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magician’s bride
I accidentally saw the new OVA “The Boy of the West and the Knight of Qinglan” from “The Magician’s Bride” on the video website. I was immediately surprised by the excellent production, and I felt that the setting was very interesting, so I found time to watch the TV version it launched in 2017.
This episode is about the helpless Tomoyo Hatori because of his “night love child” (can unconsciously absorb and create magic power) aptitude was attracted and bought by the non-human “magician” Elias , Chise also took this opportunity to come to the magical world of magicians and start a new life and encounter story.
At present, many different world light modification animations will give the protagonist a clear goal at the beginning (such as conquering the world, becoming a “king”, etc.), so that the audience feels that every step the protagonist takes has a clear purpose, and achieves the goal. That moment is also the end of the story – of course, that kind of unfolding will feel “cool” to watch, because “achieving goals” can be very satisfying in a stressful environment. But if you just watch the show with the purpose of relaxing and spending time, the narrative rhythm of “step by step” can’t match “easy”.
The story line of “The Magician’s Bride” is connected by small chapters about Chise’s encounters in the magical world. This tale of “random encounters” doesn’t have a clear goal that the protagonist is eagerly waiting to achieve. So in this animation, the audience can relax and follow Chise’s perspective to explore the daily life of the magical world little by little, and meet new companions and learn all kinds of fresh stories through encounters again and again – I The experience of watching Fanfan is like “Little Harry Potter” who came to the wizarding world for the first time. I only feel that every corner of the world in the animation is extremely novel.
The slow and delicate narrative rhythm of “The Sorcerer’s Bride” reminds me of “Wolf and Spice” and “Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash”. Although it does not have a strong purpose, it tells the story of each small chapter through solid narrative skills, which makes people feel satisfied and deeply touched after reading it. It may be affected by the current “fast food” animation viewing environment. I haven’t had this feeling in the process of watching the show for a long time.
Posting a comment I wrote before, I feel it is also very appropriate to use here:
Because the overall rhythm of fan dramas in recent years has become faster, many viewers will expect the new work to have enough “memory points” in each episode – that is, the refreshing points and burning points in the plot, and there is a little “welfare” no matter how bad it is. . Otherwise, it will make people feel that this episode “is the same as if you haven’t watched it”.
But this is not the case with earlier fan dramas, especially those daily-oriented animations. They pay attention to maintaining a stable and smooth emotional flow within an episode, and pursue solid and natural character creation. Even if there is no “breaking point”, it will make people feel that through the development of this episode, the resolution of certain knots and contradictions of the characters in the play has taken a step forward – the previous production ideas are more than the blind pursuit of “burning” and “burning”. “Cool” is more to let the audience feel the enrichment and satisfaction brought by the story itself.
Chise and Elias
Although a huge and complex magical worldview has been constructed, just like the title, the focus of the story of “The Magician’s Bride” still revolves around the emotional line between Chise Hato and Elias . Even though Elias , the magician “wearing a beast bone”, bought the red-haired girl with the original intention of making her his “disciple” and “bride”, but because it was the first time to live with a human woman , Unfamiliar with human feelings and the laws of the human world, so this seemingly gentlemanly, stable and reliable “big bone”, in fact, when encountering emotional problems, he will be petty like a big child. So, in this 24-episode animation, you will see that the two people’s relationship mode will switch back and forth between “father and daughter” and “mother and son”. Tomoyo as a human being and Elias as a non-human being—how the two, who are full of contradictions in all aspects, adapt and grow with each other in this magical and dangerous world is also one of the highlights of this animation.
Using the opening animation of “The Magician’s Bride” to end my Amway, I think Chise’s solo performance at the beginning , which symbolizes “wandering and searching”, is beautifully done. (Of course the song is also good.)
Dusk Girl x Amnesia
If it wasn’t for the fact that I happened to swipe a clip with only dozens of playbacks on station B, I might not have come into contact with the unpopular masterpiece “Twilight Girl x Amnesia”. (This must be Steins;Gate’s choice.)
At that time, when I watched the editing, I only felt that its performance style had the taste of “Banyu”, and I found out that its supervisor was actually Onuma Xin (the man who is most valued by Shinfang Akihito). harem king . The OP of the Nadeko chapters of “The Story” and “The Story”, that is, “Love Cycle” Root of all evil , also directed by him), I suddenly felt that this show was stable at least in terms of artistic level.
Zhenichi and Ghost Yuko
As a result, I just watched the first episode and already felt that it was very appetizing to me; after watching it in one go, I even decisively included it in the “top five of my favorite dramas” (Although this list may be more than five) ——It can be seen that I love it and “see you late”.
“Twilight Girl x Amnesia” tells the story of the male protagonist Shinya Sadaichi who encounters Yuko who claims to be “the ghost of the old school” in the old school building. Yuko, who has lost her memories of her life, hopes that Zhenichi can help find out the truth of the strange stories circulating on the campus, and use them to find out the secrets about her past.
Compared with “The Magician’s Bride”, which has a length of 24 episodes, the story line of “Twilight Girl x Amnesia” is relatively compact. Except for the thirteenth episode of OVA, which is used to make a living, the rhythm of each episode of the main film is arranged in an orderly manner, and there is no “water injection” plot that slows down the narrative. The overall look and feel is very comfortable. (So I read it all before I knew it.)
It may be that the experience of discovering a surreal event step by step is very interesting, or it may just be that the suspense and the possibility behind the strange talk itself are very attractive (such as the “cursed stone” mentioned in this episode). , “The Thirteenth Floor Ladder in Another Dimension”, “The Mannequin Without a Heart”, etc.), and themes such as “Campus Strange Talk” have always pricked me. In addition, the combination of Onuma Shin’s performance of “don’t like to draw passers-by” and the dim art tone further highlights the creepy atmosphere in the bizarre talk. So from the very beginning, the tone of this show has won my heart.
Myths about “Reds”
Moreover, the characters of the four main characters in the film are very pleasing, especially the central character of the whole film, Xizi , old color batch Supervisor Onuma Heart can be said to have spared no effort to make this “prank lover” but a little off-line color gas The image of the ghost-senpai is very vivid. As the truth of each strange story is revealed, the audience will learn along with the male protagonist the secrets hidden behind other aspects of Xizi ‘s character and escape character. When these pieces are pieced together one by one, a “ghost” completely different from the beginning The “girl” image will finally be presented in front of everyone. (Forget it, it’s a spoiler if we go on.)
Another attractive point of this show is that only the male protagonist and the second female can see Yuko as a ghost. From the perspective of others, the influence of Yuko’s every move is really like being haunted. (Well, it’s haunted indeed.) So in this episode, you will see Director Onuma Shin, relying on his ghostly performance, use this interesting information difference to magically combine the two very different themes of “love comedy” and “school horror” – – This is evident in the first episode. (Akasaka Akira, who has always wanted to draw horror manga, shed tears of envy.)
common man’s point of view 
The protagonist’s point of view
Originally I also wanted to put the opening (OP) or ending song (ED) here to end it, because I think these two songs are very good. (Is there anything I don’t like about this show?) . However, compared to OP and ED, the episode of this episode – “Requiem” (Requiem) may be more familiar. But I personally feel that these three songs still have to be heard in the original film. Unexpectedly, “Requiem” turned out to be from this show). So if you are interested, you should watch the original film yourself, hehe.
(In the title screen of each episode of “Twilight Girl x Amnesia”, Yuko’s Yan Yi The little easter eggs are very interesting, and a few are randomly placed at the end. )
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The idol master
I remember that when I was idle for a while, I suddenly felt that I lost my motivation, so I wanted to find an idol show and feel the positive and high-spirited atmosphere. In such a state of mind, I met “The Idol Master”.
In fact, I’m not a fan of idol fans. Apart from “Saga Idols are Legends” that I watched because of the popularity, “The Idol Master” is the second idol episode I watched. Now that I think about it, I am very fortunate to have access to such an excellent animation “The Idol Master” during the downturn.
Perhaps “The Idolmaster” evoked memories of when I paid attention to “Nogizaka 46” a few years ago. At that time, I happened to witness the process from their unknown beginning to becoming regulars of “NHK Red and White Song Battle” 1 and “Tokyo Dome” 2 , which is really an impressive memory for me. I think that kind of (Virtual) The sense of “accompanying” and “growing up” is one of the charms of Japanese idol culture – and the selling point of the IP “Idol Master”: from the perspective of “Producer (producer)” to “raise the idols of their agency” The core of this is also here:
From the early days of the attention, I saw a group of amateurs with different personalities get together for their own reasons, but they couldn’t even introduce themselves on stage; in each event, they began to compete for strength, not to give in to each other, and in the slowness Slowly realizing the excellence of others and their own inadequacies, they also began to find their own place in the team; by the time of the release of the first album, although they were still a little green for the first time, they probably had one. The group looks like; then to the first Live event, the first show, and the first commercial, you will find that their names are slowly appearing in more places, and their figures are gradually becoming more and more popular. people know.
Until one day later, you finally saw them who had threatened to go on a bigger stage, and now they are standing in the center of the stadium with 50,000 people; you found the girl who was nervous even when she said her name in public , now in the face of thousands of audiences, you still confidently and generously show your dance steps and voice; you have also witnessed the original Cinderellas have found their own stage. And on the stage, they shone brightly tonight above the sea of glow sticks dyed in their colors.
Although there is a difference in one dimension, the growth stories of the “Idol Master” main family and “Nogizaka 46” do have some similarities in my opinion. Maybe there are some routines and kingly ways to hear it, but when “Idol Master” shows me the growth process of these 12 girls one by one in the animation with sincere lens language, I will still be deeply moved by their stories. .
A large part of the stress and anxiety in modern society comes from the uncertainty of the future, from the fact that people realize that “success” is not “as long as you put in the effort you can get it” as taught from childhood. Therefore, even if there is a hidden place behind the popular idol trend in reality, even if the sensory stimulation brought by idol culture may only be for escaping reality. But it is undeniable that after witnessing the whole process of idols on the stage of their ideals, the empathy for the idol’s “dream come true” moment has indeed helped them to withdraw from the anxiety and depression of reality. Leaving has indeed given them the courage to face all kinds of difficulties and pressures in life again.
But there is another (more important) reason why I love “The Idol Master”, which is why I think it can be called “the pinnacle of idol animation”:
Breathtaking painting performance.
Allow me to use a video of The Idolmaster’s collection of paintings to convey this more intuitively:
Even if it’s just a five-minute clip, it can already fully demonstrate the cooking power of the original artists: whether it’s Emi Kono, who “even the character’s hair is dancing”, Tetsu Amemiya of “Faithful Transformers and One Hundred Years of Special Shots” ; Or Lin Yongxiong’s perfect restoration of the stage camera’s shaking and calling in the form of hand-painting (especially the super-long hand-painted Live scene from 04:16-04:31 in the film that is enough to be recorded in the history of animation), Komatsu Yonghui’s response to the movement The delicate display of the character’s micro-expression changes, and so on…
I believe if the original artists hadn’t put so much effort into their paintings (visible to the naked eye) Love and hard work, then there will never be this infectious “Idol Master”. In order to highlight every physical detail in every little action of the character, they did not hesitate to add more paintings, so that the girls had the vitality and youthfulness on the paper; in order to make the stage performance more tense , and they radically used a completely hand-painted way to express the dance steps of the characters, so the efforts and passion of the girls on stage (through the line movement and deformation that 3D models could not show) were successfully conveyed to the the audience in front of the screen.
——It is the enthusiasm and dedication of the two groups of people inside and outside the play to their respective dreams that have made this “Idol Master” who is “permeated with the brilliance of love and dreams” today.
postscript
“Because I didn’t want to make the single animation Amway look too watery, I simply packaged three film reviews and sent them out in one go” The approach seems a bit opportunistic (but it works really well) , but in my opinion, these three animation masterpieces still have some things in common.
Probably some time ago, I finally didn’t want to be patient to watch the new show who didn’t care about it. I started to look at my previous works purposefully while shouting “animation industry ethane”. When I opened up the works that were ignored by me because they were too unpopular in the past, I once again truly felt what a glorious period Japanese animation had gone through, so that I could feel the creators pouring into me across the screen. Enthusiasm and hard work in the works – there are many of them who are useful and meticulous in painting and tell the story without being arrogant or impetuous, and Yuming can also communicate with “stand-up conversation”, but he is “simply wanting to let the writing Every character is moving”, there are also “obviously adapted from comics”, “obviously there are storyboards from the original comics that can be appropriated”, but they have to take the sword and use their own storyboard language to explain those “only” The exquisite performances that can only be shown in the shots that belong to animation… These practices in today’s animation industry would make investors feel “stupid”, but at that time they were everywhere in those “unpopular” masterpieces. .
But I think the real charm of hand-drawn animation is the reason why I like “animation”. It comes from the hands of these “stupid people” who are tirelessly doing “stupid things”.
But I just prefer to call them “craftsmen”.
- In Japan, the show can be considered a “sign of the end of the year”, with a considerable number of households watching the show. (from Wikipedia) ↩
- A multi-purpose gymnasium with about 46,000 seats in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan, can accommodate more than 57,000 people when holding concerts. The singers who sing here must have a certain reputation in order to achieve a full audience, so holding a concert at Tokyo Dome can better show the popularity of the singer. (from Wikipedia) ↩
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