Chainsaw Man Author Tatsuki Fujimoto’s Earlier Works Are Getting An Anime Anthology

As for some of the names attached, Testuaki Watanabe (Blue Lock) is directing Mermaid Rhapsody, Kazuaki Terasawa (The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2) is directing and handling the screenplay for Woke-Up-as-a-Girl Syndrome, and Seishiro Nagaya (Backflip!!) is directing A Couple Clucking Chickens Were Still Kickin’ in the Schoolyard.

Fujimoto gave the following statement about the upcoming adaptation: “I was worried about whether it was really okay to turn works created during student days into anime, and whether the works would end up relying too much on someone else’s inspiration. However, although I haven’t seen them yet, I believe they have turned out to be decent works because they were made by talented directors.”

Having read both manga collections, whether excellent or a bit undercooked, each of the stories shows the trajectory of Fujimoto as a storyteller, and virtually all of them have moments that could truly shine when brought to the small screen.

With the announcement, the only major Fujimoto works left to be animated (outside the rest of Chainsaw Man, of course) will be his outstanding one-shot, Goodbye, Eri, and his first serialized work, Fire Punch. Last year, Studio Durian more than did justice to the author’s one-shot Look Back with an outstanding film adaptation. Meanwhile, MAPPA is releasing Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc quite soon, with it coming out on October 29 in the United States.