The overall approach of Kings Ranks is the same as that of the teen comics, which is the teenage hero’s journey: a determined protagonist who travels to different worlds for a purpose.
Generally speaking, the protagonist of juvenile manga is the most functional character, which takes the longest time to develop, but at last is mainly refined by Shone jump. The main characteristics contained in his rules are friendship, effort (dream) and victory. The protagonist needs to express and convey these characteristics, so he must have certain characteristics in any case. Otherwise he wouldn’t be the main character in the teen comics.
Characteristics of the main character of the usual teen comics: single-mindedness (indomitable), enthusiasm, courage, not afraid of difficulties, firmness, possessing gold finger skill; in the past, the protagonists of the young comics also had the character of fraternity (Madonna). The reason for this is more complex. It probably boils down to the influence of such great values as anti-war, peace, equality of all living beings and great harmony of the world.
Gold finger skills are basically two directions of ability:
1, super survival ability: speed, strength, physical strength, blood characteristics (heredity or chosen people), and killing skills.
2, super reproductive (social) ability: IQ top, personality charm, language skills, handsome, super affinity, flirting skills.
Back to Rank of Kings, the main character of Porgy is a giant descendant who has been stripped of his powers, is deaf, dumb, weak (and can’t be fixed or enhanced in any way), and a fool. The grand prince of the kingdom, who would one day inherit the throne, would not only build the country but also strive for the top rank of Kings.
Absolutely is a “good guy”, can be called the juvenile comic history of the most waste of the protagonist set.
For works of intellectual warfare type, the protagonist needs to have an advantage in IQ. For works of martial arts type, the protagonist needs to occupy a high position in force. Even if it is not a high position now, it must be given the possibility that the protagonist can grow to a high position in advance. The reason why this is necessary is that, as mentioned above, the hero of the young comic book has the function of conveying the values of friendship, effort and victory. If he does not have strong enough ability to win the final battle, it is difficult to convey effectively.
The King ranking currently represents a martial arts world, and in such a world, the design of a protagonist whose force is zero and which seals the growth of physical strength becomes an anti-formula point.
Because of the past “waste wood” type of protagonist design, most is an appearance is waste wood small people, the only advantage of the surface is good (the advantage of the inside is tough), but after special training, will enhance the strength, learn to kill, become the master of the strongest kill technology + the strongest set shield (play dead) strong man. These characteristics of Porgy’s scene break off the use of these old methods. Of course, in the later stage of the work, it can be reasonable to overturn the setting, but in the early stage of the growth of the protagonist, the old methods are completely not applicable.
But the audience of young comics is very clear, the protagonist will become stronger later, and achieve the purpose, so, how can such a porgy become stronger? How to become and be a high ranking king? There was a strong sense of curiosity and anticipation.
As said before, juvenile comics is the longest-developing type of story comics, so the number of his works tops the entire category of comics, but also leads to the contemporary juvenile comics volume is quite serious, juvenile comics creators must try to find a variety of ways to break through within the rules.
Porgy’s design is one of the more extreme solutions sought in this context, but he is actually still within the rules of the teen comic book protagonist because he has one core quality that he doesn’t throw away.
That is — silly.
In fact, we have used this word to describe the protagonists of young comics before, especially some of the famous scenes of the protagonists, such as saving the enemy, a man against thousands of people, to stop the knife for his companions and so on, so the essence of this silly (or simple) is – one tendon – firmly uphold the faith.
It’s just that Porgy’s stupidity is designed to be extreme, to remove all the cover that was previously covered, so that his determination is not easily shaken by other factors because of stupidity.
But also because the design is so extreme, it makes it harder to create the growth arcs necessary for teen comics.
Domestic net in the “dragon proud day” class, in fact, is also the young comic road, but the purpose of this type of net is “cool”, so his protagonist cannot, and basically does not have the role arc, open the gold finger, all the way up, anyway the reader tired can be abandoned at any time, this kind of cool article at many thousands of chapters, the author will not lose.
Even Wang Baoding’s character in Soldiers’ Assault is just a shaft, not a fool, and the arc of such a character is very easy and traditional. Of course, after all, TV series is different from anime cartoon; TV series must be more in line with the logic of reality.
In fact, there are many ways to do the arc after Porgy, but first of all, the traditional inner change can’t be used. After all, he is a character with a simple mind, and he can’t understand very complicated things. If it becomes a seal, it will become vulgar. Maybe it will be similar to Waking in “Seven Dragon Ball”, the inner arc is not particularly obvious, but the force is increased, but now the magic mirror seems to say that Porgy is the strongest in the world, now this node is already the strongest, then how to do the arc?
I wonder how the author will solve this problem.
Then we’ll look at some of Porgy’s other traits, starting with the fact that he’s deaf and dumb.
Comics is a subtraction of the creation of categories, so generally speaking as long as the design is used, it has its must function, as the protagonist of the design is even more so, at present this deaf and dumb, the main role is:
1. Making Porgy more pitiful and arousing people’s sympathy and later going to “such a pitiful man who has been rewarded through his efforts” will give people incentives.
2. The barrier of communication is the embodiment of the wall of the mind, which is temporarily solved by Corker and various characters who know sign language, but it is a sword of Damocles, and it is up to the author to use it later.
3, related to 2, learning sign language is learning communication, a way to deepen the bond between the character and the porgy.
4) Hiding information, because Porgy cannot effectively express himself, so many information he does not say, the audience will not know, or other people misinterpret Porgy’s meaning and cause misunderstanding, this is the same as 2. But the fact that the author has more ways to hide information as a narrative is not the main point; it’s just one of them.
The second is sensitive, flexible movement. This comes up at the end of the first episode as a positive trait of Porgy, because it has to be there, otherwise Porgy’s persuasive power as the main character will collapse and the audience won’t be emotionally motivated enough to follow him, which is basically a cool way of “playing pig and eating tiger.”
This is one of Porgy’s skill Gold fingers, and it’s the basis for all the other skill Gold fingers that follow. In the story, the acquisition of Porgy’s sensitivity is attributed to the training of the two-headed snake, which is a kind of internal self-consistent setting, but actually does not conform to the realistic logic. Since the muscle is weak, the mobility relying on the muscle must be zero, but in the whole world view of the king ranking, strength and sensitivity are counted separately, which is a feature of the animation works. It’s a simplification of logic. The lower the age of the work, the simpler the logic
Some may disagree with this simplification, but it’s the same as the two sides of Daemon’s space-time wrapping cloth being colored differently.
Of course, if the internal logic of your work is too contrary to people’s common sense, experience and public order, then the chances of being blasted will be greater.
However, going back to this, the sensitivity is only so far (up to the 11th episode of the animation) seems to be separate from the strength, but does not rule out that there is a connection in the Settings, are normal script-writing methods, it is up to the author to use it.
And finally, the heir to the proper kingdom, and I’m going to say this last, because what he contains is a little bit complicated.
1. It is Porgy’s goal to become the real heir of the kingdom, and the process during this period is Porgy’s ordeal.
2. The Chosen one of noble birth is itself a passive buff of Porgy, the status Gold finger. At the level of story and setting, this gives the protagonist the legitimacy and rationality of the skill Gold finger. Although Porgy’s power is sealed, he has a strong stomach.
As for the fundamental role of this point in the audience level, I really realized it in the conversation with my old colleague just now.
Theoretically, the more realistic the design, the closer it is to the reader, the more specific the resonance of the reader will be, but it will also lose some readers from the beginning due to identity issues.
The more out of touch with reality, the more exaggerated and fairytale, the closer the resonance needs to be to the essence, and the vaguer the resonance of the reader will be, but the wider the reception will be, unless the reader is completely uninterested in the subject matter.
So back to the setting of Porgy, because the characteristics of human set are set to the bottom of the rock, so he has a very large space for take-off, and there are many painful points in the middle. Every time he tries harder to achieve success than the last time, the emotional intensity of the audience will be higher. However, this is just a normal practice in theory, from the point of view of the creator does this, but later, it is not good to say, Because if the emotional pull is maintained at a fixed distance, the audience will get tired.
