This is a manga-modified anime movie. For those who have never read the original manga, except for the difficulty in understanding the background of the story, other parts—including character relationships, plot development, and final suspense—are designed is very good.
The movie frames a very gamified sci-fi world. The dead are recruited as warriors, and whenever a monster appears to harm humans, they are transported to the battlefield to deal with the monster. Every time the monsters are completely eliminated, they will automatically be teleported back to the room, and all wounds will be restored, but those who died in battle will not be resurrected. They'll be graded, and fighters with 100 points have three options: get a super weapon, revive teammates, or erase their memories and return to human society.
I don't really like this gamification setting of scoring monsters and getting rewards. Because of the gamified content, it is easy to cause a single plot line, weaken the character settings, and ignore the emotions of the characters, so that the story has no waves. But fortunately, this movie is not that stupid, the protagonist is driven by emotional motivation, and the reversal of the ending also raises the level of the story.
destiny in character
The protagonist Kato Katsuya looks very much like Wang Yibo, and his appearance is very dramatic - while waiting for the subway, he encounters thugs killing innocent people. Not the opponent of the knife-wielding gangster, Kato became the second victim. There are not many protagonists who hang up when they appear, but hanging up is the beginning of Kato's true identity.
This piece of play reveals Kato's character and foreshadows his destiny with his self-defeating and courageous actions. He is a brave and loving person. No matter what the situation is, as long as there is a chance, he will definitely save people. This kind of person is very great, but in the face of a strong enemy, only blood may only be moved in exchange. But the protagonist's halo is there, and the plot did not go to a bloody situation thanks to the rescue reversal of the ending.
Fighting Xiaobai Kato was thrown into the battlefield with the blood of saving people. If it wasn't for his teammates to discourage him, he would have died many times. This also allowed him to gradually understand the situation of the battle. It must be said that as the protagonist, the ability to understand and adapt is online, and the trajectory of growth is obvious. So, Kato has adapted to the battlefield from watching the battle of the wealthy Osaka team to starting to defeat the first monster in order to save the family.
But just like the setting of this gamification, everyone except Kato treats the battle as a game where you don't die. The Osaka team competed with each other for super weapons, watching monsters chasing ordinary humans, as if they were in a VR game. Even the Tokyo team, like a rookie in the game, hides and waits for the big boss, or chooses to hide and live.
The movie doesn't allow this kind of behavior. In one of the scenes, when Osaka team faced the Red Arhat, the two teammates choked each other to grab the monster. When the teammate asked for help, the person who did not grab the monster thought that the teammate was pretending. However, the teammate reluctantly killed the monster. himself died. The brutality of the war has since reached a climax, and the remaining people have changed from fighting for points to fighting for survival.
Relying on the rashness of the first battle and the blood of saving people, Kato cooperated with other combat rookies tacitly until he volunteered to be the bait and led the whole team to the death. He has become the spiritual leader of his teammates. This also paved the way for the final reversal of the plot. After all, the setting that the protagonist can only survive by the protagonist's halo is very disgusting.
At the end of the battle, the reversal came. A retrospective scene opens up Kato's other side, but this will also cause some viewers' doubts. In this memory screen, Kato faced Gantz, chose the third option for his younger brother, and returned to his home. This also echoes the scene where Kato appears. As an ordinary high school student, he has a simple and loving life with his younger brother.
That is to say, Kato has died once before this, they once fought side by side, and Kato also scored 100 points and was reborn. However, rebirth erased his memory, and his character made him always sacrifice his life to save people, and he was destined to die and then return to the battlefield. This is the fate that Kato can never get around. From this level, his death trapped him in a situation, just like the Sisyphus who was always pushing stones: if he did not give up his life to save people, he would not die; Criterion, then he will reincarnate in the real and virtual space, and continue to continue the mission of saving people. The same is true for other people. If they don't have the will and the idea of saving people like Kato, they will fight alone, and will eventually lead to the true death of helplessness. They shield each other and can survive longer. Kato's rebirth in the virtual world seems to be saving this group of people.
The origin of monsters is all desire
The ultimate boss in the movie is a very interesting monster.
This boss is called slipper (Japanese: ぬらりひょん), which is a kind of monster in Japan. It likes to play pranks in other people's homes. It comes from the guest god (foreign god) in Japanese folklore. Because he is bald, he is also known as a slicker. There are detailed records in the "Illustration of Japanese Monsters" written by the well-known Japanese cartoonist Mr. Mizuki Shigeru. Legend has it that the real face of the slipper is an octopus. It looks like an old man. It is characterized by a bald scoop. It wears high-end and tasteful kimonos.
In the movie, he has seven forms before and after, and there is a vague shadow of the "seven deadly sins".
The Seven Deadly Sins (Latin: septem peccata mortalia), which Catholics call the Seven Deadly Sins, or the Seven Deadly Sins or the Seven Deadly Sins, belong to the classification of human evil in Catholic doctrine. The crimes, in descending order of severity, are arrogance, envy, rage, sloth, greed, gluttony, and lust.
Slippery's initial form was that of a short old monk who would ignore anyone when he kicked his hands. According to the Japanese legend of the way of life, it can correspond to the laziness of the seven deadly sins.
He was killed by the Osaka team in one blow, but he was cloned into four slippery scoops with different expressions. This is the second form. At this time, his agility has been greatly improved, and he devoured the Osaka team, corresponding to gluttony.
At the same time, the inner lust of the Osaka players inspired his transformation, and some netizens popularized it as a female body hell.
He was then killed by his invisible teammates with super weapons, transformed into a ghost-faced tentacled sea monster, and used shock waves for a large-scale total. Combined with the corresponding relationship between the seven deadly sins and the devil, one should be jealous of the corresponding sea monster.
The appearance of Okahachiro completed the killing of the sea monster, and the slipper continued to transform into an enlarged version of the Arhat body slipper. It has strong recovery ability and attack prediction ability. It can be said that it was greedy to absorb various attack abilities before. The master of the master, Okahachiro used his last layer of camouflage to complete an unexpected hack.
At this time, he was close to the limit of transformation, fell into a state of rage, transformed into a black honeycomb ball, self-destructed to complete an indiscriminate attack, and created transformation time for the final form.
Slippery's ultimate form is an exoskeleton corpse demon, whose image is very close to the Western God of Death. The slippery scoop at this point exposed the last sin, arrogance. He dismissed Kato's attack, and even went to kill Okhachiro before coming back, leaving Kato and the others time to deploy. Just like the Osaka team members who died in this movie, they died of arrogance.
Well, the blind BB is over. In fact, instead of insisting on the relationship between the seven deadly sins, it is better to say that the slipper is an ultimate learning evolution. The first transformation absorbed the attacking agility of the Osaka team, and the female body hell added flexibility in addition to agility. After being attacked by the stealth team, he learned the invisible attack of shock waves, and then evolved from Okahachiro's strong attack. Super self-healing ability, and the ability to predict actions from the "ping pong" technique. In the final final form, the laser eye that kills everything has evolved.
After analyzing this movie, I am a lot calmer than when I just watched it. Except for the big BOSS worth mentioning and the excellent ending, it seems to be simpler.
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