A teaser trailer for a song typically doesn’t make waves, but when it’s tied to a hotly anticipated theatrical release like Mappa’s Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc , it certainly might. Especially when it’s graced by the dulcet tones of Hikaru Utada, a singer whose presence in the anime industry is nothing short of musical royalty.

Previous trailers for the film adaptation of manga creator Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Reze Arc leaned hard into spectacle with blazing eruptions, feverish glimpses of Denji’s fantasies about the domineering Makima, and the explosive arrival of the new girl on the block, Reze, all set to the pulse of the series’ artist Kenshi Yonezu’s music. But Mappa’s latest preview shifts gears entirely, trading chaos for a quiet, melancholic, tender, wistful tone that al

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