Futsuu ni Kiite Kure
Just Listen to the Song

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New Fujimoto oneshot is out, you know what that means.

It was fantastic. It really felt like something he'd write years ago before CSM. It was funny and nonsensical and just HIM. The pacing was as fast as his works usually are, but it didn't feel as though it was crammed. It flowed from start to finish and left off on a sweet note. A bit of an open ending like he tends to write, but not as vague as before. i will say that it could've used a few more pages. Maybe I'm just spoiled from Look Back and Goodbye, Eri, but it would've been ... great to see more of the world. I would've loved to see some of the things that were only talked about. Maybe had a longer flashback to build the characters more. I figured that as time would go on and Fujimoto's style would be refined, he would choose to make his works longer and longer by default but I guess I was wrong. This feels straight out of the Fire Punch era in the best way possible. i wouldn't be surprised if he penned this years and years ago when that series was starting to take off.

I guess this story is his way of responding to people analyzing his works too much. There were a lot of people who were analyzing his previous works who maybe took it too far. An example I recall was people pointing out condoms and leftover bread in the garbage scene from the first chapter of Chainsaw Man, likening it to Denji's dreams to have sex and eat well. Or the constant discussion regarding the second half of Fire Punch. Hell, even Goodbye, Eri from a couple months ago might've been blown out of proportion by me and others in the community. Maybe he just thought it would be a cool thing to make and didn't think much of it. Who knows with this guy, really.

Then there's the art. I'm not as familiar with Tooda as I am with Fujimoto or his other assistants, so I'm not sure what I expected. I suppose rough outlines and a lot of negative space was all that I thought of, and I was right. It's shocking how similar their artstyles are. It completely makes you forget you're looking at drawings from a different person at times. The only time the artwork will ground me back down and remind me that this is a different artist altogether is when a female character is on screen. Tooda and Fujimoto draw men very similarly, but not women. Other examples of similar styles is the men, the scenery, and the way the panels are laid out.

Obviously there's a lot more to the art than just comparisons and I don't want to undermine Tooda's talent by comparing them to Fujimoto but it's definitely the biggest detail about the art. As such, a lot of the same things that can be said for Fujimoto can be said for Tooda. The expressions say a lot, especially during quiet scenes. The panels are arranged neatly with only the bare necessities in the backgrounds as to give them room to breathe. Hell, even the title card drops in very neatly. Just big enough to catch your attention.

Overall, this is a fantastic read. Just very funny and entertaining. As always I'm convinced that Fujimoto can't do anything wrong even if he tried. I have got to check out Tooda's other works after this as well.

Today I'm reviewing the newest Tatsuki Fujimoto's one-shot, which is called "Listen to my song, please". The most remarkable thing of this one-shot is that it's actually a collaboration, the art being made by an artist other than Tatsuki Fujimoto. I've to say in advance, though, that you can't expect much of a 20-page one-shot.

Anyways, the main plot goes about a guy who declares his love to a girl by showing her a youtube video in which he dedicates her a lovey-dovey ballad. The thing is, that girl is a bitch and shows it to every person in high-school for no reason at all. ... Then, the video goes extremely viral, reaching more views than Despacito has in 5 years and strange things start to appear in the video: a phantom, a cat, some weird sea creature and whatnot. Then a random weird-ass girl tells him that he can't delete his video because otherwise the spirits will get mad and blah blah blah. After a while people start to find otherworldly unintended hidden messages in the lyrics such as critics to politics, the negation of the existence of God and things akin to that. And just to end this summary (which I maybe shouldn't be doing), he's asked to make a second video, makes it, sucks, people lose interest, deletes both his videos and the bitch she declares to says his song was cringe. FIN.

I expected more of this one-shot, so I was disappointed in the end. In my opinion, it seemed more like a random idea Tatsuki Fujimoto had at the bottom of his closet he wanted to do, and did it just to do something.

Regarding the art, I thought at first it was Tatsuki Fujimoto's due to how similar it seemed to me, but it was OK, I'm in no position to complain, really.

About character development I won't say anything due to the fact that it's a 20-page one-shot. Were it to be a 60-page one and then we could talk about it.

Grosso modo, I rate it 6/10 due to it not being outstanding in any way and being somewhat disappointing, but entertaining. I reccommend reading it out of curiosity, since it's a quick read, a 5-minute adventure I daresay.

This mangaka is too meta for me. The story of this one-shot is about two things:
1. People overinterpreting intentions into works that were never intended by the creator
2. The creator failing to meet expectations with the next work because all the interpretations were bullshit to begin with

Basically, it's just a meh one-shot in which the protagonist passively watches the view count of a youtube video grow.
However, since my abilities to do mental gymnastics are just as large as the ones of the people in the story, I will do exactly what Fujimoto wants me to do and overinterpret the crap out of this 20 page ... one-shot just to completely miss the point.

My assumption is that he intentionally made a completely meh one-shot to troll his fans and make them overinterpret the crap out of it similar to how the people in the story overinterpret the crap out of the love song.
However, by wanting his audience to interpret unintentional meaning into this simple one-shot, it also becomes intentional, meaning the intentions of the author to produce a work without intentions so the audience can overinterpret intentions into the unintentional intentions intentions intentions jdöahduüahoihol

Anyway, what I'm trying to say is, Fujimoto has too much power, and he knows it. He can produce a piece of crap and I will overinterpret it and write a review about it saying how meta it is.