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The anime "Ping Pong", adapted from the manga of the same name by Taiyo Matsumoto, is currently on the air, and the first episode of the anime has received praise from the audience. The day station interviewed the original author Matsumoto Taiyo, and the director of the animation, Masaaki Yuasa, to reveal the secrets of creation and the story behind it, in the interview, Yuasa said that he personally drew all the mirrors, and would also add Matsumoto sensei's ideas and new yì.

Anime "Ping Pong": http://donghua./donghua_info/6505.html

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Manga "Ping Pong": http://manhua./pingpong/

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◆ Taiyo Matsumoto: Japanese manga artist. Born in Tokyo in 1967, he entered the Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts at Wako University in 1985 and dropped out two years later. When I was in college, I joined a manga club and started creating comics. In 1986, his work "Straight" won the "Autumn Award" of the Four Seasons Newcomer Award held by the comic magazine "Afternoon" of the Forum Society. Although this work began to be serialized in Kodansha's manga magazine. Later, he moved to Shogakukan, where he successively released "ZERO", "Flower Man", "Evil Boy", "Ping Pong" and the short story "Youth", establishing a unique position in the comic industry.

◆ Masaaki Yuasa: Japanese animation supervisor. Born in Fukuoka in 1965. After graduating from the Fine Arts Department of the Art Department of Kyushu Sangyo University, he joined the company of Asia Temple. Since then, he has worked as a painting supervisor, setting, and concept art in "Crayon Shin-chan", and has also participated in the production of other peripheral projects. The animated film "mind·game" (mind game) made by Zuò at STUDIO4°C is his film debut as a director. The first TV animation work I supervised was "Beast's Claw". The most representative work is the TV animation "Four Hata and a Half Mythological Series", which has a unique and alternative style.

- I want to draw the action of playing table tennis

Q: First of all, I would like to ask Matsumoto how he drew "Ping Pong".

Taihiro Matsumoto: Because Mr. Hori, the editor at the time, was an athletic fool (now he has become the editor of the editor), I also drew "ZERO" because he said, "Let's draw a boxing story." "Flower Man" and "Let's Play Baseball"...... It's all what he advocates. But of course, I also like to draw athletes, such as sportswear, smashes, numbers on the back, etc.

Q: Have you played any sports before?

Matsumoto: I've always played football. From the second grade of elementary school to the third year of high school. I didn't play well, but I was the captain in high school.

Yuasa: Don't you draw a soccer manga?

Matsumoto: Actually, I originally wanted to draw it, but I made a proposal before Ping Pong, and I even proposed an outline. But football comics cost 22 people a game. If the painting focuses on the four characters, the other characters are used as a foil...... That's not going to ...... either. If I could draw 20 volumes, the length of about 30 volumes would be enough to show the characters, but I probably won't be able to serialize it for long, so I thought it would be better to compete on my own, so I stopped planning a soccer manga.

Q: There are also a lot of individual competitions, why did you choose table tennis?

Matsumoto: At that time, I watched a lot of sports, such as kendo. When I was watching table tennis, I thought, "So handsome!" I really want to animate. Later, after researching it, I found that this sport is very well-known, but everyone doesn't know that there are many strategies and types of players...... These parts are also interesting.

- Supervisor Yuasa personally drew all the storyboards

Q: What did Superintendent Yuasa think when he received the request to animate Ping Pong?

Yuasa: I initially said that I didn't want to make a work by Mr. Matsumoto.

Q: Huh? Why?

Yuasa: Matsumoto-sensei's work is already very good, so I don't quite understand why I had to make it into an anime. "Ping Pong" is the same, let me take Matsumoto-sensei's style of painting...... I can't do it either. However, at the time, I thought it would be the best thing if I could make a work that I liked. At that time, I was very fond of "Ping Pong...... However, it is more difficult to make it than expected.

Q: For example, what part?

Yuasa: The movements of table tennis are very fast. There is basically no time to think about it, and it has to be constantly moving. In addition, it is clearly drawn in the comics: where did the ball turn, and where did it go...... There will be a lot of new discoveries when you re-read it. I drew all these new discoveries into the storyboard, and this time I did it all.

Q: This time it wasn't just the script, the supervisor personally drew all the storyboards, is that a sign of your determination?

Yuasa: It's also a challenge of my own. "Ping Pong" is a work with a very special style, and instead of trying to tell others what to do, I should do it myself a little faster. …… It's easy to think like this, but in practice, you realize that a person's abilities are limited (laughs). In addition, because the original drawing is so good, I was very impressed in my mind, so I also directly selected the original storyboard to enter the animation.

Matsumoto: I watched the storyboard, and it was really interesting. Actually, I didn't plan to watch it until the anime was finished.,After actually seeing it, I think it's really good.,It's more serious than the storyboard of the manga.。

Yuasa: Because I want to show it to others. I'm not very good at drawing, so if it had the same storyboard in the original work, I'd write: Please see the pages of the manga (laughs)

Matsumoto: But I'm still very interesting about the storyboard, so I hope everyone can see it.

Yuasa: I would use it as a BDamp; DVD bonus,I don't know what will happen.。

- A backstory that was not present in the original work

Q: When drawing storyboards or characters, does the supervisor ask Matsumoto some questions?

Yuasa: yes, I'll ask you if you don't understand.

Matsumoto: Yuasa asks a lot of questions.

Yuasa: Really?

Matsumoto: When I was in the "Bad Boy" movie, I was almost never asked. I said, "You can come and ask at any time" (laughs). So I thought Director Yuasa wouldn't ask, but so far watching Director Yuasa's work gives me this feeling. So it's fun to be asked a lot of questions.

Yuasa: Well, I don't usually ask (laughs)

Q: What questions were asked?

Yuasa: I don't even ask questions about things that don't really matter, such as, "What do indoor shoes look like?" And so on.

Matsumoto: I often ask, "What does that Kazama mean?" "Sometimes I don't remember what I thought at the time, it's hard. So at this point, I asked Inspector Yuasa to express his own understanding.

Yuasa: In this anime, I will add the backstories of some characters who were not represented in the original work, and I have heard from Matsumoto Sensei that there are many plots that are not used in the manga, and I will add them to the anime. I also accept Matsumoto-sensei's suggestion, for example, if the teacher says, "It would be nice if the lines there could be changed", I would change it in the anime.

- Kazama is laborious

Q: Is there any character you find particularly interesting?

Yuasa: It's Egami-kun, so it's unexpected. Appearances will be added slightly in the anime.

Matsumoto: I also like that character.

Yuasa: But what I want to paint most is Kazama. It's a bad habit of me to always care about characters other than the main character.

Matsumoto: yes, you asked me a lot of questions about Kazama. Kazama draws very hard (laughs), and it's the same when I draw manga, Kazama is a difficult character second only to Ah Bian. Because I don't know what he's thinking. Yuasa added some of Kazama's plots.

Yuasa: Yes, I asked Matsumoto-sensei if there would be any problems with this.

Matsumoto: I think it's interesting.

- I'm happiest when I draw Joker and Sakuma.

Question: Just now Matsumoto said that painting Ah Bian is the most difficult.

Matsumoto: Because what the kid says, it's going to be in vain. Showing his energy and frustration to those around him is the hardest ....... He is a star of hope for everyone, and I hope that more people can understand him. But when you look back, it's funny how tired he looks.

Yuasa: I didn't really understand Ah Bian's charm at first, but lately, I finally found Ah Bian very interesting. Because he is the hope of everyone, I also hope that there will be such a person.

Matsumoto: At that time, I thought it was a bit boring when I painted Abian, and I preferred to draw Xiaoye and Sakuma. It can be because those two people have a "boring" and "bored" side, it is easier to express Xiàn, and it is difficult to draw a frivolous type like Ah Bian. Sakuma draws very easily

INTERVIEWER The anime and manga are growing

Q: Did you pay any attention to the animation of Matsumoto's drawings this time?

Yuasa: Basically, it's all given to the character setting, but Ito Shintaka has been added, but Matsumoto-sensei's unique brushstrokes have been added. In addition, the graphics of the animation will get better little by little, and the characters themselves will grow. It's as if the drawings of the original are getting better and better.

Matsumoto: Because the graph itself will get better and better on its own. At first, there may be a lazy part, but the more you draw, the more you feel unselfish.

Q: Do you want to add more information?

Matsumoto: yes. Because people will gradually become more serious. By the way, when I was painting this work, I said, "I won't paint anymore!" "I hate it when I draw it.

Yuasa: Hey, is it so strict?

Matsumoto: At first, it was because the editor in charge of Ping Pong suddenly changed, so I said, "I don't want to draw anymore." "It's about three volumes. In retrospect, it may be because the royal road movement involved was a difficult challenge for me. However, the new editor said, "Come on!" "Then I went to the French International Comics Con and saw a lot of really great authors. The drawings are also 1 million times better than me, and I want to be that good. So after returning to China, I passed the bottleneck period. Looking back now, "Ping Pong" is also one of my favorite works, and it is a simple and interesting manga.

– It's the busiest time in my life.

Q: What is your recent work status?

Matsumoto: At first, I was serialized in weekly magazines, but I gradually couldn't keep up with the rhythm of weekly magazines, so I took a break...... No, I don't have much memory after that. Aren't cartoonists always saying, "Hey, I drew these?" "I didn't sleep much at the time, and I was in a very dazed state......

Yuasa: I'm probably the busiest at the moment.

Matsumoto: At this age, it's amazing.

Q: Finally, a word to the viewers who watched the "Ping Pong" anime.

Matsumoto: Yuasa-sensei's "Ping Pong" is very good, so you don't have to worry about the original manga, and you don't read the manga in advance. This is my mood as a yusha noodle.

Yuasa: I know that there are many viewers who like the original work and the movie, but I still want to look forward and hope to learn the advantages of the film on the basis of the original work, and try to complete the work well.