Chapter 34: On the Depressive Properties of Healing Works (I)

Although Miyahara Shizune was running around during this period of time, he did do a lot of things, but as long as he was still a manga artist and his works were serialized in serialized magazines, he had to spend a lot of time drawing original manuscripts every day. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In fact, even in the busiest time, he never let his comics be suspended, and I have to say that this is a kind of discipline that can overflow the entire universe.

It is worth learning from some manga artists, Miyahara Shizune is the president of a publishing house that has grown from small to medium-sized, and is evolving from medium-sized to large-scale, but she still keeps her hands on her paintbrush every day.

As for the difference between him and other cartoonists, I have said before that because of the convenience of being the president, it is impossible for the editors to point fingers at Miyahara Shizu's comics, he said that what the plot is, what the plot will be, no one can force him to revise it, and once the work is finished, he also wants to finish it.

Another point is that he draws the original manuscript very quickly, so he can still do the management of the Hibiscus Club while drawing two comics, of course, at this time, he is still a high school student, and the time in school is numbered.

So he can magically take some time out to go fishing and relax, which is unimaginable for the average cartoonist, everyone is open all year round, why do you seem to be relaxed?

In fact, Miyahara is still frantically considering whether to save some manuscripts or something, after all, he may leave Tokyo or something when necessary, and the president is always very busy.

Anyway, he still spends most of his time in that small studio, and if you want to find him, please go here.

By the evening of that day, the other manga artists in the studio had already left work, but Miyahara was still there, and he had to put the finishing touches on the original manuscript of a certain episode.

When he finished his work for the day, he found that it was already eight o'clock in the evening, and after stretching, he was ready to pack up his things and leave.

It's just that he didn't expect that there was another person waiting for him here.

"Jingjun, are you done?"

The person who has been waiting for Shizune Miyahara is Yuki Midorikawa.

"Hey, Midorikawa, haven't you gone back yet?" Miyahara was still quite focused on drawing the manga, so she didn't notice that anyone was still here.

"En......" Midorikawa Yuki thought about it, and still felt that it was better to say something directly, "Jingjun, that's the case, my work has been quite easy recently, so I took the time to draw a short story by myself...... I'd like to ask Jingjun to help take a look. ”

There was a little embarrassment in her tone, after all, she also knew that Miyahara Jing was usually very busy.

In comparison, it can indeed be found that Midorikawa's current work is relatively easy, and the other three people in Sento Isuzu currently have their own works, taking Hanamino Chika as a comparison, she has to be responsible for the storyboard of the unheard flower name, and she has to paint the night sky looking up at the half moon by herself, and she has to be Miyahara Shizu's assistant from time to time, helping to draw a background or something.

Considering how busy they are, Miyahara is already thinking about increasing the number of assistants, but assistants also need to be cultivated, and it is still unknown whether they can find assistants who can be used at once.

Midorikawa, who was relatively idle, began to try to draw his own short works, but such works should have been shown directly to the editor, not Miyahara Jing - in fact, Midorikawa did show it to the editor, and the other party gave the opinion that the work was quite good and the degree of completion was very high, but she still wanted to show this short story to Miyahara Shizu.

First, Miyahara Shizune is a 'well-known' manga artist and can give more pertinent advice, and second, there is currently no short story serialization platform for Hibiscus Society, and if Midorikawa wants to publish this work, it depends on how Miyahara Shizune arranges it.

Miyahara Jing took the manuscript with a smile, and said to Midorikawa: "Midorikawa, you're drawing a short story, how about it, is it interesting?" ”

As long as the manga is interesting, this is a famous quote from a well-known manga editor of a well-known manga publishing house, Nao Sasaki.

There are two god-level popular science texts in the animation industry.,One is called Dream Eater.,One is called White Box.,Dream Eater is a description of how to do comics.、Bloody battle comics with a pen as a knife.,White box is a group of cute girls doing animation.、A story that describes a more realistic survival situation in the industry.。

The former is called the boy who hangs open, and the latter is called the girl at work.

The former tells a lot of plausible nonsense, and the latter ignores the fact that there is a serious imbalance between men and women within animation companies.

Ahem, in short, "comics as long as they are interesting", this is an extremely accurate, but also quite general, broad, conceptual evaluation criteria, how to be interesting, how to be interesting? I'm sorry, but I can say that for the sake of fun, I don't know how many cartoonists have to die and how many brain cells may not be able to do it.

The work that Midorikawa Yuki handed to Miyahara Shizune is a love manga and a very well-known work.

Forest of Fireflies.

When I saw this title, Miyahara was quite surprised, because although the author of this work is still that author, it seems that it appeared years in advance?

Miyahara Jing raised his head, he first glanced at Midorikawa Yuki, and saw that the other party had no special reaction, and then he got rid of the distractions in his heart and lowered his head to look at this work seriously.

He wanted to compare this, whether the comic was different from the one he knew.

The story begins with a monologue by the heroine:

"I first met him when I was six years old.

In the legendary forest full of youkai, I accidentally got lost.

I'm constantly looking for this exit,

In the end, I was so tired that I couldn't move,

Loneliness and fear made me cry,

At this time, he suddenly appeared in front of my eyes......"

On a hot summer day, a 6-year-old girl Hotaru Takekawa comes to her grandfather's house in the countryside for a vacation, and one day she accidentally breaks into the forest of the mountain gods that is said to be full of monsters, and just when she is anxious because she is lost, a man wearing a fox mask appears in front of her and leads Hotaru to find her way home.

Although Hotaru was grateful, the boy forbade her to touch her body.

The next story explains the reason, it turns out that this big boy named Silver is not a human but a youkai, and once he is touched by humans, he will disappear.

"Isn't Big Brother human?"

"I'm a dweller of this forest."

Then Hotaru mischievously wants to touch Silver...... The story goes to this point, and there is a hint of joy.

However, everyone on earth knows that this is definitely not a happy story.

In the days that followed, Hotaru and Silver became good friends, and they traveled to every corner of the forest to play.

Every summer, Hotaru would come to the forest to meet Silver from the age of six to sixteen.

She kept her promise with Silver and never touched Gin's body no matter what, but as she grew older, Hotaru and Gin's feelings for each other quietly changed......

The taboo that cannot be touched has become a pain between two people.

At Hotaru's sixteen-year-old youkai festival, a white juan tied the hands of the two together. The joy of the festival sets off the sadness in the hearts of the two, and in the manga, there is no need to appear at any festival unless something happens.

The most famous and common event is the confession.

"Hotaru, I can't wait for summer, as soon as I separate from you, even if I cross the crowd, I want to see you."

One of the classic scenes in this work is that at night by the river, Gin, who can't touch humans, takes off his mask and buckles it on Hotaru's face, and then kisses it lightly on the mask.

However, the progress of the next story is very abrupt, and it is reasonably abrupt.

Two children ran past Silver, and just as one of them was about to fall, Silver grabbed him, but alas, it was a human child.

The silver, which could not touch humans, took the initiative to touch humans.

So he's going to disappear.

"Come here, Hotaru, I'm finally able to meet you."

Silver and Hotaru have been together for ten years, but all the two of them have is a hug, but this hug can already make Silver feel satisfied.

I can't help but say here that Midorikawa's character expressions are handled very well, the expressiveness of the picture is very strong, the heroine Hotaru can touch the joy of the silver, and the crying on the ground after the silver disappears, the connection is natural and smooth and full of emotional tension.

On the last page of the work, the picture of Ginwa and six-year-old Hotaru walking side by side on the steps of the forest of mountain gods, the hands of the two are still tied by a dead branch.

"I must not be looking forward to the arrival of summer for the time being, my chest hurts, and my tears don't obey, but the warmth that remains in my hands, as well as those summer memories, will accompany me to go on."

Is this story sadistic?,It's really sadistic.,From the beginning of the story, the reader can feel that the hero and heroine may be guarding a love that will disappear sooner or later.,Or something more pure than love.。

But as far as the performance of the characters in the work is concerned, they have no regrets, although Silver disappeared, but his wish was finally fulfilled, or at that time he had reached the point where he would not hesitate to disappear in order to be able to realize his wish.

As for the heroine Hotaru, although she lost the silver, the touching left by the other party to herself has always been there, and those things are indeed the jewels in her memory.

The characters in the story have no regrets, but the reader will regret to die, this is the standard configuration of healing/depressive works, and the Hibiscus Society will conduct a good science popularization of this concept in the future.

The story of the Firefly Forest can already be very moving, but Miyahara Jing feels that it is still a little insufficient. (To be continued.) )