The Rooster Fighter is back in a third volume more collective. Keiji now lives as a troop and this does not facilitate his quest for revenge. How will the rooster be able to find his sister's killer while walking with a hen and a chick?
T he three musketeers of the farmyard
Keiji is a rooster capable, by his fighting skills and his scream, to kill huge monsters. He travels through Japan. However, for several volumes, he is accompanied by the little Piyoko. Since the previous volume, the duo has been joined by Elizabeth, an ancient conquest who uses human tools to communicate or electrocute humans. Keiji is a solitary animal who struggles to get used to this family life. Finally, a family where the girl has not settled her Oedipus complex.
Rooster Fighter becomes a story about a relationship. Even though Piyoko is a chick, she is convinced that she is in a relationship with Keiji. Yet Elizabeth also thinks she is the Juliet of this Feathered Romeo. The rooster is no longer free to jump anything that has wings because the black hen watches over the grain with her electric stinger to bring in that of her companion. No longer able to bear this pressure, the group splits. In addition, Tatsuo and his assistant Kokichi arrive. This black rooster has just avenged because Keiji slept with his girlfriend. These different stories show that Rooster Fighter is a parody of shonen. We find the codes but Shu Sakuratani reverses them. Tatsuo, Nemesis of Keiji, has already lost many times. The hero is not lovable. He refuses a disciple out of selfishness and pretension.
On screen but in manga
Like an influencer on a yacht in Qatar, the rooster has become a star of social networks. The poor man is chased in the street by admirers with a net but he does not emigrate to a Gulf country. Yet it has wings. The rooster flees glory which seems totally incomprehensible to half of the Marseillais, not the inhabitants but the fraudulent copy circulating on TV.
Published by Mangetsu, Rooster Fighter continues to be a hilarious series by parodying cinema. Keiji can knock down a mountain with his cry. By the talent of Shu Sakuratani, a tornado created by a kijûs is totally believable. Unlike the disaster movies, the fights are totally crazy and the hero of the series has an absolutely unbearable behavior. In the end, he is quite stupid and thinks more with his body than with his mind. It is a female who explains how to use human tools like a smartphone. Scenes seem to be taken from a romantic movie except that the protagonists who kiss are a rooster and a hen. In Rooster Fighter, the humor is sometimes very dark. One can either find the monsters ridiculous and laugh at them or find them pathetic and be moved. The emotions are therefore very varied.
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In Rooster Fighter, Shu Sakuratani also denounces the pervasive violence in both humans and animals. It is just more hypocritical and hidden in us but it surfaces by the kijûs. Angeris a virus. Those who are affected end up loving their illness. Hate becomes a pleasure. However, Shu Sakuratani also introduces a subtlety into this opposition between monsters and humans. Keiji encounters a gnome-like kiju. He is an infected homeless person but, hating fighting, he prefers to play peacefully at the slot machine. The cause of his hatred having disappeared he lost his reason for living as a CNews columnist who understood the stupidity of racism. This new volume very surprising. He insists on the meaning of sacrifice of humans, chickens and even a kiju. A selfless act of heroism saves a community but also shakes everyone's certainties.
In the fourth book of Rooster Fighter, the world of gallinaceans expands. The first two were very cynical and based on the opposition between humans and animals, between the winners and the excluded. This fourth volume shows greater subtlety within chickens and humans. Eagerly the sequel.
You can find through these links the beginnings of the series and The Ninja Turtles, another animal comic.
