The Chainsaw Man movie has made me want to be 16 years old again so badly that it even hurts.

As I explained to you a few days ago in 3DJuegos, I’m older than the sand on the beach and I just arrived in the Chainsaw Man universeand I turbo flip. I know I’m an older man, but I’m still easily impressed by pyrotechnics, characters with excess charisma and well-conducted cockiness. Chainsaw Man: Reze’s Arc goes well enough of all of thatthe film that continues the first season of the anime and that promises to blow up the eyes, brains and hearts of the fans who come to the theaters to see it.

The film makes it clear that MAPPA Studios has understood the essence of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga and has taken her to the limit. The story picks up right where the first season left off, featuring Denji caught between his devotion to Makima and the new presence eroticfestiva that shakes your world: Pray. What seems like a teenage romance quickly becomes a terrain of betrayal, danger and spectacular explosions, mixing humor, drama and violence in an audiovisual cocktail that leaves little respite for the brave viewer.

Chainsaw Man: The Reze Arc adapts one of the most remembered episodes of the manga, covering chapters 39 to 52 and collected in volumes 6 and 7. The film, directed by Tatsuya Yoshiharaaction director of the anime’s first season, and written by Hiroshi Sekopremiered in Japan in September 2025 and arrives in Spain on October 24. Prior to the premiere, MAPPA launched a campaign of reruns and marathons of the original series, ensuring that both established fans and newcomers were ready for the experience.

The importance of this preparation is not merely promotional: The film demands that the audience arrive with a minimum of context; there are no lengthy recaps or concessions to the viewer’s patience. MAPPA wants you to immerse yourself immediately, and it achieves this thanks to a rhythm that alternates delicacy and brutality, tenderness and gore, in a mix that reflects the essence of Fujimoto’s work.

Audiovisual viscerality and feverish montage

The film deploys a staging that privileges sensory impact over leisurely explanation: he grabs you by the ear and, without letting go, jumps out the window while everything explodes around you and people shout things in Japanese and the speakers thunder with a soundtrack that is authentic nitroglycerin. Animation is an authentic exercise in kinetic violence that turn each sequence into an accelerated heartbeat. The final part of the film is practically a sensory assault, I’ll warn you. MAPPA has shown that it knows how to play with intensity. The first half of the film explores the budding relationship between Denji and Reze with saturated colors, romantic scenes and slow pacing.

The second half, however, becomes a whirlwind of combat, things that jump through the air, impossible jumps, martial arts, explosions and creatures that defy physics and common sense. Yet, the animation is not perfect: The mix of traditional 2D styles with CGI in certain sequences leaves a lot to be desired, but it reminds us that we are not facing a millionaire Western studio or a Ghibli that seeks absolute technical perfection, but rather a work that prioritizes emotion over visual neatness and that gives everything in its final stretch.

Love, dynamite and the logic of adolescent delirium

Reze’s arc concentrates simple themes taken to the extreme: desire, manipulation, and the naivety of Denji, a raw and brutally honest protagonist who only helps if there is something to be gained or if he is tricked into believing there is. This moral simplicity allows the film to function like a teenage dream: first love, hormones and presumably the consumption of more cans of energy drinks than those accepted by the Ministry of Health (which, due to its high caffeine and sugar content, recommends not exceeding 160 milligrams of caffeine to avoid adverse effects, which is equivalent to approximately half a can of a standard energy drink with 32 mg of caffeine per 100 ml.)

The story mixes the romantic with the destructive, attraction with betrayal, and the result is a story that transforms adolescent naivety into cinematic catastrophe. All in all, it reminded me of my adolescence, although fortunately I was not in danger of jumping into the air. But above all It has made me wish I could enjoy everything again like I did when I was 16 years old.because I think everything was more intense and, in some way, more real. I don’t want to get nostalgic, but if I liked this movie at my age, if I see it at 16 it will blow my mind.

Saying that the film resembles a delirious teenage dream is no coincidence. The cadence and intensity are reminiscent of a brain full of feverish ideas, with emotional exaltation, dreamlike logic and romantic grotesquery mixed without pause. On the other hand, the chemical sensation it causes has a lot of sugar rush. This turns the experience into a bullet train of stimuli that does not allow restan emotional vertigo that mixes adrenaline and tenderness with the same ease with which Denji changes from a smile to a grimace of pain. As a tip, Kensuke Ushio’s soundtrack, with pieces like Typhoon Devil or the already emblematic Iris Out, amplifies every moment, making you spend half the movie bouncing in your seat.

Warning for clueless viewers

For those who arrive without context, the film is a harsh double blow. There are no concessions to those who do not come with homework done at home. If you haven’t seen the anime, which by the way is on Crunchyroll, you won’t know anything. You’re welcome, seriously. The film rewards total dedication and punishes those who seek moderation, making viewing an experience not recommended for those who do not know what they are going to see.

Those who have followed the manga or the first season will find that Chainsaw Man – Reze’s arc amplifies everything you already liked: the interaction between Denji and his friends, the emergence of Reze into his life and the cinematic violence that defines the saga. The combination of romance, absurd humor and unleashed action is a synthesis of everything that makes Fujimoto special: the mix of the human and the monstrous, of innocence and carnage.

The film is a vibrant work of almost extreme aesthetics, consistent with the sensibility of manga and formally bold to the point of causing dizziness if you don’t let yourself go. He doesn’t try to please everyone; celebrates the original manga material in a style as dizzying as it is delirious. MAPPA Studios has managed to turn an already excellent narrative arc into a cinematic spectacle that is best enjoyed on the big screen, with good speakers where each explosion becomes an impact for the viewer.

For me, the experience has been like being 16 years old again. Or as I told you: wishing you were 16 years old again. The fascination with these aberrant characters, the adrenaline, the emotional intensity of Denji… Everything makes every second of the film make you feel alive and disturbed at the same time. Chainsaw Man: Reze’s arc is not for everyone, I insist. If you’re not into flour, you probably feel lost; but no manga or anime fan should miss it.

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