The ‘Chainsaw Man’ Film Is Hitting Theaters Even Earlier Than Anticipated

Animation studio Mappa‘s upcoming theatrical launch of Chainsaw Man: The Movie – Reze Arc has bumped up its premiere date. Now, the film arc continuation of the 2022 anime will hit theaters—together with choose IMAX screens—a number of days sooner than initially scheduled. The movie will now premiere in theaters on October 24.

This date adjustment got here with the discharge of a brand new English dub trailer of the movie. The story, created by Tatsuki Fujimoto (Look Back), follows Denji, a down-on-his-luck younger man who, after fusing together with his chainsaw-headed pet canine, Pochita, beneficial properties the power to rework into essentially the most feared satan of all, Chainsaw Man. The sequence is ready in a world the place ideas that humanity fears, resembling weapons, warfare, and blood, bodily manifest as humanoid devils. The extent of common worry surrounding these ideas determines the ability of those devils.

After being lured into enlisting within the Satan Hunter Affiliation by its enigmatic chief, Makima, Denji is thrust right into a sequence of battles with devils as he grapples with the warped contours of his personal hierarchy of wants. Excessive on his record is chasing romantic love in a world formed by violence, management, and the looming arrival of the Gun Satan.

Reze Arc, which picks up after the anime’s season finale, sees Denji run into a brand new lady on the block named Reze, sending the lover boy in a tizzy as he weighs whether or not he likes her greater than he likes Makima. Sadly for Denji, his meet-cute with Reze offers method to him discovering she’s really the Bomb Satan.

To make issues worse, she’s simply as loopy about Denji as he’s about her and can cease at nothing to get him to hitch her aspect with the Devils, even when it means reworking Tokyo into an all-out warzone.

The English dub of the movie will see the return of the Crunchyroll voice actors, together with Ryan Colt Levy as Denji and Suzie Yeung as Makima. The movie can even have theme songs “Iris Out,” by Kenshi Yonezu, and “Jane Doe” by the incomparable J-Pop regent, Hikaru Utada, in addition to an prolonged model of nu steel/hardcore punk band Most the Hormone’s outro music, “Hawatari Nioku Centi.”

Crunchyroll additionally uploaded a series recap video to get followers on top of things with the film. The useful recap represents one effort by Mappa and Crunchyroll to make sure of us are prepared for Reze Arc.

One other is a compilation launch of the anime to get individuals hyped for the movie with out having any head-scratching questions on, say, why Chainsaw Man is driving the again of a shark right into a storm to battle a woman with a missile as a head. The two compilation films are already taking part in in Japan, with plans to hit the U.S. and elsewhere later this month.

Japanese language followers additionally received one thing to get pleasure from within the assortment of Chainsaw Man information, with a brand new trailer for the movie that includes new scenes of Denji and Reze’s battle and his date with Makima.

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Within the lead-up to the movie’s launch, Mappa president Manabu Ohtsuka and vp Hiroya Hasegawa spoke to Anime News Network at Anime Expo 2025. Of their sit-down interview, the presidents gave an replace on the present’s future—kind of. It’s not but clear whether or not the studio will proceed its adaptation of the anime arcs in theatrical codecs encompassing the manga or in episodic seasons.

“We’re all the time fascinated about what’s one of the simplest ways to ship Chainsaw Man to the followers who love the franchise. That’s what’s all the time on our minds,” Ohtsuka stated. “However how we’re going to do it, if we’re going to do it, we’ll announce it once we announce it. We are able to’t speak about it.”

“As Ohtsuka-san talked about, [Reze Arc] is a continuation of the primary season. We’re being loyal to the unique content material. We requested ourselves, ‘How are we going to do it?’ We thought that the cinema was one of the simplest ways to ship the Reze Arc. After Reze, if we’re going to create extra Chainsaw Man, we’ll in all probability comply with from there,” Hasegawa stated. “After which we’ll reevaluate and assume, ‘Are we going to do it as a sequence? Are we going to do it as a movie?’ It’s one other query we’ll be asking ourselves at the moment.”

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The movie’s credit contains the next:

Seeing as how Mappa is already busy with Jujutsu Kaisen‘s upcoming arc, Culling Game, this coming January, in addition to its remake of Ranma 1/2 second season premiering on Netflix this October, and the forthcoming second season of Hell’s Paradise—a manga from Fujimoto’s Fire Punch assistant, Yuji Kaku—it’s comprehensible that it’d take a beat to attend and see about reception for Reze Arc earlier than formally saying what lies forward for Chainsaw Man.

Within the meantime, Chainsaw Man: The Film – Reze Arc hits theaters October 24.

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