Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc Unveils Opening Video Featuring "Iris Out" by Kenshi Yonezu
Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc movie got an animated opening video featuring the theme song "IRIS OUT" by Kenshi Yonezu. Animator Kamiya Yuki, who previously worked on the anime, directed and storyboarded the video.
Kenshi Yonezu drew the album art for the song, which was released bundled with the ending theme song "JANE DOE." Yonezu is performing the ending theme with Hikaru Utada.
Titular Reze was also featured on a new visual, released after the premiere of the movie in Japan (September 19). The movie is coming worldwide by the end of the year.
Studio MAPPA is returning to animate, after previously working on the first season of the Chainsaw Man adaptation under Ryu Nakayama’s direction. Tatsuya Yoshihara is directing the movie, with Kazutaka Sugiyama as the character designer and Kiyotaka Oshiyama, who is credited for creature designs. Kensuke Ushio is composing the music. The staff includes:
- Screenwriter: Hiroshi Seko
- 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
MAPPA channel describes the plot of the Reze Arc movie 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 main cast includes:
- Kikunosuke Toya / Ryan Colt Levy as Denji
- Tomori Kusunoki / Suzie Yeung as Makima
- Shogo Sakata / Reagan Murdock as Aki Hayakawa
- Fairouz Ai / Sarah Wiedenheft as Power
- Mariya Ise / Katelyn Barr as Himeno
- Kenjiro Tsuda / Jason Douglas as Kishibe
- Karin Takahashi / Bryn Apprill as Kobeni Higashiyama
- Taku Yashiro / Jarrod Greene as Hirokazu Arai
- Shiori Izawa / Lindsay Seidel as Pochita
- Reina Ueda / Alexis Tipton as Reze
The Chainsaw Man anime is adapting the manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto, currently serialized on the Shonen Jump+ platform. The series was initially launched in the Weekly Shonen Jump magazine in 2018. In English, it's available on the MANGA Plus app, with VIZ Media is publishing the volumes.
Source: Official Website
©Tatsuki Fujimoto / Shueisha, MAPPA
