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Photo: Reviewer - Toot Toot, Typography - Wenqi
Cover image: Doraemon
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This year's covid-19 pandemic has raged around the world, and countries have avoided the epidemic at home. As a result, Rice Bucket also bought a lot of comics and sent them to Canada to relieve his cousin's son. However, it didn't take long to receive a complaint from my cousin, saying: "The package has been received, please buy the Tinker Bell comic, see clearly that the author will pay again." ”
It turned out that the one I bought only had the three words "Elbow Makoto" written in small letters at the end of the book.
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Tinker Bell, also known as Doraemon, is the protagonist of a Japanese evergreen manga created by manga artist Fujiko Fujio in 1969. In the Chinese-speaking world, the name "Tinker Bell" first appeared in Hong Kong in 1975, inspired by the president of the children's magazine in charge of serialization at the time.
The Hong Kong version was called Jingle Bell in the early days
The three words of Tinker Bell are catchy, and even the official emphasis on the legitimacy of the name "Doraemon" cannot be changed. Together with the nicknames that were once "super cats" and "robot cats", which were casually crowned by Chinese publishing houses, they are still so deeply imprinted in the minds of a generation.
Early pirated "Super Cat Ding-Dong"
This time I was careless, and there was no rebuttal to spending money and being scolded. Since its birth, Ding-Dong has been too popular with children, resulting in piracy and difficult to distinguish between true and false. Coupled with the fact that the storyline is mainly short, it is very easy to "add materials". In the past, Taiwan's concept of copyright was weak, and there was once a scene of "fake ding-dong driving away real ding-dong".
Around 1970, the island of Taiwan was the world's factory, and I became a master for helping others do things for a long time, even in the comic book industry. Most of the Taiwanese Tinker Bells are cooked by a company called "Qingwen Publishing House", and the process is similar to that of the Japanese publishing industry, releasing a single book every once in a while.
Spanning from 1976 to 1993, a total of 236 episodes have been published in 17 years, and several large-scale novels, design collections, and commemorative special issues have been issued intermittently. In total, there may be several times more works than the original author Fujiko Fujio.
The number of pirated tinker bells in Qingwen Publishing House is huge
Many readers also subconsciously have the settings of Daxiong's surname "Ye", Yi Jing's (Jingxiang) surname "Chen", and Ji'an's (Fat Tiger) surname "Wu", which is evidence of Taiwanese piracy. This is interesting to say, since they are all pirated, why bother to modify the details of the comic characters?
The answer was in the context of time and space at the time.
During the period of Kuomintang rule, Taiwan had a fairly strong anti-Japanese stance. In view of the fact that these cute characters would cause trouble with publishing censorship if they used the Japanese background as usual, the publishing house had to make a drastic transformation, and all of their surnames and addresses were localized, and the Taipei primary school student "Ye Daxiong", who always scored zero, was born and lived in the "second floor of No. 7, 75th Lane, Zhonghe Minle Street, Taipei County".
Daxiong Taipei address
Taipei Ye Daxiong's favorite place to play is naturally becomes; the destination of the bamboo dragonfly flight is; the opening of any door is he; occasionally the family will go to the he; the aunts and aunts who have not seen each other for a long time all live.
Ding Dong moves from the future world to Nobita's house, needs to go to the household office to apply for an ID card, and will be inspected by the police when walking on the road.
Nobita went to Hualien to play in the summer
The author's family collection - Nobita goes to the Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall
Different authors, the personality of the character will naturally deviate. Over the long term, many readers of that year have reported that Ding Dong's temper has become more and more fierce, not only speaking evil words, but also using air cannons to attack the patrolling police; props have also appeared some extreme examples, such as helping Nobita summon the national army and chariots to attack the fat tiger; even the well-behaved girl Yi Jing has begun to collapse, making people call out that there are several stories that almost become crazy women.
Yi Jing punched out a shenglong fist
Writing to Tinker Bell is a common memory of children. At that time, in order to collect new materials for "localization of Dingdang", Qingwen Publishing House set up a "Dingdang Mailbox" to receive submissions from young readers in order to collect new inspirations, and readers would write letters to share the joys and sorrows of life because they regarded Dingding as a partner in life, or could not say inner words to parents.
Now the mailboxes for children are called "Tinker Bell Mailboxes"
Qingwen Publishing House also often receives calls from young readers, asking to talk to Dingdang, at that time, in order to appease children, but also to cooperate with saying "Dingdang returned to the 22nd century to take props, or Dingdang traveled abroad" and the like, so as not to cause everyone's dreams to be shattered.
This unique business is really smooth, and even advertising has come to the door. Anyway, even if there is an implanted advertisement, everyone also receives all the orders, the author has a copy at home, the first one is to advertise for the "laurel brand pudding", but when I was young, I really saw the little ding-dong will teach me hot pudding is really happy.
Author's Family Collection - Nobita and Laurel Pudding
Rice Bucket can't help but interject that such a big local piracy cause has also brought several other comics red. The Golden Joyful Version of Saint Seiya is also one of them, compared to the "toddler", the Golden Happy Version of Saint Seiya not only has several levels higher painting difficulty, but even the crooked plot is so gripping.
From time to time, there are also some plots that make people blush, such as "the scarlet poison needle of Scorpio must use the mouth to take drugs", which is really a rare BL enlightenment textbook of that era.
Golden Happy Edition Saint Seiya, "Mouth Drug Terrier" & "Homemade BL Version"
So will Tinker Bell be willing to continue the daily life of Taipei children in this ordinary way? Of course not! At that time, there were actually a lot of talents in Taiwan's comic and animation circles, so big that even Disney cartoons were produced by Taiwanese, and animations such as "The Little Mermaid", "Aladdin" and so on were born under the pen of Taiwanese.
With this strength, there is no problem in making several Tinker Bell Comics big features and animated films. Thus "Nobita MSI Battle", "Nobita Elf World", "Nobita Super Dimensional War", "Nobita Light Journey", "Nobita's Journey to the West", "Nobita Simulation Earth", "Nobita Dream Adventure" these large-length comics were born.
Nobita's Journey to the West
One of the main screenwriters, Liu Mingkun, was not yet twenty years old at the time, and when he was inexperienced, he directly arranged Fujiko Fujio's original manuscript, rearranged one grid at a time, and then added new dialogue to create a new plot. Later, I became familiar with it, and I wrote my own screenplay and created it, which turned out to be a very best-selling.
Take Nobita's Simulated Earth, for example, in which Nobita uses props to create a new world, and Fujiko Fujio only draws a similar plot in Nobita's Creation Diary two years later.
There is also the "Nobita Super Dimensional War" known for its brain-burning plot, and now there are many nostalgic fans who are asking for high prices. Isaac, the second protagonist of "Nobita Elf World" and "Nobita Hikari Journey", is still working in the anime game industry as the elder of sword and magic.
"Nobita Simulates Earth"
Ding Dong is such a lucrative pie, of course, it will not let Qingwen Publishing House swallow it alone. Yang Ming and Dong Li, two publishing houses, have also successively sold unauthorized Tinker Bell comic collections.
In addition to comics, when I was a child, I listened to a tape of the little tinker bell story of the "Youfu Culture Publishing House", which is even more hidden in the cave.
Daxiong speaks in the tone of a Taiwanese province, and his hobby is to learn Hokkien, and his favorite food is turned into rice cake and gongmaru soup in the night market. And Ding Dong has rarely come up with any props at all, they are all spitting and laughing at Nobita's ignorance, and the opening is "Nobita, you are stupid, you can't stand you, you don't understand anything, you hate yay~"; he also transformed into a situation expert, educating Nobita to "choose a squad leader, grow up to become an official in the political circles", and even try to "counterattack the mainland".
Youfu Publishing House, Tinker Bell CD, the title also follows the era of piracy
Nobita's father has also changed from an ordinary social animal to a good citizen, giving hot meals to homeless old women, enthusiastically helping the police to hunt down fraudsters, taking the initiative to care for colleagues who can't think of unemployment, and always criticizing the DPP for fooling around when watching TV. In order to teach Nobita what war is, Ding-Dong actually took out any door to take him to the scene of the coup gun battle in the Philippines for a whole day.
Both Ah Fu and Yi Jing have experienced kidnappings, and Nobita and his father have to pay the ransom (the fact is that there were often child abductions in Taiwan at that time, so children also had to learn about it).
Another Hongguang Co., Ltd., which was mentioned above as an OEM for Disney Animation and became a world-class animation film leader, also came to share a piece of the pie.
Hongguang Co., Ltd., animation foundry
In the Chinese New Year's Eve 1983, the Lunar New Year blockbuster "Tinker Bell Wars Robot" drawn by Hongguang and issued by Jinhuai Co., Ltd. was grandly debuted.
Tinker Bell vs Robot movie poster
In the movie, Nobita and Tinker Bell fight the Evil Doctor who intends to destroy the world, use their clever intelligence to fight the evil machine beast "Eagle King One", and cooperate with the National Army to jointly save the world.
The final demon robot of the movie "Eagle King One"
This kind of story may not even be imagined by Fujiko Fujio, who was originally set up as a child-rearing robot or a defective product, and actually defeated the huge machine Gokira and sat firmly in the first chair of the "super robot".
In order to match the anti-Japanese atmosphere at that time, the filmmaker also specially defended in the newspaper that "Japanese Dingdang wears clogs, and Taiwan Dingdang wears shoes", which proves that Dingdang is also patriotic! (But the truth is that Tinkerbell is not wearing anything on her feet at all.) ）
This film is said to be above the standard, because there is no copyright, it can only be dusted after the release, and it has not been seen for thirty years. It is said that only one person in the world has kept an orphan video.
However, when we were children, we didn't care which tinker bell we came into contact with, but now we look back on it so simple and happy. It's still 92 years before Tinker Bell was born, but it seems that he really took the time machine to accompany each of us. Even if the children of that year have become a new generation of social animals, when they are vulnerable, they still expect to cry out with the big blue head: "Borrow me props."
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