1983 Past Life Manga King

“this.”

Inside the bag were a lot of sweets, ramen, and hotteok.

“Wow, that looks like a lot to eat. Junmo, let’s eat together.”

Kyung-hee picks up the bag and shouts at the child.

***

In the cold wave of January, Jiro shakes her body and jumps in her seat.

Standing at the hotel entrance, I keep checking the time.

There’s still quite a bit left until the appointment time, but I’m here on purpose, thinking that I might be shivering from the cold outside.

A hotel employee approaches and tells him to wait in the lobby, but for him, this is a sequel.

“Whoa.”

Breathing in and looking at the crowd of people.

And I was lost in thought.

That’s what she felt that day.

You’ll soon find out whether he’s made a strange judgment, driven by improvisation, or whether he’s found a real treasure.

In fact, if you think about it a little, it is common for people who are talented at drawing. Even if it’s just a short story, there are some people who show a surprising level of manga.

Of course, it’s true that that’s enough to be interesting.

But, this is Korea.

Meeting a talented girl in Korea, not Japan, made me feel very subtle.

She herself is the editor of a weekly magazine.

Weekly magazines are supposed to meet at least once a week between the person in charge and the manga artist.

But that’s practically impossible.

From the start, there are only a lot of huge difficulties.

But what is this excitement now?

It’s like meeting an opportunity that should never be missed.

When I am caught up in such complex and subtle emotions, I see familiar people in the crowd.

Twin girls and boys.

The three siblings appeared.

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Jiro saw them first and greeted them with a smile.

“welcome.”

The man approaching him smiled and said.

“You were waiting outside. I’m cold too.”

“No, thanks. Let’s go in together.”

“Yeah.”

Jiro led the three to the restaurant on the 5th floor of the hotel.

Then I went to the window seat I had reserved.

One of the twin girls wanders around her room the whole time she walks in to see what’s so strange. And even when she sits by the window, she immediately looks down on her downtown landscape and loses her mind.

“Wow. The city has a good view.”

It’s not on a particularly high floor, but it’s noisy.

But on the other hand, the main character of today, the girl, doesn’t respond much. She just sits there with her expressionless face.

Perhaps this was the girl who drew the manga.

Jiro asked the man who was the twins’ brother.

“Have you finished the continuity work?”

“Ah yes. Seonhee.”

At the man’s words, the girl slowly pulled out her briefcase from her bag and held it out.

Jiro, who took the envelope, carefully took out the papers from there.

Conti, in Japanese, it is a name.

But it seems too precise for a continuity.

“It looks like a drawing, not a continuity.”

“Yeah. Yes. It can be completed just by applying a pen line.”

“Oh, I see.”

Jiro nodded his head as he checked the picture.

Because I think it’s definitely an impressive drawing.

Even though it was drawn with a pencil, I was amazed at the detail. If a good pen touch is applied here, a pretty good picture will come out.

First, look at the pictures one by one before checking the contents.

The directing seems a bit awkward, perhaps because of the lack of experience. However, on the other hand, the human body drawing of the character is quite excellent.

The proportions are good even compared to the drama-style cartoons that are popular in Japan these days. Of course, what I feel when looking at the manuscripts and drawings I’ve completed before is the fact that the paintings are definitely dark.

At first glance, it looks like a book of the north drum, but the lines are clean.

It has a dark, yet unique feeling with feminine delicacy.

Even though it is a drawing, the detail of the background is high.

In general, rather than a dense and delicate type like the characteristics of cartoonists who are strong in the background, it feels as if the place was completely understood and painted.

That is, it seems to have been painted with the entire background in mind.

‘It looks like Otomo-sensei’s drawing of Akira. By the way, there are people in Korea who draw cartoons like this.’

Actually, I don’t know much about Korean comics.

Except that there are a lot of cartoons that are illegally copied and drawn from Japanese manga.

So, it is true that I was secretly underestimating Korean cartoons.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

But now, this child’s drawing shows an amazing composition like Katsuhiro Otomo, a cartoonist of Akira, who has recently been called a genius in the Japanese comics world.

Even though it feels quite different compared to the shadows, it is as realistic as if the place actually exists as it seems to have understood and painted all the background like Otomo’s directing.

In order to digest a background like this, I know that it is possible only if the spatial perception ability is very good. It is a characteristic that is seldom seen, especially in women.

By the way, this girl, despite her young age, she possesses these abilities.

This made it clear to her that what she had seen that day was by no means a mistake.

Anyway, if you look at the pictures alone, it is certain that they far exceed the average of active artists.

Jiro glanced at the girl through the manuscript.

She has no expression on her face.

No, she was rather surprised to see such a girl who even looked so free-spirited, how a girl like that could draw a cartoon like this.

Then she turns her head again and looks at her man.

The twin girls who said they followed are just looking around happily to see if everything is strange.

Thinking it was a strange family, she checked the drawing again.

At first, I put off the contents and checked the pictures, but at the end of the last part, something I could not have imagined appeared.

“······zombie?”

The story ends with a zombie that appears suddenly and the protagonist faces them.

What the hell is this?

He also likes zombie movies and novels.

In fact, I’m a fan of George A. Romero’s movie ‘Night of the Living Dead’ several times.

However, in Japan, zombie films are not yet a popular genre. Korea will be no different. Still, it’s a zombie thing.

Jiro was puzzled and curious at the same time.

He examines the manuscript again from the beginning.

This time he started reading with the aim of getting the story right.

It was a bit awkward to read the manuscript in Korean, but I soon got used to it and fell into the story.

***

“Wow, it’s different because it’s a hotel.”

While Kyung-hee looked around the restaurant and admired it, the editor was looking at the continuity, which was nothing like the detailed drawing of Seon-hee’s actual manuscript.

At first, it seemed like he was looking at each scene in detail whether he was looking at the picture, but this time he starts to read the story from the beginning.

Seeing Seon-hee sitting next to her, she seemed bored and bored.

It is natural for a child who is not accustomed to sitting still without doing anything.

“Look at a comic book.”

“Is that okay?”

“okay.”

As I nodded, Seon-hee opened her bag and pulled out a comic book.

It’s a ‘Dongmong’ that I usually see.

I’ve seen it so many times and I’m still immersed in it to see if it’s not boring.

Lately, he’s been studying Japanese hard, so he doesn’t seem to have any trouble reading it in the original language from time to time.

He seems to have memorized the Japanese conversation book that he bought a while ago, or it seems that there is no problem with reading and writing.

But I don’t know how to pronounce it.

The editor, who had been absorbed in the manuscript for a long time, lifted his head. However, a strange sadness remains on his face.

“This is not a story that ends on page 20.”

“Yeah. I only worked on the short story as a continuity.”

“Oh, is that so? Can I see you?”

“of course.”

I rummaged through my bag, took out a notebook on which I made a short story, and handed it to him. As soon as the Japanese receive me a note, they start to read it right away.

After a while, after reading it all, he raised his head and said to me.

“It’s a short film that leaves a lasting impression. Based on the drawing I just saw, it feels pretty good. So it must be based on this short story.”

“no. A short story was not enough to express the planned story, so I made a story in a different way than a short story.”

It is correct to say that the short story was made because the publisher did not know what the publisher wanted.

“Then what about the rest? Oh, I guess I didn’t have enough time to work on it. In fact, it would have taken quite a while to suddenly complete a name of this quality.”

“The back story is here.”

“Yeah?”

A Japanese editor looks at me with a surprised expression.

I took out a notebook and handed it to him.

He opened his eyes slightly startled, then took the note and started reading it. And I read the notes for a while.

Meanwhile, the staff brought tonkatsu.

When the pork cutlet is placed on the table, Kyung-hee and Seon-hee’s eyes start to twinkle.

At times like this, it’s really hard for even me to tell the difference between the two guys, so they look almost identical when it comes to food.

But tonkatsu in a hotel like this makes me think that something is modest.

Even so, Kyunghee and Seonhee are the first to try high-quality cuisine, so they chew each bite with their eyes closed and savor the taste.

In particular, every time Kyunghee takes a bite, her whole body trembles.

Would it be that delicious?

He looks at me with a face that almost looks like he’s about to cry.

“It was good to follow you. If I ate something like this without me, I would have been bitter for the rest of my life.”

“Anyway.”

When I reply with a puzzled expression on my face, I retort by shaking his head.

“No, if that’s the case, you will surely cry when you die and even curse at your brother and Seon-hee, right?”

“That’s bad.”

Seonhee nodded as she chewed a piece of pork cutlet to see if she could agree with me.

“Did you eat this?”

“Of course, countless times…”

After talking, I stopped because I wanted to miss it, but Kyunghee chewed it quickly and laughed out loud with an absurd expression.

“Ahaha, that’s absurd. How do you eat such high-end cuisine so many times? is not it?”

However, Seon-hee is concentrating on meat without saying a word. It’s as if you’re not going to miss this moment even for a moment.

Kyung-hee looked away as soon as she didn’t expect an answer, and made an ecstatic expression on her face.

“By the way, the actors in the drama feel this way. What a nice meal at the hotel restaurant. Maybe one day I will be able to eat pork cutlet every day, right?”

“I can eat it, but I’m going to get really tired of it, right?”

“You can eat enough to get tired, what makes you so happy?” “Will you be happy when you get tired of food?”

“If it’s tonkatsu, you’ll be happy.”

“Isn’t it?”

No matter what I say, Kyung Hee eats a piece of pork cutlet, looks out the window once, and eats another piece as if a miser is looking at the gulbi hanging from the ceiling.

In the meantime, the editor puts the notes down on the table to make sure they’ve read them all, and quietly covers them.

Then he looked down at the notebook without saying a word for a while and was pensive for a moment.

After a moment he lifted his head and looked at me and opened his mouth.

“It’s a great story. I was surprised by the picture, but to be honest, the story side is really shocking. It’s so ingenious that the day repeats itself.”

“It’s a time loop genre. I know it’s not special in foreign countries.”

“is that so? I’m not used to it. Of course, I think I’ve read similar novels, but I’ve never seen a day repeat like this. It’s really interesting because it overlaps with the zombie story. To prevent the world from being destroyed by zombies, to live one day like an eternity.”

Well, actually, the original is similar to the setting of the Hollywood movie ‘Edge of Tomorrow’ of the Japanese light novel ‘All You Need Is Kill’, so I used a rather common cliché.

Even so, it is something that will only appear in the not-so-distant future.

Anyway, the Japanese editor continued the conversation with an excited expression.

“No matter what I do, I will make sure this manga is published in our boys’ magazine.”

Having said that, the Japanese editor reached out to me and grabbed it.

“Then please.”

“Leave it to me.”

But then, Kyunghee stabs me.

“Why?”

“there······.”

Kyunghee looked at the Japanese editor and asked in a quiet voice.

“Can I have another bowl?”

Then Seon-hee blinks her eyes and says, ‘Me too,’ softly.

The editor, who saw it, gave a blank expression for a moment, and then laughed out loud.