Chainsaw Man vs the Entire State of Michigan! Chainsaw Man Chapter 220 Review!

In the previous Chainsaw Man chapter, Pochita erases Death and now only the War Devil is left.

Chainsaw Man Chapter 220 is titled, “Bonds and Michigan”

This chapter has 15 pages.

Today is Veteran’s Day in the United States.

A fitting day for a War Devil chapter.

The chapter begins with a barrage of Gun and Tank Devil shots from Yoru’s fingers but she is kicked hard by Pochita, resulting in a long line of her entrails coming out.

Yoru summons the Moral Eel Devil but Pochita slices it in into pieces, making Yoru furious as she was fond of that Devil.

Was she fond of this Devil because of her time as the War Devil or because of Asa’s love for sea creatures?

This is a grey area as both seem to share similar tastes.

Now Yoru and Pochita stand upside-down and above the Earth itself through the Doors of Hell Yoru summoned.

The Power of Friendship is Evil

In confronting Chainsaw Man, Yoru tells Pochita that in the previous war, both forces stood alone and above everyone.

However, Yoru has since changed and found the value in teamwork, to learn to depend on others, something the solitary Devil race has not known since.

This is best seen with the mere fact that she chose to live within Asa’s body and share it with her.

By learning to be human, Yoru gained greater insight into her powers as the War Devil and as a person.

A dynamic similar to Dai Shi and Jarrod from Power Rangers Jungle Fury, where the main villain spirit Dai Shi decides to possess the human Jarrod but both live as if they are the same person and Dai Shi himself grows through training and personal experiences, like the humans he wanted to destroy.

In the same breath as the obscure example above, Yoru exclaims that this dependence enabled her to value Devils as if they were a unique culture while looking down on how stupid humans are.

Yet it is through a human that Yoru learned these things, just as how humans are the reasons non-Primal Devils even existed in the first place.

Yoru represents a nice departure from the common set of shonen antagonists who are the antithesis of the Shuiesha core values.

So Yoru calls for other Devils she has under her command.

This seems to confirm that among the Four Horsemen, Yoru is the one who directly leads Devils on their own volition but can also weaponize them.

Since her powers rely on guilt, aka Asa’s complex, it is clear that Yoru has also formed actual emotional bonds but as established in Chapter 178: “Gun Goddess”, her conception of morality and emotion are quite different from humans and it has to do with the idea of mortality.

While Devils become different people via reincarnation in the opposite realms (die on Earth and a devil ends up back in Hell and vice-versa), the idea of death does not quite evoke the same fear that it does on humans, with Pochita the Chainsaw Devil and Hero of Hell being the only one capable of fully erasing their existence.

While Yoru did not initially have as much attachment as she did now, she at least had the charisma to lead armies of Devils, uniting their forces against the unexpected threat of Pochita in the past.

Now she summons them as her friends and even if she still head that devilish morality that was not gorunded on sympathy, she saw herself as a moral superior to Pochita, standing with others instead of alone.

One Good Thing About Part 2 of Chainsaw Man

This scene feels like a callback to Chapter 84: “Hero of Hell”, where Pochita had gone through a mass of Devils to try and escape Hell after being sent there by the Hell Devil.

However, in Part 1, Fujimoto designed the Devils to more monster-like, more stereotypical kaiju and yokai forms that Japanese manga has seen, albeit without clear visual identity or theming.

For example, in Part 1, we see multiple devils that look like actual Western or Eastern demons, with horns and multiple eyes but no idea what Fear they are associated with.

In the first spread, most of the Devils look obscure, save for a wolf-like devil on the bottom right corner.

The only ones that look like obvious fears are an insectoid devil that resembles a lobster or ant but it is unclear without seeing any pincers.

However, we do see Devils that resemble various animals, such as various fish.

In Part 2, Fujimoto does one thing to improve the theme for the Devils: he makes them flesh-like.

A consistent theme throughout the series is that the Devils are often made of actual human flesh.

Many Devils have human-like features and insides, albeit with varied colors, depending on the media used (the anime mostly had the Devils bleed out purple blood like the Bat, Leech and Eternity Devils, or human red blood but in the Reze Arc movie, the Typhoon Devil spits out red blood to feed Reze with, which incidates it was vomiting blood it had eaten from humans).

However, many Devils in Part 1 heavily resembled their fears, without strong ties to human flesh.

Here in Part 2, practically every Devil has a piece of human innards or flesh as Fujimoto draws their bodies with linework that indicate that they are constructed from flesh, rather than look simply like monsters.

Furthermore, at least half the Devils have distinguishing or identifiable Fears to be associated with.

First, we see a Jellyfish Devil and a Centipede Devil, whose top half is a one-armed human with a sword and three heads, one of which is either deformed or bowing.

There is also a Hands Devil, with two hands fused together to form its small body.

Just like in Chapter 84, we see panels of Chainsaw Man slicing off the heads of the Devils while the main villain Devils monologue and you can compare the differences.

Furthermore, the panel divisions follow different themes, with Pochita’s intestinal scarf wrapping the different panels of defeated and decapitated Devils in Part 1 while in Part 2, Pochita’s chainsaw arms are within only one panel.

On the one hand, this is a clearly inferior version of Chapter 84 but on the other hand, the Devils in Part 2 are more consistent in composition, being made of from flesh rather than looking like generic monsters.

Still, both versions are parallels to each other.

While Chapter 84 has Makima fangirl over Pochita’s status as the Hero of Hell, Yoru looks down on the Chainsaw Devil and brags about her dependence on others as the War Devil needs countries and armies to win and be herself.

In the end, even after bragging about the power of bonds, Pochita goes through the Devils and prepares to take down Yoru.

But Yoru activates her trump card, pun intended.

Why Michigan?

The chapter ends with Yoru turning the entire state of Michigan into a weapon, the Michigan Sword.

This is recorded by one of the Fumiko Mifunes who lives in America, maybe even near or within Michigan.

This almost feels like a sly jab towards My Hero Academia, which names All Might and Deku’s Ultimate Moves after American states and cities.

Imagine if Pochita destroyed the Michigan Sword, assuming it would fit the classification of Devil to be erased.

Deku would forget one of his moves midway and probably get offed.

But there is a realistic reason why Michigan was chosem.

Michigan played a key role in World War II especially through its war industry and airfields, which turned its biggest city, Detroit, into an arsenal of the United States, producing tanks, airplanes and other armaments.

This led to Detroit, Michigan, becoming the “Arsenal of Democracy” and it still holds this reputation to this very day, with over 5,000 businesses connected to the defense industry.

Additionally, Michigan was also a military training center with facilities and Forts, its coasts were used to train the troops, and housing camps for prisoners of war.

Yoru loves America and Michigan might be her favorite state.

Because of this, Michigan did not only convert the lives and properties of Michigan into a singular weapon but also the weapons themselves, with their own unique properties and abilities.

Michigan also has 10.1 million people in the present day but in 1999, the year Chainsaw Man takes place, it is 9.89 million, barely reaching 10 million.

With the state being a factory and hub for weaponry, Yoru has the ultimate final weapon against Chainsaw Man.

So can Chainsaw Man win against 10 million lives and over an implied 50-60% of America’s defense supplies?

There will be a break next week.

Chainsaw Man Chapter 221 will be released on November 26, 2025.

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