 Alternative TitlesJapanese: ファイアパンチ More titlesInformationType: Manga
Volumes: 8
Chapters: 83
Status: Finished
Published: Apr 18, 2016 to Jan 1, 2018
Theme:
Gore
Demographic:
Shounen
Serialization:
Shounen Jump+ Authors:
Fujimoto, Tatsuki (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #10182 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #44
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Feb 20, 2018
Fire Punch rules. A free-wheeling psychedelic commentary on violence (all kinds--physical, sexual, emotional, etc) in media and our relationship with these stories. A manga that treats the traditional narrative and plot hooks of the medium with disdain as if they themselves are an act of opression, bearing down on the lives of its characters. An intelligent and carefully crafted work that refuses easy solutions or simple emotions. A story where a man who fights by hitting bullets with a baseball bat is confronted by a woman in a bikini (the world has frozen over in Fire Punch, a perpetual winter) riding on a katana as
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Jan 21, 2018
Its edgy, but it has a reason to be edgy.(this and the last line are the only important points here)
It is a story about a lot of things, as any good story should be; and never gets stagnated always keeping a good rithm. Needless to say, no moment is wasted as everything has a point either thematically narratively, to be funny or a combination or both. Worderful management of scenes, delivering huge narrative and emotional (fire) punches. Its not meant for everyone. Im literally a fanboy of this manga, as you can see by the 10 i gave it, but I really have thought about the quality ... 
Oct 9, 2021
I initially wanted to do a comprehensive review for Fire Punch. While I hated the experience, I thought maybe there's enough passion and creativity behind it to warrant picking things apart. However, the more time I spent on trying to do that, the less value those elements started to carry, and the more Fire Punch began to look like a plain mess.
It starts with a solid and straightforward premise. Post-apocalyptic frozen world, some people have special powers called blessings, there's allegedly a big bad behind it all, and people are going crazy under these extreme conditions. Then comes a group of people trying to rebuild ... 
May 23, 2023 Mixed Feelings Funny 
Okay, I just finished this today (after taking a long break on it to finish up some things) and I’ve got to say this - do not pay attention to reviews and read this yourself.
At times, I really enjoyed this manga, and other times I couldn’t believe I was still reading it. Some may say that’s a testament to its ability to drag you in and keep you in, but like many of the negative reviews have said, I believe it was mainly because I wanted to see what crazy turn Fujimoto was going to send me down next. Now, those turns are what makes ... 
Feb 15, 2021
Fire Punch. Predecessor of the beloved Chainsaw Man and Fujimoto’s boldest, most disturbing, depressing, nihilistic and controversial work ever.
Currently the community is divided on whether to love it or hate it and it seems like the vast majority of readers seem to dislike it, dismissing it as utter nonsense and confusing, cheap edgy, and directionless writing. I too was once in their shoes, feeling absolutely lost and conflicted about whether I loved it or hated it when I flipped the final pages… But upon several re-reads, I’ve come to the conclusion that Fire Punch is a prime example of a masterpiece, the greatest a manga can ... 
Dec 29, 2017
I'm actually VERY surprised by the high score of this manga on MAL. I knew it was on me to save many people's times by telling them what they're getting into with this story. There are a few spoilers (? none that ruin the plot) but I'll try and keep it to a minimum.
I broke it down to 4 sections: character, art, enjoyment, and story. Art (3/10): The art for this manga was passable. Very rough around the edges but passable because it fit the mood of the story. Nothing amazing and of all the manga I've read, it's around the lower half in quality ... 
Apr 17, 2021
A masterpiece that'll have you thinking about it for weeks to come. Fire Punch talks about basically every dark and messed up subject you could think of- but apart from a few exceptions mostly at the beginning, it's not meant to simply shock you. It paints a picture. It gets a message across.
The art is fantastic. The ability to make fire look bright in a black and white world filled with white snow is proof of the mangaka's incredible talents. In the dark or in the light, Agni's fire burns bright. Every character is unique and deeply flawed, offering their own view on the world ... 
Dec 22, 2020
Tatsuki Fujimoto is one of the most prominent and prolific writers out of Shonen Jump in recent memory, and it takes nothing to understand why considering how his writing stands out as being considerably more adult - both in theme handling and presentation - than the comparatively more basic presentation exemplified by many of the other series in the magazine. Before Chainsaw Man gave Fujimoto his infamy and notoriety, Fire Punch was an exceptionally overhyped series among various groups of readers for standing out and telling a more gloomy, dark story about a man who seemingly desires revenge over the woman who murdered his sister.
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Jul 31, 2016
Mod edit: this review may contain spoilers.
Welp I started reading this series called Fire Punch and the first chapter is probably the most absurd and gratuitously savage thing I've read in a while. The world is so fucking cold and there is some dude who has regeneration powers. He rips his arm off in order to feed his people. Soldiers come to enslave them. The sergeant, who has the power to burn all out, decides to destroy and sacrifice all the town, so the regenerating guy is permanently burned while he regenerates, suffering for 8 years and over until he gets to dominate his regenerative power ... 
Jan 21, 2018
--Some minor spoilers included--
Honestly, this manga was wild ride from start to finish, and even more so during the last couple of chapters. Story(?): The first half of this story is your typical revenge story, and then the other half is you wondering if you're still reading the same manga. You know the story is akin to taking a nice summer walk to the super market to get some fresh long pig from your cute sister who happens to work there, until the food suppliers there break your knees caps and set the entire place on fire. Okay, not the best way to start the day because you're ... 
Feb 7, 2021
*spoiler-free
i got into fire punch only knowing it as chainsaw man's predecessor. i had to reaffirm my thoughts about fujimoto being a genius and i was not wrong at all. although, one thing i've learned after reading this is that the man really is much more of an artist than he is a writer. to start off i'd like to say that fire punch is definitely not for the weak-hearted, exploring many disturbing topics such as incest up until cannibalism. much like chainsaw man, many would argue that it is used as a device, simply to make the manga seem "edgy", that it's all for shock ... 
Aug 7, 2016
Very good manga
If you like Deep Dark plot , and tragedy with superheroes this is defintelly for you . The whole plot is that in the world there are superpowers that some people born with , and as always a bad guy called Ice Witch , froze everything , and people dont have food , water . they stragle to live . then the army find a village that our main character is , and burn it all . then our main character Agni , becomes a living fire-man with a very painfull and mercyless process and thats Fire Punch . A REVENGE STORY ! but ... 
Mar 27, 2017
No Spoilers!
Fire punch is quite a unique series as compared to the majority of mainstream Shonen manga's out there. It is very unconventional and I feel is probably misunderstood here in mal's community as being edgy and without substance, which is just not true. The Manga is set in a post-apocalyptic / ice age setting with few people left alive. Few of the important characters of this series are very interesting. Life has become a struggle for survival and a number of important characters are on the brink of insanity. The futures for these characters seems grim, and the events that occur seem crazy. Amongst ... 
Mar 26, 2018
Now that Far Cry 5 is out, I’ve been looking up cutscenes of the hot-bod priest sama and his demented congregation. There is considerable visual tension between the pastorly calm of his spectacles and his Russian-mobster chest, enough to play with ideas of that old stereotype about grannies saying he was “too genteel to do this or that shit” – the unnervingly calm villain – even when he is raving about some Book of Revelations type spiel. I like it. Very cool, and (more importantly) marketably cool. Menacing enough of a charismatic villain for people who do not know how villainy or charisma manifests
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Oct 12, 2017
The series starts off badass but the plot gets more and more disjointed over time. Major events happen in the blink of an eye in a way that has 0 impact. It frequently feels like I'm reading a phoned-in synopsis for a series.
The action is still interesting but the longer it goes the less weight any action scene seems to have. Major fights that should have had a lot of care taken with them happen in a single tiny panel and it's done. It feels like the author has a lot of trouble with both paneling and pacing. Also there's only a single interesting character. ... 
Jul 20, 2017
**Spoiler Free Review**
Also, there isn't any explicit incest, don't worry. Fire Punch is probably one of if not the most unique shounen manga I've read. While the premise of the manga initially seems rather cliche, the tone and characters in the story sets Fire Punch from the rest. The tone is probably one of the largest highlights of the manga. Mixing together a dystopian setting with somewhat comical characters and dialogue contextualize Fire Punch of being campy as much as it is self-aware. As a result, the character banter is enjoyable and weird in the right ways that give character to the otherwise bleak world the story ... 
Nov 26, 2021
I blame myself for finishing this god awful story because I just wasted my own damn time.
First off, who is going to tell this author that being spontaneous is not deep? It just comes across as lazy; like throwing some tomatoes at a wall and hoping it sticks just because something sounds like a “novel” idea. The end product? Nothing is justified and the goofy characters are just self-insert projections in an edgelord’s wet dream. But hey, if there’s one thing this story is good at it's compelling me to flip the pages even though I really wanna stop. Plus points for storytelling I guess? ...
Oct 22, 2021
A masterpiece that laughs in the face of Camus' work and says "now THIS is absurdism". This is why this relatively unknown manga is my favourite of all time.
Behind the bizarreness of entire pages of characters calling each other stupid, Togata dying multiple times to get enough items to smoke or the bikini lady riding in the winter on a broomstick, lies one of the most grimdark worlds out there. An eternal and worsening ice age where the only surviving major civilization uses superhumans as firewood in a state worse than death. Agni and his sister have endless regeneration, and are hit by an endless ... 
Dec 27, 2020
At first glance, Fire Punch seems aggressively mediocre, a standard, hyper-violent revenge plot set in a dystopic world. Yet as the manga progressed I began to notice something: I didn't want Agni to fight. Rather than reveling in its own extreme brutality, the manga forces you to sit and watch people kill one another in order to show you its true purpose. Agni isn't really searching for revenge, but rather for happiness. That journey is harrowing, horrifying, beautiful, tragic, heartwarming, and so many other things. It is a story that truly explores how difficult it can be to live with oneself and others yet ultimately,
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Dec 11, 2023
I love how insane this manga is, and before i new it... I found myself with a clenched fist...
Fire punch is a very complicated series, yet at the same time it is a very simple series. The story initially follows Agni, our fire boy himself, and his quest for revenge for his permeant curse of always being burned alive along with avenging his sister in the brutal frozen wasteland he lives in but soon transforms into an in depth analysis of nihilism, what what it means to live, and why to continue living. The first chapter which I think is one of the most well ... |
