A review by parallax_kimchi
Fire Punch, Vol. 8 by Tatsuki Fujimoto

4.5

Fire Punch is like nothing else. It's sad and depressing and violent and dark but also deeply experimental and thoughtful and ends almost beautifully. There's plenty of stuff I've read or watched that felt like the creator splashing what they were thinking on the page/screen as it goes but nothing so cohesive as this. It's imperfect but it feels like it's entirely intentional and all coming from one kind of twisted but very singular mind.
The ending isn't what I expected at all, but still feels like it's what it was always heading towards somehow. I'll be thinking about it for a long while.