A healing writer? No, it's a depressing writer!

Chapter 168 Childhood Terminator! The fear of being dominated by fables! The master of depression is online! (4k)

In fact, sometimes Jiang Hai doesn’t really write about knives on purpose, or deliberately writes any depressing works or plots.

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There are some things that he needs people to do.

Literature should be as sharp as a knife and as incisive as a sword. It should not be a tool to whitewash the truth.

How boring would it be if all the words in this world were praising one's achievements?
If all the literature in this world was praising peace, wouldn’t it be boring?
This is not only true in literature, but also in the entertainment industry, or in the animation field.
They should be like this too!

Jiang Hai carefully studied the current animation market, especially the animations or cartoons for children aged 6 to 12, and found that the animations and cartoons for children in the market are all relatively young educational animations, such as:
Peppa Pig, Shaun the Sheep, Thomas the Tank Engine, Dora the Explorer, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and so on.
I don't mean to say that these animations have any bad meaning.

However, in foreign countries, children start shooting at shooting ranges at the age of ten, and start practicing horse riding at the farm at the age of twelve.

The children here are in the sixth grade of primary school, but they are still watching "Teletubbies", "Peppa Pig" and "BabyBus". Isn't this more or less a bit of a disconnect?

Jiang Hai browsed the relevant information on the web page and suddenly fell into deep thought:
"I still remember when we were little, we could watch "Black Cat Sheriff", "Calabash Brothers", "Pig Man" and "Haier Brothers". How come when we grow up, so many classic domestic animations disappear in an instant, and the animation king that dominates the childhood of this generation of children is actually Peppa Pig, whose face is longer than a horse?"

"How can this continue to go downhill?"

Do you think domestic film studios ever had a peak period?
Of course there is.

From the 1960s to the 1980s, China's animation industry was a booming sunrise industry.

Even in Japan, which is famous for its animation industry, the cartoonist "Osamu Tezuka", known as the "Father of Japanese Animation", the author of "Astro Boy" and "Jungle Emperor", had to go to the Shanghai Fine Arts Film Studio for further studies if he wanted to learn animation at that time.

At that time, many classic animations were born, such as "The Magic Brush of Ma Liang", "Havoc in Heaven" and "The Tadpole Looking for His Mother".
It was produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio.

When it comes to the animation at that time, whether it is appreciated from the perspective of style or the concept of the entire film, it is definitely among the top levels of its time.

But now, the imaginative "Magic Brush" has been replaced by "Baby Bus", and the "Black Cat Sheriff" that once dominated the youth memory of a generation has quietly withdrawn from the screen, replaced by childish animation works such as Peppa Pig and Thomas the Tank Engine.
Why does this happen?

Naturally, there is no need to elaborate on the reason.

In this era, even educational animations like "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" can be reported by parents for being bloody and violent.

In sitcoms like Boonie Bears, in order to promote positive energy, even Bald Qiang, who is chopping trees, dares not swear. Even scolding Big Bear and Little Bear, “Stinky bear!”, will be censored. He can only shout out in extreme anger, “Little Bear! You’ve gone too far.”

In this situation, you let your children watch the "Mantis Eats Husband" in "Black Cat Sheriff" or the "Hand-Tear Snake Demon" in "Calabash Brothers".

Isn't this bloodier?
Isn't this more violent?

Isn't this purely a reverse version move?

"Although I might be reported, I will still write it even if you report me. I am stubborn."

Jiang Hai sat in front of the computer screen, constantly communicating with the animation production team of Makoto Shinkai about the specific details of "Sanmao Wanderings":

"The characters should be fuller. Sanmao's character should be skinny. His head could be bigger and his body should be thinner. Only contrast can create a contrast."

"Also, the rich man's appearance should be sarcastic and mean, he should be fat, with a big belly, and he should be leaning on a cane with a gold rim. When he beats Sanmao on the street, he must use force, and Sanmao's forehead must bleed. Your drawing is not tragic enough."

In the painting process of "Sanmao Wanderings", Jiang Hai acted as a screenwriter.

How to draw the framework of each scene.

Where should the focus be when describing the characters in each scene?

Jiang Hai has his own strict requirements for these.

I thought Jiang Hai was just an outsider, but who would have thought that he knew so much about the animation industry.
How can there be such professionalism?
This surprised the staff of Shinkai Makoto's animation production team:
"Jiang Haijun, have you ever been involved in animation production before?"

In fact, Jiang Hai didn’t know anything about anime, and before this, he had never been involved in animation production.

It's just that the classic character image of Sanmao was deeply imprinted in his mind, and all he did was to reproduce the character image in his mind in the form of words.

Maybe this is not difficult for him?
"I learned it by myself." Qianqian replied to the staff in charge of drawing. Jiang Hai decisively sent the first draft sent back by the animation production team for redrawing. "I'm not too satisfied with this part. Please send it back for redrawing."

It was just a four-frame picture, but Jiang Hai had to send it back and redraw it three or four times.

This made the ghostwriters of Makoto Shinkai's production team quite dissatisfied:
"Jiang Haijun, are your requests a bit too harsh?"

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Unexpectedly, before it could continue speaking, Jiang Hai decisively replied with three words:
"I'll add money!"

Generally speaking, according to the domestic market, the price of asking a domestic painter to paint a four-frame picture ranges from two hundred to two thousand yuan. There is no upper limit to this price. The more famous the painter is, the higher the price he needs to pay.

Of course, this is just the domestic market price, and the charges abroad are slightly higher.

Currently, the price that Makoto Shinkai's animation production team charges Jiang Hai's commissioned artist to draw a four-frame picture is 3,000 yuan, or about 60,000 yen.

Jiang Hai generously raised the price from the original 3,000 yuan to 4,000 yuan, which is about 86,000 yen.

The law of adding money never goes out of date.

When Jianghai announced the price increase, the original complaints disappeared instantly:
"Don't worry, I will revise this part tomorrow."

In fact, Jiang Hai does not expect that "The Wanderings of Sanmao" can change the current market for tragic themes in the animation field. Although the character of "Sanmao" is indeed a classic, does he think that the evaluation of this comic will cause any substantial impact on the domestic animation industry?

This is simply not realistic.

"A knifeman must be all-round."

"Depression must also be all-round!"

Jiang Hai's current work, including the creation of the dramas "The Injustice of Dou E" and "Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai", has been completely completed. He is now just waiting for a specific result.

Although the "Dragon Clan" series of stories is still serialized in "Youth Preface", for Jiang Hai, he only has to submit tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of words every week.

This is simply too easy.

"I'm still working on Sanmao's Wanderings. It will probably take another month or two to finish the manuscript. I don't feel any pressure to serialize Dragon Tribe. After all, my main goal when writing (copying) books is to be fast. So what should I do with the rest of the time?"

“We have to find a way to use it.”

As he was thinking, Jiang Hai suddenly thought of a track that he had never been involved in before -

Short stories, to be more precise, should be short pieces of literature!

All along, whether it is "Xu Sanguan Selling Blood" or "No Longer Human", or "The Dragon Race", "Sanmao" and "Butterfly Lovers".
Jiang Hai has always been involved in long stories. It seems that Jiang Hai has never been involved in short stories, or has he never been involved at all?

"While serializing "Dragon Tribe", I have to find time to supervise the drawings of "Sanmao", which makes my personal schedule a bit tight. However, I can still find some free time to write some short stories of a few thousand words or 10,000 or 20,000 words."

“What type of short story should I write?”

Jiang Hai looked at the sketch of "Sanmao" on the table and immediately thought of a relatively good idea:

“Fairy Tale Track!”

"Or maybe it should be the Fable Raceway!"

As we all know, the domestic comics or animation industry does not seem to be in such a favorable environment now?
Parents report them at every turn.

They would easily cross some red lines that should not be touched, and then be removed from the shelves.
If the situation with long stories is difficult, then can't I just change my thinking and write short stories?
Even if the short story is reported and removed from the shelves
Anyway, my short stories are not long and writing them is not difficult. If you report one, I will publish one more. The more you report, the more I will publish. I can even send more than a dozen manuscripts to various magazines and journals at the same time. I have the energy to finish writing them.
Do you have the energy to report it?
"If my previous thoughts have always been on 'knife man', then my next thoughts should focus on 'depression'"

Jiang Hai looked at the empty computer screen and suddenly fell into deep thought.

After a moment, a gleam of wisdom suddenly flashed in his eyes.

“There is a way.”

Just like Mr. Zheng Yuanjie, who is known as the King of Fairy Tales, although he only graduated from elementary school, the number of words he created throughout his literary career has reached more than 2000 million, among which the number of short articles he created is no less than hundreds. It is precisely because he has long specialized in short works related to the "fairy tale field" -

Therefore, he is called the 'Fairy Tale King'!
As we all know, the short fairy tales written by Mr. Zheng Yuanjie are mostly positive and optimistic, such as "Pipilulu Turns" and "Shuke and Beta". Think about it along this line.
Who says that stories for children have to be positive?

Couldn't they be a little more realistic and depressing?

"Let's start with 'Sanmao's Wanderings' and see how it works."

Jiang Hai's hands kept jumping on the keyboard, and in less than an afternoon, three short stories appeared on paper.

They are two fairy tales, "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Wolf and the Little Boy", and a realistic adventure fantasy short story, "The Sloppy King".

There is a story about Little Red Riding Hood that every child should have heard when they were young?

The story it tells is simply this:

[Once upon a time there was a little girl who was loved by everyone. She liked to wear a red velvet hat given by her grandmother, so everyone called her Little Red Riding Hood. One day, her mother asked her to deliver food to her grandmother who lived in the forest and told her not to leave the main road. However, Little Red Riding Hood did not obey and walked too far, so she met a wolf.]

【Little Red Riding Hood had never seen a wolf, and didn't know that wolves were ferocious, so she told the wolf that she was going to the forest to visit her grandmother. The wolf tricked Little Red Riding Hood into picking wild flowers, and then went to the cabin in the forest and ate Little Red Riding Hood's grandmother. Later, it disguised itself as the grandmother, and when Little Red Riding Hood came to see her grandmother, the wolf ate her in one bite. Fortunately, she met a brave hunter who rescued Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother from the wolf's stomach.】

Normally, this should be a warm and healing fairy tale?

Good will eventually triumph over evil.

The evil little monster will eventually be defeated by the righteous Ultraman.

The Big Bad Wolf is destined to be killed by the hunter who represents justice, and then Little Red Riding Hood and her grandmother will be rescued.
Under normal circumstances, there is nothing wrong with writing like this, and it is indeed in line with the values ​​of "truth, goodness and beauty" promoted by society?

But where do so many fairy tales of truth, goodness and beauty come from in reality?

You are in trouble and someone just happens to come and rescue you?

How could there be such a coincidence in reality?

It is precisely based on this point that Jiang Hai changed the original ending of the story of "Little Red Riding Hood" at the end:

[The righteous hunter did not show up, the big bad wolf not only ate the grandmother, but even Little Red Riding Hood fell in front of the big bad wolf’s bloody mouth]

In addition to "Little Red Riding Hood", Jiang Hai also changed the original ending of the fable "The Boy Who Cried Wolf":

[In fact, the shepherd boy never lied. He cried out to the adults at the foot of the mountain for help several times: "Wolf, wolf"; it was not that the shepherd boy was lying; the wolves really came. It was just that when the shepherd boy asked the farmers for help and the adults ran up the mountain with shotguns to help, the cunning and sinister wolves secretly ran to the nearby mound and hid.]

[The cowherd boy called for help from adults for the first time, but the adults rushed to the top of the mountain and did not see the wolf. The cowherd boy called for help from the bottom of the mountain for the second time, but the adults came to the top of the mountain again and still did not see the wolf. The cowherd boy called for help from adults for the third time, but after being deceived twice before, the adults thought the cowherd boy was playing a prank, so no one believed him.]

So, at the end of the story, the cowherd boy who lost the trust of the adults was eaten by wolves.

Even the sheep on the mountain were eaten by the wolves.
Would you say that the endings of these fairy tales are a bit dark?

Dark, indeed, it is somewhat dark.

But this is realistic enough, isn't it?

In real life, where do so much truth, goodness and beauty come from? Where does so much distinction between justice and evil come from?

So-called justice is nothing more than history written by the victors
"I just want to help kind-hearted children recognize the reality as soon as possible by writing these fairy tales."

After writing these two manuscripts, Jiang Hai did not hesitate at all and immediately searched for journals to submit to online.

For a youth book like this [fairy tale fable], you definitely can’t submit it to a magazine like “Youth Preface” because the age range of readers it targets is—

It should be smaller.

It should be younger.

After a while, Jiang Hai found two magazines and periodicals on the Internet that were relatively suitable for his requirements. The names of these two magazines and periodicals were:

Children's Literature

October Youth Literature

Using the pen name [Anonymous], Jiang Hai opened a small account and submitted "Little Red Riding Hood" to "Children's Literature" and "The Wolf is Coming" to "October Youth Literature".

After a while, I received automatic replies from two magazines:

[Dear author friends, the manuscript has been received. Please keep your personal contact information open so that we can reply to you]

After doing all this, Jiang Hai leaned back in his chair and silently lit a cigarette.

He suddenly fell into deep thought:
"You're going to harm even the children?"

“Isn’t this a bit too brutal?”

(End of this chapter)