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If you watched “Chainsaw Man \u2013 The Movie: Reze Arc” and thought it looked different from TV anime’s first season, you’re dead on. The shading and coloring are brighter, the line-art is thicker, and the action is faster-paced and more exaggerated. “Reze Arc” feels cartoony<\/em> in a way “Chainsaw Man” season 1 didn’t.<\/p>\n This is not<\/em> just because the movie had a higher budget than any one episode of the show. Made at\u00a0Studio Mappa, “Chainsaw Man” season 1 was directed by Ryu Nakayama<\/a>, a veteran animator but rookie director. “Reze Arc” was directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara, because MAPPA wanted a new vision for their “Chainsaw Man” anime.<\/p>\n Tatsuki Fujimoto, author of the original “Chainsaw Man” manga, is a huge cinephile and his love for movies shows up in his comics. His one-shot manga “Goodbye, Eri” is a comic drawn through the camera lens of a cell phone, or in the style of a found footage film<\/a>. “Reze Arc” features an early sequence of our hero Denji on a movie marathon date with his boss\/crush Makima. Makima tells Denji that there are a lot of mediocre movies, but a good one can change your life.<\/p>\n Nakayama, a fan of Fujimoto and movies too, thought the best way to adapt “Chainsaw Man” would be to veer away from typical anime flourishes and towards a more grounded style. In an interview published in an October issue of Japan’s Nikkei Entertainment! Magazine, Nakayama said he “thought it would be interesting if [he] could incorporate the essence of the realistic and the cinematic [in ‘Chainsaw Man’].”<\/p>\n