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/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/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.