With the cliffhanger ending, Netflix has spared no time announcing that a second season is already in production, and it’s set to come out in July next year. Check out the trailer:

The official description reads:

As Momo, Okarun, and Turbo Granny investigate what happened to Jiji’s family, they find themselves facing a series of bizarre encounters!

By the looks of the trailer, there is only a look at the rest of the Evil Eye arc, with the creeps that haunt the hot spring as well as the origin of the Evil Eye and its relationship with Jiji. By the time the second season comes around, anyone who has read the manga is already expecting the introduction of other members of Momo and Okarun’s group like Kinta and Vamola. It may be a while before class rep Rin is given her major arc.

With Chainsaw Man expected to make a comeback next year with the Reze Arc movie, fans are also expecting some kind of big film for Dandadan down the line. So far nothing official has been announced, but the Kaiju arc is clearly one of the more bombastic storylines, and it would make for some great spectacle in a cinema.

Then again, the series has been doing a great job with the animation so far, and the hype is up for this odd world by Yukinobu Tatsu-sensei.

Dandadan returns to Netflix on July 2025.

MAPPA is set to release their reboot of Ranma ½ this week, and we have an early look at the series new opening theme. Check this out:

If the singer of the intro sounds familiar, that’s actually Jpop singer Ano, who’s best known for her work on Chainsaw Man ending song, Chu, Tayousei a.k.a. the ending of the episode where Denji eats puke. This ending:

There’s probably a good reason why Ranma has taken so long to get rebooted. The anime is fairly old, but it’s still considered a gold standard when it comes to action/comedy/romance. So much of the series is considered to be a monolith for all otaku fans, so anything attempting to reboot it will no doubt be met with hard scrutiny.

Plus, the original introduction was an absolute earworm:

After the successful reboot of Urusei Yatsura though, it does seem like a reboot of a classic series like Ranma 1/2could be the right time for this new anime audience; plus it will bring in some fans of the original. Millenials still watch the new anime right?

I’m just hoping they manage to maintain a lot of what made the original Ranma great while updating the series for more modern tastes. Fingers crossed they pull it off.

Catch Ranma ½ when it premieres on Netflix on Oct. 5.

As it turns out, Look Back is going to be getting the anime movie treatment, and we just got a new trailer. Check this out:

Here’s the official description translated [and edited]:

Tatsuki Fujimoto’s youth story has been made into an animated movie!

Fujino is a fourth-year elementary school student who serializes four-panel comics in her school’s newspaper. She received rave reviews from her classmates, but one day, her teacher told her that he wanted to post four frames of Kyomoto, a classmate who was refusing to go to school.

What connects the two girls is a single-minded love for manga. But one day, something happens that shatters everything… An amazing coming-of-age story that will pierce your heart.

Unlike Chainsaw Man which goes for several chapters, Look Back is one self-contained story. And though it doesn’t have a lot of fantastical battles and monsters, it does have a very artsy take on the character of the ‘obsessed artist.’

When you read it, you can’t help but think this is also a look into Fujimoto’s mindset when he was training himself to be a mangaka; and top that off with the frustation that one feels when they see someone who is naturally talented in the craft.

By the looks of the trailer, we could be seeing some kind of change in the original story of the manga—which can admittedly get kind of tragic. Either way, I don’t expect it to be any less emotional.

Look Back will release in theaters on June 28.

Here’s the announcement for Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc:

With the show introducing us to all kinds of powers in this world like Aki and Himeno’s contracts with devils and Power being a Fiend (a Devil inside a human corpse); Reze is another Hybrid like Denji. In the manga, Reze is known as the Bomb Girl since she fused with the Bomb Devil—much like how Denji fused with Pochita.

In the manga, Reze was a Hybrid that worked with the Soviet Union, and she was sent to Japan on a mission to recover Denji’s heart. She is the main antagonist of the Bomb Girl arc in Chainsaw Man, but she also has future appearances in the manga, running into Denji from time to time.

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With Denji also having all kinds of relationships from Makima to Himeno, it’s considered that Reze is the ‘true’ love interest for Denji. I won’t go into it further, but it’s safe to say fans are excited to see her make her debut in anime.

We don’t know exactly how the show will incorporate Reze in the future, but if the movie should release before the premiere of the second season, it’s very likely we could just see her as a recurring character in the anime.

As of now, Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc still has no release date, but fans are hoping that we get something around the latter half of 2024.

Check this out:

Adult Swim also provides a synopsis:

The year is 2052—an era of unprecedented peace and prosperity prevails across the globe. The reason for this: mankind has been freed from sickness and pain. Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist Dr. Skinner has developed a miracle cure-all drug with no apparent drawbacks called Hapuna. Hapuna soon becomes ubiquitous… and essential. However, soon after Hapuna is officially introduced, Dr. Skinner vanishes.

Three years later, the world has moved on. But Dr. Skinner has returned—this time, as a harbinger of doom. Skinner announces that Hapuna has a short half-life. Everyone who has taken it will die approximately three years later. Death is coming for this sinful world—and coming soon.

As a response to this threat, a special task force of 5 agents is gathered from across the world to save humanity from Skinner’s plan. This group is called “Lazarus.” Can they find Skinner and develop a vaccine before time runs out?

Besides the involvement of Watanabe, the trailer also confirms that Chad Stahelski—famous stunt coordinator and John Wick director—is attached to the show as an action director.

No doubt, Watanabe has always been a director to watch out for when it comes to anime, and he’s worked on several other notable titles including Cowboy Bebop, The Animatrix, Space Dandy, and Carole & Tuesday.

Though Lazarus does promise to have some solid action scenes and spectacle, the story in the synopsis also promises some very interesting science fiction, and it could have some interesting commentary for this post-pandemic social climate.

No release date has been announced for Lazarus, but fans think a 2024 release date could be possible.

While anime opening sequences usually like to do their own thing with some tropes here and there, Chainsaw Man’s opening was filled with references to other classic films like Pulp Fiction, Big Lebowski, Reservoir Dogs, and No Country for Old Men. Here are some comparisons:

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This isn’t even the fill breakdown of references in the OP yet, and more are coming out online. If anything, it’s a testament to Shingo Yamashita’s love or the craft, and some are also saying that it also references Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto’s love for cinema as well.

With the shonen anime like One Punch Man, My Hero Academia, and Jujutsu Kaisen dominating the market right now, Chainsaw Man promises to jump into the fray with a fresh new look at unique tone.

When his father died, Denji was stuck with a huge debt and no way to pay it back. Thanks to a Devil dog he saved named Pochita, he’s able to survive through odd jobs and killing Devils for the Yakuza. Pochita’s chainsaw powers come in handy against these powerful demons. When the Yakuza betrays him and he’s killed by the Zombie Devil, Pochita sacrifices himself to save his former master. Now Denji has been reborn as some kind of weird Devil-Human hybrid. He is now a Chainsaw Man!

Chainsaw Man is now available for streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Watch the trailer for the first season here:

When his father died, Denji was stuck with a huge debt and no way to pay it back. Thanks to a Devil dog he saved named Pochita, he’s able to survive through odd jobs and killing Devils for the Yakuza. Pochita’s chainsaw powers come in handy against these powerful demons. When the Yakuza betrays him and he’s killed by the Zombie Devil, Pochita sacrifices himself to save his former master. Now Denji has been reborn as some kind of weird Devil-Human hybrid. He is now a Chainsaw Man!

As we can see from the trailer, we should expect a lot of violence from the series, and just like One Punch Man, the show does promise a lot of uniquely designed monsters as well as the Devil-Humans that are tasked to put them down.

Since this is a shonen anime, we should also expect some more common elements to show up. Denji actually gets a lot of props for being a fun shonen protagonist. Beneath the guy who can just turn his body parts into chainsaws, is just a kid trying to make things right—and finally touch a boob or two. Wild.

Chainsaw Man comes out Oct. 11 and will also be streaming on Amazon Prime Video.