The official Twitter/X account for the Chainsaw Man anime series has unveiled an exclusive new poster visual for 4DX, MX4D, and Dolby Cinema screenings of Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc in Japan, which will begin on October 4, 2025. The film is scheduled to premiere in other Japanese theaters on September 19, 2025.
© 2025 MAPPA/CHAINSAW MAN PROJECT ©Tatsuki Fujimoto/SHUEISHA
The film recently received an earlier release date in North America, via Sony Pictures, on October 24, 2025, slightly ahead of its previous October 29, 2025 premiere date. It will also be released in select Asian countries between September 24, 2025 to September 26, 2025, and in parts of Europe, South America, and the Middle East on October 30, 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 handling the animation production.
Other staff include Yusuke Takeda as background art director, Naomi Nakano as color designer, Teppei Ito as composting director, Sota Yamazaki (co-chief animation director on Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2, character designer and animation director on Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines‘ second ED animation) and Shun (Chainsaw Man co-chief animation director) as sub-character designers, Shoichi (Chainsaw Man key animator and Ep 12 co-animation director) as main animator, Sota Shigetsugu (Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 key animator) as action animation director, Riku (Eve “Kororon” music video director, character designer et al. [as Ligton] as color scripter, and Daiki Watanabe (Chainsaw Man 3D setup and animation staff) and Masahiro Tamai (takt op.Destiny 3DCG modeling director) as 3DCG directors.
Meanwhile, the film’s main voice cast stars:
- • Kikunosuke Toya as Denji
- • 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
- • Reina Ueda as Reze
The main premise of Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc 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.
© 2025 MAPPA/CHAINSAW MAN PROJECT ©Tatsuki Fujimoto/SHUEISHA
The 12-episode Chainsaw Man TV anime series premiered in October 2022 and ran for one cour. Crunchyroll streamed the anime worldwide.
The first part of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s 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. Twenty-two tankobon volumes have been released as of September 2025.
Viz Media releases the Chainsaw Man 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!
