Fire Punch is a manga by the author of Chainsaw Man.
It features a lot of dark and explicit content.
Which makes it challenging to adapt into an anime.
Fire Punch is a dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto, who you might know as the author of Chainsaw Man and the Look Back one-shot that also has an anime adaptation in the works.
Fire Punch Is Insane
Fire Punch begins with vengeance, but we wouldn’t dare call it another generic revenge story. It starts with Agni, who was set on fire that cannot be extinguished until the victim is dead.
The thing is, though, Agni has immense regeneration abilities that don’t allow him to die. So he keeps living and keeps burning, eager to find the man who did this to him and execute his revenge.
Although Chainsaw Man is definitely the most popular work of Fujimoto, a lot of fans absolutely love Fire Punch, too. That’s why they’ve been asking for an anime adaptation of this series for ages, but haven’t been heard so far.
The announcement of the Look Back anime movie adaptation made them raise this question once again. Fujimoto’s works are getting more and more recognition, so why can’t Fire Punch receive the same treatment?
It’s Too Unhinged
We’re sure you don’t need us to tell you how crazy Fujimoto’s works can get. If you’ve read Chainsaw Man or any of the mangaka’s one-shots, you absolutely know what we’re talking about. But Fire Punch takes the madness to another level.
The short premise we’ve told you about is already pretty unhinged, and you can comprehend the level of trauma and suffering that transpires in the series. But it’s not even the entire exposition, which we don’t want to spoil you in case you haven’t read the manga.
There are all sorts of things in Fire Punch. Even the first 10 chapters of the series feature such themes as cannibalism, rape, incest and bestiality. The series doesn’t promote these concepts, of course, but they are still there.
And should we even say anything about the violence of Fire Punch and its brutality? If you know what Fujimoto’s works usually are, you can understand that there are a lot of traumatic events in the series.
It’s puzzling why Fire Punch is considered a shounen (mostly targeted at an audience of adolescent boys) because everything about it screams seinen (targeted at young adults and adults).
All of that makes Fire Punch especially challenging to adapt. Such an anime will require tons of censorship, and we all know how much fans hate the idea of it.
There’s only one way to make the Fire Punch adaptation right ― to leave it as explicit as the original source is. And hardly any animation studio will agree to that, which makes this anime hardly possible for now.
Would you like to see Fire Punch animated?
It would be a hell of an anime, though.
Summary:
Fire Punch is a manga by the author of Chainsaw Man.
It features a lot of dark and explicit content.
Which makes it challenging to adapt into an anime.
Fire Punch is a dark fantasy manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuki Fujimoto, who you might know as the author of Chainsaw Man and the Look Back one-shot that also has an anime adaptation in the works.
Fire Punch Is Insane
Fire Punch begins with vengeance, but we wouldn’t dare call it another generic revenge story. It starts with Agni, who was set on fire that cannot be extinguished until the victim is dead.
The thing is, though, Agni has immense regeneration abilities that don’t allow him to die. So he keeps living and keeps burning, eager to find the man who did this to him and execute his revenge.
Although Chainsaw Man is definitely the most popular work of Fujimoto, a lot of fans absolutely love Fire Punch, too. That’s why they’ve been asking for an anime adaptation of this series for ages, but haven’t been heard so far.
The announcement of the Look Back anime movie adaptation made them raise this question once again. Fujimoto’s works are getting more and more recognition, so why can’t Fire Punch receive the same treatment?
It’s Too Unhinged
We’re sure you don’t need us to tell you how crazy Fujimoto’s works can get. If you’ve read Chainsaw Man or any of the mangaka’s one-shots, you absolutely know what we’re talking about. But Fire Punch takes the madness to another level.
The short premise we’ve told you about is already pretty unhinged, and you can comprehend the level of trauma and suffering that transpires in the series. But it’s not even the entire exposition, which we don’t want to spoil you in case you haven’t read the manga.
There are all sorts of things in Fire Punch. Even the first 10 chapters of the series feature such themes as cannibalism, rape, incest and bestiality. The series doesn’t promote these concepts, of course, but they are still there.
And should we even say anything about the violence of Fire Punch and its brutality? If you know what Fujimoto’s works usually are, you can understand that there are a lot of traumatic events in the series.
It’s puzzling why Fire Punch is considered a shounen (mostly targeted at an audience of adolescent boys) because everything about it screams seinen (targeted at young adults and adults).
All of that makes Fire Punch especially challenging to adapt. Such an anime will require tons of censorship, and we all know how much fans hate the idea of it.
There’s only one way to make the Fire Punch adaptation right ― to leave it as explicit as the original source is. And hardly any animation studio will agree to that, which makes this anime hardly possible for now.
