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In the 恋・花・チェンソー・ガイド (Love, Flowers, Chainsaw Guide), which is a promotional booklet that audiences in Japan could obtain as the first promotional give-away for the Chainsaw Man: Reze Arc movie in theaters, Chainsaw Man mangaka Fujimoto Tatsuki and his editor Lin Shihei are interviewed. Throughout the interview, Fujimoto name-drops multiple anime, including Jin-Roh, FLCL, and The Eccentric Family. I’ve compiled what I consider to be some of the anime-related highlights.

FLCL: Fujimoto likens the starter rope pull cord growing out of Denji’s chest to the mechanical object growing out of Naota’s forehead.

Jin-Roh: When asked about the genesis of the Reze Arc, Fujimoto cites Jin-Roh as a favorite of his and that he used many elements of the movie as references for the Reze story arc. Fujimoto goes on to say that Jin-Roh was also the inspiration for the Bomb Devil since he loved the scene in Jin-Roh where a girl blows herself up by pulling a detonation cord, and he thought it would be really cool if someone used that same method as a means of transforming. Fujimoto also states that it was because Jin-Roh was such a big influence for the Reze Arc, and since Jin-Roh used the story of Little Red Riding Hood as an allegorical through-line throughout the film, he wanted to do something similar in the Reze arc, and settled on The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse from Aesop’s Fables.

The Eccentric Family (though he doesn’t specify if he’s referring to the original novel, the anime, or the manga): When discussing how he designed Reze’s character, Fujimoto mentions how his ideal female love interests are out of the male protagonists’ league. Fujimoto then goes on to bring up how he likes Benten because the protagonist is a tanuki in love with Benten, but to her he’s just food, and as such she doesn’t pay him any mind.

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo: When talking about the Bomb Demon’s design, Fujimoto said that when thinking about bombs and girls, he couldn’t not think about Torpedo Girl.

Aim for the Top (Gunbuster): For the car scene, Fujimoto was going for the kind of high energy burst of volume like from the background music used when the Gunbuster takes off.

Berserk: Tatsuki mentions how when the God Hand debuts, one of them manifests via a conglomeration of rats. Tatsuki wanted to do a riff on this wherein out of this pile of rats (a symbolic representation of pestilence) a beautiful woman emerged.

Crayon Shin-chan: Fierceness That Invites Storm! The Kasukabe Boys of the Evening Sun: This was Fujimoto’s answer to the question “What movie springs to mind first when thinking about 'movies for an anime TV series?” He said that movie even had some overlap with Reze Arc.

Miscellaneous: While not exactly a name-drop, Fujimoto also states that in chapter 41 (adapted in the Reze Arc movie), Dandadan’s Tatsuyuki Nobu drew the background for the scene where the assassin is standing in front of the sink. Fujimoto states that after seeing Tatsuyuki’s background he became confident it was going to turn into a great scene.

Fujimoto was also asked what kind of movie he would want to direct if he could become a director, and he said “an anime movie.”

Fujimoto also stated that he plays movies in the background while he works, and that these movies almost always tend to be animated movies, specifying that often it’s Disney or Ghibli movies, and that recently it’s been The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. He says that he loves movies like Mad Max, but if it were playing he’d stop working to watch it instead.

Other films he cited include: Typhoon Club, No Country For Old Men, Sharknado, Before Sunset, The Raid, Jaws