Chapter 278: Cherry Maruko
PS: First of all, I would like to say sorry to all book friends, because I have been writing novels in my spare time for more than two years, my health is worse than I imagined, and I still need some time to recover.
In Zhao Chen's eyes, the painting of "Cherry Maruko" is relatively simple, especially in the appearance of the characters. However, the most important embodiment of this comic is naturally not the painter, but a rare comic that recalls childhood, and the super sense of substitution will make this comic have the achievements of later generations.
"Miss Miura, with your strength, you are enough to become a manga artist!"
As soon as Zhao Chen's words fell, Miki Miura, who was originally working, was obviously stunned, and then he didn't know what to remember, and some of the baby's fat faces turned pale.
"Teacher Zhao Chen, please tell me what I did wrong? Please give me another chance, I will correct it in the future! ”
It turned out that Zhao Chen's ability to observe her all the time had long been noticed by Miki Miura, and Miki Miura thought that Zhao Chen's words were like an ultimatum, after all, Miki Miura had only been Zhao Chen's assistant for a few days.
For becoming Zhao Chen's assistant, this is an extremely rare learning opportunity in Miki Miura's thoughts, where not only can you compete with many powerful comic assistants, but if you are lucky, as long as you get some guidance from Zhao Chen, then it is likely to be used for a lifetime, and you will at least be able to gain a firm foothold in the comic industry in the future.
Similarly, Miki Miura underestimated her own level and strength, mainly because she thought that her painting skills were inferior to many assistants, not to mention Zhao Chen, who was named after her painters, and the difference between the two was almost heaven and earth. Of course, these are all her own thoughts.
"It seems that Miss Miura misunderstood, you didn't do anything wrong, it's just that I personally think you have the strength of a manga artist! Even if I continue to study here, I am afraid that the improvement will not be too large. Only after debut can you better absorb all kinds of experience and knowledge! Of course, it's up to you to choose. ”
Miki Miura's words made Zhao Chen's brows jump, and he turned a little helpless. In fact, his original intention was to make Miki Miura a qualified manga artist, and when "Cherry Maruko" was born, the manga sales were indeed far inferior to "Sailor Moon" and "Magical Girl Sakura", but the achievement of "Cherry Maruko" was completely in animation, and it was higher than the achievements of the first two in this regard.
This comic is about a playful, innocent, intelligent, creative girl with a lot of shortcomings. The story mainly revolves around the interesting scenes that happened between her life and study with her family, friends, teachers, and classmates, including family, love, and friendship between classmates. Or some small things in life, but there are laughter and tears in them, which reminds people of the childishness of childhood. In this regard, I have to sigh that because this is Miki Miura's childhood memories, the sense of substitution is bursting, and it can make many people recall the things in their childhood, which led to the anime reaching a rating of 39.9% on October 28, 1990 after it was broadcast. And on September 26, 1991, it became the highest-rated animation in the history of the island nation on record.
When he thought of this anime, Zhao Chen couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed, mainly because he remembered the signature expressions of the characters in the story when they were embarrassed, the several black lines that suddenly appeared on their faces, and the cold wind that sometimes accompanies them, this scene is impressive, and it also enhances the fun of this comic.
However, every anime will have some flaws to a greater or lesser extent, especially "Cherry Maruko" is Miki Miura's first full-length work in history. Even more so. One of the main flaws is naturally the character modeling, in which you can't see the so-called beautiful women, handsome guys and even beautiful characters. In this way, it naturally makes some teenagers or girls lose some of their attractiveness, and it is also the culprit of the low sales of comics. After all, this kind of memory-type anime can only fully show the atmosphere in the animation, and as for the manga, it can only be hehe.
"Oh, by the way, Miss Miura. I just finished the storyboard and outline of a shoujo manga recently, and I found that your style can control this shoujo manga relatively well, Miss Miura, do you want to take a look? ”
Seeing that Miki Miura was in a tangle, Zhao Chen was puzzled, and he didn't even understand such a relatively simple truth. I had no choice but to say it in advance, lest Miki Miura finally choose to continue to act as an assistant.
"Nani?" After all, this is the place where the assistants work, and at the beginning, the other assistants also thought that Zhao Chen was going to quarrel with Miki Miura, but they were not quite bent around and were ready to cooperate, what kind of truth is this, Miki Miura has just become an assistant not long ago, and these assistants are inevitably frightened, thinking that they heard it wrong.
Miki Miura is the same, for this sudden pie, she was also caught off guard for a while and fell into a stupor.
In their opinion, the current Zhao Chen has long been one of the most famous comic book masters in the island country, if it weren't for the lack of background and the relationship between not being from the island country, maybe he would be able to become a god now. But even so, when some magazines are engaged in the manga artist rankings, they will occasionally rank Zhao Chen in the first place, suppressing Osamu Tezuka and several veteran masters.
In fact, judging from Zhao Chen's current comic achievements, each one is a rare classic, and at the same time, Zhao Chen has also modified his own comics in subtle ways, not only the quality has increased, but also the loopholes have been greatly reduced. Because of the relationship between people who are not from the island country, many island country media will not easily admit the supreme title of the god of comics, and the current Zhao Chen is still very young, and the background is naturally a lot worse than those comic book masters who are often fifty or sixty. Similarly, in terms of total sales of comics, the current Zhao Chen is on par with Osamu Tezuka, but it is only a matter of time before it surpasses.
Osamu Tezuka's "Astro Boy", "Firebird" and even "Three-Eyed Boy" have sold more than 100 million, plus other works made in the past few decades, the total sales are afraid of seven or eight billion or even higher, which is also one of the main reasons why Akira Toriyama can't surpass Osamu Tezuka in later generations. Even if the sales volume between the two is basically the same, the problem is that the sales of island countries in the sixties and seventies are far less than those after the eighties, and it is much more difficult to sell more than 100 million works in the sixties and seventies.
But even so, whether these island country media admit it or not, most people subconsciously still think that Zhao Chen's achievements in the future are limitless, of course, the premise is to maintain this upward momentum, and surpass all the cartoonists in the island country. However, mainly because Zhao Chen is not from the island country, it is undoubtedly too difficult to become the god of comics, and there is a long way to go.
The most important thing is that Zhao Chen's works are selling well, among which the sales of "Dragon Ball" are the first to exceed 100 million, and the rest of the comics such as "Pokémon", "Baseball Heroes", and "Football Player" are getting closer and closer to this amount, which is why the assistants are flocking to it, and everyone hopes to be the lucky one to win Zhao Chen's favor.
After confirming that they had heard correctly, the psychology of these assistants was like a dye vat full of all kinds of feelings, but no matter how indignant or envious and jealous they were, they could only suppress it and did not dare to express these feelings.
"That'...... I'll take a look first! After Miki Miura confirmed, her heart was filled with an indescribable ecstasy, and she felt like she was in a dream, and happiness came too quickly! (To be continued......)