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brenticus's review against another edition
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This might be the hardest opening of anything I've ever read. Like, a kid is chopping off his limbs to feed people because he has regenerative powers. His sister proposes making a baby with him. His whole village is burnt to the ground, and he is forced to live for nearly a decade engulfed in flames that will not go out until he dies, but he also regenerates fast enough to never die.
That is the first chapter and it gets worse from there. Fire Punch is weird.
The whole volume proceeds like the fever dream of a man literally too angry to die repeatedly having his PTSD shoved in his face. It jumps around, showing the brutality of the world, the innocence and depravity of its inhabitants, and the injustice rampant in every aspect of civilization. We see early on that the flames Agni carries with him can burn anything to dust, and as time goes on I only see more things that he needs to burn.Â
This isn't a shonen where you see a person grow to face greater challenges; Agni is the challenge, and you wonder whether there is anything in the world you would want to stop him.
That is the first chapter and it gets worse from there. Fire Punch is weird.
The whole volume proceeds like the fever dream of a man literally too angry to die repeatedly having his PTSD shoved in his face. It jumps around, showing the brutality of the world, the innocence and depravity of its inhabitants, and the injustice rampant in every aspect of civilization. We see early on that the flames Agni carries with him can burn anything to dust, and as time goes on I only see more things that he needs to burn.Â
This isn't a shonen where you see a person grow to face greater challenges; Agni is the challenge, and you wonder whether there is anything in the world you would want to stop him.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Abandonment, Child death, Injury/Injury detail, Fire/Fire injury, Blood, Cannibalism, Child abuse, Death, Suicidal thoughts, Self harm, Slavery, Violence, and Torture
Moderate: Pedophilia, Rape, and Incest
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