This article is from WeChat official account:Animation Academic Party (ID: babblers), author: waiting for fish, edit: if the wind, the original title: “the continuation of 20 years of party struggles, now the” second generation dogs “are all back! “, title picture from: “Half-Monster Yasha Ji” poster
The story of the second generation of dogs is about to unfold!
The famous Japanese cartoonist Rumiko Takahashi’s masterpieceThe sequel to “Inuyasha”-“Half-Demon Yasha Ji” will be broadcast on October 3rd.
The story stage of “Inuyasha” is set in the Sengoku period of Japan. It tells the story of the “half-demon” Inuyasha, born by the combination of human and demon, and the heroine Higurashi Kagome who has traveled from the modern age together on an adventure.
In the original work, the story of Inuyasha and his friends has been told, and this time the sequel pushes the time back by a generation on the basis of the original work, and instead tells the daughter of Inuyasha and Sesumaru brothers Our stories are highly anticipated.
For many readers and viewers, “Inuyasha” is an important work to accompany their growth. It may also lead me to learn about fan creation, Japanese monster culture, and even the entire Japanese animation and manga. It has a very special emotional status.
While sorting out the highlights of the sequel for everyone, we might as well walk into the bizarre and bizarre writings of Rumiko TakahashiIn the Sengoku period of Japan, we look back on the touch of Inuyasha many years ago.
(The following content involves a lot of spoilers, please read carefully)
1. The struggle between Rumiko Takahashi and “Weekly Shonen Sunday”
When you mention “Inuyasha”, you must think of its author Rumiko Takahashi.
As one of the best-selling manga artists in all Japanese manga in the second half of the 20th century, “Weekly Shonen Sunday” has been recognized as the three major pillars in the past 30 years.(The other two are naturally Adachi and Aoyama Gosho), Rumiko Takahashi’s creative process is almost the same as the development process of Weekly Shonen Sunday.
Rumiko Takahashi and her self-portrait in her youth have a nonchalant sense of alienation
1. WeeklyThe Startup of Junior Sunday
March 17, 1959, “Weekly Shonen Sunday” (hereinafter referred to as “Sunday”) and Weekly Shonen Magazine” (hereinafter referred to as “Magazine”) was launched on the same day.
Before this, Japan did not have a dedicated manga weekly. Both magazines wanted to win the prize, and they were launched on the same day and tied for first place.
Until 1968, before the publication of Weekly Shonen Jump(hereinafter referred to as “Jump”), “Sunday” And “Magazine” has always maintained a rivalry in the field of juvenile comics.
The first issue of “Sunday” and “Magazine”
Jump, which was launched in 1968, has established itself as the dominant player in the field of juvenile comics in just 6 years.
In the field of Japanese boy manga throughout the 1970s, “Jump” was essentially a standout, while the so-called three major boy manga weekly magazines were essentially in the top two.
The first issue of “Jump”
The company behind “Sunday” is Xiaoyakan with teaching aids as its main business content and profitability method, and behind “Magazine” is a publishing giant involved in almost all literary and artistic themes.< strong>Kodansha.
The Shueisha behind “Jump”, which came to the top, is actually a company that split from inside the school, and both are One Bridge Group(Main Business Publishing)‘s subsidiary.
Therefore, the competition of the three major young manga weekly magazines is actually two-on-one-to use the analogy of a sports game we are more familiar with, “Jump” is the person responsible for the championship in the South Korean speed skating team, and “Sunday” It’s its teammate who is responsible for following “Magazine”. As for winning the championship, I will talk about it next time.
Pull… is it wrong?
2. The era of Rumiko Takahashi
Rumiko Takahashi liked to read comics since childhood, especially the works of “Sunday” and “Magazine”. However, by the time she was in high school, the juvenile manga industry was already the world of “Jump”. So she first submitted her work to “Jump” and was rejected. She submitted to “Magazine” again and was rejected again. Two consecutive timesAfter failing, Takahashi felt that he might not be able to eat the manga, so he temporarily stopped creating.
After entering university, Takahashi couldn’t restrain his love for comics. Despite his parents’ opposition, he studied under Kazuo Koike and started writing again. Until the second year of university, she finally took her own work “The Wayward Boy” to contribute. In view of the unpleasant memories of high school, Takahashi chose the remaining one of the Big Three, which is “Sunday”.
※Kazuo Koike: “Skull 13” “Crying Killing God” comics writer, also the original Tetsuo (“You are dead”), Horii Yuji’s teacher of (“Dragon Quest”).
“The Wayward Boy”
Probably because of more accumulation and training, Takahashi was not rejected three times, and “The Wayward Boy” won the 2nd Shogakukan Newcomer Award.
At the time, Takahashi was just a poor student. On the day of the awards ceremony, he even had to borrow 500 yen for the tram fare from his friends, and finally arrived at the awards site, and remembered that he did not have the tram fare for the return journey… Fortunately At the scene, he got a cash prize of 100,000 yen, which saved him from the tragic ending of walking home.
“Fu Xing Boy”
Soon, Rumiko Takahashi perfected the award-winning work and debuted in “Sunday” with “Fortune Boy”.
In 1980, Takahashi, who graduated from university, just started to serialize “Fortune Boy”, and at the same time launched “A Moment Together” in another magazine in Xiaoxueguan. The rental apartment is the background, telling the love story of the repeating youth and the young and beautiful little widow, and portraying the world of Japanese society at that time.
“A Moment Together” has no sound, I like it very much.
The emotional portrayal of this work is very delicate and the plot is very moving. It has become an excellent work with both depth and interest.
In 1987, Rumiko Takahashi, who ended the serialization of “Fortune Boy” and “A Moment Together” successively, after a very short rest, once again released a new work “Ranma ½”, and for a time with the next door ” “Dragon Ball” constitutes a battle between dragon and phoenix.
(Note: The offices of the Shogakukan and Shueisha are located in the Hitotsubashi area of Chiyoda District and live next to each other.)
“What are you looking at?” “What are you looking at?”
Weekly Shonen “Sunday” relied on Takahashi Rumiko’s work to successfully maintain its market position in the increasingly competitive shonen manga field in the 1990s.
In the first half of 1996, “Ranma ½” came to an end amidst cheers. But at the end of that year, Takahashi started another series of epoch-making works, which is the masterpiece “Inuyasha” which tells the story of monsters in the Warring States period and the encounter and growth of boys and girls.
Inuyasha
Second, children only make choices, and adults should all
The Japanese Sengoku period, Japanese monster culture, boy manga-style plots and battle scenes(Although Takahashi’s battle scenes are occasionally simple) ,”OneAn ordinary Japanese female high school student”, female role party fights(though not intentionally), cultivated female roles, giant brothers fight, Sisters and brothers turned against each other, and a lot of funny content was stuffed into one work-this practice is very rare even in today’s comics industry.
Everyone knows that these elements add up to be very interesting. In fact, “Inuyasha” is indeed very interesting. But not every author is like Takahashi Rumiko, who has the ability to sort out, classify and superimpose several elements skillfully.
So, a masterpiece with various elements like “Inuyasha” is rare.
1. Jade of Four Souls
The original is the only time Takahashi tried to set the stage of the story in ancient times for a long series. The basis of its setting is not the warring states conquests of wars and peoples, but a legendary treasure that can realize any wish of the holder. Of jade. (Four souls are fortunate souls, harmonious souls, wild souls, and strange souls)
The jade of the four souls is cast by the legendary powerful witch with her own soul, and will change her own good and evil according to the good and evil tendency of the holder’s mind.
The plot starts with the fight for the jade of the four souls, and it ends with the disappearance of the jade of the four souls. Although the specific reasons for the jade of the four souls are different, the fact that it can be realized at first Any wish” ability.
This setting looks a bit similar to “Dragon Ball”. If it only ends here, “Inuyasha” is probably just an imitation of “Dragon Ball.”
However, Takahashi cleverly denied the omnipotence of the Jade of the Four Souls in the later stage of the plot-this thing can only provide buffs, and can’t make people want to get what they want. This kind of anti-traditional approach back then is exactly what Takahashi used to advance the plot.
2. Kagome—Inuyasha—Platycodon
As mentioned above, although the core promotion of this work is the jade of the four souls, as the plot continues to develop, the battle for treasures has quickly become a traditional confrontation between good and evil and youth growth.
The Jade of the Four Souls became a carrier of Inuyasha’s obsession, and later became the cause of confrontation with Naraku. With the help of this carrier, Takahashi talked about a number of delicate emotional lines, The most impressive is naturally the Kagome-Inuyasha-Dolliella love triangle that still seems to make people stomachache.
It’s me first, why is it like this
The origin and development of this love triangle, in a nutshell: Under the interference of the villain, Inuyasha and Platus grandiflorum were almost destroyed by love.
Later, Kagome, who appeared as a partner, gradually became Inuyasha’s partner. Inuyasha lingers in the untouchable love from the past and the love that stays together day and night and guards each other.
What is more special is that the love triangle of Kagome-Inuyasha-Kikyo is one of the few Japanese manga works with equal weights between men and women.
Neither of the two female characters has to rely on the male protagonist to survive. This is completely different from the convention in many love triangle works where the female character instantly collapses after leaving the male protagonist.(No matter what, it’s WA2, I always like winter horses and yarn).
Neither Kagome nor Kikyo takes love as the only way of self-realization, and both have their own suitors. Therefore, Inuyasha just seems to have the right to choose one of two-this is a true equilateral triangle.
On this basis, due to the character’s full personality and theReason, Inuyasha’s sway between the two does not appear to be indecisive or defiant. Suspected).
The original picture cannot be released for some reason
In addition to the work, Kagome and Kikyo each have countless supporters, and the supporters even formed more intense party disputes than in the original work. Until today, when the original work and animation are over, this fierce partisan struggle continues…
Of course I definitely want it all, and I want coral.
3. Sister-in-brother relationship and “cultivation system”
Since Takahashi’s works are known for their delicate emotions, Inuyasha is certainly not only a love triangle.
In addition to the love triangle, there are also Mille-Coral this dumb couple, the sister-brother relationship of Coral-Amber, and the “cultivation line” Sasei Maru-Xiaoling, as well as different shapes for villains such as Kagura and Shenmou.
Among them, dumb couples and villains are relatively easier to mold, while the portrayal of sibling relationship and “cultivation” is very unsure.
To be honest, the way of getting along with dumb couples is the most reassuring
As a juvenile manga, Inuyasha used a considerable amount of space to describe the relationship between Coral and Amber, which is rare. In my opinion, the foothold of the relationship between the two is mutual sacrifice.
For the life of his brother Gouquan, Coral gave up his own values several times. This is a very painful choice for Coral, who is distinguished between good and evil, has a hot personality, and goes straight.
While Kohaku’s experience is even more sympathetic, he joined three different forces, namely Naraku, Sasomaru, and Kikyo, all for the purpose of revenge against Naraku. (During Naraku’s forces, although he recovered his memory, he concealed the facts and tried to attack opportunities)
Vengeance is also Coral’s purpose, but Amber can’t forgive herself for having confronted her sister, hoping to stay away from her only relative in the world and complete her revenge alone.
Blood is thicker than water’s family affection, under the background of many life and death moments, it presents a more powerful appeal than ordinary works.
Furthermore, the feeling of Shashengwan—Xiaoling’s desire to talk and rest is also a classic in the hearts of readers for many years. (WIDE version of the special DRAMA CD has confirmed the relationship between the two)
It is also a well-known “growing couple”. The second half of the plot of “White Rabbit Candy” has caused great controversy. The plot development method and direction are almost the same as the Sasheng pill-Xiaoling, even if there is a clear and romantic aspect The hint of, but it seems quite easy to be accepted by readers and audiences.
This may be due to the differences in the abilities of the authors. In contrast, Xiaoling’s “reverse development” of Sasheng Maru was portrayed extremely moving and profound by Takahashi.
Xiaoling’s innocent and pitiful smile will almost make all viewers love
Sashengmaru appeared as a half-villain in the work at the beginning. Before meeting Xiaoling, he was cold-blooded and calm. He was a super beautiful man with perfect fascination and non-cannibalism.(Youkai).
In the plot, Shashengwan’s rescue of Xiaoling is not only a sign that Shashengwan’s personality has begun to be healthy, but also the first time that Tianshengfang has played a role. From this, Shashengwan gradually realized the meaning of his father entrusting natural tooth to himself.
“It’s okay”
In the following story, Xiao Ling was able to gradually grow up with the gentle and cunning company of disgusting Meng Xie Jian and others. At the same time, the personality and combat effectiveness of Sasei Maru grew because of Xiao Ling.
As the story develops, in order to save the humans/youkai who meet in the water, Sasei Maru took a personal risk, was able to recognize and fulfill Kagura’s self-worth, and completely let go of the desire to seize iron and broken teeth, and finally broke through and reached the end Awakening, fulfilling the expectation of my father, and having a more complete understanding of life.
Many of these achievements are probably due to the food that Xiaoling originally clumsily brought to the Sanshou pills.
Therefore, we can’t just see that Xiaoling protects and nurtures Xiaoling, we should also see that Xiaoling is actually an indispensable part of Xiaoling. Naturally, Xiaoling is inseparable from Xiaoling, but it is even better. Can’t lose Xiaoling.
※ Correspondingly, we cannot simply interpret Xiaoling’s feelings for Shashengwan as admiration and dependence. Perhaps there is a hint of maternal brilliance that is not easily detectable.
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It’s the consistent style of Takahashi’s works that moving with affection, and adding such delicate and touching lines of emotion to the boy manga at will is precisely Takahashi’s ability and the reason why Inuyasha still impresses everyone.
3. Can we look forward to new works?
When it comes to an animation about the next generation of the protagonist group, everyone will quickly think of the sequel to “Naruto” “Bo Ren Biography”. It is also the sequel of the industry masterpiece, “Half-Monster’s Yasha Ji” is highly anticipated, but considering the example of “Bo Ren Biography” before, it is naturally under pressure.
Judging from the pilot trailer, the first heroine is the daughter of Sasomaru Higurashi Forever(日晚とわ) span>, the protagonist group includes Higurashi’s eternal twin sister Quan Na(せつな, this twin is forever for an instant, the taste of Sesho Maru is really good It’s hard to explain in one word)He Dog-wei’s daughter Zhuye(もろは), as well as amber, mica and Jade(Coral amber jade, the taste of this family is hard to describe).
Three heroines
In the production team of this work, there are still familiar faces from the director Teruo Sato, the veteran and powerful screenwriter Katsuyuki Sumizawa, Shishi Hinuma Yoshihito, and even the music Wada Kaoru from the Risen and “Inuyasha” series. People feel at ease.
Many people think that “Half-Monster Yasha Ji” can only be regarded as a spiritual sequel, because it is not adapted from Takahashi’s original work. In the job list, she is only responsible for some of the personnel.
Takahashi Rumiko’s character setting manuscript
However, according to the interviews with the production staff, Takahashi has been deeply involved in many tasks including screenwriting. She insisted on setting the characters to perfection before allowing the production staff to write the plot under her supervision. The script of the first few episodes was written many times before she got her approval.
It’s worth mentioning that, because Takahashi clearly stated that “even if the children of Inuyasha face any incident, the development of the plot cannot surpass “Inuyasha””, so this game originally wanted to focus on the Sasei Maru There is no role of Zhuye in the child. (Always and Setsuna respectively inherited both sides of the character of Sasangomaru)
Sumizawa, the screenwriter, always felt that the similarity or opposition between always and the moment was too obvious, and the plot could not continue to develop. Later, when Zhuye was added, the plot developed smoothly.
In the trailer for the first episode released on September 28, Inuyasha, Sesumaru, Kagome, Coral, and Maitreya all appeared on the stage, which was quite surprising. After all, everyone thought that the elders would show up again at the climax of the plot, but they didn’t expect to appear at the beginning.
The trailer brings many questions to everyone, such as “Why the three sisters have life and no one to raise”, “Why are twins in modern times and the other in ancient times”, “Who is the wife/child mother of Sashengwan”-Interview There is no disclosure in it, only to be announced gradually after the broadcast.
(Note: The twins both have a strand of red hair, but neither Sanshengwan nor Xiaoling have red hair. If this is not the twins’ demon pattern on their heads… …Xiaoling, Wei.)
Perhaps “Half-Monster Yasha Ji” is unlikely to replicate the great success of “Inuyasha”. However, the new work happily uses three female protagonists to form the core of the protagonist group, which is reminiscent of “The Three Sisters of Cat’s Eye” (Dog…The Three Sisters of Dogya) .
Compared with the “old” animated version of “Inuyasha”, the protagonist’s character set is closer to the aesthetics of the new generation of audiences. Coupled with the unreserved and meticulous production of Rumiko Takahashi, “Half-Demon Yasha It is worth your appreciation.
In any case, the ghost story of the Warring States Period has been unfolded again. We will see the struggle of the second generation of dogs. You must be full of expectations and content at this moment.
Reference reading:
1. “The 50 Years War between “SUNDAY” and “MAGAZINE”
2. “Can you sleep in Osamu Tezuka’s room through the assessment? This small broken building is the cartoonist’s “Liang Shanbo” Palomar, an animation academic party
3. “Interview with Rumiko Takahashi-My Creative Career”
This article is from WeChat official account:Animation Academic Party (ID: babblers) author: waiting for fish, edit: if the wind