Gotta Go the Healing Route

"Takano Yaki wants to learn painting skills from you..." Kazama Xi asked.

"Well, he said he would start with the simplest coloring." Wu Shanyun responded.

Since this is the case, Kazama Xi can also guess some of Guiye Yashu's thoughts.

If Master Zhicheng feels guilty, then Yashu Guiye probably thinks he owes Master Zhicheng.

After all, Zhicheng was hospitalized because he worked too hard and was too busy in charge of the original painting.After the incident, Guiye Yashu must hope that he can not only play a role in the script, but also help Zhicheng in painting.

"How do you think I should handle this matter?" Seeing that Feng Jianxi hadn't spoken, Wu Shanyun asked again.

"I think the matter between these two people is also short-term. If you don't mind, you can agree to it. After the two of them calm down for a while, they will understand each other's thoughts..."

"Okay." Wu Shanyun didn't talk nonsense, and made a decision directly.

When he was about to hang up the phone, Wu Shanyun seemed to have remembered something, and said in a joking tone:

"Speaking of which...don't spoil Mr. Zhicheng."

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After all, the phone still didn't hang up, so Kazama Xi and Wu Shanyun argued about the word 'broken', so the communication was over.

As time passed, it slowly came to mid-October. Just as Zhicheng said, "Detective Strange Records" finally announced the end of its serialization on Jump.

And on the third day after the announcement of the result, Zhicheng, who had dealt with some aftermath, also came to Kazama Xi's studio as scheduled.

The arrival of real Zhicheng did not cause much disturbance in the studio.

For these assistants in the studio, they raised their hands to welcome the arrival of Zhicheng.One more person is more strength.Anyway, the salary is fixed, at most the bonus will be divided slightly, but it can reduce the workload, so why not do it.

Of course, this is also the reason why everyone in the studio does not know the real identity of Zhicheng.

If they knew that Zhicheng was a serial cartoonist not long ago, everyone would be so surprised that their eyeballs would drop.

Although there are also cases where the manga artist who was serialized but was cut off later returned to the status of an assistant to work for other manga artists.But that is a minority after all.

Even the most recent serial manga artist can rack up a decent amount of savings over the course of his run.Even if they were cut in half, this kind of cartoonists generally use their savings to settle down and prepare for the next new work that can continue to be serialized.Or just get discouraged and change careers.

Zhenren Zhicheng has no intention of publicizing his past achievements in the studio.After all, for him, the identity of the author of "Detective Strange Records" is not pride, but a past that makes him sad.

As for the assistants in the studio, none of them could recognize the real Zhicheng on their own initiative.

Among the current juvenile jump serial cartoons, the most special ones are Zhicheng Zhenren, Guiye Aki, Wu Shanyun and Kazama Xi.

Because the identities of the four are all students, and they don't even have a company, they all take personal privacy very seriously.

Zhicheng Zhenren and Guiye Yashu also chose the same way as Feng Jianxi, choosing to debut under a pseudonym, and they were also very low-key in school.Except for some colleagues, outsiders really can't figure out the true identity of 'Ya Shu Zhenren'.

The whole studio knew the real identity of Zhicheng was Yu Kazama and Aster Uemura.True Zhicheng wanted to keep a low profile, so Kazama Xi would not take the initiative to expose it.

In terms of assistant work, Kazama Xi still treated everyone equally, and directly handed over Zhicheng to Toshiyuki Fujino for arrangement.

Although Zhenren Zhicheng had no experience as an assistant before, he was the main writer of a comic, so there is nothing to say on the technical level.Kazama Xi also believed that this man would be qualified for this position soon.

In fact, the real Zhicheng did not disappoint Kazama Xi.In less than a week, he was perfectly qualified to work as an assistant.Even Toshiyuki Fujino, the "Chief Manager" of the studio, is full of praise for it.

In the first week since he came here, Zhicheng can be described as reserved and professional.During this period of time, he was just silently doing the work assigned to him, as if he had forgotten about asking Kazama Xi to guide the creation of the story.

Until a week later, this week's tasks were completed, and the assistants went home from get off work one after another.Master Zhicheng did not leave in a hurry, but came in front of Kazama Xi.

Looking at the real Zhicheng in front of him, although he hasn't spoken yet, Kazama Xi also knows what he wants to do.

...............

Leaving the workbench, Kazama Xi took Zhicheng to sit face to face on the sofa in the living room.

"Where should I start? Or, Mr. Zhicheng, what questions do you have?" Looking at the real person Zhicheng, Xi Kazama said softly.

"Let's start from the beginning, Mr. Kazama." Zhicheng's expression was very serious, even more serious than when the teacher explained the end-of-term questions in school.

"Don't say honorifics, the usual address is fine. In fact, this is not teaching, it's just communication, there is no need to be so serious."

Master Zhicheng hesitated for a moment, then nodded: "Okay, Mr. Xi."

"Let's start from the beginning..."

Kazama Xi emptied his mind a little.

It was the first time that Kazama Xi's small class started, and it was also the first time for him to be a "teacher".

Most creators are lonely, and I have a deep understanding of this as a text creator in my previous life.

Although there are communication channels in the same circle.But in general communication is often about things that have nothing to do with creation.

After all, only you know your own story, and really communicating in this professional field can only be about some common technical aspects.After all, every creator's story is different, and it is still too difficult to go deep into the idea level.

"So, let's start with 'ideas'..."

Thinking of this, Kazama Xi also knew what to say at the beginning.

"First of all, the idea of ​​creation...or the direction, idea and starting point of creation."

"From the perspective of comics, before drawing a comic, one must choose a direction, a route. The most obvious is the distinction between the kingly way and the evil way."

"I don't need to state too much the difference between the kingly way and the evil way. You must know it. So I come directly to the second point...'starting point'."

"The starting point?" Zhicheng asked a question in a timely manner.

"It means literally."

Kazama Xi nodded and said, "Why did you create this story?"

"Me? It's simply because of my dream of becoming a cartoonist..." Zhicheng rubbed the back of his head shyly.

"No, you misunderstood me." Kazama Xi shook her head.

"The starting point I said refers to the starting point of the story. It is a story chosen to cater to the market and according to the preferences of readers. Or create a story based on your own love and ideas."

"This 'starting point' can be divided into two categories of creators."

"One is to seriously study the market. Study the most popular comics on the market, the most exciting part, and what are the most popular elements. From this, you can determine what to draw in your own story."

"The other type is the preference from the heart, the perception of life. I simply thought of an interesting story and wanted to embody it."

Different creative purposes can basically determine two attributes of the work: commercial and artistic.Which attribute can account for the majority.

"Is that so..."

Listening to Kazama Xi's narration, Zhicheng nodded, thinking silently, after a while

"In this way, from the starting point, Ya Shu should belong to the first type, and Missy should belong to the second type?"

Kazama Xi didn't take what Zhicheng said, but continued:

"The starting point, Mr. Zhicheng, you can think about it later. What I want to say next is the most important point in the 'idea'."

"The 'idea' or the 'idea' itself."

"Creation has no teacher. In fact, even if you have all the elements of a creator, if you don't have 'ideas', it is a luxury to make achievements."

"People's imagination and the setting of a story are all derived from this point. No matter how good a teacher is, they will never be able to help you on this point. In other words, this is the integration of various external factors of personal talent and opportunities. "

Analyzing the market, mastering and learning professional skills, ordinary people can also achieve this step through hard work.

But in the field of creativity or some other field, the point of distinguishing genius from mediocrity is not like this.

This is the limitation of Kaze Jianxi's golden finger.Although he was analyzing the market, drawing skills, and some basic skills of story rhythm, Kazama Xi studied and learned a lot during the process of copying the two manga.

But there was only one thing that Goldfinger couldn't handle anyway.

creativity.Or something illusory like inspiration.

The setting of Death Note, and the magic circle's reshaping of the magical girl system, these brain holes are the most important reasons for the success of the work.

Therefore, in this different time and space, strictly speaking, Kazama Xi's biggest cheat is actually Wen Chaogong's identity.

"Always a good idea, an unexpected brain hole is the basis of a popular story. This seems easy but the hardest."

"Ideas are the foundation of a story."

Master Zhicheng didn't speak, and seemed to be digesting Kazama Xi's words.

Kazama Xi was not in a hurry, but waited silently for half a minute.After half a minute, he continued to speak.

"After the idea is the process of creating a story. Only at this stage can I give you some advice."

Although it is a copy, Kazama Xi does not blindly copy the comics, but also thinks and researches on the way to draw the comics.In addition to some creative experience in the previous life, Feng Jianxi is qualified to give some advice to laymen like Zhicheng Zhenren who are not familiar with story creation.

"You know the six elements of a novel, right?"

Compared with novels, comics are different except for the way of expression: one way of expression is to use pictures, and the other way to express is to use words.In terms of storytelling, it's not much different.

"Cause, process, result, time, person, place. To state a complete event, or a complete story, all six elements are missing."

"To condense it, there are three aspects, character image, storyline, and setting background."

"These three are the most important, but in fact there are levels."

Looking at the real Zhicheng, Kazama Xi had a smile that was not a smile:

"Zhicheng-jun, which one do you think is the most important among these three?"

which one is most important...

Zhicheng paused.

Zhicheng Zhenren hadn't fully digested Kazama Xi's explanation of the "idea" of the story before, so he could only write it down for the time being.When it comes to the story itself, Kazama Xi's question makes Zhicheng feel at a loss for a while.

After a long while, Zhenzhen Zhicheng hesitated, and said cautiously: "It should be the plot of the story..."

If you look at it from the reader's point of view, it's the story itself that keeps them going.The plot also constitutes the whole of the story.

Kazama Xi did not affirm or deny, but changed the subject and asked:

"If you mention Wu Shanyun's "The Bond of the Lingzhu", what is the first thing that comes to your mind?"

"Of course it's windy..."

Daoist Zhicheng almost blurted out, but was immediately interrupted by Kazama Xi.

A few black lines appeared on Kazama Xi's forehead, and then another question was changed.

"Let's talk about "Death Note", what is the first thing you think of when you mention this comic."

"Yokamizuki and L, and Death Note..."