1 Background
"Rebel Lelouch" is an original animation (not based on comics that is common in Japanese comics), the story can be seen as an imaginary future world, the British kingdom occupied Japan like colonial expansion in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the Japanese Always seek his own independence. Lu Luxiu was originally a prince, but his mother was killed in a palace conspiracy, and his father sat idly by. For this reason, he hated his father and was determined to subvert the kingdom of Britain. It can be regarded as another version of the prince's revenge, but this time The object of revenge is not the uncle but the father. In view of this, it is obviously inappropriate to translate it as "Rebellious Lu Luxiu", Lu Luxiu is not the kind of rebellion of the second disease, but a rebellion. In addition, some people speculated at the beginning that Lu Luxiu was not dead. Last year, the official news of the third season came out that the coachman party (the coachman on the carriage that CC was riding was suspected of Lu Luxiu) won a big victory.
2 Content
2.1 The first season
Lu Luxiu was involved in the exchange of fire between the resistance army and the government army on the way back to school playing chess. He was involved in it and rescued what the resistance army looted: CC. When he was dying, CC signed a contract with Lu Luxiu, giving Lu Luxiu the power of a king. Lu Luxiu used the pupil technique to get the mecha, and used his ingenuity to dispatch the rebel army to win. But Suzaku uses the new equipment to help the government turn the tide. After the exchange of fire, Lu Luxiu used the pupil technique to sneak into the palace and kill the governor of the 11th district. Suzaku was used as a scapegoat for public execution. Lu Luxiu came into contact with the rebel army, used the pupil technique to control the military leader to rescue Suzaku, and began to become the leader of the rebel army.
The British Empire sent the second princess and the third princess to take over. Under the attack of the second princess, the largest existing resistance base was killed. Lelouch led the Black Knights to the rescue, making the second princess fall short. The third princess was hijacked by the remnants of the rebel army when she was traveling. Lu Luxiu proposed to negotiate, during which Suzaku rescued the third princess and was named a knight of the third princess. The third princess proposed the establishment of a special zone in Japan, and encouraged the Japanese to go there. On the day of the ceremony, Lu Luxiu showed up. Although she agreed with the third princess' intention, her pupil technique was out of control, causing the third princess to shoot at the Japanese. The confrontation between the Japanese and Britain was aroused, and they followed the Black Knights.
After the SAR time, the exiled Japanese politicians attacked Kyushu with the support of the Chinese Empire, but were killed by the British and the Black Knights. Lu Luxiu believed that the exiled politicians used tricks, which was not the right way to achieve Japanese independence. After Lu Luxiu launched a black riot and paralyzed the Tokyo Special Economic Zone, his sister was kidnapped at a critical juncture and left in order to save her. As a result, the black riot failed. Start with Suzaku at the ruins.
2.2 The second season
Lelouch was thrown back to school after his memory was modified, in order to seduce CC. Lu Luxiu retrieved his memory, used Xia Li as a cover to investigate the truth, and successively threatened the fake brother Luoluo and the female teacher, and used the pupil technique to control the surveillance team. Suzaku rushed to investigate Lu Luxiu, and was stopped by Luoluo to help Lu Luxiu pass the test.
Lu Luxiu used the help of the Chinese Empire Embassy to rescue the members of the Black Knights on the day of execution, and re-entered the arena, intending to form an alliance with the Chinese Empire. But the Chinese Empire was controlled by eunuchs, sacrificed the emperor to make peace with Britain. At the wedding, Xing Ke rebelled and tried to rescue the emperor, but was robbed of the emperor by Lu Luxiu. Xing Ke joined forces with the eunuch to pursue Lu Luxiu, using terrain tactics and mecha to force Lu Luxiu to the imperial tomb.
The eunuch ordered to attack the imperial mausoleum, and got carried away, but it was broadcast live by Lu Luxiu, which lost the support of the people and the second prince. Lu Luxiu turned defeat into victory, formed an alliance with the Chinese Empire, established the United States, and confronted Britain. Lu Luxiu used the help of the Chinese Empire to find the base of the sect, VV was killed, Lu Luxiu entered the thinking space of the British emperor and learned its purpose.
The United States army attacked Japan, and Lu Luxiu went to contact Suzaku alone, trying to ask Suzaku to rescue the puppet sister. Suzaku refused and arrested Lu Luxiu, but Lu Luxiu used the pupil technique to escape and attacked Tokyo Bay. The dialogue between Lu Luxiu and Suzaku was handed over to the United States, and the Black Knights betrayed. Lu Luxiu and CC went to the ruins and entered the four-dimensional space to talk to the emperor. Later, they discovered the truth of the assassination of their mother in the ruins. After killing the emperor, they became the emperor of Britain.
Lelouch led Britain to confront the United States and proposed to join the United States, but the Black Knights attacked, found his sister with the help of Suzaku, and defeated the second prince. A series of rebellious actions made Lelouch the object of hatred by everyone. At the enthronement ceremony, let Suzaku pretend to be zero to kill himself.
3 Appreciation
In terms of overall style, it is very obvious in the style of Japanese comics, with an overhead world, and various factors are simplified according to the author's conception. Several simple events determine the direction of the world, including character conflicts. The author's arrangement is also obvious, unlike American dramas. Realistic. Although the story can be seen as a step-by-step progression, it is not a linear development, but a small story that continues to develop forward. But the main line is very clear, Lu Luxiu rebelled against the emperor, although in the end it was found that the motive of his mother's murder was not established at all.
In terms of story setting, there is a very obvious Japanese SF style , science fantasy, on the one hand, mecha and various modern technologies, on the other hand, various eye techniques and the vague relic. This is the same as Magical Girl Madoka. The foundation of the story lies in something that cannot be explained, let's call it the X element .
Character creation and character design are very successful. Lu Luxiu: It is exhaustive, and pays equal attention to tactics and strategies. Through various conflict scenes, Lu Luxiu's ingenuity is displayed, and at the same time, the pupil technique can be used reasonably (in fact, it is controversial, because the story is over by directly using the pupil technique to control the main character). In the battle with Xingke, he showed a higher level of strategic consideration . Although he failed in the process of seeing tricks from the tactical level , it contributed to the strategic level-political victory. The ruthlessness and perseverance of the second princess, and the tenderness towards her sister at the same time, the demeanor of the Confucian general of the second prince, are almost the same, but it is a pity that the last chess is one move.
There are two very disgusting characters, Shumu Suzaku and his younger sister . Shumu Suzaku has so-called his own ideas, and the results obtained by wrong methods are not worth mentioning. This would have been a good entry point to the issue of whether the end can justify the means, but there are two problems. One point is that his starting point is wrong, killing his father to stop the Japanese confrontation, this is the wrong method. Another point is that although he keeps claiming this, he does not have his own plan design and implementation path, just a dazzling slogan, and even his behavior is to use the attack on Lu Luxiu to ascend, but after ascending, he did not use his own efforts to get rid of it. Change the empire from within.
As for that sister, it wasn't her fault that she became a burden at first, but in the second season, she was used as a puppet to deal with Lu Luxiu. . The reason why she is concerned by Lu Luxiu seems to be only the blood relationship and the author's setting, rather than her own personality and effort .
4 extra words
There is a unique mecha culture in Japan, which is created and promoted by Japan in the world. In addition to this, there is the radiation mutant monster Godzilla, or the SF sci-fi style. Mecha, Godzilla, Ninja, Samurai, Miko, Judo, and Maid have almost become Japanese cultural symbols. What unique cultural symbols does China have? What carrier can promote these unique cultural symbols? Japanese comics often promote national culture consciously. I saw Susanohu in Naruto before, and I thought the name was very strange, so I searched it, and then I found out that it was the name in the Japanese myth "Records of Ancient Matters", Amaterasu, Monthly also Of course; like the three artifacts in Japanese mythology (Ten Fist Sword, Eight-foot Mirror, Qiong Gouyu), they appear repeatedly in Japanese comics: Uchiha Itachi in Naruto holds a Ten Fist Sword, and Kizaru's Eight-foot Mirror in One Piece , The skill of cutting the red eyes of the emperor also has the name of the three artifacts... The samurai sword is standard in the god of death, and the samurai sword is the most common among the cold weapons in One Piece. These can be seen as Japanese comic authors consciously promoting their own national culture through strong Japanese comics.
Perhaps most people know the strength of Japanese technology. Japan has won the Nobel Prize again this year. The previous ban on semiconductor raw materials caused the whole South Korea to jump. It makes people realize that Japan has always been entrenched in the upstream of the semiconductor industry chain, and the automobile industry does not need much. Words (Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Mitsubishi, Mazda) occupy almost half of the global auto market, and imaging equipment (Canon, Nikon, Olympus, etc.) In addition, in the field of popular culture, except for live-action movies, which are relatively weak, the rest of the Japanese comics, Japanese dramas, pop music, console games (the three major console manufacturers have the second exclusive: Sony & Nintendo), these areas are very strong, especially In the field of console games, Japanese comics and console games are marketed all over the world, and they even compete with the entire European and American world by themselves. If the technical field needs the accumulation and support of basic education and basic industries, when will we be able to achieve such achievements as Japan in the cultural field?
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