Sony Pictures Entertainment announced Chainsaw Man The Movie: Reze Arc will head to theaters on October 29 in the US. Before the US premiere, Chainsaw Man The Movie: Reze Arc will head to Japan first on September 19, followed by other markets worldwide beginning on September 24.
#ChainsawManMovie is coming exclusively to theatres October 29. pic.twitter.com/Je02zmQ5nm
— Sony Pictures (@SonyPictures) April 1, 2025
MAPPA returns to animate Chainsaw Man The Movie: Reze Arc. The new movie will adapt the events of the Reze Arc, which is the second arc of the manga series. Reina Ueda will voice Reze in the new movie.
The staff of the anime film includes:
- Original Story: Tatsuki Fujimoto (Serialized in Shueisha’s “Shonen Jump+”)
- Director: Tatsuya Yoshihara
- Screenwriter: Hiroshi Seko
- Character Designer: Kazutaka Sugiyama
- Assistant Director: Masato Nakazono
- Sub Character Designer: Souta Yamazaki, Shun
- Main Animator: Shoichi
- Action Animation Director: Sota Shigetsugu
- Devil Designer: Riki Matsuura, Kiyotaka Oshiyama
- Costume Designer: Aya Yamamoto
- Art Director: Yusuke Takeda
- Color Designer: Naomi Nakano
- Color Script: Riku
- 3DCG Director: Daiki Watanabe, Masahiro Tamai
- Compositing Director: Teppei Ito
- Editor: Masato Yoshitake
- Music: Kensuke Ushio
- Distribution: TOHO
- Production: MAPPA
The cast includes:
- Denji: Kikunosuke Toya
- Pochita: Shiori Izawa
- Makima: Tomori Kusunoki
- Aki: Shogo Sakata
- Power: Fairouz Ai
- Kobeni: Karin Takahashi
- Beam: Natsuki Hanae
- The Violence Fiend: Yuuya Uchida
- Angel Devil: Maaya Uchida
- Reze: Reina Ueda
Lastly, all 12 episodes of the first season of the Chainsaw Man anime are available to stream right now on Crunchyroll. Here’s a story synopsis for the film, via TOHO:
Denji became “Chainsaw Man,” a boy with a devil’s heart, and is now part of Special Division 4’s devil hunters. After a date with Makima, the woman of his dreams, Denji takes shelter from the rain. There he meets Reze, a girl who works in a café.
