Translation
Eri Kisaki und Kogoro Mori - ein Tribut an Takahashi?
Parallels
Eri Kisaki and Kogoro Mori - a tribute to Rumiko Takahashi?
'To be, or not to be, that is the question'
(Hamlet III, 1)
“The magic of the first love lies in the ignorance that it can ever end.” The first love in the sense of the serious affection of two people for each other often represents a serious, formative turning point in the life of a young person. It rarely ends happily, often for it with the first-ever pain of a broken heart. The first love for a situation, however, ends in the rarest cases, although the person is subject to the constant process of change in his perception, his attitude towards the world and his character. So what makes this kind of love so special? Although a person acquires different views over time, this personality development is always accompanied by self-reflection, which influences people, consciously or unconsciously, insofar as formative experiences are embedded in the development - and what is more formative than that first love? The successful manga "Ranma ½" by Rumiko Takahashi was my first love for one thing, but the inventor of Sherlock Holmes of our time, Gosho Aoyama, seems to share this formative love with me, because the main characters of the manga are reflected in his characters Ranma 1/2 reflected.
Eri Kisaki is the mother of Ran Mori, the best friend of the main character Shinichi Kudo or Conan Edogawa, and a highly successful lawyer. She owes her success to her ingenuity and toughness, but her unconditional love for her daughter and the hidden affection for her husband, from whom she separated ten years ago, must also be mentioned. Due to the relative unimportance of this secondary character, not much more is known about her, because during the course of the plot she only comes to the fore in a few episodes / chapters. Her husband, Kogoro Mori, can be seen as an antithetical opponent and thus as a strong contrast. He is a very important character and despite his job as a private detective and his earlier training as a police officer, he often seems like a naive child and due to his inability to solve even the simplest cases, at the beginning of the manga he is more unsuccessful and not turned away from alcohol depicted in the highest degree conceited, self-confident private investigator. But he also loves his daughter with all his heart, wants to protect her from all evil and is even jealous of her friend Shinichi Kudo. Despite repeated expressions of affection from and to various women, he loves his wife, but cannot openly show this and thus ruins romantic moments in an involuntarily funny way. Already here you can see the first parallels to the main characters Ranma and Akane.The heiress of the combat school is a successful, popular and intelligent student who loves her family and develops an undeniable, boundless affection for the protagonist and namesake of the manga, which she can never or only rarely show due to her stubbornness. Her fiancé - the engagement was negotiated by their fathers before the two were born - although he is an experienced martial artist, often looks naive like Mori, but is very conceited and convinced of his abilities. Despite numerous other fiancés and admirers, he also feels a deep affection for his fiancée, which is expressed in the course of the last fight of the manga, but which he cannot express because of his shyness and inexperience.
Furthermore, the course of the marriage or the relationship is an important component in determining the similarities. In the second film by Detective Conan, "The Fourteenth Goal", constant disputes and insurmountable differences are named as the reason for the separation between Kogoro and Eri and the credits finally describe Eri's miserable cooking skills as the reason for a renewed argument and the subsequent separation. Just like the character traits, the course of the relationship can be cited as a further - albeit antiprotagonistic, anticlimatic - parallel: the relationship between the two protagonists is characterized by many disputes, disagreements and ultimately even separations, which, unlike Detective Conan, never last long. And just like Eri Kisaki, Akane Tendo has only modest culinary skills.
The number symbolism in Aoyama's work can be cited as the last point of execution. So he uses the number 10, which determines the time of the separation of the two characters, possibly not accidentally but rather consciously. According to the principle of Sherlock Holmes: "If all other possibilities are eliminated, what remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth", Pytagorean numerology seems to show the connection between the two successful works. Following the Tetraktys, the total of the first four numbers results in the sum 10, the number of the all-encompassing, holy perfection, the center of harmony. The number 4 symbolizes the number of people who make up the two so parallel pairs, whereas the number 10, the sum of the people, symbolically reflects the separation time, but actually the harmony in the overall work, because dichotomous characters can inevitably produce one another Harmony or perfection can only be produced by both sides of the same coin. Likewise, the components of the number 10, namely 1 and 0, show that harmony. The number 1, the beginning, is preceded by nothing, the 0, because without the nothing there is no beginning.This combination of the beginning and the end, of being and non-being, leads the consideration of the couples to a metaphysical level of all being, on which Hamlet also finds himself. Is the existence of dichotomous couples necessary to create a harmonious masterpiece or is the depth of such a train of thought of the creator just an indication of the author's ability, which the reader, consciously or unconsciously, honors by appreciating the author's work?
With this question and a short final word, I would like to say goodbye: now dichotomous couples are not uncommon, they contribute to the entertainment of the reader by being mutually dependent and yet contradicting the similarities and similarities that the two presented above Couples succumb, are apparent, and can hardly be dismissed as coincidence. Does Aoyama express thanks to a masterpiece in his characters or is the existence of such pairs just the same for all those great authors, since it causes harmony? I don't know and I hope that somebody of the readers can answer it for me.
'To be, or not to be, that is the question'
(Hamlet III, 1)
“The magic of the first love lies in the ignorance that it can ever end.” The first love in the sense of the serious affection of two people for each other often represents a serious, formative turning point in the life of a young person. It rarely ends happily, often for it with the first-ever pain of a broken heart. The first love for a situation, however, ends in the rarest cases, although the person is subject to the constant process of change in his perception, his attitude towards the world and his character. So what makes this kind of love so special? Although a person acquires different views over time, this personality development is always accompanied by self-reflection, which influences people, consciously or unconsciously, insofar as formative experiences are embedded in the development - and what is more formative than that first love? The successful manga "Ranma ½" by Rumiko Takahashi was my first love for one thing, but the inventor of Sherlock Holmes of our time, Gosho Aoyama, seems to share this formative love with me, because the main characters of the manga are reflected in his characters Ranma 1/2 reflected.
Eri Kisaki is the mother of Ran Mori, the best friend of the main character Shinichi Kudo or Conan Edogawa, and a highly successful lawyer. She owes her success to her ingenuity and toughness, but her unconditional love for her daughter and the hidden affection for her husband, from whom she separated ten years ago, must also be mentioned. Due to the relative unimportance of this secondary character, not much more is known about her, because during the course of the plot she only comes to the fore in a few episodes / chapters. Her husband, Kogoro Mori, can be seen as an antithetical opponent and thus as a strong contrast. He is a very important character and despite his job as a private detective and his earlier training as a police officer, he often seems like a naive child and due to his inability to solve even the simplest cases, at the beginning of the manga he is more unsuccessful and not turned away from alcohol depicted in the highest degree conceited, self-confident private investigator. But he also loves his daughter with all his heart, wants to protect her from all evil and is even jealous of her friend Shinichi Kudo. Despite repeated expressions of affection from and to various women, he loves his wife, but cannot openly show this and thus ruins romantic moments in an involuntarily funny way. Already here you can see the first parallels to the main characters Ranma and Akane.The heiress of the combat school is a successful, popular and intelligent student who loves her family and develops an undeniable, boundless affection for the protagonist and namesake of the manga, which she can never or only rarely show due to her stubbornness. Her fiancé - the engagement was negotiated by their fathers before the two were born - although he is an experienced martial artist, often looks naive like Mori, but is very conceited and convinced of his abilities. Despite numerous other fiancés and admirers, he also feels a deep affection for his fiancée, which is expressed in the course of the last fight of the manga, but which he cannot express because of his shyness and inexperience.
Furthermore, the course of the marriage or the relationship is an important component in determining the similarities. In the second film by Detective Conan, "The Fourteenth Goal", constant disputes and insurmountable differences are named as the reason for the separation between Kogoro and Eri and the credits finally describe Eri's miserable cooking skills as the reason for a renewed argument and the subsequent separation. Just like the character traits, the course of the relationship can be cited as a further - albeit antiprotagonistic, anticlimatic - parallel: the relationship between the two protagonists is characterized by many disputes, disagreements and ultimately even separations, which, unlike Detective Conan, never last long. And just like Eri Kisaki, Akane Tendo has only modest culinary skills.
The number symbolism in Aoyama's work can be cited as the last point of execution. So he uses the number 10, which determines the time of the separation of the two characters, possibly not accidentally but rather consciously. According to the principle of Sherlock Holmes: "If all other possibilities are eliminated, what remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth", Pytagorean numerology seems to show the connection between the two successful works. Following the Tetraktys, the total of the first four numbers results in the sum 10, the number of the all-encompassing, holy perfection, the center of harmony. The number 4 symbolizes the number of people who make up the two so parallel pairs, whereas the number 10, the sum of the people, symbolically reflects the separation time, but actually the harmony in the overall work, because dichotomous characters can inevitably produce one another Harmony or perfection can only be produced by both sides of the same coin. Likewise, the components of the number 10, namely 1 and 0, show that harmony. The number 1, the beginning, is preceded by nothing, the 0, because without the nothing there is no beginning.This combination of the beginning and the end, of being and non-being, leads the consideration of the couples to a metaphysical level of all being, on which Hamlet also finds himself. Is the existence of dichotomous couples necessary to create a harmonious masterpiece or is the depth of such a train of thought of the creator just an indication of the author's ability, which the reader, consciously or unconsciously, honors by appreciating the author's work?
With this question and a short final word, I would like to say goodbye: now dichotomous couples are not uncommon, they contribute to the entertainment of the reader by being mutually dependent and yet contradicting the similarities and similarities that the two presented above Couples succumb, are apparent, and can hardly be dismissed as coincidence. Does Aoyama express thanks to a masterpiece in his characters or is the existence of such pairs just the same for all those great authors, since it causes harmony? I don't know and I hope that somebody of the readers can answer it for me.