In 2018, "Love Like Rain Stops", edited and drawn by Meiyue じゅん, was broadcast, telling the year-end love between an uncle and a female high school student. Although
seems to have a cliché setting, but accompanied by the rain in the background and the delicate progress of the plot, the audience can taste a different romance.
and the work introduced this time is also edited and drawn by Meiyue じゅん. It is a love comic with sci-fi and suspense elements -
"Kowloon Popular Romance"
This work continues the consistent and fresh style of "Love Like Rain" , with the mysterious setting of Kowloon in the Eastern Magic Cave and the adult love romance, won the 2021 "This comic is really amazing! "No. 3 on the 2021 Men's List. The background of the
comics is located in the Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong, China, and the background of the game " Hong Kong Weird Record " is also here, but in contrast to the gloomy atmosphere of the Kowloon Walled City in the game, this should have been demolished in 1993 and turned into rubble ruins The place is still prosperous, people come and go, and the flow is endless.
does not rush to tell the plot at the beginning of the work, but outlines the image of the protagonist's residence through a set of details from the inside to the outside of the house: the backward-posted blessing character, the hula fan, the refreshing watermelon, the faint smell of tobacco, the crowded building.
However, in Kowloon, which has a very local atmosphere, there is an incompatible existence, that is, the communication mother star under construction in the sky, which is praised by the TV station as "the new world of mankind", which adds a touch of science fiction to the story.
The heroine Whale Well Reiko is a staff member of Wanglai Real Estate Company, 32 years old, with neat short hair and decorative glasses. Her hobby is watermelon and cigarettes, and she likes to try new things.
Wanglai Real Estate Company has a total of three people, Kujii Reiko, senior Kudo Fa, and Li branch manager. The work includes taking clients to see the house, sorting out the list of items, cleaning the house, etc.
is different from Reiko Kashii, who is willing to try when she sees a new flyer. The senior Kudo Fa prefers to eat the same food in the same store. He dismisses new things and thinks that the communication home planet above his head is a human desire.
After eating dumplings in the old shop, the two of them burned garbage on the roof.
Jingjing chatting:
"I don't know why the new store in Kowloon always opens soon, and
I don't know when the one I want to go to will open."
Kudo Fa said while smoking: because Kowloon It must be a memorable place.
The noisy neighborhood, the musty alleys, the lights that will go out, all of which are inexplicably nostalgic. I think this kind of nostalgic feeling is no different from love.
The residents who live here also love Kowloon, so Kowloon will not change and cannot be changed, and there is no need for anything new here.
After talking about the paragraph just now, Ichigo Kudo looked rather sluggish and looked good-natured, but Whale Well had no nostalgia for Kowloon itself.
But occasionally I feel "miss" from this senior, and this inexplicable "miss" makes Kujii pay more and more attention to Kudo.
Kudo is a man who is sometimes mature and sometimes naive. He is obsessed with lottery winnings and old-fashioned food. He goes to work at a card point, and simple happiness can make him laugh.
does things carelessly and seems to be casual, but because he takes care of Jingjing, he will take her around the streets, come to his favorite cafes and snack bars to drink tea and eat, and send her to float.Bright little goldfish.
Whale Well confirmed that he likes Kudo on a sultry summer day.
Affected by Kudo's words "I want the tenants to live more comfortably", she spent a day repainting the old house that was rented out. When the last wall was left, Kudo smiled and handed it to the finished work. Her cold oolong tea and helped her finish the last wall.
Whale Well's sweat was like water droplets on a jar of iced oolong tea, and her heart seemed to melt with the heat.
unknowingly, being slowly changed by a single word is a harbinger of emotional turmoil.
is like the comic "Furilian Buried": after the death or old age of her past companions, the reason why the protagonist Frillian restarts her journey is the experience of traveling with the brave team to defeat the devil.
For the long-lived Frillian, their journey to acquaintance was only one percent of her life, but that one percent changed her.
After the peaceful daily life, the story of "Kowloon Popular Romance" ushered in an inflection point. Jingjing found a photo in Kudo's drawer. On , Kudo took a group photo with a woman who looked exactly like him. It looked very intimate.
To tell the story of Kudo Fa and this woman, he has to start from the moment he was transferred to Wanglai Real Estate Company.
Her name is Reiko Whale Well. She is a senior two years older. She has neat short hair and shiny earrings. Her hobby is watermelon and cigarettes. Her smile is bright and wanton, and she has a touch of mystery.
is different from Kudo Fa, who is willing to try new flyers when he sees a new leaflet. Senior Reiko prefers to eat the same food at the same store.
is different from Kudo, who is not used to the hot environment and crowded buildings. She has special feelings for Kowloon. On the afternoon of
on the rooftop, Lingzi freely confessed his love for Kowloon:
"The noisy and noisy neighborhood, the musty alley, the lights that will not go out, all these are inexplicably nostalgic.
I I feel that this kind of nostalgic feeling is no different from love."
The young Kudo Fa was stunned by her bright smile, and it took a while to react: "But I heard that the Nine Dragons are going to be demolished, why? If the sky disappears, it will be very painful to love Kowloon.”
recalled that the clear blue sky had been replaced by the planes and communication mother stars in the night sky today.
On the other side, Whale Well not only has no impression of taking a photo with Kudo, but also has no past memory before coming to Wanglai Real Estate Company.
She hadn't thought about this issue for a long time, just in vain, passing the moment step by step.
With doubts, Jingjing found the cafe in the background of the photo, but got an unexpected message from the waiter. The day the photo was taken was the anniversary of their successful engagement.
The information came so suddenly, Whale Well was a little dazed.
Who am I?
who is she?
Facing himself who looks exactly like his ex-girlfriend, why is Kudo still calm?
Whale Jing had more and more doubts in her heart, and her confusion thought that it was closely related to the secrets of Kowloon.
Kowloon, some people see rubble and ruins, others see it as a prosperous city.
Its existence is like the divine Silent Hill, and the emotional projection of different people will have different effects in this town.The regret and nostalgia for the disappearance of Kowloon in the hearts of the original inhabitants constitute the utopia where Whale Well is now living - an overhead Kowloon.
There are generally two types of people living in Kowloon, the ordinary people and the aborigines who entered by mistake. No matter who they are, the longer they live, the more they seem to get used to the hot and humid weather and crowded buildings in Kowloon, and gradually choose to settle here.
Kashii Reiko and Kudo hair are like this.
People are like goldfish in a fish tank, swimming in their own little area.
Until Reiko Kujii, whom Kudo knew, disappeared, he fell into a long memory and became more and more like Reiko.
So in the old nostalgia, the new Whale Well Reiko was born.
Her existence is like Kowloon. While old buildings and shops are piled up, there will also be new shops and outside technologies pouring in. Corresponding to the old is Reiko Kujii's own habits and appearance, and the new is the time experienced at the moment and the emotional preferences of the precipitation.
Of course, this is just one of the guesses combined with the plot. I believe the author Meiyue じゅん will give readers a more interesting answer. In
"Kowloon Popular Romance", rather than rendering ups and downs of suspenseful light and shadow, the author focuses more on depicting the long-running comedy of life, but the key to advancing the plot and deciphering is often hidden in the daily life of giggling.
aside from Whale Well and Kudo, he also portrays many other characters that are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people: Yang Ming, who had plastic surgery all over his body and denied his past; the snake-tongued intersex doctor Snake Marsh, the coffee shop waiter who came to Kowloon from the outside world, etc. Wait. What impact will the integration of
technology and Kowloon have on subsequent development? How will the relationship between Kujii Reiko and Kudo Fa develop? Readers who are interested in this are welcome to watch the original comic for a glimpse.
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