Chainsaw Man’s Back, and He’s Going To the Movies

While Chainsaw Man’s manga has been putting fans done the wringer the past fewer years, we’ve not heard overmuch astir its beauteous bully anime adaptation successful rather a while. Studio MAPPA’s been rather busy, but past year, it revealed it’d spell backmost to Denji and Pochita not with a caller season, but a movie—which got its archetypal look astatine this weekend’s Jump Festa.

Based connected the manga’s “Reze” arc, the movie finds Denji excited to yet spell connected a day with his brag Makima. It’s not agelong aft that helium finds himself crossing paths with a saccharine miss named Reze who seems to similar hanging retired with him, and the young (chainsaw) antheral can’t assistance but beryllium smitten with her. Unfortunately, it turns retired Reze’s intentions aren’t rather arsenic axenic arsenic they seemed, and she’s a Devil, conscionable similar him. As such, Denji’s gotta combat his caller crush and prevention Japan from the chaos she wants to navigator up. And portion of that volition impact riding a shark successful midair because…well, it’s Chainsaw Man, sometimes that’s conscionable portion of the job.

When MAPPA’s enactment looks good, it looks good, and this movie seems to beryllium nary exception. Between Chainsaw Man’s first play and Reze, the studio’s continually pushed itself—often literally, and successful worrying ways—and you tin spot the results of that effort here. The Reze movie’s expected to driblet successful 2025, successful what’s going to beryllium a beauteous large twelvemonth for MAPPA: successful summation to this, its different film Rose of Versailles is dropping, and it’ll beryllium releasing Lazarus for Adult Swim, the archetypal series Zenshu, and different play of Campfire Cooking successful Another World with My Absurd Skill. 

As for when Chainsaw Man’s getting a due play two, MAPPA didn’t say. But if caller seasons for Jujutsu Kaisen, Ranma 1/2, and Hell’s Paradise are coming, that hopefully can’t beryllium acold behind.

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