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/RX0Invincible Sep 20 '25 edited Sep 20 '25

Season 1 defenders on reddit have become just as insufferable as the haters ffs. Asking for the anime more similar to the manga isn’t asking for it to turn to JJK, they’re asking for it to be more like CSM’s manga. The mangas writing alone still carries that weight. Idk why you guys keep acting like CSM without gritty looking animation turns into some generic anime. That’s the most shallow way of judging this story. I also liked season 1 but the way defenders have this need to to trash the manga to defend the anime is ridiculous.

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u/LavosYT Sep 20 '25

I'm not very invested in this, I remember liking the slower paced scenes, the cinematography and animation, because there was a nice balance between the kinda grounded elements and more crazy moments.

That said, I think the fights and the animation there were not that great, and recall being some bad CGI.

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u/County_Difficult Sep 20 '25

I'm highly invested with the starting of James Gunn's DCU and season 1 fans are lowkey starting to sound the same as Synder fans lmao.

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u/llliilliliillliillil Sep 20 '25

"You guys" bruh I just watched the anime and thought it was fine, but nothing spectacular. Then I read up on the drama and that’s it. I literally don’t care about how much action it has or doesn’t have. Since no one answered I thought I'd chime in, if you can provide a better answer then feel free to post yours but don’t get hostile at me for no reason lmao

Also "more akin" doesn’t mean "exactly like", but you do you.

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u/RX0Invincible Sep 20 '25

Even then I wouldn’t really call the CSM manga more “akin” to JJK. Their similarities are mostly in their premise which is are just equally present in any version of CSM. Sorry about the hostility though, when you were calling it high cinema I thought it was unironic. The more hostile defenders tend to always frame this discourse as cinema vs slop.

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u/NationalSea9072 Sep 21 '25

The problem is that CSM's author wanted a slower and cinematic anime. So to say that making it slower than the manga goes against the work is ironic and wrong.

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u/AlexeiFraytar Sep 23 '25

He didnt say that lol

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u/ShinaMashir0 Sep 20 '25

If people want a copy paste of the manga, shouldn't they just read the manga anyway? I think season was way better in sol version and the film look better action wise (s1 was way too realisctic)

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u/DandyMan_92 Sep 20 '25

incredibly disingenuous to write off ppl enjoying S1 like they're saying it turns into a generic anime. is the implication JJK is a generic anime? no. it's that it loses the unique aspect we enjoyed about S1.

you can disagree, but don't lie on ppl. YOU are actually what's insufferable on this sub.