Chapter 2 The general guide is a contemporary master who independently raised the banner of monster reasoning - Kyogoku Natsuhiko

In the Japanese reasoning world in the 1990s, the appearance of Kyogoku Natsuhiko brought a considerable impact to the reasoning literary world. The large and extensive knowledge in the book, the treacherous truth of strange events, the huge novel and the speed of writing, all these features made him highly appreciated by everyone when he debuted, and he has never fallen. In addition, Kyogoku Natsuhiko's deep knowledge of monster culture also makes him different from ordinary reasoning writers.In addition to the fact that the novel is named after ancient Japanese monsters, the knowledge of monsters that appear in the stories from time to time also shows his love for monsters.

As an enthusiastic supporter of Mizuki Shigeru, the most important monster painter in modern Japan, and even calls himself a disciple of Mizuki Shigeru, Kyogoku Natsuhiko also has incomparable influence in the field of monsters.Kyogoku Natsuhiko's vigorous promotion of monster culture is definitely one of the important factors that have caused the boom in monsters in Japan in recent years. And all of this may have been unexpected when Kyogoku Natsuhiko wrote his debut work.After all, he stepped into the world of reasoning as a novelist, and then occupied a place in the field of monsters and reasoning, which can be said to be the result of inadvertently.The process of his debut has already become a legend among readers.

Kyogoku Natsuhiko is a graphic designer who studied at a design school and worked in a design company and advertising agency before opening a studio with a friend.However, due to the collapse of the bubble economy, his workload was greatly reduced. In order to pass the time, he wrote this novel.Before that, not only had he never written a novel, he had never even had the idea of ​​"writing a novel". After the completion, he began to cut the length because the length exceeded the limit of newcomer awards such as the Edogawa Ranpo Award and the Yokomizo Masashi Award, but then gave up revising and did not submit.After that, he decided to contact the publisher directly and asked if he would like to read the original manuscript of the novel.It was actually a coincidence that he would call Kodansha. He was just flipping through the novel at hand (it is said to be "Lost Joy in a Box" by Takemoto Kenji), checked the phone number on the copyright page, and then called Kodansha who published the novel society.Even though it was Golden Week (a long statutory holiday in early May in Japan) and there might be no one at the publishing house, he still tried to make a call.

Unexpectedly, during the consecutive holidays, there happened to be an editor at Kodansha.The editor learned that Kyogoku Natsuhiko had the original manuscript of the novel, and even though he was a newcomer, he still asked him to send it to the publishing house.Kyogoku Natsuhiko originally thought that the editor would spend a lot of time reading a thousand-page manuscript novel, and there would be a process of evaluation after that. It would take half a year to get an answer, so he ignored the novel after it was sent.As a result, the response came unexpectedly quickly. On the third day after the manuscript was sent, the editor of Kodansha called back, hoping to publish the novel.

The immortal masterpiece in the history of reasoning was published in 1994.This is how Kyogoku Natsuhiko's career as a writer began. Compared with the reasoning writers who used to win awards as an opportunity to make their debut in the past, Kyogoku Natsuhiko does not have the blessing of winning awards, and only has the opportunity to make his debut by virtue of his outstanding performance in novels.However, his talent was not only supported by the readers, but the reasoning literary world also quickly gave a positive response.1995 was only his second novel, and he was able to win the 49th Japan Mystery Writers Association Award the following year.As soon as he debuted, he gathered everyone's attention, and his second work won an important award, which undoubtedly revealed the strength of Kyogoku Natsuhiko.

And his extremely fast writing speed when he first debuted is an even more jaw-dropping feature besides the content of the novel.Published in 1994, followed by 1995 and 1996.On the surface, the publishing speed of two books per year may not be surprising, but if you consider the length and content of the novel, you should be able to understand how fast he writes.Except for less than 500 pages (the number of pages in Japanese monographs), each of the subsequent books is more than 500 pages in length, and the last two even exceed 800 pages.Such quick writing reflects the solid knowledge he has accumulated in the past and his ability to construct stories.

Although Kyogoku Natsuhiko's writing speed in the future is no longer as fast as when he first debuted, his development direction is more diverse.In the field of novels, Kyogoku Xiayan has two series of works, namely the Kyogokudo series and the Alley Talk Hundred Story series, in addition to some non-series novels.In addition to novels, it includes research on monsters, painting of monsters, manga creation, original animation scripts and dubbing, guest performances in dramas, work readings, various interviews, book binding design, etc., can be seen in many fields Seeing his activeness, people are even more surprised by his diverse talents.

The success of Kyogoku Natsuhiko has influenced many reasoning writers in the future.From this, Kodansha began to think about another way for newcomers to debut. There is no need to compete with most unknown writers for newcomer awards. As long as they think they are capable and are approved by the editorial department, writers can debut.The emergence of Kodansha's "Mephisto Award" in 1996 is also the result of implementing this idea. If we compare the writers of the same period, starting from Kyogoku Natsuhiko in 1994, Nishizawa Yasuhiko who debuted in 1995, and Mori Hiroshi in 1996, there are different types of mystery novels at this time. small changes.At a time when the output of many new-benge writers began to dwindle, the aforementioned three writers displayed distinctly different styles.They publish books at a fast speed, and they have accumulated many works in just a few years, and they will not lower their standards because of the mass production of their works, but they can maintain a certain reputation.In addition, it has attracted many readers who did not read mystery novels in the past, expanding the readership to a wider audience.

Kyogoku Natsuhiko's main works are the Kyogokudo series headed by him.As of 2007, this series has published a total of eight full-length novels and four collections of short and medium stories. It is the main axis of Kyogoku Natsuhiko's creative career, and he is still writing.Since the Kyogokudo series is a work that he has devoted himself to developing since his debut, coupled with the quick writing of the previous works, the number of works has accumulated quickly, and its wonderful content has also made Kyogoku Natsuhiko establish The reputation of monster reasoning. The characteristics of Natsuhiko Kyogoku's works are his combination of monsters and reasoning.Perhaps it can also be said that when he wrote monster novels, he adopted the form of mystery novels, and this is reflected in the Kyogokudo series.The core of the Kyogokudo series is "expelling possessed monsters", the original text is "falling with things".The so-called "reward" refers to the spirit that possesses people.In folk society, people's abnormal behaviors and phenomena are often considered to be the relationship between evil spirits attached to people.It is because of the possession of evil spirits that people become abnormal. Therefore, to restore them to normal, the evil spirits must be exorcised by a prayer teacher.

The concept of the Kyogokudo series is similar to this.Everyone has different hearts and ideas, and some people may have malice in their hearts because of their background or experience.The truth is hidden in uncanny façades, as twisted malevolence attaches itself to people, causing them to commit crimes or behave in grotesque ways.Kyogoku Natsuhiko made the possessed evil spirit materialize in the image of a youkai, and the result was just as the appearance of the youkai made the event unbelievable.Onmyoji Chuzenji Akihiko used his rich knowledge and impeccable eloquence to unravel the mystery of the incident and let the truth come to light.Since the inconceivable strangeness can be reasonably explained, it is as if the abnormal state has returned to normal.That being the case, the monsters that caused the weird phenomena were naturally expelled by the Onmyoji when the truth was revealed.

Such a process is in line with the form of "mystery and puzzle solving" in mystery novels.Kyogoku Natsuhiko once mentioned in an interview that mystery novels are called stories of "order restoration", and what he wants to write is also a story of this order restoration.Under such a concept, the wonderful combination of monsters and reasoning, these two seemingly unrelated types, has become his greatest feature in Kyogoku Natsuhiko's writing. And Kyogokudo exorcises monsters and explains the truth with rich knowledge, so Kyogoku Natsuhiko's novels are always full of a lot of information.In the book, Kyogokudo said "There is no book in this world that is not interesting, no matter what book is interesting", in fact it is Kyogoku Natsuhiko's own thoughts.His love for books allowed him to read a considerable amount, so he was able to accumulate a wealth of knowledge, which was also expressed in stories everywhere. Another feature lies in the shaping of the characters.As the owner of the ancient bookstore "Kyogokudo", the head of the shrine Musashi Seimeisha, and the onmyoji, Akihiko Chuzenji has the triple identity, taking on the important task of expelling monsters and explaining mysteries.Detective Reijiro Enoki of the Rose Cross Detective Agency can see other people's memories.In addition, the detective Shutaro Kiba, the novelist Tatsumi Sekiguchi, and the reporter of the "Kyotan Monthly News" who is also the sister of Kyogokudo Atsuko Chuzenji, etc.The characters in the novel have their own unique personalities, which not only win the support of readers, but also become the objects of attention of many people when they read the story. Another series of works by Natsuhiko Kyogoku, this series was published in 1997, the first book was published in 1999, and four books were published until 2007.The third book in this series made Kyogoku Natsuhiko take the first and third places.The last Naoki Award became an important milestone in his career as a writer. In addition, there are two novels related to this series, that is, "The Voyeur Koheiji".These two books are actually works by Natsuhiko Kyogoku who rewrote a well-known ghost story in Japan to give it a new look.However, due to the overlapping of characters, it is actually equivalent to the rumored works of the Lane Shuo series.In Kyogoku Natsuhiko's award-winning history, these two works have won awards at the same time. They won the 25th Izumi Kyoka Literary Award, and "The Peeping Kodaira" won the 16th Yamato Weekly Award. Goro Award.Create a New Era of Mystery Fiction Kyogoku Natsuhiko's extraordinary talents have been exerted in many fields, and he has made extraordinary achievements.In the past, Taiwan has published several novels by Kyogoku Natsuhiko, and readers already have some knowledge of him.It is a pity that in the past, there was no comprehensive recommendation and introduction in the form of a collection of works. Therefore, for readers, the highly anticipated works of Kyogoku Natsuhiko have always been legendary masterpieces and have never been seen. Today, Kyogoku Natsuhiko's novels are re-introduced, and it is the complete collection of Kyogokudo series of his most important works. Readers can see the amazing strength of this writer from the complete collection of novels.The Kyogokudo series, which is enough to leave a name in the history of Japanese reasoning, is bound to leave a deep impression on people with its wonderful stories.The pronoun of monster reasoning, Kyogoku Natsuhiko, a well-known contemporary novelist who created a new era of monster novels and mystery novels, is right in front of you now. Introduction to the author: Ling Che, born in 1973, is fond of reading all kinds of reasoning and commentary, especially this book.