Chapter 35: On the Healing Properties of Depressive Works (Part II)
Yes, Miyahara felt that this story was a little insufficient, and after carefully reading this stack of manuscripts, which was not small, twice, Miyahara Jing said to Midorikawa Yuki, who looked a little apprehensive:
"In terms of storytelling, emotional fullness and emotion index, the whole story of Firefly Forest has been done very well, considering that this is your first short story, it is not too much to say that it is perfect, there is not much that can be changed, but there is still a little bit to be desired. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"
Drawing a short story is sometimes more difficult than a long one, because it is necessary to show the character in a limited length and number of pages, to do a good job of the beginning and end of the story, and to make the reader feel attractive, and the beginning and end must be gradual and not stiff...... It's actually very hard.
Many manga artists don't like to do short stories, because doing short stories is more brain-consuming than making long ones.
The story structure of Firefly Forest is actually similar to that of many short works, which is not a highlight, that is, the story ends at the climax of conflict and emotion, so as to shock the reader's emotions and hearts.
This abrupt end can make the reader have a longer aftertaste.
Firefly Forest is excellent at delicate emotional processing from beginning to end, this story is to let the hero and heroine who are in love hug once, and just to let the hero and heroine hug once, and when the hug is over, the story is over.
I have to say that some manga artists are extremely good at mastering certain genres, and this has little to do with their age or experience, and Midorikawa Yuki is a professional in the field of healing.
Of course, she is still just a newcomer, so she attaches great importance to Miyahara Jing's opinion, and at this time her face shows a look of humble listening.
Although it's just a working relationship, but, in the process of work, these cartoonists of Chito Isuzu agree that Miyahara Shizun is a super-god cartoonist, and it goes without saying that his drawing skills are needless to say, just his ability to control various themes, as well as the "male and female" sex that can show his strengths in boyhood and girls' comics, plus the mass production ability like drinking water, the working time is short, the drawing of the original manuscript is extremely efficient, and the diligence is ...... In short, the closer people get to Miyahara Jing, the more they admire him, and whoever is not convinced, you can try a job like Miyahara Jing, and you will be able to understand the difficulty.
Of course, it's not too much of an exaggeration for Miyahara to think that she can do this, after all, he is the second human being.
"In terms of the rhythm and conflict of the story, the Forest of Fireflies is on the flat side from the beginning to the end...... What I mean by this is that when you see the beginning of the story, the reader may guess the end of the story, and even if you can't think of the ending, the reader will have a vague guess about the direction of the story. ”
"In particular, the setting of 'disappearing if touched by humans' is basically telling readers that the male protagonist will disappear in the end."
"It reduces the anticipation of the story and the impact and emotion of the real ending."
Miyahara's words are easy to understand, and it is indeed the same thing, any story at the beginning, the reader guesses the ending, it is not a good phenomenon after all, and the unknown is the key to arousing the reader's interest in reading.
Especially stories with a bit of tragedy, you must know that compared with joy-oriented works, the acceptance of tragic works is low, and tragic works generally can't sell comedy works, and many readers are likely to refuse to enter the pit when they know in advance that what they want to read is a tragic story.
"There is nothing wrong with the Forest of Fireflies, and it is very simple to sum up, that is, in the process of the story, the reader should be able to see the expectations, and then when the expectations are disappointed, the readers can feel the sadness in it."
Creating despair, then creating hope, then destroying hope, and ending the story back to despair is a more routine story framework, but no one can deny that this routine is very easy to use.
Firefly Forest is not a desperate story, in essence it is about a beautiful feeling and redemption, and the death of the male protagonist is not a destruction of this feeling, but a sublimation.
As far as the story goes, Silver and Hotaru, who are in love, both look forward to having each other, and later they do have each other, albeit only for a moment.
From their point of view, this is indeed a healing story, of course, readers will definitely not think so, everyone is more willing to accept it, and they prefer a happy ending, for them, the hero and heroine are best together at the end.
However, if this is really the ending, the Forest of Fireflies will not be the Forest of Fireflies, and the emotion brought by the work will be greatly reduced, and the creator of the story will not accept such a thing, obviously it can be 100% moved, so why refund 50%?
This is the contradiction between the reader and the author.
Regarding Miyahara Jing's suggestion, Midorikawa Yuki understood after thinking about it, after all, the Forest of Fireflies was her story, and after being reminded, she could immediately understand the problem.
"I see, Jingjun, thank you."
She does already know how to make changes, it's very simple, just tell the reader through the mouths of other characters in the work, "Because the male protagonist is originally human, as long as he has more contact with humans, then he is likely to recover the human body".
In this way, there is the possibility of a happy ending.
As for such a thing as giving such information without changing the final outcome, is it deceiving the reader? Of course not, it's just a possibility, the possibility is a line, and the final result can be on one side of the line or on the other.
For the emotional loss of readers, the author can express his apologies on his side, and then the story will not change.
Shizune Miyahara returned the original manuscript of the Firefly Forest to Midorikawa, and then said, "Midorikawa, change this work as soon as possible." ”
Before, he had a very beautiful plan - yes, Miyahara had one plan after another in her head, some of which were reliable and some were unreliable, some were good and some were bad, some had predictable consequences and some could not be predicted - and now Midorikawa Yuki also happened to draw the Forest of Fireflies, so that one more work could be added.
It's the time before.,It's probably when this book first started.,There's a setting about Miyahara Shizu.,That is, he wasn't allowed to draw comics before he took over the Hibiscus Society.,Knowing that the serialized cartoonist's dangerous father Miyahara Yuichi didn't allow him to become a manga artist.,So for a long time,Miyahara Jing can only paint in private.,While honing his painting skills,,He also painted a lot of works.,A large part of them he wasn't satisfied with at the time.,So it was destroyed immediately., However, there are also some works with a high degree of completion, which he has retained, and most of these works are short stories.
In the past, "She and Her Cat" was used to save the rivers and lakes, and in addition, Miyahara Jing has several such short stories in his hands, and now he is ready to take out these works at once.
Midorikawa Yuki was stunned for a moment, and then immediately reacted, Miyahara Shizune asked her to change the Firefly Forest as soon as possible, does it mean that she will have the opportunity to publish her work soon?
"Jing-kun, do you mean that Firefly Forest can be published? But with the current situation of our Hibiscus Society, where is it appropriate to publish it? She immediately asked.
"It's on Simiel." Miyahara said, or can only be serialized on Simiril, otherwise it can still be there? The Hibiscus Society couldn't come up with a new magazine.
"Simaril? Firefly no Forest is a short ......" Midorikawa hesitated, not that it was bad to serialize on Simiel, but that Killire itself was a long-form manga serialized magazine, so why would you cram a short work into it?
This is not the time when Simari's works were lacking last year, and there is no need to do such a thing as a donkey's lips and a horse's mouth.
Miyahara explained, "Here's the thing, maybe you've heard the editor say it, because of the need to take care of the weekly Shonen ME, this year Seemar will change back to the monthly magazine." ”
Midorikawa Yuki nodded, she did hear such news, but she didn't care about herself, for shoujo manga, the difference between semi-monthly and monthly is not very big, as for the weekly ...... Well, what a brain-piercing publisher it would have to be for a weekly shoujo manga to be released.
"Shortening the release cycle will not cause any resistance to the general reader, but this kind of thing of changing the release cycle from half a month to a month is likely to disagree with readers, so I plan to make a few special issues of Similil's comics, and serialize the short comics while maintaining the current price of Simil's."
is different from a swollen face and fat man a few months ago, and now Miyahara Jing really feels a bit of a tyrant, and it is nothing for him to make less money from serialized comics.
In fact, his approach is not to please readers, and the dissatisfaction of readers will not make Hibiscus Club change its sales plan, he just wants to make Similel a benchmark magazine for shoujo manga, and the first step to becoming a benchmark in the industry is to make his readers have a deep and unforgettable impression of this magazine.
Now what he wants to do is this, it is very difficult to make ME the best weekly shonen, after all, there are three mountains in front of it, and the traditional advantages of the other party and the vast readership are not so easy to surpass, so it is more feasible to make Simiel the strongest shonen manga first than to make ME the strongest shonen manga.
Generally speaking, what Miyahara Shizun wants to do is more popular with readers, but this time it is not necessarily, and it is still unclear what the readers' reactions will be at that time. (To be continued.) )