Tokyo life starting with painting

"Three major principles of comic creation?"

"You can't joke about the victims of war or disaster!"

"You can't show contempt for certain professions!"

"You can't make fun of the nation, citizens or the public!"

As for the previous questions, Akasaka Kazu also looked at them with a joking expression.

Then the three principles of manga creation that suddenly popped up made Akasaka Kazuya sit upright and his expression became a little more serious.

He originally thought it was an ordinary interview, but he didn't expect that Higashinoji would actually make such a statement.

After all, the principles of comic creation are inherently controversial topics.

Even though Higashinoji is the leader of today's Japanese comics, the three principles he proposed may not be convincing.

Just like wearing a mask in later generations, others think it violates freedom rights.

There will always be people who hold the banner of 'free creation' and express their opinions on Higashinoji's remarks.

But Akasaka Kazuya repeatedly savored these three principles of comic creation, and after a while he couldn't help but say: "It's really good."

Generally speaking, when it comes to comic creation, most comics authors only think about topics such as drawing methods, comic plots, and what kind of dip pen to use for drawing.

But Higashinoji is different.

For example, there is a sentence that is well said.

‘Before you learn to do things, you must first learn to be a person’.

These are the three principles proposed by Higashinoji.

Before teaching the basic skills such as painting methods, plots, dip pens, and how to use grid paper.

Higashinoji first told others what to do and what factors to consider before creating a work. Finally, he learned the basic skills of drawing comics.

If you don’t even know how to make a human being, then you can just draw comics, and you may not know what kind of anti-human things you will draw.

"This is a different level of simplicity."

Akasaka Kazuya sighed slightly.

While other comics authors were still thinking about how to serialize their works in comics magazines, Higashinoji had already put forward his own ideas based on the comics themselves.

This is truly remarkable.

Presumably Higashinoji has been summarizing and thinking about it for a long time, right? These three paragraphs are not like the kind of words that can be made up by "random hard coding".

But that means Higashinoji doesn't know what Akasaka Kazuya is thinking now. If he knew, he would probably just smile in the end and say nothing more.

After all, these three principles were not proposed by him. They were summed up by Osamu Tezuka, the god of comics who laid the foundation for Japanese comics. Of course, there cannot be any random compilation.

only.

"This is just my opinion at most." Akasaka Kazuya glanced at the three principles of comic creation and pinched his chin.

His views are not representative of all readers.

Therefore, after thinking about it, Akasaka Kazuya picked up his pen and started writing a column about "Hansawa Naoki".

At the same time, he did not forget to reserve a portion at the bottom

"Teacher Higashino put forward three principles for comic creation in this interview. In my opinion, these three principles are not only applicable to comic creation, but must be respected whether it is serious literature or traditional literature."

He lowered his head and wrote this.

In addition to Akasaka Kazuya, there are also many manga authors who saw this week's interview with Higashino Tsukasa in "Wayo".

Like Akasaka Kazuya, he also saw the three creative principles of comics neatly listed at the bottom of the comics.

Most of the manga authors who saw Higashinoji's stance agreed.

They feel that although comics are works of art, the most basic respect and courtesy cannot be forgotten because of the exaggeration of the plot.

This is the most basic principle of life.

Some people are in favor, and naturally some are against it.

The cartoonist who objected felt that Higashinoji had gone too far. Comics are just entertainment products. If you care about this or that, you will lose the most basic entertainment value and people will not pay for it.

Among them, Horikoshi Hanpei, the current pillar of New Rock Publishing House, thinks so.

He feels that comic book authors should use whatever they want, not be restricted by their imagination, and maximize their entertainment potential.

Anyway, as long as the work can be sold and as long as he makes money, it doesn't matter whether he respects other people or not.

As mentioned before, Horikoshi Hanpei's current work "Investigation Team" is like this. It has obvious traces of imitation of "Unnatural Death". Recently, some fans of Higashinoji even dug up some of his storyboards. It was drawn directly from the storyboard of "Unnatural Death".

This made Horikoshi Banpei very angry.

He has been working as a comics author for ten years and has been learning the techniques of drawing comics.

But unfortunately due to the gap in basic skills and plot, he has been hovering around the minimum living standard of a serial author.

After finally spotting the popularity of "Unnatural Death", I followed suit and created "Investigation Team".

As a result, Higashinoji's fans found out that it was similar to plagiarism.

Why doesn't this make him angry?

After all, Horikoshi Hanpei has always believed that comics are just for entertainment and do not need to be taken seriously.

Even if he did plagiarize, so what? Anyway, as long as readers are happy to read it and are willing to buy it, that's all.

But in the end, due to pressure from editor-in-chief Seo and fans of Higashino, Horikoshi Hanpei had to modify the controversial part of the comic storyboard in the single volume.

This kind of repetitive work makes Horikoshi Hanpei very unhappy, and because the results of "Hansawa Naoki" are much better than his "Investigation Team", it can be said to be a failure in all aspects.

Therefore, his dissatisfaction with Higashinoji himself is also growing day by day.

But since he could never find a place to vent, Horikoshi Hanpei just scolded Higashino in his heart for a while, and then continued with the creation of "Investigation Search Team".

This time Higashino suddenly raised such a controversial topic.

Of course Horikoshi Hanpei was immediately concerned about it.

He felt that this was a good opportunity to vent his past dissatisfaction with Higashinoji and the old and new hatreds of Higashinoji fans.

So Horikoshi Hanpei immediately made a comment on the social network, ridiculing Higashinoji's three principles of comics, and left a message below:

"I originally thought that I couldn't surpass "Naoki Hansawa", but today I saw Mr. Higashino's rather childish remarks. I think there is no problem for "Investigation Team" to surpass Mr. Higashino. After all, the most basic premise of artistic creation is It’s freedom to create.”

"If you can't even think freely, then the things you draw will definitely be boring."

After sending this message, Horikoshi Hanpei waited with great interest for replies and likes from other manga authors who agreed with him.

But he waited for a full hour, and the only people who really responded to him were one or two comic book authors.

"How is this possible? During yesterday's exchange, weren't there so many people who thought Higashino's remarks were stupid? How come there were only so few people who actually replied?"

Horikoshi Hanpei was stunned for a while, and then he thought of something

Probably the manga authors who spoke ill of Higashinoji behind his back did not want to offend Higashinoji because of such things, so they remained silent and did not speak out.

In other words, Horikoshi Hanpei's long-term accumulated dissatisfaction with Higashinoji went to his head, so he didn't think of this.

But now that the words have been spoken, Horikoshi Hanpei can't take them back.

He could only bite the bullet and continue to sneer at Higashinoji, while scolding those bastards in his heart for their complete lack of loyalty.

Obviously everyone scolded Higashinoji so happily yesterday! Why have you all become deaf-mute today?

But no matter how much he cursed in his heart, there were still only a few writers who actually responded. Instead, there were some readers who came after hearing the news.

Some people here are fans of Horikoshi Hanpei, and some are fans of Higashinoji.

After all, Horikoshi Hanpei's "Investigation Team" and "Unnatural Death" are indeed very similar, so it is normal for them to attract fans of Higashinoji.

But when they saw Horikoshi Hanpei, they directly attacked Higashinoji on social media.

Some hot-tempered Higashino fans couldn't stand it anymore.

They immediately left messages under Horikoshi Hanpei's remarks, sending out all kinds of vicious and despicable words.

It was mainly because he was mocking him for following the trend, and the results of "Unnatural Death" were not as good as those of Higashino Tsukasa's "Naoki Hansawa", so he made such a lemony comment.

I have to say that whether it is Japanese or Chinese netizens, their power is infinite.

All kinds of yin and yang words were bombarded at Horikoshi Banping's forehead, making his scalp feel numb.

Although there are some fans of Horikoshi Hanpei who help speak, the power of these fans is undoubtedly weak.

But as soon as they opened their mouths, they were humiliated by a steady stream of Higashino fans coming from all directions, so much so that they could no longer hold the keyboard.

This is the great thing about Higashinoji fans.

It is widely distributed, gathers quickly, and has extremely strong combat effectiveness.

Some people are office workers and always have computers in their hands, while some people are seasoned cartoon readers who have no shortage of time.

Horikoshi Hanpei's remarks had only been published for an hour and a half, and the number of people on the lower floors had already reached more than 5,000. The various shady words in them made Horikoshi Hanpei almost vomit blood with anger.

He posted two more posts about his views on Higashinoji's three principles of comics, and then closed the comment area, out of sight and out of sight.

It's just that Horikoshi Hanpei is getting more and more angry as he thinks about it.

He just wanted to make Higashino feel sick.

Unexpectedly, Higashinoji was not disgusted, but his group of fans made him so disgusted that he couldn't even eat.

"No, we can't just let it go."

Horikoshi Hanpei glanced at the "Heshi" manga magazine next to him, and then at the manuscript of "Investigation and Search Team" that he had not yet drawn. After thinking for a long time, he came up with a solution.

Didn’t Higashinoji say that?

Can't we joke about disasters or victims?

In this case, I must use some recent famous cases as creative materials and slap that guy in the face with facts!

Horikoshi Hanpei whispered to himself, thinking this method would work.

After all, instead of being incompetent and furious on social networks, he directly used facts to prove that the three principles mentioned by Higashinoji were wrong. Isn't this a slap in the face of the other party?

And it was the kind that was severely beaten and swollen.

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, so he started thinking about recent cases that were somewhat famous.

After thinking about it, he decided to start with a recent, more brutal murder case.

This case is called ‘The Case of a Female High School Student Buried in Concrete’.

It was about a case in which four high school dropouts kidnapped an 18-year-old high school girl for forty-one days, tortured her, and finally sealed her body in a cement pipe.

This case occurred in February this year, and it can be said that it really shocked the whole of Japan.

After all, this case was very serious, and the persons involved were all minors at the time, and the crime took a long time (the police did not catch four juvenile offenders for 41 days), so it caused a huge blow to Japanese society.

For this reason, there is even news that the Juvenile Law will be specially revised this year.

This case is indeed very good, very topical, and can be used directly as a plot with only a slight adaptation.

Horikoshi Hanpei nodded with satisfaction and began to draw this story.

Perhaps because he was thinking about slapping Higashinoji in the face with facts, he drew this story very smoothly. Only five days later, he had already completed all the manuscripts for this week.

"Very good! This way there will be absolutely no problem."

Horikoshi Hanpei glanced at his manuscript.

The victim's name must have been changed by him. No matter how stupid he was, there was no way he could actually use the victim's name.

It's just that the plot of being tortured, dying, and dumping the body has basically remained unchanged.

Through his paintings, the whole story is quite reasonable and exciting.

This made Horikoshi Hanpei very happy.

It just so happened that he had another sales plan for the single volume of "Investigation Search Team" this week, and the plot of the entire comic was progressing very smoothly. Horikoshi Hanpei just wanted to say that it's all good luck.

really.

Ignore Higashinoji's three principles of creation that are correct.

He doesn't care at all about the three principles mentioned by Higashinoji. Isn't there nothing wrong with him now?

Watching his manga serialized successfully in "Chiyo", Horikoshi Hanpei is comfortably waiting for the release date of the single volume this week.

But

Before Horikoshi Hanpei had time to wait for the release date of his own single book, he received a piece of news from the editorial department of "Chiyo" that made him stunned and unbelievable.

"My "Investigation Search Team" serial has been complained about? If the matter is more serious, it may be banned? Wait. Editor-in-chief Seo, what about my single book sales this week?"

"Postponed? Okay I understand. Postponed huh?"

Horikoshi Hanpei checked the phone again and again, and then...

He gritted his teeth and hung up the phone. He seemed to have lost all strength and sat on the sofa.

You can’t blame others for this situation.

All I can say is that he does have problems, and they are huge.

Knowing clearly that there is dog poop on the road ahead, but stepping on it without any thought - asking for death.

But, there are always people who are stubborn and don’t know how to write the word respect. Horikoshi Hanpei has never been the first.

Thanks to the Lord of the Wilderness and Fate Qiansheng for the reward! Thank you so much!