Gotta Go the Healing Route

If she adds color to the work, the pressure will become even greater. She is really not sure whether the 16-year-old boy can hold it up.

From the perspective of Kazama Xi's body, she would not let Kazama Xi do this.

But Kazama Xi just did it.

In the boy's words:

"If the story doesn't attract people for the time being, then we can only start from other aspects."

The story and the artist complement each other. If one is not in place, you can only work hard on the other.

This kind of dedicated attitude made Aster Uemura respectful, and Yu Kazama not only completed the coloring of the work this week, but also delivered the manuscript ahead of time as before, Aster Uemura's mood turned into complete admiration.

Some people are born to eat this bowl of rice. Compared with ordinary cartoonists, they are geniuses.But in Uemura Ziwan's eyes, the boy has gone beyond the category of genius, and can only be described as evildoer.

Still, from an editorial point of view, Aster Uemura always felt that she had to do something.

I specially helped Kazama Xi bring a can of nourishing and nourishing from Tokyo. This is one of them, and the other is:

"Xi Jun, otherwise, let's find some assistants now."

"I rented an apartment here in Kyoto as a temporary studio. When I was in Tokyo, I contacted several assistants. If I paid double the salary, they would be more than happy to come here to help."

"Your entrance exam will be at the end of next month. It would be good to have some assistants to share the pressure."

Aster Uemura went to Tokyo a few days ago. Apart from some things at work, she was busy with this aspect.

Hearing Aster Uemura's words, Yu Kazama paused slightly, then shook her head.

"Let's forget it, the one-month temporary studio is too troublesome, it's really unnecessary, and it also affects my rhythm."

"Actually, Miss Ziwan, you really don't have to worry, my side is fine."

Wen Chaogong and Golden Finger, these two attributes Kazama Xi will definitely beat the cartoonists in this different time and space.

After all, there is no need to think about the rhythm of the plot of the script. As for the color matching and style of painting, it is completely ready-made.The only thing Kazama Xi needs to do is how to design the storyboard.

The painting style of "Magic Circle" is much simpler than that of "Death Note". The coloring is just the details of the previous "Death Note" style, and the workload is actually not much.

Kazama Xi's attitude was very firm, and Uemura Ziwan had no choice but to give up.

Then the latest episode of this week was also published in Jump's new issue.

The plot is still taken from the first episode of the "Magic Circle" animation.

An animation of more than 20 minutes per episode is naturally impossible to draw in just one sentence.In fact, Kazama Xi intends to divide the content of one episode into two or three episodes of manga, otherwise, many details and foreshadowing must not be taken care of.

The second chapter of the manga was picked up from the previous one. A mysterious transfer student named Akami Homura came to Madoka Kame’s school. Then, when school was over, Madoka Kame and Sayaka Miki met Akami Homura by chance. He is chasing and killing a cute white pet.

The kind-hearted Madoka Kamu rescued the cute pet, but also strayed into the enchantment formed by the witch.

In desperation, a senior named Ba Mami appeared.

Ba Mami is a real magical girl, she defeated the witch with great elegance and ease, and saved Madoka Kame.

There is nothing to say about the plot, not how exciting it is, it can only be said that it is an old-fashioned routine used to advance the story.

But the witch who appeared in this sentence is really shocking.

The curtain is pieced together like torn paper, and the antique German writing on it brings an extremely distorted feeling.Children's graffiti-like pictures combined with dark tones are like children's cults.

The girls with small round faces look so out of place in the enchantment, which makes the enchantment of witches seem curious and grotesque.

Compared with the plot, most readers' attention has shifted to this style of painting.

"What kind of painting style is this, I have never seen it before."

"It's obviously just a graffiti-like picture that is put together inexplicably, and there is a feeling of spiritual pollution."

"At first, I thought Mr. Yu Biechao's painting style in this work was too ordinary. But now that I think about it, the cute painting style and the villain's painting style can form a huge sense of difference."

In fact, the painting style of the witch, her enchantment, and familiars in "The Magic Circle" is called the Collage style.

It is very common in the works of cubism, surrealism or abstractionism, and it can be said that it is a very prominent type of abstractionism.

The popular feature of this style is an art of collage using stickers, coarse sand, wood chips, hardware, lenses, lines and other elements.Simply put, it is a collage-like effect.

Kelaqi creates a weird and terrifying visual experience through exaggerated and abstract deformation. At the same time, the scene construction will give people a fairy-tale feeling.

The creator of Ke Laqi's style is Blake, but this different time and space does not have this character.

That is to say, this style is shown for the first time in this different time and space in "Magic Circle".

It is not without reason that readers feel novelty and shock.

This was also deliberately done by Kazama Xi. After all, the early stage of "Magic Circle" is too ordinary, and only this method can highlight the sense of unusualness.

Of course, the most important thing is that "The Magic Circle" is a work with huge contrast between the front and the back. The plot in the early stage is very confusing, and Coraqi's style is undoubtedly the most suitable for this work.

Most comics with the theme of "cruel" and "darkness" usually use a realistic style of painting to set off the theme, such as the style of "Death Note".

If "Magic Circle" uses the same method to express the witch, it is equivalent to implying that the subsequent plot will take a sharp turn, so that it will not be able to bring a sense of shock to the readers.

But on the contrary, if a cartoonish witch design is deliberately used in order to confuse the audience, then it will be difficult to express the cruelty of the magical girl's battle later, which is in line with the dark and cruel plot in the later period.

Considering all these, Coraqi's style is the most suitable style for "The Magic Circle".Different stages can have different interpretations.

For example, at the early stage, I only felt that it was pure and weird, which fit the characteristics of the witch villain very well.

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In the second chapter, Kazama Xi used this unprecedented painting style to make a small explosion, which caught people's attention.

After the results of the second episode came out, Ziwan Uemura also breathed a sigh of relief.

Xiaozheng No.4 is a step forward compared to last week, ranking behind "Soul of the Sword", "Bound of the Lingzhu" and "Detective Strange Records".It can be said that it is the only one with magical girl-themed works reaching this position.

But Uemura Aster was only relieved, and more worried.

Kazama Xi's painting has been done to the extreme.Others basically use plots and stories to explode, but Kazama Xi's use of the painting style in the second episode is unique.

but...

"It's still a matter of theme and story..."

Although Kazama Xi had told her before, this work will not be the same as the usual magical girl theme.There will be plot twists.

But Kazama Xi didn't say clearly what the turning point of the plot was.

The first few chapters can still be supported by the enthusiasm left over from the previous work "Death Note", but if this continues, this work may really be wiped out by everyone.

Editors naturally have various channels to collect readers' real comments, and can see the readers' most authentic views on a work.

After two words, Aster Uemura also conducted investigations through these channels.

The results obtained were mixed.

Those who praised it felt that the painting style is very cute, and I like this style of painting very much.

But the negative reviews are basically the same, criticizing the stories and themes.

"The beginning is the protagonist dreaming. Although the painting is really good, but the beginning is too routine. In the dream, the heaven descends on the people, and this kind of plot is already the rest of Wangdao manga. There is also the transfer student's story. Routine, is this a collection of routines?"

"Mr. Yubiechao is really not suitable for drawing royal manga. And even if it is drawing manga, it's fine. Why choose the theme of magical girls?"

"Jump is a teenage manga, not a shoujo manga. This kind of cute style and teenage protagonist are really unlikable."

"Although being cut in half is the biggest setback a cartoonist will face, I still hope that Mr. Yubiechao can experience this setback, regain his original intention as soon as possible, and return to the right path of evil."

The above negative comments are basically the original words, and even Ziwan Uemura, who is standing on Kazama Xi's side, can't find any reason to refute.

Moreover, sometimes being famous is not necessarily a good thing.As the saying goes, the higher you stand, the harder you fall.When something fails to meet people's expectations, violent backlash will follow.

At the beginning of March, the third episode of "Magic Circle" was released, and the Xiaozheng score of this episode showed a precipitous decline.

11th place.

This is already the level of the middle and lower reaches, and it is possible to enter the dangerous line of being cut in half at any time.

Even Aster Uemura, who was already mentally prepared, couldn't help but slow down after seeing this result.

PS: The pace may be a little fast, the next chapter will be later.

PS2: Thank you Iridium Star Flash for your reward, and updates will be added in the next two days.

Chapter 120 Two

The content of the third chapter of "Magic Circle" is very simple, basically everyday.

A lot of daily life, eating, going to school, and a few girls in the protagonist group drink tea and chat about school trivial matters.Even those witches appeared in the middle, and after a scene, they were solved by the senior sister Ba Mami who is a magical girl.

Magical girls are just like a simple job, and the girls are still living a peaceful and happy life.

"I'm sorry, I can't help it anymore. Is this manga really created by Mr. Yubiechao? The first three golden episodes, just use this kind of story to perfuse us?"

"What we want to read is an interesting story, even if it is a daily plot, we must add a little turmoil, otherwise what is the reader watching?"

"The plot is really too watery."

The rhythm is extremely gentle, and readers can't even feel the development of the story in this episode. Readers who came for the name "Rain Farewell" expressed their disappointment one after another.

These disappointments were reflected directly in the reader survey.

Many die-hard fans even expressed that they would not vote at all, so that this comic could be cut in half as soon as possible.

Of course, some readers said: Maybe the story will have a turning point in the next chapter?

But when the fourth chapter was published, it directly crushed the readers who held this mood to death.

The fourth chapter still focuses on daily life, and the only thing that can promote the plot is the conversation between Asami Ba and Homura Akatsuki in the middle of the night.The author's intention may be to deepen the contradiction between the two.

But what is the use?

The scolding among the readers suddenly became more numerous.

With the advent of the criticism trend, some comic commentary magazines seized this hot spot and published a miscellaneous talk based on it.

"It's Tasteless to Eat, It's a Pity to Discard, The Caricature of a Genius Cartoonist"

"Many authors like to challenge themselves after they become famous, such as creating stories of different styles and choosing different themes. Teacher Yu Biechao is one of them.

We can clearly see the huge difference between his new work "Magic Circle" and his previous work "Death Note".

In my opinion, the painting style of "Death Note" is ahead of other cartoonists in the industry.But Teacher Yubiechao resolutely gave up the painting style he was famous for, and chose the opposite cute painting style.For a cartoonist with only one medium-length serial experience, this is extremely bold.But in the end he also succeeded.From the artist's point of view, "The Magic Circle" is indeed extremely good.At first glance, the girl's small round face is indeed a bit awkward, but after accepting this style of painting, I feel that the small round face reveals cuteness everywhere.

In the part of painting the witch, Yubiechao's bold style is even more shocking.Even a layman without any art skills can see that this style is unusual.