チェンソーマン (1)

Entertaining & great for informal dialogue.

This is a review of all volumes within “Part 1” of Chainsaw Man (volumes 1-11).

I had been wanting to read this manga for around 2 years now, but thought I would save it for trying to read in Japanese. I’m around N3, hoping to slowly work my way up to N2 by reading.

From a language learning perspective, this manga is really good for drumming in a lot of casual contractions and the causative form. Overall there isn’t as much text as I’d imagine from other manga of the same grade, making it a really good stepping stone into other manga of the same range.

For someone at my level this was the perfect difficulty, I found it challenging in places, but also quite breezy in others. There is, however, a couple of dialects as some of the characters are from Kyoto and Miyagi, however, due to the business setting it’s not that bad.

Overall a really enjoyable manga, the story making it really easy to carry on despite its difficulty. Highly recommend.