FUJIMOTO TATSUKI 17-26

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CAST

MANGA ActionFujimoto Tatsuki Tanpenshuu: 17-21
MANGA ComedyFujimoto Tatsuki Tanpenshuu: 22-26
ONE SHOT ActionNiwa ni wa Niwa Niwatori ga Ita.
ONE SHOT DramaSasaki-kun ga Judan Tometa
ONE SHOT ComedyKoi wa Moumoku
ONE SHOT ActionShikaku
ONE SHOT FantasyNingyo Rhapsody
ONE SHOT ComedyMe ga Sametara Onnanoko ni Natteita Yamai
ONE SHOT SupernaturalYogen no Nayuta
ONE SHOT ComedyImouto no Ane

REVIEWS

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  marioink508

  80/100
  The Human Emotion Behind Tatsuki Fujimoto's Writing

  Tatsuki Fujimoto has become one of the biggest names in the anime industry in the last few years with his worldwide series Chainsaw Man, as well as many of his other manga or one-shot titles like Fire Punch, Goodbye Eri and even Look Back. But outside of his most well known works, he also wrote a bunch of shorter one-shots which I’m here to talk about.

  This is a very impressive feat to achieve in the anime industry, being able to release a compilation series of short film adaptations from your earlier works as a mangaka… his silliest ideas, each one animated and directed by a different studio.

  Even in his earlier works we can see his vision for what he is trying to achieve with his stories now, his approach is always one that is over the top, silly or sometimes even stupid, but every time there is something deeper rooted behind the curtain. This collection of short films, covers a vast range of different emotions, writing styles and characters, some better than others... but inconsistency is part of human nature, you can’t always write something to please everyone, but if your mind is in the right place, the right people will resonate with it, and that is very clear from this compilation.

  A lot of his stories in this series are very romance focused, with exceptions, some being straight up romance oriented while others having hints of it, these stories are very symbolic and powerful with their direction for human emotion. Two of my favourite examples here are ‘Sisters’ and ‘Woke-Up-as-a-Girl Syndrome’. ‘Sisters’ plays more on familiar love, using nudity as a means to show admiration, something Fujimoto does often in his works, his use of nudity is always symbolic and while he does sometime make it seem more sexual, coming off as perverted, I feel like he always has something deeper to say, and that is the case for ‘Sisters’. It might seem humiliating at first, but the story progression is so raw and powerful that those scenes never come across as sexual and more than anything as love and admiration. The plot of the film also explores the familiar relationship between sisters, the fear of being left behind in someone's shadow, abandonment... a truly spectacular show of human emotion, and my favourite of the bunch. ‘Woke-Up-as-a-Girl Syndrome’ is a comedic yet perturbing take on bullying, sexual harassment and the ability to understand your sexuality, to come to conclusions with it and accept your own identity. One of the most visually unique of the compilation, with it’s beautiful light composition and color grading, as well as an impressive creative direction.

  I won’t cover every film in detail, mostly covering the main emotions they transferred onto me, and how impactful they were. Going into one of the worser examples here is ‘Sasaki Stopped a Bullet’ which does have a good message... determination, the ability to try even if the odds are low, the confidence of attempting what you love is what matters, but I can’t say the direction of this film was that impactful… I found myself laughing a lot to how ridiculous this approach was, it was very sexual and weird in my opinion, kind off reminiscing of Denji’s character in Chainsaw Man in a way, yet this was just plain stupid. The characters were very odd, with the creative and visual direction being pretty lacking as well, and having one of the most forgettable endings.

  Turning back to the well written one-shots, another very impactful story was the very first in the compilation ‘A Couple Clucking Chickens Were Still Kickin' in the Schoolyard’ a tale that primarily plays on blending in, the nature of the human survival instincts to play pretend, trying to fit in, surviving in a cruel world. But what surprises most is how reminiscent of his vision for Chainsaw Man this is, other than the deep psychological themes, the direction is very alike. The extraterrestrial yet devil looking creatures, the body transformations, gory and ‘dehumanising’. (they are aliens so not really the best wording) But what makes the symbolic meaning shine is the beautiful animation and visual style of this piece, a very well directed story, the usage of camera angles, empty space and the accompanying soundtrack are very cinematic, something that felt very much like the vision he had for most of his well known works.

  Quick firing the rest, ‘Nayuta of the Prophecy’ is an ambitious attempt at covering human emotion through devil like characters, inhumanity, and the fear of aging myths, a good film, but pretty simple and not as rewarding of a message execution. ‘Shikaku’ is a comedic approach on the coming of age, realisation of love and the importance of a close relationship envisioned through immortality. A very fun and wholesome experience. ‘Love is Blind’ and ‘Mermaid Rhapsody’ are both primarily romance focused films that play on teenage love, but with different approaches, one attempting it through grief, music and love as a coping mechanism, while the other takes a more comedic and absurd approach, showcasing the blindness of love through various ridiculous and silly scenarios. Both are decent attempts at covering different love emotions, yet not the most impactful or memorable ones in here.

  More than anything this compilation of short films showcased the vision that Tatsuki Fujimoto had all his career, his continuing evolution as a mangaka and an author worth of his status. Every story he has tells a different truth about human emotion, his approaches might not satisfy everyone and they might come across as odd or even disgusting to some, but he will always relate for someone.
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  Link To My Silly Notes For Each Short Film

  Favorite Short Film - 'Woke-Up-as-a-Girl Syndrome'

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  TheAnimeBingeWatcher

  65/100
  Hits, misses and mixed bags with Mr. Chainsaw Man.

  Is there anyone in the anime industry more blessed with the mandate of heaven than Tatsuki Fujimoto right now? Not only has he basically created the biggest blockbuster of the century with Chainsaw Man, he's gotten two attempts to give that manga the most generational adaptation treatment possible. Same with his one-shots, which got more people than I thought was possible gushing over non-serialized manga even before Look Back got turned into one of the most subtly beautiful anime films ever made. And now, a whole collection of anime studios have collaborated to bring eight of his pre-fame one-shots to life, each with its own creative team and wildly different vision. It's like every single member of this industry has agreed that everything Fujimoto releases will get nothing less than the gold star treatment from them. And I'm not complaining, because god damn does his work deserve it.

  So, the 17-26 in the title is a reference to Fujimoto's age: all the one-shots adapted here are stories he wrote between those ages, cutting off at 26 when he started writing Chainsaw Man and proceeded to explode onto the global stage. All together, they're something like a pre-history, ideas half-formed and starting to coalesce that would later blossom into the more richly developed tropes and fascinations iconic to Fujimoto's work. But since I'm a Chainsaw Man anime-only, my analysis on these works' relation to his future endeavors stop there. I'm just here to talk about each entry on its own terms, and the weird, often wonderful rides they took me on.

  1) A Couple Clucking Chickens Were Still Kickin' in the Schoolyard: This is the most overtly Chainsaw-esque short of the bunch, with its grotesque and bizarre monster designs and gristly violence portrayed in lurid detail. It's a painfully nihilistic story about humanity wiped to near extinction by aliens who view them as livestock... only for those aliens to copy human culture from them, appropriating what makes us special while reducing us to prey. It's funny in a way that makes you feel bad for laughing, absurd and over-the-top yet grounded in tragedy almost too big to process. And its wildly bombastic animation captures every jaw-dropping, heart-stopping moment of it. It's a little too eager to telegraph its big twist, and it starts an unfortunate trend among these shorts where most of the big character bonding moments are shoved into flashbacks rather than experienced in the moment, but it's a fantastic start to the project. 7/10.
  
  2) Sasaki Stopped a Bullet: Ugh, this one was a dud. It's this weird, uncomfortable tonal car crash about a high school boy trying to stop the teacher he's crushing on from being raped by her stalker, and it drags out every moment with viciously uncomfortable dialogue and aesthetics so inconsistent it feels like you're watching a different anime every shot. It's like it's rubbing your face in its own ugliness and expecting you to laugh at the discomfort. But I just wanted to throw up. 3/10

  3) Love is Blind: Mother of god, I couldn't stop laughing here. Imagine the rom-com belligerence of Kaguya-sama mixed with the art-deco visual madness of Monogatari, throw in the slapstick lunacy of Nichijou, and you've got an absolute riot of a short about a guy refusing to let an increasingly absurd series of happenings interrupt his attempt to confess to his crush before he graduates... if only he can work up the courage to say it. 7.5/10

  4) Shikaku: A female assassin with a childish-but-genuine sense of right and wrong is called in to assassinate an immortal vampire who's bored of life and wants to be put out of his misery. It's the most genuinely romantic entry on this list. I am not joking. 7.5/10

  5) Mermaid Rhapsody: If I didn't know this was a Fujimoto work, I would've assumed it was some third-rate hack's attempt to copy Makoto Shinkai with none of the talent that makes Shinkai work. Lazy, pandering slop with a terrible romance, overwritten narration that substitutes meaningful character moments for exposition, and some truly butt-ugly compositing. 3/10

  6) Woke-Up-As-A-Girl-Syndrome: Is it a trans allegory? Or just about how much it sucks being treated as female in modern society? Whatever it is, it's probably the most visually beautiful of the bunch with an arresting pop-art aesthetic that delivers the writing's pitch-black humor expertly. It's a shame the ending is so gender-essentialist after such a promising start. 6.5/10

  7) Nayuta of the Prophecy: What if your little sister was prophesized to destroy the world? How would you balance your love for her with the fear of what she might become- and what she already might be? That's a compelling hook to build a gristly, gruesome family tale out of. Unfortunately, this is the same director as Mermaid Rhapsody, and if the compositing was already terrible in that one, good god does it double down here. It's legitimately hard to look at this one with its smeary bloom effects and vomit-inducing blending style. And then it treats physically abusing your little sister as a happy ending. Skip. 3.5/10

  8) SIsters: So this is 100% the precursor to Look Back, right? Two female leads, one fiercely jealous of the other's artistic talent while the other just wants to live up to the first one's expectations... the seeds were absolutely planted here. Very glad the underage nudity and vaguely incestuous undertones didn't carry through to the "final" version. 7/10

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  Otakou

  60/100
  Coupable de normalité

  Tatsuki Fujimoto est un auteur qu'on ne présente plus maintenant. Maintenant populaire avec son Chainsaw Man toujours en cours ou le récemment adapté Look Back, ses qualités avaient déjà été dévoilées avec son un peu moins reconnu mais tout de même bon Fire Punch. Mais Fujimoto, comme beaucoup de mangakas, a bien évidemment déjà fait preuve de sa créativité avec plusieurs One Shot, qui ont d'ailleurs été compilées en deux tomes. J'ai lu ses deux mangas principaux mais je n'ai malheureusement pas lu les histoires adaptées ici, je pars donc en totale découverte. Avec l'annonce de multiples studios pour chaque histoire, on pouvait s'attendre à ce que chacun face un genre de prouesse technique captant la bizarrerie et la folie générale de Fujimoto, un peu comme Look Back ou le récent film de Chainsaw Man. Malheureusement, la vie est remplie de déceptions, à l'image de cette anthologie.

  Premier épisode, par ZECXS : une histoire rigolote où deux humains se déguisent en poules pour ne pas se faire bouffer par des aliens. On sent une volonté de transmettre l'esprit fujimotien, avec des fulgurances, et une ambiance générale qui marche bien, on sent que le réalisateur a bossé sur le film Chainsaw Man. L'histoire en elle-même est assez surprenante. En bref, un premier jet rassurant.

  Deuxième épisode par Lapin Track : patatra. La grosse pétouille. L'histoire est assez absurde, une classe se fait attaquer par un vieux mec. On sent que c'est Fujimoto quoi. Malheureusement, l'ambiance est assez normale, le trait est quelconque, et bordel que c'est long, mais long. L'absurde se fait juste aspirer dans le néant, je n'ai jamais vu un rythme aussi pété. Y avait moyen de faire un truc absurde, mais il fallait donner du rythme. Le studio a fait Shoshimin, mais le rythme de Shoshimin ne colle pas à l'histoire. Et ça m'étonne car ce même studio a fait Undead Girl Murder Farce qui savait faire des fulgurances. Bref, le deuxième épisode est vraiment mauvais, on commence à déraper.

  Troisième épisode, toujours par Lapin Track : une histoire d'amour un peu absurde. Etonnamment, le rythme marche mieux et l'humour aussi. Malheureusement, il est lui aussi assez banal, mais on va dire que c'est pas comme le massacre du précédent épisode.

  Quatrième épisode par GRAPH77 : une jeune tueuse à gages réputée rencontre un vampire. Ca pour le coup c'est un pur brio. Le trait de Fujimoto est bien restranscrit, le rythme est bon et l'absurde est bien conservé. C'est même mieux que le 1er épisode. Pour le coup, une très bonne production, alors que c'est le premier jet du studio visiblement. On s'est bien redressé.

  Cinquième épisode, par 100Studio : un garçon joue du piano sous l'eau et rencontre une sirène. L'histoire est très soft pour du Fujimoto, on dirait presque qu'elle n'est pas de lui. Production normale, mais c'est assez joli honnêtement, et le passage un peu sanglant marche bien. Mais le trait de Fujimoto ne se ressent pas malheureusement. Petit downgrade, mais ça reste bon.

  Sixième épisode, par Studio Kafka : un garçon se réveille changé en fille. C'est haut la main le meilleur épisode. C'est dans la complète lignée du film Look Back On sent que le réal, Kazuaki Terasawa, est un gros fan de Fujimoto, c'est littéralement lui adapté à l'écran. Et ça m'étonne, les seuls autres projets du studio sont liés à Mahotsukai no Yome, un anime que j'aime bien, et qui ne sont clairement pas similaires à Fujimoto. Donc une sacrée surprise et un épisode qui met le sourire.

  Septième épisode, retour de 100studio : un garçon orphelin s'occupe de sa petite sœur cornue qu'on pense responsable d'une futur fin du monde. Et oh mon dieu, la chute. Dommage, on repartait bien. Il y avait clairement une ambiance glauque de base, mais on se retrouve avec le même problème de trait trop standard. A part les paroles de la petite, et à la limite les animaux étranges, c'est beaucoup trop normal, c'est difficile de ressentir un truc particulier. Ce qui est dommage car y avait clairement la possibilité de faire un truc ultra dérangeant et glauque. Gros pétard mouillé

  Dernier épisode, par PA Works : une fille voit un portrait d'elle nue affichée dans son école, dessiné par sa petite sœur. On a l'impression que c'est un genre de proto Look Back (côté artistique important, deux personnages féminins dont l'un est assez jaloux). Le trait général donne aussi cette impression, comme s'il voulait faire comme le film mais se sont calmés entre temps. Un peu dommage, mais on va dire que le résultat final reste sympathique.

  Mais au final, un problème ressort globalement de cette anthologie : une normalisation du trait, de la mise en scène. Honnêtement, quand on parle de l'anime Chainsaw Man, je fais partie de ceux qui trouvent que la série reste bonne et a des idées, même si on perd un peu le côté Fujimoto. Et le gros de l'anthologie pour moi exacerbe les défauts qu'on lui faisait. Ce qui est dommage, il aurait clairement fallu mieux adapter et rendre plusieurs épisodes plus nerveux, glauques, qu'ils s'illustrent aussi visuellement... au final je trouve qu'il y a trois épisodes vraiment bons. Sinon ça va du très mauvais au sympathique en étant généreux. Ca m'énerve un peu, mais je suppose que ça m'apprendra de regarder du Fujimoto plutôt que d'en lire.

  Franchement, je vous dirais de lire les One Shot, mais si vous voulez regarder, je recommande vraiment les 1, 4 et 6.

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