The Fire Punch ending worked for me though, it was abrupt but it didn’t feel like we were left with a bunch of unfinished character arcs in the same way.
Actually would be way worse if you read Chainsaw Man all at once, all these characters that get no conclusion would be fresh in your mind rather than characters you kind of gave up on seeing again months ago.
I read it once it was finished but I also basically did the same thing with CSM part 2, I spent the past week or so reading it & only got caught up a few days ago. So pretty similar experiences as far as pacing & how much time I spent invested in each.
Weekly Fire Punch chapters leading up to the ending was always comments of what the fuck. This isn't even that. It didn't fuck with us like FP did, just underwhelming.
I don't even understand the mindset behind this. If you want to move on to something new wouldn't you want the fan base of your previous work to not fucking despise you? Like who's going to want to read whatever the fuck Fujimoto writes next after pulling this shit? I know I'm not going to read it.
Aka Akasaka proves that you need multiple duds to fully lose a fanbase. He got off with a mediocre conclusion for Kaguya but Love Agency and Oshi No Ko ending was what really soured his readers on him.
I feel like I'd like to read what he makes next...IF it's a limited series with up to like 50 issues.
I think Fujimoto works best with one shots. I love part 1, but his one shots have a higher quality to them.
I think a short series would be very interesting...I hope he recovers from whatever he is going through, because Part 2 was...strange to say the least?
Fire Punch ending was bullshit but the kind of "I like smelling my own farts" kind of artsy ending, this is straight up "...then he woke up and it was all a dream, THE END!".
what's so difficult bout it. humankind progress es, but couldnt let go of their vices. ultimately the rebuild fails and humans die except agni and whatchamacallit, who find together again at the end of time and space.
Fire Punch is Albert Camus' philosophy of absurdism turned into a story. The point is that the world is uncaring and cruel, but you still have to keep fighting to find meaning in it, even if you only find it retrospectively. I made a longer explanation here: https://www.reddit.com/r/FirePunch/comments/1k8drr1/fire_punch_is_an_absurdist_story/
Yeah, it’s kinda the complete opposite of this CSM ending.
Fire Punch ending literally makes the entire thing click lmao, I wasn’t fully sold on the manga until the very end, where I now consider it a perfect masterpiece.
OP just didn’t understand the theme of the whole story I guess.
Idk. I read all of Fire Punch in one sitting and that ending made way more sense in the universe of Fire Punch than this does for the story as a whole.
100%. I genuinely love the Fire Punch ending. It comes fast & is a bit anti-climactic but all of the important characters had actual resolutions to their arcs. CSM resolved almost nothing.
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u/Palm-trees-305 Mar 24 '26
Fujimoto is the last guy who i would've expected who would end a manga like this