Chainsaw Man: Reze Movie Will Be An Explosive Hit!

After a year-long wait since the release of the first teaser, Chainsaw Man’s first ever movie gets an update.

During Jump Festa 2024 on December 22, 2024, Chainsaw Man would finally release the trailer for the Reze Arc movie that is set for release in 2025.

The trailer shows Reze, voiced by Reina Ueda, on a date with Denji, asking him if he prefers the town mouse or the country mouse, which is based on one of Aesop’s fables which talks about a proud town mouse bragging about his fine life to a content, simple country mouse.

We also see that Denji is on a theater date with Makima and their closeness prompts him to cheer outside the cinema.

However, Denji would realize that Reze is after and realizes that every girl who has been close to him only want to kill him (Power being the first case), showing off some spectacular action scenes, including Chainsaw Man’s fight with the Bomb Girl and the destruction of an entire building throughout the encounter.

We also see glimpses of Aki and the Angel Devil working together, and Denji riding on Beam the Shark Fiend to end the trailer on a manic note.

Alongside the trailer, we see two key visuals. The first key visual shows Chainsaw Man in the splatter style of the colored manga.

“CHAINSAW MAN THE MOVIE: REZE ARC” Key Visuals

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— Platon (@PlatonGhoulRE) December 22, 2024

The second poster features Reze and Denji on their date, the lighting of the scene saturating them in their distinct colors, with Reze’s purple and Denji’s yellow.

These show the two sides of Chainsaw Man: the zany and the mundane.

Staff List:

Director: Tatsuya Yoshihara
Screenwriter: Hiroshi Seko
Character Designer: Kazutaka Sugiyama 
Assistant Director: Masato Nakazono 
Sub Character Designer: Sota Yamazaki, Shun 
Main Animator: Shōichi 
Music: Kensuke Ushio 
Action Animation Director: Sōta Shigetsugu
Devil Designer: Riki Matsuura, Kiyotaka Oshiyama
Costume Designer: Aya Yamamoto
Art Director: Yūsuke Takeda
Color Designer: Naomi Nakano
Color Script: Riku
3DCG Director: Daiki Watanabe, Masahiro Tamai
Compositing Director: Teppei Ito
Editor: Masato Yoshitake
Distribution: TOHO
Production: MAPPA

Studio MAPPA (Attack on Titan: The Final Season, Jujutsu Kaisen) continues its run with the Chainsaw Man series by producing its first-ever movie outing.

Toho Animations (Jujutsu Kaisen 0, My Hero Academia franchise) acts as distributor.

Most of the Season 1 staff return to produce the movie.

Noticeably, the movie director will not be Ryu Nakayama, who has faced controversy over the stylistic choices of the anime, particularly from the vocal Japanese audience.

Replacing him is Season 1’s action director Tatsuya Yoshihara, who is notable for storyboarding and directing Episode 4: “Rescue” and Episode 10: “Bruised and Battered”.

This is quite visible through how most of the trailer maintains Nakayama’s sense of groundedness in mundane, calm scenes but there is more dynamic action animation in the intense scenes.

Famous for being the series director of Black Clover, Yoshihara had also been series director for Wisteria: Wand and Sword, which has also made an impression among anime audience due to the consistently strong animation quality of its action scenes.

Taking his place in the role of action animation director is Sōta Shigetsugu, better known as HoneHone, who has been credited for key animations for Episode 7 of Chainsaw Man and has done some iconic key animations for series such as Attack on Titan: The Final Season, Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2, and One Piece.

Makoto Nakazono, chief episode director of Season 1, occupies the role of assistant director, which is more or less the same position he held.

Kazutaka Sugiyama returns as character designer but notably follows the rougher outline Tatsuki Fujimoto applies for the design of his characters in the manga, even adding more details such as a mix of lighter and defined lines to make the thickness of the fabric more and fainter lines in the hair close ups to further mimic the manga art style.

New vs Old Artstyle pic.twitter.com/4iTQZFjG0w

— Chainsaw Man Daily Shots (@ChainsawShots) December 22, 2024

Sota Yamazaki, one of Season 1’s chief animation directors, is promoted to assistant character designer, alongside Shun.

Teppei Ito also returns as director of photography, continuing his growth in the industry, having also worked on Jujutsu Kaisen and has been praised for his constant improvements over his career.

Kiyotaka Oshiyama also returns as Devil Designer and is joined by Riki Matsuura, who has been an animation director on the show as well.

Yūsuke Takeda and Studio Bamboo (Vinland Saga) are still involved with the art direction and backgrounds, showing some stunning locations and backdrops to emphasize the ambience and mood of different scenes.

While there are clear changes on the color design and character design, the art direction remains mostly the same.

Kensuke Ushio returns as series composer as well, his most recent work being on Dandadan, a series by one of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s assistants, Yukinobu Tatsu.

About Chainsaw Man

Chainsaw Man is the hit manga written and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto, who previous authored Fire Punch (2016-2018) and has done multiple one-shot manga throughout his career, including Look Back, which received a highly-acclaimed anime movie adaptation in June 2024.

Published in December 3, 2018, Chainsaw Man began serialization at Weekly Shonen Jump before moving to the Shonen Jump Plus app and website for Part 2 on July 13, 2022.

Chainsaw Man is a manga divided into two parts or sagas, Part 1 that was released from December 3, 2018 to December 14, 2020 while Part 2 began in July 13, 2022 and is still ongoing.

Chainsaw Man tells the story of Denji, an impoverished youth, who gains the powers of a devil and becomes Chainsaw Man, the target of many devils who seek his heart.

As of December 22, 2024, the manga has reached a total of 19 volumes and sold a total of 30 million copies.

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