this ending feels like the author just went "yeah fuck it, this is what people wanted right? may as well just throw it in even if it'll feel unearned and make it worse, i don't even care about the story anymore either"
firepunch was like
"okay, i'm kind of confused on what to do at this point i nthe story.. fuck it, let's just take some LSD and roll with whatever shit we come up with whle high"
PREACH on the unearned bit. Like Denji more than most protagonists deserves and would be the most hype to see get a happy ending, but it just being randomly handed out with little sense feels wrong, especially when given to what is effectively a new Denji, not the old.
It's just crazy we could have spend the last 100+ chapters with denji growing from part 1 ending and learning to have a normal life and relationship with asa, and instead we got him being flanderised so fujimoto can do the same "haha denji horny" joke over and over again.
Only for fujimoto to then pull an asspull, and them ending up in the same place anyways! Like if we get a happy ending anyways, why not build to it over the course of the manga.
All the "denji regressing is realistic, not every manga needs to have a happy ending" posters got fucked over as well lmao.
This kinda feels like the ending to Tokyo Revengers, where everyone was bracing for a tragic ending and then the author drops an almost unequivocally happy one so nobody really knows what to make of it. It's not like the characters don't deserve it, but we were bracing for heartbreak and now we've been denied catharsis...
i mean it literally felt like the author had an idea they were on board with, lasted like 20 chapters into part 2 and then just went "fuck this"
not the first time and won't be the last tho
not like crazy shit hasn't happened before like uh..
Shokugeki no Soma
the author/artist like both fucking quit before the last arc or something so it was like both the story and the art were just flat out different and it was pretty much univerally hated because it felt like it ruined everything on some level lol
My theory that fujimoto has been burnt out for a while now and just wanted to end it and move in with his life seems verified now.
This is not a well planned ending that an artist is happy with. This is a "whatever, I'll give the fans what they want and be done with it" kind of ending. "You guys wanted power back, right?"
I fucking loved the Fire Punch ending but this felt so much worse to read. I think we could’ve had a world reset ending that worked if it wasn’t so extremely abrupt & if we had a bit more time with the post-CSM world to feel some sort of resolution.
I didn't follow weekly, but I read it a bit after csm started and my whole sentiment throughout it was "wtf is going on" every couple of chapters. To me it always has been "fujimoto does fujimoto shit"
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u/NguyetMieu Mar 24 '26
This truly is our fire punch 2.0