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The week ago, I learned from a film and television news that an anime can stand out from many popular Japanese IPs and gained the attention of many fans and professionals in the world.
This anime is very "interesting". It was born with various controversies. Some say it is very different. Some say that it can detect many traces of the anime in the past. Some lines with secondary ranks: "Lingmaru, Bankai, Rasengan" and "Sealed Curse" are really easy to divide the audience into two extremes.
Fans must love it, such as CP, wait for peripherals, and make your own avatars...
The rest is a normal mind. Although the type is different, because most of the content is still "familiar", everyone can still accept it.
This evokes my memory of "One Piece" when it became popular many years ago. At that time, it was also recommended by my favorite friends in the class every day, but when I really wanted to watch it, the number of updates of hundreds of episodes was really unstoppable.
Having said so much, why did the prequel of this anime series, the theatrical version of "The Legend of the Sword Return to the War" revolve around "Hundred Ghosts Night Walking" reach the weekly reputation list?
'Hot Blood God'
First start with the episode itself, this is a "Hot Blood God's God with old-fashioned settings but full of details".
The protagonist, high school student Yuri Konoha has superhuman physical ability. In order to save his classmate, he swallowed the fingers of the special spell, "Sukuno on Two Sides", and used this as an opportunity to open the door to a new world.
In the story setting, "finger" itself is an evil thing. The male protagonist can not be swallowed up after being possessed by his own willpower. Moreover, the host will not only not help at critical moments, but will even cause various ridicule and chaos. Because of this, the subsequent plot direction is not controlled at all, and no one can guess it.
"Curse Return to War" originated from "Love and Curse". The framework is actually very simple, and some lines make people feel particularly warm:
"I want to be a master of spells to untie Lixiang's curse."
"Curm each other and bet on everything."
It is different from other long plot works. The plot is too complicated, but I watched it. I think the characters are more outstanding than the plot, and they are all useful, special and plump: the heartwarming male protagonist Yukihito with both IQ and EQ; the heroine Norika who concentrates on his career if he doesn't accept it; the strong and reliable nonsensical comedy Gojo Go; the seemingly a cold academic master was actually a bad Fukuo Eki...
This comic is a comic work by the Japanese cartoonist Akami's next work. It started serializing on " Weekly Jumphrek4" on March 5, 2018; it is the first project of the 3 consecutive series of new serialization of "weekly Jump".
"The Return of the War" single-line version was published by Shueisha, and its traditional Chinese version was published by Dongli Publishing House , and Hong Kong, China was published by Culture and Communication Group Co., Ltd. .
Simplified Chinese electronic version was exclusively released in Bilibili comics, and was later adapted into a TV cartoon of the same name.
This comic has received many praises since it has been broadcast, and won the 6th place in the "Next Comic Awards" in 2018 and the 1st place in the National Bookstore Clerk Recommended Comics in 2019".
As of September 28, 2021, the cumulative sales of this series, including electronic versions, have exceeded 60 million copies. In July 2022, Shueisha announced that the total sales of the comic's single-line book exceeded 65 million, 7.6 times that of the first animation in October 2020.
, and "The Return of the War of the Sword 0" released in Japan last Christmas Eve last year is adapted from the original short comic "Tokyo Institute of Creation of the Sword 0", which is the prequel of "The Return of the Sword".Compared to the drama, I prefer the Japanese animation drama version because I can not only watch a complete story within two hours, but also complete the pit left by the drama. Just like "Conan", although the drama is watched intermittently, the drama version has not been lost in one episode.
So, the theatrical version of "The Curse Return to War" with the label "Hot Blood" added a scene of "Hundred Ghosts Night Walk". The fight scenes are not only more satisfying, but also very attentive in it.
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"Hundred Ghosts Night Walk"
The story of the theatrical version mainly tells the story of "Bone B" who appeared recently in the main story.
When I was a child, Yi Gu Youtai lost his childhood sweetheart, Qiben Rika, because of a traffic accident.
"This is an agreement. Rika and You Tai will get married when they grow up."
was in pain in the curse of Rika who became a resentful spirit, hoping that his death was brought to the high school of spells by the strongest magician Gojo Go. Then, Yi Gu met his classmates, Maki, the Zen Academy, the Dog Curd, and Panda, and made up his mind:
"I want to have the confidence to live."
"I want to untie the curse of Lixiang in the high school of magic."
On the other hand, Yi Gu and others faced each other. Xia Youjie, the most evil curse master who once massacred ordinary people and was exiled by the high school students, appeared before: "We will hold a night tour of hundreds of ghosts on December 24."
Xia You, who aims to realize the paradise of the magicians, finally released thousands of curses in Shinjuku and Kyoto - can Akira stop Xia You, and where did Rika's curse be lifted?
With special emotional appeals and curses for bad luck, this group of friends embarked on a journey.
The six-person group (Taido Aoi, Zen Temple Maki, Sanha, Mechanism Masaru, Kamo Kenji, and Momo Nishimiya) who were very outstanding in the original "Hundred Ghosts' Night Walk" chapter (Hongdo Aoi, Zen Temple Masaru, Kamo Kenji, and Momo Nishimiya) returned in the theater version, and the battle scenes were more passionate. While igniting many memories, fans were even more cheerful and understood.
Due to the success of the drama, the production lineup of the theatrical version should of course not be underestimated and can be called luxurious: the Korean director Park Shi-ho, who was directed in the first season of animation and the original artist of , continued to take charge of it. The animation studio is a well-known and powerful MAPPA, and the production quality of his works is well-known.
Voice actors are all for a while. The main characters are super popular voice actors Okabata Emi , Hanazawa Kana , Kan Chichi , Nakamura Yuichi , sakurai Takahiro, etc. The superb dubbing full of emotions sublimates the role into a flesh-and-blooded three-dimensional soul.
Although the main chapter of "The Legend of the Swords" is unfolded by the story of Yu Ren, the Taurus Kameki Yukawa, the story of "The Legend of the Swords" is separated from the main line, allowing the second-grade magician Yi Guyou to become strong in confusion to the stage. While the plot is simpler, the characters are more likely to have a natural and unfathomable true feeling, so there is no need to worry about any regrets.
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'dark aesthetic'
2021, the official released the box office data for the first weekend: the box office of 2.694.128150 yen in 3 days from the 24th to the 26th, and 1.98,053 people attended the movie. This is also the best initial result of a movie released in Japan in 2021, and it is second in Japanese film history.
movie was released in 2286 theaters in North America. With the preview on the evening of March 17, the box office revenue on the first day reached US$8.678 million, and the box office reached US$17.699 million in three days on the weekend.
In April 2022, the film dropped to fourth place on the list, and its market share at that time was less than 5%.
From this point of view, it is already very good that an anime movie can achieve such results, and it is a new style and new story that suddenly appears. It is inseparable from its author.
号的白小姆类, a cartoonist born in the 1990s. This most popular work was initially a problem that every creator would encounter: plagiarism storm.
But after you read the comics, you will know that it is precisely because of the author's special age that he almost grew up with us, so he knows the works and feelings of his predecessors: "Taking the essence is like a bee collecting nectar in the Garden of Eden."
So "The Return of the War" naturally does not have too much preface and background, "It is like a gorgeous and brilliant article written entirely from "quotes", and it can even be said to be an ultimate state of creation by "Japanese comic fan-type author". ”
Let’s talk about the magnified "Hundred Ghosts Night Walk" in the theater version. As a word-of-mouth story, I also spent it in books and experienced it in the "Onmyoji" game. It is really a blessing to show it directly in the animation.
"It condenses the fantasy anthropological legacy of ancient Japan, and gave birth to a dark aesthetic master like Ryuhiko Shibusawa. Many corpse soul shikigami methods, black magic posts, grudges and contract operations are also materials that are often learned and new in Japanese anime and fantasy creations."
at the last moment, he still said, "Dedicate my future, body, mind, and soul to you, I love you, Rika."
