Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc Unveils New Trailer at NYCC

#news #anime #movie October 13, 2025

by Tamara Lazic

Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc revealed a new trailer and an illustration by character designer by Kazutaka Sugiyama at the New York Comic Con panel dedicated to the movie. The new trailer features the second verse (or 70% version) of Maximum the Hormone's "Hawatari Nioku Centi," which was the TV anime's third ending theme song. The movie premieres on October 24 in North America.

Speaking at the panel were:

Masato Nakazono (Assistant Director, Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc)
Manabu Otsuka (Supervising Producer / President of MAPPA)
Yusuke Tannawa (CGI Producer)

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: MAPPA Channel
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