However, the result was amazed by everyone. It was the year of its release and won the reputation of the annual science fiction domestic comics. In the more than two years of broadcasting, it also received over 500 million views, over 8 million followers, and a high score of 9.6

Why is the "Spirit Cage" successful? The most intuitive answer is: has enough sci-fi feel.

After the earth encountered a catastrophe, the land was eroded by the extreme beasts and other creatures that surged out of the cracks, forming the terrifying Mana ecosystem. The only remaining humans could only rely on the "Lighthouse" aircraft to float in the air, while remaining, while finding ways to fight against the Mana ecosystem.

Whether it is the rendering of the doomsday scene with dust flooding or corpses everywhere;

is still ferocious and cruel, and even the shaping of the extremely huge beast;

or the creation of fierce battle scenes, almost every battle can use gorgeous special effects and exquisite action shots to stimulate the adrenal secretion of comic fans.

When it comes to action scenes, we have to mention the woman who appeared at the end of the first season - Bai Yuekui.

She is one of the most mysterious characters in "The Cage". She was able to live on land where she was considered impossible to survive for decades and developed a new tribe. At the same time, she has an ageless appearance. She rescued the lighthouse decades ago when Lord Morgan was still young, but her appearance has not declined at all.

In addition, she also has the strongest combat power on the surface. As soon as she debuted at the end of the first season, she easily knocked Mark to the ground in the form of Extreme Beast, without any room for movement.

Who is Bai Yuekui? Why can she be so powerful? And not afraid of the erosion of time? What is her purpose? And is she a friend of the human beings in the lighthouse? Or the enemy? ...

After watching the first season of "Spirit Cage", the above suspense surged into the hearts of comic fans, but the distant future of the second season is really unbearable.

But we all know that the progress of the second season is unhurried, and Yihua Kaitian must ensure that it is not inferior to the quality or even surpass the first season.

So what should I do? The answer is: The situation of has actually been predicted by Yihua Kaitian.

So they simultaneously launched an extra-letter comic "The Legend of the Moon" and through this work, we can also have a more comprehensive understanding of the life experience of Bai Yuekui, the mysterious woman, and a glimpse of the beginning of the catastrophe.

It can be said that "The Legend of the Soul Cage·The Legend of Yue Kui" is a mirror and a magnifying glass, which can allow comic fans to have a more comprehensive, deeper, stronger and more inherited understanding of the world of the Soul Cage.

Through it, we can appreciate the deeper reason for the success of "Spirit Cage" - is complex.

The charm of "Spirit Cage·The Legend of Yuekui"

As a comic, "Spirit Cage·The Legend of Yuekui" sets the timeline on the eve of the catastrophe. At that time, humans relied on highly developed technological power to obtain happiness and stability.

For example, Kukawa City, where Bai Yuekui is located, has become the most advanced city in the world with its developed AI system (ASH artificial intelligence system).

But as the mayor of Jiuchuan City and also the developer of ASH system, Bai Jingyu was not satisfied with this. He has been spared no effort to promote the establishment of the "AI Participation in Law Enforcement Act", intending to let the AI system penetrate into all aspects of human life.

is also secretly developing a drug "Miracle K" that can help humans avoid the erosion of aging and death.

However, the opposite was that the AI bill was completely rejected by the League of Nations after it was proposed. Although Miracle K can make the elderly man young and strong, the "brain rebirth" part can never be overcome, which means that the aging problem can be solved, but death cannot be avoided.

But it is only a matter of time to overcome it.Just the day after the scientist Jones sponsored by Bai Jingyu announced his failure to conquer, a grand press conference was held in Pandora Plaza in Kukawa City. The protagonist of the press conference was the "angel potion" that could automatically regenerate human brain-supplement neurons. This potion can make "brain-changing surgery" possible.

At the same time, it is interesting that the potion was made by the respected Dr. Horn and his genius disciple Bai Yuekui (yes, it is the strongest goddess on the surface we know), and what is even more interesting is that Bai Jingyu is actually Bai Yuekui's father.

But please note that these two fathers and daughters are not in the same group. Bai Yuekui has hated her father extremely since she was a child, because in her eyes, her mother was killed by this "cold-blooded" father.

Since then, Bai Yuekui and his brother Bai Yuetian have depended on each other. At the same time, he has devoted himself to brain science and hiding Dr. Horn, who is considerate and caring for himself, is his real father.

But Bai Yuekui's "new life" was finally broken by a sudden disaster.

Just as the press conference was approaching the end, Pandora Square suddenly vibrated violently, the ground began to collapse, and huge vines emerged from the ground.

In the process, Dr. Horn was pushed to the position where the boulder collapsed and fainted on the spot.

This student is Jones who failed in the previous experiment. His purpose is to steal Angel potion to supplement the problem of Miracle K potion.

Then, thanks to the rescue of Bai Yuekui's brother "Bai Yuetian", Dr. Horn was sent to the hospital for surgical treatment.

But it is a pity that Dr. Horn is exhausted due to severe heart damage and multiple organ failure and will pass away tonight.

Bai Yuekui immediately made an attempt to use the "brain exchange technique" that is still in the experimental stage to save his teacher's life. With the help of his brother, he also screened the appropriate body-- A death row prisoner who will be shot later.

smuggled the bodies of dead prisoners out, which was an easy thing for Bai Yuetian, who works in the police station and is a celebrity police officer.

But unexpectedly, this death row prisoner was actually the enemy of Director Gray. He used cruel means to kill Gray's wife 10 years ago, and at the same time, he made Gray a disabled person who could only live on "prosthetic body" for the rest of his life. After that tragedy , Gray also lost the qualification to become mayor and was replaced by Bai Jingyu. What made Gray even more gritted his teeth was that in that time, his wife-killing enemy fled.

Since then, Gray has been following the whereabouts of the criminal and has been successfully arrested recently. At the same time, after losing the election of mayor that year, everyone in the Bai family was regarded as enemies.

After understanding this background, everyone should also know that Bai Yuetian’s smuggling of the bodies of the dead prisoners will not be that simple. For example, the original third-level death penalty (shooting) was temporarily changed to level five (burned with flames), and this was naturally the mandatory order of Director Grey.

Finally, after Bai Yuetian's hard obstacles and the help of the deputy mayor, the entire body was barely preserved.

But the twists and turns are not over yet. Then with Bai Yuekui's full output, Dr. Horn successfully gained a new life in the body of the death row prisoner.

But strangely, Dr. Horn actually has a "dual consciousness" at this moment. In addition to his own consciousness, he also retains the personality of a death row prisoner and is also particularly eager for violence and blood. At the moment of awakening, he almost hurt Bai Yuekui.

As mentioned above is the general story of the 20 chapters updated by "The Legend of the Moon Kui". From this we can clearly see the exquisite paintings that can be called the first echelon of China. No matter whether it is the expressions of the characters, the scene atmosphere, the action fighting, etc., almost every scene of storyboard is meticulously carved.

Just like "The Spirit Cage" is in the domestic animation world, the painting quality of "The Spirit Cage·The Legend of Yuekui" can also be called "the Spirit Cage of the Chinese comic world".

At the same time, through the above story, we can also appreciate the fate of the characters in the play. Almost everyone has a unique burden, but fate jokingly connects them together.

As for what kind of force does it make Bai Yuekui, a lively and active genius brain scientist, suddenly become the strongest Bai Yuekui on the surface? We don't know the full picture yet.

Only through the behavior of Bai Yuekui becoming the strongest on the surface in the comic "Chapter 0" and actually carrying the "brother's head" with her, it can be seen that she must have suffered painful injuries, so that she embarked on the path of kingly "abandoning medicine and following martial arts".

In addition, through the only stories at present, we have also expanded our understanding of the worldview of "Spirit Cage".

For example, in the second half of the first season, Mark led a group of wasteland hunters to the ground to help the city lord find special medicine. At that time, they entered an abandoned medical institution and saw many abandoned AI machines from the old world, one of which was resurrected by repairs.

At the same time, through holographic projection , I learned that the old world had drugs to make human appearance "rejuvenate" and that at that time, some hunters in the wilderness sighed that "humans can defeat aging, but cannot defeat death."

Now it seems that these AI machines and drugs are likely to be driven by Bai Jingyu.

And Bai Yuekui's secret of "old-out face" has also been solved to a certain extent: She is likely to take drugs similar to angel potion and miracle K. That kind of drug is also not perfect, so Bai Yuekui can only maintain youth in appearance, but "cell failure" has continued, which is also what her team members are worried about.

More importantly, this extra-letter comic also follows the narrative style of "Spirit Cage" and tells a complex story.

As mentioned earlier, the catastrophe of "Spirit Cage" was triggered by the Mana ecology, which means that the protagonists have clear external enemies. Generally speaking, this process will focus on the protagonist's process of slaughtering the enemy, and it will generally describe how the protagonist continues to strengthen and upgrade powerful weapons. This is a typical way of writing a passionate boy.

But "Spirit Cage" is extraordinary. The producer focused the story back on the "internal", telling the discussion of the operating rules of the small society of Lighthouse under the doomsday, the harm caused by these rules, and the discussion of "wishing to live or looking for hope" in the doomsday?

So the focus of the entire first season is on the rebellion of Mark and others against the three laws of the lighthouse. Starting from Mark's sister Red Ke, to the wild hunters led by Mark, all of them use their lives to defend human nature.

But please note that the three laws are not the self-interest policies of the totalitarian class. They have extremely strong repression on human nature, but this repression is also to avoid the pursuit of the Extreme Devouring Beast (Extreme Devouring Beast has a keen perception of human emotions), and is a means to increase the chance of survival in the doomsday.

This is naturally a contradiction, but it is also a trade-off that has to be faced. A similar story is also told in "The Legend of the Soul Cage·The Legend of Yuekui".

The research on AI and immortal drugs mentioned earlier was promoted by Mayor Bai Jingyu, but his goal is not to achieve commercial dominance and become a vicious capitalist, but to prepare a means to fight for this world that is about to face the crisis of the end.

So let AI penetrate into all aspects of human life. Taking over human decision-making (such as law enforcement) may improve the development efficiency of human society. Of course, we will also lose the right to choose-- Is this the meaning of the three major principles on the lighthouse?

It is worth mentioning that the disaster Bai Jingyu was worried about was not groundless irony, but came from the so-called "divine enlightenment". What exactly is

is unknown at the moment. I only know that it has powerful computing power and can infer the future direction of everything in the world. This is also very similar to the "Croto System" core "Spirit Cage" lighthouse.

Can the evolution of everything be really predicted? So are the so-called Divine Revelation and Croto systems and even the AI created by humans really not selfish at all?

With the current information, the answer is probably not that absolute. For example, the value orientation of "Spirit Cage" season 1 is obviously rebelling against the three major principles of the Lighthouse, while "Spirit Cage·The Legend of Yuekui" depicts the hidden dangers of AI concealing the "brain-changing surgery" from humans by cutting images.

There are also trade-offs as to the advancement of brain replacement surgery, that is, the trade-offs between "life" and "memory".

In fact, in the era when Bai Yuekui's mother was still alive, Dr. Horn's team was able to perform brain replacement surgery. Bai Yuekui's mother was Horn's beloved disciple back then, and she also performed the first surgery.

The operation was very successful at the beginning. It successfully replaced the brain of the endangered teenager with the policeman who had just died, and allowed the reborn teenager to spend half a year with his father.

However, one day half a year later, the young man suddenly picked up the gun and shot his father to death because his inner police consciousness suddenly dominated and he mistakenly thought that his father in front of him was a robber who robbed the house.

The reborn boy who then accidentally killed his father fell into madness and returned to the institute to hold Bai's mother who had the surgery that year, which eventually led to a tragedy.

At the same time, even though time has come to this point, even though Bai Yuekui has developed an angel potion, this choice is still going on. For example, after Dr. Horn was forced to reborn by Bai Yuekui, he was in pain for a while because his memory of his deceased wife was withering.

You see, does this contradiction and trade-off coincide with the aforementioned "Spirit Cage" kernel: hopes to live? Or live and look for hope?

It is obvious that Dr. Horn is the one who chooses to find hope, and similarly, mayor Bai Jingyu is also the one who is.

When Bai Yuekui's mother was held hostage by a reborn boy with a bomb, she asked Bai Jingyu to summon brain science experts from all over the city to arrive at the scene. He wanted to clean up all these "accomplices".

However, Bai Jingyu chose to sacrifice his wife, because in his opinion, brain science experts are the direction of Kuchuan City's progress and the hope for mankind to avoid catastrophes in the future. Then is this ruthless? Or is it righteous? Is Bai Yuekui wrongly blamed his father?

If I continue to tell you, this decision is actually indispensable to AI analysis? Then do you think there are some conspiracies behind this?

This entanglement, this choice, this complexity and suspicion are what I think are the most exciting things in "Spirit Cage" and "Spirit Cage·The Legend of Yuekui".

Last

Although Chinese comics have made great progress in the past few years, "weak story power" has always been an unavoidable pain point.

This naturally has the problem of producer ability, but the bigger reason may be "review discipline". When everyone thinks that anime is only suitable for young children to watch, when a little violence is regarded as a disaster, how many producers are willing to take risks to give depth to their works?

"Hope to live" is the pursuit of most Chinese comic producers.

But with the release of "Spirit Cage" and "Spirit Cage·The Legend of Yuekui", we have seen another new possibility of Chinese comics, an attempt to "find hope".

Of course, the story of these two works is only in the beginning stage, so we might as well continue to look forward to future surprises.