Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man: 17–21

God dammit, Tatsuki Fujimoto has been good at manga since age 17...

Every single story is fantastic and different but also so similar. It's absolutely fascinating to have a compilation of your work from your younger years and we as readers can really see his progress. His comments ok his past work are also great. How lucky it is to have that kind of relationship with your past.

In his closing words he talked about how he wrote when he felt powerless and helpless and that helped me pinpoint what exactly it is I love about his stories. While they are all in helpless situations the characters themselves try so hard to stay away from becoming bleak. There is a balance of humor that he strikes so well within the fatalism.

I'd say this man is a manga genius.