During its presentation at CinemaCon, Sony Pictures announced that it has acquired worldwide theatrical rights for Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc and will screen the anime film in the U.S. and more than 80 countries worldwide on October 29, 2025.
Toho will premiere the film in Japan on September 19, 2025.
Tatsuya Yoshihara (Chainsaw Man action director, Black Clover series director [later chief director], Wistoria: Wand and Sword) is directing the anime film, with Kazutaka Sugiyama as character designer, Hiroshi Seko as screenwriter, Aya Yamamoto as costume designer, Kensuke Ushio as music composer, and Kiyotaka Oshiyama and Riki Matsuura (Fire Force Season 2 co-main animator) as devil designers. MAPPA is in charge of the animation production.
The main voice cast for Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc includes:
- • Kikunosuke Toya as Denji
- • Reina Ueda as Reze
- • Tomori Kusunoki as Makima
- • Shogo Sakata as Aki
- • Fairouz Ai as Power
- • Shiori Izawa as Pochita
- • Karin Takahashi as Kobeni
- • Natsuki Hanae as Beam
- • Yuya Uchida as The Violence Fiend
- • Maaya Uchida as Angel Devil
Meanwhile, the synopsis for the film is described as:
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.
The Chainsaw Man TV anime series premiered in October 2022 and ran for one cour, containing 12 total episodes.
The first part of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s original manga series ran from December 3, 2018 to December 14, 2020 in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump. The current second part began serialization on the Shonen Jump+ app and website on July 13, 2022. Nineteen tankobon volumes have been released as of December 2024.A 20th volume will be released on April 4, 2025.
Viz Media releases the manga in English for North America, and describes the main synopsis as:
Denji’s a poor young man who’ll do anything for money, even hunting down devils with his pet devil Pochita. He’s a simple man with simple dreams, drowning under a mountain of debt. But his sad life gets turned upside down one day when he’s betrayed by someone he trusts. Now with the power of a devil inside him, Denji’s become a whole new man — Chainsaw Man!
Source: press release
