How Characters Stand Out
How Characters Stand Out
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角色如何脱颖而出
DOI:
10.1353/mec.2011.0023
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发表时间:
2011
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通讯作者:
T. Lamarre
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作者:
Miyamoto Hirohito;T. Lamarre
Among the various elements used in the composition of manga, it is well known that characters have particular significance. If we consult an American encyclopedia compiled at a time when manga first began to flourish in newspaper serialization, we find under the heading of comics that the comic strip (a type of manga using a series of panels to tell a story) generally has a continuing cast of characters.1 Here “continuing cast” refers to the same characters playing the same roles across a number of episodes. In Sazae-san, for instance, each day’s episode basically comes to its conclusion in four panels, but the next day, and the day after, the character Sazae-san continues to appear as the elder daughter of the Isono family. Providing an overall name for the series of independent episodes, the title of the work supports the sense of a continuing cast. Put another way, if the first episode and the thousandth episode of Sazae-san appear to be part of the same work, it is because the same character takes the stage.2 While each and every episode comes to an end, a particular character reappears in each. For the reader, such a work brings primarily characters to How Characters Stand Out