Chainsaw Man Meets Goodbye Eri in Brilliant New Fan Comic

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Warning! Contains spoilers for Chainsaw Man Part 1!

A talented artist on Reddit has created a glorious fan comic combining mangaka Tatsuki Fujimoto’s series Chainsaw Man with his one-shot Goodbye, Eri. Fujimoto is one of the most popular and unique mangakas in recent years. While his works are each vastly different, Goodbye, Eri and Chainsaw Man do have some common elements that this fan comic exploits perfectly.

Chainsaw Man is a manga following Denji, a young boy who makes a deal with the Chainsaw Devil and becomes the titular Chainsaw Man, able to sprout chainsaws from his body to fight other devils for the government. Goodbye, Eri on the other hand is a much more grounded and ambiguous work, following a young aspiring filmmaker named Yuta who makes films about both his terminally ill mother and his secretly ill friend Eri. Denji and Yuta are quite similar, both being rather immature and having to deal with rather dark and even cruel situations. Their respective manga mirror their boyishness, with both works being obsessed with spectacle and the power of movies. Both stories are also tinged with tragedy, with most of Denji’s friends being murdered by the machinations of the Control Devil Makima and Yuta’s mother and his friend both dying to terminal illnesses. One Reddit user has somehow taken all of these similarities and used them to create the perfect mashup of the two manga.

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In a fan comic called “Go Out With A Bang”, reddit user u/Raggumba imagines Chainsaw Man as being a movie series that Denji is making. The series ends with a twist on the scene where Power originally died in the manga, with her and Denji instead running away from Makima