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3.75 AVERAGE
3.75 AVERAGE
All the short stories were really weird, but I enjoyed them all!
adventurous
funny
inspiring
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
I love how Fujimoto has always written weird stuff
(A Couple Clucking Chickens: 6/10
(A Couple Clucking Chickens: 6/10
Sasaki Stopped a Bullet: 7/10
Love is Blind: 8/10
Shikaku: 8/10)
dark
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
N/A
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
weird, gross, oddly hilarious: exactly what i expect from tatsuki fujimoto
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Couple Clucking Chickens: 7/10
Sasaki Stopped a Bullet: 6/10
Love is Blind: 6/10
Shikaku: 7/10
Sasaki Stopped a Bullet: 6/10
Love is Blind: 6/10
Shikaku: 7/10
adventurous
inspiring
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
FUJIMOTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Love that guy, anyway there were 4 one-shot stories in this volume:
1. A Couple Clucking Chickens were still kickin' in the Schoolyard
His first published work ever. I love how you can see how he progressed and improved after this one. The story is pretty cute!
2. Sasaki stopped a bullet
Kinda cringe, let's pretend this one doesn't exist.
3. Love is Blind
Cute as heck and the art is much more improved. Slowly getting to Fire Punch/Chainsaw Man Artstyle.
4. Shikaku
Art and Paneling are really nice, story itself is a bit mid. Classic, weird Fujimoto characters though!
Gotta get that second volume...
Love that guy, anyway there were 4 one-shot stories in this volume:
1. A Couple Clucking Chickens were still kickin' in the Schoolyard
His first published work ever. I love how you can see how he progressed and improved after this one. The story is pretty cute!
2. Sasaki stopped a bullet
Kinda cringe, let's pretend this one doesn't exist.
3. Love is Blind
Cute as heck and the art is much more improved. Slowly getting to Fire Punch/Chainsaw Man Artstyle.
4. Shikaku
Art and Paneling are really nice, story itself is a bit mid. Classic, weird Fujimoto characters though!
Gotta get that second volume...
dark
funny
fast-paced
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Content warnings: Genocide, humans as food, sexual harassment, attempted sexual assault, attempted gun violence, dead parent (father), body horror, gore, child neglect, attempted robbery
This first collection has four stories. “A Couple Clucking Chickens Were Still Kickin’ in the Schoolyard” is about two kids who wear chicken suits to hide from aliens. There’s some rumination on the way we consider cattle, but mostly it’s a story of deception and the lengths people are willing to go to survive.
“Sasaki Stopped a Bullet” might be difficult for some folks to read, as this one involves a rejected former colleague attempting to murder a school teacher. A student steps up and uses remarkably juvenile leaps of logic to avert a tragedy. This one I think I’ll be spinning in my head the most. Much like in Chainsaw Man and from what I experience so far in Fire Punch, though the answer to who and what is a villain seems easy, there’s a challenge to open one’s mind to compassion. The ending took my breath away.
Aliens strike again in “Love is Blind,” where a teen’s attempt to confess his love to his class president is interrupted by a robbery, and that robbery is interrupted by an attempted annihilation by alien technology. It’s fun. The teens are empty-headed, and I got a hearty chuckle out of this one.
The final story, “Shikaku,” is about contract killer who is summoned by a vampire to kill him before he dies of boredom. The romance in this one is so quirky and unexpected, and the way the crime and fantasy genres meld really resonated with me (especially as someone who also wrote a fantasy with crime elements). It might be my favorite in terms of immediate enjoyment of the entire duology of collections.