Monday, February 19, 2018

The fortune of Koji Suzuki

Koji Suzuki born 1957/5/13

Gourmet
Comrade
Ego
4
2
2
(10)
(6)
(10)
Slaughter
Rebel
Slaughter

Pirate
Owl
Guardian
Slaughter
Judge
Gambler
Collector
Gourmet
1
10
9
8
7
6
5
4
(5)
(4)
(3)
(2)
(1)
(12)
(11)
(10)
2
12
22
32
42
52
62
72
1959
1969
1979
1989
1999
2009
2019
2029

Koji Suzuki is a horror novelist in Japan, he wrote Ring, you know, the Ring that a girl crawls out of the TV.

Koji has a very simple life code, it is all about Talent (Fire) and Slaughter (Metal). Slaughter represents horror, Talent represents intellectual property, these two elements makes him a horror writer. Besides, there’s more than a confrontational relation between Koji Suzuki’s Slaughter and Talent. Metal and Fire fight, but also merge: (6) merges (10). That would create a special feeling about horror in his mind: like it and not like it at the same time. That mentality is precious for composing horror stories.

8(2) was a special fortune for Koji: 8 serves as Slaughter, (2) merges (6)(10) to Metal as Slaughter. And Koji has all his achievement in the Slaughter fortune 8(2): Ring was published in 1991. It was a huge success. In fact, Koji composed the story in 1989, exactly the time he entered 8(2) fortune. He finished the last book of Ring in 1999, exactly the time he left the 8(2) fortune. Ring series is the best-selling suspense novel in Asia, it has 4 books, all wrote between 1989 and 1999. Koji didn’t write anything before 1989, Ring is his debut work. And he didn’t have notable work after 1999. He won five major Japanese awards in 1990, 1996 and 1998, all within the same fortune.

He also won an American Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, in 2012. That’s an exception, because it pasted 1999. The reason could be the hysteresis of culture influence between different cultures. But look at the year, it was 2012. Koji had success in the (2) fortune because (6)(10)(2) formed a full merge to Metal as Slaughter. Other than merging with (6) and (2) to Metal, (10) can also merge with (5) to Metal. Guess what? 2012 was a (5) year.

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