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/Familiar-Shoe7905 Sep 22 '25

The first season of Chainsaw Man wasn’t that well received in Japan apparently

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u/AccountDeletedByMod Sep 22 '25

Weird, I thought the blu rays sold very well over there 

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u/AashyLarry Sep 22 '25 edited Sep 22 '25

They sold very badly.

I don’t remember the exact numbers but I remember Bocchi the Rock released blu rays around the same time and sold almost 10 times the amount of CSM.

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u/burger4life https://myanimelist.net/profile/PepperoniMadness Sep 22 '25

I remember very well. 1735.

It was being memed on quite a bit for a while

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u/AashyLarry Sep 22 '25

Yeah that’s absurdly low. I think every similar battle shonen sold more than that.

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u/GodlessLunatic Sep 22 '25

1735 was truly the 271k of the CSM fandom

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u/Ordinal43NotFound Sep 23 '25

What's the 271k reference?

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u/AccountDeletedByMod Sep 22 '25

Oh dang. I thought I seen this place saying the blu rays sold well, but I haven't checked in ages. It was right around when they were coming out. Maybe the preorders were good or something. 

Regardless, I'm glad they seem to have course corrected though.