Mahjong can be described as the "national essence" of our country, relatives and friends and neighbors visit the door during the New Year's Festival, once they step into the door, they will not say anything, and they will play two laps on the table. Rubbing the numbness is not an idle, it is a love point...
Since the formation of the Daoguang Xianfeng years, mahjong's three-point entertainment and leisure sports rely on strength and seven points rely on luck have quickly gone abroad and have a large number of loyal fans around the world. Especially in Japan, since the introduction of mahjong to Japan in 1909, because of its natural cultural affinity, this sport has become more unimpeded in Japan, and now, they are also an opponent who can compete with us at the World Mahjong Championship...
Screenshot of the end of the 5th European Mahjong Championship on domestic news
Of the 51 teams participating in this competition
Euro-Japan United won the team championship and The Japanese won the first place
There are many celebrity anecdotes that are also linked to mahjong, such as Yoshihiro Fuken, who painted "The White Book" and "Full-time Hunter", and is famous for his overly wild working environment, missing reasons for unscripted manuscripts and extreme obsession with mahjong...
Do you think he can play mahjong himself! No, he also played a game, called the "Fujian Cup". Dragging comic book colleagues to play mahjong together...
The participants in the competition were given their own drawings, and they were ranked in the right place.
According to this degree of enthusiasm for mahjong, xiaobian feels that it is probably completely fine to open a new issue to draw a story related to mahjong... Just according to the "achievement" of "Full-time Hunter" that has been suspended for 500 times in 25 years, this kind of fantasy can probably only be a fantasy...
However, the subject of mahjong, there are still many Japanese manga artists who like it.
In 1969, Kakuda Jiro's "Yu 戏 Manga" ("Play Comic")This is the late work of the "发陷阱阱" ("Trap").
The magazine that was originally published is no longer available
However, some netizens included a short compilation album that later published "The Card Trap"
The second comic is 1971's "Card Magician" ("Card Magician"), here, mahjong is still a niche comic theme, but in 2006, "Genius Mahjong Girl" appeared, this theme suddenly became popular...
This manga with mature selling points and distinctive themes in Japan and The country are a small fire, this story about a group of high school mahjong girls to compete in mahjong as the goal to enter the whole high school, Japan and even the world is actually our familiar formula, female high school students do not talk about love, began to fight at the card table is still very interesting.
Appeared! The gestures that the protagonists in the competitive genre are bound to appear!
Because the market response is very good, mahjong girls quickly adapted animation and live-action films, continuing the nonsensical style of the original comic, shameful lines, but occasionally there are some thought-provoking lines, game theory is used in the plot of the comic, there will be a way to persuade people on the table of life not to fall into the role of life victory theory.
The author also teasingly pointed out the essence of mahjong and money: life is like a mahjong game, there are losses and wins, there are exchanges, "so that in the process of playing mahjong, social currency will continue to be issued."
Watching beautiful girls play mahjong is really pleasing to the eye
But watch them with such young faces
When you say those elaborate "life lines" in the play
There will still be a wonderful and comical sense of contrast
"Genius Mahjong Girl" is a successful commercialization of mahjong-themed comics, but in fact, around the comic theme of mahjong, there are many people who have drawn some other interesting works.
A little more cheerful is "Legend of Fighting Cards", this manga also adds a lot of its own rules to the local Japanese mahjong playing style, in the story, this style of play is the special mahjong rules of this house called Vulture Nest:
1. The mahjong cards used are Vulture Nest mahjong cards. Of the 34 types of mahjong cards, three cards are transparent cards; one regular card.
2. Vulture Nest Mahjong uses a special table to play with a hole in the middle of the table. The party who is turned takes cards from the hole each time. The table is automatically shuffled. (When the comic was serialized, the automatic mahjong table had not yet been invented, and this prediction can be said to be very divine)
3. No mountain cards.
4. Wear special gloves when drawing cards.
5. The acquisition of treasure cards, treasure cards and bar treasure cards shall be taken out of the table hole by the notary after the shuffle.
6. The game is played half a dozen times
Not to mention that the drawing style of this comic is very personal, looking at the setting of this mahjong gameplay can also be said to be very chaotic...
Moreover, this manga was later changed to a live-action version, the film version was contracted by Kashiwara Takashi, and the TV drama version was starred by the stubborn and beautiful teenager Hongo Sodo, who starred in the live-action version of "The Prince of Tennis" that year.
Look at the collagen on Kashiwara's face...
Speaking of which, the protagonist of the TV series version of "Legend of Fighting Cards" Hongo Sodo is also a mahjong fan outside the play, often caught by the media in and out of the mahjong hall, in 2017 also won the first place in the celebrity representative decision battle in the Japanese mahjong competition "Sparrow Strongest Battle 2017", which shows that the level is still quite high, it is really not a road that people do not play all the way ah...
In fact, the same competition Hongo Sango also participated in 2016
It's just that I didn't win the championship
But he won the author of "The Legend of Fighting Cards", Nobuyuki Fukumoto...
(It is the one with the red box in Figure 3)
Compared with the somewhat playful "Legend of Fighting Cards" above, the following mahjong comic "Sky Card" can be called hardcore.
List of covers of the "Sky Card" comic book
The subtitle of this series is "The Legend of mahjong flying dragon"
The peers around him have successively chosen to embark on the social life of fighting and survival, and the protagonist Okimoto has chosen another battlefield - the mahjong table, single-mindedly fighting with powerful opponents.
Live-action movies seem to be popular
Otherwise, I wouldn't have made as many as four films in a row...
When the protagonist of the first volume is confused and has not yet completely decided to embark on the road of competitive mahjong, he encounters his colleagues on the deck who treat mahjong cards roughly in the mahjong hall, causing a small conflict, and realizes from the anger from the bottom of his heart that he really likes mahjong and takes this seemingly playful thing seriously...
Really liked something
It is impossible to turn around and do something else
The boxy mahjong tiles and comic storyboards are very compatible
Some of the storyboard arrangements are very interesting
The battle part is the most interesting
The author will play the cards that appear from time to time
For the reader to guess the direction of the plot
The atmosphere when playing cards is very tense
The protagonist's main task every day is to find strong people to fight, just look at the manga, maybe you will think that the Japanese people who play mahjong are professional, but the truth is that at present, Japan and the country, there is no so-called "professional card player", replaced by all kinds of large and small clubs, non-governmental organizations, etc., love to play mahjong, active in the table everywhere, normal working hours or should go to work...
Comics are comics, life is life, probably the cartoonists of competitive themes really have a talent, that is, the ability to turn all the themes in their pen into hot blood themes...
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