Cover of the first volume of Music and The Road
"Naoki Urasawa's Mantomu
Naoki Urasawa's Manga began in 2015 and has been updated to its third season. The lead figure is 56-year-old famous manga artist Naoki Urasawa. In this show, each episode will record a cartoonist's studio, close to his or her creation, capturing the moment when the comic is born. Urasawa will watch the finished shooting with the parties in the form of dialogue, and have a conversation to discover the creative secrets behind each manga artist. ”
After watching "Man Mian" intensively on the day off, the manga artist invited in the third episode of the first season of the show was the younger generation of Asano Ichi20. After watching the whole process of Asano Ichi20's creation of manga, I couldn't help but be more interested in him, so I would like to recommend his earlier work "Music and Road".
The Japanese title "ソラニン" (Solanin) means dragon sunflower, a toxin that sprouts potatoes. The content of the manga is actually not very dark, the story takes place in a young couple who have just graduated from college for 2 years, Inoue Nagisa and Nario Taneda.
Born in a small place, Inoue became an OL in Tokyo when she went out of college to become a socialite. Even if it is hoped, the tedious work of 2 years of clerkship has made Bud Yizi more and more unable to see the future. After graduation, Naya's boyfriend Taneda has also insisted on regular band activities in the rehearsal room with several friends in college, and he has no formal job and only works part-time in a design firm, and he is spat at by friends that he is a small white face raised by Bud Yizi, but the two are actually encouraging and supporting each other in a quarrel. Bud, who has a fleeing attitude, resigns under the half-joking encouragement of Taneda, and Taneda, who thinks that he has no musical talent, also decides to resign from the full-time band career under the encouragement of Bud Yizi.
After sending demos to various record labels, Taneda was invited to be an accompanist for an idol female artist, and unexpectedly met a former idol who has now turned to commercial music. Tanada, who decided to make his own music, eventually declined the invitation and has not received any news from the record label since. The depressed Taneda felt that he was a mediocre person, and disappeared after proposing to Natako to break up. After experiencing the period of self-exile after disappearing, Farming can finally say things like "I believe that for the sake of dreams, no matter how difficult it is, I should stand up and face it", and just when I was about to go back, a traffic accident made him never go back.
The manga is only two short volumes, Chinese translated name can be summarized, the first volume is the above-mentioned "music" about farming has not had time to be heard, and the second volume is the "road" found by Bud Yizi. Tanada's father said to Budiko, "Please don't forget him and prove that the guy once existed." The way Nha Ichiko chose was to pick up the guitar of the farming, find the members of the farming band and join them, learn to rehearse every day from the beginning, and let her sing songs that Taneda had not been heard before she died.
Although everyone's environment can't be exactly the same as in the comics, "Music and Road" allows young people to find more or less the days they are experiencing or experiencing. Whether to stay in Tokyo to work on her own or to be more comfortable at home, Nagisa chose Tokyo, and the drummer of the Taneda Band went home to inherit the family's pharmacy. Ideals are shattered by reality, and Taneda chooses to refuse to be someone else's background music, but his idol says that what he wants to protect has changed from his own self-esteem to something heavier. Wanting to dilute the full influence of people who have lived together for many years, whether the separation is temporary and eternal in the face of this kind of separation, most people will do something ritualistic like a bud dress to announce to themselves that it is time to start a new life... Probably this is what, to borrow a slogan, makes "Music and Road" a "work that transcends gender and age, and really brings resonance and touching.".
One of the reasons Why Asano's manga is so comfortable is probably that the images in his works are almost all not very beautiful. Realistic comics like "Music and Road" want to resonate with readers, and if the characters are too beautiful, it is a bit difficult to substitute. Therefore, the live-action version of the movie let Aoi Miyazaki and Kengo Takara look so good to play Nhae and Taneda, although the movie itself is not bad, but according to personal opinion, it is not convincing than the manga.
Asano 120 workbench
Born in 1980, Asano debuted as a manga artist at the age of 18, and the real people he saw in "Manga" were still completely juvenile faces. The most important part of the show is to reveal the creative process of Asano Ichi20, and also to solve a mystery that readers may not realize when reading the manga - the background in Asano's work. Everyone who has seen Asano's 120 manga has been amazed by the extremely detailed background of his works, each frame is so detailed that it can be called a pervert, how long does it take to draw to the point of reaching? The answer is that these backgrounds are not all painted, but the unique way of creating Asano Ichi20, which uses photography + computer processing + hand-drawn to supplement details. Before working on the desk, first of all, take a large number of photos from various materials, and then use the computer to process the required photos into black and white, and then add many details after printing them so that they will not be seen as photos at a glance.
Is there a lot of digital technology or comics? I believe that after watching asano Ichi20 this episode, everyone will give a positive answer, whether it is pure hand-drawn or with the help of new tools, it is a creative method, and there is no so-called advantage or disadvantage. In short, it is meaningless to say here, and it is not as profound as the shock I feel when watching the show.
Hand-drawn to complement background details
But in any case, reading comics has a natural disadvantage is indeed not easy to make up for, can meet the visual needs but also hope to have auditory stimulation is not enough. "ソラニン" is a song written by Taneda for Bud Yizi that did not have time to sing, and the manga only appears in the form of lyrics, and this song is also used as the theme song of the live-action version of the movie, sung in reality by the Japanese band ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, which can be used as a bgm with manga.
Finally, if you are interested, you may wish to search for the MV of "ソラニン", the lead singer Goto Masanobu is more like a farming field.
Solanin - ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION