Last week, we chatted with you about the evil comic " Chainsaw Man ", and by the way, we also mentioned the genius cartoonist Fujimoto tree behind this comic, and his other work -
" Yanquan
Compared with the popular "Chainsaw Man", "Yanquan" is slightly inferior in terms of popularity. The most widely circulated may be the world famous painting:
"Use Yanquan on him."
However, to a certain extent, "Flame Fist" may be a work created by Fujimoto, a manga artist who is "free" , solely for self-expression.
Fujimoto cares more about self-expression than pleasing readers, but in "Chainsaw Man", Fujimoto makes certain concessions while expressing himself.
For example, what Fujimoto really wants to feed readers is his jar of aged balsamic vinegar (self-expression) .
In "The Chainsaw Man", he brought a plate of dumplings to the readers. .
And in "Flame Fist", Fujimoto tree stopped pretending, directly picked up the vinegar jar and put it in your mouth.
Compared with "Chainsaw Man"'s abrupt stop, "Flame Fist" is the other extreme.
Throughout the manga, there are several places where people think that Fujimoto is going to end here.
and then Fujimoto tree refused to continue to give you vinegar, broke through the previous cognition time and time again, and the final outcome is even more mixed.
said so much, what kind of story is "Flaming Fist"?
summed it up in one sentence, "Flame Fist" is a story of a group of characters struggling to survive the curse of immortality in a completely hopeless worldview.
This world is covered with snow and ice, and there is no land suitable for cultivation. All life is eroded by this boundless cold.
There are some superpowers called well-wishers among human beings. The male protagonist Agni and his sister Luna are two well-wishers with regeneration ability.
The male protagonist Agni lost his sister Luna at the beginning of the story, and the village they both lived in was burned to ashes by an officer from Bay City, Dema, the well-wisher of fire ability.
Dema hit the killer because he discovered that this village was a cannibal.
In this world of scarcity, Agni, who is a blessing of regeneration, uses the flesh from his arms to feed the village, which is helpless.
Luna, the less regenerative sister, is eventually burned to charcoal by Dema's unquenchable flames, but Agni can't even die.
He's very regenerating - he can grow back instantly after cutting off his hands, and not even Demar's flames can kill him completely.
And, Luna's last word to him, is to keep him alive.
Because of this sentence, he mourned in the flames for 8 years -
The opening of "Flame Fist" can be said to have completely subverted the opening of Wang Dao Juvenile Manga.
Agni comes out at full level, and there is almost nothing that can kill him, and he only needs to touch it, and the burning Dema flame on his body will burn out the enemy.
Agni's wish is to live happily with his parents and sister, But this wish will never come true , he has actually lost his reason to live.
He wants to seek revenge on Dema and take revenge on Beicheng behind Dema.
But what really keeps him alive may be Luna's "live on".
This is the story of a man with no reason to survive in a hopeless post-apocalyptic world.
The first place where "Flame Fist" is suspected to be the ending is where Agni destroys Beicheng.
(spoiler alert!)
In this post-apocalyptic world, Bay City is the only city that sustains the life of modern civilization.
However, their prosperous life is based on the exploitation and enslavement of people outside the city. They capture ordinary people as slaves, and they capture well-wishers and use them as human flesh batteries to generate electricity, draining their blessing ability.
Agni met his life mentor Liga Tian , she is a hardcore movie lover, judging from her hobby, she should be a regenerative person who has lived for a long time.
Her dream is to make a "Star Wars" movie in this fucking apocalyptic world.
When she learned of Agni's past, she was acutely aware that this was a godsend for the hero.
While she was Agni's master, teaching him to fight and how to infiltrate Bay City, she was a director, teaching Agni English and planning Agni's revenge journey.
Finally, on the day the filming started, Agni sneaked into Bay City along the secret passage she had explored.
However, on both sides of this secret passage are all imprisoned slaves.
Although the director kept urging him around him and couldn't delay here, Agni chose to rescue these slaves.
His goal has also changed from revenge to "saving the person in front of him".
In the end, he took the slaves out of the prison, and at the end of the road was the powerful enemy arranged for him by the director-the well-wishers who put on enhanced armor.
With a new goal, Agni is no longer confused. He fell down again and again and stood up again and again, and finally used his nirvana to defeat the powerful enemy.
At the same time, the resistance forces outside the city also came to them in time, and the slaves rushed to the other side of freedom.
Beijing City has lost its foundation for survival. The fierce battle between Agni and the well-wishers just now also destroyed many houses, and it is impossible for the city to rebuild.
This is very much like the finale - Agni's personality arc is at the highest point, abandoning hatred, he is already a veritable hero who fights to save others, and the opposite of Beicheng is completely destroyed.
However, Fujimoto didn't plan to stop here, He first asked Agni to remove the ruins and saw the corpses under it.
The fierce battle just now destroyed not only Beicheng, but also countless residents of Beicheng, including children.
You can argue that these people used to exploit others and now they just got what they deserved.
And when Agni confronts Yoda, the real lord of Bay City, he's no longer a killer.
obviously he had killed so many people inadvertently when he was a chivalrous man before, obviously Yoda was begging himGive her a break.
Even if she was the mastermind behind Beicheng, Agni couldn't kill this woman who looked exactly like her sister Luna.
Whether it's in "Fire Fist" or "Chainsaw Man", Fujimoto loves to play such cognitive breakthroughs. In "Fire Fist", he plays even more.
The name of "Flame Fist" (Ming) scene "Use the flame fist on him" is also a good example, this famous scene is an illusion that Agni saw.
hallucinations, his sister Luna, or rather, his inner longing for revenge, said this to him.
He had just met Dema before, and the aged Dema has long lost the air of the year.
Dema himself also repented for the crimes of the year. In order to atone for his crimes, he also raised a large number of orphans and gave them "correct education".
He believes that, compared to food and clothing, this is what humans need most today.
If everyone is really used to eating human flesh, human beings will be completely finished.
Agney had intended to let go of the hatred, since he is now the leading actor of the director film and a god of refugees.
However, the desire for revenge caught him at the last moment, and he unconsciously turned into a flame fist and burned Dema and his children to death.
Agni sobered up and blamed himself. He had lost his reason to live: Delmar and Bay City were destroyed, and he could no longer play the director's leading actor.
He even began to regret that he had endured the flames to survive, if only he had died with Luna.
Agni walked to the ice lake, ready to sink into the lake to commit suicide, but this behavior made him fall into an even more painful abyss.
, the director who has been out of the picture, jumped into his own movie this time and changed the ending of the hero.
The long-term relationship has made it impossible for her to continue to be a bystander. In her heart, Agni has long been an important family member.
She survived Agni's flames and rescued him from the lake, burning herself to char.
Her last words to Agni were also "live".
Carrying the wishes of Luna and the director, Agni has to live,
and this time the reason for him to live is actually his former enemy Yoda.
Because of certain things, Yoda lost her memory. She who lost her memory was almost no different from Luna, and Agni no longer had an unquenchable flame on her body.
Agni called her Luna, and she agreed, Agni began to lie to herself, this is Luna, and he wants to live together with "Luna".
Both of them were once almost invincible beings, but now they are both fragile like newborn babies.
They were almost caught by a group of refugees and slaughtered to eat meat, but it was Dema's education who saved them both.
Among these refugees were Dema's students, who adhered to Dema's teachings, did not eat human flesh, and accepted Agni and Luna.
In Fujimoto's pen, right and wrong are often reversed in an instant. As long as
reveals a little more information, the original cognition will even be completely subverted: 's heroic behavior has become a massacre in the city, and the enemy who destroys the village is also a teacher who redeems the world.
This is what fascinates Fire Fist, and what makes Agni miserable.
he always wanted to do it rightIn the end, things always backfired. He couldn't free himself by death, and there was not even a Machima to send him an "invitation to be a dog".
He doesn't even have the right to stop thinking.
Fujimoto put Agni in extreme pain on the one hand, but on the other hand, he never let Agni truly alone.
This is another fascinating part of "Flame Fist", In such an apocalypse, there is also the warmth between people and the world.
, the director who was originally a bystander, has long regarded Agni as his family.
Even the two sides who were originally enemies will naturally let go of their hatred and fall in love with each other after a long time together.
may be acting at the beginning, but after acting for a long time, I believe it.
Agni and Yoda were like this, and Yoda gradually realized that Agni was not his brother.
But she doesn't care because she's already in love with Agni.
Even though she finally recovered Yoda's memory, she chose to endure the eternal cold and darkness for Agni.
The same is true for the Demar students who took them in. As they get along day and night, they have discovered that Agni has no sense of taste, does not feel cold, and cannot sleep at night.
They know that he used to be Yanquan, but to them, now he is Agni, a reliable big brother, a partner who will stand up to protect everyone in times of danger. In such a hopeless apocalypse,
uses such delicate brushstrokes to describe the warmth between people.
Even the hatred in the past will be wiped out by this long time together.
This may be the most romantic part of Fujimoto's "Flame Fist". In the cruelest world, he still chooses to believe in mutual understanding and love between people.
And, furthermore, We can also see our own reflection in "Flame Fist".
In all likelihood, the unhappiness in life is not just for fun. As long as you live, as long as you are still thinking, bad things will come uninvited.
The beatings of life are like the never-quenching flames of Agni, scorching us.
However, whenever we recall the past, the clearest memories are always those short-lived memories.
You can say that this is the beautification of memories, or you can understand it in another way: We were born for this little happiness.
Meet important people and experience the little things with them. This is the meaning of our visit to this unhappy world.