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| “ | Samurai Sword: Denji, you killed their pals and my gramps. We want compensation for that. Denji: I only killed them because they were zombies. Samurai Sword: Don't lie! Tch, dumbasses with no schooling always fall back on lies! Well whatever. Even if that were true, zombies used to be humans. Did you not feel anything when you killed them? Denji: Nope, nothing. Samurai Sword: Heh, Sawatari has done a lot of things to me. Apparently my heart is the Katana Devil now even. But even I had trouble sleeping when I killed a zombie. You're the only one whose heart isn't human anymore. If you got any human conscience lect, then just lay back and let us kill you. Denji: Hmmm... Don't wanna. Samurai Sword: I see... Then I'll just cut you till you die! |
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| ~ Samurai Sword explaining his motivation and human conscience towards Denji. |
| “ | Unnamed Cult Leader: I am Justice incarnate!! Now face the Justice of the Chainsaw Man Church!! Samurai Sword: Justice...? There is no such thing as justice with Chainsaw Man!! |
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| ~ Samurai Sword during his battle with one of the leaders of the Chainsaw Man Church. |
Samurai Sword, better known as Katana Man, is a major antagonist in the Chainsaw Man franchise. He is the grandson of a Yakuza boss who was killed by Denji. Samurai Sword holds a very personal grudge towards Denji and does his best to take him down, even by merging with the Katana Devil to make himself more powerful. He is also one of the assassins that followed the Gun Devil in order to retrieve Denji's heart.
He was voiced by Daiki Hamano in Japanese and Jason Marnocha in English.
Appearance[]
In his human form, Samurai Sword appears to be a tall and muscular young man with short black hair with sideburns and also wears a black leather coat to show his intimidating figure.
Once he transforms into the titular Samurai Sword, he becomes an eyeless dark-skinned humanoid demon with a pointy chin and enormous jaws without any lips and a navy blue military hat with a katana blade protruding from his own forehead. In addition, he also has several swords protruding from his own hands.
Personality[]
| “ | If granddad were here, he'd never stand for running away. Plus that damn Denji is in Division 4. Next time, I'll rip out his heart! | „ |
| ~ Katana Man showing his determination to kill Denji. |
Samurai Sword is a selfish and cold-hearted man with a defined with his love for his family, evidenced by the fact that he held a personal grudge against Denji because he killed his own grandfather. However, he is still an evil man willing to kill innocents and even sacrifices his own men just to reach his objective goal. He even shows disdain towards people who didn't pay their debts to the point he let his grandfather turn them into zombies to be used for the battle while also showing apathy about his grandfather murdering women and children due to him perceiving his grandfather was a good man. Despite this, Katana Man still has a moral conscience in his heart, even at one point, he says that he had a hard time sleeping after killing a Zombie and also tries his best to avenge his own subordinates' friends as a result. He can also be described as a brave person as he prefers not to run away from the battle because of his grandfather's moral code.
Biography[]
Samurai Sword revealing himself as the grandson of the debt collector.
Background[]
[WIP]
Samurai Sword Arc[]
Samurai Sword makes his first appearance in Chapter 23 where he eats in the same Ramen Shop that Denji and his companions went to. Seeing his enemy, Denji, he suddenly began to lose his appetite as he reminisce about his late grandfather who was nice to him in the past and even spoiling him by giving him what he wants while saying that he was a true Tokyo-ite who was respected and feared at the same time due to him being a good man despite killing a handful of woman and children.
Revealing that his grandfather is the Yakuza that Denji had killed, the Samurai Sword then shoots Denji through his head and reveals his intentions by obtaining his heart under Gun Devil's orders. As one of Denji's companions, Aki, summoned his Fox Devil to stop the fight, he accidentally destroyed the building which resulted in one of his companions, Himeno, being wounded from the rubble. However, Samurai Sword then transforms into his devil form and manages to brutally slice Kon and then continues to fight against Aki.
Samurai Sword slicing Aki.
Seemingly defeated by Aki due to the Curse Devil he sics towards Samurai Sword, his accomplice, Akane Sawatari, then shows up and heals him which results in him easily curbstomps Aki in a fight which causes him heavily wounded. When Himeno attempts to help Aki despite her wounds with her ghost devil, Samurai Sword, and Akane manages to overpower Himeno and her ghost devil which causes Himeno's body to vanish as she uses the last bits of her power to revive the unconscious Denji. After Denji was revived, Samurai Sword prepared to fight against him, only to be reminded by Akane to not hurt his heart.
Samurai Sword and Sawatari watch as their goons are killed by Makima's attack.
During the fight, Denji then took one of Samurai Sword's accomplices as a hostage in order to prevent himself being killed which angered him a bit and successfully knocks Denji unconscious by slicing his body in half. As he orders his accomplices to bring Denji's unconscious body into the car, all of his accomplices were suddenly brutally murdered by Makima with her seemingly telepathic ability much to his shock as he thought that Makima was dead at first after having his men killing her and the rest of the Devil Hunters. In the end, Denji was saved by another devil hunter, Kobeni, who went into the scene as both Akane and Samurai Sword attempted to stop her to no avail as Kobeni sliced Samurai Sword's right arm and shot him twice which causes them to forcefully retreat for the time being. After the fight, it was revealed that Kon refused to serve Aki ever again due to the bad things that happened during the fight.
During their preparation to fight against the Devil Hunters, one of Samurai Sword's accomplices suggests Samurai Sword being escorted to his villa to which Akane rebuffs his attempt due to how extremely powerful Makima is. However, Samurai Sword decides not to run away because of his grandfather's courageous traits and Denji being in Division 4 alongside the other Devil Hunters as he still holds his own grudge. In addition, both Samurai Sword and Akane attempted to prepare an oncoming onslaught by the Devil Hunters with his grandfather's parting gift, a large zombie army considered of people who were unable to pay his grandfather's debts.
During the small-scale raid on Samurai Sword's headquarters, Denji then encounters Samurai Sword again as the latter had a small talk with Denji about his motivations to kill Denji because he killed both of his grandfather and his accomplice's friends and human conscience that Denji's had while asking him to lay back so that he and his accomplices will kill him. When Denji refuses to do what Samurai Sword had said, the latter then decides to kill him mercilessly.
Denji defeating Samurai Sword.
During their fight, both Denji and Samurai Sword landed on a train full of civilians which causes them to be evacuated for safety. Seeing another civilian who didn't escape yet, Denji decides to protect her until Samurai Sword performs a dangerous move to cut Denji's hand which nearly killed the civilian and caused her to run away as Denji finds the move tad too excessive. Despite his hands being cut off and Samurai Sword asking Denji for forgiveness, Denji claims he still fight which angers Samurai Sword and ended up aiming at Denji again to kill him. However, Samurai Sword ends up slicing his body in half after his body was struck by Denji's head.
Samurai Sword being humiliated by Denji and Aki as a payback for Himeno's death.
Despite having his body sliced in half during the fight, it was revealed that Samurai Sword is still alive, recovering in his human form. It was revealed that Denji also wants to seek vengeance with Samurai Sword after the stunt that he and Akane pulled which killed Himeno and as a result, Denji decides to inflict a humiliating punishment towards him: attempting to deliver a swift kick to the groin, making it a competition in which the person who made Samurai Sword scream loudest wins. Initially, Aki, who came into the scene refused to join Denji's stupid competition due to needing Samurai Sword for interrogation. However, seeing that he was given Himeno's cigarette during his fight against Akane, Aki decides to change his mind and decides to participate with Denji to give Samurai Sword the humiliating punishment and he is then arrested off-screen due to the fight he had with Chainsaw Man which involved several innocents during the crossfire.
Samurai Sword returning as member of Makima's 5th Special Division.
Control Devil Arc[]
After escaping from his custody, he returned in Chapter 86 alongside the revived Reze and Quanxi as both three of them were brainwashed by Makima in order to defeat Denji while also becoming a former shell of himself as Makima manipulated his mind under the pretense that Makima has saved him over and over again from trouble in order to make him easily subservient towards her.
In Chapter 87, as Samurai Sword changed into his hybrid form to fight Denji alongside Makima's other brainwashed pawns, he was then thrown into other building alongside Quanxi during the fight. As Samurai Sword attempts to injure Chainsaw Man, it was all for naught as it was revealed that Samurai Sword was decapitated by Chainsaw Man at the end of the day.
Chainsaw Man Church Arc[]
Samurai Sword reappears, now working as a Public Safety Devil Hunter in the conflict against the Chainsaw Man Church, though still harbouring resentment towards Denji. Samurai Sword seemingly returned to his original personality alongside the other hybrids.
Powers and Abilities[]
- Gun proficiency: As a yakuza and a contractor with the Gun Devil, Samurai Sword is equipped with a pistol which he uses for mostly self defense or as a last resort against his opponents. It is implied in the story that his firearms are directly provided by the Gun Devil himself.
- Hybrid Transformation: As the Katana Hybrid, Samurai Sword is able to partially transform into the Katana Devil and use their demonic abilities. He can trigger his transformation by removing his right hand from his arm, revealing a blade underneath it.
- Swordsmanship: In his Hybrid form, Samurai Sword is equipped with katana blades in each of his arms, which he can use to attack enemies. He also can perform a move in which he rapidly dashes over the opponent, seemingly teleporting behind them, slicing them up with his blades.
- Regeneration: Samurai Sword is able to regenerate or heal himself by drinking blood and, because this, can sustain all kinds of lethal injuries, such as being beheaded and bisected.
- Immortality: As a hybrid, Samurai Sword is immortal and nearly unkillable as he's able to recover from the most fatal wounds. The only possible way to kill him is to completely destroy his Devil heart.
Trivia[]
- His real name remains a mystery, as it is never once said in the manga. While he is referred to as "Samurai Sword" in all official works that do name him, he is universally given the moniker of "Katana Man" by fans.
- Samurai Sword and Santa Claus are the only non-Devil main antagonists of an arc whose real names are left unknown.
External Links[]
- Samurai Sword on the Chainsaw Man Wiki
