Note: This article contains comic spoilers.
It was the first time I swiped "Furilian the Buried", I was quite excited, I thought it was a comic about 's mortuary in another world, and took the route of " Labyrinth Rice ", the theme is the various kinds of magic in the universe Funeral customs.
read a few words, only to realize that there is some deviation from what I thought. Although "burial" in Japanese does mean "burial", in the first few chapters of the manga, the protagonist Frillian is mainly taking care of the funeral of his old partner, but the manga did not deliberately seek the cleverness of the setting. In essence, it is still a relatively slow-paced travel story. The tonality and rhythm of
are vividly expressed at the beginning of the comic. In just a few pages, it tells a fairy tale that time is like an arrow, life and death are impermanent, love is impossible, and there are tears in laughter, which makes people feel a little warm and a little distressed:
After the hero and his party eliminated the demon king, the elf mage Fulilian Make a wish: 50 years later, everyone will meet again to watch a half-century meteor shower . 50 years is just a flick of a finger for the elves, but the human hero who loves Furylian has changed from a handsome young man to a bald old man who passed away shortly after watching the meteor shower. Only at this time did Frillian realize that in her eyes, the journey to defeat the Demon King was just a moment in her life, and what a magnificent adventure epic for others, and because she was accustomed to it and indifferent, she had inadvertently missed so many good things in life.
"Fifty years of life are like white horses passing through gaps"
The problem that is easy to occur in works like this is that the beginning of drawing exhausts all the inspiration and tricks of the author. . Although "Furilian Buried" is the first popular work by the authors Yamada Taka and Abe, this manga is not timid at all from the drawing skills, the storyboards to the story rhythm. In addition to the wonderful big scenes, the hidden details in every small shot are also silently portraying the image of the characters.
You don't need to read a lot to understand why "Furilian The Burial" can win the second place in the boys' division of the 2021 "This Manga is Awesome" Award, the first prize of the Manga Awards 2021 and the Tezuka Osamu Culture Award Freshman Award . This is indeed the most exciting work of the past few years for me. In the story of
, Frillian is the protagonist of the bright line, and the brave Simmel is the protagonist of the dark line. Neither of them are really suitable for driving the plot alone. As a long-lived elf, Frillian does not eat human fireworks, and her way of doing things is too decisive, so it is difficult to directly resonate with readers. And the brave Simmel is too majestic and tall, and it was a bit too cliché in the era of "Rhode Island War", not to mention anti-heroes rampant today.
However, the author asked Freillian to repeat the journey of defeating the Demon King with the brave, and to connect the bright line of Freylin and the dark line of the brave Simmel together, making these two characters more "ordinary people". "the taste of. Frillian's strength has a foundation that readers can understand. She is no longer a mentor who has lived for many years and understands everything inexplicably. Many of her abilities were also learned through adventures.
"About the fact that I can't learn to hide treasure chest monsters in my life"
and perfect, the indomitable hero Simmel, who only lives in people's memories and legends, weakens a lot of the protagonist The embarrassment of live performance mouth cannon.
There are not many plot plug-ins in "Furilian The Burial". In other works, the taste of forced mechanical serenity must be very strong. But in this comic, due to the interlacing of light and dark lines like Frillian and Simmel, the plot is also taken for granted. This is also a refreshing one for the all-round crushing protagonist after One Punch Man and King of Bones.way of evolution.
The different world works over the years are more or less influenced by games. The lower level is to directly apply the settings of MMORPG and get a numerical system for upgrading monsters. "Furilian Buried" also has some "gamified" plot modes, but it is much more clever in handling. A typical example of
is that there is a plot in which Frilian takes her apprentice to solve the general of the Demon King's army who could only be sealed. The general had a trick of "killing magic" that year, and he blocked the killing god just like Avada Suoming. However, when the general woke up from his slumber, he found that he couldn't break through the defensive formation of Frillian's apprentice. It turned out that the "killing magic" of the general was too powerful. After being broken through by the collective research of the mage community, it has now become a "common attack magic" that everyone can use.
From the player's point of view, this is like going back to playing Karazhan in the 90s of "World of Warcraft", even wearing the new version of the quest outfit, you can still kill the Quartet in the purgatory of the old era. "Furilian Buried" successfully packs this routine into a fantasy world view, which is more respectable than those pseudo-fantasy different world works that put "a 70-level sword can't cut a 90-level official" on the bright side. .
"Furilian's Burial" is like a wonderful combination of "Maze Rice" and " Yokohama Shopping Journey ", which not only has a similar ingenious and meticulous world view design as the former, but also has the Japanese-style delicacy and melancholy of the latter. . Under the setting of a different world, this comic has created a vaporwave of memories about the brave Simmel, which can be said to be the most impressive work under the framework of the different world these years.
At present, the Simplified Chinese version of "Furilian's Burial" has been launched on Taobao, a travel research agency. Friends who are interested in this work may wish to go to check the details, and if you buy it now, you will also receive a paper warm postcard with the book.