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My thoughts on Fire Punch at 3:39 am.
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I haven't felt like this in a very long time.
The sensation I'm feeling right now is usually something I only feel when I walk out a cinema after a really good film late at night. Which is fitting especially after looking at the last page of the manga.
The sensation I'm feeling right now is usually something I only feel when I walk out a cinema after a really good film late at night. Which is fitting especially after looking at the last page of the manga.
Fujimoto loves movies. If there's one thing I can tell about the guy after reading two of his works, it's exactly that.
What particularly interests me though, is his love for crappy movies (which is stated way more blatantly on his other work, Chainsaw Man)
In a way, Fire Punch feels a lot like a crappy movie. A lot of it doesn't really makes sense, but what more it has in common with crappy movies is that crappy movies usually has a lot of heart.
The heart of a piece of media matters a lot because without it the readers/viewers won't really care about it. If the viewers don't care about what they're watching, they won't feel anything that the piece of media is trying to convey.
And isn't that just the point of pieces of art, to make the people who experiences it feel emotions.
Which Fire Punch definitely did do. A lot.
While reading Fire Punch I felt sad, I laughed, I got excited, I got frustrated.
While reading Fire Punch I felt sad, I laughed, I got excited, I got frustrated.
As it went on, the emotions that I get while reading it also got stronger. Though the opposite is true for our protagonist Agni.
As Agni's journey went on he got number and number to emotions. He smiles without emotions, he has lost something that is very important to the human experience.
That is until near the end of the manga
In which he watches a movie.
It may not be a masterpiece of a movie, it's probably a crappy movie even.
It may not be a masterpiece of a movie, it's probably a crappy movie even.
Nevertheless, it was a movie. It made him feel something.
The past few days while self isolating, waiting for the results of my covid test. I've been feeling kinda numb, nothing really made me feel anything.
That's why I'm grateful for Fire Punch, thank you for making me feel something, even if it's painful sometimes.
Fire Punch to me is about the importance of emotions, how we can completely lose it if we can't feel anything, and how art can help us feel
Not saying that that's what Fujimoto meant when he was making Fire Punch. I'm just a dumb kid rambling on twitter at 4:48 am, don't take my words too seriously.
That's all I have to say for now, sorry if this was a bit ramble-y (it's almost 5 am!!). Thank you if you went out of your way to read all of this, this is my first try at making a thread so it may not be the best. I've talked enough, goodbye and goodnight.
