Futsuu ni Kiite Kure (Just Listen to the Song)

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Japanese: フツーに聞いてくれ

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Type: One-shot

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: 1

Status: Finished

Published: Jul 4, 2022

Genre: Drama

Demographic: Shounen

Serialization: Shounen Jump+

Authors: Fujimoto, Tatsuki (Story), Tooda, Oto (Art)

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Score: 6.93¹ (scored by 13,974 users)

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Ranked: #9769²

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A student presents his crush with a love song that he wrote, recorded himself performing, and uploaded to YouTube, and he tells her to watch it before giving him a reply. When he returns to school the next day, he finds that the girl has shown the video to the entire class over LINE. Amid the jeering of his classmates, she snidely apologizes to him and explains that his video was hilarious enough to warrant sharing.

However, his decision to remove the upload is curbed after a ghost is spotted within the video, and a classmate advises against its deletion. His YouTube post eventually gains popularity as the growing audience discovers more anomalies, all intent on deciphering the hidden messages that its very uploader had not even intended.

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Jul 3, 2022

ArtaRay

Recommended

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.

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Jul 9, 2022

Angyat

Mixed Feelings

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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. ...

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Apr 7, 2023

MizunoWaveRider

Not Recommended

Funny

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 ...

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