The Fake and Real Chainsaw Man Share the Same Story! Chainsaw Man Chapter 205 Review!

In the previous Chainsaw Man chapter, the Fire Devil is finally revealed.

Chainsaw Man Chapter 205 is titled, “Who?”

Released on June 11, 2025, this chapter has 15 pages.

Who?

We learn exactly who the fake Chainsaw Man is.

He was a nameless man who admired Chainsaw Man even at the point of death.

He even kinda looks like Denji.

So with his fire projecting images, the Fire Devil tells the story of twin brothers, who found an injured Fire Devil.

Immediately, we are meant to see a parallel between Denji saving Pochita and the twins saving the Fire Devil.

Did the Fire Devil go to war with other Devils or was it weakened by other factors?

Maybe the rise of better fire safety standards weakened the fear of fire but that does not seem likely.

This is clearly a sign that the Fire Devil has been been fighting against other forces, maybe even Devil Hunters and that he managed to escape.

If so, those must be some impressive Hunters or the Fire Devil is not that strong in spite of potentially being a Primal Fear.

Perhaps we will never know since the two likely answers are easy to imagine.

It seems the Fire Devil was not pretending to be the Justice Devil for malicious reasons but rather, creating the identity of the Justice Devil.

Like how Denji raises Pochita to seek the good life, the twins raised the Fire Devil to a more human rationalization, the belief in hope.

Justice is a form that takes different shapes depending on the person with that belief.

Like fire.

The Fire Devil’s Powers Change the Way We Think About Devils

In a way, the Fire Devil rebranded himself as a “fire of justice” rather than outright steal the Justice Devil’s name.

Did the twins inspire the Fire Devil to gain new powers? Can humans “redefine” a Devil’s powers, not necessarily the fear they are associated with?

The power of fire that normally burns people and property would now warm the hearts of people, resulting in new transformation.

Is it possible that the Fire Devil could also be called the “Evolution” Devil?

The ability to transform ties so much to the evolution of humanity from animals to rational, social beings?

Fire is how humanity invented technology, by using their discovery of fire made from lightning sparks to cook their meat, warm and light their dwellings in the cold night or scare off predators and larger animals.

At first, it felt like the Fire Devil was a weird choice for a substitute but this chapter explains so much.

Being the “Justice Devil” (the real one felt more like a generic monster) just so happened to be how the twin brothers interpreted their new friend, even if he looked like a fireball.

Perhaps the strength of their convictions and those they helped were the reason why these powers became stronger.

The same way fire proliferated because of humans, both in creating more fires and more societies that produce fires and technology.

If anything, fire, a once feared magical phenomenon in nature, has become a reason for humanity to build society and thus evolve and even create concepts like justice.

Fire is both creation and destruction: the Fire Devil was strengthened by the kindle of human justice but also destructive as it can spread by accident or, if we apply the metaphoric nature of the Fire Devil’s powers, turning other people into twisted fanatics of justice like the Fake Chainsaw Man and the Chainsaw Man Church.

Fire has transformed the world, especially if we consider its role in creating technology: for better by providing healthy food via cooking or worse by contributing to the creation of pollution-emitting factories.

A Cat or a Man?

And now we learn what happened to the twins.

Denji came along as he fought the Cockroach Devil, who grabbed the younger twin but Denji allowed the man to die all to save a cat.

This moral dilemma comes from Chainsaw Man Chapter 102, “Save the Cat,” released nearly 3 years ago at the beginning of Part 2’s release.

The Cockroach Devil made Denji choose between two options like in the Sam Raimi Spiderman film (2002) when the Green Goblin did the same thing, except Denji saved none of them, instead focusing on the cat.

This is less of Denji lacking empathy or even any experience as he has been fighting devils for a while.

Instead, Denji’s vision could only prioritize saving the many by killing the source itself.

His solution to the trolley problem every hero faces was not to save any set of lives but to stop the train from hurting them anymore.

But in doing so, he readily chose ignorance, to focus only on the enemy, and in doing so, neglect the victims to prevent more from being created.

When Denji rescues the cat, like the fans, the Fire Devil makes it look like he only cared about an innocent, non-sentient and completely unaware animal that no one else considered.

While this sounds like Denji chose those who would not be considered by the many, which sounds noble, it is in fact an off-timed moment as it so happens that he noticed one stray innocent in danger.

Denji might have already considered the trolly problem the Cockroach Devil posed on him but it is likely not his first as we have seen as early as with the Bat Devil, albeit he was able to save many on purpose, mostly by telling them to scram.

“It is what it is”.

Denji’s surrender to cruelty in the last chapter is now used against him.

What was once a coping mechanism for regrettable mistakes and setbacks now unveil his own hypocrisy or, rather, his inability to owe up to those real losses.

Denji maybe able to solve the trolley problem but in ignoring it, he does something worse.

Because of his immortality, consequences may not quite matter for someone like him and this moment is what Denji needed to see the consequences of his tunnel vision and priorities.

However, it will come from an established hypocrite.

The Fire Devil, who sees himself as justice, and the twin who feels right in avenging his brother, have hurt too many people.

Just like in Chapter 102, Denji focused on the target and killed

What Will Those Options Be?

Denji is now forced to choose between two options but before that happens, a building comes from above to crush them.

The chapter ends with Yoru calling out to Denji for help, which did before in Chapter 129 and is a parallel to Makima’s words during the Control Devil Arc as her way to manipulate Denji.

Perhaps the two options are now here:

To save Yoru and Asa from death or to stop the Falling Devil that is the direct threat.

Will stopping the Falling Devil make any difference if Asa and Yoru, who Denji love, die, and will saving Yoru and Asa make things worse, considering Yoru’s own schemes?

A Powerful Chapter About Devils and Dreams

The Fire Devil being the same as the Hero of Hell in this story reminds me of the entire story of Agni as Fire Punch, the god who brings heat and light to the cold, dark post-apocalyptic world.

Yet that hero becomes disfigured over time, starting with Agni’s massacre of his hated enemy, Doma’s, children, due to his traumatic wounds triggering visions of a vengeful specter of his sister Luna.

Just like in Fire Punch, Agni’s image was also used to fuel the criminal activities of his own church, which he left behind.

It does seem strange that the Fire Devil was responsible for as much of Part 2 as Fami is and both were the founders of the Chainsaw Man Church.

After all, the Fake Chainsaw Man did help Denji and Asa escape the Falling Devil trapping them in Hell, even reviving Denji with his own blood.

Asa saw two Chainsaw Men working together and that was the first physical appearance of the being (he was a silhouette that killed Yuko, the student who once had a contract with the Fire Devil).

And this ties everything back to one throughline regarding the Fake Chainsaw Man and the Fire Devil: they are just like Denji but WORSE.

For those who are confused, while the Fire Devil gave a Contract to the justice-seeking Yuko, Yuko’s actions led to many deaths.

Some say the Fire Devil was cleaning up loose ends for Fami but it has been established throughout the entire story that the Fire Devil was not following Fami’s actual agenda of spreading the Age of Terror, only that he is unwittingly helping fulfill that very evil he is trying to stop.

The Chainsaw Man Church was Fami’s product but it needed an unwitting ingredient: the Fire Devil, whose existence was manifest since Yuko receiving the contract.

Although Chapter 146 establishes the Fire Devil as a pawn, this does not necessarily follow it had been consumed by Fami.

After all, why need to do it again?

The only explanation was that, since the Fire Devil never recognized Fami’s true identity, he likely bought into the idea of a Chainsaw Man cult and also used it as a means of getting revenge on Denji while at the same time spreading its own beliefs in justice.

Essentially, Chainsaw Man Part 2 has two masterminds, just one is too egomaniacal to see that he is being played too.

The Fire Devil has two goals: to empower those who believe in justice and, after the death of the twin brother, kill Denji.

You can see how these two motives conflict with each other during the Falling Devil Arc and that is kind of the point.

The Fire Devil and twin’s sense of justice is as distorted as the face of the Fake Chainsaw Man.

He kills those who do too much harm but does so with as much harm as his targets.

Just like Denji.

However, unlike Denji, who feels those deaths, the Fake Justice Devil rides on the high of justice and makes Denji look like the real monster, when it is clear that the avenging Fire Devil and twin are just as bad, if not worse.

And it seems this is a good way for the story arc to conclude, with the revelation of this truth and eventually, Denji facing off against the Fire and Falling Devils, two different servants of Fami with varying loyalties.

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