"Shortly after last month's Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle confirmed last weekend as the highest-grossing anime feature of all time a big-screen outing for a movie adaptation of what, in manga terms, is a relative upstart: Tatsuki Fujimoto's gore-soaked coming-of-age saga, first serialised in 2018. Standard critical guidance applies: what will doubtless be catnip for fans is likely to prove varyingly baffling for newcomers, arriving late to a frenetic game offering few chances for catchup."
"The film's artistry is undeniable: director Tatsuya Yoshihara and team sketch ultra-photorealistic urban environments, making it only more striking when Reze pulls a grenade-pin from her neck, exploding her earthly form, and when a possessed Denji, bearing chainsaws for arms, launches a counterattack atop his shark familiar. Before a final descent into exhausting city trashing, its gleeful perversity is semi-interesting: what the success of these titles tells us is that there's an audience whose desires aren't currently being met by Hollywood pencil-pushers."
Chainsaw Man adapts Tatsuki Fujimoto's gore-soaked coming-of-age saga, featuring Denji, a teenager with a chainsaw-wielding demon inhabiting his soul. Denji's romantic confusion between cultured Makima and freckled, jade-eyed Reze drives emotional stakes that combine adolescent longing with brutal violence. Director Tatsuya Yoshihara renders ultra-photorealistic urban environments that heighten shock when Reze detonates and when a chainsaw-armed Denji fights atop his shark familiar. The narrative favors frenetic, fan-oriented spectacle over newcomer accessibility, delivering gleeful perversity and escalating city-scale destruction. The film targets a predominantly male audience, emphasizing eroticized visuals as characters become more demonic.
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