**Spoiler Free Review**
Also, there isn't any explicit incest, don't worry.

Fire Punch is probably one of if not the most unique shounen manga I've read. While the premise of the manga initially seems rather cliche, the tone and characters in the story sets Fire Punch from the rest.

The tone is probably one of the largest highlights of the manga. Mixing together a dystopian setting with somewhat comical characters and dialogue contextualize Fire Punch of being campy as much as it is self-aware. As a result, the character banter is enjoyable and weird in the right ways that give character to the otherwise bleak world the story takes place in.

The phrase self-aware implies that the story itself isn't to be taken seriously, and in some ways it isn't. That being said, while dystopias are obviously nothing new to fiction as a whole, Fire Punch does a great job of building a captivating world with seemingly little to work with. The theme that characters are connected by a shared sense of insanity gives the world of Fire Punch a living and breathing feel that seems to connect with its anti-climactic tone very well.

To touch back on the idea of cliches, another large reason why I think Fire Punch sets it self apart from it's shounen counterparts is how it treats its characters. Shounen characters are generally driven by usually fairly shallow motivations (which isn't always a bad thing if executed correctly). By contrast, the motivations and what inherently drives Fire Punch's plot and characters forward are unclear. Normally this leads to a very mislead story, but in Fire Punch's case it still manages to connect these characters and ideas with a touch of cohesiveness, and the unstableness in my opinion adds to the characterizations to every facet of the story more than it takes away from it.

I don't mean to say that Fire Punch is the most flawless manga in existence nor would I say it comes close to being one of my top favorites, but I can't stress enough that this is the kind of title I'd like to see more of in Shounen magazines. It really gives an attempt at something new, which in turn carries its own value that makes me want to recommend this title to others.

Like I said, I think even typical shounen manga like Fire Brigade of Flames and Nanatsu no Taizai have value, but I think it would be an incredible shame if Fire Punch got axed because it didn't conform to the same norms as its competitors did.

Oh and the art is fantastic if any of that wasn't enough to convince you to give the manga a shot.