Update 4.8: The manga is over, I couldn't believe the ending for a while. In the penultimate episode, under such excellent circumstances, the revealing of the last episode can be so mediocre, and the emotional logic is so fragmented. If the creative process is not forcibly revised, then, in the end, our so-called "core readers" have really overinterpreted this work. There is a feeling of being cheated. It can only be said that the author's way of playing literature and screenwriting is too strong. Now that I think about it, why trust an author in his early 30s to write serious literature? It's like when I was in high school, I thought that I could write a full score for the college entrance examination composition by stacking a lot of excellent images. The difference is that the giant is more advanced. It perfectly stacks the techniques of many excellent literary works, and even stacks the core of these works, and integrates them into the story perfectly, almost flawlessly, but in the end, what it tells is A very mediocre kernel. This is where the sense of division comes from. Originally, I intended to summarize the giant's artistic techniques, but now, the final word is the final conclusion. No matter how well written the front of the work is, if this is the ending, I really can't over-interpret it. If there is no final word, there is no doubt that the diverse interpretations of readers from all backgrounds will push this work to the altar. From this point of view, the giant's only downfall is that it had to end...
But I was right about one thing. The work of Giant is a mirror. Through this, I discovered my love for works with strong expressiveness and strong literary character, and gradually picked up my interest in reading. a good thing. There are also more interesting works in the list that are ready to be read. Let's go through the article, after all, there are many interesting things in life. This is also the last time I will write about giants. In the past, let it be the final conclusion. Goodbye, Attack on Titan.
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The 16 episodes of the fourth season animation part1 have ended, corresponding to the main content of the 91-116 chapters of the original work. In the past four months, an episode updated every week has been able to rush to the hot search, and it seems that the attention is also at a historical level. However, the high popularity of the fourth season of "Attack on Titan" also brings huge problems: first and foremost are the various criticisms and accusations that follow; ' voice. Therefore, these four months have not been easy for the core readers of "Giant". After watching the animation of part 1 of the fourth season recently, I have some new understanding of the original work, and I have also read a lot of rational interpretation articles of the original work. Coupled with my own re-reading, I finally stabilized my mentality in the near future.
First of all, one thing that must be realized is that the ending of chapters 91-139 of "Attack on Titan" (full work, the fourth season of the animation) is completely different from the end of chapters 1-90 (the whole work prologue, the first three seasons of the animation) 's story, it's perfectly fine to enjoy it as two separate works. The author, like a genius, handed over a medium-length narrative at the level of a famous novel in chapters 91-100, and glued the content of the prologue and the main chapter in an "explosive and smooth" attitude. This feeling can only be understood by those who have read the original work.
However, it is this transformation of the core that causes the work to be extremely controversial after 100 words. You must know that most of the readers/viewers before 90 episodes are teenagers. In addition to the intensifying trend of conservative/nationalist restoration in today's world, "Giant" after 100 episodes has become a mirror that reflects the evil in the hearts of all readers who have not experienced the world. flower. The most ironic thing is that those who think that the work promotes far-right forces and evokes the spirit of militarism, and those who think that the work praises the far-left Virgin and leads the way for the enemy, are evenly matched, and it is not even ruled out that they are the same group of people. What's more, because the stance and the plot performance of the work are too different, they gave up the understanding and empathy for the characters in the play, and even gave up the whole work, and began to promote "unfinished". For example, a certain main character in the play has a double standard before and after the performance, and the author clearly echoes the front and back with his lines (foreshadowing recovery), my impression is that the character is too three-dimensional and too real, after all, the double standard It is the nature of human beings; however, the understanding of many audiences is that this character is too infuriating, why is the author still drawing him and praising him? Rotten!
In general, because of the changes in the core of the work, the reading threshold of "Giant" in the main story after chapter 91 has been raised by an order of magnitude, and it has been raised suddenly and explosively, causing some old audiences to be unable to adapt. I know that the author has a responsibility in this situation, but this responsibility is a combination of "expression of the work" and "reader acceptance". Obviously, the author of "Attack on Titan" Isayama Soru, with a kind of In an intense form, he chose the expression of his own works (after all, the first 90 episodes have already made him a lot of money). It is for this reason that I firmly believe that this work can be passed down to future generations as a literary work, rather than a commercial work that simply pleases the audience. Summarize the current controversy about "Giant" with a line of Du Fu's poem: "Er Cao's body and name are dead, and the rivers and rivers will not be abandoned."
Finally, let's talk about the evaluation of the first 16 episodes of the fourth season of the animation. Someone asked me, should I watch the original manga or the animation to supplement "Attack on Titan"? My idea is to watch the animation first, then finish it, and it is best to watch it at least twice (of course, after watching it once, as a core reader, you will spontaneously watch the second time, the magic of the work), otherwise you will not be able to appreciate the foreshadowing of the original work And the subtleties of echoing, and then look at the comics according to the chapter. Among them, the "Ten Times of Marais" in chapters 91-100 is the most preferred comics chapter. This paragraph corresponds to the first five episodes of the fourth season of the anime. Generally speaking, it is a more suitable rhythm for an episode of animation to adapt the manga of chapters 1.3-1.5, but because the original work has a strong sense of literature, the rhythm of all animations is too slow, so a certain amount of deletions have been made in the animation, unfortunately Also understandable. After all, the comics gave us a perfect answer, why bother with the animation only scoring 95 points? In addition to the "Ten Times of Marais", the "Wangzheng Chapter" corresponding to the first half of the third season of the animation is also recommended to read the comics. Compared with the drastic modification of the animation "Wangzheng Pian" to cater to the audience's rhythm, the comics have a more full and interesting portrayal of a series of marginal supporting roles.
And as the advantage of animation, the role of sound, dynamic mirror switching, and freeze-frame is used in other chapters. The most impressive ones are (with IMDb score): the key back to "Warrior" in the second season of the animation is 9.8, the short stories "Friends" and "The Spectator" in the third season of the animation are 9.3 and 9.3, and the second half of the third season. Competition" 9.9, "The Brave" 10, "White Night" 9.9, the short story "That Day" 9.9 and the end of the prologue "The Other Side of the Wall" 9.6, the fourth season short story "Children of the Forest" 9.7, "The Only Redemption" 9.7 . In addition, the action scenes are basically recommended to watch animation without suspense. Of course, based on my personal understanding of the work, the action scenes are actually not that critical, but IMDb likes to give high marks to action scenes. After all, if you watch it for the first time, the action scenes are the most worrying. In addition, it is predicted that the second half of the fourth season will return to "Brothers", and the short and medium stories "Moment", "You from Two Thousand Years ago" and the final ending will become the chapters where the animation will show its talents. But we won't see it until 2022.
This article is unfinished for now. With the current animation progress, a final evaluation should be given within a year. However, as a mirror of this era, this work should be able to go down in history, and it may even be discussed in a long period of time in the future. When studying the history of literature in the future, recalling the 13-year serial history of this work, combining with the dramatic changes in the world pattern in the 10s and 20s of the 21st century, and looking at the large number of relics left by its audience on the early global Internet, they will It is a very interesting cultural archaeological subject.
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