![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marlowe1213.Fire Punch 5 by Tatsuki Fujimoto - When I initially decided not to keep reading this series, it was because I looked at the Wikipedia and the plot seemed so damn convoluted that I couldn't be bothered to keep everything straight. I decided to keep reading it because the third book really got to me and I was seeing the angst in our hero, especially as there's a filmmaker trying to make him into a movie protagonist (something that Fujimoto would explore further in Goodbye Eris).
So chapters like this one are why it seems so convoluted. In fact, I'm not even sure what's going on in the last half of this book. Is he dreaming? Did he decide to kill everyone including the filmmaker? Did the filmmaker commit suicide?
The main thing is that Agni meets the man who killed the village and his sister in the first chapter. The man is different. He talks about how he was brainwashed at the time, but also does not approve of the self-cannibalism that Agni is doing because no one is independent. He talks about how people need to learn to take care of themselves and not be subject to one god. Agni goes away thinking about his role as a hero and then decides that he doesn't want to be a hero. So he either goes and burns up everyone or has a dream about it. It's very confusing.
So chapters like this one are why it seems so convoluted. In fact, I'm not even sure what's going on in the last half of this book. Is he dreaming? Did he decide to kill everyone including the filmmaker? Did the filmmaker commit suicide?
The main thing is that Agni meets the man who killed the village and his sister in the first chapter. The man is different. He talks about how he was brainwashed at the time, but also does not approve of the self-cannibalism that Agni is doing because no one is independent. He talks about how people need to learn to take care of themselves and not be subject to one god. Agni goes away thinking about his role as a hero and then decides that he doesn't want to be a hero. So he either goes and burns up everyone or has a dream about it. It's very confusing.
