This is because Volume 12 is the first volume in the manga's second part, and its first chapter introduces us to the new set of characters, Asa Mitaka and The War Devil.

I like seeing Denji's journey from a different perspective even though we haven't really seen him much in this arc as of yet. Thus, Volume 12, which is the first volume of Part 2 of the series, is highly in demand due to the fans' need to get further into the fanbase. However, Denji wants everyone to know that he is Chainsaw Man to have all the ladies flocking over to him. When the Yakuza betrays him and he's killed by the Zombie Devil, Pochita sacrifices himself to save his former master.Serialization of the Public Safety Saga began on December 3, 2018 and concluded on December 14, 2020. Tatsuki Fujimoto 藤本タツキ (Fujimoto Tatsuki) is a Japanese manga author, mostly known for Chainsaw Man.

As the students accepted Bucky as part of their class and were playing soccer with him, Asa accidentally kills the devil. Meanwhile, sometime after leaving the Public Safety, Denji has now started to go to high school, while he also continues to exterminate devils. We get to see these early chapters told through the eyes of one Asa Mitaka, a young and disillusioned student of the same school as Denji. After being killed on a job, he is revived by his pet devil Pochita and becomes something new and dangerous—Chainsaw Man!The series' anime adaptation began airing in October 2022 and finished airing its first 12-episode season in December of the same year.