The author of the comic “Cherry Maruko” (さくらももこ子) died of breast cancer on August 15 at the age of 53. .
Sakura loves comics from childhood, and once submitted to the girl comic magazine in junior high school. At the time, she created orthodox comics and never won an award. Coupled with her parents’ opposition to her creation, she once thought that she would not achieve anything on the road to comics. .
However, in the second year of high school, Sakura scored high in the school’s composition competition. The judge praised her as “modern and clear-cut”. “It is hard to imagine that the style of this prose style was written by high school students.” Sakura was inspired by it and decided to “paint essays with comics.” After that, she won the newcomer award for the girl comic magazine “RIBON” for the first time. .
While creating comics, Sakura has another dream, which is to become a slang. When Chunfengting Xiaochao held a personal performance in her hometown of Shizuoka, she stayed at the door and wanted to propose a teacher’s art when she left the stadium. But before she spoke, Xiaochao had already passed in front of her, and she missed the opportunity. .
After Sakura became a well-known cartoonist, she once mentioned this past in her own prose. Xiaochao read her work and only knew it for the first time. He joked in the blog: “Fortunately, she did not become my apprentice, all Japanese children can enjoy “cherry pellets.”
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Sakura, who failed to become a slang, debuted as a cartoonist at the age of 19. After that, she came to Tokyo to work in a publishing house while insisting on creation. Due to the double pressure of work and creation, she entered the company for two months, and forty or fifty days she was dozing off at the company. The boss forced her to choose between work and comics. Sakura chose to retire. In the same year, at the age of 21, she began serializing “Cherry Maruko” serialized in “RIBON” magazine. .
“Cherry Maruko” tells the ordinary and colorful daily life of the late Showa period from the perspective of childhood cherry. Before the animation, this work has been loved by readers. At the age of 25, the “Cherry Maruko” animation was launched, and it became a national work. .
In addition to “Cherry Maruko”, another ridiculous comic book “Kekji Keji” created by Sakura has also been adapted into an animation, which is also popular with the audience. .
Although the popularity is extremely high, Sakura himself is very low-key. She rarely shows up and is interviewed. Before her son went to elementary school, she did not disclose to her son that she was a cherry. .
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While insisting on creating comics all the year round, Sakura also published many prose works. Her style is easy and funny, her eyes are poisonous, and she does not hide her face. Many Japanese people have read the fun of reading for the first time because they read her essays. There are also a handful of people who have been influenced by her work and embarked on the road to creation. .
The light novelist Fujiwara Yu said that the cherry has both extremes of underground and mainstream, cult and pop, and is able to move freely between the two, just like the existence of a monster. She is not only highly comic, but also has extraordinary writing. There are many people who are from her prose until what is an “interesting article.” Fujiwara himself was one of these people and was deeply influenced by her. .
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Cherry as a lyricist also achieved good results. She not only composed many themes for her own animated songs, but also created many famous songs. Last year, she and the composer came together to produce an album “One Week”. The singer of the album, Shinji Maiden, commented on her obituary: The only one who can bring the warmth of the Showa era family and the children who don’t know the video game, the little poison and dreams, and the compassionate expression of grandparents The people who gave the next generation died in the Heisei era. .
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According to Japanese TV shows, Cherry began to fight breast cancer at least seven years ago. However, she is still actively involved in many fields, and the tone of her work is as always. The seiyuu of “Cherry Maruko” appeared in TARAKO, Morikawa Chino, and others. Before receiving the obituary, she did not know that she was sick. .
The death of the national cartoonist shocked the whole of Japan. Many people have also taken the opportunity to appeal to women to improve their health awareness and regularly check breast cancer. .
And the death of the cherry seeds almost throughout the Heisei era, many people have deeply felt the passage of time. .
The novelist Yoshioka said that it is impossible for the comics editors to find the painters who can be fired on Pixiv and let them only debut on the Internet. Even if they have such outstanding talents as cherry, they cannot be recognized by the world. Known. .
No matter which creative field, once the recession begins, it will give the highest priority to those works that sell well. During the prosperous period, the heresy can be accommodated, and the chances of debuting will be less and less, which will make the field lose its diversity and begin to go on a negative cycle. Once this step is developed, there is no way to recover it. The most frightening thing is that this kind of reduction and reproduction, at first glance, will be mistaken for a “hot”. .
Of course, the success of the cherry comes from her own talent and vision. However, with these own conditions, “RIBON” magazine, which was just serialized at the beginning of the “Cherry Maruko” magazine, officially claimed more than 2 million issuers. I think that the magazine now has only about 150,000 units, and Yoshioka has to be pessimistic: the current “RIBON”, the possibility of making the cherry color so different, is already very low. .
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