REZ& is a regular production partner on Bandai Namco's Idolmaster XR concert work, credited on the Chihaya Kisaragi Budokan show OathONE and on the Tokyo Game Show sessions that explained how it was staged. It also has an older identity as the team behind Rez, which was marked with a 25th anniversary stage event in Tokyo in September 2026.
REZ&'s current public profile comes from work it did for Bandai Namco Entertainment. The company appears among four credited on Chihaya Kisaragi's solo Nippon Budokan concert OathONE, held January 24 and 25, alongside Bandai Namco Entertainment, Sony Group, and Sony PCL. At a Tokyo Game Show session on September 18, Nobuaki Kazoe of REZ& was one of four people who described the roles their companies played on the show. The set used a 360-degree center stage, motion capture, and Unreal Engine rendering.
A second Tokyo Game Show session on October 5, 2026 went further into the same production. Staff from Bandai Namco Entertainment, REZ&, Sony Group, and Sony PCL covered center-stage screens, Unreal Engine rendering, motion capture, and Sony's moving LED display groovots, including a large type used to walk the virtual character down a hanamichi. That panel is the most detailed public accounting of how the four companies divided the work.
The other thread is Rez itself. A 25th anniversary stage event for the game ran September 22 and 23 at the Institut francais du Japon in Tokyo as part of the game culture festival The Tenth Mosaic. Producer Tetsuya Mizuguchi gave a lecture on the game's origins, followed by a roundtable with original director Jun Kobayashi, music producer Masakazu Hiroishi, and techno artist Ken Ishii. The roundtable covered unreleased music: Mizuguchi said an Underworld version of Rez was made but never released, and that Fatboy Slim's Stage 2 track was pulled about three weeks before launch over a sampling concern. Hiroishi said he pitched Rez to Aphex Twin in London and the artist accepted before failing to deliver. Performer Ebizo, also known as sound director Nobuhiko Tanuma, replaced the Fatboy Slim track in two weeks.
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JamnotesGames showed Kageki Otome Canon at OSAKA INDIE GAMES SUMMIT 2026, held October 3 and 4 at Congres Square Grand Green Osaka. The rhythm rail shooter stars a magical girl named Canon, and its proprietary music engine adds guitar or piano phrases to the BGM with every enemy shot, keeping lock-on and shooting sounds tightly synchronized with the player's actions.
Prime 1 Studio opened preorders on October 8 for a 1/4-scale Reze/Bomb statue from Chainsaw Man: The Movie: Reze Arc, part of its Ultimate Premium Masterline line. The standard edition costs 187,990 yen. A DX version at 238,590 yen adds a Bom upper body, two dynamite bundles, and a bust stand. A DX Bonus version adds a right-arm part for the pin-pulling pose and is handled in Japan only through Prime 1 Studio's official online store. Preorders close December 8, with release set for around February to May 2028.
At a Tokyo Game Show 2026 session, staff from Bandai Namco Entertainment, REZ&, Sony Group, and Sony PCL described how the January 24 and 25 Chihaya Kisaragi solo show at Nippon Budokan, "OathONE," was staged. The talk covered center-stage screens, Unreal Engine rendering, motion capture, and Sony's moving LED display groovots, including a large type used to walk the virtual character down a hanamichi.
A 25th anniversary stage event for Rez was held on September 22 and 23 at the Institut francais du Japon in Tokyo, as part of the game culture festival The Tenth Mosaic. Producer Tetsuya Mizuguchi gave a lecture on the game's origins, followed by a roundtable with original director Jun Kobayashi, music producer Masakazu Hiroishi, and techno artist Ken Ishii. Mizuguchi said an Underworld version of Rez was made but never released, and that Fatboy Slim's track for Stage 2 was pulled about three weeks before launch over a sampling concern. Hiroishi said he pitched Rez to Aphex Twin in London, and that the artist accepted the job before failing to deliver. Performer Ebizo, also known as sound director Nobuhiko Tanuma, replaced the Fatboy Slim track in two weeks.
A Tokyo Game Show session on September 18 brought together four people behind Chihaya Kisaragi's solo Nippon Budokan concert OathONE, held January 24 and 25. Yukiyoshi Yoshimoto of Bandai Namco Entertainment, Nobuaki Kazoe of REZ&, Akira Nakano of Sony Group and Takahiro Kozuki of Sony PCL explained the roles their companies played. The set used a 360-degree center stage, motion capture and Unreal Engine rendering.
Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc began unlimited streaming on Prime Video on September 19. On September 20, a support viewing guide video by Natsuki Hanae, the voice of Beam, was released, outlining four ways to enjoy the film at home. From September 21 to September 27, Shinjuku Station Metro Promenade hosts a rental video store-style advertisement with VHS cases of the film and 30 selected shark movies.
The Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc movie begins unlimited streaming on Prime Video on Saturday, September 19, 2026, a year after its theatrical release. To mark it, a limited-time live stream called Kenshi Yonezu Station opened on his official YouTube channel. It runs 24 hours a day from Friday, September 18 at 20:00 until Wednesday, September 23 at 23:59, playing music videos, live footage, and TV performance footage nonstop.
Chainsaw Man: The Movie - Reze Arc begins unlimited exclusive streaming on Amazon Prime Video from Saturday, September 19, 2026. The film continues the TV anime, with Tatsuya Yoshihara directing and MAPPA on animation production. The cast includes Kikunosuke Toya as Denji, Reina Ueda as Reze, Tomori Kusunoki as Makima, and Fairouz Ai as Power. Worldwide box office revenue passed 29.7 billion yen as of June 19, 2026.
The theatrical film Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc begins unlimited streaming on Amazon Prime Video at midnight on September 19, 2026. The film adapts Tatsuki Fujimoto's Reze arc from the Chainsaw Man manga, animated by MAPPA, and follows devil hunter Denji's encounter with a mysterious girl named Reze. It runs 100 minutes. Tatsuya Yoshihara directs, with Kikunosuke Toya as Denji and Reina Ueda as Reze. No other major streaming service carries it.
JINS has released the JINS×Chainsaw Man Large-Size Cleart, a 1,990 yen glasses cloth tied to the theatrical Chainsaw Man Reze Arc. The 250 by 250 millimeter cloth uses Toray's Tresy ultra-fine fiber and carries an illustration drawn specifically for the collaboration. JINS also re-released its five collaboration frame designs on September 3.
ATS MODELS is taking pre-orders on Amazon.co.jp for a 1/64 scale SUBARU IMPREZA WRX (GC8) 1997 model in black and white. Each finished product sells for 6,930 yen including tax and is scheduled to ship on January 31, 2027. The model reproduces the flared body, hood air intake, sport wheels, and large rear wing of the 1990s rally car, with a hood that opens to reveal the EJ20 engine. A display base and clear case are included.
Hobby Japan's HJ64 line is adding four 1/64 scale finished models of the 1999 Subaru Impreza coupe. Three reproduce the Pure Sports Coupe WRX type R STi Version VI in Grand Blue Mica, Cool Gray Metallic, and Pure White, and one covers the WRX type R Sti VI Limited in Sonic Blue Mica. Each is based on a high-precision 3D scan of a real car. Preorders are open on Amazon at 2,970 yen each, with release set for January 31, 2027.
The theatrical anime film 'Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc' will begin streaming exclusively on Amazon Prime Video for Prime members starting September 19, 2026, exactly one year after its theatrical release. The announcement came from Prime Video's anime-dedicated X account on August 24, which posted the film's line 'I'll tell you everything' alongside an image of two hands wet with blue liquid. The film, produced by MAPPA and directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara, was released in Japanese theaters on September 19, 2025. It surpassed 29.7 billion yen in worldwide box office revenue as of June 19, 2026, and drew more than 6.55 million viewers in Japan within its first 103 days. The film has not been released on Blu-ray or DVD, making this streaming debut the first home release. A newly drawn visual depicting Chainsaw Man and Bomb fighting against a nighttime city backdrop was unveiled with the announcement. Original creator Tatsuki Fujimoto commented that he has watched the film about seven times, calling it a strange feeling that it will now be free for Prime members.
In a clip from the upcoming documentary TEZUKA! God of Manga, director Jorge Gutierrez recalls discovering Astro Boy on Mexican TV in the 1980s. He argues the serialized storytelling felt familiar to audiences raised on telenovelas, and that Tezuka's work was more culturally aligned with Mexico than the creator knew.
The theatrical film 'Chainsaw Man Reze Arc' has released a second collaboration apparel line with the brand glamb. Nine items featuring characters Reze, Denji, Aki, Angel Devil, Beam, and Pochita in street-style designs are now available for pre-order from July 1, 2026, at the official store and online.
MAPPA released the first of three planned 15th anniversary key visuals on June 16, featuring Reze from the Chainsaw Man Reze Arc movie. The illustration shows Reze walking from a dim alleyway toward a light source. The studio said it created the visual to mark its 15th anniversary with gratitude to supporters. The visual was illustrated by Shoichi, colored by Misaki Nakano, with backgrounds by Taichi Uchima and photography by Yusuke Awanowa. MAPPA celebrated its 15th anniversary on June 14. The Chainsaw Man Reze Arc film, based on Tatsuki Fujimoto's manga, was released last September with MAPPA handling animation production. The studio also announced a "MAPPA 15th Anniversary Lineup Presentation" on its YouTube channel for June 19 at 8:00 PM. The key visual project will include up to three installments, with new visuals released sequentially.
The Golden Trailer Awards, honoring the year's best film marketing, announced winners on May 28. Konami's Silent Hill f won Best Video Game Trailer. Netflix's KPop Demon Hunters won Best Animation/Family Poster. The live-action film of the horror game Exit 8 won Best Foreign Horror. Several anime and game-related nominees, including Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc and The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, lost in their categories.
The Sakuga Blog published a lengthy analysis of Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc on January 6, 2026, arguing that the film is the most representative example of how high-profile anime are currently made. The piece frames the movie as a direct escalation of the production methods used in popular TV anime, taken to theatrical extremes. It contrasts the film with other 2025 event movies, such as Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle and Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback, which the author says are either non-replicable exceptions or continuations of existing trends. The analysis focuses heavily on series director Tatsuya Yoshihara, tracing his career from his early work on Arve Rezzle through his time on Black Clover and his role as action director on the Chainsaw Man TV series. The article describes how Yoshihara brought a TV-anime sensibility to the film, prioritizing exaggerated, fun expressions over the more subdued character acting typical of theatrical releases. It also highlights the film's staff, including action director Souta "Honehone" Shigetsugu and a roster of animators frequently seen in current TV hits. The piece concludes that the film embodies the possibilities of current anime production methods and challenges similar projects to match it.