Moto Hagio's daydream.

In the spring of the 24th year of Showa, a girl named Moto Hagio was born in Xia Zhishi.

In the future, her works will depict all kinds of strange worlds: the immortal Bo family, the eleventh man from another planet, the barren world with only men, the troubles of the ballet teenager Li Wei and so on.

Girls' comics began to appear after World War II. Starting with the sapphire prince created by Osamu Tezuka, the god of comics, most of the early girl cartoons were created by men. It was not until the 1960s that a large number of women joined the comic industry.

Among them, the most outstanding group of female cartoonists is collectively called "24-year group flower".

What they tell is no longer pure and sweet romantic love, but works with a lot of psychological description, literary aesthetic elements and a lot of literature.

"Twenty-four Years of Flowers" expands the limited theme of girls' comics and blends a lot of colors such as history, science fiction and literature.

Exquisite and gorgeous pictures and strict story structure broke the composition pattern of previous cartoons, adding a lot of narration and inner description, mostly long stories, focusing on plot depiction, which was the style of girl cartoons in this period.

As a girl cartoonist, Moto Hagio subverts the style of girl cartoons. Let the protagonist in the pen change from a girl to a beautiful boy with vague gender.

Throughout all Moto Hagio's works, we will find that all the characters are strangers of foreign origin.

Ryouko Yamagishi of Twenty-four Years of Flowers once said:

"Japanese manga was created by Osamu Tezuka, and the girl manga benefited from the influence of Xiamu in the dawn of Japanese design art."

Summer purpose's full name is Alphonse Mucha.

He was born in a devout religious family and was a member of the church choir when he was a child.

Influenced by a large number of works of art preserved in the church, Natsume chose to be a painter when he grew up.

However, his works not only have mysterious color images in western religions, but also have elegant descriptions of shapes and outlines in Japanese woodcuts.

The women in Natsume's works have unkempt curly hair, and the stars and flowers often decorate these elegant women with geometric patterns, which is consistent with the elements such as stars, flowers and long hair pursued by female poets who were mainly with Akiko Xie Ye at that time.

This definition of female image has influenced the shaping of characters in later girl cartoons.

Influenced by western painting art and literature, Moto Hagio's works use a lot of western myths and biblical contents to metaphor the development of stories and the ending of characters.

For example, in the work The Legend of Bo People (also translated into Bo People's Family), the two brothers and sisters who are the protagonists have the same name.

Edgar, his brother, and Ellen, the teenager who traveled with him, finally added Poe, the Bo family name, to form the name of edgar allan poe, a famous American novelist and poet.

In Poe's novels and poems, "death" is the eternal theme of his literary creation.

The fantastic and unpredictable style of the cartoon "The Legend of Wave" also echoes Edgar Allan Poe's Gothic writing style.

Edgar, who is neither old nor dead, met those who will die of disease and death in the long years, and hurried through their lives, leaving a mysterious and strange legend.

There are two versions about the origin of Sister Maribel's name.

First of all, it originated from Edgar Allan Poe's poem Annabel Lee to his wife. At this time, his wife was only 13 years old, exactly the same as the age when Mary Bell converted to Bo nationality in the cartoon.

Second, Bessie Bell and Mary Gray originated from the nursery rhymes of Mother Goose:

Beth Bell and Mary Gray,

They are two beautiful girls;

They built their house on the grassland,

And covered with rushes.

Bessie guarded the garden door,

Mary keeps the pantry;

Bessie always has to wait,

And Mary lives a rich life.

These two sources are metaphors of Marybell's fate of waiting and going to the finish line ahead of time.

Similarly, in the third volume "Bird's Nest", Moto Hagio quoted the English nursery rhyme "Who Killed the Robin" completely.

Taking this nursery rhyme as a clue, this paper discusses people's rejection and disgust of their own dark side, which leads to their behavior running counter to their original intentions.

If we read Moto Hagio's works deeply, we will find that she has made great efforts in writing, inserting hidden lines in the picture: unstoppable rain, humid and cold air, and a large bloody rose garden.

Moto Hagio, as a well-known Japanese comic master, is known as a "comedy poet", and the protagonists in her works always have some indescribable magic. Under the influence of a specific era, Moto Hagio embarked on a different road from the female cartoons of the same period.

In order to deeply explore women's thoughts, she transferred some injustices imposed on women to male characters with girlish characters in cartoons.

Allen, who lost his father and his mother was seriously ill in bed, was told in Bo that he wanted him to marry his daughter to take possession of Allen's property.

Allen has always had a half-length short hair in his paintings. Lydia, who was adopted, called herself an exquisite party, and repeatedly mentioned in her cartoons that she was a substitute found by Edgar (not Edgar's dead sister Mary Bell), so it was easier to live and play with girls.

Through the different perspectives of each character, mysterious boys are described, such as Allen the elf and Edgar the ghost, and even a girl who looks like Edgar appears in the cartoon.

From the above description, we can easily see that all the teenagers in Moto Hagio's novels have a wonderful beauty of neutrality.

There is such a story in Plato's Drinking Articles:

A long time ago, we were all catamarans with two heads, four arms and four legs. Because of human arrogance, Zeus, the king of gods, split people in two.

So human beings have to look for the other half all their lives, but there are too many people who are divided, and finding the other half has become one of the most difficult things, but the lonely "half-man" is still struggling to find it.

Moto Hagio's early cartoons were deeply influenced by this double-faced thought. There is a similar setting in "No.65438 +0 1 person", that is, people of one sex can be selected as adults.

Jeremy, as a man, was turned into a mirror in his later works "The Fate Dominated by Cruel God", showing the cruelty and injustice suffered by women.

Mother bound Jeremy with deformed love and didn't want to grow up. In order to live a fairy tale happy ending forever, it doesn't matter even if you sacrifice your son. Jeremy, who grew up in a twisted parent-child relationship, has an unnecessary sense of responsibility for his weak and sick mother.

In the follow-up dialogue of 20 15, Moto Hagio explained that the role of Jeremy appeared as a teenager, because if Jeremy appeared as a woman in the traditional girl cartoon, what he suffered would make Jeremy change from a mother's protector to a competitor and become the other side competing for love with his mother.

Jeremy with a male posture can avoid this situation and reach a balance point. At the same time, it is easier for female readers to feel pity. After all, women are always strict about their own same sex.

As Moto Hagio's most famous work, Destiny Dominated by Cruel God took nearly nine years to complete.

Broadly speaking, it discusses the story of how a teenager got out of childhood trauma.

Just like the word "sadness" in comics, it is constantly mentioned from the perspective of another man, Ian. And in the monologue "I want to tell a sad story", it reveals the truth behind their seemingly happy family.

But in a narrow sense, whose "sadness" is this?

With the different narratives of the two protagonists, with the passage of time, the other side of everyone in the work has surfaced.

"I'm not escaping from reality. Although it may sound a bit arrogant, what I want to do is to get in touch with reality and get in touch with the real thing. "

In a conversation in 2005, Moto Hagio made this statement about his work.

The painters in Twenty-four Years of Flowers are all good at connecting reality without trace in fictional works.

In My Daughter is a Lizard, by describing mother Yuriko's constant neglect of her daughter's pear flower and her harsh language attack on her daughter's pear flower, pear flower has no confidence in herself, and after having her own child, she has aversion to the child and her own fear, thus revealing that parents' attitude towards the child can easily affect the child's attitude towards herself.

In Moto Hagio's cartoons, the relationship between mother and child is usually in an extreme state. This "extreme" comes from the relationship between Moto Hagio and her mother-no matter how many praises and awards Moto Hagio gets, her mother always thinks that she is doing nothing.

Even when she first started drawing cartoons, she was afraid to fill in her family address, only her friends' address.

Even today, her mother still denies Moto Hagio's status as a cartoonist.

The starting point of the idea that cruel God dominates fate began with Moto Hagio's family influence. Then, after reading a lot of books and documents related to family psychology, she found many cases in which children were abused by their parents, thus forming the embryonic form of cruel God dominating fate.

Compared with the physical torture of her stepfather Greg, Sandra's abuse of her children is spiritual. She knew what happened to Jeremy, but she chose to ignore it for the sake of illusory happiness.

But this does not mean that physical torture can be ignored. Greg's visible harm to Jeremy became a nightmare that could not disappear the next day.

Family-related cartoons are vaguely revealed in Moto Hagio's works. Parents suppress their children on the grounds of love, or do whatever they want without fear because of love.

However, Moto Hagio is also a gentle and romantic person. Even though the characters experience he described suffered more, he always saw a ray of light at the end.

Moto Hagio's cartoon world is full of philosophy, which not only contains all kinds of complicated feelings, but also discusses the psychological changes brought by different social factors.

Showa Moto Hagio, who came to this world in 24 years, showed her readers colorful stories with a pen.

In this kaleidoscope-like world, you may find your own reasons for being at a loss, or you may get all of my heart's land of silence.

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