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"Curse Back to War" has been lingering with infinite controversy since its birth. It is like a huge heterogeneous collection, which can clearly distinguish the imprint of well-known animation IPs in the past. When the protagonist When Huzhang Yuren chanted "Ling Wan, 卍 Jie, Spiral Pill", anime fans couldn't help laughing and laughing, because even with the tribute to the heart and fist, the suspicion of plagiarism has never been washed away.
"Curse Back to War"
As a cartoonist born in the 90s, he must see that he grew up with the most hardcore generation of anime fans. He knows the feelings of his peers and only takes the essence, just like bees collecting in the Garden of Eden honeydew. For this reason, "Curse Back to War" is very easy to read, because there is no pen - it looks like a gorgeous article written entirely by "quotes", and it can even be said that it was created by a "Japanese manga fan-type author" an ultimate state.
As for the infamy of "Curse Back to War", it is mainly because it lacks its own deep world view. Its overall structure is extremely similar to " Reaper " by Kubo and , even the character design and the simplicity and sharpness style is no exception.
"The Grim Reaper"
All kinds of déjà vu are the result of the author's simple tribute, or the performance of lack of imagination, or it just presents the grand view of Japanese animation for more than 30 years (since Toriyama Akira till now) ? Like a gorgeous "Hundred Ghosts Night Walk"?
Coincidentally, the theatrical version of "Curse Back to War" just uses "Hundred Ghosts Night Walk" as the finale scene, that is, the villain Xia Youjie released on December 24 (Christmas Eve) in Tokyo and Kyoto. A thousand cursed acts of terrorism. This incident was briefly mentioned in the TV version, and the choice of time and place seemed to have a profound meaning, but the scene and spirit were never worthy of the scale of the name.
Hundred Ghosts Night Walk as a giant widescreen rendition (available in Ukiyo-e), condensing the legacy of ancient Japanese fantasy anthropology gave birth to masters of dark aesthetics like Ryuhiko Shibusawa. Many corpse and soul shikigami methods, black magic handbooks, resentment and contract operations are also frequently written materials in Japanese anime and fantasy creations - only for resentful spirits, "The Grudge" and "Remnant". World-renowned works such as Dirty" have become the signature of Japan's dark aesthetics.
From this point of view, the problem with "Curse Back to War" is that although it is deeply rooted and dark enough, it does not exhaust its a priori strength, but only exerts its practicality and coolness. For example, Hundred Ghosts Night Walk, it neither shows the category and characteristics of ghosts, nor does it create the feeling of suffocation in the city of monsters and beasts.
Of course we can't deny that the author has a principled plan, especially in different environments, the fighting style is also different: Tokyo is a high-rise area, and the vertical action design is prominent; in the flat Kyoto courtyard, the fighting has a Levels and stagnation characteristics. Although ghosts and ghosts are passing through densely in Tokyo, the focus of the narrative is completely on the protagonists chopping melons and vegetables. Occasionally, a huge ghost appears, which seems to have only quantitative characteristics. The rules here are what level students deal with. The level of the strange, can not be solved, let the teacher go out to show the high-profile style of the predecessors such as Nanami Jian and Wujo Satoru.
's action design is sharp and even gorgeous, which is indeed the characteristic of must see. He understands what combat power young people need, but he does not understand the darkness and depth on the other side. This is a set of rules often emphasized in drama theory: only opponents Dark enough to make people desperate, the protagonist can establish the power of his destiny. Destiny is the bloodline of Yuta Ottogu in "Curse Back to War Theater Edition", and on the surface it appears as the bond between him and Rika Kimoto, which is a very ambiguous form of expression between a boy and a girl. Ritual love, Rika turned into a super-wraith, precisely because "there is nothing in this world more than love."A twisted curse".
This sentence can indeed be regarded as the finishing touch of the whole film, especially the worldview of "Curse Back to War" is built on the principle of "curse begins with human distortion", which is almost a kind of "spiritual". Split analysis", it has become the inversion of the traditional " psychoanalysis ", that is, it is not because of her own thoughts that Satoka has turned into a ghost, but the twisted obsession that You Tai doesn't want her to leave, which makes her a super ghost. . The distortion of
must be a powerful force, but it is precisely this point that constitutes the source of the suspicion of plagiarism in this theatrical version.
Judging from various signs, must see Xiaxia is undoubtedly a heavy loyal fan of "EVA", and this distortion is also the core force in "EVA" that can destroy the world (shown as runaway ). In a kind of inexplicable (but not necessarily intentional) spiritual transplant, the protagonist of the film, Youta, is like a copy of Ikari Shinji , and in terms of shape, the glasses-wearing Zenyuan Maki is also like "EVA· The reincarnation of Makiba in The End. As for whether Rika Inorimoto and her resentful spirits are Ayanami Rei or Asuka, it can only be made up by CP fans.
"EVA"
and this "New Evangelion in the Night of Hundred Ghosts" is a creation that satisfies the feelings of cross-text fans, and it has also become a much-discussed setting. The "giant suture monster" argument is flooding the Internet again.
However, compared with the "smooth stitching" of the TV version, the stitching here is much more abrupt, because it presents the incommensurability between the technical darkness of "EVA" and the ghostly darkness of Japanese folklore, that is, To say that the "runaway potential" of the former to solve problems is illogical and amoral (and thus can be non-technical); while the latter is essentially subject to the moral universe and must present its own technicality for this.
must see the compromise choice below, it is Taiyou's sacrifice to reach a reconciliation. Based on the principle of leverage/reconciliation, he killed the villain Xia Youjie in seconds with one move, and even the super evil spirit "Incarnation Tamamo Front" summoned by the latter didn't have time to come in handy. The villain's performance was stagnant. A static pose that made a big move before he died, he kept his last breath, just waiting for his former friend Gojo Satoru to come and say goodbye - a scene such as Professor X and Magneto, Dumbledore and Grindel. Wo's farewell, this has become a piece of evidence that netizens generally accuse the author of "picking everywhere".
's so-called "Hundred Ghosts Night Walk" finally gives the impression of "but Er'er". It tells the story of Yiguyoutai's entry and advanced with the purpose of perfecting the TV plot and complementing the background of the previous situation. As far as the growth curve is concerned, he is more or less deliberate compared to the TV version of the knotweed Yuren - the love line of boys and girls is the driving force, it does not constitute an obstacle in essence, the problem is this The ending of the relationship is not dark enough, and it is over-purified at the end.
At least according to the logic of the film, distortion is the principle of everything, and relief is the opposite of the principle, which also leads to the feeling that the strength is suddenly emptied.
It is difficult for you to explain what kind of thinking construction this is. For example, you can argue that the foothold here is that You Tai successfully managed this distortion and discovered his own potential. Taking this pragmatic approach, however, Kimoto Rika became a principled tool man.
pragmatism is of course something he is good at, and although the TV version of "Curse Back to War" has Yuren Knotweed as the protagonist, in fact the extremely highly beautified role is his teacher Gojo Satoru - this is an almost A perfectionist character, with absolute and inapproachable superpowers, iconic cold humor and a proper sense of distance, and of course, blindfolded, stunning people at any time.face. The image of Gojo Satoru is probably based on the Kakashi with super-sharp eyes in "Naruto" (this is the most beloved character of a generation of anime fans), and it is an ultimate enhanced version with a strong Self-substitution is far beyond the self-portrait of Araki Hirohiko named "Kishibe Rohan".
If this belongs to the obscenity position of online texts, then the problem in principle is still too Mary Sue, the protagonist tends to God, and the villain loses the power to weigh the scales. In the entire "Curse Back to War Theater Edition", the only resentful spirit curses that can be called by name are only Rika and "Tamazao-mae". The latter did not have time to do it at all. Because ghosts are not embodied and have no degrees of freedom—these ghosts are trapped, captured, released, and they are all tools.
"Curse Back to War Theater Edition"
The so-called "Hundred Ghosts Night Walk" is, after all, a fight between people, which is still a common struggle, that is, the struggle between hot-blooded teenagers and anti-human careerists with a "certain doctrine" stance. We have seen too many of the latter in anime: Orochimaru , Uchiha Madara , Aizen, Yohabach... It's almost an infinite reincarnation like a new generation replaces the old.
Of course we can't ignore the direct relationship between "Curse Back to War" and "Reaper", but compared to Kubo Tairen, who has been working hard all the year round, the "cursed world order" designed by the next must see is far away. It is far less rigorous and orderly than its predecessors (of course we cannot deny the possibility of his future progress and even a comprehensive breakthrough), but the actual success of this "practical miniature" version has indeed once again promoted and promoted the infinitely delayed animation of "Reaper" Change - The final "Millennium Blood War" will be broadcast next month, and "Curse Back 2" will return next year, when people can compare the pros and cons of them closely and in parallel.
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