A collection of short stories from the 1960s
Since 1968, Doraemon, author of Doraemon, who has been creating juvenile manga, has been working on the manga. F. Fujio began to experiment with new themes and genres, and thus created a series of short science fiction comics, he hopes that these fantastic ideas he imagined will be approved by everyone.
At this time, Hiroshi Fujimoto was 35 years old, cooperating with Yasuko Suo, as the Fujiko Fujio group also launched a lot of excellent manga works, but people in middle age, with the decline of body and energy year by year, he hopes that he can have more ideas and breakthroughs in manga, which is his original intention to create SF short story collection.
Although many of these short stories have been used in popular comics such as Doraemon, most of them are still like a stone sinking into the sea, only as his drafts, recording the inspiration of this popular cartoonist, which was sealed in a bookcase and finally dusted.
From 1968 to the 1990s, Fujiko All of the short manga created by F. Fujio have been compiled into 8 volumes, and Hiroshi Fujimoto has been dead for 25 years, and many manga artists have taken inspiration from this collection of SF short stories, such as the author of the popular manga "Devil's Blade", Izuka Khoshyo.
Fujiko · What exactly did Fujio's SF short comic draw? And listen to the story.
A simplified version of the comic book "Westworld" - the sharpshooter of the holiday
In 2016, there was a science fiction TV series called "Westworld", which was about a park with a western scene in the United States in the future, which was full of simulators, and guests in the real world could relax here, but one day, the simulators had their own consciousness...
The play is based on the 1973 film of the same name, and at the same time, Fujiko F. Fujio also created a short manga, "Holiday Sharpshooter".
In the Western United States, a gunner named James looks clumsy, but he can always overcome the danger and win the duel at the crucial moment, because it is a COS game that simulates Westworld, and as long as the money is in place, of course, you can play a hero.
James's real name is Suzuki, an ordinary wage earner, because the game in Westworld is too fake, he and his partners discussed, want to temporarily add a bank robbery scene, but when it came to the end, he was replaced by someone to make an appointment, and the other party made a large amount of money, which was a big customer of his peer partner - an upstart.
Unable to bear it, Suzuki decides to break the rules and fight with the upstart in a one-on-one duel in the simulated scene of Westworld, because the gun is fake, the two sides simply fight in close combat, but Suzuki is pressed to the ground by the other side and rubbed, and is beaten with a face full of flowers, and the upstart is a sumo wrestler.
Suzuki and his friends took the shuttle bus home from the playground, there was no way, and their lives would continue later.
Hiroshi Fujimoto's short story is slightly gray, he believes that whether it is reality or games, money can make ghosts grind, and the slogan of insisting on dreaming of changing the world is only a slogan after all.
Fixed-year food reduction: folk legend of abandoning the old
In the future society of a long time later, everyone lives a long life because of sound medical care, but in order to take care of the next generation, the state has to tilt its limited resources to the next generation of adolescents.
Mr. Yasuhiko, 74, and Mr. Fukiyama have applied for the benefits of their second retirement 12 times, but they have not been able to win the lottery, and after this application failed, the TV station announced the prime minister's new policy, the state will stop supporting the elderly over 73 years old, stop medical and other benefits, and let them fend for themselves.
Although it sounds cruel, both Yasuhiko and his good friend Fukiyama have to accept this fact, and Yasuhiko consciously eats less to save food, and often faints from hunger.
Society no longer needs them, the habit of respecting the elderly has gradually been erased from people's morality, and while sitting in the park, they meet their grandchildren and girlfriends, and they are asked to give up their seats, and both sides are very embarrassed.
In the final scene of the comic, two old friends who have been abandoned by society joke that "no matter where we go, there are no more seats for us." ”
In 1956, the Japanese novelist Shichiro Fukasawa wrote the novel "Kaeyama Festival Examination", which is about a village in the mountains, where the elderly will be carried to the mountains to fend for themselves at the age of 70, saving food for children.
The protagonist's mother, 69 years old, in order not to cause trouble for the children, knocked out all her teeth with stones to make herself look older, and let her son make up his mind to send himself to the deep mountain to save food for the children, which is called "Abandoned Old Mountain".
No matter how advanced society is and how technologically advanced, everything always seems to operate "for the next generation", and Hiroshi Fujimoto's "Food Reduction in the Year" tells this concept, but it is slightly sentimental.
Buying a house and sending a daughter-in-law, the weakness of human nature
When he reached middle age, Park Nian-ji Kiyoshi's children and career were successful, but one day he received a strange envelope, and a girl who longed for him hoped that he would take a newspaper to a certain park to meet him.
Park Nianji Kiyoshi, who said that "there must be a demon when something goes wrong", did not have any interest in Park Nianji, but he could not wait for the girl to appear, and a few days later he was invited to a housing agency.
He said that he could sell him a house at a low price in the form of a loan and send a new daughter-in-law, because the last time he went to the park, it was a trial and he was photographed.
Park Nian-ji Qingzhi ran away with a scolding grin, but at night, he sneaked into the house and saw a young woman.
Park Nianji Pretended to be embarrassed and went away angry, and after a while, he was itching in his heart and wanted to go back to the house, but he heard the woman entertaining another "customer" like himself.
At the end of the comic, the neighbor praises the pu nian temple to take care of the family, the child likes the father, the wife loves the husband, everything looks so perfect, but the park nian temple is telling a story: the fox says that the grapes are sour because they can't eat the grapes.
The moral of Hiroshi Fujimoto's manga is that everyone has a side that you can't see, and sometimes it's not that he doesn't want to do bad things, but that he can't do bad things without that condition.
Parent-child swap identities
Father Xiangliang and son Shi Liu did not like each other, and Even Six failed the college entrance examination, made a girlfriend, and only came home at night to show his father that he wanted to go out with his girlfriend.
Excited, Xiang Liang fainted to the ground, but when he woke up, the two had already exchanged identities, and the father entered the son's body, and the son became the father. A father-like Ji Liu insisted on going on a date with his girlfriend, but on the way he met his father's superiors and old friends, one of whom said that his father was a rare and good colleague, and the other said that he often praised his son, which made Ji Liu very moved.
On the other hand, the father Xiangliang wore the appearance of his son to meet his girlfriend, but to see who this girl was, chatted for a while, and found that it was not like he thought, but the girl kept advising herself not to easily run away from home and be a coward.
Father and son finally put aside their former hatred and became friends who talked about everything.
Fujiko · Some of F.'s short stories are somewhat gray, some are pessimistic, and some are whimsical, but they all reflect many social problems and are worth pondering and thinking about.