Hong Kong Island Comic Master

Chapter 421 A sudden enlightenment

"Rurouni Kenshin" is a manga serialized in "Weekly Shonen Jump" from 1994 to 1999 by neon manga artist Hiroshi Watsukibuka.

The comic has a total of 255 chapters, plus 10 new serialized chapters. As of before Li Wannian's time travel, the cumulative circulation of single volumes of the comic has exceeded 7200 million copies. Together with "Slam Dunk" and "Yu Yu Hakusho", it has become one of the most popular comics after the completion of "Dragon Ball" , became the three pillar comics of "Weekly Shonen Jump".

The story mainly tells the story of the Meiji period. The protagonist Himura Kenshin was the executioner of the reformists at the end of the Tokugawa period. He was known as "Batōsai" and killed countless people.

In the new era, he wanders around with a reverse blade and resolves not to kill anyone again. At Kamiya Dojo in Tokyo, Kenshin met Kaoru and a group of friends.

The entire comic tells a tragedy in a slightly relaxed tone.

The reason why Li Wannian chose this comic is, first of all, because it is a classic enough that it still has a lot of fans even twenty years later.

Classic works that have been tested by time are destined not to be erased by history.

Secondly, Li Wannian has always wanted to try a martial arts comic, but he was unwilling to directly copy the martial arts comics from Hong Kong. After all, most of those classic comics were drawn by his disciples. He really didn't want to do this if it was not necessary. .

In this way, he could copy... and learn from several domestic comics such as "The Bad Man Who Draws Jianghu", "Under One Man", and "The Escort".

It's just that there are reasons of the times and environmental reasons, which are not suitable for Li Wannian to take him out now.

At this moment, Li Wannian remembered this comic by Yue Shenhong. Although he told the story of Neon, the core can be used in Chinese martial arts.

What's more, this is still a neon work that I made a pretty good living in my childhood. I can take it without any burden.

Just as Li Wannian was thinking wildly, Ma Rongcheng, who had read the comic, finally spoke.

"Teacher, your cartoon is really good. The story, scenery, and character creation are all in a master's style..."

"Okay, I didn't ask you to come here just to listen to hymns!"

Li Wannian interrupted Ma Rongcheng's words unceremoniously.

After hearing this, Ma Rongcheng grinned, stroked his glasses and continued: "Of course, I don't just say nice things. Aren't I planning to say a few nice things before saying unpleasant things?"

"Stop it, just skip this step!"

"Okay, let me tell you straight, teacher, this comic of yours seems different from the royal and passionate comics you usually draw? How can I put it, it feels a bit soft!"

Faced with Ma Rongcheng's comments, Li Wannian's eyes lit up, he looked at Ma Rongcheng with interest and said, "Tell me carefully!"

"Compared with the upgrade from weak to strong in your previous comics, the protagonist of this comic is at full level from the beginning. As a result, the comic lacks the passionate feeling of the protagonist becoming stronger."

"anything else?"

"Also, you use a lot of irregular frames and fragmented inserts in the composition. This method is not common in shounen comics, but it is a bit like shoujo comics!"

"Do you still read girls' comics?"

"Uh, ahem, it's mainly because I discussed it with He Zhiwen before!" Ma Rongcheng, who was halfway through the explanation, realized that now was not the time to explain this, so he quickly said to Li Wannian: "Teacher, this is not the point. !”

"Okay, okay, keep talking!" Li Wannian stopped interrupting and motioned to Ma Rongcheng to continue.

"In short, the content of the first chapter of this comic is relatively complete, but there is nothing particularly exciting for readers. To be honest, I am not very optimistic about the sales of this comic!"

Ma Wing-shing is indeed the top cartoonist on Hong Kong Island. He has a very high level of professional drawing ability and grasp of the market.

Regarding Ma Rongcheng's evaluation, Li Wannian shook his head slightly and said, "Any more? What are your thoughts on the creation of the comics themselves?"

Hearing what Li Wannian said, Ma Rongcheng understood instantly. Li Wannian must know what he said.

Since Li Wannian knew it well, but still did it, he was obviously prepared, and his worries were somewhat unfounded.

After thinking about this, Ma Rongcheng started reading the comics again. After reading the comics again, he said: "Your comics are based on realistic themes, and it is inherently difficult to create rich fights in realistic-themed works. It’s difficult to establish a self-consistent combat system, and I’m afraid it won’t be easy to draw later!”

Until then, Li Wannian finally showed a smile, "You are right, I want to draw the iconic martial arts movements of each sect based on reality, which is difficult! How do you solve this when drawing comics?"

Yes, this was the real purpose of Li Wannian calling Ma Rongcheng over.

No one knows the pros and cons of the entire comic better than Li Wannian!

As a work that exists between girls' comics and shounen comics, "Rurouni Kenshin" combines the best of both sides, but is also constrained by both sides.

The characters themselves are very delicately drawn, but the story itself seems very soft and lacks explosive points. All the fights have to serve the narrative and lyricism, so naturally they cannot make the readers happy.

Therefore, in order to make up for this characteristic, Li Wannian needs to put more thought into the design of the fights to make the fight scenes in the comics more beautiful!

"Well, I usually ask people for advice!"

"consult?"

"Yes, teacher, we are not experts in martial arts, but what Hong Kong Island lacks most is action directors. They know how to design martial arts!"

Ma Rongcheng's words made Li Wannian enlightened almost instantly, and he felt like he could see the fog from the clouds.

In fact, it's no wonder that he didn't expect it. He has always drawn comics by himself, and rarely seeks help from other people.

It's no wonder, after all, there are too many comics in his mind. Even if there are problems in this comic, he can find materials from other comics to make up for it. Therefore, he is used to doing everything in his comics, and rarely does it. Cooperation with others.

But obviously, the problem he encountered this time was indeed beyond his capabilities.

It is indeed not easy to design different actions for each sect, while also following history and respecting reality. But for action directors in Hong Kong, isn't this the guy they eat?

What's more, the largest film company in Hong Kong is currently run by Li Wannian's second brother. If he really wanted to, he could find seven or eight action directors every minute to design actions around him!

"So that's it, okay, I really didn't ask you to come here in vain today!"

After figuring everything out, Li Wannian was overjoyed and finally had a bright smile on his face.

"Teacher, is this why you called me here today?"

"How come? I asked you to come here and I wanted to ask you if you want to set up your own comic studio?"

(End of this chapter)