Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc
REZEEEE
Spoilers
Where do i start?
I got into CSM before it got an anime. I was looking through the gallery of an artist i recently found on instagram at that time, then a particular piece caught my attention. It was of a dude with a chainsaw on his head with guts and burgers flying around him. My eyes looked for the tags which said "chainsawman" and the rest was history.
CSM was the second? or first (most likely second) manga i had ever "finished" in my life. The first one was golden kamuy. (I have a certain taste in humour)
Now I'm a slow reader, it takes me a while to read and digest what i read, and i don't like sitting doing the same one activity for too long so it took me a while to finish. But when i'm really getting into something, i love to constantly have a stream of content of that thing coming my way. So i checked the csm tag on tumblr from time to time, and that is where i got spoiled for reze's existence.
It was one of those aesthetic posts, it had her face and stuff and i only saw her for a second but DAMN! i thought she looked really cute. I actually fell for Makima for a moment, when she hugged Denji i kind of fell for her too, but i kind of knew she was evil and i got alarms blaring at me during their convo in the car so it was short lived. REZE THOUGH... haha.... haha... ha.. hah......
MOVIE
I'm a very lucky person. The Reze movie dropped on my birthday, and i got to watch it despite how busy i am with college, and i got to watch it with friends, and the animation style is better than the S1 anime's style, and all of that for the movie about my (current) favourite character of this series??!!?!?!
I kind of sped through the manga so this watching experience made me finally appreciate Angel devil. I used to not give a fuck about him because how could i? When there's fuckibg Reze. But i understand him more now, his relationship with Aki, exploring Aki's character and his relationship with devils. And his own character, his past and how he views his role as a devil
ΑΝΙΜΑΤΙON & ART
It's clear, this one's the holy grail of this movie for me. I love that it's vibrant, i love the lineart, i love the style, i love the rendering and everything. The character animation is great. And i particularly love looking at the eyes. To me, one of the most distinct parts of Fujimoto's style is the way he draws eyes, and im insanely glad that this artstyle they use here got it right. The way Reze and Makima's eyes are coloured when Makima kills Reze. So good.
Something also worth noting: every single expression Reze makes is sooo well drawn, they wanted the watcher to fall in love with her too.
VOICE ACTING
Reze's voice actress.... did so good.... I wasn't particularly hyped when it was revealed after season 1, but hearing all of it here in the movie, was so good. It fits her character sooo perfectly! Who wouldn't fall for her if they were in denji's shoes? She's sweet, she's cute, she's so great at her job to get Denji to fall for him. And so much of that was expressed by the voice acting!! I didn't think abour how much having her lines voiced could change the experience for me but it blew my mind just how much her voice acting moved me. She's just so.... sooo sweet...
MUSIC & SOUND DESIGN
I lied about the animation/art being the best part of this movie, the auditorial experience was also an insanely positive one.It has the advantage of being something that's exclusive to a movie's experience--as in, you know, comics cant have any music and noises playing--but I'm not just talking about IRIS OUT, im talking about MOST of it.I wanna get my one complaint out first and foremost. Some of the sounds werent loud enough for me, thats it. Maybe i'm just a bit deaf, but i think having the music and the explosions be maybe 30% louder would've been a nicer experience for me.
BUT WITH THAT ASIDE AAAGHHHHHHHH The kissing scene!!!!!! The happy music mixing with the scary ambience!!! I need to listen to it again but the mix of those two was so good!!!! It's a wonderful job on such a wonderful scene!!!! That scene in general was flawlessly done.
And the sentimental track, the one from the swimming scene and the ocean one was so powerful!!!!! It made flashbacks hurt SSOO MUCH MORE. THIS is how you adapt a comic! what was originally a visual experience, being made even more powerful with the auditorial stuff!!!
REZE
Oh Reze... It's hard for me to like female characters because i feel that most people write them horribly, but that's not the case with Reze, and that's why i like her i guess.
I love Reze because "she's nice to Denji"
Kind of
I also love Reze because she's the scariest thing from this manga
And i also love Reze because... she's... Reze
She's cool both in design and personality and story. She's cute, she's funny, she's a very tragic character and she gets scared and she's smart and she does her job so well but she has feelings and she's still uh... "human"I guess i just love seeing female characters that truly FEEL things. Female characters who are cool or strong, yet flawed.
I think my favourite scene of her in this movie was the one where her eyes were twitching on the school rooftop. I don't remember if it happened in the manga, but that was a really nice look into her "true" self.
God, she is soo so smart and skilled and cool. But she's still "human" and thats the best part of her character in my opinion.
I'm very sad that now that the movie is out, this means it's kind of the end for Reze content but, hey, it has been a really good ride so i can say, with no weight in my heart, that i am completely satisfied.
God, do i love her design and how she's drawn so much. Her hair is amazing.
Thank you for making such a phenomenal character, Fujimoto sensei.
