Akira Toriyama is a cartoonist respected by Yoshihiro Tomiyama, and he has always wanted to surpass him. From "Youyou Baishu" to "Full-time Hunter", we can see the shadow of "Dragon Ball" in the creation of worldview, character building, and plot structure. But Yoshihide Tomi is not satisfied with simple reference, but has added his own thinking about the comic medium and the real world to build a lifelike, mysterious and magnificent world.
The world of "Dragon Ball" draws heavily from "Journey to the West", so it is said that "Full Time Hunter" and "Journey to the West" also have a deep relationship.
"Dragon Ball" is the master of combat comics. A few years after the advent of Dragon Ball, "JoJo" has broadened the category of combat comics. It is not only a full-time hunter comic, but many of the following juvenile comics also inherited these two comics at the same time.
The world of full-time hunters
Full-time hunter (ハンター×ハンター) is HUNTER×HUNTER in English, and Dragon Ball is DRAGON BALL. The name HUNTER*HUNTER instead of HUNTER or HUNTERS also echoes the theme of the early days of the full-time hunter comics. One is the hunting attribute of hunters, just like in Monster Hunter. In the same way, the hunter who hunts will also become the prey of other people. The second is friendship and cooperation. This is the case with the four protagonists.
The text in the full-time hunter: Yoshihide Fujian specially designed a set of hunter text for the full-time hunter. In Dragon Ball, Namek has its own language, and the animation produced has text (Dragon Ball has not read the comics, only discusses the animation)
Full-time hunter's world map: Full-time hunter more unknown worlds come from the dark continent, and Dragon Balls come from alien planets.
One of the main settings in the early stage of Dragon Ball is that collecting seven Dragon Balls can summon Shenlong to fulfill a wish. The completion of this wish requires permission, qualification, means, and contract. The setting itself may come from the story of Aladdin's lamp in Arabian Nights. This setting is simple and effective. The similar setting in the full-time hunter is Nanica from the dark continent . Dragon Balls come in two forms, gray and colored, and Nanica and Chiya's younger sister, Alluga, also share the same body. The image of the dragon in Dragon Ball may come from the Dragon Kings of the East and West Seas in Journey to the West. People's simple wish for rain coincides with the fulfillment of the dragon. The image of Aladdin's lamp was transformed into Bobo, the servant of the gods.
The setting of the Hunter Association in the full-time hunter may come from the real world. The world organizations in the real world include the United Nations and the World Association of People's Liberation Army. On the one hand, the functions of these organizations exist independently of each country, and on the other hand, they are affected by some powerful countries and forces. constraints, manipulations, and constraints.
(1) Character analysis:
Xiaojie * Monkey King * Monkey King (Journey to the West)
There is no doubt that the character of Xiaojie Fulixi has a deep relationship with Sun Wukong. Xiaojie's important character characteristics: simple and innocent, trusting in friends, pure heart, sensitive senses, deeply loved by animals, these are also very important in Sun Wukong. good presentation. Turtle Immortal commented on Sun Wukong: For Sun Wukong, what the world has become does not seem to be very important, and it is everything to be able to defeat the opponents that excite him. The gods commented on Sun Wukong: His potential is like a bottomless pit, and the stronger the opponent, the stronger he is. These two points are important characteristics of juvenile comics, and they are also a circle that many juvenile comics cannot get rid of. The protagonist and the opponent are getting stronger and stronger, but in the end, the meaning of fighting has been lost in many cases.
Xiaojie has three important friends: Qiyi, Kurapika, Leo Li, and Youyou Baishu. Tea, Xiaolin, Tianjin Rice, there are also four protagonists in Journey to the West (wrong) .
Sun Wukong's weapon is a wish-fulfilling rod, which is a golden hoop rod from Journey to the West, while Xiaojie's weapon is a fishing rod left to him by his father. The tool is an extension of the human body. Both the fishing rod and the wish-fulfilling rod have strong flexibility and wide application , can help the protagonist in the early stage of the battle when he was still very weak.
Xiaojie is very innocent and does not understand the love between men and women at all. The same goes for Sun Wukong and Luffy, but Qiqi and Sun Wukong are married (as a child), and Xiaojie and Pam are dating in the ant chapter (a promise).
Xiaojie's mother is an unsolved mystery now, and Sun Wukong seems to be too (doesn't know much about it). In Journey to the West, Sun Wukong was born from a stone (good luck Zhong Shenxiu), and Fu Jian likes a simple worldview, which also reflects his Attitude towards nature, closeness and awe, the five major disasters in the Hunter World are mostly natural disasters.
Qiqi beats the enemy
The character who is close to Qiqi's beating the enemy is Tianjin Fan (image Erlang Shen), who was a killer at first, but was able to break away from this identity later. He Xianliu and Qiyi's family seem to be from China. The names of Tianjin Rice and Dumplings have Chinese elements, and Tianjin Fan's uncle is a martial artist. The image of the Tianjin chef, He Xianren, is similar to that of Qi's grandfather, Jie Nuo, who beats the enemy. Jie Nuo often has "kill once a day" and "active service in his career" posted in front of him. And his tricks, the dragon head drama and the dragon star group, may all be tributes to the dragon in the seven dragon balls.
The prototype of Qiyi's brother Yiermi comes from Tao Baibai, a top killer. Qiqi's fear of being dominated when he faced Yilmi in the hunter exam, it's easy to think of Dumpling's fear when he faced Tao Baibai. After Tao Baibai's death, he was resurrected and turned into a cyborg, and he could also find a connection with Yiermi by changing his appearance with a needle.
The skill of disappearing in a circle that Qiyi will use is similar to the Afterimage Fist created by the Turtle Immortal.
In the early stage of Tianjin Fan, he mocked Sun Wukong for not being fast enough, so his characteristic must be fast. Qiqi beat the enemy to increase the speed and power by charging and discharging, which can also be seen in the charging treasure of The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (wrong). Tianjin Rice can also do quarters, which is easy to find in Journey to the West.
Kurapika
Kurapika starts out as an Avenger with red eyes when angry.
Leo Li
Leo Li is upright and lustful (Oolong, Turtle Immortal - Zhu Bajie)
plot analysis
Hunter Exam
Xiaojie lives on Whale Island (Sun Wukong lives in the deep mountains and old forests). The story of the hunter starts from the isolated Whale Island and spreads to the whole world. In fact, it is in line with each of our life and cognitive experiences. A point gradually spreads out. Xiaojie starts to catch a big fish (Sun Wukong...) as a license to take the hunter exam.
The first stage of the exam~ In Dragon Ball, Goku's running before meeting the King of the Realm is also an exercise.
The five exams of the Hunter Licensing Exam test candidates' stamina, judgment, coordination, ability to hunt and save, 1v1 combat or ability to win. Among them, the second food test showed all kinds of hunters and the noble hunter spirit. The third trap tower borrowed the concept of linear games to design various levels, and the concept of judgment and choice voting in this level runs through the whole full-time hunter. There are quick questions and answers in the pre-exam test, Kurapika is faced with the choice of killing the leader or saving a friend in the You Kexin chapter, and Xiaojie's confused choice in the ant chapter. Voting is a form of democracy. The questionnaires before the fifth exam and the subsequent election of the Hunter President are all in this form. The 1v1 format of the fifth exam is exactly the same as that of the No. 1 Martial Arts Tournament in the World (and Youyou Baishu's Dark Martial Arts Tournament), but Fujian obviously did the reverse creation, using the common pattern of selecting a winner in the competition It was also from here that Fu Jian began to dispel the meaning of battle in the juvenile comics, and laid a lot of foreshadowing in his later creations.
Beat the enemy family
If the beating the Hakka clan is regarded as the underworld, then the gate of trials is the gate of the underworld. The parents inside are the kings of hell, who specialize in killing people, but they are doing business with money and queuing up. Tourists are the souls who will go to another world after death, and the tour guide is the yamen who escorts the deceased.
The four of Xiaojie have just entered the trial of beating the enemy Hakka family with weights. The turtle immortals used this method to train their apprentices; the ball inlaid on the top of Kanalia's weapon is like a dragon ball; the character of Qi's mother is Part of it comes from the reverse creation of Qiqi in Dragon Ball. Qiqi doesn't want Gohan to go the way of Wukong, but Qiyi's mother wants Qiqi to become the heir of the Hakka family. Qiyi and Alluga are twins, I don't know if there are any related settings later.
Sky Arena
The design source of the Sky Arena may come from Tokyo Tower? It looks a bit like the Burj Khalifa in appearance, but after the Burj Khalifa is built. The Hunter Guild Headquarters is also an important building, but it looks unremarkable from the outside. In addition to human buildings, there is an important natural landscape in Hunter World: the World Tree. There are also Kalin Towers in Dragon Ball. These two buildings or landscapes are derived from the Tower of Babel (Tower of Babel) in the Bible and variants of the story of Jack and the Magic Beans. Taishang Laojun is a variant of the alchemy furnace elixir, while the full-time hunter Xiandou has weakened to the healing ability of Bisqui (and one is the breath of an archangel).
In the arena chapter, the psychic system is introduced. This system of mutual generation and mutual restraint reminds us of the five elements, gossip, and two ceremonies in traditional Chinese culture. The characteristics of the six psychic systems are separated from the other five. This is also the current comic fighting. One of the reasons for the increasing complexity.
Hisoka is the character with the best use of mind ability in the early comics, and he can also be regarded as a tribute to the ability comic JoJo, Hisoka's coquettish standing posture, the use of mind is superb, and one more point, Hisoka Appears with the makeup of a clown (the star tear makeup comes from the scars on Yamucha's face?), often using playing cards as weapons, and the English name of the clown is Joker.
The ability of Hua Shi Doulang overlaps with that of Ya Mucha. Xiaojie's fast fighting with the spinning top can be reminiscent of Bobo's trial of Wukong. Let him feel it with his heart (don't try to understand it, feel it )
Xiaojie and Qiyi went back to Whale Island before going to Youkexin City. Aunt Mitte seems to come from an ordinary family. As for why she joined her mother-in-law, my guess is that she doesn't want Aunt Mitte to be lonely after Xiaojie leaves Whale Island.
Youkexin City
This chapter officially introduces the Phantom Troupe, a criminal organization!
The Phantom Troupe's architecture and characterization draw on the Bible. If the leader is likened to Jesus, the twelve members are the twelve disciples. After Chrollo lost his ability to think, he went to the east to restore his ability. This is the resurrection of Jesus (the embodiment of Kurapika is also set as a chain because, like a rope, the meaning represents bondage, judgment, and punishment). Hisoka represents the rebellious Judas, Woking represents Peter who would rather die in prison after being arrested, Feitan's skills come from sun worship (the sun god is another religion), and Franklin's hand cannon actually has similar skills in Dragon Ball. .
Reverse Creation of Religion
If they were created entirely in accordance with religious views, the Phantom Troupe would not be considered a criminal organization, but instead became believers in missionary and evangelism. What did the Phantom Troupe bring to the world? It's not a religious entropy reduction process, but an entropy increase process that makes the world more disordered and chaotic. They don't believe in religion, they believe in themselves (the regiment leader holds the bible of their organization), they believe in their own strength, values, behavioral methods, and their own leaders, but they believe that leaders will also encounter situations where leaders fail, extreme situations The next team will be divided into two parties, the royalists and the other factions, if you refer to Judaism, Judaism has the same beliefs but later split into two countries: Israel and Judah, Meteor Street is the Canaan land of the Phantom Troupe, although Under the reverse creation, Canaan has become a dilapidated land abandoned by the world, but the Phantom Troupe never forgets it. The prophetic Nion is the prophet of the Phantom Troupe. The Phantom Troupe will kill, burn, loot, commit all kinds of evil, and it is also a reverse writing of religion, and Fu Jian said that the Phantom Troupe will all be wiped out because the Twelve Apostles were basically assassinated and framed.
Many members of the group have borrowed national images of great significance to the Jewish nation in the Bible, such as Finks and Flakes.
Island of Greed
The island of greed is one of my favorite chapters. The perfect combination with the game and the more imaginative imagination left a deep impression on me.
If the full-time hunter world is regarded as the playground of Fu Jian, the island of greed is a game in the game, where he pours out the creativity that cannot be shown in the hunter world in this open world game.
In 1999, David Cronenberg made a film "Sensory Game". This film has some similarities with the setting of full-time hunters: the way to enter the game, blur the boundary between reality and the game, and play online with multiple players.
Another innovation in the island of greed is the combination of mind power with movement and combat. The volleyball battle with the game manager (GM) is based on the real ball game - dodge ball. The game of Xiaojie and Nitro in the early stage of the hunter exam is also completed with the help of basketball/ball, and Dragon Ball Liya Mucha also plays a role in the game. A short-lived baseball player. The fusion in the volleyball game can be seen as a transformation of the fusion of Vegeta and Sun Wukong in Dragon Ball.
The game GI itself can be regarded as a variant of the wish of the dragon. You can get three cards as a reward for clearing the game. The card selected by Bisji is the blue planet. On the one hand, it is a mapping of the earth, and on the other hand A tribute to the Dragon Ball manga.
The driver sighed that Xiaojie and Qiyi had high aptitude but they didn't get it, so they trained them. The same is true of Piccolo in Dragon Ball for Son Gohan. The location-sensing device of one of Jezjera's companions is also a variation on the Dragon Ball-finding device. Bisqui's character seems to come from the Taishang Laojun in Dragon Ball, who is short-tempered, can be huge, and is very old.
The realization of the card and the book and gain of the book can be traced back to the technology capsule in Dragon Ball. Tool cards such as peers and magnetism made Fujian addicted to somersaults in the game settings.
Chimeric Ants (Ants)
Chimeric Ants is the pinnacle of current full-time hunters!
President Wang VS (two sides of one body, the same inside and outside, light and shadow)
The king of chimeric ants, Melu Aim, is from the dark continent, and the invasion of chimeric ants into the human continent is an invasion of alien species. The invasion of Planet Vegeta in Dragon Ball has also brought huge disasters to human beings. The alien invaders disdain the power of human beings and only want to destroy or enslave this group of human beings. If the invaders and the invaded are released In the realm of human beings, it will be found that the violence of human beings is less condescending than theirs. The arrogance and prejudice of human beings against other countries, races, and beliefs have made the earth full of bloody history.
The character of the king is drawn from Piccolo the Great Demon King (after rebirth, the image is partly derived from Frieza), then the president Nitro is the incarnation of the gods. Piccolo and the gods are one and the same, and the king and the president are the same.
The king was born by feeding and laying eggs by the queen (piccolo was born by the previous generation of Piccolo spewing eggs). This kind of continuous feeding and optimizing their genes has a metaphor for the theory of human evolution.
The Phantom Troupe is a metaphor for Christ and his disciples, and the president practices the profound meaning of Buddhism. The president will wear a heart-shaped T-shirt and cut his hair short (I guess he also takes a bath) when he fights. The move the president uses is the Hundred-style Guanyin, and he throws his fists 10,000 times a day during practice, called gratitude (together with the T-shirt). A grateful heart, wrong), the president's practice focuses on cultivating the heart, finding the connection between himself and nature, and then reaching the peak of his martial arts.
The president is to a certain extent the king of mankind, and his practice is the understanding of Buddha, the practice of body and mind. How did the author portray the president and Meluam as one and two sides and opposites to each other?
The human beings represented by the president are righteous in our standpoint, representing light, and the king is a foreign invader who wants to enslave human beings, and is a shadow. However, from the standpoint of the chimeric ant race, humans are the next level in their food chain and a threat to their survival, and the ant king can lead their race to survive and prosper. The contradictory body of the conflict is presented to the reader.
The battle between President Nitro and King is based on the battle between Sun Wukong and Piccolo. The moves of the hundred-style Guanyin may, on the one hand, come from the gigantic piccolo, and on the other hand, it seems to be a replica of the palm of the Buddha's palm. Hundreds of styles of Avalokitesvara, Buddha Dharma shines, and Dharma images are solemn. They should have pity in their hearts, but now they are doing things of killing. Under the blow of Hundred Styles of Viewing, the ants seem to be running around like ants, which is really ironic. In the end, Nitro inserted his finger into his heart and detonated the nuclear bomb "Poverty's Rose". The most never-ending malice directed at human civilization comes from our own hearts. And the nuclear bomb is not just made up for the purpose of destroying the king. 1. The nuclear bomb is an advanced weapon of human beings. Haven't learned how to make more advanced weapons. 2. The use of nuclear bombs also refers to the history of wars between human beings. Japan invaded China and other countries, and two atomic bombs were dropped on its own territory. This is revenge and punishment for the invaders. And the poisoning of the ant king by the nuclear bomb is also a reference to the devastating effects of nuclear radiation on two Japanese cities.
Xiaojie and Qijia×Wang and Wheat×moral dilemma×light and shadow
The long hair that Xiaojie turned into Uncle Gang may come from the image of the Super Saiyan transformed. After Xiaojie turned black, he fell into darkness, and Qiyi was his light guarding him. Before, Xiaojie made Qiyi from Freed from the identity of the killer, the two of them are each other's light and shadow, accompanying and guarding each other. Piccolo said to Sun Wukong: Your biggest shortcoming is that you can't be completely ruthless, and you can't let go and attack me. Instead I can do anything, I am completely free, that is the freedom of the devil. This kind of confusion Xiaojie encountered, and Kurapika encountered it when he played against the Phantom Troupe. But one of the breakthroughs of Ant Chapter is the breaking and reconstruction of this important assertion of traditional juvenile comics. Xiaojie does not have an absolute view of good and evil. He deconstructs the world with his own ideas. The only constant is his strong curiosity and desire to explore. Traditional juvenile comics are only used to solve the enemy, not to solve moral problems, but Xiaojie confronts Catwoman, and the president and the king have moral dilemmas. The president's fight against the king lost part of its meaning and legitimacy from the beginning. The king didn't want to fight the president, but wanted ants to coexist peacefully with humans. For the president, the ants had to be eliminated, and the possibility of negotiation was rejected from the beginning. Xiaojie's confusion stemmed from the fact that the catwoman who killed Kate was actually saving wheat from the doctor. Later, he directly blackened and solved the catwoman. This kind of disintegration of fighting meaning can often be seen in full-time hunters (Xiaojie VS Hanzo, Kula VS Head), and the ant chapter's reversal of the roles of justice and evil in the traditional sense also makes the idea more profound.
When Wang was born, he was decisive and inhumane. After playing a game with the highest human military chess player Mai, Wang gradually awakened his humanity. Wheat is the light of the king, which to some extent can be said to have the role of enlightenment. The king changed from animal nature to possessing human nature, while Xiaojie broke out of animal nature under the difficult problem of choosing, and Nitro represented the degeneration of divinity/human nature , corruption and destruction.
President Election
The setting of the twelve is similar to the Phantom Troupe, for example, it is divided into two factions, and there is also a traitor in the middle. The difference is that the twelve are elites in various fields of human beings. Whereas the Phantom Troupe were content to fill their own desires, the twelve were content with their own personal ideals. From the elitist narrative, the two are obviously different, but fortunately, the hunters did not fall into the same pattern.
Dark Continent
Adventures in the Dark Continent is the most anticipated chapter for Hunter fans. If the ant chapter is an outsider, the dark continent chapter is called exploring the new continent, but it is actually an invasion and colonization, and the human position is likely to be in a more unjust and immoral position. Will there be advanced wisdom and advanced civilization on the Dark Continent, will there be highly developed technology, will it be an avatar-style story, or will there be a show of human beings fighting each other for profit, all of which are worth looking forward to.
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