Author: hgcg/Anitama Cover source: "Tiger Face W"
This year 2016 is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Toei animation . The birthday of a large factory should always be expressed. In addition to making some original films to commemorate, we will not lose the classic old works and continue our feelings. "Tiger-Faced Man W", which started broadcasting in October, is the new work of the classic old animation "Tiger-Faced Man" (Tiger-Faced Man), and it is also the third time this work has been animated after 34 years.
There may not be many friends in China who know the original work. After all, the work is a long time and is a wrestling theme that Chinese people are too unfamiliar. But this work is well-known in Japan.
Tiger Face Man is a wrestling comic created by the famous comic author Kazuki Kajiwara in 1968. He made an animation version in the same year under Toei's production, and became popular in one fell swoop. The professional wrestling industry is also linked to animation. Not only are there real wrestlers in the first and second parts, but since the 1980s, wrestlers have appeared in the name of Tiger Man. The animation will be the third next month, and the real linkage wrestler is the fourth.
After hearing this, some friends may ask, the third animation has been filmed, so will it be difficult to understand the plot directly by following this one? In fact, although the third part has been announced as the follow-up plot of the first generation, watching the third part directly should not be too difficult to understand the plot. After all, the first work was in the 1960s and the second work was in the 1980s. At that time, there was no popular set and no promotion of chaos in your circle. They were all simple and clear plots and settings. So everyone just need to know that "there was a wrestler named Naoto Ida who turned into a tiger-faced man and defeated the dark wrestling organization's 'Tiger's den'."
Tiger Face Man was originally a member of the "Tiger's Nest" of the Dark Wrestling Organization. Not only did he suffer from exploitation by the organization, but he was also forced to use despicable means in every game to shape the "villain image". But in order to donate money to the orphanage, the tiger faced man broke with the tiger's den and changed to an open competition style. Assassin wrestlers were sent one after another to win the tiger faced man on the ring.
As for the second animation, also produced by Toei, it tells the story of a new wrestler who inherits the Tiger-faced man's mask and fights against the Dark Wrestling Alliance controlled by the Middle East Oil King, which is still simple and crude. The third part of
is about to be aired, which is a little more complicated, that is, the tiger-faced man has become two. A weak wrestling group was destroyed by a tiger's den, and two young wrestlers went their separate ways. One inherited the mask of the tiger-faced man and became an orthodox masked wrestler; the other deliberately joined the tiger's den and became a black tiger-faced wrestler. The two are usually friends, but they wear masks on the ring and don’t know each other. What kind of sparks will be? This is worth paying attention to.
There is another part of the plot that has attracted the attention of old fans, that is, the plot of the animation version or the comic version, and how to deal with the second part of the TV animation. It turns out that the animation of the first generation of Tiger Face Man has different endings and comics.
The same work has different plots and endings in different media, which was very common at that time. The second work of the animation version takes over the ending of the comic version in the plot. In the comic version, the tiger-faced man finally died under the wheel to save the child outside the field. This time, "The Tiger Face W", can be judged from the characters that it is the plot of the first generation of the animation version. In the final words of the animation version, the Tiger Face defeated the final enemy out of helplessness, and then left Japan with unfair victory. What will be the choice or integration of these two different endings, and what will the second generation of Tiger-faced people deal with, are all things that fans of the original work care about.
is an animation that takes wrestling as its selling point. What will happen to painting is also a concern. After all, it is the Toei animation that cannot be painted more than 3,500 pictures per episode. This new animation "Tiger Face W" mentioned two selling points about painting during its promotion. One is to use retro thick lines to restore the animation style of the first generation, that is, the 1960s; the other selling point is to specially invite the well-known animator Junichi Hayama to supervise the action painting.Toei's cartoons have been supervised by the general painting, but the situation of supervising action painting is rare. From this point of view, it can be seen that Toei attaches great importance to the painting of "The Tiger Face W" this time, at least the painting of action scenes. Recently, "The Tiger Face W" held its first episode to be released first. I was very satisfied with the painting when I saw the audience on social networking websites. In addition, the official also revealed that the familiar Ma Yue Jiayan will also join this work. It seems that the painting is worth looking forward to.
ED original paintings participated by Kazuhiko Ma Yue participated in
As for the lineup of voice actors, it is Toei's usual "voice actors don't have money" show. The first male is 8th generation Taku , and the second male is Yuichiro Umehara , both of which are rookies; and the supporting villains are men including Morita, Suzumura, Fukuyama, Kishio; the female includes Mimori, Kishida, and Kazunaya Kazuna; and seniors such as Ryoichi Tanaka and Hidekashi Shibata join to continue to dubbing the characters "Takaoka Kishitaro" and "Mr. X" in the first work. The lineup of voice actors is extremely luxurious.
, however, is surprisingly, this time, "The Tiger Face W", was broadcast late at night. The main battlefield of Toei animation has always been in the morning and evening. The last time the late-night animation was released, it was "Beijing Sao Painting".
In fact, this time, "Tiger-faced Man W" is still in cooperation with the Japanese professional wrestling group "New Japan Wrestling". The reason why it was placed late at night is because it was broadcast on the TV station's wrestling festival. In recent years, as the "show" nature of the so-called "professional wrestling" has become an open secret, fans have a tendency to decrease. How to increase the popularity of wrestling has become a topic for major groups.
On the other hand, Toei Animation originally had a so-called "tax avoidance file" at 6:30 in the morning of on Sunday. Because he has a large number of copyrights for his works and is closely related to Japan's No. 1 toy factory, Toei has always made money with his eyes closed. But instead of paying taxes to the state, the money you earn is worse than converting investment into your own capital. Capitalists who don’t think so are all stupid pigs. Those who open factories can buy a batch of new equipment at the end of the year. What about the animation company? Of course it's just anime. However, this period was cut off by the TV station leaders this year.
This time Toei's cartoon and the collaboration between New Japan wrestling and TV stations can be said to be a perfect match. The wrestling animation is currently broadcasting in the Wrestling Festival, which can attract animation fans to become wrestling fans, and in turn let wrestling fans buy some animation peripherals.
Tiger Face Man's first two animation versions also featured wrestlers in reality, both of whom were popular hard-core wrestlers such as "Antonio Pigwood" at that time. Now, New Japan Wrestling mainly promotes beautiful wrestlers such as Okada Kazumi and Takahashi Hirohiro, who are very popular among female fans. This time, these wrestlers were invited to make guest appearances in the animation. Of course, the dubbing is not me, but I invite Morita Naiichi and Suzumura Kenichi, who also have many female fans. If you are not pursuing the superposition effect to increase female fans, no one believes it. In fact, the audience who participated in the first episode preview also mentioned online that there were far more female audiences present than they thought.
Photos of the pre-release conference of "The Tiger Face W". From left to play Mimori Atsuo of Takaoka Haruna, Tonaro Toru/Tiger-faced Takuya, Fujii Takuma/Dark Tiger-faced Yuichiro Umehara.
And "Tiger Face W" is also very emotional and strategic for nostalgic party and old fans. In addition to the previously mentioned, using retro thick lines to reproduce the style of the 1960s and inviting the original voice actors of the first generation of characters, the theme song is also the first generation theme song covered by Shonan Nobuki. I believe that not only old fans will be extremely moved when they hear this, but audiences who have never been exposed to will be excited when they hear this theme song.
So, what peripherals should be sold to fans? First of all, late-night animation is indispensable for selling discs. The Pierce Brother Pinyin Machine is also one of the sources of copyright income for the Tiger Face Man series. This time, the new work will be released, and there will be new revenue in the Pinyin Machine.In addition, many people may not know that the boss of the Bushido company, which is famous for card games, is actually also the major shareholder of New Japan Wrestling. The Bushido company may also make some moves this time.
This time, "Tiger Face W" is a huge momentum, with a grand celebration of Toei's 60th birthday. The plot, painting, and voice actor performance are all worth looking forward to. Once successful, Asahi TV and Toei's views on the operation of late-night animation may also change, and Japanese professional wrestling may also gain new fans. What kind of work can be made still needs to be seen. You can check the feelings for the nostalgia party, but if you are tired of ordinary Japanese high school students and the beautiful girl zoo, you might as well watch this wrestling animation full of men's sweat odor, and you might see a refreshing feeling.
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＜STAFF＞
Series Director: Toshiaki Komura
Series Composition: Chiba Katsuhiko
Character design: Kagawa Kukawa
Action painting supervision: Junichi Hayama
Art design: Watanabe beauty
Music: Takari Yasuji (Team-MAX), Blade-yaiba-
OP Theme song: Shonano Nori "Ying! タイイガーマスク" ED Theme song: Shonano Nori "KING OF THE WILD"
＜CAST＞
Tou Naoto/Tiger face: Yashida Taku
Fujii Takuma/Dark Tiger face: Umehara Yuichiro
Takaoka Haruna: Mimori ずこ
Okada Musa: Morita Zeichi
Hirozuhiro: Kinichi Kazu
Fujii Okada助：草尾毅
山科瑠璃子：千葉千恵巳
高冈拳太郎：田中亮一
来间光：橘田いずみ
若松龙：岸尾だいすけ
永田裕志：てらそままさき
Mr.X：柴田秀勝
Miss X: Kobayashi ゆう
Yellow Demon: Toshishi Ishida
Kevin Anderson: Fukuyama Shige
Mike Rodriquez: Yasuke Naimei
Odin: Eishi Takemoto
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