Popverse's top stories of the day

• Zack Snyder's DC movies "skewed too old" to be successful, says Snyder's own Batman, Ben Affleck
• MEMBERS ONLY: Marvel Matters: How Marvel Studios are realizing its all about the story again, even if it means killing MCU's Nova, Edgar Wright's Ant-Man, and more
• Lore Corner: Heather Glenn may be in a tricky spot in Daredevil: Born Again, but it's nothing compared to her Marvel Comics counterpart

  ---

When Chainsaw Man season one first aired in 2022, it was easily one of the biggest anime hits of the year. With MAPPA’s stunning animation and the head-twisting visuals from Tatsuki Fujimoto’s original manga, Chainsaw Man left us all wanting more. Now we know when the next entry in the series will be as the Chainsaw Man movie covering the Reze Arc gets a release date.

During AnimeJapan 2025, it was revealed that Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc would debut in Japan on September 12, 2025. Though there hasn’t been an international release date confirmed yet, we can expect it to make its way to the US and other territories a few months later, probably by the end of 2025.

The first season of Chainsaw Man ends on a significant cliffhanger, with a brief scene that shows the character Reze. She obviously plays a big role in the next arc in the manga. Without getting into too many spoilers, lets just say that Reze is a blast in the manga and we can't wait to see her on the big screen. Instead of turning this arc into a short season of the anime, MAPPA has instead opted to adapt it into a feature film, hoping to capture some of the hype of the series even though it has been almost three years since it streamed on Crunchyroll.

Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc has a release date of September 12, 2025 in Japan. No international release date has been announced but we assume that Crunchyroll, who streamed the first season of the anime back in 2022, will be handling the film’s release in the US and other territories by the end of the year.

Each week, Popverse's resident anime expert Trent Cannon runs down the latest and, dare we say "greatest," in anime and manga in Popverse Jump. Some recent columns have included... 

• Why the finales of My Hero Academia, Jujutsu Kaisen, and One Piece feel like the end of an era in manga
• Why is One Piece more popular now that the anime is 25 years old? We asked around and found out
• Dan Da Dan is weird, profoundly inappropriate, and the perfect anime this season
• Why One Piece's Monkey D. Luffy is the perfect anime hero for the dark times ahead
• 40 years after its debut, Dragon Ball is a pop culture force like few others
• Dan Da Dan's most emotionally devastating sequence proves that sometimes words aren't necessary
• Gnosia, the "Among Us meets Everything Everywhere All at Once" visual novel is getting an anime adaptation that needs to be as weird as possible
• Assassination Classroom is a Shonen anime well worth revisiting, ten years on
• Sony is making big moves to own the anime industry by buying Kadokawa, publisher of Oshi no Ko, Sword Art Online, and Konosuba
• 2025 is the year One Punch Man season 3 finally adapts the cosmically weird Monster Association Arc and I can't wait