In the first year of college, I watched the first season of the animation of "Headless Horseman Tales DuRaRaRaRa" on the recommendation of Zhao Ergou's classmates. The novel sees the third volume of the anime ending in one breath. Then after 4 years, I heard that it was all animated, and then just a few minutes ago, I finished reading the thirteenth volume of the novel at hand.
"The mundane everyday life day after day may be the real non-everyday."
Let's start with the everyday.
Well, the author of the daily life, Narita Yoshigo.
Before DuRaRaRa, they had actually met in The Wine of Eternal Life. Narita seems to be the side of the genius writer, literally casual and willful, but he can always feel wrapped in a fine network, and there are methodical layers of calculations under the looseness. The text is bland and not exaggerated, but it is like the speed and strength of the rubber band popping out (or like Rinya's knife and Shizuo's punch). If you must define it, "wind and water" may be the most appropriate.
Narita's novels also seem to be obsessed with shaping the core of the dance of the demons. Perverts, aliens, monsters, violence, underground, unruly, but there will inevitably be strong, conscience, everyday, lovers, guardians, and realities.
Can't help but wonder if Narita would be too powerful if he did the human design, and the strange characters of at least tens or hundreds of characters are each the protagonist, and everyone is looking for a foothold in the kaleidoscopic network world in their own way. In the gang or group to which they belong, it is the encounter, the conflict, the battle, the thrill of the movie fight. On the ground street outside the opposite, it is relaxed, jumping, and vibrant.
In Narita's world, there is no distinction between good and evil, only love and strength, which may explain why the stories all start in Ikebukuro.
"Originally looking for change, I felt that something would change in the new city, something would happen. Yet what awaits you, however, is only the darkness hidden in the shadows of the city, which at first glance. Feet were trembling, afraid of whether they would be able to settle down in the city. ”
Let's talk about Ikebukuro.
Before DuRaRaRaRa, Ikebukuro was Izuyoshi Ishida's Ikebukuro. Judging from the superficial Ikebukuro that has been touched, it is a place of right and wrong that has never ceased to be disputed. All the street, may be a motorcyclist porter, a shining idol on the signboard, a young girl on the way to school, a dead house huddled together. It could also be Russian killers, Irish goblins, Japanese gangsters, underground doctors, debt collectors and intelligence peddlers.
Playful and uninhibited and seriously carried all the time, there is no black or white only gray area.
Under the steel jungle and the crowds of people, there will always be brightly colored individuals, and stones will break the rules of daily life like stones smashing into the water. Those who break the rules are the real non-everyday of the mundane everyday Ikebukuro.
Ikebukuro has been stuffed into too many legends. This is where the groundless fantasies of secondary two can be realized, and the fanatical fantasies of the dead cooks can be responded to, and this is where the edge of the everyday and the non-everyday is here. Ikebukuro is such a dream machine, and the story that takes place in Ikebukuro always carries a strong dreamy color, perhaps the more extraordinary the place, the more suitable for daydreaming.
"In this city, there are many, many things that I don't know about, and they are changing rapidly, so I am reluctant to leave the city where humans gather." I love people, I love humans, I love them deeply. That's why human beings should love me too. ”
Let's talk about the characters.
It seems that these people are particularly likely to be the protagonists.
Serty Stroulsen, an Irish headless leprechaun who appears to be the heroine, rides a headless horse named Keshoda Bawa, who comes to Japan in search of a head, and is taken into Ikebukuro by her cohabitant Silla, who also transforms into a black locomotive and gallops through the streets of Ikebukuro at night. Pure and kind, morally upright, pink girlish heart, is a likable girl with no head (for cohabitants Silla is also a point worth obsessing).
The three giants of Ryo Gakuen who undertake clue tasks. Emperor Ryunoho, a simple teenager who has just come to Tokyo and likes to surf the Internet, is red in the face in front of the girls he likes, but behind him is the leader of Ikebukuro's largest gang, Dollars, behind the innocent smile is a disguise? As the perfect friend, Masatoshi Kida looks like a pompous standard beautiful teenager, but under the mask of the general who "the sky is dead, the yellow scarf is standing", will it be cowardice and escape? Sandwiched between two young girls, the childlike giant breasts and weak glasses of the original apricot in the garden, the girl who hides the demon sword sin song insists on abiding by it, will the world return to daily life as it wishes?
There is also the soul figure Orihara Rinya and Heiwajima Shizuo.
Origami is also supposed to be a character who is easily disliked. The work of the Enigma Intelligence House, there are two lottery to determine the character to play the twin cute sister. The black curtain behind the black curtain, the black hand that demagogues people and incites contradictions, sows the seeds of misfortune happily every day, and claims to love human beings indiscriminately, all the active characters in Ikebukuro are pawns in their hands, and "use" is the expression of his so-called "love". However, it seems that perversion is more beloved, except for Shizuo Hepingjima, who has been seriously disturbed to the quiet life of peace.
Known as "Ikebukuro's strongest" and "puppeteer", the violent debt collector Shizuo Hirajima, dressed as a blonde bartender, follows today, the owner of the reggae head, Tom Tanaka (although the team later joined the Russian beauty killer With a strange Japanese accent), Valona, can tear down the car door with his bare hands, and when he is angry, he will casually lift the vending machine and smash it out. Although he has met a perverted nemesis, he is still looking forward to peace, eager to be recognized as a human, "Peace Island Shizuo is not a monster." Although Jing Lin and the two have always emphasized their dislike for each other, the cause of all this is also entangled in "human love".
As above, the Tale of the Headless Horseman should only be a novel that patients with advanced secondary and secondary diseases will insist on reading. The streets of Ikebukuro are still flowing at the same high speed as usual, and as the opening paragraph says, "These unusual guys unfold a series of abnormal stories, but they teach people to watch with great pleasure." However, despite the personality distortion - they still talk about love." Even if the monsters accompany you, you will eventually return to the daily routine of the step-by-step.
So there's nothing wrong with a calm ending, don't say goodbye, go all the way.
"Where the king goes, the green mountains are always there"