When it comes to the phenomenon-level domestic animation Of the Five Elements of The Smokies in August, compared to what many people want to say about the visually related characteristics such as "blowing up the fight" and "Chinese style and beautiful explosion", in the view of the little eel, the success of the Five Elements of the Misty Mountains, the excellent production level is certainly a factor, but it is also inseparable from the interesting plot setting. As far as the current three episodes are concerned, the Five Elements of The Misty Mountains have laid a very good foundation in character portrayal and plot setting, and then we will analyze the plot of the Five Elements of the Misty Mountains.
The most surprising thing about the five elements of the Misty Mountain in terms of plot is that in the prologue, it abandons the "dualistic" position of black and white, and directly unfolds the story with the character setting of "all the evil people", which is a considerable breakthrough for domestic animation. Of course, the use of "all evil people" to describe the position of the characters is somewhat exaggerated, and to be precise, what the characters in the story do is not "evil", but "selfish". Including the male protagonist, The Man, the villagers of Dishan Village, and the Demon Realm, the starting point of all the characters' actions is the word "selfish".
The first character in the story to "collapse the human set" is the villagers of dishan village. In episode 1, the audience sees the village of Dishan, if not a paradise, it is definitely a happy town, and such a village and town being invaded by "evil forces" is also an extremely common cliché, but the story of the Five Elements of the Misty Mountains does not fall into the trap, because the appearance of the "land of peace" in Dishan Village is based on "evil", and the slaughter of the target of the peacock here is completely retribution, and everyone in the village is not innocent.
The reason why Dishan Village can become a "happy town" is entirely based on the specialty "Juxian Pill" that "cures all diseases" here, and the raw material of Juxian Pill is the scale of The Kirin. In order to ensure the output of the Juxian Pill, Dishan Village imprisoned the young Qilin and continued to pull scales from him to refine the medicine, torturing the young Qilin to death, completely losing the vitality that a creature should have, and it was precisely because they imprisoned the Young Qilin who was the target of the Demon Realm and the Five Elements, that they caused trouble and attracted the slaughter of the beast peacock.
After learning the truth of the "Young Qilin Incident", many viewers scolded the villagers and animals like the male protagonist, and reprimanded the villagers for their deserved crimes, but if they look at it from the perspective of the parties, it seems that the actions of the villagers are not difficult to understand. According to the village chief Bai Yi. The village was once plagued by a plague that nearly wiped out the village, and it was at this time that the young qilin appeared and inadvertently saved the villagers with scales. After the villagers who have hovered in the line of life and death are saved, it is very normal to have a stronger fear and rejection of death, and it is not surprising that they cannot resist the temptation in the face of the "panacea" young unicorn.
The people of Dishan Village are cruel and selfish, but these are not beyond the scope of "human nature". In the eyes of the villagers who know the truth, the young qilin who is imprisoned and abused is a demon, and their series of cruel acts have not broken through the bottom line of human morality, and in exchange for the health and longevity of the whole village, it has indeed made the village a happy hometown, just like the tragic experience of countless guinea pigs in exchange for the progress of modern medicine. The villagers are selfish, but they have also been punished, but it is not necessary to scold them like a smelling person, because he himself is not "clean".
In fact, the "sin" that Wenren Yihang was carrying was much heavier than that of the villagers, because he was the culprit of the demon world's re-wreaking havoc on the human world, and the true source of all the bloody storms that were about to begin. Through the official story background and the opening content of Episode 1, it can be learned that the two realms of demons and people have been at peace for hundreds of years since the establishment of the boundary, until wenren Yihang opened the giant Aegis that sealed the demon beasts without authorization, causing the young unicorn with powerful divine power to disappear, and the balance between the two realms was broken, and led to the re-emergence of the demon world as a disaster for the human world. So why did Wenren Yihang open the Giant Que Aegis? In order to take the blood of the unicorn to save the mother.
Yes, there was no difference between what Wenren Yihang wanted to do and what the villagers of Dishan had done to the young Qilin in the past, but the impact of the two was very different. The villagers of Dishan were just a group of ordinary people, who themselves stabbed Lou Zi and were punished by themselves, without affecting others, while the smell of people hanging as a fire in the misty mountains, he knowingly committed a crime of not only dereliction of duty in opening the seal, but also caused all the people in the world to be implicated in it, so that innocent people paid for his selfishness. Compared with the smelling people hanging, the "sin" of the villagers of dishan is not worth mentioning at all, and there is even no need to take it seriously, so every time Xiao Eel re-watches the animation and hears Wenren yi hanging and scolding the villagers of dishan as "beast", he will feel a strong irony.
I said a lot about the sins of smelling people hanging, but from the perspective of the person concerned, there is nothing wrong with the selfishness of smelling people hanging, because he is first a person, and then he is the misty mountain fire line that guards the seal. A person with a sound personality will not watch his mother seriously ill and unhealed, and what he has done to save his mother is selfish, but it is not incomprehensible, just as the village of Dishan endlessly extracts the value of the young unicorn. From the same perspective, we will also find that the demon world is not an "absolutely evil" villain, and what they do is only for better survival.
The indictment of the beasts in episode 3 vividly illustrates the situation of the demon beasts, just because they are demons, they are imprisoned in the Illusory Finger Junction, and those who are born human beings can accept the grace of the Emperor Tianhou Earth, even if they are as selfish and fierce as the demons. In fact, the demon world in the story is actually a mirror of people, and the three leaders of the demon world are called greed, anger, and delusion, and the name comes from the Buddhist "three poisons", "greed" is greed, "anger" is hatred, and "delusion" is unclear.
In the story of the Five Elements of the Misty Mountains, whether it is a person, a demon, or a five-actor, they all carry the three poisons of "greed and anger". Needless to say, among the people and the five exercisers, the "Three Uncles of The Earth Meal", whose bodies were demonized because of taking an excessive amount of poly elixir, undoubtedly represented "greed"; Yu Qing, who had a tendency to blacken because of the death of his younger brother Yu Dan, seemed to represent "anger"; and Wen Ren Yi, who ignored his own responsibilities and broke the balance between the two worlds because of his own selfish desires, represented "delusion". It is these imperfect characters that make this "all evil guys" story very exciting.
Conclusion: The above is the plot and character analysis of the Five Elements of the Misty Mountains, in the view of Xiao Eel, the Five Elements of the Misty Mountains are the stories of selfish people, and the reason why Wenren Yihang is the male protagonist is because he is the "great sinner" in the story, looking for the young unicorn and helping the two worlds to restore balance is his process of atonement, so "redemption" should be the core content of the next main line plot, looking forward to the story of the new chapter.