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Kenshi Yonezu Streams Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc Anime's Theme Song Music Video

The official YouTube channel for Kenshi Yonezu began streaming on Monday an animated music video for "IRIS OUT," Yonezu's theme song for Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc, the film based on the Reze Arc of Tatsuki Fujimoto's Chainsaw Man manga.

Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) has acquired worldwide theatrical rights the film. The company will open the film in theaters in the United States on October 24, several days earlier than its originally scheduled October 29 release. The film will open in the United Kingdom on October 29, and will also open the film earlier in more than 80 countries on September 24.

The film will open in Japan on September 19. The film will get midnight screenings in 12 theaters across Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Fukuoka, and Hokkaido in Japan. The film will also have MX4D, 4DX, and Dolby Cinema screenings.

Reina Ueda plays Reze in the film.

MAPPA describes the film's story:

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 film's staff includes:

• Director: Tatsuya Yoshihara (Chainsaw Man TV's storyboarder, key animator, episode director)
• Screenwriter: Hiroshi Seko (returning from TV anime)
• Character Designer: Kazutaka Sugiyama (returning from TV anime)
• Assistant Director: Masato Nakazono (storyboarder and chief episode director for TV anime)
• Sub Character Designer: Sota Yamazaki, Shun (chief animation directors for TV anime)
• Main Animator: Shōichi (animation director from TV anime)
• Music: Kensuke Ushio (returning from TV anime)
• 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
• Distribution: TOHO
• Production: MAPPA

Kenshi Yonezu and Hikaru Utada are performing the ending theme song "JANE DOE." Maximum the Hormone's "Hawatari Nioku Centi" (2-Hundred-Million-Centimeter-Long-Blades) will appear as an insert song in the film. The film will include the "Hawatari Nioku Centi (Zentai Suitei 70% Kaikin edit)" (Estimated 70% Unredacted Edit) version of the song. The earlier television anime previously featured a shorter, 90-second version of the track as an ending song for episode 3 of the series. The band notes they did not release the longer version of the song until now, in part due to the second half of the lyrics referencing the character Reze.

The television anime series premiered on TV Tokyo and five other affiliated channels, as well as on Amazon Prime Video in October 2022. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime in over 200 countries and territories around the world.

Crunchyroll describes the story:

Denji is a teenage boy living with a Chainsaw Devil named Pochita. Due to the debt his father left behind, he has been living a rock-bottom life while repaying his debt by harvesting devil corpses with Pochita.

One day, Denji is betrayed and killed. As his consciousness fades, he makes a contract with Pochita and gets revived as "Chainsaw Man"--a man with a devil's heart.

Fujimoto (Fire Punch) debuted the Chainsaw Man manga in Weekly Shonen Jump in December 2018 and ended its "first part," the "Kōan" (Public Safety) arc, in December 2020. The manga's second part, titled "Gakkō-hen" (School Arc), started on Shueisha's Shonen Jump+ service in July 2022. The manga won the Best Manga award at The Harvey Awards for three consecutive years.

The manga inspired a stage play adaptation that ran in Tokyo and Kyoto in September to October 2023.

Source: Kenshi Yonezu's YouTube channel