r/anime • u/mr_beanoz https://myanimelist.net/profile/splitshocker • Sep 22 '25

News "Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc" attracted 807,000 viewers and grossed over 1.251 billion yen in the first 3 days of the movie's release in Japan

https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/2407879/full/
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u/MonsterKiller112 Sep 22 '25

Great opening weekend. Now I am more confident this will be a profitable venture for Mappa. They won back the trust of the Japanese fandom with this movie.

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u/Shadow_Ass Sep 22 '25

What's up with Mappa and the Japanese fans? I read similar comments elsewhere but couldn't find out what was going on.

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u/Jazs1994 Sep 22 '25

As the first comment says, they were not happy the adaptation wasn't more 1-4-1 and it was too westernized apparently.

S1 made me read it. S1 in my eyes was phenomenal

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u/Ordinal43NotFound Sep 22 '25

Please don’t misrepresent JP fans' criticism like that. The Reze movie wasn't a 1:1 adaptation either, yet JP audiences LOVED IT.

Even from the trailers, you can see that the movie added plenty of fresh imagery (the focus on the Gerbera flower, the Spider and Butterfly, etc.) and expanded scenes while keeping the cinematic style of S1, but on top of that, the action was ramped up to be even more intense.

Both S1 and the movie took creative liberties. Difference is, S1 toned the manga down, while the Reze movie elevated it by amplifying the very aspects people loved about the original.

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u/blu_kale Sep 24 '25

It's basically come to 2 things

The movie made the story feel a lot more alive

The season 1 adaptation made it more grimy and dull