Gotta Go the Healing Route

Compared with short and medium stories, long-form comics actually test the author's ability in various aspects, such as plot control and character design.

"Long story... Mr. Xi, aren't you planning to draw evil ways in your next work?"

The distinctive feature of evil manga is its short length and high-frequency rhythmic bursts.This model is obviously difficult to apply to a novel.

"That's not necessarily the case. Who said that comics must be limited to the two types of benevolent and evil."

"For the new work, I plan to draw a story similar to the caged bird."

Chapter 260 It's Just a Little Leap of Spirits

Kazama Yuki simply mentioned the new work to Aster Uemura without directly explaining it.After all, the two comics that are currently being serialized have not yet been completed, and it is too early to say these.

After the celebration banquet at the Magic Circle, Kazama Xi's life returned to normal.School studios and apartments, the cycle of three points and one line goes back and forth.

And as time went by, "Flame Fist" and "Chain Saw Man" also began to come to an end.

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It is correct to distinguish between youth manga and juvenile manga.

Itao Chioka thinks so.

After all, comics, a cultural and entertainment product, also have distinct audiences.

Children-oriented cartoons, considering the limitations of children's thinking ability, the main line of the story is often very simple, the atmosphere is relaxed and lively, and the plot does not need to consider realistic logic.

In order to arouse the hormones of adolescent boys and girls, the kingly and passionate comics that represent youth tend to focus on intense and hearty story rhythms.

At the same time, juvenile comics will also use "elements" as the main selling point, through each specific character, by endowing these characters with charm, so as to gain readers' favor.To put it simply, it is to sell cp, boys and girls aged 56 and [-] are very fond of this set.

The youth manga is different, the audience is mainly adults.Adulthood here refers to people who have stepped into society, or half a foot into society.Where is the truth in the world... yes, it is in the reality of society.

Because they understand the reality, the pursuit of comics by such groups is often reflected in the depth and connotation of the story.In other words, what this group of people see is not just a story, but something that they want to get a reflection of reality from it.Simply put, it is reality.

At the heart of such comics is often an intense, possibly some sort of irreconcilable contradiction.Or there is always a grand "idea".In the face of this idea or contradiction, the protagonist as the main perspective is small.

"Fist of Flame" is a typical example of this. Not to mention Agni who has been struggling in the apocalypse, even a transcendent existence like Toshida quietly passed away in the theme of revenge.

This should belong to a very classical way of writing, such as ancient epics and dramas.But in modern times, this can be regarded as a rare and novel type.

The editor-in-chief of Youth Jump is Akira Kitaoka, and his name is printed on the lower left corner of the back of the magazine.This name was also very common on juvenile jump before.

Yi Dazhigang still admires this senior editor-in-chief who single-handedly founded Youth Jump.

If it hadn't been published in a separate issue, with such a platform, it would be difficult for the manga "Flame Fist" to be released to the world.

At this time, Yi Dazhi had already gained a new understanding of the comic "Flame Fist".

Indeed, in the previous story, Agni finally found a place to stay, and the close people he knew asked him to kill himself. This plot really shocked and influenced Yi Dazhigang's mind to a certain extent.

But Yi Dazhigang is a psychological counselor after all.Psychiatrists are often associated with psychiatrists.

After feeling the shock to his soul, Yi Dazhi hurriedly gave himself a session of psychotherapy in the mirror to comfort himself.The subsequent situation also eased a lot.

In this way, he began to try to dissect and analyze this comic in depth.

First of all, this is undoubtedly a comic book story with nihilism at its core.

I like to read it, full of nihilistic stories.

The so-called nihilism refers to the philosophical sense that the world, especially the existence of human beings, is meaningless.

And the story of Yanquan perfectly fits this point: the spiritual sustenance that is doomed to be lost.Idol doomed to fall.Doomed to a miserable life.A revenge destined to end in tragedy.Doomed to an unsolvable moral dilemma.Doomed to be untrustworthy.Doomed to an unsaved future.Destined to come.A world doomed to end.

But pure nihilism, this comic is absolutely impossible to draw.The cruelest point of the whole comic is that there is still so-called hope in this meaningless everything.

This hope is constantly changing: at first it is to get revenge, then to save others from hatred, and then to achieve happiness.

The ever-changing hope connects the whole story in series, and finally converges into one sentence: live on.

It is precisely because of this so-called hope that the author can write such a smooth story under the background of the story where everything seems to be meaningless.

There is no doubt that this is a masterpiece of contradictions.

Excellent comics often have antagonism. In Dead Pen, the protagonist L and Ye Shenyue have different views on justice. Antagonism; the magical girl imagined by the girl in the magic circle and the real magical girl.

But this kind of opposition can be called a 'conflict', but it cannot be regarded as a real contradiction.

In Yi Dazhigang's eyes, "Flame Fist" is a masterpiece that truly tells about contradictions.Show the talent of the old thief through contradictions, but it is used to torture readers maliciously.

If the chainsaw man next door is a poor student who likes to play tricks but is very interesting.

That Yanquan is cold and ruthless, a cold and ruthless academic bully who criticizes every sentence.

Although the battle scenes will also be hearty, they will always impose heavy moral torture to increase the inner burden of the protagonist and readers.

The protagonist of Yanquan can also be called the most tangled protagonist, jumping back and forth between letting go of his attachment and being obsessed.One can live for one's ideals before, but one can immediately seek death because one's ideals are disillusioned.

Like calm madness, like heavy feathers, like cold sunshine.

After analyzing Yanquan in a dialectical way, and then reading this comic, Yi Dazhi felt that his entire vision was different.

That's right, I was just too immersed in the story before, and was substituted by the author.But after knowing the theme of the story and embodying the core of nihilism, the story only serves as an embellishment.

"However, the author who draws this kind of story manga..."

Nihilism can be regarded as a kind of philosophical thought, but it embodies negativity.Feeling that there is no meaning for existence, including life, the psychological state of people with this kind of thinking is often extremely dangerous.

Yi Dazhigang has received many people who have failed to commit suicide to ease their mental state.Such a person's cognition of the world and life is extremely negative, and it is also a kind of nihilism.

A work is often an extension of the thoughts in the author's mind, and the state he is in can be analyzed through his works.What is the inner state of the author who can draw such a desperate story and such a profound theme of nihilism?

Yi Dazhi couldn't help thinking of those patients with serious mental illness and suicidal tendencies.

"Rain will not be..."

However, as this thought arose, Yi Dazhigang also remembered another work that Yu Kazama was serializing.

And "Flame Fist" is another extreme "Chain Saw Man".

Apart from the similarities in the "freedom" in the plots of the two works, the rest of the differences will make people think that these are comics drawn by two different authors.

The whole story of "Flame Fist" does not have any sense of humor, and it has nothing to do with being funny, but "Chain Saw Man" is different.The absurd story makes people feel that the author is a fanatic who laughs at the world.Feel free to express your thoughts freely.

"It's because I think too much..."

Thinking of this, Yi Dazhi just shook his head.

"Teacher Yu Biechao shouldn't have any tendency to be world-weary, it's just that his thinking is a little bit out of the way."

Well, maybe the spirit jumped 'a little'.

Sighing, Yi Dazhi just opened this issue of Youth Jump.

Chapter 260 The Second Ending Is Difficult

Yi Dazhi just said to himself to abandon the pit before, but because of substituting into the story, he avoided the cruel plot and sharp contradictions in the follow-up.

But Yi Dazhigang is different now. Thinking and analysis are always the best tools for human beings to overcome fear and sorrow.

It is always right to do things from beginning to end, especially reading, which is especially true for things that can only be evaluated after understanding the overall situation.

As the end of the story is approaching, Yi Dazhigang is also very interested in how this Yanquan will end.

This is different from the indifference after understanding the author's creative thinking.Because the pleasure of reading stories comes from satisfying the sense of expectation generated by the unknown development of the story plot.

Curiosity for the follow-up plot is still the emotion that Yi Dazhi would have when he was reading.

It is not only the beginning and the middle that determine the quality of a work, but the end that really determines the nature of the work.

Especially when a work has enough amazing points in the early and mid-term, the ending becomes even more important.

A work that has always been mediocre, and a work that has developed step by step in the early and mid-term, the difficulty of ending is not the same.

Because, a story with ups and downs and intense conflicts is more difficult to control the rhythm at the end.

The same is true for works with deep foreshadowing and high intentions. The conditions for finishing will be more stringent.

If there is no suitable ending, the result will be the structural collapse of the entire work.In the previous conception, all events have no meaning of existence.

Yi Dazhigang didn't mean that he didn't believe in the rain.

In his eyes, the endings of Yu Biechao's previous works can be regarded as the finishing touch, and they were handled very well.

Like the dead pen, the opposition between the main line L and Ye Shenyue, the further the story develops, the less likely this opposition will be reconciled. Between L and Ye Shenyue, one must die.But the death of any one of them must produce an answer to the never-right answer to what is justice.

Therefore, Yu Biechao simply gave up on responding to this question through the story, let both of them hang up, and left the answer to the question for the readers to think for themselves.

In the magic circle, for example, magical girls are destined to perish, so it is inevitable that this comic will develop towards the label of novelty hunting.And it will also become a story of one-way depression, which cannot reflect the connotation of 'love and hope'.But the reversal of the ending avoids this problem very well.

The reason why Yi Dazhigang is worried about the end of this story lies in the core of nihilism itself.

This idea is really difficult to close. If Agni's final ending is to die or not die, and survive with difficulty, then what is the meaning of Agni's struggle and entanglement described in the previous and mid-term?

It can't be that the author simply wants to draw this story to disgust readers.

Yi Dazhi just believed that if Yu Biechao really dared to end with such an ending, after chasing the whole journey, the readers who endured the whipping from the heart might really have a stress reaction and kill the headquarters.

At the end of the story, what is the ending of Agni?

Although Yi Dazhi was curious, he didn't get too entangled. Anyway, as long as he read it, he would know the ending.

Come to the Yanquan serialization area of ​​Youth Jump.

The story is still extremely underworld, and it has not disappeared because of the disappearance of the Agni flame.

Although he was spared the pain of being burned by the flames, what Agni is now enduring is another kind of torture—the torment from the heart.

The seemingly happy new life, the warm and warm new family, what kind of deformity and hypocrisy are hidden under this bright appearance.

Smile at him, and those who trust him are all his former enemies.

Agni wanted to commit suicide again, and he jumped into the sea.But he was rescued again.

Reincarnation is a recurring hell, and Agni's hell is always accompanied by a voice:

Live!

After being rescued by Yoda this time, Agni finally couldn't bear it anymore, and he asked Yoda loudly why he wanted to let himself live.

This is also the answer that readers in front of the screen want to know.

But words without reason, without reason, cannot be argued and refuted.