Fire Punch

Yeah, because how many freaking, like, series from the 2000s, like, manga or anime just from, like, that era where, like, everything awful just happens to the main characters? Like, they're treated awful, like...

that put me off a lot a bunch of times but like with uh what's it called uh with four chainsaw man uh what was the series that's the fire fire punch fire punch fire punch it was like it was very much like i was just like this is every character it's misery everything cruel just happening i just i don't love this because i don't like reading like non-stop everything's bad happening

No, I totally feel that.

Famously, well, famously, who fucking cares? But I'm the kind of guy that will read almost anything, and I dropped the manga homunculus because

Welcome to Manga Machinations! This is episode number 600! We are celebrating our 12-year anniversary with a Morgana's Manga Makeup! I'm DocZoo, and with me is Dar Fox 8! Hello! Morgana Santilli! Hi there! Seamus2389! Hello! And friend of the podcast, special guest, Manga Letter, Aiden Clark! Hello there! Hello, hello, hello everybody! Welcome to our very special episode, 12 Years of Manga Machinations, and we're celebrating by revisiting three titles Morgana has not discussed on this podcast, Billy Bat, Historie, and Fire Punch.

And not only that, Aidan Clark has agreed to join us again.

It's been three years since our nine-year anniversary where we did a retrospective redux on Pluto.

We're looking at three titles that we've already covered on this podcast, but Morgana has not read.

So either they were before Morgana joined the podcast or maybe when she was out.

And these three titles are Billy Bat, Fire Punch, And Historiae.

So with all Morgana's Manga Makeups, we want to ask Morgana, which one of these titles shall we talk about first?

I'd like to do this in the order I read them, I think.

I don't know.

We talk about that with, like, fucking Blame and Fire Punch, where it's like this is made by

someone in their early 20s

who

We started the year off talking about some monsters.

We've read Frankenstein.

What else did we read? I know we did Fire Punch, but there was a third thing.

What was the third thing?

I picked up the source material after the first season of the show.

And since then, I've read most of Fujimoto's works other than Fire Punch.

I haven't gotten to that yet, but I do really enjoy collecting and reading manga as a casual, I would say, hobby.

But I think all that being said, now looking back on it, as I learned more about the animation approach that they took to the first season of Chainsaw Man being kind of cinematic with Ryu Nakayama as the director, that was very controversial at the time.

The animation, incredible.

I do got to say that as a preamble that, uh, after, after reading fire punch from Fujimoto and I was already like, I was selling all my stocks on chainsaw man, like season, like all the things that about chainsaw season one that had me going like, I don't know.

Like, I feel like this is, I feel like this is going nowhere.

And then reading a complete work of his and being like, Oh man, He's going to fumble it.

I love it so much.

And even if...

I hate the ending, which honestly, I read all of Fire Punch.

Kyle is correct.

But, uh, the following week when we come back, it'll be our 12-year anniversary, and we're gonna celebrate it by doing a Morgana's Manga Make-up.

We're gonna read the first volume of Historie, Fire Punch, and Billy Bat.

It is happening.

We're finally going to go back to Billy Bat.

And as, uh, a special guest, we're gonna have our friend, manga letterer, Aidan Clark, join us.

So not only is he going to talk about his time doing lettering for Billy Bat, he will also be talking about Fire Punch and Historie.

Should be a very fun time.

We haven't had him on since our nine-year anniversary when we did Pluto, so we're very excited about that.