Bonus: Fire Punch is a numbing onslaught of atrocities

Chainsaw Man is the normal one

So much happens in Fire Punch that it’s difficult to post pages that don’t give something away or don’t take place somewhere you shouldn’t see yet. I will try. Forgive me.

It’s fascinating to read Fire Punch, most of all because it reveals that Chainsaw Man is actually a toned-down, refined, and relatively grounded picture of the inside of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s brain.

If you found Chainsaw Man to be vicious and bleak, Fire Punch’s sheer misanthropic bad taste aggressively challenges the reader to put down the book and walk away. It is a barrage of suffering so relentless that the pain soon ceases to register; the reader becomes as numb as the freezing, hopeless denizens of its ice-bound world.