Just Listen to the Song

I think this one-shot was mainly a reflection on Fujimoto as a writer with how much power he currently holds. He knows how much people overanalyse his media and to pump out a small one-shot that reflects that was his intention. There will always over analyzation in our consumption of media. And there will always be people who will interpret Fujimoto’s stories as one of the greatest things ever and constantly overanalyse ever detail in his work. While this one shot wasn’t great, I think that was Fujimoto’s intention as a writer and it really reflected on him. There was a set up introduced witha spirit person that went nowhere, but that was intentional I believe. I think he wanted this one shot to covey these themes of overanalysing and misinterpreting as a warning for Chainsaw Man Part 2, to lower our expectations and not always overanalyse – just to appreciate the thing for as it is, not what it could be.

TL;DR: It's literally not even 20 pages long, you should read it regardless of anything! Fujimoto's collection of Infinity Stones just got expanded with yet another one-shot hit. Props to Tooda too, who drew the one-shot. And the funny thing is... you might consider this whole review to be very ironic, if you disagree with me on what this one-shot wanted to tell us. The art of overanalyzing, and seeing things that aren't there. You've definitely seen it at some point in your life. The earliest example of this that I remember was in elementary school: the literature teachers. You know how literature teachers loooooove to dissect anyand all of the sentences that exist in a story...looking for some astonishing, profound meaning behind them? It's not unusual that they end up with something that is possibly much more complex than what the writers themselves thought of when they wrote those exact sentences. And sadly, more often than not, we never find out whether the author meant to express what the fans deduced. Did by any chance some anime/manga/videogame/tvshow/movie fandom cross your mind when you read this? I know I could name a few. Today, overanalyzing like this makes people set their expectations way too high for the authors, which almost always undoubtedly ends with the fans being disappointed. The same way everyone was disappointed with the MC's second song. Of course, there's a possibility that Fujimoto is throwing shade at his own fans too. When he was writing "Fire Punch", "Chainsaw Man", "Look Back", "Goodbye Eri"... he might've never thought of the things that the fans "realized" from their analysis of his work. He might've just been writing stories that he considered to be solely engaging to read. Based Fujimoto I say. This one-shot is not carried by it's plot, nor it's art, nor it's characters. It is carried by it's unique main message. And, well, I'd say that it manages to present the message very well in it's mere 18 pages. JUST LISTEN TO THE DAMN SONG. IT'S NOT THAT DEEP.

This is unironically one of the greatest one shots written. The presentation, the art and the story is incredibly smart and well executed. The irony in the story and the anthithesis between the message and the essense of the message itself proves once more Tatsuki Fujimoto's geniusness. I highly recommend this comic both because its a collaboration between two great artists, but because its also an amazing anc captivating short story. Mal is asking me to enrich my review but this is a one shot so like i cant really analyse much the way characters act etc because its like a 20 pages story. Though I'dsay that for what it is, a one shot, the story and characters are very memorable, this is a prominent feature in Fujimotos work, and its really noticeable here. I think this is not a comic for everyone, but if you have enjoyed other works of the author, especially his other one shots, this one will definetly hit a sweet spot.