Foreword: See the news of five stars again, or the second half of 16 years, a friend sent WeChat to tell me: Five stars resumed serialization! I feel very relieved and a little bitter at the same time: you TM will not be serialized again, and I will almost forget the plot! At this time, it was five stars since I entered the pit, and I had passed an unknown number of years, during which I went to visit the graves of the elders, and the surrounding vines had climbed to more than five meters high.
The 1970s and 1980s were the mature period of Japanese anime, and a large number of outstanding manga artists emerged during this period, but they could be called amazing talents, but there were only a few people, and Nagano Washu was definitely one of them.
In 1980, Nagano was admitted to TakushoKu University to study fashion design, and when he was a student, Nagano Go was romantic and wild, he had a wide range of hobbies, loved to draw comics, loved to play games, loved to sing rock and roll, and sometimes wore women's clothes with friends.
However, Nagano's college career was not long, and in the third year of his enrollment, Nagano Tooko won the SF Art Award, and he found that his original interests could also be used as a rice bowl, so he dropped out of school and entered the animation industry.
Nagano first joined the Sunrise Animation Society, which was first established in 1972 as a subsidiary of Bandai, but before bandai boss support, Sunrise made a lot of money with the peripheral products of the Gundam series, and became the most money-making golden sign in the Japanese animation industry at that time. Tomino, the father of Gundam, Yuki, recognized Nagano Go, who was still a student at the time, through the SF Art Awards, and he took a fancy to Nagano Go's creative ability and personally invited the fledgling Nagano Go to work at Sunrise Anime.
Nagano Gou exerted amazing strength in Sunrise, initially he was only involved in part of the design work of the animation, because the work was done too well, he was soon promoted to the main force, fully responsible for the character design and mechanical design of the manga "Heavy Fighter", Nagano Go's design of the war structure is extremely gorgeous and complex, the editor had to add columns to introduce the details of Nagano Go's mech design.
But when this amazing project was placed at Bandai's headquarters, Bandai's face was blackened: So how much does it cost to adapt into an anime with such a complex structure? How to mass-produce heavy fighter anime peripherals is also a big problem. In the end, the relevant person in charge of Bandai shot and killed the design plan of Nagano Go, and Sunrise Animation urgently removed the series of mech drawings designed by Nagano Go, in exchange for the former Gundam style, coupled with Nagano Go's bold idea of adding insect elements to the mecha design was complained by many internal employees, and Nagano Go, who could not understand, left Sunrise in a huff.
In order to complete the design of "Heavy Fighter", Nagano Gou serialized a manga called "Five Star Story" at Kadokawa Shoten, and from the storyboard to the characters to the background to the framework of the entire manga, Nagano Gou himself completed it.
Manga just serialized caused a sensation, many people are against Nagano Gou design style to come, did not expect that this manga even the plot and setting are very good, no less than the mainstream manga at the time, "Five Star Story" quickly harvested a large number of fans, but the good times are not long, just less than two years after the series, Nagano Go announced the temporary suspension of publication, and then for more than thirty years, Nagano Go has been playing games, travel, the pursuit of musical dreams and other excuses to continue to suspend publication, during this period, "Dragon Ball" and "Youyou White Book" ended, the new generation of ""Yongno Go" Naruto came to an end, and even the epic long manga "Lingerie Godfather" began to celebrate its fifth anniversary, when "Five Star Story" was only fourteen single-shot copies, and the end of the manga could be said to be far away.
Nagano Go said in the original serial "Five Star Story" that he would spend his life to draw this manga, but in the next thirty years of waiting, many people have already hugged their grandchildren, and the sixty-year-old Nagano Go is still playing, this eccentric who promotes the development trend of handmade models with his own strength is still a stubborn strange thing in old age.
In fact, the manga "Five Star Story" has already been completed in the chronology spanning hundreds of millions of years, but the hundreds of pits are still not filled, and from the current situation, Nagano will continue to dig the pits.
The background of "Five Star Story" is composed of four solar galaxies, the star cluster is under the galaxy, the lower side of the galaxy is the planet, the lower side of the planet is the continent, there are countries in the continent, there are more than forty countries in my memory, the big forces involved will not be clear for a while and a half, involving races are not limited to humans, subhumans, superhumans, artificial humans, gods, dragons, elves, asuras, demons, magicians, etc., the most important thing is that the names of each country are extremely awkward, the characters are huge and the names are also huge, The person who can fully name all the names must be a die-hard fan of the ashes.
The protagonist of this game is emperor Amaterasu, and in Japanese mythology, the god Amaterasu is the ruler of Takatenhara and the supreme deity of traditional Shintoism. Nagano's intention to make the protagonist of "Five Star Story" Amaterasu is obvious: the protagonist is invincible.
The protagonist Amaterasu in the manga can be said to be omnipotent, not only has an infinite lifespan, but also can step into the river of time at will, the past and future for the protagonist is only a dimension that can be reached in an instant, it can be said that the protagonist Amaterasu Ishi is the highest dominant and strongest in all known anime.
Invincibility often brings loneliness, the Amaterasu Emperor has reached the peak of power and strength, there is no pursuit, in order to bring a little fun to life, he constantly plays the human world, dividing his personality into countless parts, sometimes she is the strongest magic teacher of the Juka Star Cluster, Merlins, sometimes she is the most famous armor of the Star Cluster, Retios Supp, most of the time he is considered the Emperor of the Kingdom of Tilta Belém of the AKD Alliance of the Eastern Solar System.
You can also see from the name that the protagonists are sometimes male, sometimes female, and sometimes neither male nor female, and cannot distinguish between specific genders. This extremely free, extremely marginal setting is very much in line with Nagano's uninhibited and dashing personality.
When the protagonist is the Emperor of the Empire, the main state power relations are as follows: the Faymore Empire in the northern solar system secretly supports the southern solar system country Hagda and instructs Hagda to invade neighboring Kolas, while the protagonist, in order to participate, sends troops to help Kolas against Hagda, in the long confrontation, Hagda grows into an empire, and Kolas becomes the strongest dynasty on the continent of Juno, and the growing Kolas dynasty continues to intervene in the war between the Baha toma Magic Empire and the United Republic of Hasha... There are many political and historical plots involved, and in reality, various political systems throughout the ages have been moved in by Nagano.
War is indispensable to the army and weapons, and in "Five Star Story", there are three kinds of characters who can control the war: MH and Knight Fatima, and I will introduce their functions one by one.
MH is a heavy weapon invented by the star cluster, up to several hundred meters high, can easily destroy a city, is the main force involved in inter-state war. Nagano's MH is very distinctive, it is neither like the thick and powerful mech in Gundam, nor like the spherical machine with steam pipes in Otomo Katsuyo's pen, but like a bone-like and delicate woman in reality, with an elegant temperament everywhere.
But the mecha designed by Nagano is certainly not so simple, in order to make the mech he designed a unique existence, Nagano Gou deliberately went to learn bionics, implanting insects and human body structures into the mech, and more excessively, Nagano also borrowed Darwin's evolutionary theory and personally simulated the process from feline to superhuman.
The MH that impressed me the most was the Black Knight Cut and the Broken Doll, the white molds of these two mechs that I have not finished coloring, and the exquisite structure makes me marvel
Knights are human beings selected by the star cluster to manipulate MH for transformation, and the human beings who have transformed into knights have broken the threshold of genes in a sense, and their appearance is still human, but the energy contained in their physical energy is like a flood beast, and knights can tear mechanical equipment only by their flesh, and they can split a vacuum at will.
The pure-blood knights of the original super-imperial era were the strongest group of human beings, and even if the time came to ten thousand years later, no one could surpass the original knights in strength. The Knights of Illusion under Emperor Amaterasu are the physical ceiling of the entire manga, and if it were not for the power of the Black Knights, the Knights of Illusion might have continued the myth of undefeated.
Although humans can be transformed into extremely capable knights, but there are still flaws in themselves, in order to further improve the strength of knights to manipulate MH, the star cluster has developed a kind of life body Fatima that is highly similar to humans, Fatima's appearance is mostly a very high-value girl, and has no less than the strength of knights and highly developed calculus ability, is the best partner to assist knights.
But what is more tragic is that Fatima implanted a restrictive directive when it was first manufactured: it is impossible to attack humans, so in human society, Fatima who has lost its master is often ravaged and changed hands.
MH, Knight, fatima is the main combat system in "Five Star Story", condensing Nagano's extraordinary creative ability and design talent, MH's models and handmade are still sought after by a large number of fans, and have a considerable price in the market.
But do you think that's the end of it?
Nagano's idea can never be speculated, after MH has become a classic, Nagano Gou suddenly announced that all the settings in "Five Star Story" were reorganized, and in the animation he personally supervised ,Hana No Shino girl),Nagano changed the MH to GTM, the structure of the mech was changed, and the knight also had a specific rank and medal.
This means that if you want to continue to chase five stars, you need to supplement the GTM settings on the basis of the MH era settings, and every time I see a huge set table and chronology at the beginning of a single line, I will have a headache, and until now I have not finished the entire setting of "Five Star Story". In the early years, some people said that Nagano's change of setting was due to copyright issues, but Nagano himself was still debunking rumors on Twitter, and he did not mention anything about changing the setting
Although Five Star Story does not have the complex logical framework and religious background of EVA, the complex setting and relationship context comparable to "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and the deep political and historical background have always been prohibitive.
Due to the long age, coupled with the continuous interruption in the middle, no Chinese group in China is willing to take over the hot potato of "Five Star Story", and now only Tieba and Douban still have some die-hard fans who are translating Chinese on their own.
Compared with the other three "Diablo", "Branded Warrior" and "Strong Breeding Armor" of the four major pits, the fans of "Five Star Story" can be said to be too difficult, I have not seen five-star comic fans for a long time, everyone has turned to the model field, I don't know if the headlines have persisted fans ~
Looking back now, Nagano's phrase "I will spend my life drawing this manga" is probably another meaning...