Reze Figures: Why I Still Remember Reze After Watching Chainsaw Man

I first watched Chainsaw Man on a weekend a few years ago.

I have always been a fairly homebody type of person. Most of my free time goes into anime and games. During that period, I did not have any game I really wanted to play, and the weekend felt empty. So I started looking for an anime to watch.

While browsing online, I came across a forum where many people discussed Chainsaw Man. Before that, I had already heard of this anime, but I had never actually opened it. That day, the forum caught my attention. Some people talked about Denji. Others mentioned Makima, Power, and Aki Hayakawa.

At first, I only read casually. After a while, those discussions made me curious enough to watch the anime myself.

How Chainsaw Man Pulled Me In

When I first started watching Chainsaw Man, I did not wait for any female character to appear. Denji caught my attention first. His life looked nothing like a normal protagonist’s life. Many anime leads begin with family, friends, dreams, or at least somewhere to return to. Denji had almost nothing.

He carried the debt left by his father and killed devils with Pochita every day just to eat. Later, Public Safety took him in, and he began living in Aki’s home. At that moment, I thought his life might finally move toward something normal.

However, Chainsaw Man never lets people watch too comfortably. More people appeared around Denji, but every relationship seemed to carry another purpose. Makima treated him well, yet her kindness never felt simple. Aki looked strict, but after they lived together for a while, I could see that he truly cared about that small household.

Power entered the story with noise and selfishness. Yet after she joined them, Denji’s daily life finally gained something close to companionship. They did not look like a family at first. After all the arguing, fighting, and strange routines, they gradually felt like people living under the same roof.

Reze Entered the Story in a Different Way

Because the earlier story had already shown devils, Public Safety missions, debt, blood, and messy relationships, Reze’s appearance changed the rhythm for me.

Power rushed into the story with noise. Makima appeared with a presence that made people keep guessing. Reze did neither. She first approached Denji at a phone booth on a rainy day.

Denji hid from the rain, and Reze happened to stand there too. No fight started. No exaggerated line appeared. Denji simply handed her a small flower. Reze accepted it, then invited him to the café where she worked.

That scene looked almost like the opening of an ordinary youth story. After watching so much blood, debt, Public Safety work, devils, and relationships built on usefulness, I naturally wondered whether Denji had finally met something normal.

The Rainy Phone Booth and That Flower Made Me Remember Reze

Reze first stayed in my mind because of a small action, not because of a dramatic entrance.

She stood inside the phone booth and accepted the flower Denji handed to her. That moment looked simple, but in Denji’s life, it meant something different. He rarely began a relationship with someone in such an ordinary way.

No one ordered him to go there. No one pushed him forward. He met a girl, gave her a flower, and received a reason to see her again.

When Reze invited him to the café, Denji wanted to go by himself. That detail mattered.

Reze appeared differently. She did not tell Denji what to do from the start. She did not treat him like a tool. She simply accepted the flower and brought him into the café. When I first watched it, I lowered my guard with Denji and felt that this might really become an ordinary encounter.

Looking back later, the flower no longer felt like only a beginning. Denji handed out trust. Reze accepted the flower while still carrying her mission. Yet when she later truly walked toward the café, that flower seemed to carry another meaning. It marked both the beginning of Denji’s deception and Reze’s later desire to make another choice.

So when I later thought about creating Reze Figures, the first image that came to mind was not her battle form. I thought of Reze in the rainy phone booth. She accepted the flower, brought Denji into the café, and also brought out everything that would never reach its ending.

The Café, Lessons, Night School, and Pool Stayed With Me

After Reze brought Denji into the café, their time together looked very everyday.

Reze talked with him, helped him study, brought him into the school at night, and taught him how to swim in the pool. In another anime, these scenes might simply belong to a normal romance plot. With Denji, they felt different.

Denji had experienced too little of this before. He did not grow up surrounded by care. His wishes always looked direct: eat enough, sleep well, receive affection, and live like an ordinary person.

Many people may think those wishes sound small. For Denji, they were never easy to receive.

Why Denji Took Those Moments Seriously

When Reze spent time with him, Denji naturally took those moments seriously. He may have truly thought that he had finally met someone who wanted to approach him because of who he was, not because of orders, Public Safety, or the Chainsaw Devil.

Yet the audience knows that Reze did not simply come to keep him company. She approached Denji with a mission. She knew who he was and what she had to take from him. She was not an ordinary café girl. She was a weapon who had gone through training, transformation, and orders before coming to Japan.

That is why Reze remained in my memory. She clearly came with a mission, but the scenes between her and Denji were hard to accept as completely false.

What Attracted Me to Reze Was Her Change Around Denji

If Reze had only carried out her mission from beginning to end, I probably would not have remembered her for so long.

What stayed with me was the way her reactions changed while she spent time with Denji.

Denji does not know how to hide himself well. He acts clumsy, direct, and easy to trust. His wish for an ordinary life always shows on his face. One invitation, one moment of closeness, or one ordinary-looking date could make him take everything seriously.

When Reze saw Denji like that, I could not believe she had no reaction at all.

They stood in different positions, but neither of them seemed like someone who could truly choose freely.

That is why, when Reze asked Denji to run away with her during the fireworks festival, I kept wondering what she really meant. Did she still follow the mission, or did she really want to leave her old life behind?

That sentence is difficult to treat only as a lie. Perhaps she still calculated. Perhaps she still tested Denji. But when she looked at him, she seemed to see a path leading away from the commands that had always controlled her.

Leaving Public Safety behind.
Leaving the mission behind.
Leaving the people who had always arranged her life.
Going somewhere with Denji where nobody knew them.

Even if that thought only appeared for one moment, Reze stopped being only a mission character.

The Kiss Under the Fireworks Tore Apart Denji’s Date

The fireworks festival scene is one of the parts I remember most clearly from Chainsaw Man.

Everything before it seemed to push Denji into a romance. The rain, the flower, the café, the lessons, the school, the pool, and then the closeness under the fireworks all connected together. It was easy to think that Denji had really met someone who wanted to run away with him.

At that moment, Reze revealed the truth.

She kissed Denji, then bit off his tongue. One second before, she still looked like the girl on a date with him. The next second, the entire relationship turned into a hunt.

That turn made me uneasy. The kiss could have confirmed their relationship, but it became the beginning of an attack instead. Denji thought he had gotten closer to Reze. What waited for him was direct harm.

The Battle Showed What Reze Had Become

The battle afterward carried a strong impact. After Reze became the Bomb Devil, she controlled explosions and moved at high speed. When she joined forces with the Typhoon Devil, Denji, Aki, and Beam all entered the fight.

While watching that part, I did not only think she was powerful. I cared more about why Reze had become that way.

She did not choose to become a weapon. People trained her, changed her, and shaped her into someone who could approach a target, deceive a target, and eliminate a target. She could smile, and she could kill. She could help Denji study, then drag him into battle in the next moment.

That before-and-after change made Reze stay in my mind.

The Beach Scene Made Me Feel Reze Wanted to Turn Back

In the end, Denji used chains to bind himself and Reze together, then dragged both of them into the sea. The water disabled her explosive ability, and the two of them fell out of the battle and arrived on the beach.

I remember this part more clearly than the explosions.

Reze said she had never liked Denji. That sentence did not sound like a true ending to me. It sounded more like she tried to force herself back into the mission. She had failed, and she had already wavered, but she did not dare to admit it directly.

Once she admitted it, she would no longer remain only a weapon inside a mission. She would become someone truly affected by Denji.

Denji’s response also felt very much like him. He did not say many beautiful words or make a complicated judgment. He simply suggested that they run away together and asked her to meet him at the café at lunchtime the next day.

That promise was ordinary. In another story, it might only be a small step in a romance. For Reze and Denji, it felt like the first chance to leave the route arranged for them.

Reze finally decided to go. She did not say many words or make an exaggerated expression. She simply walked toward the café. That action already showed that she wanted to see Denji and wanted to try walking once according to her own thoughts.

That felt harder to accept than her defeat. She had already decided to go. She did not remain unchanged. She really walked toward the café, toward Denji, and toward that lunchtime promise.

But Makima and the Angel Devil waited on the road.

Reze died on the way to meet Denji. The unfinished words she murmured before dying are still remembered by many people.

“Actually, I also never…”

She never finished the rest.

Why That Unfinished Sentence Stayed With Me

Because Reze never finished it, the sentence stayed there. Maybe she wanted to say that she never hated Denji. Maybe she wanted to say that she also wanted to go with him. Maybe it was the first time she wanted to admit that she was not only acting.

On the other side, Denji still waited at the café.

He held the flower and waited for the person who had promised to come at lunchtime. Reze would never arrive. He did not know that she had already walked toward the café, and he did not know that she had finally chosen to go.

Only one stretch of road stood between them. Makima cut off that road.

To Recreate Reze From the Anime, I Asked Many Sculptors to Adjust the Face

When I later decided to create this Reze Figures collectible, I did not think first about size or product parameters. I thought about how to recreate Reze from the anime.

Reze is not an easy character to make. Some characters only need the right hairstyle, outfit, and body shape. Reze needs more care than that. The hardest part is the face.

In the anime, she looks like an ordinary girl, but her expression cannot look too ordinary. When she accepts Denji’s flower, she shows a small smile, but that smile cannot become exaggerated. When she talks to Denji in the café, she looks natural, but her eyes cannot look as if nothing has ever happened.

How We Changed the Face Sculpt

To create that feeling, I asked many sculptors to adjust the face together.

The earliest version looked too much like a normal beautiful anime girl. It looked pretty, but it did not feel like Reze. Her eyes felt too direct, and the corners of her mouth looked too much like an ordinary smile. She looked more like a school character who had never gone through the story.

Later, we adjusted the eye angle and pulled back the expression, so she would not look as if she had completely opened herself emotionally. We also refined the lip line so that the expression would not become a simple happy smile.

The cheeks and jawline changed many times. Rounder cheeks made Reze look too childish. A sharper jawline made the character look too deliberately mature. We repeatedly compared scenes of her in the rainy phone booth, the café, the night school, and the fireworks festival. After that, we controlled the facial lines into a state closer to the anime.

I did not want a model that only had Reze’s hairstyle placed on it. I wanted people who know Chainsaw Man to see this Reze Figures piece and immediately think of the Reze who accepted the flower in the rain, then never made it to the café.

That is why the face sculpt took a lot of time. The eyes, mouth, cheeks, and jawline do not exist only to make her pretty. They make her look more like the girl from the anime who once made Denji believe in something.

The Full Silicone Body Helps Her Feel Closer to the Story

For the body of this Reze Figures piece, I chose a full silicone body.

I did not want a completely hard ordinary model feeling. Many of Reze’s memorable scenes in human form happen in everyday places: the café, the school, the pool, the street, and the road to the appointment. These scenes do not rely only on battle poses.

A full silicone body allows the body lines to look more natural. The arms, shoulders, waist, and legs do not look as stiff under light as hard plastic. When placed in a room, she does not feel like only a model inside a display cabinet. She feels closer to someone brought out from those story memories.

A silicone body also fits Reze’s human form better. She does not need exaggerated movement or an overemphasized body part. She suits standing there, or slightly turning her body, like she has just turned back from the café entrance.

I hope collectors first think of Reze herself when they see her, rather than seeing only a product.

Reze should not stay locked into only one standing pose. Many of her memorable scenes connect to setting and movement. She can stand like the girl in the café, turn slightly like she does during the night school scenes, or sit in a way that reminds people of her time with Denji.

The built-in skeleton allows collectors to adjust the head, arms, and body angle according to their display space. For example, she can tilt her head slightly, as if listening to Denji. Her arms can hang naturally, as if she is waiting by the street. She can also sit in a display area and feel closer to daily life.

However, Reze does not suit overly exaggerated poses. She does not need wide battle movements. The closer the pose is to the everyday scenes in the story, the easier it becomes to remember the parts that made her memorable.

The built-in skeleton does not exist to create showy movements. It helps collectors slowly find the version of Reze that feels closest to them.

Soft Rubber Hair Keeps the Face From Looking Too Rigid

Reze’s hairstyle does not look complicated, but poor handling can quickly make the figure stop feeling like her.

Her hair cannot become too thick or exaggerated. If the hair looks like one solid hard shell, the facial expression becomes stiff. For a character like Reze, whose expression needs careful control, overly hard hair can make the whole figure lose naturalness.

That is why this Reze Figures piece uses soft rubber hair.

Soft rubber hair does not make the character look frozen like hard hair can. The ends of the hair, bangs, and side outlines can fit the face more naturally, bringing the viewer’s attention back to the eyes, mouth, and facial lines.

Reze’s human form does not depend on an exaggerated hairstyle. What matters most is her face, which looks like she is speaking normally while still hiding many things. Soft rubber hair reduces the distance created by a hard model texture and makes the figure feel closer to her appearance in the story.

When displayed, soft rubber hair also makes the side profile look more natural. Especially under lower light, the hair does not take attention away from the face. Instead, it supports the facial outline.

The Jelly Chest Process Makes the Body Texture More Balanced

This Reze Figures piece also uses a jelly chest process.

This process does not aim to exaggerate the character. It makes the body texture feel more balanced. Reze’s human form does not suit an overdone visual style. Her body lines should work with the overall proportion and should not take attention away from her face or her story.

The jelly chest process gives the chest area a more natural visual and tactile texture. If this part feels too hard, the body can look like a normal plastic model and fail to match the full silicone body.

Proportion also needs control. Reze is not a character remembered because of an exaggerated body. Her body design should serve her human form and should not cover the expression, hairstyle, or story memories.

Here, the jelly chest process works more as a material detail, not as a selling point that takes over the character. I want people to see Reze first when they look at this Reze Figures piece, not one enlarged body detail.

The Outfit and Proportions Should Remind People of Reze in Human Form

Reze’s outfit should not become too decorative.

Her memorable moments in human form come from the café, the school, the street, and the appointment. She is not a character remembered through flashy clothing. So when creating Reze Figures, the outfit should make people recognize Reze at once, but it should not feel separated from the character.

The collar, cuffs, waistline, and hem should all fit the body proportion. Clothing that looks too loose can make the finished figure feel rough. Clothing that looks too tight can damage her original state.

I want the outfit to feel like it extends from the story, not like something designed separately just for display. That way, when she stands by a desk or inside a display cabinet, she will not look like a model detached from the character.

The overall proportion also needs to follow the character. The body should not enlarge certain parts only for visual impact, and the face should not become a common anime girl template. Reze’s recognizability comes from her whole state. Hairstyle, expression, body, outfit, and pose all need to work together.

This Reze Figures piece preserves how she appears in human form, not the explosive battle form and not a stranger version created through excessive decoration.

She does not need to stand among many effect parts, and she does not need large movements to catch attention. She suits a desk, a bookshelf, or a separate position inside a display cabinet. What makes her memorable is not only the battle, but the appointment that never reached its ending.

When I look at her, I think of Denji waiting in the café.
I think of that flower.
I think of the road she walked toward the café.
I think of the words she never finished before dying.

Full silicone, built-in skeleton, soft rubber hair, and jelly chest process do not work as random selling points. They work together to make Reze feel closer to a character in real space. She can hold different poses. Her body texture does not feel as stiff as ordinary hard models. Her hair and outfit also support the facial expression.

In this way, Reze does not feel like a character who only stays on the screen. She feels as if she has come from that story to my side.

Reze Figures in a Chainsaw Man Collection

Reze also fits naturally with other characters from the same world. Denji, Makima, Power, Aki, and Reze all leave different memories in the story. When collectors place them together, Reze does not need the loudest pose or the largest effect part. Her value comes from the scenes people remember when they look at her.

For collectors who want to explore more characters from this series, the Chainsaw Man figures collection can connect Reze with other figures from the same story.

Reze Figures Preserve the Road Reze Never Finished Walking

What made me want to create Reze Figures was not only the idea of making Reze into a beautiful character model. I wanted the figure to remind people of the road behind her.

Starting from the rainy phone booth, she accepted Denji’s flower and brought him into the café. Then came the lessons, night school, pool, fireworks, betrayal, battle, beach, promise, and the lunchtime appointment she never reached.

These scenes connected together are the Reze I remember.

She is not only a café girl, and she is not only a weapon. She is someone who learned to approach others through missions, but truly wavered while approaching Denji. Experiments, training, and commands arranged her life. In the end, she fell just when she wanted to choose once for herself.

So a good Reze Figures piece cannot only focus on whether the appearance looks similar.

It needs a controlled expression, natural body proportions, soft rubber hair, and an outfit that suits her. The full silicone body, built-in skeleton, and jelly chest process also need to serve her human form instead of becoming stiffly added selling points.

What I remember most about Reze is not the sound of explosions.

It is that she had already walked toward the café.
It is that Denji still waited with the flower.
It is that “Actually, I also never…” stopped halfway forever.
It is that she stood only one step away from no longer living as a weapon inside a mission, and from meeting someone as Reze herself.

This is what I believe Reze Figures should preserve.

FAQ

Who are Reze Figures suitable for?

Reze Figures suit collectors who remember Reze not only because of her appearance, but also because of her story with Denji. If you still remember the rainy phone booth, the café, the swimming pool, the fireworks, and the lunch appointment she never reached, this type of collectible will feel more meaningful.

Which version of Reze does this figure mainly recreate?

This Reze Figures piece mainly recreates Reze in her human form. Instead of focusing on the Bomb Devil battle form, I wanted to preserve the Reze who appeared in the café, school, pool, and the moments she spent with Denji.

Why does this Reze Figures piece use a full silicone body?

The full silicone body helps the figure feel closer to a character placed in real space. Reze’s human form suits natural posture and body lines more than a completely hard model texture. This material choice also works better with the everyday scenes that made her memorable.

What is the purpose of the built-in skeleton?

The built-in skeleton allows collectors to adjust Reze into different display poses. She can stand, turn slightly, sit, or hold a more everyday posture. This makes it easier to create scenes that remind people of the café, night school, street, or other moments from the story.

Why use soft rubber hair instead of hard hair?

Soft rubber hair helps the hairstyle fit the face more naturally. It avoids the stiff feeling that hard hair can create and keeps attention on Reze’s eyes, mouth, and facial sculpt.

What does the jelly chest process add to the figure?

The jelly chest process helps the body texture look more balanced and natural. It does not aim to exaggerate the character. Instead, it helps the chest area work better with the full silicone body and the overall figure proportion.

How should Reze Figures be displayed?

Reze Figures can sit on a desk, bookshelf, or inside a display cabinet. A standing pose, slight side turn, or seated pose can all work well. She does not need exaggerated battle effects to leave an impression.

How is this Reze Figures piece different from a normal anime girl figure?

A normal anime girl figure may focus mainly on appearance. This Reze Figures piece focuses more on character recreation. The facial sculpt, soft rubber hair, full silicone body, built-in skeleton, jelly chest process, outfit, and proportions all help bring the anime version of Reze closer to reality.

How should I care for a Reze Figures collectible?

Keep the figure away from direct sunlight, high heat, and overly humid areas. Since this figure uses full silicone and soft rubber hair, a clean display area can help reduce dust and preserve the overall appearance.

Where can I learn more about the official Reze Arc story?

For official information about the Reze Arc adaptation, you can visit the official Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc page.