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For this edition of Saturday Anime Night, first up is Chainsaw Man: The Movie: Reze Arc (2025), the feature-film follow-up to the 12-episode anime adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s 2018 manga of the same name. It is the series finale until the next season is released. It follows a young man who fuses with his pet devil to fight other demons so that he can pay his debts to the yakuza. Lucky for him, he can turn his body parts into chainsaws to unleash some gory vengeance upon the villains of the world. Yes, they pretty much remade Devilman, but with chainsaws. Expect a whole lot of over-the-top bloodshed. Director Tatsuya Yoshihara also helmed a few episodes of the show; this is his feature-film debut. This is one of the highest-rated films on Letterboxd, being currently ranked #106 on the Letterboxd Top 500.

After is the 56-minute OVA Spring and Chaos (1996), a surreal, biographical trip through the mind of Japanese poet Kenji Miyazawa, author of the 1927 fantasy novel Night on the Galactic Railroad, the 1985 anime adaptation of which we previously watched. As with that film, this one is filled with lots and lots and anthropomorphic cat-people. Turns out the author’s peculiar fixations were the outgrowth of his anxieties regarding his strained relationship with his father and his bond with his terminally-ill sister. I guess we’ll find out if these bugbears are resolved. As far as I know, no HD version of this film exists, despite excellent reviews, so we will watch a DVD rip. Director Shoji Kawamori also helmed Macross: Do You Remember Love? (1984), which we also watched awhile ago.

The third and final film of the night will be the oft-requested The Last Unicorn (1982), generally the magnum opus of Rankin/Bass’s animated features. A young unicorn (voiced by Mia Farrow) discovers she is the last of her kind, and that the sinister Red Bull seeks to kill her and thus wipe her species from the face of the Earth. A wizard helps to her to hide by transforming her into a human woman, but uh-oh, she can’t change back, and her new body leaves her in despair. Drama ensues. As with Rankin/Bass’s The Hobbit (1977) and The Return of the King (1980), which we previously watched, this film was animated by future Ghibli alumni, and has a pretty anime-ish quality as a result. It is unusually good by the standard of Usian cartoons of the 80s, so let’s check it out. Also features one of the corniest soundtracks of all time, courtesy of “A Horse with No Name” rock band America.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Blorptube, right here:

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Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Chainsaw Man: The Movie: Reze Arc: letterboxd.com/…/chainsaw-man-the-movie-reze-arc/
• Spring and Chaos: letterboxd.com/film/conspirators-of-pleasure/
• The Last Unicorn: letterboxd.com/film/the-last-unicorn/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Chainsaw Man: www.doesthedogdie.com/media/942314
• Spring and Chaos: www.imdb.com/title/tt0223503/parentalguide/
• The Last Unicorn: www.doesthedogdie.com/media/11951

CWs for Chainsaw Man: The Movie: Reze Arc

• Death of dog.
• Pooping.
• Child abandonment.
• Child abuse.
• Abusive parents.
• Gaslighting.
• Drug addiction.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Drug use.
• Deaths of animals.
• Death of pet.
• Animal corpses.
• Sad animal.
• Bugs.
• Snakes.
• Genital trauma.
• Finger mutilation.
• Amputation.
• Broken bones.
• Hand damage.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Slapping of woman.
• Death of child.
• Deaths of non-humans.
• Suicide.
• Death of parent.
• Kidnapping.
• Claustrophobia.
• Razors.
• Possession.
• Ghosts.
• Vomiting.
• Audio gore.
• Someone is eaten alive.
• Eye mutilation.
• Tooth damage.
• Squashed head.
• Decapitation.
• Hospital scene.
• PTSD.
• Unstable reality.
• Anxiety attacks.
• Mental illness.
• Hanging.
• Throat mutilation.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Asphyxiation.
• Choking.
• Shaky cam.
• Jump scares.
• Screaming.
• Profanity.
• Death of LGBT person.
• Age-gap romance.
• Demons.
• Suicide attempt.
• Suicidal attempt.
• Sexualization of minor.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Sex.
• Nudity.
• Sexual assault: attempted r*pe of woman in episode 7.
• Implied pedophilia.
• Homelessness.
• Blood and gore.
• Gun violence.
• Torture.
• Body horror.
• Cannibalism.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Death by crushing.
• Stabbing.
• Unconsciousness.

CWs for Spring and Chaos:

• Sad animal.
• Terminal illness.
• Discussion of existentialism.
• Blood and gore.
• Dismemberment.
• Disembowelment.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Slavery.
• Unstable reality.
• Dissociation.
• Surrealism.

CWs for The Last Unicorn:

• Tsunamis.
• Body horror.
• Body dysmorphia.
• Body dysphoria.
• Nervous breakdown.
• Cruelty to animals.
• Tsunamis.
• Someone leaves without saying goodbye.
• Abusive parents.
• Deaths of animals.
• Animal corpses.
• Death of dragon.
• Sad animal.
• Animal abandonment.
• Bugs.
• Snakes.
• Hand damage.
• Someone is physically restrained.
• Death of non-human.
• Suicide.
• Death of parent.
• Death of family member.
• Kidnapping.
• Ghosts.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Someone is eaten alive.
• Dissociation.
• Mental illness.
• Anxiety attack.
• Choking.
• Flashing lights.
• Jump scares.
• Screaming.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Misrepresentation of Roma.
• Sexual innuendos.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Nudity.
• Jokes about sexual assault against men.
• Discussion of existentialism.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Death by falling.
• Unconsciousness.
• Sad ending.

Links to movies:

• Chainsaw Man: The Movie: Reze Arc: tankie.tube/w/2eFraqiqTYjK3E2DtegdrG
• Spring and Chaos: tankie.tube/w/vzNaLGzYF3v26fhPVgGQHX
• The Last Unicorn: tankie.tube/w/nVAZLt64soZ3PrB8H5tkHB