, and even Makima, she’s bound to be the deadliest villain in all of Chainsaw Man, and the lengths to which the Chainsaw Man Church is going to oppose her through their “Chainsaw Man War” are appropriately drastic. The Death Devil could easily be the final villain of Chainsaw Man, and the series has already done a lot to justify that sort of development.
Chainsaw Man Reveals its Final Villain, the Death Devil
The Death Devil is set to be the biggest villain in all of Chainsaw Man, and the “Chainsaw Man War” created to deal with her is as perfect as it is horrifying. Chainsaw Man chapter #146 revealed that rather than the Justice Devil, the followers of the Chainsaw Man Church had been forming contracts with the Fire Devil, which caused 350,000 people to transform into Chainsaw Man lookalikes and go on rampages around the world. The intent of this was to increase the world’s fear of Chainsaw Man and war, thus making Denji and Yoru strong enough to defeat the Death Devil.
As terrifying as the Chainsaw Man Church’s plan might it, it’s actually the perfect way to deal with the Death Devil. Both Denji and Yoru have been established as being weaker than normal, Denji because of how the world sees Chainsaw Man as a hero and Yoru because of how severely weakened she was by Pochita, so starting a war centered around Chainsaw Man does a great job of circumventing that while remaining consistent to the established mechanics of the series. There’s no better way for them to become stronger, and the entire act exemplifies just how much of a threat the Death Devil will be.
Is Chainsaw Man Going To End With Part 2?
With the Death Devil’s official integration into the plot, another question that comes to mind is if Chainsaw Man is going to end with part 2. The Death Devil has been stated to be the strongest of all the devils, so it would be hard to sell a future antagonist as being a bigger threat than her. That’s not to say that an interesting story would require a villain who’s stronger than the Death Devil, but it would be hard to make them work if that weren’t the case, so it would make sense to treat the Death Devil as Chainsaw Man’s final villain.
Something else to consider is the idea of Chainsaw Man author Tatsuki Fujimoto’s feelings of exhaustion. In a recent interview, Fujimoto remarked that he doesn’t have time to do everything he wants on a weekly schedule and thinks it would be nice to transition into only writing, so it might be that he’s feeling burnt out and is looking to end the series soon. All of that, of course, is pure speculation, but there’s definitely an air of finality surrounding the Death Devil, and it will be interesting to see how Chainsaw Man handles her in upcoming chapters.
