Pink Dark Boy

Template:Book/fr Pink Dark Boy (ピンクダークの少年, Pinku Dāku no Shōnen) est un manga fictif du personnage de Rohan Kishibe qu'on dit être publié par la Shueisha, dans le Weekly Shonen Jump.

Le manga est très lié au personnage de Rohan, et donc est souvent mentionné avec le personnage quand il apparait, dont la quatrième partie de JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Diamond is Unbreakable, des light-novels, le film Diamond is Unbreakable ou encore le drama télévisé Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe.

Certains personnages sont fans du manga, dont Koichi Hirose, Toshikazu Hazamada, Tamami Kobayashi, and Akira Otoishi.

Histoire

Rohan au Louvre

Rohan et ses brouillons

Rohan commence à dessiner des pages de Pink Dark Boy à l'âge de dix-sept ans, en 1996, dans l'intention de les soumettre à un concours pour jeunes mangakas. Son histoire ne comportait aucune fille car le thème n'avait rien à voir avec les femmes, mais un éditeur a demandé à Rohan d'ajouter des femmes attirantes. Ainsi, Rohan commence à dessiner une personnage inspirée de Nanase Kishibe dans son manuscrit.

Nanase admire son travail au début, mais après avoir vu qu'il l'a dessinée, elle devient furieuse et déchire la page avec des ciseaux. Nanase disparaît rapidement et Rohan recommence son manuscrit. Il le soumet en septembre, et à la fin de l'automne, son histoire est sérialisée.

Diamond is Unbreakable

Rohan dessinant Pink Dark Boy

Dès la partie 4, la série Pink Dark Boy semble être devenue un succès, la série étant connue et quelques personnages étant fans de la série.

Bien que l'intrigue et le cadre de Pink Dark Boy soient inconnus, Koichi Hirose déclare qu'il s'agit d'un manga d'horreur à suspense qui pourrait être grotesque par moments mais qui comporte des scènes palpitantes et des personnages réalistes. Après que Josuke Higashikata ait tabassé Rohan et que ce dernier soit hospitalisé, le manga entre en pause pendant au moins un mois.

Le manga a également été publié à l'étranger, à Taïwan et en Europe. Joseph Joestar demande s'il a déjà envisagé de faire une version anglaise mais Rohan explique qu'il n'y en a pas encore parce que "les Américains ont mauvais goût".

Rohan reçoit des avis mitigés sur l'œuvre dans les lettres de ses fans. Certaines lettres disent qu'ils l'adorent et lisent les mêmes chapitres au moins dix fois par semaine. D'autres disent que l'art est bizarre, ou que regarder l'art les irrite et qu'ils détestent les couleurs.

Dans le film live-action, Koichi possède vingt volumes de la série et en a un poster.

Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan

Pink Dark Boy's volumes

Following Rohan's battle with Josuke, Pink Dark Boy goes on hiatus for the whole summer while he investigates Yoshikage Kira. When Kira is defeated, Rohan later travels to Italy as research for a new development in his story and spends eight days in Venice. Pink Dark Boy possibly involves supernatural elements since Rohan decides to investigate a yokai legend for a manga he was working on.

In the TV drama, there are at least 81 volumes of the book published. Rohan had just started Part 8 of the manga one month prior to the first episode.

Short Story Collection

The information below derives from a source not written by Araki. As such, it may or may not be considered canon.

Pink Dark Boy is a favorite of manga fans around the world. There are countless reasons for its popularity, such as the manga's unique and strong characters, and several famous lines of dialogue and onomatopoeia that make people want to imitate them. Most importantly, the manga provides a sense of "reality".

By depicting things that Rohan himself saw and experienced, Pink Dark Boy could provide the best entertainment. When the protagonist faces a horrific enemy, the reader's skin crawls. When food is introduced, the reader can not only smell it, but even taste it. Fans see the characters as objects of admiration rather than fictional beings, and even their way of life is changed after reading.

When two kids in the library read Pink Dark Boy, one of them mentions that although there are a lot of volumes, the contents of the volumes are different. They're all different stories which are interconnected.

The Book: 4th Another Day

The information below derives from a source not written by Araki. As such, it may or may not be considered canon.

In the year 2000, Koichi reads Rohan's comment in an issue of Weekly Shonen Jump which reveals that Pink Dark Boy is ending the third part of its story and will soon be entering its fourth part. Koichi states that it is a manga with attractive characters, characteristic onomatopoeia, and cool poses of the characters on the covers. Rohan later reveals to Koichi that he already has nine parts in total planned for the manga despite the fourth part not starting yet. He finished the entire plot of Part 9 including the dialogue, with the only thing left to do being to draw it all into manuscripts.

JORGE JOESTAR

The information below derives from a source not written by Araki. As such, it may or may not be considered canon.

The 37th universe's Rohan Kishibe also creates a manga named Pink Dark Boy. As of 2012, it had been running for twenty years, and had recently started part eight.

George Joestar sees one of the volumes on Rohan's desk titled Pink Dark Boy: Part 8. Volume 112.

Ultra Comic Award Manga

Second Prize Winners

Honorable Mentions & "Expectation Awards"

On April 19, 2016, Ultra Jump co-sponsored the first Ultra Comic Award event with the digital magazine Ashita no Young Jump. The theme of the event was for participants to create their own version of Pink Dark Boy, based on what they thought it would be like. The genre, character design, and number of pages were completely optional, with no need to resemble Rohan's protagonist. The deadline was until midnight on June 30, 2016. The results were announced on August 19, 2016, in the September 2016 issue of Ultra Jump.

37 works were entered in the contest. Unfortunately, none won the grand prize of 300,000¥. However, there were two winners for the second prize of 100,000¥, along with a special Rohan penholder and a Tosho card (prepaid card for buying books) loaded with 10,000¥. There were three honorable mentions who each won 50,000¥ and a Tosho card loaded with 10,000¥. They also created a special "Expectation Award" for five works which had good qualities but were a step short of winning the main awards, who each received 10,000¥.

Galerie

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  Pink Dark Boy from Hop Step Awards

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  Koichi and Hazamada amazed by some color illustrations from the manga.

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  Panel drawn using the "Drip Painting" technique with a calligraphy brush.

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  Drawn by Reki Taki

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  Pink Dark Boy on the cover of Weekly Shonen Jump

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  Rohan's colored artworks on the wall

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  Koichi and Hazamada amazed by seeing the manuscripts

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  Rohan demonstrates his ability, swiftly sketching Pink Dark Boy

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  Panel drawn using the "drip painting" technique with a calligraphy brush.

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  Hazamada yelling at Tamami for ruining his magazine

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  Rohan starts drawing again after his hiatus

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  Pink Dark Boy resumes publication, appearing on the cover of Jump

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  Small glimpses of manga panels in the anime's ED

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  Rohan's early drafts

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  Character based on Nanase Kishibe

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  Koichi's collection of Pink Dark Boy manga in the Diamond is Unbreakable live-action film

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  Pink Dark Boy poster

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  Pink Dark Boy in Thus Spoke Kishibe Rohan (TV Drama)

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  Illustrations by Masahiko Aoki

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  Notebook from JOJO WORLD

Détails

• "Pink Dark Boy" est aussi le nom du thème de Rohan dans JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: All Star Battle.
• Heaven's Door reprend l'apparence du héros de Pink Dark Boy.
• Les pages du premier épisode du drama télévisé Thus Spoke Rohan Kishibe ont été dessinés par Masahiko Aoki. Les manuscripts bruts ont été dessinés, eux, par Hirohiko Araki.