Recaps

Meng Fan took Denji from a shack and debt into a string of devil hunts, then helped him become Chainsaw Man and joined Public Safety with him. The new team investigated gruesome ramen shop murders and settled into Aki Hayakawa’s apartment, where Meng Fan explained the limits of his unusual revival.

• Meng Fan offered to help Denji escape his debt and become a hero, then joined him to hunt the Cucumber Devil and freed the farmer’s wife from its belly.
• Meng Fan took Denji and Pochita to the city, where Denji rescued Pochita after he fell from the car, and the pair fought the Mouse Devil and the Headless Devil.
• After Meng Fan told Denji he had arranged Pochita’s dream, the Yakuza attacked them at Denji’s burned shack, and Denji killed the Yakuza Boss and Ino before collapsing beside Pochita.
• Meng Fan revived Denji by making Pochita his heart, and Denji transformed into Chainsaw Man to fight the Zombie Devil’s horde.
• Makima recruited Meng Fan and Denji into Special Division 4, and Meng Fan told Aki Hayakawa and Himeno that he was the Dream Devil.
• Meng Fan, Aki Hayakawa, and Denji killed the Fly Devil, though Denji accidentally cut Meng Fan in half, and Meng Fan later revived through his dream power.
• The team investigated two ramen shops where victims were stripped to their bones and found matching strange apples as ingredients disappeared.
• Power joined Aki Hayakawa’s household with Denji and Meng Fan, who told Himeno and Aki that dreams could revive him but that he was not invincible.

Meng Fan led the hunters through the Morino Hotel’s Eternity Devil trap, then raced to find the Poppy Devil before Makima’s deadline for Power. He killed the Poppy Devil and learned Natsume Fan Zhi had set him up on behalf of the Moore Family.

• Meng Fan joined Denji, Power, and the others at the Morino Hotel, where the Eternity Devil trapped them on the eighth floor and demanded Denji’s heart.
• Meng Fan returned to rescue Aki Hayakawa and Denji, then kept Denji fighting the Eternity Devil until Kobeni stabbed its heart and killed it.
• Meng Fan investigated three red apples found with twenty skeletons and concluded they were addictive, while Power became dependent on them and was confined.
• Makima gave Power three days to recover or face execution, so Meng Fan agreed to help find the Poppy Devil and secretly traded with Natsume Fan Zhi for its location.
• With Power’s deadline approaching, Meng Fan entered a nightclub and confronted the Poppy Devil, which had lured him there to recruit him and had no control over his mind.
• Meng Fan killed the Poppy Devil, put its controlled victims to sleep, and pretended to be the devil to fool the club’s gunmen.
• Meng Fan confronted Natsume Fan Zhi, who denied betraying him but secretly identified the Moore Family as the force behind the setup.

Meng Fan solved the Nara disappearances, then fought Makima and returned from the dream space after his apparent death. Back in Tokyo, he helped Denji and Power recover, supported Arai and Kobeni, and brought Denji and Power to an underground boxing club.

• Meng Fan rescued the missing women from the Mirror Devil’s space, exposed the devil’s connection to mirrors, and returned to Nara with the survivors.
• Meng Fan joined the Fourth and Third Divisions’ gathering, where he confronted Makima about her plans and fought her at a hot spring until she collapsed.
• Denji carried Makima from the wreckage while Meng Fan remained in the dream space, and Natsume Fan Zhi later told Denji that Meng Fan would return with a new body.
• Meng Fan returned, rescued Denji after Katana Man defeated him, killed Akane Sawatari, and revived Denji with his blood.
• Makima assigned Denji and Power to train with Kishibe, while Meng Fan let Arai and Kobeni remain as his students and made Makima keep his secret.
• Kishibe trained Denji and Power for a month, while Meng Fan filmed a horror movie at Aki Hayakawa’s home and learned that Aki had contracted with the Future Devil.
• Arai revealed his Cow Devil contract and Kobeni demonstrated her knife skills, while Himeno and Arai offered to help Kobeni negotiate her wages with her parents.
• Meng Fan took Denji and Power to an underground boxing club, where Power declared she would compete and Meng Fan told them to leave the guards half-dead.

Meng Fan defeated devils, protected Denji and his companions, and drew Makima into a dream where he forced her to suffer. He later explained his Corpse Devil contract and announced plans to write The Three-Body Problem.

• Meng Fan and Power defeated Mayser, who had contracted with the Muscle Devil, while Denji helped collect the spectators’ money.
• A Moore Family member offered Meng Fan a place in the War of Devils, and Meng Fan negotiated a large advance and a ten-billion-dollar prize for winning.
• Meng Fan finished A Nightmare on Elm Street, while Makima took Denji to the movies and Denji later met Reze at her café.
• Meng Fan helped Denji defeat the Cilantro Devil, then brought the group to Tokyo St. Mary’s Cathedral and learned that foreign hunters were coming for Denji’s heart.
• A masked attacker and the Tiger Devil’s assault on Reze’s café led Meng Fan to kill the Tiger Devil, while Arai and Aki Hayakawa fought alongside him.
• The Peeping Devil attacked Meng Fan’s household, but Denji, Power, and Aki Hayakawa defeated it, and Meng Fan absorbed its corpse.
• Meng Fan killed the Immortal Three Brothers and the Car Devil, then helped rescue Kobeni and return her injured companions to Public Safety.
• Makima shot Meng Fan in a secluded room, but he drew her into a prepared dream and used Denji’s shock collar to make her endure pain before she escaped.
• Meng Fan explained the side effects of his Corpse Devil contract and said he planned to write The Three-Body Problem.