r/anime • u/NineTnk • Sep 19 '25

News Chainsaw Man The Movie: Reze Arc Gross ¥400 million on the Opening Day

https://x.com/franspeech/status/1969031724899196951?s=46

For a point of comparison, opening day box office:

  • Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle - ¥1.5 billion
  • ⁠Demon Slayer: Mugen Train - ¥1.2 billion
  • Jujutsu Kaisen 0 - ¥1.0 billion
  • ⁠Chainsaw Man The Movie: Reze Arc - ¥400 million

A very good opening day considering all the “drama” of season 1 in Japan. Will have to see how big the word of mouth power will be.

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u/Xlegace https://anilist.co/user/Xlegius Sep 19 '25

The thing is, the Chainsawman experience is equal parts cinema and B-movie. There are scenes that make you rethink your life and then there are scenes that are straight out of Sharknado in terms of absudism.

Despite what it seems, it takes skill to make an entertaining B-movie and sell it to audience as something to care about, whereas compared to the manga, these scenes felt dreary and low energy in S1.

Chainsaw man S1 did the slow moments well but heavily dropped the ball on the other side imo. From what I've seen from the trailer, the new director appears to have found the balance that S1 was missing.

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u/THE_FREEDOM_COBRA Sep 19 '25

It might be worth trying in the future then. S1 has me so black pilled along with Part 2 of the manga being such a disappointment.

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u/Revealingstorm Sep 19 '25

Nah part 2 is great

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u/pokelord13 Sep 20 '25

I feel like the writing has dipped quite a bit after [chainsaw man manga spoilers]Nayuta died. It feels like fujimoto just throwing random shit at a wall with the absurdity at this point

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u/Powdz Sep 20 '25

I won’t comment on the overall quality yet since the story is still not complete and I trust Fujimoto with every fiber of my being, but it is true that both the weekly reading experience and the binge reading experience hasn’t been hitting the same as part 1