Tokyo life starting with painting.

Chapter 101 A Good Food Comic

What elements are needed for a good food comic?

Glowing gourmet food with fancy drawings?The contrast between the exaggerated reaction of the spectators to the delicious food and the cool feeling of the male lead?

No no.These can only be said to be the interesting factors in food comics.

For Hosokawa Koharu, a must-have factor for a qualified or even excellent gourmet manga should be—truth.

That's right, no matter how extravagant you are, no matter how fancy you draw, only based on reality can readers have a sense of substitution.

In Hosokawa Koharu's eyes, Higashino's "The Lonely Gourmet" is such a comic, real and plain.

Yes.

Higashinoji did not paint a character such as a genius chef, nor did he paint any colorful dishes.

Everything is very ordinary, the real Tokyo street scene, real people and events unfold in front of Hosokawa Koharu like a travelogue——

Inokashira Goro is a dull middle-aged man who seems unreasonable.

He owns a grocery store in Tokyo, and he often meets some weird customers when he is running around for a living.

And today is also a daily day for Inokashira Goro.

"So, what kind of teacup do you want to make?" Inokashira Goro said to the customer in front of him with a commercial smile.

The other party was his regular customer, but Inokashira Goro knew in his heart that this customer was a bit difficult to deal with.

"Ah, this style of tea cup would be the best." The middle-aged customer smiled and took out a poster.

It was an abstract painting poster with lines and circles connected together, making people feel dazzled when looking at it.

'The thing I'm most confused about is this style'

Seeing that it was an abstract painting, Inokashira Goro's dull face turned dark all of a sudden.

"Do you understand?" The customer next to him asked him for advice.

Are you making out a riddle for me to guess?I don't understand this either

At this moment, Inokashira Goro even felt that the other party didn't understand anything.

But the other party was a customer, Party A, so he held back a bitter face, and asked in a low voice after a while:

"It's this silent, quieter style, right?"

The middle-aged customer was obviously stunned when he heard this sentence, and then nodded in ecstasy: "So that's how it is."

"Huh?" Inokashira Goro obviously didn't expect the other party to say that, so he was taken aback.

"Ah, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Goro-san, you're right. It's that very silent, relatively quiet style." The customer came back to his senses and nodded in affirmation.

Uh

Inokashira Goro was silent for a moment, without further study, and then he took out his notebook and prepared to record: "Then what exactly do you want to make the tea cup?"

The customer paused again for a short time, and then he happily shook Inokashira Goro's hand: "That aspect will be left to Goro-san."

ah?Leave it all to me?

"That is to say, do as I see?"

"That's right, just do whatever you want, Wulang-sang, don't you understand that very well?" The customer added with a smile.

Just do whatever you want and watch yours

These are the fatal requirements of Party A in normal work.

How do I know what you want?

Inokashira Goro's dull face remained unchanged.

It's just that the forehead lines on the forehead are deeper

Looking at Inokashira Goro's suspicious appearance in the manga, Hosokawa Koharu couldn't help laughing.

Obviously, it is a very ordinary meeting between Party A and Party B, and Party A's customer makes a request.

It is such a simple plot, but it was restored by Higashino Division to be extraordinarily absurd, but also very realistic. The whole plot of meeting guests is full of humor and ridicule.

That's right, there is this kind of Party A in the world, who will make many requests for you that you can't understand at all.

'You've got to do this, then this, and this last—get it? 'There are actually many such parties.

Because of the truth, Hosokawa Koharu laughed out loud, but also because of the truth, Hosokawa Koharu inexplicably felt the pressure of living in the working class in modern society.

Yes, Hosokawa Koharu laughs at Inokashira Goro because she is not Inokashira Goro, but how many characters similar to Inokashira Goro are there in Japanese society?

Even Hosokawa Koharu himself actually sometimes plays the role of Inokashira Goro, running around for a living.

Looking at Inokashira Goro standing on the street in the manga manuscript, Hosokawa Koharu felt as if he had become the other party, drifting with the tide on the isolated island of Tokyo.

The sense of substitution is very strong.

"It's okay, there is always a way."

Inokashira Goro, who was standing next to the telephone pole, muttered something in a low voice, as if to comfort himself.

Then, he raised his head and suddenly looked at the streets of Tokyo, his dull face was also tense, as if some misfortune happened suddenly.

This made the viewer Hosokawa Koharu's heart tense, and she hurriedly turned the manuscript in her hand to the next page.

This is a set of long-shot storyboards.

Accompanied by the three crisp sounds of "Boom, Boom, Boom", the lens is also stretched.

The first shot is a close-up of Inokashira Goro's face in a daze with his mouth half-opened and his eyes looking forward in a daze.

The second shot is a close-up of Inokashira Goro's entire body in a daze.

The third shot is a close-up drawing of all the street scenes behind Inokashira Goro and in front of him.

Under such a serious long shot, Inokashira Goro on the screen finally spoke: "I'm hungry."

This sudden contrast of "serious and funny" broke the depressive feeling of being made things difficult by Party A's customers, and made the overall flow of the story more relaxed.

At this time, Hosokawa Koharu also thought of the title of Higashinoji's comic - "The Lonely Gourmet".

I watched Inokashira Goro in the manga seriously looking for small shops on the street, comparing repeatedly but still not making up his mind.

Hosokawa Koharu suddenly became nervous for some reason.

She even thinks Inokashira Goro, who is so serious about cooking, is a real gourmet.

And Inokashira Goro's meal does not seem to be an ordinary meal, but to perform some kind of sacred ceremony, giving people an inexplicable sense of ritual.

Can he find a good store?Can you eat good food to relax yourself in a busy and difficult life?

All this affects the mood of Hosokawa Koharu.

Finally, Goro stopped at a small street shop called Heshiting.

In the comics, he appears complacent and confident.

He was very happy to find a good restaurant.

It was like knocking down the giant of reality.

'You can't do anything to me. '

In the comics, Inokashira Goro's energetic appearance when he discovers food seems to be a declaration of reality.

And this also brought the first episode of "The Lonely Gourmet" to its climax.

(End of this chapter)