Is this mangaka crazy?

Fan Siwei is not the only one reading "Fire Punch". After all, Ren gave away 10,000 copies of "Fire Punch" out of his own pocket. Before giving them away, the major bookstores also put the full volume on sale.

Some loyal fans of Ren also chose to buy it out of their own pocket after finding out they were late and didn't "win" the book.

Everyone is reading the story of "Fire Punch" right now.

But there are also some who are not fans of Ren and bought the full volume of "Fire Punch" out of their own pocket.

For example, Yusuke is reading "Fire Punch" to see what kind of manga Ren, his lifelong rival, has created.

He continued reading. Although Agni saved Sang and the people in the village,

everyone knows that Agni did not act to save people.

He sought revenge.

However, Sang, who was saved from despair, regarded Agni as the savior and god of the world, and began to follow him to the end.

But Agni didn't want Sang to follow him, because he was not a god in his eyes.

He was just a poor avenger.

For revenge, people who choose to live and have a purpose, are they not worthy of pity?

So when Agni faced Sang's request before being killed by Besim Druk's soldiers: "If I die, please live with me," he didn't hesitate to save Sang.

Because he didn't want to live on the hopes of others.

He wanted to kill Dema and then die.

Yusuke felt a little sad seeing this.

Indeed, according to his values, death is the heaviest thing.

Because when people die, they have nothing left, so, no matter what, living is the most important thing.

So the male protagonist of "The Gods" has an exclusive word: "Don't die."

But now he is watching "Edgerunners" or the current "Fire Punch".

The values Ren wanted to convey were completely opposite to his own.

In "Edgerunners", David died and Lucy survived alone, and in "Fire Punch", Luna died and Agni survived alone.

And the most painful person is the one who survives in the end, so it seems that, according to Ren's values, death is not painful and living is the most painful.

This made Yusuke disagree, but he could still feel Agni's pain in "Fire Punch".

It was as if he was being burned by a scorching fire, with his internal organs burning.

In the manga, just as Agni and Sang thought they were safe...

But at that moment, Besim Druk's soldiers attacked again.

However, Agni was decapitated by a Besim Druk soldier without any defense!

But Agni was still alive, and his severed head was still burning in flames.

At the same time, he saw... that the person who had cut off his head, after removing his mask, turned out to be...

"Luna...", Agni said in disbelief.

That's right, the person who had cut off his head had the same face as his sister Luna! However, this person was not Luna, who had risen from the dead, but Yoda, a Besim Druk soldier.

Then, Agni and Sang were taken back to the Besim Druk base.

Because Sang possessed the rare ability of electric discharge, he was captured in a special place.

There he met Nanette, a young woman who was also a slave.

At the same time, the true face of Besim Druk was also revealed.

It turned out that the Ice Witch was a lie from Besim Druk. In fact, this world had entered an ice age.

That's why this world plunged into cold, hunger, and madness.

If this continues, human civilization will be destroyed.

So the leaders of Besim Druk invented a lie: it was the Ice Witch who destroyed the world.

Under the pretext of fighting her, they summoned "blessed" people everywhere.

And when the "blessed" people arrived at Besim Druk, they found that they were not there to fight her.

They were objects of exploitation. Sang and other blessed slaves had to contribute resources to Besim Druk for 22 hours a day.

Sang and Nanette did not intend to sit idly by and wait for death, so they planned to electrocute the soldier Jack who was guarding them.

But at that moment, another brother, Ivan, who was guarding Jack, entered and chopped off Sang's legs with an axe. The two brothers subdued them and decided to turn Sang into...

Besim Druk's firewood.

What is firewood? It means being tied directly to the bed and forced to continuously emit electricity until death.

"What a crazy world!"

Yusuke couldn't help but frown and said.

The worldview of "Fire Punch"... is truly too crazy and dark.

The whole world is a big lie, and the superiors feed on lies.

It's even crazier than the cyberpunk worldview of "Edgerunners". After all, no matter how dark Night City is,

it retains its glamorous appearance.

It's as if one is a self-righteous gangster and the other is a desperate one.

Obviously, the desperate one seems crazier.

Ren's current works, "Edgerunners", "Chainsaw Man", and now "Fire Punch", have very distinctive personal characteristics.

That's madness.

Different from the madness of ordinary people.

Whether it's the setting of abandoning one's body and then transforming into a prosthetic, or the sudden and bloody fight, and Agni's plot of cutting off his arm to save people at the beginning of "Fire Punch".

These are absurd scenarios that ordinary people could hardly imagine.

It's not that it's unthinkable, but everyone seems to have a limit and wouldn't design such a plot.

In fact, when Yusuke was watching the plot of "Chainsaw Man" recently, he felt that Ren didn't seem to have that sense of madness when drawing "Edgerunners".

Now that I've seen "Fire Punch", I think about it carefully...

Could it be because Ren held back when creating "Chainsaw Man"? Perhaps that's why the current plot of "Chainsaw Man" is so bland.

Even compared to the worldview and plot of "Fire Punch", the setting of "Edgerunners" might not be that extreme...

"Edgewalker": You are a little too extreme.jpeg Yusuke was filled with anticipation for "Fire Punch" and continued watching it.

He continued watching it, and at that moment, a completely new and strange character appeared.

His name is... Togata, but at first he seemed to introduce himself to the camera: "I'm Togata...! My name is Togata!"

"The movies I like are... Home Alone, Star Wars, The Dark Knight, Inception... Oh, anyway, I like quite a few!"

"Speaking of movies... Movies, cut this part and record it again...".

"Movies are a product of the pre-Blessing era..."

"...But Besim Druk burned down my house! They burned all the movies, so I won't be able to watch them again!"

"...I can't stand not having movies to watch!"

It's clear she's a big movie buff.

However... In this ice age and the end of humanity, this character's environment is always a little distracting.

After saying a bunch of confusing words, after talking about Agni, who was captured by Besim Druk.

Togata exaggerated: "The man those Besim Druk guys arrested after that...".

"He only has a head, but he's still alive. Is he a blessed person with the ability to regenerate?"

"And he has an incomprehensible appearance...".

"For example, he has eyes like the Fox, and his body is like a human torch. He's naked and his nails are burning!"

"In short, he's a man who always burns."

"In this snow-covered world, he is reflected red with such flames. I have never seen a blessed ability like that!"

"By the way, why is he burning?"

"Why is he naked?"

"Why did those Besim Druk guys catch him?"

Togata's eyes were filled with emotion as she asked herself a series of questions.

Finally she said: "...So I made a decision! Let him be the protagonist of my movie! And I will be the director!"

"Isn't it okay for me to make the movie?"

"...And the name of the movie... Mysterious Story... The Truth in the Snow... Plan... The Flame Plan..."

"Flame Snow... Red... Red Flame of Death... Flame... Fire Punch..."

Finally, with Togata's excited smile, she decided on the movie's name.

"Alright... It's decided, it's called..."

"Fire Punch!"

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