Futsuu ni Kiite Kure
Just Listen to the Song

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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.

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.

I think this one-shot was mainly a reflection on Fujimoto as a writer with how much power he currently holds. He knows how much people overanalyse his media and to pump out a small one-shot that reflects that was his intention. There will always over analyzation in our consumption of media. And there will always be people who will interpret Fujimoto’s stories as one of the greatest things ever and constantly overanalyse ever detail in his work. While this one shot wasn’t great, I think that was Fujimoto’s intention as a writer and it really reflected on him.

There was a set up introduced with ... a spirit person that went nowhere, but that was intentional I believe. I think he wanted this one shot to covey these themes of overanalysing and misinterpreting as a warning for Chainsaw Man Part 2, to lower our expectations and not always overanalyse – just to appreciate the thing for as it is, not what it could be.

TL;DR: It's literally not even 20 pages long, you should read it regardless of anything!

Fujimoto's collection of Infinity Stones just got expanded with yet another one-shot hit. Props to Tooda too, who drew the one-shot.

And the funny thing is... you might consider this whole review to be very ironic, if you disagree with me on what this one-shot wanted to tell us.

The art of overanalyzing, and seeing things that aren't there. You've definitely seen it at some point in your life. The earliest example of this that I remember was in elementary school: the literature teachers. You know how literature teachers loooooove to dissect any ... and all of the sentences that exist in a story...looking for some astonishing, profound meaning behind them? It's not unusual that they end up with something that is possibly much more complex than what the writers themselves thought of when they wrote those exact sentences. And sadly, more often than not, we never find out whether the author meant to express what the fans deduced.

Did by any chance some anime/manga/videogame/tvshow/movie fandom cross your mind when you read this? I know I could name a few.

Today, overanalyzing like this makes people set their expectations way too high for the authors, which almost always undoubtedly ends with the fans being disappointed. The same way everyone was disappointed with the MC's second song.

Of course, there's a possibility that Fujimoto is throwing shade at his own fans too. When he was writing "Fire Punch", "Chainsaw Man", "Look Back", "Goodbye Eri"... he might've never thought of the things that the fans "realized" from their analysis of his work. He might've just been writing stories that he considered to be solely engaging to read. Based Fujimoto I say.

This one-shot is not carried by it's plot, nor it's art, nor it's characters. It is carried by it's unique main message. And, well, I'd say that it manages to present the message very well in it's mere 18 pages.

JUST LISTEN TO THE DAMN SONG. IT'S NOT THAT DEEP.

This is new for me. I’ve never seen a “collaboration” between artists, maybe just One and Yusuke Murata, because One can’t draw to save his life.

Unlike Fujimoto’s latest work, this is a short one-shot that is not drawn by him. He created only the story. With this said, you can miss his style just by reading, but you can somehow recognise it’s his story by how everything flows until the end.

I think this is somehow a reference to his own work and how people tend to over-analyze stuff in the manga industry. He always said that he doesn’t like to have dialogue in his manga ... and let the paneling do the talking.

It felt kinda, short though. But this is because it’s coming after Look Back and Goodbye Eri.

Overall not as good as Fujimoto's previous One-Shots but still pretty good. Very meta if you interpret this work as a way of him showing his experience with CSM's success and how people interpret too much into it. But then again I might just be interpreting too much into this one already ironically.
Quick and short read. A little bit funny but feels grounded and real. Recommend checking this one out if you have 5 minutes to spare.

At this point Fujimoto can't do anything wrong judging from how he decided to make this one-shot to basically troll his readers but we'll see what happens ... with CSM Part 2. I feel like he might be scared that Part 2 won't satisfy his readers though, just like with this one-shot, it will all be forgotten anyway. Life goes on and the short amount of fame he got off of CSM Part 1 will not matter to most in the grand scheme of things.

very short chapter length one shot but it’s cool it exists, & i like the purpose of it. it’s cool that it dropped after goodbye eri which seems to be fujimotos most over analyzed piece due to the unorthodox structure & reality blurring nature of it, & this lil one shot has a great critical depiction of the fan culture that can read into aspects of art too deeply & project their own ideas onto an artists work that may have never been created with the intent to be so deeply combed or even defined at all. overall nothing too crazy but def a cool ... lil statement, especially with the added meaning of where it’s place is within fujimotos work/career at this point

I'm really into these short anime/manga love stories

It's indeed a original idea(I don't know if there was another similar before)

About that one-shot, I have to say it's pretty good but too short.it does not exaplain why/what is happening with the first song,
certainly needs more development


Also there's a lack of character development, like the white-haired girl and the protagonist are just like a background character, and somehow it feels like it's a common event in someone life

... The art is flawless.(It's tatsuki fujimoto, he never do a mistake in his art style)

I gotta say my final considerations are
Too short but still good tho.

I really felt the need to talk about this manga and how great it is!!! I don't understand his low grade in MAL, unfortunately!!!

It was the first manga I read by the author, although I had already seen the Chainsawman anime and I thought it was simply AMAZING!!!

If you want a quick, fun and very well written one shot story, this is the right work!!! The characters are fun, the environment is totally immersive, despite being short, the author writes so well that you get involved with the plot and feel sorry for the main character.

I was hooked on the author's look, I think the ... way he writes and draws is very unique!!!!

do yourself a favor and READ

If you've spent any time on the internet at all, you've probably brushed shoulders with the "blue curtains" meme, a notorious anti-intellectual punchline which attempts to dissuade against any sort of interpretation or analysis of art whatsoever. Obnoxious as it may be, it's a sentiment that's usually shared by people outside of art or academic spheres, so it's not entirely surprising if someone who doesn't read that often or finds art galleries pointless shares such a sentiment.

What is surprising however, is when a genuinely talented and creative mangaka echoes this vapid viewpoint.

In this one-shot, Fujimoto Tatsuki, best known for his current work on the ... Shonen series Chainsaw Man, stamps his feet and mewls out his disdain for anyone who dares interpret his work in any way outside of what he originally intended. The hamfisted conceit of the one-shot really sells this open contempt, with the main character transparently being a stand-in for Fujimoto himself, and the song his ongoing work Chainsaw Man.

Just to absolutely hammer the point home, Fujimoto even has one of the many speculators of the nameless protagonist's work infer that it's a critique of American gun culture, riffing on the real life parallels that people have drawn with Chainsaw Man's Gun Devil character, as though that's somehow an outrageous notion when we're living in the highest recorded point of gun violence in history (worldwide, not just in the U.S.).

Fujimoto's message is clear, from the words of the protagonist, to the paper-thin simile that encompasses the entire one-shot; don't think about my work. Don't draw on your own life experiences, emotions, worldview or what's happening in the world. The only meaning behind my work is the meaning I give it.

The death of the artist is a huge mental obstacle every creator will have to overcome at some point, and understandably so; it's intimidating, knowing that someone will draw a completely different meaning out of your work, even if it's deeply personal and drawn from your own experiences. But that's part of the process. If your work doesn't convey that message to someone, then that's that. If anything, most find it quite beautiful that one singular work can mean so many different things to so many different, varied people from various walks of life, but Fujimoto has nothing but scorn for this notion. I was completely dumbfounded, in disbelief that this came from the pen of the same mangaka who brought us Sayonara Eri, a powerful work of art that left itself open to be read any way the reader wished.

As someone who loves art, both creating and absorbing, I was genuinely annoyed reading this, and baffled as to how an artist could take such a philistine approach to people reading their work, and I dread to imagine how Fujimoto's work is going to look from here on out if he continues to write opaque manga that leaves no room for personal inference. My sole reason for not ranking it 1 star is thanks to Oto Toda's solid artwork, who presumably had nothing to do with the story and its "morals" despite essentially signing off on it. If you're one of those idiots who likes to yell "keep politics out of my ______" then you'll love this one-shot, otherwise don't bother.