Chainsaw Man the Movie: Reze Arc Trailer, Cast, Latest News, & Everything We Know So Far (2024)

Since it first began airing in October 2022, Chainsaw Man has taken the anime world by storm with its compelling and high-stakes action plot. The dark shonen fantasy series, adapted from the original manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto, currently has one season consisting of twelve episodes that concluded in December 2022. The series follows main character Denji, a teenage boy with a mysterious chainsaw power that he uses to kill scary creatures called devils.

Chainsaw Man is widely appreciated for its jaw-dropping action and fight sequences that redefine the constraints of shonen, as well as its fantastic and in-depth character development. Denji is a hilariously interesting main hero and every other character also possesses an intriguing backstory and distinctive, realistic personality.

MAPPA, the studio responsible for truly stunning animation projects like Attack on Titan and Jujutsu Kaisen, produced the first season of the anime with stunning results. The series' animation is perfectly fluid and beautifully colorful, adapting the pages of the manga perfectly into a video format and bringing beloved characters to life.

The Latest Chainsaw Man News Following the Critically Acclaimed First Season

A Chainsaw Man Film Is on the Way, in Lieu of a Second Season

Fans have been eager for more Chainsaw Man content ever since season one, and, thankfully, their wishes will soon come true. At the 2024 Jump Festa event, an exciting project was revealed, shocking fans of the series. A film is currently in the works, entitled Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc, much to the delight of eager viewers anticipating the next on-screen installment of the popular action shonen. This movie will take the place of a traditional season two, covering the manga's Bomb Girl Arc in movie format instead. Reze Arc will cover from chapter #40 to chapter #52 of the manga.

Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc's Release Date Has Not Been Confirmed

There Is No Official Release Date at This Time, Only Speculation

Much to the dismay of the fandom, there is no current official release date or window for Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc at this time. However, much speculation surrounds the incredibly anticipated film. Many of these guesses are based on MAPPA's past release schedules. Jujutsu Kaisen season one was released in October 2020, and the feature film, Jujutsu Kaisen 0, came around 2 years later, in March 2022. Based on this information, since Chainsaw Man's first season came out in October 2022, the Reze Arc film may have a late 2024 or early 2025 release date, although this is purely speculation.

MAPPA has been very busy lately with truly ambitious and time-consuming projects, like Attack on Titan's fourth and final season that aired November 2023 and Jujutsu Kaisen's second season that aired July 2023 to December 2023. Both of these new releases concluded fairly recently, so it is reasonable that it may be quite a while before Reze Arc hits screens. However, looking at past release schedules provides hope that perhaps the film will come sometime in the next year or two to offer fans an all-new look into the world of Chainsaw Man after over two years.

The Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc Trailer Hints at Denji and Reze’s Relationship

The Brief Teaser Trailer Depicts Denji With This New Character, Reze, in Romantic Scenes

A very brief teaser trailer for the film was posted on MAPPA's YouTube channel six months ago. Chainsaw Man manga fans will not be surprised by Reze's appearance in the short video, but for anime only viewers, she is an brand-new and exciting character. The trailer indicates that the upcoming film will detail her and Denji's newfound bond and later romantic relationship. The video does not offer many plot details aside from this basic premise, featuring a fairly lighthearted montage of tender moments between the pair. A longer, extended version of the trailer is likely on the way as well.

Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc Cast Contains Familiar Season 1 Voice Actors

These Talented Actors Will Return Once More to Reprise Their Roles

Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc's cast is essentially the same as the anime cast, with these familiar voice actors returning to bring fans the voices they grew to cherish and appreciate in the anime's first season. Some of these voice actors include Kikunosuke Toya as Denji, Fairouz Ai as Power, Tomori Kusunoki as Makima, Shogo Sakata as Aki Hayakawa, and Shiori Izawa as Pochita, as well as a new actor, Reina Ueda as Reze. These previous actors did a phenomenal job capturing the characters' unique personalities and expressing them in season one, so it'll be exciting to see them reprise their roles.

Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc Story Details Explained

The Romantic Story of Denji and Reze Will Be Told in This Film

The Reze Arc teaser trailer is fairly vague and provides little more than a brief snapshot of the two primary characters that will be focused on in the film, Denji, the previously established main character, and Reze, a new romantic interest who has yet to be introduced. The film will follow the manga storyline, covering twelve chapters of the story from chapter 40 to 52, in an arc entitled the Bomb Girl arc. Denji and Reze's relationship will be explored in-depth, and the narrative will contain many unexpected twists and turns that manga readers will certainly already be familiar with.

Anime film adaptations are steadily growing more popular, especially in the past few years. Immensely popular and award-winning selections like Jujutsu Kaisen 0 and Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train have proven that anime films have just as great a chance of becoming a success as their non-animated counterparts. The choice to tell Chainsaw Man's second season story in a movie rather than an episodic format was a surprising choice, but with a star-studded cast, truly talented writer, and one of the best animation studios behind the project, it is sure to be incredible.

Chainsaw Man

Animation

Action

Horror

Chainsaw Man is an adaptation of the popular manga written by Tatsuki Fujimoto, airing on Crunchyroll in the west. Denji, a young man working tirelessly for the Yakuza to pay off the debt, his late father saddled him with hunts devils with the assistance of his little friend Pochita, also known as the Chainsaw Devil. When the Yakuza kill him to gain a contract with another devil, Pochita saves Denji, and the two forge a contract, allowing Denji to gain revenge against the Yakuza. Now sought after by an agency known as the Public Safety Division, Denji joins a team led by the mysterious Makima. Denji now relentlessly hunts Devils in service of his newfound crush, Makima, slowly reaching their ultimate goal of facing the ultimate Devil.

Cast

Ryan Colt Levy , Fairouz Ai , Sarah Wiedenheft , Suzie Yeung , Reagan Murdock

Release Date

October 11, 2022

Seasons

1

Streaming Service(s)

Hulu

Writers

Tatsuki Fujimoto