Recently, the live-action series of "Ranger Sword Heart", which is known as the "most successful Japanese manga", the last "Final Chapter • Human Curse" was finally released, but it can already be searched on the Internet. I also searched to see, although the Douban score is all 8.0+, but I still feel that it is not satisfactory. In comparison, I prefer the comic version of The Ranger Sword Heart.
If I were to rank my favorite Japanese manga, this one would be in the top three in my mind — after "Robot Cat", but ahead of Gintama and Inuyasha. The manga begins with the Meiji Decade in Japan. The success of the Meiji Restoration brought social prosperity, and a small red-haired ronin with a cross scar on his face, dressed in a kimono and wearing a samurai sword whose appearance was blatantly contrary to the "ban on swords", stepped into this era of chaos. When the patrol stopped him, he called himself Ronin, named Ayamura Kenshin, and pulled out the saber with a smile, but it was a "reverse blade knife".
Thus, in this new era of samurai and swords, he meets new companions and begins a new story, continuing the unfinished battle in the last years with a reverse-edged knife that never kills. It turned out that this ronin swordsman, who had been a revivalist in the late shogunate era, engaged in assassination activities with a sharp blade in his hand and the exquisite and invincible swordplay of the "Flying Heaven Royal Sword Stream", and set off an endless bloody rain everywhere he went, which was fearfully called "the executioner drawing the sword". In the last battle, the Restoration Party won the final victory, and on the battlefield full of corpses, the smoke had not yet dissipated, but the overall situation had been settled; as the victorious side, Ayamura Kenshin stared at the fading smoke in the sky, knowing that his time had passed away, so he threw down the blood-stained knife in his hand and quietly left. Since then, there is no "executioner drawing a sword" in the human world, and the only one who walks in the world is the "wandering sword heart".
Although the restoration society ushered in a new life, it also bred many evils; in addition, there were remnants of the villains at the end of the curtain who did not disperse, waiting for revenge to destroy the new era. There are two small and three key villains in the book: "One side of the heart" Pelican Blade Guard, "Purgatory Shura" Shishio, and "Ren Jie" Yukidai yuan. All three have the same characteristics – people abandoned by the new era. Among them, Ubido Blade Guard and Shishio are the same kind as Kenshin, and are the executioners of assassinations in the Late Restoration Party. Xue Daiyuan is the brother-in-law of Jianxin, and because he witnessed Jianxin's mistaken killing of his sister, his hatred for Jianxin is unforgettable. During the assassination at the end of the curtain, the Pelican Blade Guard's psychology was twisted into a complete executioner who took pleasure in killing people. Zhi Zhixiong, who looks like a mummy of a corpse, is also a demon created by the Restoration Faction - except for the master of the sword heart who does not care about idle things, this brother can be called the highest force value in the whole book. Yukiyoshi is the after-effect of the sins created by Kenshin in the late Shogun era. And the sword heart also has a biggest enemy that can't be seen, the executioner soul lurking in the deepest part of his heart. At the beginning, the young sword heart, with good wishes, waved the sharp knife in his hand and was determined to create a new era. When the new era was established, he found that the new era still had darkness, meanness, corruption, and cowardice; and he became an executioner with blood on his hands, which made him fearful and spurned. He did not sink in the new era like those villains, but instead took the reverse blade knife, made a vow of "no killing", and swung the sword to defend the good people living in the new era. The sword heart's killer skill, "Tianxiang Dragon Flash", is described as a sword drawing technique that "wields the sword with a strong will to survive". Sword Heart Master Bigu Kiyoshiro said to the disciple, "The strongest desire for business comes from the people you care about the most and need your protection. And told the sword heart: "Self-abandonment will eventually sink, and only by drawing the sword with a firm desire to seek business can you cut off the soul of the executioner in your heart." ”
At the end of the book, Ayamura Kenshin completely puts down the sword in his hand and lives happily in the new era (the anime version is not considered here). We often say that we should be "shameless and regretless", but how many people in the world can really be "shameless and regretless"? What if one day we look back and find that we have lived like we hated? Perhaps, you can refer to the answer in the "Langke Sword Heart" comic - no matter what the times are, we should be determined to survive; for ourselves, but also for all the people in the world who care about me, live well. There is also a little bit of meaning in the book, all the villains are actually caused by the restorationists. This can also be seen that the Japanese people's thinking is quite awkward: the Meiji Restoration brought Japan into modern society, but it also buried the tradition that Little Japan has always been proud of- "the glory of the samurai and the sword". To this day they are still very entangled in this, and many things they are not very good at selling. The five parts of the live-action version of the "Langke Sword Heart" series cannot be tried in the mainland, mainly because of the background of the story era, when Little Japan was committing crimes abroad, and the Chinese people hated it to the bone. But here we will only discuss the book, and nothing else will be involved. There are also many supporting characters in the book, such as Sasuke, Saito Kazu, Kaoru Kamiya, Akihiko Yajin, etc., all depicting flesh and blood. In the movie, it becomes a tool with a thin image, but this film adaptation needs and should not be demanding. Many people grew up watching comics, but compared to various high-grade books, there are very few reviews for comics.
The author, the narrator, whether it is in comics or in words, is a tool used by the author to convey information, and the two end in the same way. For comics, we have obviously loved, been touched, and inspired; comics have become part of the memory at that stage of life. Why did we grow up ignoring comics? As a former fan of comics, I personally think this is unfair. Although "Ranger Sword Heart" is a manga, its achievements are not inferior to the famous "Dusk Kiyoshi Guard" and "The Legend of Yoshishi Nobuyuki". "Ranger Sword Heart", personally, I think it is a good book worth recommending.