The four-year World Football Tournament will be held in November 2022. Perhaps because of this, many animation works about football have appeared this year, from "The Reeds of Green" (アオアシ) starting in April to "BLUE LOCK Blue Prison" (ブルーロック, hereinafter referred to as "Blue Prison"), the theme revolves around football.
The autumn animation that will be aired in October 2022, in addition to the topic "Chandsaw Man", the "football anime" of "Blue Prison" also takes the evil path. You may want to say, isn’t football youth, sports, competition, and passion? How can it be related to evil paths? But in fact, "Blue Prison" and the bloody and cruel "Listen to the Gods" are both works by Soyuki Kaneshiro. Although the concept is similar to Battle Royale, this game is much easier than other types of survival games.
The original comic of "Blue Prison" was published in Taiwan by Dongli Publishing House .
Use "Blue Prison" to select the most selfish and strongest striker: it doesn't matter if you play in the football team, scoring is everything!
The team organization ability of Japanese football is the world's number one, but it stopped at the top 16 in the World Cup because there is no striker with both strength and selfishness among them. So the Japanese Football League launched the "Blue Prison" plan, convening 300 strikers aged 18 or under across the country to conduct knockout matches in the carefully designed "Blue Prison", intending to train from 300 of the strongest strikers who can produce selfishness.
The story begins. The protagonist of this work, Jie Shiyi, is a forward in the field of the county competition. He could have shot by himself, but because of a coach's words:
"Everyone is for me, I am for everyone."
So he passed the ball to his teammates, but he didn't expect that his teammates made a mistake at a critical moment, causing the team to miss the opportunity to advance. On the way home, he thought that if he didn't pass the ball to his teammates and shot himself, would the result be different?
Unexpectedly, the initiator of the Blue Prison Project, Huixin was very heart-wrenching. His remarks on the stage completely subvert everyone's thinking of playing football in the past, asking them to become "the world's number one selfish ghost" and abandon the "team first" thinking model. Huixin said that the Japanese are a group of creatures who like to be assigned responsibilities and do their best, but the sport of football will not win if it only does the responsibilities assigned to them, so what is needed is independence. Only by shooting by yourself at critical moments, rather than passing the ball to the forwards of teammates, can we lead the entire team. For this reason, they need to create a "selfish attacker":
"Give up common sense!"
"Abstain from common sense!"
"Abstain from the shackles of duties."
Huixin's words encouraged everyone on the scene, and the regrets that once became the motivation for Jie to participate in the Blue Prison.
originally thought that it could change his life, but he didn't expect that every contestant in Blue Prison was even more powerful than him. He was the second to last among the 300 people. In the first test selfish ghost catch game, he understood that his strength was not as strong as others, but his desire to win drove him to challenge the strong, because knocking down people who are weaker than him is meaningless. Only challenging people who are stronger than him have the chance to grow.
"Blue Prison" is an evil football series that is selfish and constantly fighting, and the "football version of battle royale" that cannot be allowed to fail?
There are many general sports works, all kinds of competitions of all sizes, and if you lose, you will come back next year. However, the reason why "Blue Prison" is called the "football version of Battle Royale" by many people is not because of the super-powered murder football like "Squid Game" and "Battle Royale". It bet on life, but the dream of becoming a national team: those who are eliminated in the Blue Prison will never become a Japanese team.
Therefore, as soon as the Blue Prison starts, it suddenly fills up the tension. Most of the people who participate in the Blue Prison plan are high school students with dreams and a bright future, but once they are eliminated, it is equivalent to losing the motivation to play football in the future.You may say that you can’t be a national representative, or you can be a professional player or play in another country? However, in terms of the national character of the Japanese, the goal of most people is to wear the national flag to represent the country.
In addition to inheriting the slightly evil style of the author Soyuki Kaneshiro's works, "Blue Prison" also applies the selfish, selfish and intrigue human nature to the work. It is not so much a sports series, but rather a small social microcosm.
adapted the crazy "Blue Prison" comic into a full of colors, fragrance and flavor, and the courageous evil animation -
If "Blue Reed" is a youth comic about teamwork, then "Blue Prison" is definitely a unique teenager comic. "Blue Prison" has crazy energy that realistic football comics do not have. It does not have a superpower setting, but uses the character's pupils and exaggerated expressions to express the character's state of football competition.
This is also attributed to Yusuke Omura who is responsible for the painting of comics. He was the assistant of Isaiyama Chuang , the author of " Attack on Giant ". He won the 80th Newcomer Award for "Weekly Boy Magazine". Therefore, both the painting skills, Story Screen , and the performance tension are excellent. The initial stage of the comics cannot see the immature style.
has such a good performance, how is the animation adaptation?
The screenwriter of the animated series of the same name of "Blue Prison" is Tao Kishimoto . He was responsible for high-rated works such as "Volleyball Boy" and "City Not Only Me". He also produced "Light Feather Flying" (はねバド!), which had a great start and ending evaluation collapse. Compared with some negative reviews, I still believe Kishimoto can usually perform stably. Shigeru Kishimoto is especially good at controlling the rhythm of sports series. The plot arrangement and ending of each episode are well grasped, and they are always in places that will cause suspense, which is very easy to stop.
At the same time, it is not difficult to find that the arrangement of the "Blue Prison" animation is slightly different from the original comic. Through the reversal of each episode, the audience's desire to chase the episodes every week, so I think the performance at the beginning is still very good. The animation version is handled by the animation production company 8 bit, and the picture is as tense as a comic. In addition to the animation making the character look more vivid, the 期彩文 , which follows the character's body movements, is extremely smooth, especially in the first episode of the football ghost catching people, and Fengle grabs the ball to attack Kira. The camera first cuts the character's whole body movements, and then shows Fengle's courage to attack from different angles. When we were not able to digest our emotions, this tension was passed on to Jie again. Finally, it focused on Jie's crazy expression for football, pulling the emotions to the highest point in one breath, and the story ended abruptly at the climax.
There are also scenes where all the Z team members appear in sequence at the end of the second season, bringing them from the vision to each player. Finally, the shot is brought closer to the male protagonist Jie, and then moves to the entrance, as well as the courage of the national sharpshooter in the third episode... I think excellent animations can not only add points to the original reputation, but also induce the animation audience's interest in the original:
"Wow~ the animation is so beautiful, I wonder what the original will look like?"
This is an opportunity to switch successfully, which is more likely to induce the audience to play football in person.
The first three episodes of the animated film "Blue Prison" unboxing reviews: The stimulating football series that combines youthful passion and realistic human nature
Since the 2001 "Battle Royale" movie became popular all over the world, works with survival games as the theme span various fields, and in similar concepts, they have also spawned many people's competitive battles, leaving only one person's gambling knockout match, and the cruel competition system is deeply rooted in people's hearts.
I think it would be a big misunderstanding if you summarize the work "Blue Prison" using the "football version of Battle Royale". But I also want to be honest, if you are interested in football or who are already playing football, you will indeed think this work is a very evil.However, "Blue Prison" not only has the youthful passion of a young man, but also adds human elements and the fault tolerance rate that does not allow failure, which increases the tension in one go. The plot arrangement of the animation is also very compact and has a reversal in each episode. As the plot gradually unfolds, we can gradually understand what the so-called "selfish striker" covers in Hui Xinshiba's mouth?
Compared with "The Reeds of Green" which was also a football anime earlier this year, "The Reeds" emphasize teamwork, while "The Blue" tells you to be a selfish striker. This contrast will indeed make the audience who chased football anime for two consecutive seasons at a loss for a while - finally, I would like to give you a suggestion. If you like to watch realistic football, go to watch "The Reeds of Green". If you like to watch humanized and slightly surreal football, go to watch "Blue Prison".
"Blue Prison" online information
The October 2022 animation "BLUE LOCK Blue Prison" with football as the theme is not forgotten to portray human nature. It can be watched online on Netflix, LINE TV, CatchPlay+, iQiyi, China Telecom MOD, bilibili, friDay Video, Hami Video, myVideo and KKTV.
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