"Cherry Pills" author Miura Miki died, we may be more familiar with its pen name "Cherry", but also because of this pen name, miura Miki created the warm for us for more than thirty years "Cherry Pills", netizens sighed: I hope that heaven has no pain, she can continue to paint.
Few people do not know the anime "Cherry Pills", this warm anime has created one cute anime image after another, which is the childhood memory of many people. According to Japanese media reports, Cherry Zi, a famous Japanese cartoonist and author of "Cherry Pills", died at the age of 53 at 20:29 on August 15 this year due to breast cancer.
"Cherry" is the pen name of manga artist Miura Yoshiki. She was born in Shimizu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, to run a fruit and vegetable shop, a place with convenient transportation, abundant fishing products, and adjacent to Mt. Fuji. In 1986, Cherry began publishing the manga "Cherry Maruko" in the shonen manga magazine Ribon, based on her childhood life. The story revolves around Xiao Maruzi and her family and classmates, and there are about family affection, friendship or some small things in life, including laughter and tears, reminiscent of the childishness of childhood. In the anime, the small pill with a mushroom head and a red strappy skirt is almost a "shadow" of the manga artist himself. She gives the protagonist the same name, date of birth, blood type, constellation, etc. Characters in comics can also find prototypes in reality.
Cherry Maruko is known in Japan as "Sunshine Manga" and "Longevity Manga". The healthy and humorous content and style have made it a well-deserved national comic strip for men, women and children. Coinciding with the booming Japanese animation industry, in 1990, Fuji TELEVISION aired an animated version of Cherry Maruko, which soon became the highest-rated anime in Japanese history on record, and has long been among the top three japanese anime ratings. "Cherry Pills" does not have a particularly ups and downs of the plot, and the painting style is also very simple, but this unpolished beauty, permeated with nostalgia for the daily life of ordinary people in Japan in the 70s, makes men and women and children involuntarily immersed in it.
The manga Cherry Pills ended on December 31, 2011, but the anime version is still in serial production, surpassing 1,000 episodes by 2013. The broadcast of the animated version allowed Xiao Maruzi to go out of Japan and land in Asian countries such as China, South Korea, and Thailand, and set off a boom in ratings and peripheral product collections, becoming an anime character that children and even adults are particularly sought after.
In the hearts of many viewers, "Cherry Pills" is not only an anime work, but also carries the memories of childhood in their hearts. The Xiao Maruzi family is the true epitome of Japanese society at that time, not rich but harmonious and happy, the work uses white painting techniques to depict daily life, and many details are similar to China's daily family life, which is easy to resonate. As an ordinary little girl, many viewers will find their own shadow in her.
Unlike most popular Japanese anime in China, "Cherry Pills" does not have novel fantasies or bloody fights, but moves people's hearts with daily trivialities and ordinary lives, and conveys innocent beauty to the audience. Although it is an anime work, in terms of topic selection and narrative skills, "Cherry Pills" can be called careful and exquisite, and the characters of the Small Pills family, Xiaoyu, and Hanaku are plump and vivid, making people feel as if they are family and friends living around them, which is largely due to the author's own real experience to shape the character story.
After becoming famous, Cherry Rarely participated in interviews and left little video material, but she generously told many stories about her childhood, such as "Peach Notes", which talked about the archetypes of many characters in the manga. However, there are also characters that come from the author's ideals. For example, Grandpa Yuzo in the manga is a humorous and funny old man, and the grandfather's grandson love between Xiao Maruzi and Grandpa has always been one of the most classic bridges in this series of works. In fact, yuzo's prototype is indeed Cherry's grandfather, but he is actually a cold, grumpy person. In Peach Notes 1: Canned Peaches, Cherry once wrote: "Grandpa was a rather annoying old man, cunning, evil-eyed and lazy, abusing his daughter-in-law. My mother, my sister, and I both suffered a lot from him. In her works, she creates the image of the "ideal grandfather" Yuzang to make up for the warmth that she did not feel in childhood, and this classic image also warms the childhood of many viewers.
On the 30th anniversary of her debut, Cherry Left Behind: "In these 30 years, there have been many good things and hard things, but everyone has made me have a very happy time as a writer." Thanks alone are not enough to describe my feelings. "Cherry Pills, as one of the most well-known and influential anime works in the world, has grown up with a generation.