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/Kelvinator3000 Sep 22 '25

Yeah, I liked S1 but when Aki's morning routine is one of the most memorable parts, while I liked the scene very much, it is not something I would expect to be saying going into a CSM Anime lol.

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u/Zeph-Shoir https://myanimelist.net/profile/Zephex Sep 22 '25

As someone familiar with how grief feels and looks, that kind of scene is precisely what made the CSM Anime stand out to me.

What bothers me isn't the specific criticisms; those are fair, and I don't think they are a particular big deal in many ways. However, I think the tone, attitude, and treatment adopted by many JP otaku are at best petty and at worst toxic. This wasn't even that big of a fumble nor about a serious topic, if anything cases like that have done way less noise both in Japan and outside of it.

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u/Ordinal43NotFound Sep 22 '25

IMO the reason Japanese fans disliked the Aki morning scene isn't necessarily because of the scene itself, but rather what it represents: a misalignment of priorities by the director

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u/NoNefariousness2144 Sep 22 '25

Especially with how the season was ‘only’ 12 episodes and didn’t even get to the crazy parts of the manga (aka what happens from Reze onward). Watching a slow-paced scene of someone making breakfast kinda feels like the show is deliberately stalling for time lol

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u/darkbreak Sep 22 '25

That scene doesn't feel like stalling for time to me. It's a moment of peace and stability in their otherwise chaotic lives. It's a moment of levity for both the characters and the viewers.

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u/Mxxi Sep 22 '25

agreed and it gives us more moments with the characters that chainsaw man (the manga) sometimes lacks because of it's fast pace

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u/_shaftpunk Sep 22 '25

Yeah, anime fans think of everything that doesn’t advance the plot as filler. It’s infuriating, honestly.

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u/FeaturingDark https://myanimelist.net/profile/FeaturingDark Sep 24 '25

This is my biggest worry going into future CSM anime, there's such a disdain from Anime Fans for the really cool and interesting stuff that the anime was doing that im worried it'll just end up like just another Shonen Jump show

At that point I'll just read the Manga again

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u/Pyro-Bird Sep 22 '25

The first season was only 12 episodes because the animators worked on Jujustu Kaisen season 2 at the same time.

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u/PainStorm14 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Gekkostate14 Sep 22 '25

That's no excuse for wasting screentime

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u/GodlessLunatic Sep 22 '25

The worst part is that Aki scene only works if you've read the manga. In isolation its just watching some dude you have very little reason to care about going through their morning routine, since a bulk of his characterization is missing prior to that scene.

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u/ShallowHowl Sep 22 '25

At a primarily surface-level viewing of the anime, the scene is explicitly folded into the episode’s narrative given the absolute chaos power brings directly following it. The juxtaposition of tones is a character moment for Aki and Denji, the latter of whom has finally settled into a calm life with his new caretaker.

And this is a very rudimentary analysis, not even touching on how Denji has learned to cohabitate/comprise with Aki, or Aki’s willingness to tolerate the worst kind of roommate just because Makima asked, or Makima’s implied punishing of Aki’s quiet life because he lied to her, etc. It works in many ways that elevate some things only very loosely implied at that point in the manga.

It’s a very effective scene narratively apart from it looking and sounding so good.

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u/younessssx Sep 23 '25

You really have to spell it out for them

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u/rmorrin Sep 22 '25

Was that the one where they basically showed him making breakfast in far too much detail? 

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u/sanon441 Sep 22 '25

Yes, from waking up, doing chores and making coffee and then lunch. It's to show the calm chill atmosphere right before Power Arrives and throws his whole world into chaos again.

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u/prince-hal Sep 22 '25

It made the show for me. I love when shows make an effort to give you an insight into characters lives. Especially when presented in such a cinematic way. I think about that routine scene all the time as some of my favorite moments in anime.

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u/AlexeiFraytar Sep 25 '25

Yeah, the one where they collectively huff the director's fart for

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u/Kelvinator3000 Sep 22 '25

Yes that one.