The current era is the era of traffic, but the discussion of the traffic and the corresponding high salary of the star with the opposite appearance has been almost rotten, but I still have to mention one more sentence, because Li Yifeng's "Animal World" is still very obvious to fukumoto Shinji manga.
But today I'm not going to talk about the "Gambling Record" series of Fukumoto's original adaptation of "Animal World", of course, this series is very worth watching, because this version is not like his mahjong series, which will turn away readers who do not know how to play mahjong, and describe more of the psychology of wits and gamblers. Instead, I would like to comment on the work that The Great God Fukumoto touched my soul the most- "The Strongest Legend Kurosawa"
In addition, fukumoto's manga Survival LIF ranked second in my mind, and it was Painted by Kaiji Kawaguchi. Yes, when I was describing, I watched the market break a new low, which felt really sour, so I shouted wonderful about the plot mentioned in "Survival" to show that I am still alive by recording the big market.
Why does Kurosawa resonate with me so much?
So why does Kurosawa resonate with me so much? The story it tells is basically about a small foreman on the construction site, Kurosawa, who has reached middle age and has not started a family, in fact, he has not even touched a woman, nor has he established a career, in addition, he has not established his own prestige on the construction site, and the new young foreman has completely exploded from all aspects of his appearance and wife and personality.
Uncle Kurosawa is really real, although I often feel why this person is still a little immature in the later pages, but in critical moments and critical times can always become a handle, a very complex character, so it also makes me feel very real, a long time has not experienced the portrayal of such a real character, Fukumoto sense of the real industry benchmark.
Of course, Lord Fukumoto's painting style itself is more different, for the current society that only looks at the face is indeed a loss, and at the beginning of the story, he suddenly realized this in the exciting game of watching the World Cup at the home of Japan, and instantly separated from the warm fan atmosphere on the scene, feeling that there was no room.
What if the national team wins? There will be no turning point in my failed life. This contrast is so shocking, deeply touching the heart of my Mary Sue middle-aged aunt, as if when I was mesmerized to watch "Fragrant Honey Sinks Like Frost", calling Xu Feng her husband and buying him a pillow of the same size, I suddenly calmed down, I will not become the heroine, my real life is only a middle-aged dry woman and career crisis.
Kurosawa is not a work that focuses on individual characters, but many characters have their own group portrait dramas. Fukumoto's works of this type of human relationship are the most numerous, and I think he is better at describing this genre. In fact, not everyone can produce enough growth to transform themselves, and not every work uses this transformation of the character as a selling point.
For example, nobita in "Doraemon", the giant baby who has been like a day for decades is indeed growing, but it is still waste wood, that is his role characteristics. It can be said that those stereotyped characters are routines, but isn't Kurosawa the same? Moreover, Kurosawa is not the protagonist of "traditional juvenile manga". Think about it, who is he? He's a middle-aged uncle! Kaiji, for example, like Kurosawa, is an unemployed vagrant who is unsuitable to society.
But even so, he is still a little stronger than Kurosawa: he is better than his youth, he has ideas and action, and there is still a lot of room for plasticity. But Kurosawa... He has completed most of his growth in terms of age, and his social status and relationships are almost fixed. Regardless of his own relatively timid and social fears, from the perspective of the mentality of middle-aged people, it is difficult for him to make new attempts. I have been chasing Kurosawa's updates privately, although domestic Sinicization has been falling for a long time. Saying that Kurosawa's emotional intelligence has not grown at all is very correct, and he will still suffer losses because of saying the wrong thing in the future, or he will make a lot of misunderstanding stupidity. But he did grow and continue to grow.
This strong sense of substitution can deeply attract you to look at it at the beginning, will it be my wishful thinking?, thanks to the pure fire of Fukumoto's inner portrayal of the characters, which can be clearly felt from his screenwriting of "Survival" and "Confessions", and this ability also depicts the gambler's inner greed and anger in his gambling comics so three-dimensional, adding a lot of points to the gambling comics. But it is not enough to portray the characters in place, and Fukumoto's other major killer is the unexpected plot, which is not conventional! Of course, as he grows older, the plot procrastination of his recent works is indeed regrettable, and the depiction and plot development of the inner too detail do not rely on clever tricks, but rely on blunt small probability events to promote.
How deep and surprising is the plot?
If according to the development of traditional Japanese blood, Kurosawa is bound to not give up his belief when he is trampled on at the low point of life, such as flaunting "living his own dignity", to put it bluntly, it is to get rid of the pain of lonely middle age, get friends and lovers, with the help of his unremitting efforts, exert the power of his fist, and finally go all the way to the peak of life to complete the counterattack.
Such orthodox development can indeed be very "burning", but "burning" to the extreme is mourning! Well, I admit that I have passed the age of juvenile manga, and I remember seeing an article that touched me deeply, and everyone knows that Japanese healing likes to say to people "just get it (come on)", and a terminally ill patient can't help but cry out "Don't say come to me anymore!" ", behind this refueling is endless pressure, are we not working hard enough? However, there are always some obstacles in life, and it is not constantly saying to yourself that you can be completely cured by cheering up.
However, there are always some obstacles in life that can not be crossed by constantly saying to yourself that you can cheer up, and encouraging others to cheer up at this time is more like an accusation: "Why haven't you worked harder to let us see the miracle of people's victory over heaven?"
If Kurosawa's story follows the traditional bloody routine, the reader who has a common complaint about Kurosawa will be more inferior and blame himself, "Why can't I try to become Kurosawa's second, of course not!" Because this kind of hard work is not the performance of Kurosawa-style characters, how can this kind of consciousness fall into such a crisis in middle age, so Kurosawa's Jedi rebound is by no means from the explosion of positive energy brought by a certain opportunity, and the acceleration of life that is stimulated, which can only come from the successive blows of life, constantly bending his waist, pressing his head down straight down to the soil, endless failure and his own survival bottom line as a person, once retreating and cowardice because there is still room for getting by, But it is tantamount to the situation of death, so that the heart instead realized the great wisdom of "everything is empty, let go of themselves", and gambled on life to win the opportunity, because after all, there are long things, the strength of the fist and the understanding of fighting, the previous lowly life is only because of the retreat and dare not face the situation of resistance and repeated setbacks.
Therefore, Fukumoto's pen is a gentle little person, sensitive and delicate and a little silly, the protagonist of the gambling series Kaiji is another typical, such a gambling genius has never lived a bright and beautiful life, every time because of his own small citizen's scruples and values and sloppy, he has to be forced to the line of life and death to show his genius gambling power.
Of course, the compassion brought by the soft heart for the friends who are also at the bottom of the society is also a necessary condition for escaping from death again and again, and I like this idea of interpreting cowardice as gentleness and withdrawal as non-violent, because I have always thought of myself as the female version of Kurosawa, even if the Jedi rebound will not transfer the ravages and oppression that I have endured to others to obtain my own inner satisfaction and expansion, and because of this, I have an aversion to the development of "Please Call Me a Hero" and abandon reading, as if I have gone too far.
summary:
If you and I are like me to middle age and still achieve nothing (don't lie to yourself), occasionally feel that life is extremely hard to the point of depression, let's read Fukumoto's "The Strongest Legend Kurosawa" After all, those burning comics have not helped us, there is no calm about the years in a teenager, I dare not believe that persistence can be exchanged for tomorrow, because there is no time, no health, no money. However, however, we still have our own belief in justice and the belief in life that we are still unwilling to change, people who will be depressed are people who do not give up on themselves, this time, let us try not to work so hard, tired of running to let ourselves fall deeper and deeper in the quagmire of life and can not see the road ahead or even go to the end of the road, back to their original intentions to think about where their advantages are, how to change the direction of downward progress?
"Growth" is important, but everyone also has the characteristics that will not change no matter what happens, otherwise where is the core of that person? Change and invariance are equally important. Anyway, life is already at the bottom, it can't be worse, can it? Although of course I can't give you chicken soup and say that everything is still too late, don't be self-safe, and you can't be lucky, but anxiety or not, the river of life will continue to move forward, and each moment is the youngest time in your life.
Author: Qingqing writes anime, a student who loves anime