When Chen Mengguo first heard Xu Qingru talk about comics about cooking, she wasn't that interested.
After all, the country of China in this parallel world is a big country for comics. Comics about cooking have long been popular, such as "Glowing Cuisine", and at least two or three of them are unshakable classics.
Under such circumstances, she certainly felt that this "cooking subject" had little potential, so she naturally raised her concerns.
Xu Qingru patiently explained it and revealed the real highlight of "The Spirit of the Halberd Eater", which is the combination of "food and sexiness".
In the final analysis, it is to give Teacher Mengguo a stage where she can freely display her sesame skills. On the surface, it seems to be a cooking show, but in fact, it can sell meat just right!
Chen Mengguo's eyes lit up as she listened. In fact, when she was painting "Youth Love Song", she had done a lot of selling. The editor also strongly supported this, so if she painted "The Spirit of the Halberd Eater" This kind of painting style can indeed show her painting style to the extreme!
Xu Qingru continued to add: "China has been a big country of gourmet food since ancient times. There are so many kinds of cuisines. As a result, the materials for creation are also very rich. It just so happens that I also know a lot about cooking. You don't have to worry about the creativity of the dishes. .”
In fact, in the earth world, a food researcher named "Yuki Morisaki" has been cooperating in this "Shoji no Spirit". He believes: "Combining some beautiful things, such attractive characters and some It's very novel to add sexy scenes to food comics. Food is the most satisfying, which is why I joined."
Recipes that range from simple to sophisticated are part of the charm of the job.
He also said: "There are many ways to express food. I admire Jun Saeki's passion for cooking, and I think I can definitely do a good job with cartoonists. I think there are still many areas that need to be developed in cuisine."
Regarding the food in the manga, Yuto Tsukuda, with the help of Morisaki, "makes the main character's dishes as creative as a magic drawer."
Tsukuda often brainstorms with Morisaki and gets a lot of cooking ideas. These ideas are usually kept, and the pair check each week to see if there are any ingredients that could be used for the storyline.
Tsukuda said that creating food comics is not difficult. As a juvenile comic, the real difficulty is how to introduce new opponents, how to find motivations for Shokuki, and even duels outside the kitchen, and integrate them into a good story.
Xu Qingru does not need the assistance of any food researcher, because she has the "Gate of Literature and Art" system, and she can directly spend literary points to go to some "material worlds" specifically related to food, and then these materials can be used in her magic. In the revised version of "The Spirit of the Halberd Eater".
In fact, it is undeniable that the work "Shokujin no Soul" was really exciting at the beginning, but it started to go up and down later. It was originally set in the famous cooking school "Totsuki Gakuen", and the family ran a restaurant. Middle school student Soma Yukihira aims to be a cook's father and continues to hone his cooking skills every day.
One day, his father asked him to enter the cooking school "Totsuki Academy". Soma came to Totsuki Academy and met a girl with the "God's Tongue" - Erina Nakiri. However, the dishes Soma made in the transfer exam were judged to be unqualified by Erina.
The setting of the male and female protagonists is still very interesting, and the "Totsuki Academy" part is very exciting.
But the subsequent plot direction of it has to be said to be a bit confusing.
I have to mention here a work that many people are familiar with, it is "The Little Master of China", or "China Is A Story".
In "Chinese Ichiban", the standard for judging the quality of a dish can be intuitively reflected in the light and shadow effects when the pot is removed, which is what everyone ridicules as "luminous cuisine".
"Chinese Ichiban", a comic that uses cooking to show passion, struggle, and even fight against evil forces, left a very deep impression on many early animation viewers.
Many viewers want to know whether Liu Pleiades can collect the legendary kitchen utensils and completely defeat the dark cooking world. Fortunately, they don't know because the original comic book "Chinese Ichiban" began to become increasingly fantasy in the middle and later stages.
Take the dark cooking world that seems a bit funny nowadays. The final boss of this "main dungeon" is a chef who can judge the deliciousness of dishes by hearing. Simply put, he is a superpower who relies on hearing to cook. So when When he heard the sound of Liu Pleiax cooking, he immediately said "I'm not as good as others, I'm willing to be inferior, I'm going to say goodbye".
As a result, the author spent countless words to exaggerate its powerful final boss, but in the end he was defeated without a fight, making this most mysterious figure in the dark cooking world never show his cooking skills to the audience from the beginning to the end.
This is a point that readers of the "Chinese Ichiban" comic often complain about, but in fact, the plot of this work has already been foreshadowed. For example, the legendary kitchen utensils that are extremely fantasy have left a deep impression on the animation audience.
As for the work "Spirit of the Halberd Eater", its content at the beginning can be said to be a very royal grassroots counterattack, and coupled with the plot focusing on the academy, it can be said to be very in line with the public's taste.
The early stage of this work is indeed a steady and steady upgrade journey, but the plot suddenly speeds up in the middle stage.
Originally, after the protagonist Soma Yukihira challenged the Ten Elites for the first time at the school festival, the entire work had been exaggerated to gradually challenge the ten strongest people in the academy. However, at this time, a new villain leader appeared and united with some of the Ten Elites. Subverting the entire academy, and pulling the protagonist team directly into a full-scale decisive battle with the top ten.
Most of the audience can already guess that the protagonist team must win in the end, which means that Soma's process from the grassroots to the top of the academy will end up being much shorter than the audience imagined before. Therefore, in the Totsuki Train chapter The extremely unexpected timing of the villain's appearance gives people the feeling of forcibly changing the plot.
Who would have thought that the top ten would end up in the same pot?
After the end of Totsuki Train, the plot of the new chapter went crazy. Yes, the dark cooking world in "Chinese Ichiban" may be late, but it will never be absent.
It's just that it became the "Inner Cuisine World" in "The Soul of the Shokugeki", and this group of chefs in the Inner Cuisine World are called the Night Cookers.
Then of course, all kinds of weird cooking methods appeared one after another, and the author called these skills that transcend common sense "superpowers."
Then, in order to highlight the power of the Night Cooker Boss, Soma's father, who has always been touted as almost invincible, was defeated directly at the beginning of the chapter.
Subsequently, Blue, the largest event in the culinary world mentioned at the end of the Totsuki Train chapter, also officially debuted. Next, the protagonist team will naturally have to compete with the dark culinary world on this stage.
However, apart from the protagonist team, the so-called world's top chefs in Blue are still just passers-by. They don't even have names. The combat power system of "Spirit of the Halberd" basically collapsed at this moment. .
Although the combat power in various works is actually the author's word, what's more, "Spirit of the Shokhalberd" is also a gourmet episode that looks like a combat episode.
But the problem is that the strength of the protagonist and even the entire protagonist team is expanding too fast. It all started when the plot of Totsuki Train suddenly accelerated. Soma was still struggling to catch up with the sales at the school festival. As a result, In the blink of an eye, they started a full-scale decisive battle with the top ten heroes, and even ended up killing them all in one fell swoop.
After the Totsuki Train chapter ended, the protagonist team all entered the seats of the top ten. With many powers that can do whatever they want, the author used this as a reason to fully upgrade the protagonist team.
As a result, world-renowned chefs have become lunchbox actors in the world's top culinary competitions.
The boss of the dark cooking world is Zaiha Zhaoyang, the adopted son of Soma's father. He has a power that is very familiar to the audience. As long as he obtains the other party's kitchen utensils, he can steal the other party's power.
Therefore, as Blue progresses all the way, both opponents and teammates who have failed have become nourishment for Caibo Chaoyang, including his father, who was the former leader, and former No. 1 Si Yingshi.
It is not difficult to see that the plot of the cooking world is still based on the creative concept of "Spirit of the Shokugeki", which is a grassroots counterattack genius. Soma's father has repeatedly emphasized that Soma does not have any special powers. On the other hand, He also pushed Saiba Chaoyang's superpower to the top of the world.
In other words, Soma suddenly jumped from the road of catching up with his father to the doorstep of defeating the top of the world.
Looking back at the early plot of "Spirit of the Shokugeki", although the performance technique is slightly exaggerated, the actual performance effect is quite excellent, both in terms of viewing experience and welfare.
But perhaps as the plot developed, even food researchers began to run out of skills, so the increasingly magical worldview of the dark cooking world emerged.
Compared with the shocking enemy leader who was defeated without a fight at the end of the original "Chinese Ichiban", although several plot twists in "Shoji no Soro" are quite blunt, it is still acceptable to the audience, but the latter The degree of magic of the latter is far lower than that of the former, which led to the comical feeling that "Shougen no Soul" suddenly turned into an essentially funny show when it debuted in the cooking world.
Xu Qingru believes that the essential reason for this kind of "high performance and low performance" and "collapse of combat power in the later period" is that the commercial performance of comics is so good and the serialization time is too long. Both the magazine and the creators are reluctant to finish it. , it was just hard work that led to such a result.
"Spirit of the Shokugeki" happens to be a work published in Shueisha's "Weekly Shōnen Jump". Shueisha knows everything about it. The later stages of "Dragon Ball" and "Bleach" were all dragged out, and Takehiko Inoue originally I forced myself to finish "Slam Dunk" and broke up with it.
The extremely popular "Shoku Halberd Soul" was serialized for more than seven years. It was very normal for it to have a "dark cooking world" setting in the later period.
However, this time when she collaborates with Teacher Mengguo on this work, she will definitely not engage in such funny settings. When it is time to end, she can end it as soon as possible.
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