Due to my recent fascination with the collection of physical comic books, I often browse the online content related to comic book collections, and from time to time I search for cartoonists and comic works that exist in my mind.
Browsing more, with the search memory of the engine and online shopping Aipu will also recommend me related content, guess I like it.
In the process of searching for content related to "Junji Ito", the search engine recommended "Teenage Tsubaki" and Marao Suehiro to me.
I felt as if I had stepped through the door of another world.
<h1>"Teenage Girl Tsubaki" is a traditional Japanese fairy tale adapted</h1>
Teenage Tsubaki is a manga of the same name created by Maruo Suehiro in 1984.
The plot structure is derived from the original paper Zhiju (Paper Zhiju: comic strip drama, foreign film. Born in the early Showa period, it is a drama genre that mainly focuses on children, reading picture books to children while telling stories to children. ）
Originally, it was a popular post-war japanese work about the touching reunion of mother and son after separation.
However, after being adapted and created by Maruo Suehiro, it became a cruel and dark and depressing work of adults.
Xiao Lu, an upright and youthful twelve-year-old girl, originally lived in bustling Tokyo and had a family of three who loved her very much.
However, after her father left and her mother died of illness, Xiao Lu was deceived and exiled to a small house in the countryside full of deformities and freaks (deformity show) in order to seek food and clothing, and became a performer inside.
The hut has one-eyed sword-devouring Hercules, snake women, yin and yang people, people with bandages and lost arms, and all kinds of deformed freaks, these strange people will only mess around in the room at night because of poor business.
Xiao Lu had to undergo inhumane perverted training, and was also bullied and humiliated by others, and it was better to live than to die every day, as if living in hell.
It wasn't until a dwarf magician who knew Western magic came to the Worldly Creature Hut that Little Green's situation improved.
The dwarf magician is good at putting himself into a vase-sized bottle and has wonderful magic, and his arrival makes the Worldly Creatures Hut explode again, and the daily customers are continuous, and everyone respects him.
The dwarf magician fell in love with Xiao lu at first sight, conjured flowers and birds for her in the palm of xiao lu' palm, and loved xiao lu very much.
Feeling the incomparable warmth of Xiao Lu and the dwarf magician together, under his protection, Xiao Lu lived a very comfortable life compared to the past.
But the magician's love for Xiao Lu is very strict, he does not allow other men to touch Xiao Lu too much, nor does he allow Xiao Lu to leave his life, and even uses magic to kill the bandage man after seeing the bandage man and Xiao Lu confess.
Little Green can no longer bear the life of freaks around her and is determined to escape from here.
The magician catches up with Xiao Lu and coaxes her, and the two decide to leave the Worldly Creatures Hut and live somewhere else.
After arriving at the station, the magician is ready to buy some dry food on the road and let Xiao lu wait for him at the station.
After waiting for a long time, the magician did not return, Xiao Lu went to the street to look for it, but found that the magician had been stabbed to death by the thief a few times...
It's an incredibly depressing story of bloodshed, violence, and all sorts of bizarre sexual fetishes.
The animated version of "Teenage Girl Tsubaki" has even been described by many domestic self-media as a hunting anime that has been completely banned or even destroyed by Japan.
Of course, this has an exaggerated element, and although it is true that many readers feel uncomfortable and unhappy with this manga work, all the strange elements are only a means of expression widely used at the end of Maruo.
Although the characters in it are depraved, they also have redemption: the bandaged man who bullied Xiao Lu in the early stage, but confessed his clear intentions to Xiao Lu in the back; the yin and yang people who have been messing around with the male and female costumes and the regiment leader, but when Xiao Lu left, he changed back to the men's clothes and smiled to say goodbye to Xiao Lu; he has been bullied, and after the death of the magician, he picked up the stick and rushed to all fantasies, eager to break all the shackles of Xiao Lu...
What is human nature? In a society where there is no food to feed, how will people live?
Perhaps these pictures are the corners that ordinary people who live in a beautiful world cannot explore.
<h1>Maruo Sumihiro and his heterochromatic aesthetic</h1>
Maruo Suehiro is a Japanese heterogeneous manga writer who is one of the representatives of the aesthetics of violence. Born on January 28, 1956, in addition to painting and illustration, he also belongs to the "Tokyo Great Puppet Theatre" and is active as an actor.
He is the author of "The Rose Monster", "Dream Q-Saku", "DDT", "Girl Spit", "Imaginary Star" and so on.
Most people open any book at the end of the pill, usually frown and feel disgusted, but at the same time can not help but turn down page by page; of course, there are people who usually like "hunting" things or art-related people, will be happy at first sight, their eyes will shine.
Growing up and extremely estranged from his family, Marao, who has done everything like truancy and stealing, is the most distinctive of the various "perverted behaviors" between the characters.
He digs out the most unbearable and lowest side of humanity nakedly, attacking the reader in an extremely exaggerated and sharp way.
Most people cannot accept such themes and content, because they are too far away from the generally cute and inspiring world, so his works can never become the mainstream of the platform that is encouraged.
But there are also many people who think that Maruo sharply tore through the false face of Japanese culture, the corruption and depravity of the bottom of society, and the cruelty and animalism of human beings, and he drew all this as if he had peeled off the inside of his body with his own hands.
In the eyes of many, Maruo Suehiro is a pervert, although the British Museum has included his works in its collections.
His experiences, his words and deeds, and his works all express his unusual thoughts, and it is said that Maruo Suehiro once tasted his own excrement himself and actively encouraged readers to try it out.
Maruo's paintings are very skillful and clean, and although they are full of flesh and blood and filth, they can still be expressed with extreme restraint and clean sharp lines. In addition, he has a retro habit and likes to manage the picture in the retro atmosphere of the old Japanese pictorial, with magnificence and refinement. The contrast between chiaroscuro is strong, and the overall picture is full of tension and Japanese flavor.
In general, whether you like it or dislike it, it is definitely unforgettable at first sight.