Cherry: Forever Nine-Year-Old "Imperfect Girl"

Happiness is that although we are poor, everyone is very healthy...

——— One of the golden sentences of cherry pills

1965.5.8-2018.8.15

Japanese manga artist and writer, formerly known as Miura Miki. Born in Shimizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, he debuted as a manga artist during his university studies, and in 1986 created the manga Cherry Maruko, as well as the manga Coji-Coji and the essay Canned Peaches. She is also the songwriter of the theme song of the anime Cherry Pills. He died of breast cancer in the early morning of August 15, 2018.

Among the many Japanese animations that have deeply influenced generations of children and teenagers, there is a "Cherry Maruko", which does not have the blood of a teenage hero, nor the adventure of machine fighting, but is just a warm daily life of a family of six, and a light and witty little story, accompanied by many people's "after school" time.

The girl, named "Little Pill", has been nine years old since 1990 and has been in the third grade of elementary school. She is very thick-lined, eccentric, does not like to write homework, is a bit lazy, loves to eat food, always fights with her sister, and has her petite and willful side. It is such an imperfect child that most people can find a little shadow of their own childhood in her.

In the 32 years since the manga was serialized, Maruko has been popular at all ages, and the anime has been on the air for 28 years, with more than 1500 episodes. But the author of "Cherry Pills", cherry whose real name is Miura Miura, died of illness at the age of 53, leaving countless readers and viewers with sad words: "Our childhood is also over." ”

Cherry has dreamed of becoming a cartoonist since she was a child, but the road to fame has been bumpy. In 1986, she began serializing the manga "Cherry Pills" in the magazine RIBON, which was based on her childhood and was a great success. In 1990, "Cherry Maruko" was animated, with a witty, fun, and relaxed daily plot, and has so far ranked among the top three japanese anime ratings, making it one of the most well-known and influential anime works in the world.

The small pills under her brush grew up in a family full of love and warmth, although not rich, but the family got along harmoniously, mutual understanding, parents, grandparents and sisters, happy to live, a family of six sitting around the daily small theater eating hot pot and nagging, can also let the audience watch with relish.

The cherry that continues to bring emotion and laughter to the world, this parting at the age of 53, is really too early. Text/Zhu Rongting