This is the first part, it's not over yet...
It was almost broadcast in January this year. In terms of topicality, the most popular is of course Jingzi and the national team. Here I mainly talk about the feelings of watching the national team. This film reminds me of the feeling of watching EVA in those days.
Different Routes of the King's Road Plot
The general kingly plot of Japanese anime is like this: the protagonist has extraordinary talent and is stronger than the people around him. As the story progresses, he encounters constantly escalating opponents, and his ability improves step by step. Although there will be setbacks in the process, But in general, it is still from victory to victory, and constantly surpasses the limit to defeat the enemy.
The protagonist of this kind of story is generally cheerful and confident, the value of the story is nothing more than that there will be rewards for hard work, hard work is worthwhile, and mastering powerful power can defeat evil and bring happiness to yourself and your friends.
In the 1980s, Japan's economy developed rapidly, and the whole society was full of confidence. The corresponding works that reflected the spirit of the whole society were works like "Dragon Ball".
The other kind of kingly plot is more complicated. Although it also has huge power to defeat strong enemies, the source of the protagonist's power is often not from cultivation, bloodline, hidden peculiar talents, inexplicable beauty (power), etc. It makes the protagonist stronger. From this node onwards, if the protagonist uses this power well, it is a normal YY story (we will ignore this kind of story), and if you cannot control this power, you may even face the risk of being attacked. It is the film of EVA and the national team.
Obviously, different from the first type of works that go straight, the complexity of the plot and the depth of the connotation of the second type of works have to go up a gradient.
After Japan entered the 1990s, economic development was stagnant, social classes gradually froze, and the belief that hard work would pay off was obviously inconsistent with reality, and often the situation would not change despite the struggle.
Ikari Shinji obtained the qualification to drive EVA because of his bloodline, and thus has the ability to defeat powerful apostles, but so what?
Guang also in the national team inexplicably became the only mecha pilot who happily cooperated with 02 (this sentence sounds so shameful...), the physical pain he has to endure is second, in the following plot , he will obviously face the disillusionment and rebuilding of his faith.
Now I can answer by the way why the power of the protagonist of the second type of work is inexplicably obtained by winning the lottery.
1 Dramatic tension, diaosi yy, increase readability and sense of substitution
2 This kind of work should emphasize the sickness and problems of the world and the characters in it. Making the characters look like dragons is not conducive to deeply reflecting the problems of the world. In this way, although the world has problems, the protagonist himself has always been nb. coaxing.
lack of meaning in combat
There are no meaningless battles in works like "Dragon Ball". You can see who is the good guy and who is the bad guy at a glance. As long as you defeat the bad guy, good results will come naturally. This kind of work with simple beliefs is the mainstream kingly way, and now jump The pillar of
But in EVA, who is good and who is bad is not so simple. Ikari Shinji's belief has always been in a state of "out-of-focus" confusion, while the national team is much better. If there is no turning point, it is basically certain that the final boss is those Dads.
That is to say, this kind of work often has a cognitive reversal of the enemy, and their bosses and leaders are generally not fun. The popular Buddhist youths are actually an attitude of non-cooperation with their superiors, because when The society has entered a state of class freezing, and no matter how hard you try, you are helping others to make money. Everyone finds that their own interests and the interests of those who order them are not consistent. In reality, they are Buddhist youths who do not cooperate, and both sides go further in literary and artistic works. , the superiors deceived the bottom to give their own lives, and the bottom-level people woke up and destroyed the entire social system.
But this lack of meaning is different in the EVA and in the national team.
A series of problems in Japan's industrial society in the 1980s were covered up in the torrent of economic torrents. By the 1990s, when the economy was stagnant, these problems were all revealed like a beach after the ebb tide. Faith, EVA is remembered not because it provided the answer to the question, but because he nakedly showed the confusion and despair of that era.
But now, the Japanese economy has been stagnant for more than 20 years, and people need to find a new way in the confusion. Buddhist youth can do it, but if their hearts are dead, it is not good. The background structure of the national team's story is almost exactly the same as EVA, but similar There are different wines in the bottle of EVA. The three protagonists in EVA each have their own psychological problems, none of them are mentally healthy people, and 02 in the national team is obviously much healthier and more confident.
freedom and love
I can finally talk about the national team! The above two paragraphs are just foreshadowing. The reason why I wrote this article is just for the character 02. I haven't seen such a free-spirited character in Japanese anime for a long time!
After the Japanese society entered the late 1990s, there were many problems, but none of the works would accuse economic stagnation. This is because everyone knew that there were no shortage of problems in the 1980s. The economic stagnation was just that there was not enough paper. That's all, and fire is the stifling and smoothing of human nature in an industrialized society. The staring of dozens of Ayanami Rei at Ikari Shinji in the nutrition tank in the EVA is a metaphor for this, and Lingbo's classic smile also represents the loss of human nature. .
The overall atmosphere in EVA is confused and hopeless, and in 2018, the production staff seemed to want to add a little hope, so 02 appeared in the same story background.
The industrialized society has turned everything into a transaction, lost a piece of humanity, gained a qualification to survive, lost another piece of humanity, and gained a qualification to climb up. When this myth is no longer valid, people begin to look back to find what they once lost. things. Use these things as materials to gather together to make a person is 02 :)
02's every move comes from the natural nature. She is like a foreign virus in a formatted hard drive with strict order, acting only by her own nature. Starting from herself, from her body, and from sexual attraction.
There is nothing without a body. Unlike sex in EVA, which is full of frustrating atmosphere, sex in the national team exists as an absolute certainty. The driving posture is indeed a little overdone, but the affirmation of sex is very, very important in this work. There is an implicit affirmation of the body and the existence of human beings, which is emphasized here: it is an affirmation of the human species itself , without the need to add too many ideas and myths.
02 Hearing what Guang said about fighting for the fathers, I feel bored. In fact, Guang and the others have no brains of their own. All their actions are instructed by the fathers above. Their positioning in this system is also a fighting machine. Not humans themselves. (There are many hints in the plot. If you are not a driver, you may die, but if you are a driver, you will eventually die. After all, no one has ever seen a driver who has grown up. Here is a plot guess, Dad Those guys and the driver are two species at all, only the driver like them is a human, and the human is in a state of being deceived and enslaved)
Although No. 16 Hiro is not confident and cheerful, he is by no means completely confused and passive like Ikari Shinji. His pursuit of 02 and his desire to fight with mecha are active and determined. He will soon discover that the strength that supports him is not The duty to fight for fathers is the yearning for freedom and love) .02 In the end, I will definitely see through the lies with a broad perspective and find the truth that suits me.
How to survive in a modern society with stagnant economy, or how to live a personal life in a post-industrial society, the answer given by EVA is that there is only despair and confusion. The national team points to the girl 02, although this work is not like EVA. Atmospheric, the attributes of the house are also bigger, but it should be a good and excellent work (don't go wild and slap your face in the later plot~~)
Next article....
Poison-like drama watching experience
The ditf broadcast is over. Not long after the broadcast, I wrote a touted comment , and now it seems that my face is going to be swollen. Writer, can you figure out the main line before starting production? Or is there a screenwriter for Nima?
Let's take a look at the changes in the story of ditf: eva --> Idol Master --> Qiong Yao drama --> Leap to the Peak --> Japan's anti-low birthrate fertility advertisement. Now it seems that the audience watching from the beginning to the end has quite the tragic spirit of Shennong tasting the herbs.
Nowadays, Japanese animation is the same as American dramas. It is common to shoot and broadcast at the same time. This production method will inevitably lead to disadvantages such as inconsistent storytelling, inconsistencies, and digging holes and not burying them. But it is rare to run wild like ditf. To be honest, although Jingzi's plot is bland and unattractive, it is at least easy to distinguish.
The beginning of ditf is quite attractive, with a posture of reconstructing eva, after watching the first few episodes, I thought the story frame should be like this: the whole social background is a metaphor for post-capitalist society, a brave new world where classes are frozen," "Dads" are at the top of society, relying on lies and illusory ideas to manipulate children at the bottom of society.
The young life is in a state of being blinded and enslaved, and has been "made" to deviate from the normal human form, and is only a fighting machine. At this time, it is a non-human who leads everyone to regain humanity. In battle and life By returning to the origin of life (mainly back to human nature, back to the body, back to sex, so I have no problem with the driving position) to find the path of resistance, and finally to overthrow the ruler to find the true self and freedom. With this idea in mind (although it's quite tacky, but generally speaking, it's a solid story), I continued to read it, and then... I don't want to complain anymore =_=
There are already many articles scolding the national team. I don’t want to discuss the head of the screenwriter and supervisor, I just want to talk about some issues in the originality of Japanese animation.
Looking for a breakthrough
Obviously, this year's January was very energetic, and many works wanted to make a big innovation and revolution. But the results were not very good (pops are better, 2333).
If the problem of Jingzi is that it is not earthy, then ditf is more like hoping for a breakthrough but rushing left and right like a headless fly. It is also trapped in a bottle and cannot break through. Ditf's end is even more tragic. The final look and feel even worse.
Japanese animation works have been going downhill for more than 10 years, and I often hear voices such as "Japanese animation is about to end" and "the industry is about to end". In my opinion, the most important reason for the status quo is: closure .
A truly excellent fantasy is not a house. He must have a point of contact with real life and the current society.
Being out of touch with society, staying at home, and hiding in "Gensokyo" cannot make good works. Now the themes in Japanese animation works are always the old ones. The so-called serious themes actually make people laugh. Please, your seriousness is only serious to you, the frog at the bottom of the well. The middle has also become superficial, and the so-called breakthrough every year is just a "fashion" catwalk in the style of a marquee. The so-called "innovation" here will not actually encounter any real risks and resistance, and the works have also lost the power of reality in the 1980s and 1990s.
Not only the Japanese animation industry, but the whole of Japan seems to have lost the ability to interact with the outside world after 2000. After the system completes itself, any new things that appear in the outside world are absorbed by the system and formatted into something that the system can understand and handle.
The system regards any external new things as a resource or proof that it is correct. There is nothing that can challenge the internal system that has been formed. If there is, I am sorry, I can't see it. In the face of the obvious changes of the times, if there is something that cannot be absorbed, just pretend not to see it.
Astro Boy, Yamato, Galaxy Railway 9999 in the 1960s and 1970s; Gundam, Orange Road, Lucky Star, and Arale in the 1980s; Dragon Ball, Yuyou Hakushu, Slam Dunk, and Eva in the 1990s. The pulse of the times at that time was created in the waves of their respective times. And now? Hiding in a small building to become a unified, regardless of the east, west, north and south winds, the exhaustion of materials makes the works very similar, let us repeat it over and over again.
can't give up
Why is this happening? Probably because it was too successful in the past. There are always ups and downs in the world. In the late 1990s, the Japanese economy had been unable to maintain the high-speed growth that lasted for more than 20 years. Times have changed, and people are always reluctant to bear the glory of the past.
When the economy was just getting better in the 1970s, works such as Galaxy Railway 999 and the space battleship Yamato were like an elegy to bid farewell to the hard life after the war, and at the same time full of expectations for a better life in the future;
In the 1980s, when the economy developed the best, people were naive and full of confidence. It seemed that everyone in the world was a friend and felt that they could solve all problems. The works of Lalei, Lucky Star, Orange Road and others were full of trust and happiness;
In the 1990s, the early stage was still the last climax of the economy. Dragon Ball's war-torn plot was the last climax, and then it began to reverse and decline. Eva stood out because it boldly abandoned the optimism that had been hollowed out and faced the reality. Confusion and despair.
And now, in the economic downturn, no matter how hot-blooded the story is, the story will change. Dragon Ball could end in those days, but now Pirates can't. He is like an old man, as a symbol of a bygone era, he has to maintain his existence. If there isn't a better replacement (and there shouldn't be), it will last forever.
Although pirate sales are strong, everyone knows that the best representative of comics in this era is the giant. No matter whether there is a problem with the thinking inside, there is no doubt that he is connected to the outside world and has real power.
"A person who can't give up anything, can't get anything". He has been indulging in the glorious past, and he can only make his small world narrower and narrower. When the outside world is almost all conflicted and unable to reach out, he can only ask himself for it. , especially from one's own body (empty soul), which is the embodiment of virtual sex and pornography in the second dimension now.
Back to ditf, the production team is not weak, and the stories of exchanges show that they really want to make breakthroughs, but the producers always hope to solve problems within their own system, and they are safe and will not be controversial. Yes, old joke without risk.
Maybe the production team wants to copy the advantages of various old routines, but this is impossible to succeed. Taking the essence and removing the dross is a false proposition that will never succeed . A good work is a whole, its advantages and disadvantages are an internal unity, often the special disadvantages are his special advantages at the same time, if Shinji eva Nakahara does not masturbate, this work will not be eva , (I like all of them very much. Ditf's driving posture, I thought that the whole work would be based on healthy, physical, and human sex as a breakthrough) If you want to learn, you must learn all of him, and when you can copy all of him thoroughly, you will start your own creation. when. Say it again, if you want to copy, please copy it all, if it is original, please be brave.
At that time, I wrote three articles for this year's January Fan, Jingzi , ditf , and pop . Now it seems that the only people who are truly innovative are the pops, Jingzi is in the middle, and ditf is a complete failure. The pops may not become a masterpiece of a generation, but she has at least explored it with risks. The active cooperation of watching, the adaptation of the Internet's secondary creation, etc. are all attempts to become watery, she is the hegemony in January :), although I only watch the Cantonese version of 23333.
Epilogue
Huizi said to Zhuangzi, "The king of Wei gave me the seeds of a large gourd. After I planted it, the fruit produced was five stones in volume. The large gourd was used to hold the water slurry, but it was too strong to withstand the pressure of water. It is too big to be cut open to make a scoop, and there is no place to put it. This gourd is not too big. I smashed it because it was useless." Zhuangzi said: "Sir is really not good at using big things. Ah! Now that you have a large gourd with a volume of five stones, why don't you consider using it to make a waist boat, and float on the rivers and lakes, but you are worried that the gourd is too big to fit? It seems that you are still clueless, sir!"
With a system, we want him to pretend to be everything, and if he can't pretend to be invisible, maybe we should put ourselves on the rivers and lakes, in the society, and let the waves from outside overturn our own. system , rather than living in a closure where everything is available to me.
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