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I am so happy I got to see this in theaters with a main-director/actors interview, Tatsuki Fujimoto's works mean a lot to me. I love Chainsaw-man to death and consider it one of my top 5 favorite manga's, as well as his art style making him my favorite artist. I love more realistic stories, in any form of media. So i'm glad that this one shot got an adaption and I think it's the most grounded out of his works.

I love every little thing in this story (I will get into the art direction later). But I love how you can tell this is very ... personal to Fujimoto in the way and his own love letter to art. Of course the parallels in the film with chainsawman with the obvious sharkman (and of COURSE she was a sharkman fan), also the fact that in this universe two MIDDLE-SCHOOL GIRLS made firepunch, which is crazy for girls their age to make... But besides that I love the showcase of how whatever they did outside they would replicate into their mangas; when they were at the beach they drew a manga about the sea, when they see an insect it's a manga about insects invading earth!, or even the little detail where when they watched a film they show a scene where a guy walks away from an explosion in a building, a clear nod to goodbye, eri, meaning it exists in this universe too! I have a feeling that if she didn't come out the door, still in a way, she wouldn't really have 'lived'.

I related a lot to this film, even knowing what was going to happen due to reading the one shot years back in highschool.
I cried 15 times during this film, 8 times before the 'reveal' and the rest after, with 5 times being within the first 15-20 minutes.
I loved everything about this story and with it's art direction and how it was animated adding onto it and creating even more emotion. I started drawing and making comics when I was in first grade, here I met my childhood best friend, Daniel, we would draw every chance we had after-school and make comics together. I even remember the name we made for our 'publishing' company, "video game comics.inc". Every day we'd bring our notebooks and think of a new comics to write ourselves in or other characters. I vividly remember one day he came into school, around 2014 (2nd or 3rd grade?) he came in and brought a piece of paper and a pencil where he drew a PERFECT rendition of Freddy Fazbear in front of everyone watching -- I was blown away... I never told him this but since that day I was jealous of him. He had a real talent of drawing and it sucks he doesn't do it anymore, but when he did I was always excited to see what he drew next and envied his talent. But with this jealously it actually pushed me to do better, I don't think i'd be anywhere as good as I am now in art if it wasn't for him. Around the middle of 4th grade, however, I moved, meaning we didn't see each other much and couldn't really continue our comics. I was demotivated. Eventually we figured out a way to still communicate and for us to go to each other's houses. I still remember sharing what we did that week and putting it into a drawing, or the fandoms we were into (mostly Undertale at this time), and drawing for hours together. I miss that a lot. We shared the same summer camp, so one year around 6th grade (a year before I quit going), we finally made another comic together, and that was the last comic I --- we --- ever made together. We put so much work into it every day, it was cool to see it grow. With my ideas and storytelling plus drawing of some characters, and his review and (better) drawings combined to other to make this whole new series that was never seen to anyone besides us to in friends, and we loved it. I still have it and many other old comics we made. But eventually when highschool started I fell out of drawing, and eventually around the beginning of Junior year we stopped talking... I missed him a lot, we had a lot in common together and so many inside jokes and memories. He was my driving force to really do better in drawing and the fact that recently, a year ago in senior year I started to get back into drawing again, all combined to make this story hit even harder. I related a lot, I had a very similar story to this so everything felt like it hit harder.

The art adaptation is amazing, Kiyotaka Oshiyama is a talent who was worked on amazing projects so I'm really glad he was in charge, he was able to keep the art style that Fujimoto has which I think is the most important. There is a scene in the behind the scenes interview where he expressed taking risk and keeping the style that Fujimoto has, with the way he kept lines, paying attention to the AMAZING backgrounds and art designs in this film (even adding crosshatching whenever he can to backgrounds), and the scene to most highlight his directorial choices being the infamous pose in the rain scene, how he decided to linger on it and animate it more like a film and adding what he called "adlibs" to it which made it more expressive (like her splashing the water or her expressions as she skipped). As well as making the choice to go with more 'natural voices'. And overall trying to make the film a more individual project by doing the majority of the work. I think all this caused the adaptation to be perfect and kept in touch with what Fujimoto wanted and was trying to express in this film.

Thank you Fujimoto and Thank you Daniel.
I'm so glad to know how important art is to me.