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“Four short manga stories: chickens in schoolyard, bullet-stopping Sasaki, blind love, and a tale titled "Shikaku."”
Tatsuki Fujimoto Before Chainsaw Man: 17–21
藤本タツキ短編集 17-21
7.2
6,623 rank · 26,331 readers · 171 favorites
Shounen
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Synopsis
Four short manga stories: chickens in schoolyard, bullet-stopping Sasaki, blind love, and a tale titled "Shikaku."
1. Niwa ni wa Niwa Niwatori ga Ita. (A Couple Clucking Chickens Were Still Kickin' in the Schoolyard) 2. Sasaki-kun ga Juudan Tometa (Sasaki Stopped a Bullet) 3. Koi wa Moumoku (Love is Blind) 4. Shikaku
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 11 sampled reviews
7.3
/10
What 11 readers settled on.
90%
recommend
Score distribution
median 7
mode 8
σ 0.96
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.96 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
1.6 pts
Recommenders 7.6 · others 6.0
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No
Score over time
↑ 1.27
Running avg · Jan 2019 → Feb 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “These four short stories really show off Tatsuki Fujimoto's wacky imagination and a bit of his dark humor. Shikaku he noted as being written from a fever dream. Initially the completely wild...”
- 7 “17-21 is classic Fujimoto: a work of creative insanity that still somehow manages to provide the reader with engaging character work and heartfelt storytelling. Of the collected stories, "A Couple...”
- 8 “Mod Edit: This review was originally posted for Shikaku (109435) and has subsequently been merged into 17-21: Fujimoto Tatsuki Tanpenshuu (141214). I saw that there were no reviews for this so I...”
Verbosity
Short · 45%
Medium · 18%
Long · 36%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 4 × 1 ch × vol
- Total read 0h 32m approx
- Published Apr 2014 – Jul 2017
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M59821 catalog