My dabbling in suspenseful horror works can be said to be almost zero, and the definition of "Another" by Aya Tsuji Pedestrian seems to be not so clear in terms of genre. First of all, it is clear that "Another" has almost no logical reasoning elements, confirming that the deceased has almost nothing to do with the male pig's feet. It's hard to say that it's a work of reasoning; secondly, although the overall atmosphere of the story is gloomy and depressing, there is almost nothing in the novel that can be called horror, and the animation is quite scary when someone dies in the memorial hall at the end (although I don't know how scary is strictly In the sense that it is considered a category of horror), but this is the only place that can be regarded as a horror, so to say that "Another" is a horror work is somewhat unsatisfactory; in the end, it can only be said that suspense or supernatural can summarize the setting of "Another", After all, the whole article revolves around the supernatural event of the "dead", so with the mentality of watching horror and reasoning, the classmates can wash and sleep.
When reading the novel, I couldn't help but want to complain about the Chinese translation of the title, "Substitute", the word appears only once in the whole text, that is, when I saw Qi Ming introducing his life experience, he said "I'm just a substitute for that child", In addition, the whole novel has nothing to do with this word. I have no idea what the translator wants to express through this translation. The original title "Another" sums up the plot appropriately. "This translation is purely superfluous.
Personally, I think this work has a big problem with the length and rhythm. I don't know if it's too long or the climax is too short. The whole story is obviously procrastinated. The novel took nearly 3/4 of the length to discover and Going deep into the core of the "dead" phenomenon, it only took 1/4 of the time to reveal the mystery and kill the dead. The same is true for animation. The first ten episodes are painless, but the last two or three episodes suddenly burst out. The most important thing is that we have done so long before, when the mystery of the "dead" is finally revealed, the audience is very excited to think "how to find this deceased?", and then the most embarrassing place Here, the female pig's feet saw that Qiming took off the mysterious blindfold and said, in fact, don't bother, I have a plug-in and can directly recognize the dead, is it stupid?
Are you kidding me? Since it's over if we talk about it earlier, why wait until everyone is dead to save the world?
It's like when the little friend lay dead countless times when he was playing Contra, and finally saw the final boss, and then he couldn't beat the dead or alive. At this time, you told him that as long as you go up, down, down, left, right, left, and right, you can lie down. How fucked should the little friend be at this time?
The above is a personal rant, but the whole work is still flawless.
The author wrote this paragraph on a page before the main text of the novel:
All this is not what someone did,
but a "phenomenon"
The reason for the appearance of the phenomenon may lie in the hearts of the relevant people
, those of us.
The title "Another" can be understood in two ways. One is to refer to the superfluous dead person in the disaster, or it can be considered to be a "non-existent person" who is collectively ignored by the entire class. The former is a disaster, and the latter is actually It is a manifestation of collective violence. In the novel, Saki Ming was initially ignored as a "non-existent person", and then the male protagonist was also included in the non-existent duo, and the two returned to their normal identities until they died again, but not all "non-existent people" All so lucky. It is written in the novel that a few years ago, there was a boy in the class who was also chosen by everyone to be a "non-existent person". At the beginning, he was calm, but after a period of time, he finally broke down and shouted in the class "I'm not no." people who exist". The result is that Calamity is activated again, and this unfortunate fellow is naturally resented. Correspondingly, after the male protagonist and the female protagonist regained their identities, the squad leader with double ponytails asked them to apologize in front of their classmates. Seeing Qi Ming said that I can apologize, but apology is meaningless. It can be seen from this cross-examination that the seeds of mutual suspicion have been planted among the classes.
The truth of the facts is very ironic. The way the disaster stops is indeed to obliterate the existence of a person, but it is not the "non-existent person" that everyone collectively ignores, but the collective violence of the class obliterates the existence of an innocent person. and become the source of more tragedies. In the end, the class decided to climb the mountain and pray. In the Sakuya Memorial Hall, after knowing the way out of "let the dead return to death", the tragedy started a domino-like chain: Huang Maozhe made Kagawa begin to suspect that his best friend Kazami Tomohiko was the dead , pushed him off the balcony in the dispute; after that, it got out of hand, the administrator died, the cafeteria caught fire, and the classmates began to ruthlessly kill each other in order to kill the "dead"; He was attacked by classmates who thought "this lonely guy must be redundant"... In the end, in the raging fire, the male protagonist killed the deceased aunt himself, but the entire class was also lost in the vendetta. The animation is more intense and tragic than the novel in the treatment of the last paragraph. Although it is exaggerated, it is also successful. It not only adds a dark horror to the whole story, but also expresses the author's point of view more strongly: the collective disregard from the beginning. In the end, due to the suspicion of the "dead", there was infighting, innocent people were suspicious because of panic, hostile because of suspicion, and murdered because of hostility, but the real "dead" - Sanshen Lianzi finally died silently, quietly for the sake of The whole tragedy came to an end silently, and after the quiet end, only a fragmented class was left. The three-year three-year shift that brings death every month is terrifying, but it is even more terrifying than this unwarranted disaster, that is, the final massacre that really and completely destroyed a collective, but it is invisible between people. ATField.
The gears of disaster this year finally stopped with a bang under the tinge of blood, but will the next three classes in one year, and the three classes in three years in ten years, be more tragic than tragedies? Of course, with the female pig's feet's writing wheel plug-in, identifying the dead is not a problem at all, but the passage written by the author above is even more intriguing.
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