Chapter 17: The Wagging Tail Rabbit
"The Tale of the Twelve Kingdoms" is a masterpiece by the mud bomb writer Ono Fujimi.
The setting of this novel is completely different from the mud bombardment popular at that time, sword and magic novels-
In the world of the Twelve Kingdoms, around the Yellow Sea, where the gods live, there are 12 countries: Qing, Song, Fan, Liu, Yan, Gong, Cai, Qiao, Dai, Shun, Fang, and Lian.
All countries have unsurprisingly quaint monarchies, and each country has a king who governs the country and a unicorn who assists the king. The spirit beast Qilin accepts the apocalypse and elects the king, and the king accepts the mandate of heaven and obtains the immortal body. In return, the king who accepted the mandate of heaven will carry the entire country until the end of his life, along with the unicorn who chose him.
The king must take on the responsibility of governing the country, but benevolent government alone cannot govern the country well and deal with geopolitics, so sometimes the king has to make choices that are not merciful to some people...... This involves the problem of degree, once the necessary "degree" is exceeded, no matter what the king's original intention is, he will "lose the way", in other words, the king has lost the mandate of heaven and violated the will of heaven.
If the king disobeys the will of heaven and loses the mandate of heaven, then the unicorn with whom he exchanges the covenant will become seriously ill, which is called "loss of the way". If the king realizes that he has violated the will of heaven and suddenly realizes that he has returned to virtue and politics, then the Qilin's illness will be cured, otherwise the Qilin is likely to die.
At this time, a very serious problem arises: the king's eternal life is given by the qilin, so when the qilin dies, it is ...... When the king died.
Of course, whether the king and the unicorn are good or bad, the people of the twelve kingdoms will hope that their country will have a king on the throne, because only when the king exists, the country will be blessed by the unicorn, and the wind and rain will be smooth, and the country and the people will be safe; Once the king dies or dies in apathy, the country will soon run rampant with demons and natural disasters......
In short, the king is the key to the country, and the fate of the king is closely related to the unicorn.
This is the unique political and worldview foundation of "Tale of the Twelve Kingdoms".
There are many interesting settings, such as the fact that the people of the Twelve Kingdoms do not reproduce naturally, but are born from the eggs and fruits of a tree called "Satogi......
These worldviews and settings have fascinated Meng Zhe for a long time. After reading it carefully, Meng Zhe found that the names of various officials, various etiquette systems, statecraft, and even the setting of the whole world in the "Twelve Kingdoms" have a lot to do with the Confucian classic "Zhou Li".
Many of the images of demons in "The Twelve Kingdoms" are from "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", and even "Romance of the Gods" Ono Fuyumi has also extracted.
Then, all of the above was mixed by Ono Fuyumi, and finally created this completely unfamiliar, but it seems to have a traceable source, a world in which fairy power replaced science as the source of all things, and a fairy world that is completely different from the wild medieval fantasy world.
Of course, this is just information about the worldview of "Tale of the Twelve Kingdoms", as for the story itself...... Ono Fuyumi first described a girl named Yoko Nakajima, who was chosen as king by the 'Keiki' who came through time and space, and then was transported to the world of the Twelve Kingdoms, gradually growing up from a cowardly ordinary girl, and finally carrying the 'Keiwang' of the entire country......
Along this line, Ono involuntarily depicts many characters with different identities, but they are secretly connected to each other, and in the end, these characters support the entire vast world.
In the whole story, Meng Zhe feels that there are many classic plots.
For example-
The shy 'Qingqi' surnamed Ge Nei, pushed the gold mountain and poured the jade pillar for the people of Qingguo, ignoring the stunned eyes of everyone around him, and kneeling down to the cowardly girl who was not liked by everyone.
He said: "Honor the Mandate of Heaven, greet the Lord, never leave the royal front, do not disobey the edict, and swear loyalty." ”
For example-
The blood-fainting 'Yanqi' six princesses, on the battlefield full of flesh and blood, bowed to the son of the broken lord who was willing to die for the people, and knelt on the ground.
He asked, "Do you want a country?" ”……
Meng Zhe has always felt that these episodes are vivid and unforgettable.
But it is precisely because of this that Meng Zhe also knows that "The Twelve Kingdoms" is actually difficult to control, the huge world view needs extensive knowledge to support, and those characters with different characteristics do not have rich life experience, and they are also impossible to do at all.
Therefore, when Meng Zhe saw the comic name of "Legend of the Twelve Kingdoms" given to him by his sister-in-law Jiang Xiyao, although he thought of "The Legend of the Twelve Kingdoms" distractedly, he didn't think that his future wife and sister-in-law would suddenly come up with such a bullish idea under his 'butterfly effect'.
Meng Zhe quickly figured out the reason why his sister-in-law gave him the name of the original anime - after reading the first few words of "Dream Eater" drawn by Meng Zhe, the two big loli of the Jiang family were actually inspired and wanted to form a cartoonist combination. Even, Jiang Xiyao, a girl, racked her brains to think of a pen name that she felt was very meaningful: 'Wagging Tail Rabbit'.
According to the plot in "Dream Eater", after forming a cartoonist group, the next step is to make a short work and submit it to the editor of Tianjiao Club for review.
But if you show your work to other editors of Tianjiao Club or something, even Jiang Xiyao, a girl, will feel embarrassed...... What a shame it would be if the editor rejected it!
Therefore, Meng Zhe, a 'famous cartoonist' who has been serialized in three works at the same time on "Anime Boys", and Meng Zhe, who is also the painting instructor of himself and his sister, has become the only reviewer in Jiang Xiyao's heart without any surprise.
Jiang Xiyao's opinion, sister Jiang Weirui naturally agreed without hesitation, so Meng Zhe saw this "Legend of the Twelve Kingdoms" jointly created by the two sisters.
After figuring out everything, Meng Zhe finally began to watch the original anime "Legend of the Twelve Kingdoms" drawn by them under the expectant eyes of Jiang Xiyao and Jiang Weirui.
Meng Zhe looked very carefully, from the character setting to the tone of the dialogue, he looked down word by word, and then he understood
What do you say about this comic script created by Jiang Weirui and set by Jiang Xiyao...... Well, to sum it up, it is the story of a lost princess who travels through twelve magical countries in order to escape the hunt and find a chance to recover.
The similarity with "The Twelve Kingdoms" is that the twelve countries set by the two girls are also similar to the countries of the vassal states during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
Evading the pursuit and recovering the country, these two parallel lines that promote the story forward, are also very good settings in this era and the age of the two girls.
However, after finishing the name of the first word, Meng Zhe also easily found the shortcomings of this name - thin! Whether it's the protagonist or the various positive and negative characters who appear, it's too thin!
The two girls don't know how to infinitely enlarge a certain feature of the character at all, so that readers can easily distinguish who is who.
Secondly, several characters set by Jiang Xiyao...... It's all too featureless!
In comics, it is very important that the characteristics of each character must be clearly distinguished. If you can't do it, then at least the main characters should be drawn so that the reader will not produce 'These characters, except for the clothes and hair, look exactly the same!' This kind of thinking.
In this regard, Jiang Xiyao, under Meng Zhe's training and teaching is not right, although she does not draw all the characters with the same face, she still does not highlight the characteristics of each character.
After pondering the sentence, Meng Zhe opened his mouth and commented: "Overall, the creativity of this name is not bad!" Not ......"
"Yay——! Sister, sister, I just said that our Legend of the Twelve Kingdoms must be the best! I said that it will definitely be serialized on "Anime Shonen"! Before Meng Zhe's 'but' 'pass' was spoken, Jiang Xiyao, the little girl, had already cheered excitedly.
It was easy to wait for Jiang Xiyao's Nizi to calm down, and Meng Zhe was about to open his mouth to continue commenting, when the door of the studio was pushed open-
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