The Thatched Cottage With Immortals

This is the first collection of works by wmm, a freelance illustrator with more than 10 years of experience as a character designer in the game industry.

The charm of fantasy created from a sensibility that can only be nurtured in East Asian culture will surely be nostalgic for Japanese audiences.

The issue that the current generation of illustrators in China continues to explore is.
What kind of pop culture will the Eastern philosophy fuse with and create a new change.
The “Juzenan” is a work of art by Wmm-sensei, who uses the classic ink painting touch and CG techniques.
I tried to answer the question in my own way with this personal creation of the “Juzenan” series.

This worldview, which had been highly popular and well-received on Chinese SNS since its release on the Internet, had a background derived from the Lao Zhuang philosophy and Taoist culture of “Shu Xian and the Hidden World.

This is a virtual world in which fairies, immortals, and humans coexisted.
There existed a “Shangri-la” far removed from the mundane world.

The title of this book, “Juusen-an,” refers to a tea house where hermits and senkai gathered.

In this book, a boy and a frog set out on a journey, where they experienced many wonders and met various people in the “Jyusen-an,” or Peach Blossom Village.
It is divided into three sections, “The Unexplored Land of the Peach Plants,” “The Society of Juzen,” and “The Key to the Unexplored Land.”
The environment of Jyusen-an, episodes of adventure, character charts, background, etc. are devised into a detailed setting.

[Original text in Japanese, translated by DeepL]