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NEWS: Fire Force Manga by Soul Eater's Atsushi Ohkubo Gets TV Anime by David Production

I haven't really seen this manga being mentioned or talked about in any news/forums so I don't know much about it other than its title and the author who made it. That said, I did enjoy Soul Eater back in my early days of watching anime so I think I'll check it out.

I think its very impressive how Fire Force can use fire in so many different ways similar to how Toriko could use food in so many different ways for example.
The Japanese are way more creative and open minded to new and different things than people are here in the west nowadays.
They also dont need to worry about political correctness, feminism and social justice warriors most of the time like people must always worry about here these days.

Cool! So far, all I've heard about the manga is "it's okay, not bad, but not as good as Soul Eater" but an anime is definitely a vote of confidence!

How is the art? Soul Eater had such a unique, fun style that even Soul Eater Not! didn't replicate (at least in anime form). Is Fire Force more stylized than most shonen, the way Soul Eater was?

CyberLance wrote:

I think its very impressive how Fire Force can use fire in so many different ways similar to how Toriko could use food in so many different ways for example. The Japanese are way more creative and open minded to new and different things than people are here in the west nowadays. They also dont need to worry about political correctness, feminism and social justice warriors most of the time like people must always worry about here these days.

Uh, social issues, politics, and creator's home countries have nothing to do with creative superpowers and ideas. Just look at Marvel Comics (in my mind because of Stan Lee's recent passing): innovative and extremely creative in its time and inspirational to comics/manga/manwha/graphic novel creators world-wide for decades and social justice oriented as all get out (disabled superheroes! X-Men as stand in for marginalized groups! Black Panther!)
And, y'know, American.

But there is great creative speculative fiction from creators all over the world from all political and social points of view or lack thereof, even Japan. For example, Miyazaki and environmental preservation go hand-in-hand, but I dare anyone to claim Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind was less creative or entertaining because it had a message/moral or a female protagonist.

Cool! So far, all I've heard about the manga is "it's okay, not bad, but not as good as Soul Eater" but an anime is definitely a vote of confidence!

How is the art? Soul Eater had such a unique, fun style that even Soul Eater Not! didn't replicate (at least in anime form). Is Fire Force more stylized than most shonen, the way Soul Eater was?

Yes in the past western media used to be very creative and open minded to new things too but nowadays people here in the western part of the world are very close minded and think most new and different stuff is just weird and stupid and should not be taken seriously and its mostly new versions of old stuff that is already popular that get made these days and rarely new things.

Like nobody felt that there was anything wrong with something like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, He-Man or Thundercats in the old days for example but now people think that kind of stuff is weird and stupid.
Movies, TV shows, cartoons, comics and other stuff used to be filled with stuff that people could take seriously in the past that people now think is weird and cant take seriously anymore.
Most things that are not like real-life is considered weird here these days.

Im sure that if Stan Lee would have created Spider-Man and his other superheros in 2018 people would not have been able to take them seriously.
Most stuff that was made and got popular in the old days would probably not be taken seriously and would probably not get popular if it was made today.
The reason why old stuff like that can be popular these days is because of nostalgia and because it has been around for such a long time so people grew up with it and are used to it but its different if its brand new.

In Japan they create new and different things all the time and the Japanese does not think something is weird and stupid only because its different like people usually do here and they are way more creative when it comes to different kinds of characters, fantasy worlds, storys, powers, the way characters look and dress, creatures and other things.
They create stuff in Japan all the time that would probably never be able to get made here or get popular if it was made in the west.
All the things that people could take seriously in the old days here can they still take seriously in Japan.

And political correctness, feminism and social justice culture do affect a countrys media and society because the more people need to be scared and worried that people will be offended and complain about things the less freedom do they have to create whatever kind of fiction they want to create and the more limits to there creativity, imagination and what they can include in there fiction do they get.
It also gives people less freedom in real life too because there are many things that used to be fine in society that is now not ok anymore.
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It was after 2010 that everybody became so sensitive, easily offended and brainwashed by political correctness, feminism and social justice culture here.