This near-perfect anime masterpiece from 2025 is finally streaming on Crunchyroll

Love is cruel, but it should never be as cruel as it is to Denji and Reze From the wistful bliss of My Dress-Up Darling to the tactical mind games of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, romance in anime can take on many forms. Beautiful as they are heartbreaking, these stories often give love a fighting chance and offer some sense of catharsis. Chainsaw Man — The Movie: Reze Arc strips that away entirely. If that sounds like your kind of movie, we've got good news. Chainsaw Man — Reze Arc is finally streaming on Crunchyroll, six months after its theatrical release. Based on the manga by Tatsuki Fujimoto, Chainsaw Man has always been more interested in cruelty than comfort — in the kind of tragedy that doesn’t just end badly, but makes you question whether happiness was ever really on the table from the start. Nowhere is that more apparent than in its protagonist, Denji, whose idea of love and normality has been shaped less by hope than by deprivation, debt, and survival. Only in Makima does Denji find some fragile sense of hope, largely because she takes him in, feeds him, and gives him structure within the Public Safety Devil Hunters. Who wouldn’t grow attached in a situation like that? Den