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ファイアパンチ 1
by Tatsuki Fujimoto
Full series review.
Fujimoto really undefeated in understand & writing camp.
Not really sure what to make of the incest stuff & the last volume or 2 kinda drag cuz they're repeating the themes the book already set up but the whole middle part is great and messy and sad and hopeless and very funny and somehow manages to blend all that stuff.
Chainsaw man feels a lot more polished in comparison, Fire Punch has lower lows and arguably slightly higher highs. Chainsaw man feels marketably-subversive in comparison while Fire Punch is really throwing everything at you here and daring you to walk away disgusted. Fujimoto lays out every dark, extreme, fucked up post-apocalypse trope within the first volume to set the tone here and never shies away from the depravity even as the comic tries to find meaning amidst it all. Idk if it does the best job finding an answer but it's a tall order and I respect the attempt.
The humor really is the thing that balances everything out, though. The story is so tragic that it almost wraps around to being comedic by itself but characters like Togata and the constant dick jokes and comedic timing of some of the otherwise horrifically disgusting and sad events ties it all together and somehow makes it possible to take the story seriously.
Still Idk about the incest thing tho. It's still there at the otherwise very ambitious ending which just adds a strange sour note that you can't look past. But I guess that's intentional, Fujimoto doesn't write stories that you finish reading feeling a clean resolution or singular emotion, it's much more interesting (& in keeping with the beauty of camp) to create that internal tension.
Fujimoto really undefeated in understand & writing camp.
Not really sure what to make of the incest stuff & the last volume or 2 kinda drag cuz they're repeating the themes the book already set up but the whole middle part is great and messy and sad and hopeless and very funny and somehow manages to blend all that stuff.
Chainsaw man feels a lot more polished in comparison, Fire Punch has lower lows and arguably slightly higher highs. Chainsaw man feels marketably-subversive in comparison while Fire Punch is really throwing everything at you here and daring you to walk away disgusted. Fujimoto lays out every dark, extreme, fucked up post-apocalypse trope within the first volume to set the tone here and never shies away from the depravity even as the comic tries to find meaning amidst it all. Idk if it does the best job finding an answer but it's a tall order and I respect the attempt.
The humor really is the thing that balances everything out, though. The story is so tragic that it almost wraps around to being comedic by itself but characters like Togata and the constant dick jokes and comedic timing of some of the otherwise horrifically disgusting and sad events ties it all together and somehow makes it possible to take the story seriously.
Still Idk about the incest thing tho. It's still there at the otherwise very ambitious ending which just adds a strange sour note that you can't look past. But I guess that's intentional, Fujimoto doesn't write stories that you finish reading feeling a clean resolution or singular emotion, it's much more interesting (& in keeping with the beauty of camp) to create that internal tension.