The fact that Fujimoto had the authors of : Spy x Family, Hell's Paradise, and Dandadaan as his assistants shows how influential and inspiring the new gen mangakas are it's great
@griffy your comment is completely fine and probably is true but it looks so bot like. the first line words and the rest is the link and ofc you're the first reply
i would not call it realistic. Its more simplistic - chaotic yet Lines are alive and breathing. He is contrast to Miura. Which was had as detailed and clean lines. And i think its good that artist are having hes unique art style.
It's more detailed than average manga. He didn't use techniques that a realism would use. It's good not because it's so realistic. It's because the details are right in place.
@@畫一隻狗溝 in chainsaw hes cranking those chapters weekly. maybe he works on it for a year til he has a huge buffer of chapters but releasing 20 page manga weekly cant be easy either way. The art style is nice and some panels are way more detailed.
I dont think theres a single manga artist that understands how to display human emotion as well as he does, reading chainsaw man part 2 the amount of feeling hes been able to give the faces is a masterpiece
I remember finishing Chainsaw Man for the 3rd time and wondering “Wonder what else Fujimoto has written” and reading Fire Punch and… well it’s a manga. I thought Chainsaw Man was messed up in parts but apparently it was Fujimoto being pretty tame.
I think the essence of what makes Fujimoto such a great author is that he writes with the mindset of "I'm not making this for you, I'm making this for me. It just so happens that you get to read it."
@@arandompasserby1725 In the context of what that mangaka was saying, Oda is the first to focus on long arcs and eschew the "cliffhangers" (or anything similar) at the end of each chapter to keep readers interested
Fire Punch is a deconstruction of post-apocalyptic settings and the characters and tropes surrounding them by reminding the reader that if one were to exist, literally EVERYONE would be too traumatized to function as a sane human being.
Tatsuki Fujimoto's feel of art style and framing are so unbelievable. Characters so expressive yet still alive. It's greatly enjoyable just to look at his drawings.
also his fight sequences just feel like I'm watching an entire cinematic movie. The movements in character interaction is the best fucking panelling I've ever seen in manga world
He is a lover of cinema. Everything has something to do with movies whether directing, critiquing, photography in his stories and it shows. His love for movies is seen in every etch and was able to meld both much like junji ito was able to tap horror into pages or beserks crazy worlds. Types of artists who are feverish in their passion are who I look up to.
Exactly! So much so that the beginning of the opening of Chainsaw Man is rotoscoping from classic horror or action films (+ a scene from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes🤷🏻♀️) The opening of the anime itself is already a cinematic work!
Fire Punch really did feel like watching an artist realize this might be their one opportunity to say everything they've ever wanted to with their art so they threw every idea they had into it. Chaotic, not always well paced, sometimes confusing, yet utterly raw and memorable.
@@El_Andru Not always to me. It almost never slows down, always firing forward like it's afraid it's going to be cancelled any second now. Which ends up serving the plot SUPER well at times! In terms of criticisms it's a nitpick, not a fatal flaw!
This isn't said enough, but the way Gigguk sells something is amazing. The way he carefully words things to make it seem intriguing, with the perfect music at the perfect times... Gigguk, if you ever see this, I hope you realize just how amazing you are. If Tatsuki Fujimoto is a genius manga writer, then Gigguk my friend, you are a genius reviewer.
Gigguk undersells his self a lot. I think he has a massive influence on which anime is gonna be popular or not. Basically, if the anime got featured on this channel, it feels like it got a seal of approval.
And if Fujimoto himself wasn't enough, check out his assistant's work: Dandadan. If you love chainsaw man wacky style, you'll love Dandadan and it's LSD story
With goodbye eri, it becomes very apparent that Fujimoto studies stories of all kinds to a surgical degree. Besides his storytelling, he knows that the image is king. For example, Chainsaw Man ch. 76. He prioritizes the image over storytelling for a bit to provide maximum impact to the reader. (Trying to avoid spoilers so I will be vague) why are they at a beach? Why is the halo above her head made of her own brain matter? Why chains? Why are they floating above the water? None of it is explained or furthers the plot very much, but the image is burned into your psyche. The image is strong and that’s all that matters.
@@k.-flynn one of the spoilers i know is about the darkness devil probably the only reason i read the manga at all (everyone had (at least once) been scared shitless by the dark when they were kids)
This man is basically Chaos, I'll believe whatever crazy story this person supposedly did, from Roleplaying as his non-existent sister on Twitter to eating his dead pet fish
you only mentioned his work, the best part of what makes tatsuki Fujimoto such a goat is his mentorship and support for his fellow mangaka. He helped the author's of Spy x Family, Dandadan, and Hell's paradise. Two of them were his direct assistants, that he himself went on to assist in their works. Dude is talented, hardworking, and nurturing.
I read firepunch in mor eor less one full sitting while on a plane across country. All I have to say is that Fujimoto sincerely understands the heavy themes and concepts he writes about, and I couldn't respect him more for it. I have never seen, not by any other person's work, related to and felt the pure weight and understanding of depression and existentialism. Fujimoto just *gets it*. I truly feel that he does. There's this interesting concept of existentialism and nihilism of the desire to not exist. Not the suicidal "I want to die" feeling, but to simple stop being, or to have never been born. Towards the later 3rd of Fire Punch, this confused feeling of escapism and adverse to self-accountability arises and, as odd as it is, it makes sense. And Fujimoto isn't just an author that presents these themes and let's the audience deal with it, Fujimoto also supplies the reader with his own take on thoughts on them. A constant theme I saw in FP was recursion. Specifically when it comes to depression and existentialism. Questions like "whats the point" or "why improve if it's just going to get back again" and oddly enough, I've read Fujimoto's take on these questions as something that sounds simple but is rather complex when you really get down into it. You improve upon things, and you weather through the bad in order to get to the good. That's the point. The fact that, there *is* good. You can feel the pain of living up until you become numb, and things suck for a while, but then, you get numb to that as well. You get bored of being numb and *something* happens. That something is what you look forward to. And it won't last forever, things may get bad again, but then; recursion. Thing will get good again. My interpretation of FP may be completely different but it's given me so much to think about in nothing short of ~80 chapters. It's truly impressive and I do hope it gets a faithful adaptation
When I read fire punch I indulged mostly in shonen, so it was a real change for me. The way his power didn't make him special in a good way, he wasn't that much powerful, he was just an anomaly. The way he was taken advantage of when he entered the city because he was an insane guy with a desire for revenge but no insight about this ultra-dystopia of a world. I feel like the manga creates a conversation about when hopes become delusions. A nice contrast to classic shonen which is all about hope and hard work, and a bit of being born lucky. It's also a society that was fascinating in its craziness and how it breaks all the ethics just for the sake of existing a bit longer, I don't know if there is anything of value that Agni could bring to this world.
Fujimoto might end up being one of the most influential mangakas ever. So, Firepunch, Look Back, Goodbye Eri, Chainsaw Man Part 1, and Chainsaw Man Part 2 (ongoing) are all a part of his impressive line up BUT THATS NOT ALL: Fujimoto's assistants are also making bangers so, the big three assistants that I'm aware of making things are: 1. Yuji Kaku -Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku -Ayashimon 2. Tatsuya Endo -Spy X Family 3. Yukinobu Tatsu -Dandadan On top of that Gege Atakami has stated that he's a huge fan of Fujimoto's work too, so there's that too.
@@nelisezpasce Man, I wish I knew. Seriously, all of his assistants' works are amazing (Dandadan being my favorite and Ayashimon being my least favorite mostly due to it being axed too soon, but still a good read). The guy just spews talent
@@aspergale9836 They were at some point, not sure if they still are though But yea, Yuji Kaku, Tatsuya Endo, Yukinobu Tatsu all worked on Firepunch. Yukinobu later ended up working on Chainsaw Man as well and he also worked on Yuji Kaku's Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku as an assistant
Was wondering if you’d include "just listen to the song" but it’s whatever. Anyway, Fujimoto is the only guy who could make 4 pages completely blank and still have me thinking "damn, these pages kinda fire tho"
fujimoto is a master of "show don't tell", it's amazing because how he does his panels makes me experience the manga in more ways than one, not just visual. I'm reading it but it's so well done that I imagine BGM too, his love for film really shows. take the darkness devil scene for example; the depressing atmosphere was so well built that I could imagine ominous music blaring as the thing revealed itself
@@labeilleautiste6318 sounds like copeium he's a great artist but y'all hype up his stuff too much that you can't see some of the flaws in how's it's presented or executed Great artist again but not without faults
The best part about Fujimoto is that he's a fantastic illustrator. He doesn't add too much detail to affect the release schedule or make the panels unclear, it's just the right amount EVERY time. There's always just enough to get the plot or emotions across, with no wasted ink.
@@sillyweebanimeisforkids5917 his art really remind me how Tokyo Ghoul series work.. its a mess at first.. but in RE: maan Ishida Sui really good... less fucked up tho then Chain Saw man.. but still
Unsolicited opinion, but worth a mention: Personally his art looks soulless to me So remember that one person that just doesn't find it awesome, quite the contrary in fact I'm glad so many enjoy his work, I must be just an exception
@Nelisez Pasce A lot of his characters can appear soulless to me, eg. Makima. Though I think this is purposeful especially in Makima’s case. I’m just curious to see what led you to your idea
Fugimoto’s one shots are an example of letting the artist & the story breathe. Those stories needed to be that long cause they need to breathe. I’ve read shonen manga for decades but drawing, writing & sometimes coloring 19 pages of manga for 50 weeks out the year for several years just isn’t the best environment for story telling. Good for sales sure but not for creativity. Every artist that does it successfully is a genius prodigy imo but the stories always comes with faults. First rule of creative writing is “you will rewrite” but when do you have time to rewrite when you have to draw, ink, & submit your 19 pages every week. Weekly format isn’t the best but it takes a lot to do it & i respect the artists that can also tell a story with the limitations of a page number. I want to see more artist just draw just to create & not have the boundaries of an editor, publication, page count etc… Fugimoto somehow did that so i hope some things are changing. Remember when Kishimoto did that one shot inbetween Naruto. Kubo did burn the witch. Yea neither was good but i wish they explored more instead of being stuck doing one series for 15 years & burning out for who knows how long.
one of my fav parts about fujimoto’s works is his ability to use “show don’t tell” acting but in art form with gorgeous panels that convey all the feelings and emotions without a characters internal monologue i love it so much
It helps that Fujimoto is 28 years old, meaning that he grew up watching and reading the same media we did, as his work seems to rely on our knowledge of those tropes to pull the rug under us every... Single... time. I'm here for it!
As a 25-year-old someone who also writes fiction, I have never felt a closer connection with an author. Movies like Spider-Man 2 were my formative experiences in learning what characters were. When I read the fight with Katana Man on the train, I knew that he had the same experience. Same with Chapter 102 and the first Spider-Man film.
Fujimoto is my generation’s Araki. Hell, I’d even say he’s my generation’s Miura. I love every single panel he makes and I can’t wait to see where he goes in life.
The last few pages of Goodbye Eri make up one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. It manages to make fun of every story ever told while being completely ridiculous and stupid at the same time. Fujimoto at his finest
You know what really interesting? Fujimoto take lots of film idea into his work. It's explained why his pacing is very fluid and why his character feel so real, he respects what is being shown to us. Everything has a reason to be framed, and his story telling is exactly like a short movie. You don't see many people able to crossover with their interests skillfully.
Honestly Garnt just made a 17 minute statement on why you should read Chainsaw Man, before the anime. Fujimoto is great and you experience his weirdness as unfiltered as possibles.
@@oliver-04 We know. The point is that everything said about those mangas also apply to Chainsaw Man and should also be experienced as the unbridled creation of this insane person.
@@oliver-04 Dude when he said that I got so freaking mad. I love Gigguk but this guy is a toddler when it comes to anime and manga. If it weren't for my history of armed robbery and assault against the police and others I would totally have a youtube channel and it would be way better than his but it's better I lay low.
The thing you need to keep in mind with Fujimoto’s writing is that he values theming above all else. He is fine sacrificing pacing, and clarity if it gets the strong narrative themes and feelings he is trying to convey
For lack of a better comparison, it reminds me alot of miyazaki's movies. He focuses on themes and the feelings above all else in his works and the characterization of the characters take a back seat as a result. They both do it masterfully, which is how their pieces seem to just hit different with panels/scenes where nothing is being said and the setting is just meant to breathe
@@tartali63this is very late, 3 weeks late so it might not be relevant anymore but if you’re “weak-stomached” you probably shouldn’t read it. i think im not very ‘weak-stomached’, guess that would mean i think i’m ‘strong-stomached’, lol. even then i was shocked and repulsed by some of the twists, actions, and revelations of the story.
@@thefoolishfool lol its like a bit late but not rlly.. i read a little bit of it and was too disgusted of all of the r@pe stuff to continue. i think i stopped at when that little girl was used for electricity? so thx for convincing me further to stop... it kinda sucks bc i love these themes but damn it was a lot lol
I remember when I first heard of Fire Punch,and someone described it as "the best anti-suicide AD ever made"... And man,reading through it with that in mind, it hit me so hard. The village chief at the very start wraps up the entire manga in a little package,despite the insanity that follows:"Everyone. Death is the one thing that you must never accept. Even if you yield to other pains,refuse death". And that's what Agni ends up doing,no matter the carnage that is left around him. Yeah,it might not be the most straightforward story ever told,but it really gets at Fujimoto as a writer,I feel. I've heard someone else say something to the effect of "Fire Punch disregards narrative cohesion to instill as much emotion as possible" and I wholeheartedly agree. You can feel it in every chapter,every panel. The absurdity of Fujimoto's style,be it the events of the story,the toilet humor,the constant movie parallels,only make the really dark or depressing nature of his mangas easier to swallow,and with it, it helps the reader understand just how incredibly heartfelt they really are at their core,no matter how bleak the future seems. That's why,as Fujimoto himself points out in Goodbye Eri,all of his stories incorporate some sort of supernatural or inexplicable element to them,despite how grounded some appear to be. It's that insanity that keeps the characters afloat,even helps them resolve their inner turmoil sometimes,but the feelings behind them are never downplayed,or treated as a joke. Now that I think about it, Fujimoto is probably one of my favourite examples of an absurdist in any media.
Fire Punch is just such an underrated masterpiece imo. I read it without reading any reviews or what it's about beforehand, so seeing all the negative reviews about it after finishing it really surprised me. I always see so many people rate something negatively just because the ending wasn't "happy".
@@chlebi_ It was okay I guess. I'd put it in the same boat as PunPun. It's good but the hype around it leaves one disappointed when they actually try it. Kinda like comparing what's on the box of a frozen dinner with what you really get inside the package.
I'll be honest, his stuff reads like a bad joke to me. Goodbye Eri, the dude has lost everything, had a shit life, but finding Eri again it's like 'Nah, I'm good for some reason now'. Fire Punch is insanely depressing to start with, insanely stupid that so many super powered individuals can be so easily subdued and insanely crazy with literally every other aspect of it. And Look Back is just super fucking depressing. 'Congrats, you magically saved your friend only to kill them again with that same magic! Good job! Keep drawing art you art monkey'. Never read chainsaw man but I took Giggurks advice and I think he's high while writing this. The art is good, but the stories are really, really bad, and the lack of any grounding, even with the fantasy stuff, is just like... 'Okay, anything can and will happen, so don't expect this story to make sense.'
@randomguy9777 I fully believe that the message of the entire story is to keep finding an uncompromising will to live despite how much hurt there's on the inside and outside,even at the cost of hurting others. Look at Agni like you said,he's a man constantly in pain from a fire that will never go out,and yet a disembodied voice keeps telling him to move forward...and there,despite all the despair,you still find glimpses of humanity,like any scene he shares with Togata. *Spoilers* The last chapter perfectly encapsulates this entire theme: Judah fullfills her purpose,the earth being no more,and has to wander the cosmos for what feels like an excruciating eternity,only to find solace one last time with Agni,as they go to sleep with a smile on their face...it didn't matter wether they literally suffered for millenia,the fact that they kept on living despite it seemingly being no reason to do so, eventually made them find some happiness. It was all worth it. And this goes for the other characters too,btw. Even in their deaths,people like Togata,or even Doma,found some Solace,and a reason to live and keep others alive. This is what I see in Fire punch,at least. It's a story so incredibly devoid of hope throught,that the moments of calm spent between a couple of characters hit all the hardest,even in their mundanity. THOSE are why there's a reason to keep going in a desolate wasteland at all. It doesn't matter why the chief said that phrase,only what it means in the grander scheme of Fujimoto's message:never give up,no matter how bleak things may be.
@randomguy9777 Actually, he could die! That's shown at the very start of the story:he can repress his regenerative abilities and end the suffering, but then his sister tells him to "LIVE" as she dies, and that sets him on his quest. Even when he has nothing left and the guilt is suffocating him, he keeps reminding himself of that voice that's asking him to live, instead of giving up...and after all the tragedy, that was the right choice Saying otherwise would be akin to believing that these characters struggles are meaningless, and the story with it, and I don't believe this is some kind of nihilistic narrative. The moments of clarity in the madness are always worth the pain living seems to cause you, and I couldn't agree more with that statement. Of course it's just one perspective, not the absolute truth, but that's how I see it too
That’s why I love Gigguk, you can tell he pours his soul to make his videos and squeeze in that humor we all have grown to love. Keep on keeping on GRANT❤️
i heard gigguks general synopsis of fire punch, tapped out, read the entire thing in a few hours and holy shit. I was not expecting anything that happened. I could not have predicted a single thing that happened in that manga. 10/10 top tier.
It’s amazing, def recommend reading fujimotos other works. Chainsaw man speaks for itself (it’s my personal favorite work of all time), but look back and ESPECIALLY goodbye eri are masterpieces
@@brycecartwright2403 Masterpieces? CSM has one of the worst tonal whiplash in manga. And second half is just mediocre, what are you talking about? Unpredictable doesn’t mean good lol
@@jackjohn4156 why are you going into the comments of a comment of a video of a series you don’t like just to say you don’t like it? If you didn’t like it, that’s more than valid, but just move on from it and don’t think about it. Just let people like what they like and ignore it if it bothers you
@@brycecartwright2403 Weirdly enough i only respond to ppl who either 1) ask me why about my opinion or 2) say bad stuff about other mangas/animes to bring up their own mangas/animes… And so if i ignore them, they just keep doing it/spread this childish acts until someone comes up with actual criticism and tell them nope it’s their opinion and if they want objective criticism i will just give it to them. Nothing less or more. And you would be surprised how they react actually… Edit: before you say why i responded to you. Well the word masterpiece is easily used now to a fault even that some communities use it in a very wrong way.
I think one of the biggest things to keep in mind when reading Fujimoto's work is how deeply he loves cinema. Goodbye Eri shows this quite prominently, but every single one of his stories is riddled with cinema tropes, imagery that copies or references famous scenes from movies and a kind of visual storytelling that makes you tear through his pages like a flip-book (or, you know, a movie). This is part of what makes his work so unique IMO; you're not just reading a manga, you're watching a movie in manga form.
In every one of Fujimoto's four major works (with the exception of look back) there is at least one scene where the main character sits down with another major character to watch a movie. I think that's pretty telling of how much cinema has impacted his life and his Style.
yes, that what makes Fujimoto so great. His art is not really amazing; unique, yes, but not Oh Great or Yusuke Murata level. But his visual storytelling, his use of panels, composition, etc. shows you that he's more of a filmmaker than a pure mangaka.
I think he said in an interview that he loves movies and wanted to make one but can't because movies are team projects and require lots of money so he started drawing manga
fucking THIS. I love how he's not picky about the films he likes either- Fire Punch has that action sequence where Togata's humming the Indiana Jones theme the entire time, and the most recent chapter of Chainsaw Man was riffing on the bridge scene from Spider-Man. But at the same time he'll demonstrate a really in-depth knowledge of how shot composition and timing works in movies and how to apply that to manga, all while taking cues from classic paintings and cult films like A Boy And His Dog in equal measure with the capeshit.
@@fffffffffff8402 It's absolutely nothing like KnY, but that doesn't matter If you can't enjoy something because is popular that's your own personal hell my dude
I really like Goodbye Eri. If you were to teach a high-school English class focused on how to read works thematically (something much of the internet is absolutely terrible at, I might add) I honestly think it would be a great place to start. It's not subtle with its themes, but it refrains from stating them directly to your face and they're more detailed and specific than a lot of traditional works. They're more concrete, you can grab them firmly and there's enough meat to sink your teeth in a bit. And, importantly, it's a story that's absolutely screaming at you to read it that way. You cannot read that story and consider a completely literal reading of events to be sufficient or at all the point being gone for. Even if you're not actively analyzing it as you go, that final panel just takes all these thematic threads and resolves them in one single masterstroke that you *cannot* ignore. So if you're not used to thematic readings, it's a good place to start. If you are competent at thematic readings, it's a wonderfully told bundle of ideas that all come together and resolve in a way that's just so satisfying. All this to say that I think Fujimoto's greatest strength is that he has arthouse sensibilities but executes on them in a very accessible way, giving the average person the feeling of experiencing something deep and out-there without being so challenging as to be off-putting. That may sound kind of back-handed but it's a balance that's genuinely both impressive and valuable.
This is exactly how I feel....as a manga "newbie" I feel so enlightened and moved to read more of this kind of "arthouse-ish" writing/manga. It's so different from other Shonen...it's more Seinen. It's kinda like how only the most expert person can explain complex topics to a child. That's the most impressive status to have.
> to read works thematically (something much of the internet is absolutely terrible at, I might add) I'm glad somebody finally said it. Most internet analysts are total amateurs. If you want to learn how to write or analyze writing read a book, like Rob Mckee's 'Story Structure', or Francine Prose's 'Reading Like a Writer.'
As someone who’s up to date with the Chainsaw Man manga, from watching the trailer alone, I’d say MAPPA arguably improves on the already astounding artwork in the manga. The fluidity of the animation is out of this world. I think this is undoubtedly going to be MAPPA’s greatest work so far. I guarantee that the hype behind it going to surely live up to everyone’s expectations.
@@A.R.Shahan nah, the art still hits different for both in the manga. Anime can't have the essence of a singular entity in its artwork, due to how many people work on it. Mappa is great though.
By the end of Goodbye Eri, I was laughing and crying at the same time. I have never had such a mix of emotions that made me so confused but extremely happy at the same time. The amount of processing I had to do to fully absorb what I had just read was just a roller coaster. I loved reading every single page and I would highly recommend it to anyone. This One-Shot is truly a masterpiece.
I liked look back slightly more but I've never felt such a rollercoaster of emotions like that since reading Fire Punch lmao. Fujimoto is an absolute genius and such a breath of fresh air in the manga world
I love how SO MUCH of Gigguk's background music comes from the different Toaru anime OSTs. I recognize them every time, and it makes me smile. Those OSTs are so good.
If i may add one thing. This man has the original spirit of anime. As a westerner i was drawn not just to the fights scenes and the robots. It is a raw insanity and madness that anime used to challenge my mind with in every series. This when it was just a weird indy thing that would pop up on SBS. I'm very happy this guy is young and making a ton more stuff and excited to see what's next.
It's not that Fire Punch is Underrated but Manga Readers always Hiding Inside the Rock only to come out when their favorite Manga get a Anime Adaption.
Chainsaw Man is so big that people have started to discredit Fujimoto now. All of Fujimoto's work is absolutely worth re-reading multiple times. He is already one of the greatest authors with part 2 of Chainsaw Man going strong.
thing with fujimoto is that he makes so much authentic weird and artsy shit that not even the most pretentious reviewer could be a contrarian about him I feel
I totally agree with Garnt here. I love Tatsuki Fujimoto and he easily became my new favourite mangaka. Fire Punch and Chainsaw Man are the great "long" manga but his one shots are debatably his true masterpieces. Besides Look Back and Sayonara Eri i would also add the recent Just Listen to the Song. It is not as impactful as the others but has a cool message and is executed masterfully.
I had read Chainsaw Man and the first one-shot, loving them both in their own ways. I hadn't gotten around to Goodbye, Eri. So I did before I started that section of the video, and yeah, the ending gave me a laugh and left me with a warm fuzzy feeling. It was perfect. And just before that with that certain full page spread, I can't remember the last time a manga panel left me stunned and reeling that way.
"Cinematic manga". Nice. I came here after reading Chainsaw Man, and remembering watching Gigguk's SAO videos some time ago. I'm now sold on everything Fujimoto creates.
I loved the Chainsaw Man manga, so I read everything the author put out, and I gotta say that Goodbye Eri is one of the best stories I ever got to experience.
Chainsaw man is probably my favorite piece of fiction but Goodbye Eri might be the best thing he’s ever written. It’s such a good story, one that would easily be one of my favorite films ever if it was an indie movie
This is why he remains as my one of goat authors. Guy can write whatever the f*ck he wants in his mind and it works! Also, Hype for mappa news about them loving to animate more of his works.
agreed he has his own kind of twist in his story writings like how jojo's bizarre adventures is inspired by music or bungo stray dogs are from novels chainsaw man gets its inspirations from movies
Wow I didn’t know all of these, I was looking for stories in mangas that are my taste but I never found one that satisfied me completely. This author’s story telling feels awesome! I’ll go read his work.
When I got tired of the csm hype wanting to just experience the anime first before the manga i read the first chapter and found it boring, then the panels later on got me hinged on the series. im currently binging the chapters and im glad to be finally part of the csm community and if i enjoyed a series as simplistic as csm then im pretty sure his other works can be that good as well. Fujimoto is a goat.
@@kaelthunderhoof5619 murata is great, much like kentaro miura....their art style is something that you want to call a "perfection" While when it comes to paneling sequence, fujimoto is way better.....if you read from right to left really quick, you can feel how smooth the squences are
@@TheRagnus why would I waste more time?, everyone dies without their actions mattering in the slightest by the end. When the point of the story is that nothing matters, then his work doesn't matter, and any second thinking about this manga is a second wasted.
The fact that I searched up "chainsaw man" and found this freshly uploaded is hilarious lol. Chainsaw man and Fujimoto are an amazing manga duo that should honestly get more recognition! :)
A common comment asking for a video: I recently started watching anime stories when it was released. And I thought about how much the butterfly effect could have affected if something had changed in the past. Would we have an anime? Or would it change a lot? Would it become regular cartoons like in other countries? Or how could the anime not appear? Watching the history of Japan associated with the appearance of anime, you understand that due to the peculiarities of the country, anime is what it is now (I'm not only talking about the best, but in general about all series) I would like a full picture of why the anime might not appear in such a special way than other animated series.
I read somewhere that he was learning animation and wants to become an animator in the future Imagine a Fujimoto anime original, that shit would be cinematic af
Fujimoto is like 2016 Steph Curry. Just this rising young star taking the industry by storm. This brother is special and will go down as one of the all-time greats.
I would say that the reason his work is so appealing to many people is its not shallow, it's very emotional and human on a thematic level which makes it much more interesting to the average viewer
So like, predicting story beats is usually easy for me, even for stories where people typically praise the twists, it's rare I get surprised, but I still really enjoy the journeys of those stories nonetheless. I do a lot of writing in my spare time so I guess I just sorta get how a writer typically thinks in terms of structures and plot developments and details, and that's fine. It's never lessened my enjoyment of anything. Fire Punch kicked my ass up and down the sidewalk and it was endlessly satisfying. I think I predicted only a handful of story beats before they were obvious. It fucking rules and between reading this and Chainsaw Man, I'm gonna be reading everything Fujimoto writes.
Trying to predict what the author will write is next to impossible because the dude just doesn’t follow the norm The author ate a dead pet fish on impulse because he couldn’t break through the dirt to bury it and ants tried to carry off the corpse when he set it down, we cannot comprehend the wavelength this man functions on
If I could describe Fire Punch, it'd be a tragedy about the intersection of reality and fiction where the story feels like it'll go one way because that's how a story would go based on conventional design, then just doesn't, because reality doesn't just follow convention
If you are a fan of beautifully drawn manga I highly HIGHLY recommend looking at ANYTHING from Witch Hat Altiar, the author breaks conventional panelling, and her ink work is something I’ve never seen before out of manga.
I think fire punch deep down changed how I feel about writing and what stories can be, even if its effects are subtle I will never stop feeling how it has changed me I think chainsaw man sticks with me more but for different reasons, something about fire punch is so viseral and just so... real. Like it is the most sincere piece of art it disguses none of its feelings and tells you exactly what it wants to say. I think that is fujimotos real genius, the ability to say what he wants to say with perfect clarity and accuracy with the respect to his readers that they will catch on and feel it with him without needing an explanation.
I love Chainsaw Man and basically every Fujimoto One Shot I've read. I haven't read Fire Punch because I'm saving it for a rainy day. I am 100% certain I'm going to absolutely love it. The only other time I've felt that way about a series was with Berserk (which ended up being in my top 3)
When that one character was trying to prolong humanity's existance just so there would be another star wars made or something, it just felt sincere and not just random to be unpredicatable. When Fujimoto did this, I thought "Who tf does this guy think he is?! How can he just do this at that point in the story? And why does it feel like I can generally place my trust in Fujimoto?".
I highly recommend reading his mangas just bc he blends film and the framing of his panels so cleverly. It's like reading a movie sometimes and it's so cool??? Goodbye Eri and Firepunch are both pretty good with this.
Every work from Fujimoto has some kind of cinephile flex in some way, it starts with someone obsessed with movies, to making blatant questions on cinematic taste to the point for Goodbye Eri is entirely framed around a movie.
Gigguk......I understand entirely with Fire Punch and it's "Villian's?" motivation. None of my friends believe me when I tell them, and I don't have the heart to put them through the entire awesome and just bonkers series. After Fire Punch I am down for reading anything this man ever releases cause I can never forget anything I've read from him.
In fire punch, everyones a villian. Seriously. Doma, Togata, Judah, Neneto, Sun, and even Agni himself. Fire punch may be Agni's main villian, but no one in this world is good in our sense of the world.
My first read through of Fire Punch left me confused and unsatisfied. I went on to read Chainsawman, Look Back, and Goodbye Eri and I fell in love with Fujimoto's writing. I went back and read Firepunch again and it made more sense, I really like it the second time around. That's when I realized that somewhere in this journey and I lost my mind and I've never been happier.
The premise of fire punch sounds good and is easy to capture the average reader but be warned, it is highly depressing. After finishing it I had a mental crash reminiscent of oyasumi punpun.
I've read the entirety of Fire Punch a total of four times since I first came across it back in 2018 thanks to some random facebook page. In one sitting, usually starting at around 5 p.m and finishing the last few pages with the sun already up. It's been glorious each and every time.
Honestly, if I was asked "Fujimoto's new one-shot but 2 months without chainsaw man part 2 chapters", I would definitely agree. This is how his one-shots good. If you liked reading Chainsaw man or Fire Punch and somehow didn't read his other works, you should give it a try
When reading Fujimoto's works, it's so obvious that the guy loves MOVIES, whether they're mainstream movies, indie movies or B movies etc. And it's MORE than just the usual movie references Fujimoto inserts into his works and plot elements like: - Fire Punch has a character who is a lowkey cinephile - Chainsaw Man has 2 characters going on a movie date - Look Back has a single panel of 2 characters in a movie theatre - Goodbye Eri has the main character shooting movies from his smartphone There are moments in Fujimoto's works that make us feel that we're watching a movie rather than reading a manga. And that's achieved by Fujimoto's clever use of shading, impactful double-page spreads and movie-storyboard-like panelling. What really excites me the most of the Chainsaw Man anime, is how it could EXTRAPOLATE the cinematic feel of the manga. This is very evident in the 2 trailers (made by the core staff of the anime) that show many cinematic shots like the cemetary shot, the beach sequence, and the city shots. GOD I'm so flippin hyped for the anime.
no joke, after seeing the final panel of goodbye eri, I literally stood up, tears in my eyes, and applauded for 10 mins straight like I was in some fucking theatre.
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and MAPPA stated that they want to annimate and produce ALL of Fujimoto's works... just imagine 😳
Twitter will have a field day IF Fire Punch is animated
ok cool
LFG!!!!!!!!!
no they didn't wtf stop spreading misinformation
@@adityasuresh8106it'll be hilarious
The fact that Fujimoto had the authors of : Spy x Family, Hell's Paradise, and Dandadaan as his assistants shows how influential and inspiring the new gen mangakas are it's great
hold up. they were his assistants???
i wanna hear more people talking about hell's paradise man that was a solid read.
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“He takes two steps left and levitates up” that part had me rolling 😂😂💀💀
Low key spoiler
@@Mediorge yeah right?
Bro's about to make some combo move
hits even better if you read the manga.
Same, I died lol.
The author is so crazy, he even levitated for 2 seconds using his own power alone
@griffy *seems legit*
C R A C K E D
@@Silver-rj6xe still seems legit
Imagine if he does it now with his current power level. The world isn't ready for that yet.
@griffy your comment is completely fine and probably is true but it looks so bot like. the first line words and the rest is the link and ofc you're the first reply
Fujimoto is the only author ik who has filmed themselves attempting levitation so that just makes him 100% better than most authors
Yeah they said Oda is a God But have you seen him Levitate Yet?
@@Andrei-if1dr well...
atleast he made his fans levitate
by fans levitate I mean their souls levitate while waiting for it to end
@@RenderingUser Can confirm
@@RenderingUser heard that it near the end and that made a lot of people stay alive
@@tuanriccy1026 yea ik
but i still want it to continue tho
come to think of it, i wonder what oda's next work would be after one piece ends
I absolutely adore Fujimotos art style. It’s so unique and realistic it just makes the story come to life.
i would not call it realistic. Its more simplistic - chaotic yet Lines are alive and breathing. He is contrast to Miura. Which was had as detailed and clean lines. And i think its good that artist are having hes unique art style.
It's more detailed than average manga. He didn't use techniques that a realism would use. It's good not because it's so realistic. It's because the details are right in place.
@@畫一隻狗溝 He's kinda like Naoki Urasawa, but more suited for action stories.
@@畫一隻狗溝 in chainsaw hes cranking those chapters weekly. maybe he works on it for a year til he has a huge buffer of chapters but releasing 20 page manga weekly cant be easy either way. The art style is nice and some panels are way more detailed.
I dont think theres a single manga artist that understands how to display human emotion as well as he does, reading chainsaw man part 2 the amount of feeling hes been able to give the faces is a masterpiece
“Cinematic” is a really good way to describe Fujimoto’s style, and would probably be a huge compliment to him, considering how much he loves movies.
Nah it's KINO
Can't find a better word ngl
@@Lightpowder kino!
i think he's probably what kojima was to video games, just insane, cinematic, incredible pieces of work
Yeah he takes a lot of inspiration from movies
Dude is a cinematic genius I'll tell you that.
I remember finishing Chainsaw Man for the 3rd time and wondering “Wonder what else Fujimoto has written” and reading Fire Punch and… well it’s a manga. I thought Chainsaw Man was messed up in parts but apparently it was Fujimoto being pretty tame.
Chainsaw Man is not finished
@Diavolo Jaegar oh yeah, the evil of psychology, I bet that's the most traumatizing one. Haha
...It's half-way finished.
@@Bladedcloud6159 actually I don't think it's even halfway
@Diavolo Jaegar you forgot Religion, Slavery, Cult, Mental illness and many more f'd up generally taboo themes
I think the essence of what makes Fujimoto such a great author is that he writes with the mindset of "I'm not making this for you, I'm making this for me. It just so happens that you get to read it."
oda did it first ngl
@@afj810 I remember a mangaka saying that everyone used to live week by week until Oda came along and changed that
@@johnvito9581 what does it suppose to mean?
@@arandompasserby1725 In the context of what that mangaka was saying, Oda is the first to focus on long arcs and eschew the "cliffhangers" (or anything similar) at the end of each chapter to keep readers interested
I see chainsaw man as his work where he broke this trend and that's why it's so success ful
Fire Punch is a deconstruction of post-apocalyptic settings and the characters and tropes surrounding them by reminding the reader that if one were to exist, literally EVERYONE would be too traumatized to function as a sane human being.
And also the consequences of what happens when a crazy Star Wars fan gets superpowers
@@samt3412 at least it was the best possible timeline... where new trilogy didn't exist
@@MrLuzakman perhaps, but we also don't get Clone Wars
Fire punch fucking slaps
might have to give it a read then
Tatsuki Fujimoto's feel of art style and framing are so unbelievable. Characters so expressive yet still alive. It's greatly enjoyable just to look at his drawings.
Especially felt that while reading Look Back
Dudes a cinephile and it shows in his work. His manga tend to feel like they were shot on film the way he shades and frames his panels.
@@willlowry2288 they're not very cluttered or text heavy which gives his art and panelings a distinct style
If they’re expressive obviously they’d feel alive…
also his fight sequences just feel like I'm watching an entire cinematic movie. The movements in character interaction is the best fucking panelling I've ever seen in manga world
He is a lover of cinema. Everything has something to do with movies whether directing, critiquing, photography in his stories and it shows. His love for movies is seen in every etch and was able to meld both much like junji ito was able to tap horror into pages or beserks crazy worlds. Types of artists who are feverish in their passion are who I look up to.
it woul;d be great to see him continue berserk
Exactly! So much so that the beginning of the opening of Chainsaw Man is rotoscoping from classic horror or action films (+ a scene from Attack of the Killer Tomatoes🤷🏻♀️) The opening of the anime itself is already a cinematic work!
I just hope the anime does well so Fujimoto can finally reach his dream of levitation.
Or buy his favourite megu milk and ice cream
Or maybe buy a spa
I came into this vid HOPING he included the clip.... not disappointed
The anime has already done well with the trailers. It is guaranteed to be a hit like jujutsu Kaisen and demon slayer
Do You know that when a japanese levitate, a train full of people will suffocate on poisonous gas?
Fire Punch really did feel like watching an artist realize this might be their one opportunity to say everything they've ever wanted to with their art so they threw every idea they had into it. Chaotic, not always well paced, sometimes confusing, yet utterly raw and memorable.
your pp made me remember Asano and how Fujimoto still feels so young compared to him
It definitely felt like after Behemdolg he wasn’t 100% on where to take the story. So he just stapled together a bunch of different ideas and themes.
@@yawn9327 his…p…pp…
What do you mean not well paced? I thought it was genius and roller coaster like
@@El_Andru Not always to me. It almost never slows down, always firing forward like it's afraid it's going to be cancelled any second now. Which ends up serving the plot SUPER well at times! In terms of criticisms it's a nitpick, not a fatal flaw!
This isn't said enough, but the way Gigguk sells something is amazing. The way he carefully words things to make it seem intriguing, with the perfect music at the perfect times... Gigguk, if you ever see this, I hope you realize just how amazing you are. If Tatsuki Fujimoto is a genius manga writer, then Gigguk my friend, you are a genius reviewer.
Literally. How im jealous of people with exceptional communication skills like gigguk.
Gigguk undersells his self a lot. I think he has a massive influence on which anime is gonna be popular or not. Basically, if the anime got featured on this channel, it feels like it got a seal of approval.
@@mohammadibrahim3068 yes
💯
Peak content creator, I discovered his video through his Arcane 'review'. (Also peak, and Season 2 is set for debut this November)
"Every time you think Agni's gonna take one step forward he takes two steps left and levitates up" -Gigguk 2022
Perfect description of my thoughts when reading Fire Punch.
I couldn't describe fujimoto's work better
"You have to live"
@@LymLevolveonKINO
“Agni “is my name 💀
And if Fujimoto himself wasn't enough, check out his assistant's work: Dandadan.
If you love chainsaw man wacky style, you'll love Dandadan and it's LSD story
Midmimid
so thats why dandadan gives me fujimoto vibes.
Dandadan is good. Can't say I like it nearly as much as Chainsaw tho
One of his former assistant was the author of spy x family
And Hell's Paradise
With goodbye eri, it becomes very apparent that Fujimoto studies stories of all kinds to a surgical degree. Besides his storytelling, he knows that the image is king. For example, Chainsaw Man ch. 76. He prioritizes the image over storytelling for a bit to provide maximum impact to the reader. (Trying to avoid spoilers so I will be vague) why are they at a beach? Why is the halo above her head made of her own brain matter? Why chains? Why are they floating above the water? None of it is explained or furthers the plot very much, but the image is burned into your psyche. The image is strong and that’s all that matters.
Yes thank you for saying this
The only spoiler I know is something called the gun devil, and one panel. You're exactly right.
literally the concept of "this image goes hard" being put to a serious artistic level
@@k.-flynn one of the spoilers i know is about the darkness devil
probably the only reason i read the manga at all
(everyone had (at least once) been scared shitless by the dark when they were kids)
All those names...
Learning Fujimoto can levitate doesn't surprise me in the least.
he's reached enlightenment
This man is basically Chaos, I'll believe whatever crazy story this person supposedly did, from Roleplaying as his non-existent sister on Twitter to eating his dead pet fish
the last panel of goodbye eri is both heartbreaking and hilarious at the same time. how'd he do that?
It gave me a belly laugh, absolute genius.
Kinda true
As a Gintama fan this will not be a new sensation to me.
"explosion!!" - megumin
As a Gintama enjoyer I searched this panel up and died for like 5 min
Look Back and Goodbye Eri both deserve an anime movie adaptation. They’re incredible
same with fire punch i think its even better than chainsawman
i don't think goodbye eri should have an anime adaptation, i think it works better as a manga.
unless a director can make it better, then i disagree.
@@power_0007In that case, I'll take up the work of directing goodbye eri :)
We're getting a gorgeous Look Back adaptation soon!
you only mentioned his work, the best part of what makes tatsuki Fujimoto such a goat is his mentorship and support for his fellow mangaka. He helped the author's of Spy x Family, Dandadan, and Hell's paradise. Two of them were his direct assistants, that he himself went on to assist in their works. Dude is talented, hardworking, and nurturing.
Damn
CSM fans: "Chainsaw man is so weird and disturbing."
Fire punch fans: "That's adorable."
That manga fucked me up HARD. Dick in ass kind of fucked me up. Sore for a week kind of fucked me up. Couldn't sit dow- you get the point.
I have never agreed more lol
yes
Don't even get me started on his other oneshots, for example one of his less weird one's is a realistic take on genderbending stories
Fire Punch got so damn weird by the end, makes me hope Fujimoto goes in other way with Chainsaw man lol
I read firepunch in mor eor less one full sitting while on a plane across country.
All I have to say is that Fujimoto sincerely understands the heavy themes and concepts he writes about, and I couldn't respect him more for it.
I have never seen, not by any other person's work, related to and felt the pure weight and understanding of depression and existentialism. Fujimoto just *gets it*. I truly feel that he does.
There's this interesting concept of existentialism and nihilism of the desire to not exist. Not the suicidal "I want to die" feeling, but to simple stop being, or to have never been born. Towards the later 3rd of Fire Punch, this confused feeling of escapism and adverse to self-accountability arises and, as odd as it is, it makes sense.
And Fujimoto isn't just an author that presents these themes and let's the audience deal with it, Fujimoto also supplies the reader with his own take on thoughts on them. A constant theme I saw in FP was recursion. Specifically when it comes to depression and existentialism. Questions like "whats the point" or "why improve if it's just going to get back again" and oddly enough, I've read Fujimoto's take on these questions as something that sounds simple but is rather complex when you really get down into it. You improve upon things, and you weather through the bad in order to get to the good. That's the point. The fact that, there *is* good. You can feel the pain of living up until you become numb, and things suck for a while, but then, you get numb to that as well. You get bored of being numb and *something* happens. That something is what you look forward to. And it won't last forever, things may get bad again, but then; recursion. Thing will get good again.
My interpretation of FP may be completely different but it's given me so much to think about in nothing short of ~80 chapters. It's truly impressive and I do hope it gets a faithful adaptation
When I read fire punch I indulged mostly in shonen, so it was a real change for me. The way his power didn't make him special in a good way, he wasn't that much powerful, he was just an anomaly. The way he was taken advantage of when he entered the city because he was an insane guy with a desire for revenge but no insight about this ultra-dystopia of a world.
I feel like the manga creates a conversation about when hopes become delusions. A nice contrast to classic shonen which is all about hope and hard work, and a bit of being born lucky. It's also a society that was fascinating in its craziness and how it breaks all the ethics just for the sake of existing a bit longer, I don't know if there is anything of value that Agni could bring to this world.
Fujimoto might end up being one of the most influential mangakas ever. So, Firepunch, Look Back, Goodbye Eri, Chainsaw Man Part 1, and Chainsaw Man Part 2 (ongoing) are all a part of his impressive line up BUT THATS NOT ALL:
Fujimoto's assistants are also making bangers so, the big three assistants that I'm aware of making things are:
1. Yuji Kaku
-Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku
-Ayashimon
2. Tatsuya Endo
-Spy X Family
3. Yukinobu Tatsu
-Dandadan
On top of that Gege Atakami has stated that he's a huge fan of Fujimoto's work too, so there's that too.
What's the secret of his success that he shared with his assistants?
@@nelisezpasce Man, I wish I knew.
Seriously, all of his assistants' works are amazing (Dandadan being my favorite and Ayashimon being my least favorite mostly due to it being axed too soon, but still a good read). The guy just spews talent
You freaking kidding me. Mangakas of some of the biggest titles right now are his assistants?!
@@aspergale9836 They were at some point, not sure if they still are though
But yea, Yuji Kaku, Tatsuya Endo, Yukinobu Tatsu all worked on Firepunch. Yukinobu later ended up working on Chainsaw Man as well and he also worked on Yuji Kaku's Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku as an assistant
@@CH1C4N0444 THE Tatsuya Endo?
Was wondering if you’d include "just listen to the song" but it’s whatever. Anyway, Fujimoto is the only guy who could make 4 pages completely blank and still have me thinking "damn, these pages kinda fire tho"
someone said "he's a master of effectively using silence"
Just listen to the song is the definition of a short work of art
fujimoto is a master of "show don't tell", it's amazing because how he does his panels makes me experience the manga in more ways than one, not just visual. I'm reading it but it's so well done that I imagine BGM too, his love for film really shows. take the darkness devil scene for example; the depressing atmosphere was so well built that I could imagine ominous music blaring as the thing revealed itself
He is true cinephile so yeah
Lmao this reads as "I'm 14 and this is deep"
@@Mattsag100 he is right fujimoto is a genius
@@labeilleautiste6318 sounds like copeium he's a great artist but y'all hype up his stuff too much that you can't see some of the flaws in how's it's presented or executed
Great artist again but not without faults
@@Mattsag100 which flows ?
Tatsuki's answer to the train dilema perfectly encapsulates his story telling style. There was a cat too dude.
His answer to the train dilemma is destroying the train itself
Not the cat...
They completely forgot about the high school student and the elderly women
The best part about Fujimoto is that he's a fantastic illustrator. He doesn't add too much detail to affect the release schedule or make the panels unclear, it's just the right amount EVERY time. There's always just enough to get the plot or emotions across, with no wasted ink.
I like his style of art. I think his and JJK's art will be a lot more common soon. A good mix of polished and rougher looking art
JJK, Chainsaw man, Fire Punch and Aot gives me that feeling
@@sillyweebanimeisforkids5917 his art really remind me how Tokyo Ghoul series work.. its a mess at first.. but in RE: maan Ishida Sui really good...
less fucked up tho then Chain Saw man.. but still
Unsolicited opinion, but worth a mention: Personally his art looks soulless to me
So remember that one person that just doesn't find it awesome, quite the contrary in fact
I'm glad so many enjoy his work, I must be just an exception
@Nelisez Pasce A lot of his characters can appear soulless to me, eg. Makima. Though I think this is purposeful especially in Makima’s case. I’m just curious to see what led you to your idea
Fugimoto’s one shots are an example of letting the artist & the story breathe. Those stories needed to be that long cause they need to breathe. I’ve read shonen manga for decades but drawing, writing & sometimes coloring 19 pages of manga for 50 weeks out the year for several years just isn’t the best environment for story telling. Good for sales sure but not for creativity. Every artist that does it successfully is a genius prodigy imo but the stories always comes with faults. First rule of creative writing is “you will rewrite” but when do you have time to rewrite when you have to draw, ink, & submit your 19 pages every week.
Weekly format isn’t the best but it takes a lot to do it & i respect the artists that can also tell a story with the limitations of a page number. I want to see more artist just draw just to create & not have the boundaries of an editor, publication, page count etc… Fugimoto somehow did that so i hope some things are changing.
Remember when Kishimoto did that one shot inbetween Naruto. Kubo did burn the witch. Yea neither was good but i wish they explored more instead of being stuck doing one series for 15 years & burning out for who knows how long.
@foopyu nooui you replied to some someone with your comment, when you meant to comment on the video comment section.
I actually liked burn the witch Very much. I found it creative and interesting, different from stuff that goes along a long time.
one of my fav parts about fujimoto’s works is his ability to use “show don’t tell” acting but in art form with gorgeous panels that convey all the feelings and emotions without a characters internal monologue i love it so much
It helps that Fujimoto is 28 years old, meaning that he grew up watching and reading the same media we did, as his work seems to rely on our knowledge of those tropes to pull the rug under us every... Single... time. I'm here for it!
Yes he is of my generation too! I thought the same and he serves us what we needed in this new era
27 here, and yes he knows how to write something fresh in this world where the media is almost the same
He's from the generation before me then. I'm 21.
As a 25-year-old someone who also writes fiction, I have never felt a closer connection with an author. Movies like Spider-Man 2 were my formative experiences in learning what characters were. When I read the fight with Katana Man on the train, I knew that he had the same experience. Same with Chapter 102 and the first Spider-Man film.
Wow didn't know that. He's 1 yr younger than me. I think I'm this lifetime I will eat good. We all will.
Fujimoto is my generation’s Araki.
Hell, I’d even say he’s my generation’s Miura.
I love every single panel he makes and I can’t wait to see where he goes in life.
Araki is your generation's araki. He simply will not stop writing and drawing jjba
@@BartholomewWiggumAraki is every generation's Araki
Still cant get over the fact that kobeni's car got more votes in popularity contest that kobeni herself
TT
I'm more surprised that Pochita was only 9th place
bruh, it's one of best moment in chainsaw man
Even twice in the recent vote
CSM community's got you on the memes bruv
Those black panels in Goodbye Eri made my heart stop like nothing else in manga ever has
The last few pages of Goodbye Eri make up one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. It manages to make fun of every story ever told while being completely ridiculous and stupid at the same time. Fujimoto at his finest
Fujimoto's inner cinephilia just oozing on those pages
@@sprawlz6466 True
but the funniest one he made has to be 'love is blind'
@@RenderingUser or the onnes where kobeni works at mcdonalds lmao
You know what really interesting? Fujimoto take lots of film idea into his work. It's explained why his pacing is very fluid and why his character feel so real, he respects what is being shown to us. Everything has a reason to be framed, and his story telling is exactly like a short movie. You don't see many people able to crossover with their interests skillfully.
exactly. Not a single page in csm felt like it was unnecessary
Honestly Garnt just made a 17 minute statement on why you should read Chainsaw Man, before the anime. Fujimoto is great and you experience his weirdness as unfiltered as possibles.
He hasnt even read the Manga, he’s saying to read Fire Punch and the One-Shots.
He just mentioned Chainsaw Man so that he could put it in the title
@@oliver-04 We know. The point is that everything said about those mangas also apply to Chainsaw Man and should also be experienced as the unbridled creation of this insane person.
@@oliver-04 Dude when he said that I got so freaking mad. I love Gigguk but this guy is a toddler when it comes to anime and manga. If it weren't for my history of armed robbery and assault against the police and others I would totally have a youtube channel and it would be way better than his but it's better I lay low.
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 yes yes we heard u
@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 Who
The thing you need to keep in mind with Fujimoto’s writing is that he values theming above all else. He is fine sacrificing pacing, and clarity if it gets the strong narrative themes and feelings he is trying to convey
For lack of a better comparison, it reminds me alot of miyazaki's movies. He focuses on themes and the feelings above all else in his works and the characterization of the characters take a back seat as a result. They both do it masterfully, which is how their pieces seem to just hit different with panels/scenes where nothing is being said and the setting is just meant to breathe
Good thing One Piece prepared me on theme- based story telling
I loved reading Fire Punch, and I'm glad someone recognizes how beautifully bat shit insane it is
was it a really hard read? im hella tempted to read it but im weak stomached. i did read and enjoy chainsawman for reference ig ?
@@tartali63this is very late, 3 weeks late so it might not be relevant anymore but if you’re “weak-stomached” you probably shouldn’t read it. i think im not very ‘weak-stomached’, guess that would mean i think i’m ‘strong-stomached’, lol. even then i was shocked and repulsed by some of the twists, actions, and revelations of the story.
@@thefoolishfool lol its like a bit late but not rlly.. i read a little bit of it and was too disgusted of all of the r@pe stuff to continue. i think i stopped at when that little girl was used for electricity? so thx for convincing me further to stop... it kinda sucks bc i love these themes but damn it was a lot lol
I remember when I first heard of Fire Punch,and someone described it as "the best anti-suicide AD ever made"...
And man,reading through it with that in mind, it hit me so hard.
The village chief at the very start wraps up the entire manga in a little package,despite the insanity that follows:"Everyone. Death is the one thing that you must never accept. Even if you yield to other pains,refuse death". And that's what Agni ends up doing,no matter the carnage that is left around him.
Yeah,it might not be the most straightforward story ever told,but it really gets at Fujimoto as a writer,I feel. I've heard someone else say something to the effect of "Fire Punch disregards narrative cohesion to instill as much emotion as possible" and I wholeheartedly agree. You can feel it in every chapter,every panel. The absurdity of Fujimoto's style,be it the events of the story,the toilet humor,the constant movie parallels,only make the really dark or depressing nature of his mangas easier to swallow,and with it, it helps the reader understand just how incredibly heartfelt they really are at their core,no matter how bleak the future seems.
That's why,as Fujimoto himself points out in Goodbye Eri,all of his stories incorporate some sort of supernatural or inexplicable element to them,despite how grounded some appear to be. It's that insanity that keeps the characters afloat,even helps them resolve their inner turmoil sometimes,but the feelings behind them are never downplayed,or treated as a joke. Now that I think about it, Fujimoto is probably one of my favourite examples of an absurdist in any media.
Fire Punch is just such an underrated masterpiece imo. I read it without reading any reviews or what it's about beforehand, so seeing all the negative reviews about it after finishing it really surprised me. I always see so many people rate something negatively just because the ending wasn't "happy".
@@chlebi_ It was okay I guess. I'd put it in the same boat as PunPun. It's good but the hype around it leaves one disappointed when they actually try it. Kinda like comparing what's on the box of a frozen dinner with what you really get inside the package.
I'll be honest, his stuff reads like a bad joke to me. Goodbye Eri, the dude has lost everything, had a shit life, but finding Eri again it's like 'Nah, I'm good for some reason now'. Fire Punch is insanely depressing to start with, insanely stupid that so many super powered individuals can be so easily subdued and insanely crazy with literally every other aspect of it. And Look Back is just super fucking depressing. 'Congrats, you magically saved your friend only to kill them again with that same magic! Good job! Keep drawing art you art monkey'.
Never read chainsaw man but I took Giggurks advice and I think he's high while writing this. The art is good, but the stories are really, really bad, and the lack of any grounding, even with the fantasy stuff, is just like... 'Okay, anything can and will happen, so don't expect this story to make sense.'
@randomguy9777 I fully believe that the message of the entire story is to keep finding an uncompromising will to live despite how much hurt there's on the inside and outside,even at the cost of hurting others. Look at Agni like you said,he's a man constantly in pain from a fire that will never go out,and yet a disembodied voice keeps telling him to move forward...and there,despite all the despair,you still find glimpses of humanity,like any scene he shares with Togata.
*Spoilers*
The last chapter perfectly encapsulates this entire theme: Judah fullfills her purpose,the earth being no more,and has to wander the cosmos for what feels like an excruciating eternity,only to find solace one last time with Agni,as they go to sleep with a smile on their face...it didn't matter wether they literally suffered for millenia,the fact that they kept on living despite it seemingly being no reason to do so, eventually made them find some happiness. It was all worth it.
And this goes for the other characters too,btw. Even in their deaths,people like Togata,or even Doma,found some Solace,and a reason to live and keep others alive.
This is what I see in Fire punch,at least. It's a story so incredibly devoid of hope throught,that the moments of calm spent between a couple of characters hit all the hardest,even in their mundanity. THOSE are why there's a reason to keep going in a desolate wasteland at all. It doesn't matter why the chief said that phrase,only what it means in the grander scheme of Fujimoto's message:never give up,no matter how bleak things may be.
@randomguy9777 Actually, he could die! That's shown at the very start of the story:he can repress his regenerative abilities and end the suffering, but then his sister tells him to "LIVE" as she dies, and that sets him on his quest. Even when he has nothing left and the guilt is suffocating him, he keeps reminding himself of that voice that's asking him to live, instead of giving up...and after all the tragedy, that was the right choice
Saying otherwise would be akin to believing that these characters struggles are meaningless, and the story with it, and I don't believe this is some kind of nihilistic narrative. The moments of clarity in the madness are always worth the pain living seems to cause you, and I couldn't agree more with that statement. Of course it's just one perspective, not the absolute truth, but that's how I see it too
Fujimoto is just built different
You mean like a chainsaw?
That’s why I love Gigguk, you can tell he pours his soul to make his videos and squeeze in that humor we all have grown to love. Keep on keeping on GRANT❤️
gRant lmao
Goat
Only one word
dude is a goated artists both in writing and his art, its all unique asf.
You still dying?
i heard gigguks general synopsis of fire punch, tapped out, read the entire thing in a few hours and holy shit. I was not expecting anything that happened. I could not have predicted a single thing that happened in that manga. 10/10 top tier.
It’s amazing, def recommend reading fujimotos other works. Chainsaw man speaks for itself (it’s my personal favorite work of all time), but look back and ESPECIALLY goodbye eri are masterpieces
@@brycecartwright2403 Masterpieces? CSM has one of the worst tonal whiplash in manga. And second half is just mediocre, what are you talking about? Unpredictable doesn’t mean good lol
@@jackjohn4156 why are you going into the comments of a comment of a video of a series you don’t like just to say you don’t like it? If you didn’t like it, that’s more than valid, but just move on from it and don’t think about it. Just let people like what they like and ignore it if it bothers you
@@brycecartwright2403 Weirdly enough i only respond to ppl who either 1) ask me why about my opinion or 2) say bad stuff about other mangas/animes to bring up their own mangas/animes… And so if i ignore them, they just keep doing it/spread this childish acts until someone comes up with actual criticism and tell them nope it’s their opinion and if they want objective criticism i will just give it to them. Nothing less or more. And you would be surprised how they react actually…
Edit: before you say why i responded to you. Well the word masterpiece is easily used now to a fault even that some communities use it in a very wrong way.
@@jackjohn4156 I mean you do you, I guess. I was just trying to recommend stuff I love to people who seemed to like similar things
I believe with all my being that, one day, Fujimoto will succeed at levitating
I think one of the biggest things to keep in mind when reading Fujimoto's work is how deeply he loves cinema. Goodbye Eri shows this quite prominently, but every single one of his stories is riddled with cinema tropes, imagery that copies or references famous scenes from movies and a kind of visual storytelling that makes you tear through his pages like a flip-book (or, you know, a movie). This is part of what makes his work so unique IMO; you're not just reading a manga, you're watching a movie in manga form.
In every one of Fujimoto's four major works (with the exception of look back) there is at least one scene where the main character sits down with another major character to watch a movie.
I think that's pretty telling of how much cinema has impacted his life and his Style.
@@halowaffle25 There was actually one panel in Look Back with Fujino and Kyomoto in a movie theatre.
yes, that what makes Fujimoto so great. His art is not really amazing; unique, yes, but not Oh Great or Yusuke Murata level.
But his visual storytelling, his use of panels, composition, etc. shows you that he's more of a filmmaker than a pure mangaka.
I think he said in an interview that he loves movies and wanted to make one but can't because movies are team projects and require lots of money so he started drawing manga
fucking THIS. I love how he's not picky about the films he likes either- Fire Punch has that action sequence where Togata's humming the Indiana Jones theme the entire time, and the most recent chapter of Chainsaw Man was riffing on the bridge scene from Spider-Man. But at the same time he'll demonstrate a really in-depth knowledge of how shot composition and timing works in movies and how to apply that to manga, all while taking cues from classic paintings and cult films like A Boy And His Dog in equal measure with the capeshit.
Chainsaw man already nailed the ending of part 1 (unlike others...)
The amount of hype is honestly deserved
i'd say the ending of part 1 was confusing at best
@@ComboSmooth I was really confused when I read it the first time but then I re-read the last 10 or so chapters of part 1 and it made a lot more sense
@@fffffffffff8402 either low tier bait or braindead. Pick your choice internet stranger!
@@fffffffffff8402 It's absolutely nothing like KnY, but that doesn't matter
If you can't enjoy something because is popular that's your own personal hell my dude
@@fffffffffff8402 💀 sure bro
I really like Goodbye Eri. If you were to teach a high-school English class focused on how to read works thematically (something much of the internet is absolutely terrible at, I might add) I honestly think it would be a great place to start. It's not subtle with its themes, but it refrains from stating them directly to your face and they're more detailed and specific than a lot of traditional works. They're more concrete, you can grab them firmly and there's enough meat to sink your teeth in a bit. And, importantly, it's a story that's absolutely screaming at you to read it that way. You cannot read that story and consider a completely literal reading of events to be sufficient or at all the point being gone for. Even if you're not actively analyzing it as you go, that final panel just takes all these thematic threads and resolves them in one single masterstroke that you *cannot* ignore. So if you're not used to thematic readings, it's a good place to start. If you are competent at thematic readings, it's a wonderfully told bundle of ideas that all come together and resolve in a way that's just so satisfying.
All this to say that I think Fujimoto's greatest strength is that he has arthouse sensibilities but executes on them in a very accessible way, giving the average person the feeling of experiencing something deep and out-there without being so challenging as to be off-putting. That may sound kind of back-handed but it's a balance that's genuinely both impressive and valuable.
This is exactly how I feel....as a manga "newbie" I feel so enlightened and moved to read more of this kind of "arthouse-ish" writing/manga. It's so different from other Shonen...it's more Seinen. It's kinda like how only the most expert person can explain complex topics to a child. That's the most impressive status to have.
> to read works thematically (something much of the internet is absolutely terrible at, I might add)
I'm glad somebody finally said it. Most internet analysts are total amateurs. If you want to learn how to write or analyze writing read a book, like Rob Mckee's 'Story Structure', or Francine Prose's 'Reading Like a Writer.'
As someone who’s up to date with the Chainsaw Man manga, from watching the trailer alone, I’d say MAPPA arguably improves on the already astounding artwork in the manga. The fluidity of the animation is out of this world. I think this is undoubtedly going to be MAPPA’s greatest work so far. I guarantee that the hype behind it going to surely live up to everyone’s expectations.
Chainsaw Man will be the biggest anime of the decade
Same like jjk, they took the manga and made it even better.
And with that animation, there's a certain couple pages with a lady that can run fast, that I'm VERY curious to see....
For science.
@@A.R.Shahan nah, the art still hits different for both in the manga. Anime can't have the essence of a singular entity in its artwork, due to how many people work on it. Mappa is great though.
I mean it’s not even out yet but the trailer looks clean af. Might wanna hold the brakes for a bit
By the end of Goodbye Eri, I was laughing and crying at the same time. I have never had such a mix of emotions that made me so confused but extremely happy at the same time. The amount of processing I had to do to fully absorb what I had just read was just a roller coaster. I loved reading every single page and I would highly recommend it to anyone. This One-Shot is truly a masterpiece.
Same! I went to read it mid video and holy shit I loved that ending
I liked look back slightly more but I've never felt such a rollercoaster of emotions like that since reading Fire Punch lmao. Fujimoto is an absolute genius and such a breath of fresh air in the manga world
Having just finished Fire Punch about 10 minutes ago, I have no doubt Fujimoto is an insane genius
I love how SO MUCH of Gigguk's background music comes from the different Toaru anime OSTs. I recognize them every time, and it makes me smile. Those OSTs are so good.
It really does put a smile on my face
For real 😭😭makes me happy he still remembers this epic franchise
We need another season already ffs 😓
Hey, do you know the OST that starts at 12:59. Thanks in advance if you do.
I finished Fire Punch for the first time yesterday and my reaction is literally that one meme face Agni makes.
same
Kino
If i may add one thing. This man has the original spirit of anime. As a westerner i was drawn not just to the fights scenes and the robots. It is a raw insanity and madness that anime used to challenge my mind with in every series. This when it was just a weird indy thing that would pop up on SBS.
I'm very happy this guy is young and making a ton more stuff
and
excited to see what's next.
thank god chainsaw man got famous because now more people will read Fire Punch, it was always so underrated.
It's not that Fire Punch is Underrated but Manga Readers always Hiding Inside the Rock only to come out when their favorite Manga get a Anime Adaption.
Chainsaw Man is so big that people have started to discredit Fujimoto now. All of Fujimoto's work is absolutely worth re-reading multiple times. He is already one of the greatest authors with part 2 of Chainsaw Man going strong.
thing with fujimoto is that he makes so much authentic weird and artsy shit that not even the most pretentious reviewer could be a contrarian about him I feel
@@LiiRAE. A lot of people will claim Chainsaw Man is overrated and give the dumbest reasons I've ever seen so I wouldn't quite say that lol
i even love his one shot
What why?
@@sprawlz6466 Yeah some people won't like chainsaw man but that doesn't mean they won't like his other works.
I totally agree with Garnt here. I love Tatsuki Fujimoto and he easily became my new favourite mangaka. Fire Punch and Chainsaw Man are the great "long" manga but his one shots are debatably his true masterpieces. Besides Look Back and Sayonara Eri i would also add the recent Just Listen to the Song. It is not as impactful as the others but has a cool message and is executed masterfully.
Fire punch is an absolute fucking masterpiece!!!
I had read Chainsaw Man and the first one-shot, loving them both in their own ways. I hadn't gotten around to Goodbye, Eri. So I did before I started that section of the video, and yeah, the ending gave me a laugh and left me with a warm fuzzy feeling. It was perfect. And just before that with that certain full page spread, I can't remember the last time a manga panel left me stunned and reeling that way.
1:53 So that's why he is one of the greatest manga artist, he actually ascended
Yes
"Cinematic manga". Nice. I came here after reading Chainsaw Man, and remembering watching Gigguk's SAO videos some time ago. I'm now sold on everything Fujimoto creates.
15:10
"Some how he's made cinematic Manga a thing."
That's the most perfect thing you could call all his works. A movie in manga format.
Garnt always amaze me how he can perfectly sums thing up and really easy to understand... like fr
I loved the Chainsaw Man manga, so I read everything the author put out, and I gotta say that Goodbye Eri is one of the best stories I ever got to experience.
Chainsaw man is probably my favorite piece of fiction but Goodbye Eri might be the best thing he’s ever written. It’s such a good story, one that would easily be one of my favorite films ever if it was an indie movie
"Goodbye, Eri" is a post modern masterpiece. I was kinda reminded of "Synecdoche, New York" as I was reading it.
THIS STORY DESERVES ALL THE HYPE IT HAS AND MORE!!!!
Nice 😂
I am hyped
This is why he remains as my one of goat authors. Guy can write whatever the f*ck he wants in his mind and it works!
Also, Hype for mappa news about them loving to animate more of his works.
agreed he has his own kind of twist in his story writings like how
jojo's bizarre adventures is inspired by music
or bungo stray dogs are from novels
chainsaw man gets its inspirations from movies
Why did you censor yourself?
Wow I didn’t know all of these, I was looking for stories in mangas that are my taste but I never found one that satisfied me completely.
This author’s story telling feels awesome!
I’ll go read his work.
Fun fact : Agni(the name of the protagonist) means fire in Hindi and Sanskrit
Ooh that's a cool fun fact, thank you
it's a cognate with the English "ignite"
And sounds remarkably like "Agony". I wonder if that combination may have been what inspired the story idea. 😗
I think the author reffered as Fire God in Sanskrit
best part of Fire Punch was when the main character said, " its fire punching time " truly a remarkable piece of fiction
Nah the best part was where the person called Agni “Fire man”
and then he fire punched all over the place
@@leeshapon And then he started a religion where everyone worshipped him as the "sun God."
Ahahahaha perfect
@@leeshapon that's actually what happens 🤣🤣🤣
When I got tired of the csm hype wanting to just experience the anime first before the manga i read the first chapter and found it boring, then the panels later on got me hinged on the series. im currently binging the chapters and im glad to be finally part of the csm community and if i enjoyed a series as simplistic as csm then im pretty sure his other works can be that good as well. Fujimoto is a goat.
Man ain’t no way you found the first part of the chapter was boring ;/
12:47 Not gonna lie I thought she was going to get hit by a truck in good old Fujimoto's wild ride fashion.
Fujimoto made a manga that’s feels like a cinematic experience in a 4 koma manga style. What a beast.
How about Murata?
@@kaelthunderhoof5619 very technical but uninspired art style, and one hell of a hack writer.
@@leonardomarquesbellini I think Murata was the one who started those motion blur and the focus background.
@@kaelthunderhoof5619 which of his works are you talking about? His current run of One Punch Man has been very disappointing for a couple years now.
@@kaelthunderhoof5619 murata is great, much like kentaro miura....their art style is something that you want to call a "perfection"
While when it comes to paneling sequence, fujimoto is way better.....if you read from right to left really quick, you can feel how smooth the squences are
man is literally chunnibyo irl , no wonder he creates great shonen
I don't think it's much of a shonen, not even Chainsawman
You always have to reread his works to actually understand it
Its not the boobies that matter, but the people they are attached to-Chainsaw Man
Already read Firepunch, it was a waste of time and I regret every second I spent on it.
@@SouIworld Now you just have to reread it
They get better the more you reread them. That's a rare thing in media
@@TheRagnus why would I waste more time?, everyone dies without their actions mattering in the slightest by the end.
When the point of the story is that nothing matters, then his work doesn't matter, and any second thinking about this manga is a second wasted.
The fact that I searched up "chainsaw man" and found this freshly uploaded is hilarious lol. Chainsaw man and Fujimoto are an amazing manga duo that should honestly get more recognition! :)
Cheeky breeki
Tatsuki Fujimoto is an amazing mangaka that deserves more recognition*
Yeah it basically gets no recognition
the manga not anime. cuz like half of the people are those who haven't read it yet
A common comment asking for a video:
I recently started watching anime stories when it was released. And I thought about how much the butterfly effect could have affected if something had changed in the past.
Would we have an anime? Or would it change a lot? Would it become regular cartoons like in other countries? Or how could the anime not appear?
Watching the history of Japan associated with the appearance of anime, you understand that due to the peculiarities of the country, anime is what it is now (I'm not only talking about the best, but in general about all series)
I would like a full picture of why the anime might not appear in such a special way than other animated series.
joke aside i always adore this man's dedication about movie hope he get to direct on some day
Yeah, "Goodbye Erie the movie"
did you need to say joke aside
@@animoments8969 I had another joke comment about fujimoto play as he's own sisters on Twitter bellow some where down there , so ignore those part
I read somewhere that he was learning animation and wants to become an animator in the future
Imagine a Fujimoto anime original, that shit would be cinematic af
Fujimoto is like 2016 Steph Curry. Just this rising young star taking the industry by storm. This brother is special and will go down as one of the all-time greats.
Hopefully he isn’t “exactly” like Curry, lol. Don’t set the guy up for failure down the line.
@@lordbauer5983 My bad, 2016 Curry minus the 3-1 choke 😂
Look at Curry Man So Inspirational
I like this analogy lol…besides the 3-1 thing of course we get what you mean lol
@@Spazlites Fujimoto's rise reminds me so much of Steph's in his back to back MVP seasons lol
I would say that the reason his work is so appealing to many people is its not shallow, it's very emotional and human on a thematic level which makes it much more interesting to the average viewer
Fun fact; ‘Agni’ literally translates to ‘Fire’ in Sanskrit & Hindi.
Name of the vedic fire god too
I thought he was called agni because it sounds close to agony
@@abortive1581 Well now you know
It's similar to Latin ignis and Lithuanian ugni.
So like, predicting story beats is usually easy for me, even for stories where people typically praise the twists, it's rare I get surprised, but I still really enjoy the journeys of those stories nonetheless. I do a lot of writing in my spare time so I guess I just sorta get how a writer typically thinks in terms of structures and plot developments and details, and that's fine. It's never lessened my enjoyment of anything.
Fire Punch kicked my ass up and down the sidewalk and it was endlessly satisfying. I think I predicted only a handful of story beats before they were obvious. It fucking rules and between reading this and Chainsaw Man, I'm gonna be reading everything Fujimoto writes.
Trying to predict what the author will write is next to impossible because the dude just doesn’t follow the norm
The author ate a dead pet fish on impulse because he couldn’t break through the dirt to bury it and ants tried to carry off the corpse when he set it down, we cannot comprehend the wavelength this man functions on
If I could describe Fire Punch, it'd be a tragedy about the intersection of reality and fiction where the story feels like it'll go one way because that's how a story would go based on conventional design, then just doesn't, because reality doesn't just follow convention
4:11 Imagine Isayama make this idea to his Prequel Manga Attack on Titan ( if he wrote that)
If you are a fan of beautifully drawn manga I highly HIGHLY recommend looking at ANYTHING from Witch Hat Altiar, the author breaks conventional panelling, and her ink work is something I’ve never seen before out of manga.
I think fire punch deep down changed how I feel about writing and what stories can be, even if its effects are subtle I will never stop feeling how it has changed me
I think chainsaw man sticks with me more but for different reasons, something about fire punch is so viseral and just so... real. Like it is the most sincere piece of art it disguses none of its feelings and tells you exactly what it wants to say. I think that is fujimotos real genius, the ability to say what he wants to say with perfect clarity and accuracy with the respect to his readers that they will catch on and feel it with him without needing an explanation.
I love Chainsaw Man and basically every Fujimoto One Shot I've read. I haven't read Fire Punch because I'm saving it for a rainy day. I am 100% certain I'm going to absolutely love it. The only other time I've felt that way about a series was with Berserk (which ended up being in my top 3)
Fujimoto is noted in all of his works to love movies more than anything and it shows so much in his work that it is structured like a movie.
I agree. I share the same feelings from playing Yoko Taro games, for the exact reasons in your comment
@@nickyfandino8529 I really should give those games another shot
When that one character was trying to prolong humanity's existance just so there would be another star wars made or something, it just felt sincere and not just random to be unpredicatable. When Fujimoto did this, I thought "Who tf does this guy think he is?! How can he just do this at that point in the story? And why does it feel like I can generally place my trust in Fujimoto?".
6:28 "I'm gonna make it as short as I can."
I highly recommend reading his mangas just bc he blends film and the framing of his panels so cleverly. It's like reading a movie sometimes and it's so cool??? Goodbye Eri and Firepunch are both pretty good with this.
Every work from Fujimoto has some kind of cinephile flex in some way, it starts with someone obsessed with movies, to making blatant questions on cinematic taste to the point for Goodbye Eri is entirely framed around a movie.
Gigguk......I understand entirely with Fire Punch and it's "Villian's?" motivation. None of my friends believe me when I tell them, and I don't have the heart to put them through the entire awesome and just bonkers series. After Fire Punch I am down for reading anything this man ever releases cause I can never forget anything I've read from him.
In fire punch, everyones a villian. Seriously. Doma, Togata, Judah, Neneto, Sun, and even Agni himself. Fire punch may be Agni's main villian, but no one in this world is good in our sense of the world.
Fire Punch is the shit
Same. Everything Fujimoto is compelling even when it's distracting or vomit-inducing, it's just out there, and destroys expectations.
Chapter 98 of Chainsaw Man was probably the most wild single chapter of manga I have read
My first read through of Fire Punch left me confused and unsatisfied. I went on to read Chainsawman, Look Back, and Goodbye Eri and I fell in love with Fujimoto's writing. I went back and read Firepunch again and it made more sense, I really like it the second time around. That's when I realized that somewhere in this journey and I lost my mind and I've never been happier.
The premise of fire punch sounds good and is easy to capture the average reader but be warned, it is highly depressing. After finishing it I had a mental crash reminiscent of oyasumi punpun.
same
skill issue tbh
I've read the entirety of Fire Punch a total of four times since I first came across it back in 2018 thanks to some random facebook page.
In one sitting, usually starting at around 5 p.m and finishing the last few pages with the sun already up.
It's been glorious each and every time.
Honestly, if I was asked "Fujimoto's new one-shot but 2 months without chainsaw man part 2 chapters", I would definitely agree. This is how his one-shots good. If you liked reading Chainsaw man or Fire Punch and somehow didn't read his other works, you should give it a try
2 months? More like 2 years 🤣 fr I would waited as well. Let the master work
When reading Fujimoto's works, it's so obvious that the guy loves MOVIES, whether they're mainstream movies, indie movies or B movies etc. And it's MORE than just the usual movie references Fujimoto inserts into his works and plot elements like:
- Fire Punch has a character who is a lowkey cinephile
- Chainsaw Man has 2 characters going on a movie date
- Look Back has a single panel of 2 characters in a movie theatre
- Goodbye Eri has the main character shooting movies from his smartphone
There are moments in Fujimoto's works that make us feel that we're watching a movie rather than reading a manga. And that's achieved by Fujimoto's clever use of shading, impactful double-page spreads and movie-storyboard-like panelling.
What really excites me the most of the Chainsaw Man anime, is how it could EXTRAPOLATE the cinematic feel of the manga. This is very evident in the 2 trailers (made by the core staff of the anime) that show many cinematic shots like the cemetary shot, the beach sequence, and the city shots.
GOD I'm so flippin hyped for the anime.
As a Indian I would like to say Agni means fire in hindi
3:36 then they should’ve called it fire punch man. Wait…
Fire Punch is abso-fucking-lutely amazing.
PS: "Agni" means "Fire" in Hindi
In Sanskrit
Remember he's still young, born in 1992. So if at this young age he already create such masterpiece, there will be several more to come.
no joke, after seeing the final panel of goodbye eri, I literally stood up, tears in my eyes, and applauded for 10 mins straight like I was in some fucking theatre.
I had the same fucking reaction as well lol. The story was just so perfectly written and presented to create such a powerful catharsis.
Man am I on the only one that burst out laughing at the end, the build up for the punchline is a masterclass.
Bruh
Fujimoto’s work is the definition of taking itself seriously in the most non serious way