A new poster visual has been unveiled for the upcoming Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc anime film, as well as a music video of Kenshi Yonezu’s theme song for the film “IRIS OUT.”
Additionally, Yonezu’s “IRIS OUT” single is now available on all major music streaming platforms.
The singer-songwriter also announced today that he will be hosting a Spotify listening party to celebrate the release of “IRIS OUT” and “JANE DOE” on September 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM EST, which is the same day when “JANE DOE” will be released. It will include live audio commentary from Yonezu, and fans can follow along after the live stream begins by posting messages on Twitter/X with the hashtag #Spotify_KenshiYonezu. The listening party is a real-time, limited-time broadcast and will not be archived afterwards. Fans can join the listening party on the specified date here.
Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc will be screened theatrically in Japan, starting on September 19, 2025 and in the U.S. on October 24, 2025. 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. 4DX, MX4D, and Dolby Cinema screenings in Japan will begin on October 4, 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 in charge of 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.
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!
Sources: Chainsaw Man Official English Twitter, press release
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