At first it was light. All things originate from light, which irrigates the sea of nothingness. A luminous river flows between Yin and Yang, and life and death are no longer absolute.
Then there are the worms. Of course, it does not refer to those lower reptiles, nor does it refer to the giant beasts in the rotten sea. The insects in "The Insect Master" are a form of aggregation of mysterious shimmering bodies. They are creatures at the junction of yin and yang, and occasionally stray from the veins of light to the human world. Some of them are not visible to the naked eye of ordinary people, and some of them will change into all kinds of strange shapes. However, their magical power is difficult to coexist with human beings. Human beings suffer from various strange diseases because of being parasitized by insects. The mission of insect masters is to solve these intractable diseases and lead insects to their way back.
The hand that pulled the boy lost its texture little by little, and the warmth of the flesh gradually disintegrated into an icy floating light. Huge fish inhabit the darkness, and the silver light of the whole body turns all the creatures around it into eternal darkness. With a flick of its tail, this life becomes a past life, and the past life is like a joke. The young man who survived the disaster still did not completely protect his body. He became a special physique with white hair and green eyes. From then on, his right eye saw the world's samsara, and his left eye sealed the endless unknown of the past.
In the comics, Yingu's initial freehand is the image of a teenager, and then gradually has the context of an adult. Medium-length novels are originally a process of reflecting the author's self-denial or affirmation. I thought it was just the author's unfamiliar brushwork when he was just starting, but then he thought, this is not a small detail carefully designed by Urushihara Yuki - let's see To the traces of silver ancient growth. The dazed young man took up his luggage, picked up his pipe, and traveled around the world from then on. When you reach the top of the mountain, look at the sky and clouds in the distance; when you go to the place where the water is poor, you sit and watch the clouds rise. Yingu traveled all over the mountains and rivers, and spent several years in the spring and autumn, with the sky as the cover and the earth as the cottage. There is a river in the sky, and a river in the ground. The years pass by in the footsteps, and the lotus flowers between heaven and earth wither one by one.
The music of "Insect Master" wrote a glorious stroke on Masuda Toshiro's personal resume. It's true that artists are eccentric. Don't look at this half-hundred old man's unremarkable appearance, but he is a stroke of genius, which is heartfelt admiration. The music in "The Insect Master" is either gentle and soothing, or turbulent; sometimes it is like a rushing river, and sometimes it turns around like a winding path, and the spirit is hidden and illusory. And every little story in "Insect Master" is also endlessly changing, or scary, or sad, or poignant, or healing. It is precisely because of such delicate and expressive music that "Insect Master" has real life. It is precisely because of these small stories of different styles that the charm of "The Insect Master" is strung together. The only thing that doesn't change is Yingu's footsteps. He walks episode by episode, coming from the mountains and back to the mountains. Leaving a lonely back, the return date is far and wide.
Although it is based on nature, it has nothing to do with topics such as environmental protection, war, and humanities that are often extended, and it does not have obvious characteristics of the times, so it is even more confusing. I like "The Insect Master", what I like is the elegant and detached feeling of the idle cloud and wild crane. Like Wang Wei's landscape poems, it is far away from the hustle and bustle, indifferent, accompanied by grass and trees, and returned with Yunxia.
The moon is sloping westward, and the sea is foggy. Who on the riverside saw the moon for the first time? When did Jiang Yue take photos at the beginning of the year? I don't know who Jiang Yue is waiting for, but I see the east of the Yangtze River. Jiang Shui did not ask about the hatred in the world, and a few people returned by the moon. "Visitors from the Sea" echoes ingeniously with Zhang Ruoxu's "Spring River, Flowers and Moon Night". Shirou watched the ebb and flow of the tide day by day, just waiting for the old man to return in the twilight, and he sat for several years. On one side is the past that can't be given up, and on the other side is the little happiness that has just sprouted, but the regret in my heart has already become a sea, dispelling all thoughts of continuing to pursue happiness.
The insects named "Haiqianshanqian" have cultivated in the mountains for thousands of years and wandered in the sea for thousands of years. They converged into an unstoppable torrent, rolled up huge waves, overturned his wife's boat, and took her into another world.
Later, the appearance of Yingu deciphered the strangeness among them. They took a boat to sea on a foggy morning. Shirou found his wife's boat as he wished. To take Shirou away, the silver ancient road broke the mystery and turned it into a bubble. The huge gap of hope shattered completely shattered Shirou's illusion. After realizing the reality, he is no longer obsessed with the ghosts behind him, and finds that the "she" around him now looks very good in his wife's kimono.
The huge insect shadow disappeared into the sky, and the hometown was a place where he couldn't go back.
The line of the horizon, the distant thoughts. Kiyoshiro and Abuki are masters and servants, but also lovers. Kiyoshiro likes to watch the starry sky with binoculars, and Abuki quietly accompanies his sister with his back. But one day, there was a spectacle that Kiyoshiro had never seen before. Abuki said that there was a thread hanging in the sky, but Kiyoshiro couldn't find it. Abuki stretched out his hand and pulled it, and saw that the thread tightened, like a fish being hooked. Usually, Abhi is pulled into the air. After that, Kiyoshiro searched for a long time and could not find Abuki's figure until Yingu brought back the child's body that had already deteriorated.
The furthest distance in this world is when I stand in front of you, but you can't see me, like a star in the daytime, no matter how hard you try to shine, it won't make up for it. A blowing's body became weaker and weaker after being stained with insect gas, and finally assimilated with the insect, becoming an existence that ordinary people could not see with the naked eye. Even though Abuki was standing in front of Kiyoshiro, he still couldn't feel the slightest bit of her breath.
Ginko tells him that the only way to solve the problem is to fully accept the fact that Abuki exists.
So later, Kiyoshiro endured the worldly gaze and did all kinds of strange behaviors in their eyes - he held a wedding even though there was no bride, he was talking to the air even though there was no one around, he lived alone but still chopping wood every day Farming, life seems full and happy. The people in the village thought he was suffering from depression, but he still faced life with optimism and positivity, as if blowing was by his side.
Kiyoshiro's obsession with his beloved has surpassed himself, so in the end Abuki returned to him. In fact, during the time when he lost his human form, she never left him. It is a rare ideal ending in "The Insect Master". The story of "The Silk in the Sky" has a sense of beauty of being empty and high, with a quiet starry sky, a vast blue sky, and an endless field. A thread hangs down from the sky, as if the distance to heaven has become within reach.
On a rainy day when the wind blows, a light and crazy dance whirls. Not to mention missing, some people are going crazy.
Also with extraordinary beauty is "Rainbow After Rain", which was later made into a live-action movie by Otomo Keyang (to be honest, it is far from the level of his ability to direct animation). The huge rainbow snakes hovering in the sky, they come in the rain, go away by the wind, and wandering around is their way of survival. They have a splendid appearance similar to a rainbow, with colorful light flowing backwards around them, and their beautiful appearance robs Xianlang of his mind. It seems that when he reaches out and touches it, the world will collapse, crack into seven-colored sections, and then reorganize in a dream.
The rainbow was so beautiful that he was desperate, and the man was desperate. In order to fulfill his father's wish, Hong Lang embarked on a journey to find a rainbow. After five years of hard pursuit, he finally got the direction of the immortal. However, the rainbow snake completely ignored the figure running under its feet, and still floated on its own way. At the end of the story, when Hong Lang finally stood in front of the behemoth with the help of Yin Gu, he was finally freed from the vortex of contradictions. The huge rainbow in front of you is like an unrealistic dream, even if it is close at hand, it is still an unreachable distance. Later, he returned to his hometown and built a bridge in the shape of the rainbow snake, which is indestructible and will last forever.
"Insect Master" also involves a lot of topics about "rebirth" and "eternal life". In "Heavy Fruit", the priest who drank light wine and obtained eternal life, the seaweed that can regenerate the dead in "Dragon Palace on the Sea", and the strange stories of "One Night Bridge" and "Cotton Spores", insects have fulfilled the dreams of human beings but cannot The fulfilled long-cherished wish found a softest landing point for those originally sad stories, thus easing the contradiction between them and human beings.
One of the major regrets of "Insect Master" is that the production of animation has not continued, and no new trends have been reported so far. Although 26 episodes is not in a hurry, there is no unfinished ending for a unit drama like "Insect Master", but for those audiences who really flock to it, 26 episodes are far from enough (like Like the classic "COWBOY BEBOP" back then, there are a lot of people who have watched the 26 episodes over and over dozens of times, but they still feel dissatisfied). In this era of national fast food, perhaps only commercialization is the real king, so many animations have made a series of sequels one after another after a season of success, or the theatrical version of OVA followed. However, "Insect Master" chose to be a silent person, because it could not be commercialized after all. Although it has won a good reputation in Japan, it seems to be a niche in the Chinese audience. Urushihara Yuki's paintings are cold and elegant, like an ink painting, and the story itself is not very open, so it can't create popular gimmicks, and audiences who are accustomed to recreational or entertaining animations may not be able to appreciate the "Insect Master". "The mysteries are endless.
The plot after "Crying Shell" seems relatively unfamiliar because it has not been put on the screen. There are also many stories worth chewing, including the time and space dislocation of "Star of Tianhu", the visual horror of "Grass of Mud", the helpless Flower Falling of "Remnant Red", and the familiarity of "The Dark Place of Fragrance" people return. Here, coexistence and demise are always the most sentimental topics.
But even in the remaining stories of "Insect Master", Urushihara Yuki did not give us a real ending. It was still a turn around, ending the old story, but never opening a new chapter. But this is understandable, because "Insect Master" is originally a story about walking. When will the end point, and where will the end point be, the changes in life are unpredictable and cannot be predicted by human beings. The veins of light wine expand underground, and life winds forward with soft tentacles like green, so non-stop migration has become the eternal destiny of insect masters. In the unstoppable walk, no matter how precious the tie is, it is only a thin line swaying in the torrent of time, and it disappears when the wind blows. The man with drooping eyelids leaned against the tree and breathed out smoke rings leisurely, looked up at the sky, and continued on his way. The green paper-like watercolor covered his back, and the crisp silver bells reverberated like a fairy's light footsteps in the mountains. The straw sandals pushed through the grass, and the stones slipped into the river, creating a pool of green spring water.
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