Females in Disguise

~Hong Kong Comics~

Since: Nov. 24, 2002
Last Update: Sep 24, 2003

by Metamorphile

    Near all Hong Kong Comics with mask-off scenes are adopted from martial arts novels, in which a technique called "change face technique" (易容術) is frequently used for heroes/heroines to become someone else. I think it is illogical that the authors always claim that the disguises is simply achieved by wearing a so-called "human-skin masks" or putting some medicines on the faces. 

    The most impressive character should be a teenage girl named "Red" (阿朱) in the masterpiece of martial arts novel "Tien Long Ba Bu" (天龍八部, which literally means "Sky Dragon Eight Section"). In her debut, she disguises herself as a male servant, a butler, and an old matron of a famous family. Later, she disguises herself as two heroes in this novel consecutively.  At last, she disguises herself as her own father and is beaten to death by her boy friend, who thinks her father has killed his parents.

    The following paragraph is written in shift-JIS code.

Females in Disguise

香港の漫画

壱、「天龍八部」 金庸　原作、黃玉郎　画

阿朱→幕容老夫人(老婦人)

阿朱→漁夫(海男)

王語嫣→漁婦(海女)

阿朱→止清(少林寺の坊主)

阿朱→白世鏡

阿朱→段于淳(阿朱の親父)

弐、「天子傳奇之如來神掌」 黃玉郎　作、画

仙劍神尼(七十歳の尼)→玲瓏

白魅(惡女)→玲瓏

参、「神兵玄奇」 黃玉郎　作、画

狐妖→北冥雪(主人公の彼女) 

幕容嬌→向若菜(主人公の妹)

四、「俠客行」 金庸　原作、林業慶 画

梅芳孤→閔柔(主人公の母)