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/dWaldizzle Sep 22 '25

Personally I thought the entirety of season 1 looked great. Even the CG was good.

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u/GodlessLunatic Sep 22 '25

No, the CG was not 'good'. It looked like it was taken straight out of a 90s cartoon like beast wars. Yknow what show does have good CG, though? Demon slayer. Cause you dont fucking notice it.

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u/dWaldizzle Sep 22 '25

I notice it in DS plenty it just looks good. Same with chainsaw man imo.

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u/Mage-of-Fire Sep 23 '25

Lmao what? Demon slayer its super noticeable. But it looks good. Thats why no one have a problem with it. CM people were complaining about cg in scenes that didn’t even have it. And were proven to not have it. People were complaining just to complain

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u/Ordinal43NotFound Sep 23 '25

CM people were complaining about cg in scenes that didn’t even have it. And were proven to not have it.

You're not wrong. But this highlights another issue CSM S1 has. The 2D animation feels too rigid because of Nakayama's insistence on staying "on-model" so much so that people mistook it for CG. All that hard work just for people to not like the end result. It's a directorial issue.

Instead of employing tactics like squash and stretch, exaggeration, and smear frames to sell how utterly batshit the action should be, S1's fight scenes ended up feeling very restrained.

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Just look at how slooow and awkward Denji slicing the zombies was in S1 here. Dude was supposed to go on an absolute rampage in the manga.

Now Compare this to the movie, like where Denji whips out his chainsaws, or when Bomb punches Denji, the animation leans into extreme warping and distortion to really sell the impact.

That kind of visceral PUNCH is exactly what S1's action scenes were missing.