あだち充マンガの魅力: 優しさ. the kindness of Adachi Mitsuru

I really wish I could write this in Japanese so that I could reach some Japanese readers in which this topic may be of more interests to them. But my Japanese is really not good (ダメ) so i guess it makes more sense if I write it in English, (however my English isn’t good either!). 

Today I’ll talk about H2, by Mitsuru Adachi, one of my favourite manga artist of all time!

The manga (comic) original of H2 can now be viewed free-of-charge online at sunday-webry.com (until June 2019), a chapter per day. That’s why I pay attention to it again and started re-reading. H2, a story with high-school baseball and school life as backdrop, more to it, is a coming of age story about friendships and relationships, and redefining oneself. 

At the beginning, there was an episode about the School’s soccer team playing a baseball game against the baseball club.  This baseball club, was just a casual baseball hobby ‘club’ that all members in it so far play very little baseball and therefore they don’t have much skills, and no one ever dare to aim playing at the baseball tournament. The soccer team, indeed has a bunch of capable players whom can play not only soccer but baseball. The soccer boys show no respect to the boys of the baseball club, and fool them around.

Adachi Mitsuru, the creator of the story, had written the episode and showed how the soccer boys mistreat the baseball club boys. I can feel the injustice. I keep asking myself whom will I support? You may be asked: How do you, as the audience, feel?

I want to specially mention that, Adachi’s, in the illustration below, used screen-tone in a special way (screen-tone is greyscale patterned screen apply to a background or on top of an object in Japanese comics). Here, the grey-out of the weak team’s pitcher - has drawn my attention: it is like a voice whispering to me: How do YOU feel about this? (The first page, bottom panel; and the next page, bottom panel). And see the people there, what are their actions, what are they thinking? How do YOU see it?

In the last page, there are a few panels with no dialogue, is this trying to tell us the fate of the baseball club? an enthusiastic manager girl Haruka, the unskilled players, and the chubby girl...  the beginning volumes of H2, is for you to taste and to feel the vivid coming-of-age story. You will be rewarded with very interesting characters development along the journey. 

H2、大好きな漫画です。
今週は日曜のウェッブリーで1日1枚の無料話をデジタルで見ることができるので、最初の章で再び注目しています。
サッカーチームが野球チームと対戦していたのは、野球の「チーム」が野球クラブであり、クラブの誰もがほとんどスキルを発揮していないということでした。 サッカーチームは、実際には非常に良い投手木根を持っています。野球クラブにあらゆる種類の無礼を見せてくれる有能な人たちの集まりで、 "遊んでいます"。
皆さんは誰をサポートしますか？観客はどのように反応しますか？
特に、あだち充のスクリーントーンの使用が言及されています。このイメージがグレーで表示されていると、イメージが表示されていないときとは異なる感触が得られます。以下のいくつかの例は、上のパネルに示されています。

最後のイメージは、野球愛好会の狀態を伝えるために、対話のないいくつかのパネルの使用です：熱狂的なマネージャー春華、未熟な選手、三回目で6对0その時の状況。私には、本当に感動的な話で始まります。