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[March Climber]

Good news for fans of Chainsaw Man.

The Reze Arc movie just released and less than a month afterwards, Mappa decided to do a surprise reveal for the teaser of the Assassin's Arc.

 

[EviLore]

Was expecting it to be at least a couple years before getting more CM tbh.

 

[March Climber]

Was expecting it to be at least a couple years before getting more CM tbh.

Same, I'm pleased but also worried that Mappa is sliding back into the workhorse schedule (with this, Hell's Paradise 2, JJK 3, and Doro 2 all due in 2026) which almost caused their studio to implode last time that many large-scale projects were being worked on at the same time.

 

[Teslerum]

Only two arcs left after this one.

Yep, nothing afterwards. Don't believe anyone that says there is.

Spoiler

Unless you are ok with nothing getting resolved and the author suddenly going: *You know what, fuck this. Pochita just quits the the entire narrative, the end*

 

[SJRB]

Yeah people seem very angry at what's going on in the manga at the moment.

 

[Moondoggy]

Seems pretty obvious to me after reading the "final" chapter that it's just a set-up for Part 3

 

[Paltheos]

Yeah, a lot of people seem upset but, having not read part 2 myself, I'm not terribly concerned. Part 1 is a largely complete story imo, and from what I've heard it sounds like Fujimoto really didn't care about CSM anymore, so if this gives him the chance to move onto another project he does care about, because he is a talented artist, than all the better.

 

[chromhound]

The ending was interesting...

 

[YCoCg]

Fuck it, reset the universe and it was all a bad dream rolled in one.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Fujimoto clearly didn't want to do it and Shueisha seen the bag from CSM.

Pochita's Original Sin.

 

[Fbh]

Only two arcs left after this one.

Yep, nothing afterwards. Don't believe anyone that says there is.

Spoiler

Unless you are ok with nothing getting resolved and the author suddenly going: *You know what, fuck this. Pochita just quits the the entire narrative, the end*

To be fair, part 1 of the manga works perfectly fine as a standalone story.
Then again, whenever manga readers seem unhappy with an ending anime watcher seem to love it (like Attack on Titan). So who knows, maybe they'll love the end of part 2 too.

 

[Pejo]

As somebody that didn't read the manga, and thought that S1 of the anime was just okay, is the Reze movie or this arc worth giving another shot?

My problem with the anime was mainly that they cut out/cut short a lot of the action scenes compared to the manga (according to a friend). For what it's worth, I thought the few fights I saw were really wild and well done, but it felt like there was too little of it for how insane the concept was. I expected S1 of One Punch Man amounts of action.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Shame about the ending.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

As somebody that didn't read the manga, and thought that S1 of the anime was just okay, is the Reze movie or this arc worth giving another shot?

I would reccomand to just read the manga. I have read the manga and it's so much better than the anime

My problem with the anime was mainly that they cut out/cut short a lot of the action scenes compared to the manga (according to a friend). For what it's worth, I thought the few fights I saw were really wild and well done, but it felt like there was too little of it for how insane the concept was. I expected S1 of One Punch Man amounts of action.

That is one of my issues with the anime, they really cut short a lot of the action scenes

As for the manga, Part 1 is fantastic but it's not until Part 2 where the manga doesn't get bad but I can tell the mangaka isn't as invested in the story. Which is why I wasn't surprised he ended it so soon. I didn't hate Part 2 but compared to Part 1, Part 1 is a masterpiece but Part 2 just felt super aimless

I'm curious to see what the mangaka does next