Crunchyroll Just Made Five Hours of Chainsaw Man Free on YouTube—Catch Up Before the Reze Arc Movie

If you need to blast through Chainsaw Man before the Reze movie lands, Crunchyroll is basically handing you a cheat code: a free YouTube watch party that runs through the whole first season and tees up the new trailer at the end.

Watch party details

• When: Friday, October 11 at 10:00 AM Pacific / 1:00 PM Eastern
• Where: YouTube, via Crunchyroll
• What: The entire 12-episode first season streamed across roughly five hours
• Bonus: It wraps with the trailer for Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc

Crunchyroll laid out the plan on its site, and yes, it is free. If you are new to Denji and Pochita, this is a painless way to catch up. We are not talking a One Piece-length endurance run here.

Quick refresher: what you are watching

Season 1 follows Denji, a broke kid buried in debt, who ends up bonded with his chainsaw-dog devil Pochita and gets recruited into hunting devils for a living. The elevator pitch is exactly what it sounds like: boy meets devil, boy gets chainsaws for a face and arms, things escalate violently. The adaptation blew up in 2023 and turned the series into one of anime's buzziest titles almost overnight.

So why a movie instead of season 2?

Instead of rolling straight into a second season, the story is jumping to a canon theatrical film. That pivot is deliberate, according to MAPPA leadership:

"A way to capture a broader audience worldwide."

Not the most shocking strategy these days, but for a series this big, it is a notable move.

When the movie hits theaters

'Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc' opens in US and UK cinemas on October 24. If you want to be synced up before then, the watch party timing is pretty ideal.