Hong Kong Comic Master

"Rurouni Kenshin" is a manga serialized by Japanese manga artist Hiromu Kazuki in 1994-1p.

The manga has a total of 255 chapters, plus 10 new chapters. As of Li Wannian's time travel, the cumulative circulation of the manga has exceeded 72 million copies. Together with "Slam Dunk" and "Yu Yu Hakusho", it has become the three pillars of "Weekly Shonen Jump" after the completion of "Dragon Ball".

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

In the new era, he wandered around with a reverse-edged sword and was determined not to kill people anymore. In the Kamiya Dojo in Tokyo, Kenshin met Axun and a group of friends.

The whole manga tells a tragedy in a slightly relaxed tone.

The reason why Li Wannian chose this manga is that this manga is classic enough. Even after 20 years, there are still a lot of fans.

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 is unwilling to directly copy Hong Kong martial arts comics. After all, most of those classic comics are drawn by his disciples. If it is not necessary, he really does not want to do this.

In this way, he can copy... borrow from several domestic comics such as "Painting Jianghu: The Bad Man", "Under One Person", and "Dart Man".

However, there are reasons for the times and the environment, which are not suitable for Li Wannian to take it out now.

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

What's more, this is a work of Neon, which is doing well in Japan, and there is no burden for him to take it over.

Just when Li Wannian was thinking about it, Ma Rongcheng, who had finished reading the comic, finally spoke.

"Teacher, your comic is really well drawn. The story, scenery, and character creation are all masterly..."

"Okay, I didn't call you here to listen to praises!"

Li Wannian interrupted Ma Rongcheng unceremoniously.

Ma Rongcheng grinned after hearing this, stroked his glasses and continued: "Of course, I don't just say good things. Aren't I going to say a few good words before saying something unpleasant?"

"Stop it, just skip this step!"

"Okay, then I'll be frank, teacher, your comic seems different from the kind of orthodox hot-blooded comics you usually draw? How should I put it, it feels a little soft!"

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

"Compared to the upgrade from weak to strong in your previous comics, the protagonist of this comic is full from the beginning level, so the comics lack the kind of passion of the protagonist becoming stronger. "

"What else?"

"And in your composition, you use a lot of irregular frames and fragmented inserts. This method is not common in boys' comics, but it is a bit like girls' 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 explaining, just realized that this was not the time to explain this, so he hurriedly said to Li Wannian: "Teacher, this is not the point!"

"Okay, okay, you continue!"

Li Wannian stopped interrupting and motioned Ma Rongcheng to continue.

"In short, the content of the first episode of this comic is relatively complete, but there is no point that particularly stimulates readers. To be honest, I am not very optimistic about the sales of this comic!"

Ma Rongcheng is worthy of being the top cartoonist in Hong Kong Island. Whether it is professional painting ability or the degree of market control, he has a very high level.

In response to Ma Rongcheng's comments, Li Wannian shook his head and said, "Anything else? What do you think about the creation of the comics themselves?"

Hearing Li Wannian's words, Ma Rongcheng instantly understood that Li Wannian must be aware of what he said.

Since Li Wannian knew everything, but still did it, it was obvious that he had been prepared for it, and he was somewhat worried.

After thinking about it, Ma Rongcheng started to read the comics again. After flipping through the comics again, he said, "Your comics are based on realistic themes, and realistic works are inherently difficult to make rich fights and difficult to establish a self-consistent combat system. I'm afraid it will be difficult to draw this later!"

Until this time, Li Wannian finally smiled, "You are right, I want to draw the iconic martial arts moves of various sects based on reality, which is difficult! How do you solve this when you draw comics?"

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

No one knows the advantages and disadvantages of the entire comic better than Li Wannian!

As a work that exists between girls' comics and boys' comics, Rurouni Kenshin is a combination of both, but also constrained by both.

The characters are portrayed very delicately, but the story itself is very soft and lacks explosive points. All the fights are for narrative and lyricism, so naturally it is not fun for readers.

Therefore, in order to make up for this feature, Li Wannian needs to spend more time on the design of the fights to make the fights in the comics more interesting!

"Well, I usually ask people for advice!"

"Ask?"

"Yes, teacher, we are not experts in martial arts, but what Hong Kong Island lacks the most is action directors, who can design martial arts!"

Ma Rongcheng's words made Li Wannian's mind suddenly open up, and he felt like he had seen through the fog.

In fact, it's no wonder that he couldn't think of it. He has always been drawing comics by himself and rarely seeks help from others.

It's no wonder, after all, there are too many comics in his mind. Even if there are problems with this comic, he can find materials from other comics to make up for it. Therefore, he is used to taking on a lot of responsibilities when drawing comics and rarely cooperates with others.

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

It is indeed not easy to design different actions for each sect, and to follow history and respect reality, but for Hong Kong Island's action directors, isn't this their bread and butter?

What's more, the largest film company in Hong Kong Island is currently opened by Li Wannian's second brother. If he really wants to, he can find seven or eight action directors in a minute to design actions for him!

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

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

"Teacher, you asked me to come here today just for this?"

"How could that be? I asked you to come here because I wanted to ask you if you want to set up your own comic studio?"