The Growth History of Glacier Kyoko

Since his debut in 1979, he has only created about 5 or 6 short and medium-length cartoons, such as Melody of the Stars, Love with a White Screen Window, etc., and ended up in 2 volumes at most.

Most of the works of Glacier in this period belong to warm and romantic girl's mood stories, which are plain and beautiful, simple and touching. This period of time is obviously the dormant period of Glacier, that is, during this period, Glacier honed her painting skills, making it mature and mellow, leaving no trace into her works, making it acceptable to critical readers even today, even after 1990s, and standing firm in the fierce competition of Japanese girls' cartoons, thus establishing her own style, resulting in that no matter how the theme of her works changes in the future, the works themselves remain extremely pure as if clear.

A work usually reflects the author's inner world more or less, so the author can't help asking himself: What kind of woman is Glacier? A 79-year-old author has been immersed in the altar for 20 years. How can he keep his soul pure and his works so perfect? Completely free from outside interference? No real pressure? Don't eat fireworks Living in a fairy tale world?

For a while, I couldn't help admiring the mature comic atmosphere in Japan. As long as you have the ability, you can stay at home and immerse yourself in the world you have created, refuse to accept external influences and live your ideal life. Especially Baiquan Society, many of its authors are so warm and kind. They have their own unique ideas and don't follow the trend, which must have a lot to do with Baiquan Society's purpose of not putting pressure on authors and giving them free space to play. That's why. Famous business writers such as Baiquan Chu, Kaoru Yuji, Yoshiki Nakamura, Du Fu, Matsushita, Nakata Bisha, and other key writers representing the style of Baiquan Society such as Miko Narita, Hiroshi Yamanaka and Makoto Makoto. Therefore, Baiquan Society has always been the best in the whole Japanese girl comic circle, and Baiquan ranked the girl comic works that entered 10 in more than half of the list ... Therefore, it is understandable that Baiquan Society has cultivated such an excellent comic writer as Glacier Kyoko.

After the "short story" stage, Glacier began to serialize her first full-length work-also an extremely important one in her comic book career-Wild Angel and Wild Angel II (seven volumes).

In the process of serializing this work with almost no commercial flavor, Glacier has completely completed the perfection of self-painting style, formed a complete and mature glacier style and expression technique, and laid a solid foundation for the successful creation of Far Away. Today, I think Glacier's favorite work is not Far Away, which made her famous, but Wild Angel, a love legend in the unremarkable western wilderness.

From a distance, Lala's monthly magazine serialized a work every other month, which immediately attracted widespread attention. With the development of the story and the increase of the experience of Ike and Keiko (Shi Ru), the evaluation of Lai from all walks of life is getting better and better. In the well-known "deep digging, rebellion, betrayal, stream of consciousness and pure inner monologue", Lai lived up to expectations.

The heroine of the work, Kiko, is pure and kind, but just an ordinary high school girl. Under the influence of an unknown object explosion, she inexplicably came to a different dimensional world that had appeared in her dream. The place where she was bounced off was under a big tree root in Jyukai, which was covered with soft golden lichens. Just when Noriko suspected that she was still dreaming, a group of strange animals ran past her, and then a huge and terrible monster "Flower Bug" pounced on her ... Just when Noriko was dying, a slender figure rushed up and saved her.

The person who saved her was Ike, a young man with long black hair and a long sword tied to his back. This is the legendary encounter between "Awakening" and "Heavenly Ghost".

It is said that "Heavenly Ghost" is a monster with amazing destructive power, and "Awakening" is a person who can awaken "Heavenly Ghost". I don't know who they are. However, all countries are trying their best to find them and try to use them as powerful tools in war.

Ike had a special power since he was a child, hated by his adoptive parents, and even tried to kill him with a knife many times, which cast a lingering shadow on his childhood, so that Ike, who had long known that he would become a "ghost of heaven", was very afraid of that day from the bottom of his heart, and he tried his best to resist the established fate imposed on him. Therefore, when fortune tellers all over the world predicted that "Awakening" was about to appear in the sea of trees, he arrived there earlier than anyone else, bent on eliminating "Awakening" and changing his destiny. But who knows that the so-called "awakening" turned out to be a girl like Noriko. Faced with norikoyamaguchi, Ike can neither destroy her cruelly nor abandon her in the dangerous Jyukai, so he has to take her away temporarily, lest she be taken away by an ambitious country, and then settle her in the home of his good friend Kaya, while he drifts away.

Originally, although Ike had subtle special feelings for Norikoyamaguchi, he was able to restrain himself from leaving successfully. However, a coup led Kaya and Kiko to be put into prison together with Jeddah, the former left-wing minister of the country. At this time, Ike heard Kiko's spiritual call and rushed to the rescue. All the people who escaped from prison began to flee in groups to avoid arrest, so Ike and Kiko got together again. Moreover, after this battle, the feelings between the two people deepened and they can no longer live without each other. They have to stand up, face the unknown fate bravely and try their best to change it, just as the prophet Senna said: "The future is not static." ...

In fact, just looking at the plot, Far Away can be regarded as a rather vulgar ordinary story. Travel through time and space, become an important person in another world, and find the other half you really love in that world ... This technique has been used in countless works, such as Daughter of the Nile, Magic Knight, Heaven is the Red River Bank, Rezliya, Battle of the Dragons, etc. Especially for Ike: long hair is elegant and handsome, gentle and considerate, and has the ability to protect his beloved.

How can such old-fashioned stories and characters get such high praise?

Yes, it is such a bad old story, which has been told from the mature pen of Glacier Kyoko. Not slow, but not sick. The climax and rhythm of the story are just right, and the characters' personalities and delicate psychological activities are well expressed, which makes the story exude unprecedented vitality and fatal attraction, which not only easily captures the changeable hearts of many female readers who are easy to "like the new and hate the old", but also makes Ike and Kiko a rare perfect couple in the comic book industry.

And norikoyamaguchi's shaping in this work is extremely brilliant. For a long time, the heroines in the same kind of comics are mostly pure and kind, intelligent and lovely, and look a little delicate and touching. On the basis of such tradition and orthodoxy, it is generally difficult to have any other scenes, and at most, add a strong, brave and self-reliant one to show that she is a new woman in the new era rather than a replica of Cinderella, which is out of date. But the glacier Kyoko is different. At first glance, Kiko is no different from the protagonist in other similar works, but after careful taste, you will find that Kiko is a "night pearl". As we all know, the night pearl is no different from all ordinary beads during the day, but it can emit weak and soft light in the dark night. Kiko Zailai is such a figure. The greater the pressure, the heavier the hardships, the more she can stand up and face it and give play to her unique light. Although this kind of light is not as dazzling as the sun and the moon, it is enough for people who have lost their way in the dark to find their way again. It can be said that Kiko is the most common, worthwhile and successful figure in Glacier Creating Heroes-and most similar comics.

Because of Ike, Far Away has become a very wonderful cartoon, and because of Canon, Far Away has become a classic. If Far Away is not only the soul of the work-characters and stories-it is worth mentioning its appearance, that is, the visual effect presented by the picture. Among the many girl comic writers I know, Glacier is one of the few masters whose pictures are completely free from plane and space restrictions. The perfect and smooth split mirror and multi-angle expression in Lai not only make the original two-dimensional picture present a natural sense of space and vertical extension, but also surpass many famous male authors, which is really commendable.

Of course, even if it is almost perfect like Lai, it is still not perfect. The accepted opinion is the beginning, which is too dull, lacking the climax and impact, and the narrative technique of the opening short story is a bit immature.

However, despite this, Lai is still an excellent animation work, and its positive impact on the girl animation industry can not be ignored. Today, at the end of 1990s, when the wind of rebellion and decadence prevailed, Glacier used his works to give people a clean and cool feeling, telling people that, in the final analysis, justice, trust, love and dreams are the real eternal themes, which are the * * * blare in everyone's heart and lead people to find their long-lost initial innocence.