Two years later, I still vividly remember what Eiichiro Oda said in an interview---
"I recently heard my daughter singing 'My Hero Academia' OP in her hiking car, and when I was at home, my daughter asked me, 'Daddy, your comics are all right?' Can it still be sold? ’”
In the past few years, "Weekly Shonen JUMP" has dispelled the melancholy to a certain extent, and the hot-blooded anime led by "My Hero Academia" has finally had the ability to compete with "One Piece".
Frankly, it's comforting to see these results, after all, since the beginning of the comic strip when Olmet shouted out that super-fiery line: "It's all right, why?" Because I'm here! ”。
And after the tense battle scenes that Kohei Horikoshi sent us.
"I Ying" has become my favorite, and I have always hoped that it can become a pillar of the new generation as soon as possible.
Of course, two years ago, it had already made Eiichiro Oda feel a deep sense of crisis, and it did not live up to the expectations of many anime fans.
However, people did not expect that in the past two years, the aura of the pillar of "I Ying" would be completely buried because of Horikoshi Kohei's "death", or it would be completely buried---
As shown above, it is the villain character who appears in the latest episode of the manga, whose duties are biodefilmed, and whose name is "Shiga Maruta".
Originally, it was just a very common name (it appeared in many Japanese manga, such as Igarashi Maruta in Death RowLand), but the name of Maruta was "ganta", and Kohei Horikoshi solemnly annotated the pronunciation of "MARUTA" next to the name, which is the collective name of the victims who suffered cruel treatment by Unit 731 during World War II.
Since then, both Shonen JUMP and Kohei Horikoshi have posted articles explaining that "there is no malice, it is purely accidental" and promising to revise the names of the people in the latest chapter.
However, netizens in China and South Korea did not buy it, and they used fierce words to recoil the "I Ying" and even made a powder-to-black abandonment action---
Nowadays, as long as you open the new season of the fourth season of "I Ying", there is only a dense "condemnation wording", and now this work, which was once known as the hegemonic fan in January 2020, has also obtained an unprecedented despicable score of "3.7 points" on the B station.
In addition, domestic copyright platforms including Tencent Animation, Bilibili Comics, Comics comics and other domestic copyright platforms have made decisions to "remove works from the shelves---
Nowadays, Tencent Animation only has two fandoms left, and the genuine serial has been removed...
All of the above examples can tell us a fact to a certain extent: this time, "I Ying" may really be completely cold!
Of course, no matter what things are, there must be one or more key influencing factors behind them. They are the rational elements of Kohei Horikoshi in this irrational event, and they are the core reason why he took such action.
In my opinion, this factor is: flattering Japanese anime fans.
In order for you to better understand my point of view, I will start with another controversial event in "I Ying".
In fact, since the launch of "I Ying", this work has been surviving in the polarized public opinion quarrel, and the reason is that "the explosion is better than itself".
In the early days of the manga, this hot character did not hesitate to brutally bully Midori Ikuhisa, which made many anime fans angry.
Originally, everyone thought that the explosive hao would only appear in the first part of the plot, or be thoroughly domesticated and refined.
But as a result, we all know that the explosive hao is still the original pop hao, and green valley has been written by the author as a fool who has been trying to "hot face paste cold ass".
Obviously, this is an artistic expression of acquiescence and even appreciation for school bullying, and no one pays the price for it, nor does they see the emotion of guilt for it. Because of this, in the following years, anime fans have not less than expressed the anger of "explosive hao must die".
But the question is, is Kohei Horikoshi really a brain disease?
Sorry, he's not stupid, he's bad!
In the publicity interview of the theatrical version of "My Hero Academia: Rise of Heroes" some time ago, Kohei Horikoshi once answered the bullying question of the victory over himself:
"The bullying of the explosive is intentional, and the purpose is to make him the target of the reader... But people didn't expect that after the comic came out, the popularity of Boom Hao soared, and this also had to make me make a decision to turn Boom Hao back to the good guy camp."
In short, in the initial setting, Boomer is just a character with a short-lived role, and his evil is to set off the long-term goodness and growth. Perhaps a battle will be arranged, giving way to a long and thorough defeat of the explosive hao, and henceforth let the latter retreat from the plot, so that there is no possibility of so-called "bullying disputes".
But the explosive hao is "too contentious", and in the round after round of "I Ying" popular character box office, they are properly ranked first---
Therefore, Kohei Horikoshi had to overturn the original setting and let Hinosh continue to maintain the personality that made domestic anime fans scornful.
There is no doubt that this is an act that caters to the tastes of Japanese readers, and the reason for this phenomenon may not be separated from the "distorted values" of Japanese teenagers---
The problem of school bullying exists all over the world, for example, the "Sadness Against the River" and "Young You" released in the past two years have tried to expose this matter.
However, according to the observations of me and my friends around me, in today's Chinese society, school bullying is still not common, and it is far from rising to a serious livelihood problem.
However, things are different in Japan, as long as the search for "Japanese school bullying" as the keyword, we can see the following horrifying series of information---
The above information, on the one hand, represents the urgency of concern from all walks of life, but at the same time, it also reflects the enthusiasm of Japanese teenagers for school bullying in a certain sense--- the reason why it is repeatedly banned, it also shows that in the cultural circle of Japanese teenagers at this stage, bullying has become a fashion, they will not only not be condemned by others, but even can gain the support of a large number of fans.
Well, with the above understanding, it is not difficult for us to understand the reason why the explosion of haosheng has been able to gain a lot of popularity in box office activities: it is simply an idol, it is simply the "hero" that most Japanese teenagers dream of becoming.
Further, in order to ensure the status of the work, Horikoshi Kohei resolutely and completely overturned the original setting, so that the bully can continue to enjoy the treatment of the protagonist. Isn't this a perfect interpretation of "flattering the reader and abandoning the original intention"?
The same is true of the "Shiga Maruta" incident. On the surface, this may seem like a reckless attempt by Kohei Horikoshi, but inside it still reveals his flattery to Japanese readers---
During the Second World War, Japan committed such a miserable act precisely because right-wing ideas dominated the mainstream, and the whole country showed a strong militarist color and attempted to complete the national rejuvenation through the means of aggression.
Although right-wing ideas subsided for decades after the war, the eyes of Japanese residents shifted from external covetousness to domestic economic development (since the 1960s, Japan's economy has also developed rapidly), thus ushering in a honeymoon period with other East Asian countries.
However, since the terrible economic crisis of the 1990s, especially under the influence of such factors as the so-called "lost 10 years" and the "low-desire society", right-wing ideas have once again thrived in Japanese society: they have transferred internal contradictions and problems to the outside world through a series of unimaginable means (such as falsifying history, beautifying war criminals, etc.) in line with extreme nationalism.
Of course, in Japanese society of hundreds of millions of people, there are still sober and appealing KOLs--- such as Miyazaki and Fujiko. F. Fujio.
The former has been sparing no effort to create anti-war animation all the way, and has also expressed in public his sadness at the falsification of history textbooks by relevant departments, and has therefore been regarded as a "traitor" by right-wingers.
The latter is the author of the well-known anime Doraemon, and in one of his specials, Elephants and Uncles, we even see Nobita and Doraemon doing this---
Dancing with joy and shouting: "Japan has lost the war"!
Both Miyazaki and Fujiko recognized the cruelty of war and the importance of facing up to historical realities, so they preferred to bear the condemnation of Japanese society and planted "the seeds of human nature" in their own works to guard against the distorted development of Japanese society.
But when things came to Horikoshi Kohei, it was completely different, and the young man who was born in 86 and was 34 years old finally went astray.
I don't know if this farce was his own intention, but what is certain is that such a setting must also fit the vision of Japanese right-wingers: turning the victims of World War II into perpetrators in comics, making Japanese teenagers lose their reflection on the war and making them think that it is moral and just for Japan to start a war.
In my opinion, this way of flattering Japanese readers is simply terrible, and Kohei Horikoshi is not qualified to create "hero" manga.
Even if his own resume is just like Midoritani's---
Kohei Horikoshi, who was born in 1986, was actually a rising star in the Japanese manga industry when he turned 20 (winning the 72nd Osamu Tezuka Award).
But it is regrettable that since then, Kohei Horikoshi has not soared as expected, but has entered a trough of nearly 10 years, and has suffered the misfortune of being beheaded after creating the serial "Zoo at the Time of the Devil" and "Battlestar's Bargi" without serializing a few words.
But Kohei Horikoshi continued the path of manga creation until the time came in 2014, when he adapted and expanded his essay short story "My Hero" from many years ago, and the new generation of pillar-level works "My Hero Academia" finally appeared, and since then Kohei Horikoshi has embarked on his own peak life.
In my opinion, the success of "I Ying" cannot be separated from Horikoshi Kohei's deep understanding of hard work, dreams, and will in the past 10 years of suffering, and this is the key reason why he can bring us scene after scene of tears in "I Ying".
So much so that he has become the hottest work in recent years that can inherit the bloody mantle of "One Piece", and there is no one.
But now all this is ruined by a name, a month ago the hegemonic fan fell into a 3.7 points of erosion drama shouted by everyone on the B station, and the major comic platforms have resolutely removed the serial, and the date of resumption is far away.
Perhaps Kohei Horikoshi will continue to gain a lot of popularity in Japan with the so-called "school bullying" and "flattery of right-wing readers", but I believe that the overseas journey of "I Ying" is no longer possible, and there should be no room for further development.
After all, comics can not be read, but the country cannot be unloved, and history does not allow anyone to despise them. A cartoonist and his work who can't do even the most basic human rights and respect for history, cool it out!
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