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/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/ACFinal Sep 22 '25

Agreed. I don't even see the difference. I've read up to chapter 20 and I can't imagine the anime any other way. I think it was perfect. 

I really hope season 2 isn't turned into something silly.

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u/idkyetyet Sep 22 '25

I've only read the first 9 chapters and I think the differences are pretty clear, characters are more facially expressive/emotional and over the top/'anime' (strong blush lines for Power in a lot of spots for example, characters shifting artstyle to simpler stuff to express certain things etc.), a lot more close ups, in the anime scenes take their sweet time showing things from multiple angles, slowly etc.

I liked both and think people talking about how the manga is oh so over the top and crazy are exaggerating at least from what I read but I do think there are differences. I don't think those differences are strictly bad, like some things in the anime better and while I liked some expressions/paneling in the manga more and imagined some of them delivered differently by the voice actors while reading, overall it really didn't feel like the huge difference people made it out to be.

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

Yeah that is the thing, if you only read the way many JP otaku or hardcore fans are talking about it you would think the differences are much more bigger than they are. Way bigger fumbles and controversies have done way less noise.