An interview with Hiroshi Arakawa will be published in the July 2021 issue of the Beida Junior Booklet, which will be released on June 9. Hiroshi Arakawa is the manga author of "Silver Key", "Fullmetal Alchemist" and "Arslan War", and netizens call her "Cow Auntie". Some of these conversations have recently been preemptively exposed, let's take a look. The following text, with the exception of the annotations, is all derived from the Intelligence Division.
Aunt Niu reviewed the giant before the interview, and dreamed that she was wearing a three-dimensional maneuver to drive a tractor, and then complained to herself, "You actually use the three-dimensional maneuver to fly."
Aunt Niu: Does Isayama feel that your own values are reflected in your works?
Isayama: I think it reflects my desire to express myself that "wants to destroy." It is not that "I want to destroy civilization and destroy mankind", but the feeling of "wanting to turn him upside down". Maybe it was influenced by mr. Furutani's works. Especially the plot of the giant's final return and final return clearly reflects my desire to "destroy".
Aunt Niu: It's really powerful that this product of personal expression can be read and accepted by so many people. I think Isayama's manga is very strong, or it has a power to attract people to see. I have visited the Picasso Museum of Fine Arts in France before, and the strong emotion contained in Picasso's paintings shocked me. I felt a similar powerful force in Sensei Isayama's paintings.
ISAYAMA: Thank you. In fact, there is a pair of "Guernica" hanging in my old house, and when I was a child, whenever I saw that painting, I would have an inexplicable sense of fear. Every time I go up the stairs, I think "it's so terrible".... [Laughs]
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Note: "Guernica" is a huge oil painting created by the Spanish Cubist painter Picasso in the 1930s based on real historical events, using realistic symbolism and simple black, white and gray to create a low and sad atmosphere, rendering tragic colors.
Aunt Niu: I will hang Guernica's Mountain in the house..... [Laughs]
Aunt Niu's favorite giant characters are - Han Ji, Thackeray, Female Giant, Che Ju, "If You Die Will Not Die in Vain", and Sasha, a spiritual foodie (the first scene of eating taro is too impressive)
Isayama: When I painted giants, I hoped that Armin would find a way to stop a series of wars, but I didn't succeed. Maybe I should allocate a few more pages to the end.
Aunt Niu: The story of the giants develops to the end, and it is the great war that has trapped countless human beings. It is indeed very difficult to draw the end of this great war. When I painted steel, I also thought a lot about the post-war treatment. For example, Lieutenant Hawkeay in Steel said that Colonel Mastan might be held accountable and punished for the war after the end of the story.
So, in the photo at the end of the sentence, Colonel Mastan is not smiling. cause. Because there is a role in promoting war, there is no way to make everything a complete solution. For Armin and others, the most important work they have to do must have just begun.
ISAYAMA: I always think a lot about the end of the characters, which is their death.
Aunt Niu: I understand. In a sense, we authors are taking advantage of these roles. Some characters die in the work, and every time I think, "At least give them a good way to die, let them die a little meaningful." When I watched giants, I also felt this emotion.
Isayama: Yes, I call the character's death a "funeral." I will allocate as many pages as possible to the scene of the character's death, prepare a good coffin for them, offer flowers, and send him away. Guys. Unfortunately, I couldn't get all the characters to be treated equally.
The above is part of the conversation between the two, and the full version will not be seen until the day when the beiji juvenile マガジン is officially released.
Finally, as a digression, Aunt Niu's short story "Raiden No. 18" has been resurrected, and a single book will be released on June 9.
Raiden 18 was serialized for the first episode in the Elementary School Manga Magazine Sunday-GX in 2005, and the second episode was serialized in the January 2006 issue of the magazine five months later. There was no more news of this short work, and many years later Hiroshi Arakawa announced the resurrection of the work.
Hiroshi Arakawa has a profound influence in the industry with the manga "Fullmetal Alchemist", and the animated version adapted by the Bones Society has become a generation of gods. Isayama's work Attack on Titan was also famous after being adapted into an anime by WIT. However, the anime is also limited to the first 3 seasons, which is a god work, and in the final half of the season, because of the ending of the original manga, fans can't bear to look at this lump. If Hiroshi Arakawa is the eternal god, then Isayama can only be a sauna god.