The primary season of Chainsaw Man got here to an finish this week, and with it the MAPPA anime’s development of eclectic, ingenious ending sequences, every episode’s credit soundtracked by a special artist. It saved one in all its finest selections for final in Eve’s “Combat Music,” which itself has a fairly slick anime video.
Animated and directed by frequent Eve collaborator Marie Yasui, recognized by their deal with Mariyasu, the video strikes a really completely different tone for Eve’s newest monitor than the ED sequence for Chainsaw Man’s twelfth episode, “Katana vs. Chainsaw.” The place that was all about chill vibes as Denji, Energy, and Aki calm down after their victory towards the Katana Satan, the precise music video for “Combat Music” is an element supernatural underground struggle membership, half rescue story, as a younger man bloodily brawls his means via demonic goons and their bosses with a view to shield a younger woman.
Mentioned younger woman seemingly can flip right into a dragon, which is simply one of many many cool issues about this beautiful video. The motion is crisp and splendidly framed, the world is straight away engrossing. However maybe probably the most enjoyable factor is that the video retains going after the top of the music, with a cute fake gag reel of the video’s characters performing like they have been truly capturing a music video. It’s a enjoyable technique to make this little world we’re launched to in only a handful of minutes really feel slightly extra alive past the demon-punching enjoyable occasions.
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