

Denji rips apart all kinds of things and kills devils in gory ways, and those blood-spattered depictions stand out. Yonezu: The thing that jumps out at you first about Chainsaw Man is its grotesqueness. Which aspects of it did you try to express through music? I didn’t know which one he was asking for, so I decided to do both.Ĭhainsaw Man can be looked at from all kinds of different directions. At first, it felt like he was talking about something really difficult, but when I thought about it more, I realized that the word he used, tencho, could be used to refer to both a change of key and also to a change in the tone of the music. He wanted a song that would fling you around, and before you knew it the song would have ended. A song with big differences between the highs and lows. I remember the director asking that I “make the song like a roller coaster.” Lots of transitions, with dramatic changes between parts, so it felt like different songs. Yonezu: I started by meeting the director and the people on the anime production end. How did you start actually going about writing the song? There’s still a bit of that in “KICK BACK,” but during the demo stage it was crazy drums with long synth phrases, true drum and bass style. Yonezu: First, I wanted to go with drum and bass. You said that even before you were approached, you’d been thinking about what kind of music you’d create.
