Chainsaw Man creator\u2019s bizarre origin: Fire Punch While Chainsaw Man may be their claim to fame, Tatsuki Fujimoto\u2019s first published serialized work \u2013 Fire Punch \u2013 is undoubtedly a strange one. Chainsaw Man\u2018s popularity cannot be denied with its over-the-top violence and action, even by the world of anime standards, and gut-punching emotional moments in the story, keeping fans glued to both screens and the page. Anyone who has read Chainsaw Man in its entirety knows how dark Fujimoto can get with his characters and story. Still, if you can believe it, Chainsaw Man is Fujimoto toning it down a bit when compared to his first serialized work, Fire Punch. Fair warning! This article will contain spoilers both for Fire Punch and Chainsaw Man. What is the story of Fire Punch? In a post-apocalyptic world suffering through an Ice Age where humanity is indifferent at best to one another, we\u2019re presented with our protagonist, Agni, a person with powers called \u201cBlessings.\u201d In Agni\u2019s case, he has extremely potent regenerating abilities. To summarise, Agni seeks revenge for his sister\u2019s death, who wishes for them to have a romantic relationship before a conflict that sets him permanently on fire, with him constantly burning until he gets used to the pain. Along his journey, Agni meets some unlikely allies: Sun, a boy with electricity powers, and Togata, a transmasculine deranged cinephile with reasonable regenerative abilities who wants Agni to be the star of their film. Agni follows a girl named Judah, who heavily resembles his late sister, swearing it actually is her. The only functioning society is one of tyranny where all who possess a blessing are either part of the military forces or kept as prisoners to power the city. The leading organization behind it all used religion to convince the remaining population an \u201cIce Witch\u201d caused the Ice Age to give them a common enemy. Still, none survive Agni\u2019s wrath as it all burns down when he arrives. Said Ice Witch is actually trying to reheat the Earth, restoring life to the planet using a giant tree with the hope that society will restart and develop precisely as it did in the real world, so she can watch more Star Wars movies, the latest of which was canceled during production because of the oncoming disaster. Hence, the Ice Witch never saw it. We\u2019re not joking; that\u2019s on the page. Moving on, Agni gains followers, some of them are odd, Blessed people on the way who deem him godlike and start a religion in his name; Judah loses her memory and is adopted by Agni, who names her \u2018Luna\u2019 after his late sister after he exacts revenge on the person who killed her. During a conflict that restores some of Judah\u2019s, now Luna\u2019s, memories, she purposefully attacks Agni\u2019s brain so he\u2019ll forget about everything that has happened and sacrifices herself to the tree to restore the world. An amnesiac Agni, renamed Sun after his late friend and disciple, lives in a seemingly comfortable recovered world many years later, his abilities preventing aging. Since conflict seems to be sparking up in the world again, Sun is offered a way out with a suicide pill. Still, after Togota\u2019s camera is recovered and Sun watches what little surviving soundless black-and-white footage of his life as Agni, it\u2019s hinted he refuses to take it and outlives the planet. Time is not a factor for those with regeneration blessing. While the universe grows old and dies, Sun and Luna finally reunite within the tree among the stars. We recommend anyone interested in Fire Punch pick up a copy today. It\u2019s only eight volumes long, making for an interesting short manga, to say the least. What does Fire Punch mean? The general consensus of Fire Punch\u2019s message, besides emotional damage and confusion, is \u201cLive.\u201d Each time Agni is close to death, he is saved by his friends and loved ones, often resulting in their own deaths; he is told to live again and again. Even if you\u2019re living just for the sake of being alive, it\u2019s much better than the alternative. This message is reflected in Chainsaw Man, though it\u2019s closer to \u201cappreciate what you have\u201d and \u201cbe careful who you put your faith in.\u201d Agni\u2019s purpose changing can reflect how we may need to change what we\u2019re aiming for, for the sake of ourselves, from revenge to protecting your sister even when you both exist in a fugue state pulling into question if any of this is really happening or if Agni is losing his mind, the state of the world and Agni\u2019s miserable state, regardless of how bad things get, you\u2019ll find a purpose to keep going you just need to live through this state first. Fire Punch is also full of a surprising amount of Indian imagery, with Agni being the name of a fire god in Hinduism, meaning fire in sanscrit, and judging by the final panels even takes place in a frozen India. It is also generally considered an extremely liberty taking retelling of the story of the Sun and the Moon who chase each other across the sky. A lot of awful things happen in Fire Punch. While a name such as \u201cFire Punch\u201d may not sound like much outside of an action anime, it\u2019s full of emotional brutality with bizarre, almost parody like imagery, to the degree where you may become as numb to the awful situations as Agni does. With all that said Fire Punch still earns a laugh at the sheer absurdity of how the serious situation is unfolding. The absurdity of the characters\u2019 actions and motivations is possibly their way of coping with their situation; after all, they live in a frozen world where everything is slowly dying, and they cannot see a way out of it, nor are the people in power even trying. So, focusing on a sole purpose and making your personal world smaller is worth appearing a bit absurd if it gives you comfort. For more on Fujimoto\u2019s work, check out everything we know about the upcoming Chainsaw Man movie the Reze arc, and learn when latest Chainsaw Man chapter is heading your way, keep an eye out for any delays that might trip you up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Chainsaw Man creator\u2019s bizarre origin: Fire Punch While Chainsaw Man may be their claim to fame, Tatsuki Fujimoto\u2019s first published serialized work \u2013 Fire Punch \u2013 is undoubtedly a strange one. Chainsaw Man\u2018s popularity cannot be denied with its over-the-top violence and action, even by the world of anime standards, and gut-punching emotional moments in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}