'Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26' Release Date Confirmed for December 26!

With over 3.36 million viewers, the film 〈Chainsaw Man: The Reze Arc〉 has proven the undeniable box office power of its creator, Tatsuki Fujimoto. The short story collection adapted into a film, 〈Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26〉, has officially set its release date for December 26, unveiling the main poster and trailer.

〈Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26〉 is a collection of short masterpieces that encapsulates the brilliant imagination and explosive talent of the genius writer Tatsuki Fujimoto from the ages of 17 to 26, who created 'Look Back' and 'Chainsaw Man'.

The two main posters released prominently feature images representing the worlds of Part 1 and Part 2, visually embodying the core emotions of Tatsuki Fujimoto's works. The Part 1 poster showcases a dynamic pose of the protagonist from 〈Sasaki-kun Stopped the Bullet〉 reaching out against the backdrop of Earth, capturing Tatsuki Fujimoto's explosive imagination and youthful energy. Meanwhile, the Part 2 poster centers around an impressive scene of the girl from 〈The Prophecy of Nayuta〉 holding a massive sword, vividly revealing the fateful and emotional intensity of the Part 2 shorts.

The main trailer released alongside it compresses the emotional lines and genre nuances of the shorts drawn by Tatsuki Fujimoto from his late teens to mid-twenties into a single flow. The impulses and precariousness of youth, twisted love and madness, cosmic-scale romance, and questions of identity rapidly intersect, filling the screen with the raw emotions and imagination characteristic of Fujimoto's works. Impressive scenes symbolizing each short connect rhythmically, promising to allow viewers to experience both the origins and expansions of the 'Tatsuki Fujimoto Universe'.

Additionally, the tagline “Pure, wild, innocent, and provocative from 17 to 26” makes a strong appearance, emphasizing that this work is the animation that contains his early emotions and imagination in their purest form. Audience members who experienced the film in advance screenings remarked, “These shorts allowed us to see the roots of Chainsaw Man!”, “Each part updates the record every time it ends”, “The author's mental state is wonderfully crazy”, “Truly the devil of short stories”, among other praises. This trailer reaffirms audience reactions, further revealing the genre breadth and emotional density of the eight shorts, heightening anticipation for the official release on December 26.