When it comes to comics, we always have some stereotypes, Korean comics - fast food plots, color strip comics; American comics - the protagonist is worse than miserable, super hero. Girl comics - always in love, teenagers comics - continuous growth!
When it comes to juvenile manga, the first word must be growth!
Recently, the animation "Ranking of Kings" was fired, the protagonist Boji was disabled and ridiculed since childhood, but he still had kindness in his heart and bravely pursued his inner belief, this unique cute version of martial arts earned the tears of many viewers.
A person continues to grow, and finally becomes the existence that everyone looks up to, and the comics of this kind of story also have the popular domestic "Mad King"!
(The protagonist of the story will inevitably ascend to a high place and look into the distance)
In the first book of "The Mad King", luo hou, the mad king who was later invincible, also had a watery little Zhengtai like Boji. His name is Fish.
Some fish are born with fragile bones, not to mention fighting, even walking must rely on steel plates to fix their legs. For the Asuras, who regarded combat as their only value, he naturally became the object of humiliation.
However, with my sister and friends by my side, my life is still ordinary and stable.
If it hadn't been for that sudden change, he might have grown up in weakness.
I don't know if it was lucky or unlucky, but such a day soon ended.
It is said that he is lucky because he was selected by the ancient ancestor of the Asura clan to be taken to a mysterious spaceship to practice martial arts. It is said to be unfortunate because he killed all the people with fish in his search for the "fighter", including his cherished sister.
Anger is the source of the Asura tribe's combat strength, and if a fish is angry about the death of his sister and knocks the enemy to the ground, he will gain what his heart really desires- a strong body, infinite strength.
Day and night, the stars shifted, and There was a long and painful training for Youyu, and when he walked out of the forbidden martial arts classroom, his body was crawling with ugly and frightening scars, each of which represented the pain he had paid for it.
Returning to the human world, there are no more enemies, and they fight a siege at the coming-of-age ceremony, defeat the people who come to challenge with one hundred, and fight the three kings of Asura for ten days and ten nights, and finally win a great victory, get the name of the new king, and change his name to Luohou.
However, when the god of the battle was crowned, the real battle of life and death had just begun.
In the Scroll of The End, when facing the army of gods descending from the sky, the Mad King Luo Hou breaks through himself in order to protect his people, open a state of selflessness, and repel the gods.
At this moment, he is faced with a bigger choice, whether to continue the endless war, or to let go of a hundred years of hatred and live with the gods?
At the same time, the truth about the expulsion of the Asuras a hundred years ago gradually surfaced.
See living characters and living emotions in battle after battle
If the first volume of "Mad King" is the introduction to the whole story, and the second volume is the battle of the whole story, then the third volume is the shaping of the human heart and the catharsis of emotions.
When reading "Mad King", it is not only the punch-to-flesh feeling that fascinates people, but the most amazing thing is that the author and the boy can create so many interesting characters in such a short space.
You know, "Mad King" is only three short, but it has created more than a dozen plump and interesting characters, such as Rulai, Emperor Shitian, and the four kings of the Asura clan, which are naturally needless to say, and even small supporting roles are vivid and cute.
For example, Wan Bone, with the face of an old treacherous giant, dared to press all his wealth investment when Luo Hou was still a potential stock, and he was bold and discerning. However, such a person also has the pride of the Asura clan, he is treacherous, but he is also proud, even at the end of his life, he firmly believes in his own vision, and even if he is destroyed, he is also looking forward to the future of the Asura clan.
The story of the third volume is unveiled from the childhood of King Yuan.
She is of noble blood, but she has to live in the shadows. She is the illegitimate daughter of Daode Tianzun, who only seeks temporary pleasure and irresponsibly abandons her mother and daughter.
Not recognized, not seen by the light, the mother died of the deception of the moral heavenly dignity, and she was imprisoned by her biological father in the Heavenly Palace Ice Prison for ten years, she hated the heavenly court, hated her father, hated all the hypocrisy of morality.
In the Great Armageddon, she used the lives of the three apprentices of Tianzun to force him to make a choice, luring him step by step into the trap of exposing his nature, and opening a cool drama revenge mode that opened all the way. The villain is unknowingly stripped and disguised, and the ugliness is unobstructed.
The story reaches a climax in the footsteps of King Yuan, but at the end of the battle, she sends her last dream to the female disciple of Daode Tianzun, the dying girl involved in this revenge.
Even if it is an enemy, it is a young girl who has been deceived like herself.
King Yuan is cruel and persistent, but he can also empathize with people.
Among the gods who appeared in the third book, the golden hammer, as one of the thirteen god generals, had a rough appearance, but his heart and eyes were like the tip of a needle, and every time he saw his colleagues with three eyes out of the limelight, he committed pink eye; the three eyes of his partner did not smile, a serious book, and Ren Jin Hammer was next to him, and he was not moved.
This combination of mindlessness and unhappiness sparked.
Three Eyes gave up the opportunity to kill the king and chose to rescue the severely injured Golden Hammer.
"Go! Complete your mission! Make a miracle for the Celestial Realm! Don't forget to have me as a teammate! Your glory is also my glory!"
"It is my responsibility to make sure my companions come back alive. Glory is secondary. ”
"You idiot! No wonder I've always hated you! ”
Although the Golden Hammer's heart is small, it regards the glory of guarding the heavenly court as more important than his own life; the three eyes are moody and angry, but they silently put the life and death of their comrades in the first place in their hearts.
(It's really handsome!) ）
It is not easy to shape these small characters who do not appear much to have their own characteristics, and Hezai even further portrays the arc of their respective characters for these characters, making their image more full.
This is the charm of "Mad King" - to fight, but also to play the character, to reject those endless data boring battles, so that readers can see the living characters and living emotions in one battle after another.
The rich inversion and detail are refreshing
In the previous plot, he seems to be the most normal king, neither as scheming as the Yuan King, nor as fragile and sensitive as the Bitter King, although the others are a little gloomy, their personalities are straight forward, and they are as fanatical as other Asuras.
However, what he did not expect was that the sister of the king who was tender like water and had the ability to foresee, strongly hated him in her heart. Put him to death at the first opportunity.
In the third volume, she elaborately sets a trap and seriously injures the king in the fight between the thirteen gods and the king of beheading.
But what is even more unexpected is that he was betrayed by his relatives and smiled.
"You're just angry for a while, and after a while you'll be fine, and you'll come back to me."
If the first two volumes of "Mad King" enriched the role of Luo Hou, then the third volume is based on this, proving that it is also an extremely good group portrait drama.
Not only Luo Hou himself, but also the face of the entire Asura clan, and even the enemies of the Asura clan, has been very interestingly portrayed.
The most surprising thing is that at the end of the story, there is also a warm vignette, the adopted daughter of the Emperor of Heaven, the Fairy of Plain Clothes, falls into the human world and meets Goku, laying the groundwork for the marriage that wants to say goodbye in "Journey to the West".
Teenagers have not been outdated for so many years, in addition to high combustion and blood, more is the tension in details. For example, the fight thing.
If it's a second-rate fight, then you can only see the moves inside. And in the first-class fights, you can see the character's heart inside.
The fight in "Mad King" is first-rate.
In just three volumes of "Mad King", there is hardly a page of superfluous storyboarding, no boring memories of water injection, and no long talk that wanders outside the plot.
Every page is rich in detail. The contrast and strong impact on the composition and color set the overall grand tone, and a large number of details are combined with the text to add more information. For the explanation of the background of the story, a picture is enough, simply powerful.
"The world this comic takes us into is a world of fresh, open, and unlimited freedom to explore."
There is a fish - Luo Hou - the mad king, and we are immersed in this story step by step as he grows up, and we are still inexhaustible.
"Mad King" legendary setting, constantly reversing storyline, bold use of color, high-burn pictures with great visual impact, and smooth film-level storytelling have attracted the keen attention of many fans, and since its launch, the click rate has exceeded 410 million times, becoming a phenomenon-level comic.
Destiny is for breaking! An ordinary asura boy bravely went forward, and finally transformed from a weak person into a "king"!
However, after reading the whole story, I remembered the beginning of the story, the Mad King is not called the Mad King, but also when there is a fish.
The crippled fish was sullen, and the sister stepped on the loom and knocked a big sound on the head of the fish with a stick that she didn't know where to find it--"Boom! ”
"The spirit of the Asura people is to be fearless and fight to the end."
Thousands of turns, all the scars suffered by the fish in his life, may not be as impressive as this stick.
Text/Liang Xi