Author: Shaker/Anitama Cover Source: "Lucky Star Kid"
<h4>Use timing, rhythm, and action to create laughter, and there is no era of playing with stems and too many words</h4>
As the main characters appear, Takahashi's hilarious techniques become more and more stable, and the black history of various characters and the origin of personality settings are gradually revealed. It is generally considered that "Fukusei Kid" is one of the highest masterpieces in funny manga, but due to the long distance between the ages, the funny techniques in Japanese manga have gradually stabilized from the original spiritual creation to a variety of fixed routines, and the laughter perceived by readers in the Showa period is likely to numb the people of the Heisei era. For the simplest example, smashing people with an oversized hammer (although it is difficult to verify which comic was the first to use), can you laugh now? Not only will you not laugh, but if you appear in recent works, you will even feel extremely depressed.
Funny comics and variety shows in the funny method has a certain commonality, that is, one party is responsible for guiding or throwing the stem, the other party reacts or complains, the emphasis is that the two parties are just right in the content and timing, and the timing is slow or premature. Compared with animation, due to the reader's reading speed is fast and slow, it is more difficult to control the perception time, coupled with the lack of BGM for atmosphere guidance, only by reducing or increasing the action nodes between the frames, to create a sense of the duration of the interaction rhythm between the guide and the reaction party.
Rumiko Takahashi is first of all good at triggering funny effects through the body language of the characters, this skill is gradually abandoned by the current manga with the evolution of the times, so nowadays the language style funny is far more common than the body style funny, spit service has become a non-existent existence, in the manga performance as a large number of words in the language box pile, in the animation due to the limitation of the length is to test the voice actor's continuous improvement of the speed of speech. What's more, that era was an era of making terriers, unlike the dead houses who can understand so many terriers now, they will smile, reflecting more of a funny hard skill of observing life.
As one of the methods of physical comedy, in fact, whether in "Lucky Star Kid" or "Random Horse 1/2", the probability of using the hammer is extremely low, more instead of other items at hand such as tables, or direct foot stepping, and the other more used method is to shoot people into the air. The physical directions of the two techniques are reversed, and smashing with a hammer or table represents stopping or suppressing the current speech or behavior of the other party, such as the sudden appearance of the deranged monk to brush the face at an inopportune time, which will trigger such a reaction technique. After entering the 1980s and 1990s, hammer smashing was overused as a rigid funny fix, the most typical example of which is the ton of a variable ton of super-large hammer that Makimura Kaoru pulls out of the four-dimensional chrysanthemum all the time in "City Hunter", and the improper use or excessive use of the hammer can cause embarrassment.
In the Showa manga, the ubiquitous sledgehammer smashes people and blows them into the sky
The composition of the person flying usually places the two sides at both ends of the diagonal line of the frame, according to the emotional state and motivation of the reaction party, divided into jokes, impatience, do not want to see again and other situations, the range of the characters is also different, in order to express the fear of causing trouble and completely throw the guide party away, it will use extreme elements such as passing through the window and turning into stars. And along with these two behaviors, the most important body language detail of Takahashi's personal characteristics, which is also rarely imitated by later generations, is the gesture of "love" with both hands outstretched at the same time only thumbs, index fingers, and little thumbs, which is unclear in the "Fuxing Kid", and has become ubiquitous in "Crazy Horse 1/2", especially in the flying scene.
When smashed or knocked out, the reaction party often uses a gesture of unclear meaning "love"
Secondly, Takahashi sense of fun is good at triggering a sense of humor through the rhythm between the frames, the most typical example is that the previous frame guides the party is still talking, and the next box has been pressed under the hammer or table, indicating that the reaction party has done it, and the behaviors such as surprise, anger, and picking up props in the middle do not need to be superfluous, and even these two nodes can be expressed in a frame to express the speed of the reaction. In the figure below, there are some typical laugh points that create a strong contrast between the front and back positions by omitting the process frame, and also include the elements of smashing people and shooting. It can be found that In this kind of scene, Takahashi sensei rarely uses the speed line to enhance the sense of dynamics, and it can often be found that the dynamic stagnation of the reaction party's actions is stronger, and in order to forcibly create a funny atmosphere in the general funny comics, the behavior of the reaction party is more excited and the effect line is rich, but unfortunately, this technique is difficult to properly show in the animated version of "Fuxing Boy", so the glasses brother who is the early representative of the spit campaign fills the embarrassing atmosphere without the funny essence of the comic version.
The reaction scenes completed within two frames are reduced to not only have a sense of contrast and laughter, but also save the amount of painting
Sometimes it is also used to deliberately slow down the reaction rhythm by increasing the number of squares to create laughter, to create a situation where the reaction party is caught in a long cold field of mystery due to doubt. For example, in the first episode of Volume 16, "Autumn ... そしてまつたけ!! (Late autumn...) Matsutake Feast" in the deranged monk who likes to bring some unknown ingredients to make hot pot brought his so-called matsutake to the classroom for everyone to eat, the author through this sentence for the first time to experience the Japanese people's regard for matsutake and fungus food as a treasure, everyone recalled that when they were children, they could only eat a small piece or even just watch others eat matsutake, and this batch of de facto poisonous mushrooms unexpectedly triggered everyone's desire to perform. Here the deranged monk did not suddenly appear as usual and cause the crowd to beat him, but only suggested that the crowd focused on the matsutake basket in his hand, in order to express that his eyes could not be removed because the presence of his big face was too high, and after three blocks, Adam made a spitting reaction.
The face of the deranged monk who attracts too much attention and the slow advance of the camera
The combination of intentional acceleration or slowdown can form a contrast between the rhythm of the guide and the reaction, such as the very famous hot tub in the Japanese variety show, the guide spends a lot of time tangling and pleading with others not to push themselves into the hot water, and the reaction party breaks the lengthy rhythm and suddenly pushes the guide party down the hot water, and the artist's position that enters the hot water switches to the reaction party, and needs to immediately make "good hot!" The reaction (even if the water is not really hot) forms a fast reaction rhythm before and after. In the picture below, after the action of peeking at Ryunosuke's date was revealed, Adam stole the drink before making a speech, using three squares to show his concentration and composure about the mystery of drinking the drink, and before he could finish speaking, he immediately showed the rapid behavior of the three responders Ram, Anin, and Ryunosuke at the same time in one block, and the dramatic sense of conflict between the front and the back jumped on the paper.
The rhythm of Adam's calm drink after being knocked away
For example, in the picture below, Adam wants to pretend to walk away with his back to Ryunosuke, and also wants Ryunosuke to teach him how to become feminine, through completely unchanged cameras and close-up character postures, just the changes in The distance of Adam in the long-range, to hint at the antics and tangled psychological changes that Adam walks back after walking away.
I hope that Ryunosuke will take the initiative to ask for his Adam's tangled behavior
Another subtle technique that accompanies the contrasting conflict from slow to fast is that the characters' movements and expressions change slightly, the camera angle is almost the same, and only through the change of the effect line, the emotional progression of the characters is expressed, and then the reaction behavior is quickly cut into to create contrasts. For example, in the picture below, the noodle hall with its back to the camera can not see any change in expression at all, but through the effect line, the mood of the noodle hall touched by Adam is reflected from calm → small surprise (this kind of effect line is usually used in the scene where the tense or silent atmosphere is broken when a new person or thing suddenly appears) → feel disgusting (at the same time, there is a slight upturn in the ends of the hair).
A technique that relies on changes in the effect line to create subtle atmosphere changes
Also in the matsutake eating incident, the picture below is concentrated on a full page to carry out the combo of the above techniques. First of all, through the stiffness of the expressions and movements of the onlookers, and the transformation of the effect line from a joyful and lively atmosphere to a silent and solemn atmosphere waiting for Ryunosuke to continue to take off, the contrast between the two shows the boys' desire to watch a good play but dare not break the current rhythm. Fujiwa's father, who suddenly inserted a face attack, used a stomp to suppress the guide Ryunosuke as the reaction party, and the boys, as another reaction party, quickly smashed Fujibo's father with a hammer. The change of reaction rhythm is slow, fast, and faster, forming a set of hilarious continuous reaction technology small units.
A continuous hilarious reaction technique between Ryunosuke, Fujibo's father, and the boys
<h4>Ryunosuke, a bitter child who is born from a small pit to a big one</h4>
Let's go back to the plot, since Ryunosuke appeared, even Princess Crama, who has not appeared for a long time, is in the ninth episode of volume 15 ,"Hana son-in-law, それは女!! (The groom is a woman)" came to grab a kiss, the good man Ryunosuke who was hard to see was actually a woman, and the unwilling Princess Karama ended up using a sexual conversion gun to mistakenly turn Adam into a woman. Adam, who had only grown a chest and had no other changes at all, was so disgusted that eventually Adam was snatched away from the sex gun and wanted to use it on Ryunosuke's father and shot back into the male body.
In different episodes, from time to time, some of Ryunosuke's childhood experience of being deceived by his father can't help but make people sympathize with the miserable growth process of this simple girl who has never seen the world. When he was a child, Ryunosuke once met his father who stole matsutake mushrooms, but was deceived by his father that this was a terrible mushroom, and the so-called defeat of the mushroom was to eat the matsutake by himself, so that now when facing the delicious matsutake mushroom, he found that he had been deceived by his father for more than ten years. 在卷16第六話《クリスマスツリーわいわいパーティー!! (Feast of the Christmas Tree)", Ryunosuke recalls that when he spent Christmas in his childhood, his father stole the cake and said that he did not know what the cake was, which was quite unfortunate.
Ryunosuke grew up with painful memories of his father's pit
<h4>The firefighter's mother's child is an arsonist, how can this be! </h4>
In volume 16, the third episode of "Mother and Child Break the Fire Matter" =その1=(Mother and child extinguish fire passing by!) One"), with the sudden arrival of Xiaotian's mother, who is a cosmic firefighter, the deep-seated reason why Xiaotian is far away from home is revealed. But in fact, Xiaotian's mother is not aware of Xiaotian's habit of randomly spewing fire, because since she was a child, her mother likes to tell Xiaotian at the pillow how she used burning to deal with the caught arson demon, so Xiaotian has always had a deep fear, afraid that one day her behavior will be exposed and she will not be able to become her mother's obedient child. But in fact, the bands of the mother and son's thinking circuit are not on the same side, Xiaotian's mother is a workaholic who is excited when she sees the fire, and always hopes that there is a "more decent fire" that can make her do a big job. But in the end, this barrier was not broken with the end of a fire farce in which Adam was involved.
Xiaotian fears the origin of the psychological shadow of the mother
Although there is not much drama between xiaotian mother and son, this kind of plot caused by an unsolved misunderstanding caused by the long-term situation between mother and son, which has also been inherited in "Chaotic Horse 1/2", in order not to let the mother of the chaotic horse know the physique of changing men to women, and is forced to switch the identity of the chaotic horse and the chaotic son to deceive the mother. In addition, Xiang Liangya concealed to Xiao Qian that she was a little P pig, and the persistence of the nine-energy knife to the braided girl who was really an enemy and a chaotic horse, and the long-term entanglement between these different CPs was the same. The tug-of-war between the characters in order to cover up the lies is also a magic weapon used by Takahashi Sensei to drag the plot.
(To be continued)
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