"Ladybug": Welcome to the killer train of entertainment lights

The recently released movie "Bullet Train"/"Bullet Train" was adapted from Kotaro Isaka's novel "Ladybug". Today I will introduce this novel to you.

"Ladybug" is really wonderful. Although this book is nearly 500 pages, I can't stop reading it at the beginning, so I finished this book by Kotaro Isaka very quickly.

"Ladybug" is the sequel to "Grasshopper", both are killer series. Although it is a sequel, it basically has nothing to do with it, except that some characters in "Grasshopper" will appear in "Ladybug". If you haven't watched "Grasshopper" before, it will not affect the fun of reading "Ladybug", but if you have watched "Ladybug" "Grasshopper" and "Ladybug" will be particularly enjoyable to read.

Books about killers are never my cup of tea, but the killers written by Kotaro Isaka are so cute, so cute that readers will fall in love with them.

I remember watching Grasshopper a few years ago and being really intimidated by the beginning of the novel. At the beginning, he was determined to avenge the murder of a certain wife's wife. At first, he was still worried about how to approach the enemy, but the next moment the enemy was in front of him, and there was an unexpected development. That level of surprise is something I've never seen before, and I'm amazed how the plot will play out.

"Ladybug", like "Grasshopper," had an unexpected start that grabbed the reader right away, and the thing about "Ladybug" more than "Grasshopper" was that it was hilarious. Although it is a novel about killers, it is full of humor, coupled with Isaka-style discussion of the theme, forming a unique entertainment novel. Isaka's novels are difficult to categorize, but what he writes are entertaining novels that are good without losing meaning. I rarely find particularly meaningful sentences in the mystery novels of other authors, but every time I read Isaka's novels, I always Fold the book to the full.

The theme of "Ladybug" this time is: "Why can't you kill?" Through a character who constantly asks this question, it makes a multi-faceted discussion, and has another interpretation of the Rwanda genocide.

Well, don't let this theme intimidate, in fact, "Ladybug" is an interesting book, and it would be even more fun if it was adapted into a movie (the movie is really good). The whole book takes place on a moving shinkansen. The 150-minute drive makes four groups of people embark on a thrilling and crazy killing journey. The propaganda article says "the shinkansen has become a corpse train", haha, funny.

The four groups are:

• Ex-killer determined to avenge son who was thrown downstairs for no reason
• The killer duo who just rescued the kidnapped son for the gangster, one loves reading novels, the other loves Thomas the Train
• A bad luck killer, even the simplest tasks can become extremely complicated when they fall on him. This time he was just ordered to steal a piece of luggage on the Shinkansen and get off at the next stop, but as a result he encountered force majeure every time he wanted to get off
• Innocent and excellent on the outside, but a low-quality junior high school student with a dark heart, he regards human life as a game and tries to manipulate others

The characters have distinct personalities, prominent plots, amazing developments from time to time, strict layout, and the humor that is everywhere is addicting.

In "Ladybug", different characters take turns to advance the story. The end of each section has a strong suspense. I really want to see what will happen next. until the end.

And the ending was really heartwarming, and it was so satisfying after watching it. This is the pleasure of reading novels by other authors. In comparison, the ending of the previous work "Grasshopper" is a little melancholy, but this time, the joyful atmosphere is carried out from beginning to end, although the dark middle school students make people grit their teeth.

Isaka-style foreshadowing continues to bring a lot of interest to the novel. Isaka fans like me have learned to remember some unimportant things, but I still enjoy watching Isaka realize these foreshadowings, especially when he also begins Do you think it is a useful foreshadowing to play this kind of game with readers? He wants to make this clue useless, but let the reader know that he is not ignoring the foreshadowing, but deliberately making the reader "unguessable".

Although "Ladybug" does not have the strangely cut story structure that amazes me, such as "Lush Life" and "Ape of SOS", the content is very entertaining and it is very enjoyable to read. If you have never read Kotaro Isaka's novels before, you might as well use this as a primer.

Title: "Ladybug"

Author: Isaka Kotaro

Translator: Wang Huamao

Published: Unique Culture

Date: 2012/12/01

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