Chainsaw Man finally made its anime debut on Tuesday, and it came with a banger opening video that has received over 14 million views on YouTube and Twitter. The video features the song “KICK BACK” by Kenshi Yonezu, which was co-arranged by King Gnu and Daiki Tsuneta. Shingo Yamashita directed and storyboarded it, while Kazutaka Sugiyama served as the chief animation director with Riki Matsuura and Souta Yamazaki as animation directors. The video has over 9.1 million views on YouTube only, and you can watch it below:
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Meanwhile the official Twitter upload has over 5.4 million views. The opening also has a lot of movie references, which is a nice touch considering that the Chainsaw Man creator Tatsuki Fujimoto is a huge cinephile. Crunchyroll is streaming the anime, and they describe the story:
Denji is a teenage boy living with a Chainsaw Devil named Pochita. Due to the debt his father left behind, he has been living a rock-bottom life while repaying his debt by harvesting devil corpses with Pochita. One day, Denji is betrayed and killed. As his consciousness fades, he makes a contract with Pochita and gets revived as “Chainsaw Man”–a man with a devil’s heart.
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Source: Official MAPPA YouTube Channel & Chainsaw Man Twitter
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