Chapter 25 disappear, the best eternal life

I just want to write stories that I love. Most Japanese reasoning works in the new century have two obvious characteristics, namely, the diversification of content and high commercialization.In contrast, mystery novels have inherited nearly 200 years of typification traces, which have almost been wiped away at this stage-it is difficult for us to use traditional standards (such as whether there is a famous detective on the stage, whether the story is based on solving puzzles as the core purpose, etc.) ) to measure whether a work is a mystery novel. Many commentators and readers are very keen to debate topics such as "whether a certain Japanese writer is a mystery writer or not".In fact, as long as you have a little understanding of the development of Japanese reasoning literature, you will know that this kind of debate is really meaningless.As we learned in the previous section, Japanese reasoning has become an independent concept, why should it be judged by inherent standards?

When it comes to diversification and commercialization, Keigo Higashino is undoubtedly the "king of heaven" in today's Japanese reasoning circle.Echoing the "King of Heaven", there is Miyuki Miyabe, who has the reputation of "Queen of Heaven". Miyabe Miyuki, whose real name is Yabe Miyuki, was born on December 23, 1960 in Tokyo. (By the way, she was born on the same day of the same month as the new standard-bearer Ayatsuji.) Miyabe Miyuki is a girl with a very prominent personality.She doesn't like group life and hates going to school.The happiest moment of every day is to come home after school and read your favorite stories. "I'm not particularly good, but at least on the surface I'm a pretty good kid" - this is Miyuki Miyabe's evaluation of her childhood.

After graduating from high school, like many Japanese, Miyabe Miyuki did not choose university, but worked as a stenographer in a law firm.During this period of time, she learned a lot of legal knowledge and heard a lot of strange events.Later, Miyabe Miyuki said: "Without this experience, it would be hard for me to believe that there would be so many strange criminals in Japan who did so many strange things. Later, when I wrote novels, the most important thing was the shaping of criminals—— —Only by truly understanding them can we conceive a good story.” In April 1984, Miyabe Miyuki entered the "Entertainment Fiction Classroom" sponsored by Kodansha-an institution that specially cultivates emerging writers, and officially started her creative path.Miyabe Miyuki does not regard becoming a professional writer as her lifelong goal, but just thinks that writing can make her very happy. "I'm very lucky. Sometimes I even wonder if all this is just a dream, and when I wake up, I find that I haven't actually written anything."

In 1987, Miyuki Miyabe won the "ALL Reading" Mystery Newcomer Award for her short story "The Neighbor's Crime" and made her official debut.From that time until today, Miyuki Miyabe's journey as a "Queen of Heaven" can be described as smooth sailing.She is an "award-winning professional" among Japanese reasoning writers, and she feels weak when she wins the award—— In 1989, won the Japan Suspense Fiction Award; In 1992, won the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award; "Honjo Fukagawa Weird Legend" won the Yoshikawa Eiji Literary Newcomer Award;

In 1993, won the Yamamoto Wuri Award; In 1997, won the Japan Science Fiction Award; In 1999, won the Naoki Award and the Japan Adventure Fiction Association Award In 2002, won the Daily Publishing Culture Special Award; ... From Miyuki Miyabe's award-winning experience, it is not difficult to find that these awards cover many fields such as reasoning, science fiction, adventure, pure literature, and popular literature.It can be seen that Miyabe is a typical diversified reasoning writer, and the extension of his works has gone far beyond the traditional reasoning novels. Miyabe Miyuki's psychological age is far below her physical age (this is her self-evaluation), and she has a cartoon-like cuteness in her gestures; she is keen on video games, and has created many excellent works with video games as the background; The writer she most admires is the great master Matsumoto Seicho, who calls herself "the eldest daughter of Qing Zhang".Her writing style is easy and fresh, has high literary value, and is quite like Master Qing Zhang.

Miyabe Miyuki's novels can be roughly divided into three categories, namely mystery novels, period novels and fantasy novels.However, in the latter two types of works, there are also a large number of elements and techniques of mystery novels interspersed, and it is difficult to clearly distinguish them.Because of this, Miyabe Miyuki has been favored by readers in many fields, and has also been praised as "Heisei Queen". "Male Higashino, female Miyabe" - this is a "best-selling formula" circulated in the Japanese publishing industry.And these two writers are precisely the leading figures who can best represent the trend of Japanese reasoning literature in the new century.

Kotaro Isaka is a representative of the new generation of reasoning writers in Japan.His works have a unique style, and he just debuted in 2000. Therefore, Kotaro Isaka is called "the template of Japanese reasoning in the 21st century". Kotaro Isaka, whose real name is Koya Miyasaka, was born in Chiba Prefecture, Japan in 1971.Like many writers, Isaka likes to read all kinds of interesting stories when he was a child.When he was in high school, he accidentally read Shimada Shoji's and has since become a fan of Shimada Shoji.He gradually realized that human imagination can create infinite possibilities-and this has become the driving force behind Kotaro Isaka's creation.

While studying at Tohoku University in Sendai, Kotaro Isaka made clear his ambition to become a writer.To this end, he did a lot of "preparatory work", including reading a lot of mystery novels and pure literature, practicing painting, enjoying classic movies and music, and so on.later.We can clearly see traces of comics and movies in his works, and Isaka's understanding of the Beatles and punk is even more unique and profound. In 1996, Kotaro Isaka won the Suntory Mystery Fiction Award for his short story "The Unsightly Villains", but the work was not renamed and published until 2003. In 2000, Yisaka wrote a novel, which won the Trendy Reasoning Club Award in one fell swoop, and entered the literary world.In Japan, it is common for newcomers in the reasoning world to win awards, but the appearance of Kotaro Isaka has attracted extra attention because he is so special——

The protagonist is persecuted by the police and flees to an isolated island.The inhabitants of this island have been in a completely closed state since 150 years ago.And the spiritual leader who guides their lives turns out to be a talking scarecrow who can predict the future!In addition, anecdotes can be seen everywhere on the small island-the middle-aged man who always talks upside down, the man who can legally shoot anyone without reason... The protagonist wants to ask the Scarecrow how to "return" to the world, but the Scarecrow was killed the day before. people killed!He who can predict the future, why didn't he foresee his own doom?

This is, this is Kotaro Isaka's debut novel.His appearance is more impactful than Kyogoku Natsuhiko's monster reasoning and Nishizawa Yasuhiko's sci-fi reasoning.He is no longer satisfied with "correcting" the world through a change in settings, but completely breaking the old world and rebuilding the world according to his own imagination and needs.If Kyogoku Natsuhiko and Nishizawa Yasuhiko still need to give "rules" or "explanations" on some issues, then Isaka Kotaro is so "tough" that he doesn't need any explanations-because my world is like this, just like not Need to explain why birds fly the same.

Obviously, Kotaro Isaka's style is very pleasing to readers, and he quickly became one of the best mystery writers at the "box office" in Japan.In Taiwan, it only took him three years to become the favorite of readers together with Keigo Higashino, Miyuki Miyabe, Seicho Matsumoto and others. Later, Kotaro Isaka's works became more and more "magic": In 2002, the novel "Lush Life" told us a story of "five in one". Readers; in 2003, He swept all the best-selling novel lists in Japan in those two years, and the former was shortlisted for the Naoki Award; in 2004, He was shortlisted for the Naoki Award; in 2005, He also entered the final selection of the Naoki Award. The former also won the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award and was interpreted by Takeshi Kaneshiro as a film of the same name. At this point, in addition to marveling at Kotaro Isaka's talent and achievements, we will definitely notice such a problem:,,,,, Isaka seems to have been shortlisted for the Naoki Grand Prix 5 times!If we don't consider the result, we will find that his experience is exactly the same as that of Keigo Higashino. The difference came in 2008, though.This year, in view of the strong stimulation given to him by the Naoki Award for many years, Kotaro Isaka announced that he will withdraw from the selection of the Naoki Award and will no longer have any relationship with this award for life.Subsequently, he published a work called "The Homeboy and the Beatles Lullaby".This work upholds Isaka's unconstrained style and conquered all readers, including the judges of the Naoki Award.It was agreed that if this year's Naoki Prize was not awarded to this work, the award would lose its credibility.However, the words have been spoken, and it is hard to follow them.Even if readers and Isaka himself are unwilling, they can only accept this joke made by God.Perhaps, after many years, "Kotaro Isaka never won the Naoki Award" will become an unavoidable entry in the history of reasoning literature, which will be repeatedly studied and deliberated by later generations. The author once communicated with Kotaro Isaka, and he made it clear that "I just want to write a story I like".Since this is his creative principle, I think the matter of the Naoki Award can only be an episode, which will not stop this genius from writing.In recent years, Kotaro Isaka's excellent works have been continuously——, "A Certain King", "Oh, Dads" and other works have been occupying the list of best-selling novels in Japan. Kotaro Isaka is a good man who has been living in Sendai with his wife and children, and rarely shows his face in public - because this will reduce the time he spends with his family.Isaka was invited by a foreign publishing house, and he always said: "This is not impossible, but I need to settle my family first..." Seeing this, we should be able to understand the incredible worlds described by Kotaro Isaka - that is Isaka's beautiful yearning, because he is a kind and responsible writer. The cutting-edge writer who is as famous as Kotaro Isaka is Hidesuke Michio.If Isaka is an uncrowned king, Michio Hidesuke is the undisputed king of Japanese reasoning in the future.This, even his competitors do not deny. Michio Hidesuke was born in Tokyo in 1975. He is a handsome and talented writer. In 2004, his debut novel "The Eye of the Back" caused a sensation as soon as it came out.This work combines the elements of suspense, horror and reasoning, and it has the legacy of the master Henggou's official history, and at the same time has the distinctive characteristics of the new era. In the selection of the Horror and Suspense Novel Awards, the judge Ayatsuji Hiroshi liked this work very much, and exclaimed that the author will become the new leader of Japanese mystery novels.However, some judges believed that the style of "Eye of the Back" was too similar to Kyogoku Natsuhiko's monster reasoning, so he only won the second prize in the end.Although this little episode didn't shake Michio Hidesuke's confidence, it also dealt him quite a blow.Fortunately, he turned this blow into motivation, and vowed to write the best work that left all the judges speechless. Readers didn't have to wait long. In 2005, Hidesuke Michio created his second novel "Summer where the Sunflowers Never Bloom", which was shortlisted for the 6th Benge Mystery Fiction Award.This work depicts an extremely dark adult world from the perspective of a child.The last reversal and subversion of the novel left an indelible impression on every reader.Telling serious stories through the lens of gamification runs through all of Hidesuke Michio's works. Published in 2006 and "The Eye of the Back" belong to the "Mabi Shosuke Series" (this series also has a collection of short stories "Meteor Flower").The stories in this series have a strong horror color.Created in the same year, it is a non-series work like "Summer the Sunflowers Never Bloom". It also tells a very adult story from a child's perspective, and it is also full of surprises and shocking reversals.It is regarded by many readers as the highest masterpiece of Hidesuke Michio, and won the 7th Benge Mystery Award. In 2007, Hidesuke Michio created and created his "Earthly Branches Series".This series integrates the zodiac signs of Chinese culture and the related twelve earthly branches into the story, which is very difficult to create.By 2011, Hidesuke Michio had created 7 works (Shen Monkey), (Xu Dog), (Zi Mouse), (You Chicken), (Ugly Cow + Yin Tiger), (Chen Long) and (Si Snake).Among them, He and He are of a higher standard, and the former also won the Japan Reasoning Writers Association Award. Hidesuke Michio's view of creation is rather dark and hopeless.Unlike Kotaro Isaka's "Road to twists and turns, the future is bright", Michio's works often do not see the hope of the world, and even if there is a glimmer of light, it is fleeting.Michio Hidesuke did not completely build a new world for his own use, but constantly "destroyed" and "reformed" the inherent world.Readers will see the world they are familiar with in Daowei's works, but every time at the end, this familiarity will be completely subverted.This kind of psychological gap is more impactful than a completely empty world-because we didn't have any preparations before. In 2010, the Japanese drama "Moon Lovers" starring Kimura Takuya and Lin Chiling became popular all over the world. The original author of this Japanese drama is Michio Hidesuke. In 2011, Michio Hidesuke won the Naoki Award for his new work "Moon and Crab".Before, like a certain Higashino-kun and a certain Isaka-kun, he had been shortlisted four times without success.However, compared to Keigo Higashino who won the award in his half-century, compared to Kotaro Isaka who "abandoned himself" at a young age, Hidesuke Michio who won the Japan Mystery Writers Association Award and the Naoki Award at the age of 36, is already too remarkable. After Michio Hidesuke won the award, the author had some exchanges with him.Michio said that he has always been adhering to a creative concept, which was told to him by a Japanese eminent monk.This eminent monk once gave Michio Hidesuke a scroll with four characters written on it - "ghost hands and Buddha heart". "The means of creation can be strange, but these must be based on a compassionate heart. The writer is full of kindness in his heart, so that the works he writes will not be forgotten by readers." The new leader of Japanese reasoning literature can have such a creation Faith is indeed a blessing to the reader. In addition to the writers we mentioned, in the new millennium, Mitsuda Shinzo, Onda Riku, Sakuraniwa Kazuki, Minato Kanae and others are also outstanding and main force in this field. With the efforts of many talented writers, Japanese reasoning in the new era has broken away from the shackles of genres and models, and leaped forward to show itself on a broader stage.For a literary genre, perhaps, disappearance would be the best and most complete immortality.It washes away the lead, upholds the universal spirit of all excellent literary works, and provides happiness for more people who like to read.