If Mappa’s anime catalog were a zoo, Chainsaw Man would always be the gorilla—stoic, strange, and hypnotic in its stillness. You’d watch it for hours, transfixed by the uncanny way it made even the mundanity of its movements feel mythic, and lament its exhibit’s closure, leading your noble oaf to vanish for three agonizing years.

Finally, Chainsaw Man returns, but not as the beast you remember, but as something bespoke. Sleeker. Wilder. Tenderer. Louder. Drenched in technicolor rage, reshaped in its absence, and sharpened by years of tapping on the glass of its enclosure, begging it to wake. Still your beast. Just more.

Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc , out October 24 in theaters and IMAX, is that beast beating its chest in full force as a cinematic benchmark that every subsequ

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