" Attack on Giant " comic ended for one and a half years. Even though comic fans do not agree with the hasty ending of Isayama Chuang teacher and the logic of the mystery, its popularity is beyond doubt.
serialized for 11 years and 7 months. The popular "Giant" has also changed the direction of the 11-dizzy boy comics to a certain extent - the work of passionate, fantasy and darkness has been greatly inspired.
Three years ago, MAPPA, who took over the final season of "The Giant", modified a fantasy boy comic. This work has a very similar background setting to "The Giant", but the two are very different in popularity.
It is "The Divine Soldier of the Beast Hunter (also known as: The Beasts that were once gods)".
"Beast Hunting God"
is written in the first place. This article is not a serious recommendation article. After all, there is no need for a drama with Douban 6.0 and TV sales of less than 400. However, this work, whose plot is slow and destined to stop for a season, has quite a clue that has not been explained clearly, which directly affects the audience's evaluation of it. In the main plot, the story of "The Beast Hunter" takes place on a continent called "Patria". Originally, there was only one democratic country in this continent, but it was divided into the "Northern Patria Alliance" and "Southern Patria United" due to economic imbalance, which started a long-term civil war. The Northern Alliance led by capitalists initially fell into a disadvantage in the war situation. Later, its rulers accepted Erin Bruleke's "Similar Soldier Plan" and created a group of alien soldiers specially designed for war, which completely reversed the situation.
No wonder some people think: Isn’t "The Beast Hunting God" a story about the American Civil War? However, the countries and continents named "Patria" by the author Maybe (a group of two) had the meaning of "motherland" in ancient Roman times. Not only that, Patria Latin root "pater" has the meaning of father and patriarch, and the other layer is related to the "God" of the Mithra religion.
Therefore, "The Beast Hunter" originally tells the story of a world where a man and a god coexist, but the chapter about "God" has not yet been unfolded in TV dramas and comics. In addition, the word Patria also destined to leave Erin Bruelek, and the core direction of this work lies in Hank and Kain.
Why is the core background not the magical modification of the Civil War, but the similarity to "Giant"? Let's list and compare.
1. The Patria continent in "The God of Beast Hunting" is actually just a corner of the world. There is also an old continent country called "Grescia" overseas. This is very similar to the settings of Paradise and Mare in "The Giant".
2. Patria technology is average, with smoothbore gun and smoothbore gun afterwards. The navy is basically a wooden sailboat + smoothbore gun, and "Grecia" has developed into an armored ship, which is similar to the technology trees of Paladi Island and Mare.
3. Giants and simile weapons are all battlefield killing weapons in the early days of the hot weapons era. The former's weakness is the neck, and the latter determines the protective effect based on their respective abilities. The "God-Destroying Bullet" can cause fatal damage to it. In addition, the nine giants have a lifespan of 13 years, and the magic weapon will also replace human nature over time, both of which have strong "sequelae".
4. In "Giant", the Investigation Corps uses a "three-dimensional mobile device" to fight against the giant. In the TV series "Beast Hunter" "Kudgras", the mimetic attack force, also uses jet props to enhance mobility. However, this design is only a TV drama change, and the comics are still serious infantry.
TV anime overall continues the main plot of the comic. The former begins in the Civil War period, and compresses the core struggle points and event background of the story into one episode, which lowers the audience's threshold for understanding this drama, but also overdraws its suspense and readability.In the comic, the author Maybe starts with Hank's hunt for the "Similar Soldiers" subordinates, and then interspersed with the background and main line of civil wars in the north and south and brother struggles. However, the TV drama has some emotional complement to the story of each "Similar Soldiers", and it does a slightly better job of character creation than the comics.
TV drama Douban 6.0, comic Douban 7.4, and the "half-bastard" score of "Hunting the Beast" is also an inevitable result of its portrayal depth.
should have been a passionate fantasy comic, but its fighting storyboards are not disassembled much, and the pleasure of "fist to flesh" has not been completely released; while the character description of "Simulation of the Magic Soldier" in its unit drama is not deeply portrayed by each role. Although the main line of each "Simulation of the Magic Soldier" is roughly introduced, it lacks experience events and character portrayals that can resonate. In contrast, although Isayama's painting skills are not gorgeous, "Giant" is still unique in combat scenes, character portrayals, clue pre-emption and other aspects.
has a profound idea, but the author's "health degree" is trapped
Many comic fans recognize the reason for "Hunting the Beasts and Gods". The key point is to praise its "deep intention", which Honglianjiang also agrees with. In the TV series, Kain seems to be trying to establish a new country led by the "Similar Soldier", but after reading the later comics, you will know that Kain, who established the "Similar Soldier" country, is not like using this to achieve his ambitions, but wants to give all the friends of the Similar Soldier who are not accepted by society, the best destination - combat. Although the research on the simile weapon has the selfish intention of resurrecting Hank, these people who will eventually be swallowed by beasts are born for battle.
Kain organized the old troops of the simile army to launch a war, not to use this to change the order of the Patria continent, but to fight against the Northern Alliance as they please - turning people into simile army when needed is a hero, and disbanding the team when they are not needed, and the former hero becomes a "monster" that people fear. In fact, many soldiers who retreated from the battlefield suffered from mental illnesses called "war syndrome". They may not have become monsters "similar weapons", but they have also been irreversibly changed by the battlefield environment.
Hank abides by the agreement to mourn the ministry of the Simmortal War, hoping that the achievements that everyone has achieved when they fight to the death will not be destroyed; Kaiyin establishes a new country and launches new wars, and hopes that as mourning wars, they can welcome their respective ends on the battlefield. It can be said that Kain's new kingdom was originally born to end the existence of the "Similar Divine Soldier". His core interests with Hank overlap, but the path he chose was different.
, the male first and second males in the opposite camp are pursuing the same goal. Although this position and the observation perspective are nothing wrong, it ultimately lacks the stubbornness of pursuing "happy end" in the boy comics. I just don’t know if the “Beast Hunting”, which lacks some passion and more realistic content, is related to the health of Mr. Maybe?
comic party may be familiar with the style of certain chapters of "The Beast Hunting God". Sometimes, when the teacher Maybe is unwell and unable to complete the high-intensity homework, the comic will hand over the semi-finished product of "half-formed drafts and half-lined drafts", so there is a clear saying that "the Chineseization team has to help make up for the original painting." More often, "The Beast Hunter" will also preview the "next issue" in advance at the end of the new chapter, which is essentially different from a well-known cartoonist (Fu Me-man) who is obsessed with playing mahjong.
Maybe really loves the purple-haired girl~
I am not in good health and insist on submitting the manuscript. On the one hand, we are amazed at the versatility of the Chinese group now, and on the other hand, we are also sighing about the hard life of Japanese cartoonists - I dare not leave the publication at will for life. After all, "Conan" author Aoyama Takamasa is said to have only three hours of rest on working days. Maybe, who has only a little famous "Twilight Girl × Amnesia" in his resume, will naturally not have too many "privileges".
Since serialized in 2014, there are still many plots in "The Beast Hunter" that have not yet unfolded, and the entire story is still concentrated on the Patria continent. Next, all the origins of the overseas country Gracia and the "God" of the mimetic weapon are waiting for the follow-up to come one by one.
In short, I hope that teacher Maybe can maintain health and reduce publication recession, and I also hope that teachers can have more energy to polish and plan the work in the follow-up. Today's popularity and reputation do not mean that it is final. "Giant" can end with a collapse in reputation, while "Xiaoyuan" can be directly awarded the gods based on the last three episodes, and only advance to the "Decisive Battle of the Capital", "The God of Beasts", which has not yet been settled.