But he also likes to use the little sister character to shout out manga, usually attributing the opinions to her “big brother” (i.e., Fujimoto). Ice cream tastes good and so I would like to eat it.”). (Here’s one to give you an idea: “ Today is still pretty much Ice Cream Day so I definitely want to eat ice cream. He generally uses it to tweet stupid little non-observations in a very simple faux-childish voice. I have no idea why he does this, but he has kept the shtick going now for years, and the little sister character somehow remains eternally in third grade. (Edit: Fujimoto’s conversation with Samura has been translated into English in full over here I highly recommend it.)įujimoto does not have a Twitter account under his name, but since 2013 he has been using an account in which he pretends to be his own fictional eight-year-old little sister. Asked about how he came up with the stories for his manga, he mused that it was a matter of consuming a lot of other people’s work and learning to “incorporate the works I like, the scenes I like, into my own manga.” This might in part be the influence of his editor, who once recalled how, after taking on a 17-year-old Fujimoto as a potential artist, he started mailing him boxes of manga and DVDs, because a good creator needs to consume a lot of good work.įujimoto again talked about “cramming the stuff I like” into his own work in a statement just last month, in which he interestingly described Chainsaw Man as his attempt to create “an evil FLCL” or “a pop Abara.” The Nihei Tsutomu connection has been pointed out before Samura Hiroaki suggested that he saw Nihei’s influence in the facially unexpressive characters and “dry scariness” of Fujimoto’s work, which Fujimoto confirmed. A lot of manga artists say they themselves don’t read much manga, but Chainsaw Man and Fire Punch artist Fujimoto Tatsuki is a manga buff who wears his enthusiasms on his sleeve.
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