is an award-winning (The 2017
today's our manga prize) autobiographical webtoon that represents inner wound
that has experienced since childhood. which was published on
Resin Comics since 2015, is a story in which the speaker tells a secret story
directly, which induces readers not only to immersion and emphasis, but also to
support the main character. is a work that proves that a very personal
narration can draw readers' sympathy.
which I would like to support
The author's portrays a
private story about the misaligned feelings experiencing with her family. Danji
confesses that she lived together with his father, mother, older brother, and
younger brother while having a very unreasonable and heartless life. Danji
confesses that she lived together with his father, mother, older brother, and
younger brother while having a very unreasonable and heartless life. It was
difficult to even talk about wounds, and the writer chose Webtoon as a tool to
tell stories. The painful heart could be pulled out of the secret diary by
Webtoon.
Focused on the detailed
emotions of a highly personal narrative
derived from very personal
happening, and the writer’s diary written since childhood, so it had a
different storytelling structure compared to the other manga. The writing in
the diary was written for herself and did not care for the readers, so it was
difficult to predict how the narrative based on it would be accepted by the
reader. Therefore, focused more on an individual’s detailed
emotions rather than the completion of its storytelling. In a way, the artist's
experiences were so direct that even if it was a diary that she wrote down as a
child, her ability to convey emotions at that time would have to be excellent. Thus,
is a webtoon centered more on appealing the reader’s emotion
rather than the perfection of the story.
A story that seeks to forward to normal
status
is difficult to sort out from
general toons considering that it tells herself and the family. However, while
general toons call common family love, describes a specific
family history. The probability of the “family” derived from everyday toons and
other content is happiness that results in reconciliation and loves even when
there are little struggles. However, the family described in
deviates from the standardized 'A temper that we usually think will happen'.
Therefore, the comes in a way that is very unfamiliar. In other
words, a story is a process of restoring a state in which normality is broken
due to an event, so the story of family matter should start from an abnormal
state. Factors that conflict with standardized family images, such as stepmom,
stepdad, violence, and divorce, can be conditions for family stories. In this
view, the family history taken out by Danji is no longer new. Except that it
was a matter that really happened.
Reality and likelihood of stories conveyed
through individual media
The unfamiliarity of is
revealed in the author's confession that it is real as if talking directly to
the reader. We presume that webtoons are fiction in that they are created by
the artists, but reveals the fact that they are nonfiction in the
inner contents by the writer. In addition to the words the author narrates, the
detailed feelings conveyed through the diary make it impossible to think that
it would be a story of fiction. In recent years, considering the webtoons are
consumed through a very personal device called a smartphone, is
appropriate to communicate with the readers. The way in which the author
reveals herself and speaks to the reader through a personal device can lead to
a response to empathy without a comment, which ultimately results in a
narrowing the gap between the author and the reader. In other words, the
reality that comes from the way of telling the story, rather than the story,
immerses the reader while being strongly involved in the probability of the
story.
If the wound can heal just by saying
reveals her wounds, delivers
them directly, comforts and empathizes readers who have such wounds. As the
artist revealed, is a webtoon that satisfies the artist's own
resentment. However, the much interest and love that she received make
no more stay as to satisfy the artist's resentment. The ending is
very important because is the process of finding the meaning of
life while comforting the wounded self and the same meaning for the reader who
is comforted by seeing this work. It is not that we must seek reconciliation
with the unconditional family to find the probability of a typical family. That
is not important at all, but finding your own happiness is very urgent. It's
just her story, it's life-related, and there are so many readers watching it
that she must be happy in any process. It is because readers who shared a
secret cheer for the happiness of Danji.