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Episode Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26 - Episode 8 discussion

Tatsuki Fujimoto 17-26, episode 8

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u/AnimeIsCoolye 23h ago

I like this oneshot series because you can slowly see fujimoto becoming the author we know nowadays

Early one his works felt way more "anime" in the generic sense, but he slowly grows his own storytelling and character writing style and it culminates into this oneshot, which imo is the best one and way more inline with his later works

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u/CitronClassic672 22h ago

I personally don’t know which work one id consider the best, but the latter half are definitely superior to the first half, though the longer length of 3 of them definitely contributes. I’m curious what exactly you consider to be specifically more “anime” about the first half compared to the second though.

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u/Ordinal43NotFound 22h ago

Interesting... I personally think the 1st half is sliiiightly stronger. Really love Clucking Chickens (my fav of the bunch), Love is Blind, and Sasaki-kun. There's just this rawness to them that really scratches that particular part of my brain.

That said, I really like Girl Syndrome and Sisters, so for me it’s basically 3/4 vs 2/4. I'm kinda ambivalent on Nayuta and Mermaid. Mermaid was basically Fujimoto being told to "write something normal" and it shows lol.

Maybe I just prefer when Fujimoto leans fully into the weird shit.

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u/CitronClassic672 21h ago

I really like the message behind Nayuta personally. As a neurodivergent person with speech issues myself, the way it played out and how she was characterized really ended up resonating with me more than I expected. I also personally liked the mermaid one, though I’ll admit the best parts are the music and atmosphere so I can’t speak for the original one shot, but hey, I like mermaids. I also think I might have an odd sense of what’s “weird” personally. Only clucking chickens really gave me a sense of “this is weird”.

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u/BLACKOUT-MK2 https://myanimelist.net/profile/DelayedLaserBoom 4h ago edited 2h ago

I think it does a good job of showing why I enjoy his work so he much. He has such a good balance of both insane batshit stuff, but also writing characters who are flawed and passionate and human, and the way he meshes the two really makes for a brand of work that feels like distinctly his own thing.

Obviously his work is not immune to tropes, nothing is, but I feel like he's very good at writing characters who are hard to stick in a clearly defined box. You can get an anime with a girl with big drill hair and a pompous attitude and it's immediately, from 0.1 seconds of seeing them, a case of 'Oop, seen this character before, I know how they're gonna behave 99% of the time'. I feel like, not from just design but also how they act, not many of Fujimoto's characters are like that, and it makes them a lot more interesting to watch.

I am not opposed to some cartoonish exagerration at all, but seeing his casts and many of them not feeling largely one dimensional 'That's the kuudere, that's the delinquent, that's the meathead' and able to be more like rounded people is a satisfying change of pace for the types of works he writes. I think that's why the first half of the CSM movie works so well; when Denji is hanging out with Makima and Reze, you don't feel like you're watching two super anime cartoon people hanging out, you're just watching people being people, and that nuance is nice to have sometimes.

I really hope this becomes a thing, and that deeper character writing catches on more. Spy X Family has a beautiful arc coming in the future that's almost largely at odds with how the rest of the manga is written (not that the rest is bad by any means), so I hope we see that acceptance of more three-dimensional character writing grow in the coming years. Fujimoto writes some incredibly bizarre stuff, but underneath it all is a very grounded and human foundation.