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After six and a half years of serialization, "Don't Bully Me, Nagatoro Classmate" ushered in the end and landed smoothly, some people say it's a miracle.
"Nagatoro Classmate" is a love comic.,It's basically a pure love route.,Probably speaking,A weak male protagonist of the herbivore department.,Molested by a little devil school girl every day.,In the end, the two fell in love and became a couple.。 Now, the manga has been adapted into two seasons of anime, and the quality is acceptable.
The reason why it is said to be a miracle is because the manga author, Nanashi, was formerly a "sea down" artist 774. The so-called sea downage, that is, the content of the paintings, is all adult-oriented things that promote the sales of tissues, and if such an author turns to drawing the kind of comics that you can read on the subway, it is called "going ashore".
The "orthodox comic industry" that we are familiar with, in fact, there are many such ashore writers. For example, "Wolf and Spices" and "The Dragon Maid of the Kobayashi Family" all have the participation of shore painters. So the matter itself is actually not to make a fuss.
However, "Nagatoro Classmate" is different, because 774 is not an ordinary underwater painter, he used to be an author who paints everything, sometimes with extremely heavy tastes. How much does it weigh? Let's put it this way, some of his early works are suitable for "Chainsaw", but "Chainsaw" will not be used.
The theme of pure love is rare in his past works, and the love he portrays under the sea often wanders on the edge of common sense. If ordinary pure love can see people writhing like maggots in the quilt, his underwater cp is to see people twitch like maggots under high-voltage electricity.
But the wonderful thing is that "Nagatoro Classmate" is stable from beginning to end, and it almost does not have any rhythm in the portrayal of the love story. The script has ups and downs, but it is not done by nonsense, what 774 presents is an extremely healthy and sweet emotional experience.
In today's "serious" Japan romance manga, this is simply the chosen one. "Nagatoro Classmate" will not be like some other love comics, suddenly throwing you a yellow-haired horizontal knife to snatch love, or stuffing a harem with more population than the former Soviet Union into the Shura field; The female protagonist will not break off relations with the male protagonist because she wants to rescue the author's brain from elephant dung in Africa, and the male protagonist will not look up to the sky and cry bitterly, fantasizing about countless scenes of the female protagonist being attacked by others......
Nowadays, even Soichiro Yamamoto, who painted the Bible of pure love, "Takagi-san", who loves to play tricks, can make an inexplicable love triangle in other works to trigger the rhythm. In contrast, "Nagatoro Classmate" has nothing, no yellow hair, no love triangle, no business empire that suddenly went bankrupt, and it has been pure for six and a half years of serialization.
It is so bizarre that such a thing was born in the hands of a heavy mouth ashore painter. There seems to be a kind of glow on its body that has washed away the lead, just like 774 spent ten years of time, venting all the perverted factors, and finally returned to the basics and painted a sea of clouds.
However, although "Nagatoro Classmate" is not bad, it is not lacking in excitement. First of all, its setting has a strong smell of seawater - a white-weak socially phobic glasses man, suddenly targeted by a black-skinned hottie with a silver ring on her ear bones, Feng Xuemei, and became a daily molesting object, which is completely a late-night setting.
In fact, Nagatoro's character was set in 2011 and was already created by 744. At that time, Nagatoro's classmates, the temperament of the little devil hot girl was heavier, and no matter how you look at it, it was not prepared for pure love comics.
After officially going ashore, many of the plots of the comics are actually full of provocativeness, as if one more scene is extended, and the story has to be redivided. The overall tone can be seen from some of the covers.
Although the manga translation is called "Don't Bully Me, Nagatoro Classmate", but in fact, there is no real bullying element in the work, and you will find that many of the so-called "bullying" are what the male protagonist will do to him in the brain, so it should be translated as playing.
In the early days of the comics, Nagatoro would also do some intense acts of knocking the male protagonist on the wall, teasing him vigorously until he cried, and then continued to tease. I also did the dirty thing of suddenly pushing the male protagonist on the way out of school.,But I don't know how light his weight is.,Caused him to push down the river.。 If the comics still have a sense of bullying at this time, then the back is completely different.
In the later stage of bullying, it became Nagatoro wearing dead reservoir water to make a painting model for the male owner, or making a video call to him when he was taking a shower, admiring the male protagonist's panic and frantically pushing his glasses (even if he didn't wear glasses).
The physical "bullying" has become on the beach, forcefully applying sunscreen to the male protagonist with his feet.
Or,In the judo arena, on the grounds of teaching,Forcing the male protagonist to make physical contact.。
These episodes are completely lovers dating. Even Nagatoro's habitual behavior of twisting his body while calling the male protagonist "disgusting" is like a variant of the nailing palace insulting big package, which is in the same vein as the girl scolding her boyfriend "dead ghost".
So in these tempting little clips, "Nagatoro Classmate" has become a welfare-oriented comic, and people often complain that 774 seems to be about to be unable to hold it, and it is going to be from the old business.
But the amazing thing is that until the end, 774 has masterfully grasped the scale, making the comic present a wonderful texture: all the benefits of Nagatoro are dedicated to the male protagonist; And the welfare of all the other female characters, the object seems to be the audience.
As I said before, there is no harem element in this comic full of female characters. It didn't even have any rivals in love.,From beginning to end,Nagatoro and the male protagonist have never had a trace of ambiguity for anyone else.。
In addition to the benefits, "Nagatoro-san" has a large number of other advantages. For example, maybe because 774 had drawn books of various character types before, and he had drawn a lot of expressions that ordinary painters would not practice, resulting in him being like practicing the Sunflower Treasure Book, and using the sword to point to the edge to achieve a strong expressiveness.
In the comics, you will see excellent and personalized portrayals of demeanor, vivid and aura, which makes Nagatoro's sense of existence come out.
At the same time, Nagatoro's hot girl girlfriend group, as well as the male protagonist's studio sister/senior sister, are not face-painted NPCs, they are full of personality, and they are by no means the same face to change hairstyles.
Perhaps, in order to paint the human body well, Leonardo da Vinci took the wrong way and stole the body to teach himself how to dissect, after all, it makes sense.
All of these combine to make "Nagatoro-san" a high-popularity and high-reputation comic. It may be more popular than you think, because it has been out of the circle for short videos.
Before,An online composer used the clip of "Come on, come on, senior" in the animation,That is, the scene where Nagatoro made the male protagonist cry.,Made a fansong.。 The song exploded on TikTok and Douyin, and many videos of girls dancing with it and imitating Nagatoro appeared.
Later, like all Internet celebrities out of the circle, it began to run more and more deviantly, and developed a more popular "two-dimensional sweetheart girl dance", which has little connection with "Nagatoro Classmate", and also caused dissatisfaction among fans of the original work.
Fortunately, the song on Douyin was all removed due to copyright issues, and only TikTok was still circulating. It also made Nagatoro himself escape the fate of being bullied by modern Internet culture.
The above is the basic introduction of "Nagatoro Classmate". Now I'm going to talk about something that I don't have, but it's really a question I've been thinking about for a long time, that is: what is so special about the manga "Nagatoro-san"?
It must be special, and among the pure love or side-rubbing love comics, "Nagatoro Classmate" has a completely different aura, so it can stand out. Relying on some gimmicks outside the comics alone can't maintain six and a half years of word-of-mouth and popularity.
Later, I figured it out, I'm afraid that its special thing is that 774 was once a painter who went to the sea.
In fact, although "Nagatoro Classmate" has no rhythm among fans, it has two rhythms among the "mainstream Japanese comic lovers" in China. One is that some people think that some of the early clips of the comics are too much like real bullying; The second is that some people think that many of them are too "suspicious" of selling meat.
In other words, "Nagatoro-san", as a pure love manga, seems to tarnish the sanctity of pure love in terms of scale and intensity.
Nowadays, pure love is in China, and there is a layer of armor full of sharp blades. When many things are related to it, they can't be related to sexy content, and the latter has become a kind of evil crime, and it will definitely be called "male", "vulgar" and "flattering".
Then, as with almost everything today, both men and women will fight to the death for this ugly name.
Darling in the Franxx ...... If "Cowboy Bebop" and the early works of G Society were put to this day, I am afraid that they would all be put on the hat of male condensation here; Actually, the animation of the Trigger Club is now exactly that.
In "Nagatoro Classmate", the kind of unscrupulous display of the physical charm of young girls, if it were replaced by a domestic comic, or a two-dimensional mobile game, it should have been torn to pieces by both sides of the war.
Looking around, this is the reality we live in, and that's why when we write articles, there are always countless minefields hidden in the second game and anime that cannot be crossed. It seems that all topics that begin with the love of men and women will eventually turn to camps and battlefields because of the intervention of desire, and finally become hatred.
Sensuality is a sin in the presence of holy men and women.
The rhythm of "Nagatoro-san" often reminds me of a banned book from a hundred years ago that had nothing to do with it: "Lady Chatterley's Lover". This is a United Kingdom novel published underground in 1928, and now it has become a world-recognized masterpiece, but at that time, it was banned for decades in various countries such as China, Japan, South Korea, the United States, Germany and Britain because of its straightforward sexual description.
The story of the book describes a woman who has no married life and finally finds that she cannot survive on thought and platonic love alone, so she finds the integrity of her life in a love that crosses classes.
For many years, the author D. H. Lawrence was both abused as an erotic writer. But he once explained why he wrote such a story, and Lawrence gave two reasons: first, he thought that the ultra-conservative United Kingdom at the time had a distorted view of love, and that people maintained its superficial purity too much and ignored its lustful side; So, he wants to return the "integrity" to love.
Another reason was that he wanted to mend the relationship between men and women, which had become increasingly alienated and broken in society at that time.
Eventually, D. H. Lawrence died of notoriety, failing to see his work enter the literary panes decades later and revolutionize literary censorship for generations to come. After his death, only E.M. Foster was willing to leave an obituary for him from the front.
I read this book a long time ago, and it made a deep impression on me at the time, and then I gradually forgot about it. But I find it easier and easier for me to think about it and the writer over the years. There seems to be a kind of heroism in his words that he knows that he can't do it, but he resolutely does it, reverberating through time in an endless sea of rhythm.
In "Nagatoro-san", love is complete, and we understand that it will always have another side, a side that "belongs to the underground". 774's psychological portrayal of the male and female protagonists, full of the restlessness of adolescent desire, is displayed in playful pranks, and the blank spaces in many chapters seem to hint at a world that does not belong to the shore.
But at the same time, unlike Kazuto Okada's works, it focuses almost entirely on the budding torrent of desires of boys and girls. Its theme is still love, single-minded, pure youthful love.
Because of this, Nagatoro and the male protagonist are not symbolic characters, and their temptation is not task-based. The two of them are like young people who are really dominated by love and explore each other's gravity. The male protagonist will bravely express his emotions in a nervous tremble; Similarly, when Nagatoro is tempting, he is constantly restraining his shyness and fear, and is forced to hurry by the male protagonist's bold confession from time to time.
That's why people say that Nagatoro is a character with high offense and low defense. Just like this love story itself, Nagatoro is also fully portrayed, and she is not just a provocative little demon.
Nagatoro's story is not pure, it does not have the spotless innocence of many pure love stories, love and desire naturally blend in it, but it makes it healthy - the word wholesome first contains soundness, and wholeness (whole).
Why is this integrity so important? I'd like to use another book as an example: The Iceland writer Stefansson's "Fish Have No Feet." The book is so literary that it was promoted by publishers as "pure writing in Iceland", which caused a stir on Little Red Book and Douban, as many people were unhappy with some of the explicit depictions.
Coincidentally, in the book, there is a plot that the male protagonist has always been haunted by the meat joke left by his grandmother to his grandfather, "I don't wear anything under my skirt", he thinks it is dirty, frightening and disillusioned. It wasn't until after the death of his grandmother that the male protagonist realized the meaning of this sentence.
In the book, there is a heart-wrenching description of this, but unfortunately, because it is too long, I can't copy it. But it was roughly to say: he suddenly understood the value of this meat joke, that his grandmother was old and withered, and could no longer take off her dress, a devastating force that no one could escape.
But this meat joke seems to be a threat to the world, because it proves that once upon a time, my grandmother was also so young, hiding a charming body under her skirt. Even if all our experiences, whether beautiful or ugly, laughing or touching, are destined to be forgotten and destroyed in the end, pushing us towards the void; That's why we have to recite to future generations the popular singles and embarrassing jokes of history and the past, because then you will understand that everyone has had youth, we have all burned with passion and desire, they are flames that will illuminate the darkness.
Only in this way will life have temperature, you will not forget to feel it, become a painting on the wall, a piece of furniture in front of the TV, a chair in the living room, will not become a plaything of power and profit, will not become insignificant, indifferent and ruthless - only in this way will the flame not subside, the world will not become an ice cellar, become the dark side of the moon.
"If I don't wear anything under my skirt, you'll know I love you."
Therefore, the meaning of this integrity is that it is the true side of love, and love should have some kind of unswerving power, which can absorb nutrients from the mud and bloom, and can penetrate the barrier without hesitation; It is not a white lotus that is contaminated with a speck of dust and will be destroyed immediately.
Pure love works often seem to become fragile love that is carefully cared for, and finally it is not easy to be kept alive.
But love is not glass, and legend has it that Valentine's Day commemorates the death of St. Valentine's Friar by Catherine's Wheel of Torture in order to protect a forbidden couple. In Latin, the word "valentine" does not originate from love, but from "power."
This kind of power to overcome obstacles has always been the core that runs through "Nagatoro-san". From the beginning to the end, Nagatoro learned to be considerate and sincere because of love, and the male protagonist learned the courage to face feelings and ideals; They learn to let down their guard and rely on it, and if you compare the beginning of the story, you will find that this love affair has completely changed the lives of the two.
This love is not a fragile porcelain, but an untainted spear that allows them to overcome their inner cowardice, their fear and confusion in the face of life, and loneliness and distance – so like many great love stories, it is not a pure love story.
The ideal love of the world should be full of power, it can always overcome something powerful, so there will be a reason to be cherished. The reason why Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is on a par with his four tragicomics is precisely because it gives young love the power to conquer ancient feuds; Even if many people have already offered this book to the altar, forget that it contains many meat jokes.
So in the French musical, the most famous singing part is "The King of the World", which shows Romeo's wandering life.
On it, I put a song that has nothing to do with this article, or even the comic, "Ladies and gentlemen we are floating in space", from the band Spiritualized, a classic love song in the history of psychedelic rock, born from the pen of a couple who are immersed in the world of tobacco, alcohol and adulthood, and are about to separate. Its chorus lyrics are simple:
"I will love you unto death;
In all dimensions of time, I will love you. ”
The reason why I put this song is because Yellow, a UP master black cat that I like very much, put it at the end of the video of her interpreting the manga "ABARA (Ribs)". The second bottle is "Blame! ", another of his comics "The Knight of Sidnia", also has the rhythm of "male condensation" and "selling meat" in China.
Along with this song comes the ending of "ABARA": a man and a woman who have been mutated and have nothing but fighting in their lives, after the destruction of the world, float in space, like lovers, and fight against powerful alien creatures forever.
This story inspired Fujimoto's "Fist of Fire". At the end of "Fist of Fire", Fujimoto makes a man and woman who have experienced hatred, destruction, and endless pain finally embrace each other naked in space.
Then, he drew a self-proclaimed youth version of "ABARA" "Chainsaw Man", turning touching his chest and getting rid of it into the male protagonist's greatest wish, and then gave him the most unforgettable friendship, love, and family affection, let him experience them all, and finally find temporary tenderness in a hug.
We look for the epic of love in the illusory works, not to grasp a white cloud, but to find in it some kind of power endowed by history and life; This power belongs to life, so it also has everything in life, from instinct, from those "vulgar things" that we seek and hide.
That's why I want to recommend "Nagatoro-san" today. Because it's playful and funny, because it's full of perks, because it's full of gimmicks, all these reasons are genuine.
But more importantly, it is complete.
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