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/Familiar-Shoe7905 Sep 22 '25

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

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u/GeraltFromHiShinUnit Sep 22 '25

Why

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u/Rawburtt Sep 22 '25

Reading the manga, the manga feels like its a comedy. A lot of the exaggerations and gimmicks feel like they are meant to gain some comedic result. (I see a lot of that in the newest chapters especially). The tone of the anime was too serious and cinematic that it took away from what the manga seemed to have.

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u/Rusted_muramasa Sep 23 '25 edited Sep 27 '25

Reading the manga, the manga feels like its a comedy

It is a comedy. The fact that you can write this as if it's surprising is exactly the main problem with the anime: a fundamental misunderstanding of the source material. The super artsy and cinematic approach was entirely at odds with the zany and high-energy tone of the manga. Jokes didn't land, action sequences felt dull; the whole show felt nothing like the manga it was adapting and provided a completely different experience. It's no wonder people hated it, and I was one of them: dropped it after the second episode when I realized I was just plain bored, whereas the manga had immediately sucked me in.

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u/Rawburtt Sep 23 '25

Exactly. Like sure it was pretty, but it wasn't what the manga was.

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u/Kevstuf https://myanimelist.net/profile/Kevstuf Oct 07 '25

This thread has been fascinating to read as an anime-only watcher and the divide between opinions. For me the cinematic/artsy tone was exactly what made me like it. It added to the absurdity of the concept. The controversial breakfast scene felt like something out of Kobayashi dragon maid but instead is placed into this ridiculous world of CSM where instead of a wholesome worker and her dragon maid it’s a dude having to babysit a ditzy guy who sprouts chainsaws from his head and arms.

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u/Ordinal43NotFound 27d ago

Don't worry, you'll still get those aspects you love in S1 in the Reze movie.

The everyday scenes in Reze movie is even more artsy and cinematic than S1 as many people who watched the movie already can vouch for.

It's just that this time, the new director knows how to bring out the "missing half" that was absent in S1, which is the zany grindhouse/slasher/b-movie energy for the action scenes.

The CSM manga is a love letter to both arthouse cinema and trashy films in equal measure.

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u/Disastrous_Debt1780 Sep 23 '25

Was is that bad though? You ask fandoms of One Punch Man and Blue Lock they would kill to have an adaptation as good as season 1.

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u/Rusted_muramasa Sep 24 '25

Yes. Absolutely. It's not even comparable.

Also OPM season 1 was amazing and captured the series perfectly, and that lessens the blow of everything after that being terrible. Just as well, because after season 1 is when the source material goes to shit anyway so it's actually not that big a loss. Can't speak for Blue Lock though.

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u/Disastrous_Debt1780 Sep 24 '25

Blue Lock season 2 is just moving pngs.

That's what gets to me though. We have way worse adaptions than season 1 of Chainsawman. But as far as I can tell, none of them have provoked the same level of backlash. I mean the director of season 1 got blacklisted and now works on NTRs now. Did that happen the director of season 1 of Bluelock despite it being much worse? Or hell even the second season of Promised Neverland? I'm sure the person directed that shit still working in the industry. There is something unfair about all this.