This is the first time that Bonnie
has written a comic review article for a magazine. And I heard that it is for the little friends who are much younger than me. I'm a little bit troubled: I want to compare the difference between the current shojo manga and the previous shojo manga, but I don't know, have you seen the shoujo manga that was so innocent in the past? When I was in my teens, this kind of comics used to be overwhelming. And your starting point may be "NANA". Please don't frown and say, "Ah, how can an old woman like you know what's going on with our youth?" Thinking that Yazawa Ai God made her debut in the 1980s, and now an aunt who is in her forties, she can still be strong To express a sense of fashion, freshness and youthfulness, just be patient.
"NANA" is indeed a great advancement for shoujo manga, and the proof is, I thought, that "NANA" is not a shoujo manga about love! The subtitle of "NANA" is "Another Me in This World". If the comics also need to summarize the theme, then the theme of "NANA" is the mental path of the two girls "towards the end of the dark tunnel", about independence, about dreams, about willfulness, about separation, about loyalty, about sex and love... The encyclopedia of …. Two completely different girls, completely different paths. Neither one of the choices was praised or criticized: Yazawa showed the greatest tolerance for women. You can live as long as you like. That is to say, the protagonists of the manga are "two women", not "a pair of lovers". In the old shoujo manga, women other than the heroine were all enemies. She will have an endless stream of cunning rivals. In "NANA", what moved me the most was not the so-called love, but the sincere bond between Nana and Nana. It is women who make alliances with women, form strong families, and find their own home. A woman's self-affirmation no longer depends on a man's love for it.
The story of "NANA" is not so innocent. The so-called sense of morality is getting thinner and thinner. Of course, it's not quite the loyal and great love of the old classic shojo manga, but it's full of a pleasant lighthearted feeling. NANAs no longer despair or cry because they can't get a man. In the previous shoujo manga, the heroine had a crush on a boy, and then deliberately or unintentionally used her "naive, frizzy, fragile, and cute" to win the boy's attention. The main task is to wait for the deer to slam around. Waiting for the boy's confession: "I like you now!" They are very passive in love. If they are abandoned, they will be heartbroken. But NANAs, no one man will deny themselves again.
I actually like Nana more than Nana. Nana is our goddess, our ideal self, she is so cool, so powerful, she looks cold and sturdy, but she is actually warm and gentle inside, independent and mature. Nana is ourselves, full of all shortcomings, seemingly childish and willful, seemingly always an overage girl, always in need of care, protection, and need to be pampered and cared for. She hesitated, was loose, believed in instant feelings, suddenly fell in love with, or suddenly hated a man... The basis of life is not reason and wisdom, but impulse and intuition. But read on, and you'll see that's not the case. To say something outrageous, I don't think Nana is a great role model. She is actually just a "little" girl who looks "big". Nana is the real strong one: she is also slowly learning and growing. Learn to endure loneliness, learn to give space, and learn to truly mature in the relationship between two people: both independent and dependent. Sex is no longer a standard established by a relationship between men and women. She is constantly searching and choosing, and she is more realistic and stronger. She regards one man as a reference for another man, and slowly discovers the true love in her heart. The hero is no longer one person, but several, a group... So her story becomes more similar to the one in a period of time. course. Nana becomes the real subject.
Best of all: Nana didn't stop being naive because of this. What's more, her innocence is not pretending! Compared to Queen Nana, Nana is the one I look up to: amazing Lolitas, you are so great!
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