The era of Dragon Ball finished products is Japan in the 1980s. Any great work must have its corresponding background. After Japan has experienced the oil crisis, it has entered a period of economic transformation, from manufacturing-oriented to service-oriented. The economic market, and the aftermath of the expansion of social thinking at this time, also inevitably affected Master Toriyama Akira. The global influence of Dragon Ball may be derived from a cultural identity in China, but in the West it is because of cultural The freshness of Dragon Ball is worldwide because of its common cognitive foundation, such as its world structure, alien monster technology, etc., which has made Dragon Ball brilliant. To a certain extent, Dragon Ball can also be said to be a successful representative of Japan's economic transformation, and at the same time, it has found spiritual comfort for the Japanese people during the downturn. After all, the slump in stock prices and housing prices made many people return to the pre-liberation period overnight, and even began to doubt the country itself.
It's just looking back, really removing the background of the era, and removing its groundbreaking, the connotation of the work itself and the structure of the plot, it is actually very thin, there are many characters, but only a single character is connected, if only From the perspective of comics, it is indeed not appropriate to use so much energy to construct a relatively complete social relationship map. After all, no matter how many painters you hire for a painting, the cost is still huge. The connotation is basically impossible, so it must sacrifice rationality and introduce moves and evolution in a larger space, which can attract the audience more. However, this also brings huge problems to the later filming. It is the thinness of the plot itself, which makes each version of the Dragon Ball theatrical version basically a routine. Even a routine cannot make up more clues. Great Demon King, a Saiyan came, defeated a Saiyan, and came another Frieza, Frieza couldn't defeat the SOS and the gods, and then there are different gods and gods in different universes and even hierarchical, Sun Wukong can change from Become a gorilla, become an evolution that can change hair color, practice in hell and be called back to the ground from hell, and finally seems to have been immortal, as if the story of Wukong will never end. If it is not a comic but a web novel, this web novel is also the worst one. Of course, it still revolves around a theme, that is, the word "limit".
What is the limit of Sun Wukong? A simple generalization is that the stronger is the stronger. Of course, in the later stage, it may not be Mr. Toriyama Akira himself, but even so, it is under this kind of thinking framework. Each of Sun Wukong's masters has made him advance a level, from Turtle Immortal, to Jialin, to Namekian, to Kaiwang, to Kaiwang God, to God of Destruction, from Turtle School Qigong, to Kaizen Wang Quan, then to the vitality bomb, and then evolved into a super saiyan, and the super saiyan continued to evolve for several stages. The final form is still "Zi Zi Ruyi Gong". Obviously, Chinese Kung Fu elements have been added in the later stage, of course. On the one hand, it is to fit the Chinese market, and on the other hand, the entry of Chinese animation practitioners has created today's Dragon Ball. It's just that this model has actually exhausted the audience's aesthetics. I even guess that the Japanese themselves have no desire to continue making Dragon Balls, and may have already sold them to the Chinese? Are the Chinese still using this old IP to extract its residual value? Of course it's still possible. However, it is still attractive to teenagers. For adults, especially those who have seen more types of comics of different styles, Dragon Ball can only be shown as the "first master" rather than the "pioneer". To extract its value, I personally feel that it is too much.
A work of art should be better than lacking, there is no better idea, let it go to a higher level, just let it go. A comic should also have its own limit of influence, giving the audience more room for reverie, and making it worth looking up to Well, don't let business operations ruin people tirelessly! !
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