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On November 20, 2021, the "Bilibili National Animation Conference" was officially held, and in the year after year of the rise of The National Comics, this conference has brought more expectations to many audiences.
The works announced at this conference include the "Three-Body" animation, which was huge in the early stages of production; the second season of "Time Agent", which was launched with countless praises by fans with its extremely high quality; and the third season of "Immortal King", which was still 500 million hits after being caught in the storm of public opinion.
But after this conference, the flowing wind bypassed these three highly anticipated works and hovered around a "little-known" comic adaptation animation, which was more than seven years after the end of "Stealing Stars september day".
"Stealing The Star September Day" is a comic work that ended as early as 2014, and it has been a full 7 years since the animation decision that has just been released; 7 years of serialization plus 7 years, in a total of 14 years, "Stealing The Star September Day" rarely appears in the public eye, it, like most early domestic comics, with the disappearance of the print media has become the nostalgic party's memory; after the production decision and publicity PV released at the press conference, this work has enjoyed an unprecedented spotlight.
However, under the lights, the audience surrounding him did not send the blessing of "late but arriving" like the fans of most works, and under this thin animation PV, it was full of fans who were still unforgettable after 7 years of precipitation.
They love "Stealing the Star September Day", but they don't like "Stealing the Star September Day".
Serialized in the manga magazine Zhiyin Comics, "Stealing Stars in September Day" is a domestic comic book co-created by Chinese cartoonists Zhou Hongbin and Fan Xiaosong (Komatsu), the story revolves around the "Ancient Syring of the Thousand Years" and the superpower "Seventh Sense", telling the story of the great thief September after stealing the gems guarded by the protagonist Liu Xing (the family security company), which leads to the adventure stories of many protagonists entangled with various mysterious organizations such as "Black Moon Iron Horse" and "VV Academy".
As of 2013, the unfinished "Stealing Stars September Day" has become the sales champion of Chinese comics with 50 million sales after excluding a variety of works; after the end, it has developed a number of fan fiction collections such as "Stealing Stars", as well as various online fan fiction and linkage projects, all of which are due to the plot and impressive characters that can be unfolded freely in "Stealing Stars September Days".
As an adventure animation, the combat power setting of "Stealing The Star September Day" is extremely simple, and the superpowers used by the characters are synonymous with the more grounded "sixth sense", "seventh sense", and "eighth sense"; without the thriving "hierarchy", more ink can be used to expand those mysterious settings at the beginning of the plot, which makes the stealing star comic attract many passers-by in the early stage of the series; plus on the "Zhiyin Comics" at that time, there were almost no original comics with similar themes to steal the stars. This makes the stealing star appear to be a bit dominant in Zhiyin Comics.
In addition to the attractive development, stealing stars boldly applied settings such as "women's clothing" at the beginning of the series in 2007, placing the two protagonists with distinct images in the hearts of the audience for the first time; but as the plot gradually unfolded, stealing stars gradually changed the initial creative thinking, and gradually evolved the story from the adventure story that was constantly promoted around the male protagonist Ryu Xing and the heroine September to a group portrait drama around the background story "Gu Xilan".
It is actually very far-fetched to say that it is a group portrait drama, because most of the plot is promoted by the heroine September, but the author has poured too much ink on the role that should be a supporting role, which makes the plot of the stealing star September Day more complicated because of the change of the main characters; on the other hand, the increase in the number of supporting roles makes the role of the stealing star September Day deeply rooted in the hearts of the people while making it appear to be extremely inked in advancing the plot.
How good comics will encounter the pain of low popularity in the process of a long period of serialization, the achievements of stealing stars come from the fact that it has a unique excellent design and excellent character shaping at that time, if the plot is normally advanced, then the comics that steal stars will not be able to show the unique charm of the characters in the flat period, so it is bound to lose some popularity, but in the years of stealing stars, it will always be the leader in the "popularity survey" of "Zhiyin Comics". This is thanks to the previously unpopular supporting character story that dilutes the tightness of the plot.
The most eye-catching of these supporting character stories is from the supporting role to the two male protagonists who formed a double male protagonist with Ryu Xing and September in childhood, "October"; October relied on the most fashionable white hair setting when it first appeared, and relied on the identity of the green plum bamboo horse to play all the emotional cards, under the fan's clear CP intention, the role of October gained a very high popularity, and the high popularity directly affected the gradual increase in the number of scenes in October. He became the second male protagonist who was on a par with the legitimate male protagonist Liu Xing on the surface.
In this case, the supporting role story can no longer be called the supporting role story, it must be called a full of emotional memory killing; how to maintain the heat in the memory killing? Then add a little sweet emotional interaction for CP fans to use. The exact same technique can be applied to any other CP in the same group, the best example of which is "March" & "April" that turns over and over and over and on the dead Su Sheng to earn tears.
The basis of stealing stars is its own interesting and richly unfolded setting and flesh-and-blood character modeling, although many of the character buildings are expressed through memory killing, but this does not prevent the stealing of stars from maintaining a sustained high popularity, but this routine that makes fans addicted is completely inappropriate on the male protagonist Ryu Xing.
If you use the perspective of love animation to look at the party struggle of the CP party in the stealing star September Tianzhong, it is the most typical Ome and the sky falling; the author makes good use of the character's backstory to create a bond between the characters in the void, and satisfies the CP fans who should be admired by setting up rich memories to kill, and the setting of October Aomei perfectly meets the author's creative ideas;
But on the other hand, look at the male protagonist Ryu Xing, who debuted on the scene, as a celestial character, Ryu Xing did not have a wonderful encounter with the heroine September when they met, and there was no sense of mystery that should belong to the sky; it is difficult to create a plot that can satisfy the CP party through memories; and the slow and scattered main plot cannot give the male protagonist Ryu Xing the attention and growth time he deserves; in this case, Ryu Xing seems dispensable. Only in key occasions as a prop to stand up to brush the sense of presence that the character should have.
As the serial time lengthens, the story of stealing stars is stacked thicker and thicker page by page, and the roles without restraints can rely on the prerequisites of the order of appearance to gain favor, and this one who relies on the order of appearance is the male protagonist Se Liuxing, who is appointed by stealing stars in September; still familiar with the plot, in order to earn the applause of CP fans, let liu xing, who has more than 100 words of the main story, recall the initial and not beautiful encounter through the appearance of the heroine dressed as a maid, and forcibly promote the plot; the series has been continuous for 6 years. The two protagonists can still only use the routine plot to hard make up the illusory shackles, and the most rigid pictures are placed in the most important reunion, which inevitably makes the audience feel ridiculous and extremely embarrassed.
Looking back at the stealing of the star September Day now, it is difficult to imagine that the male protagonist of the Ryūsing disappeared for two years and more than a hundred words in the series, missing a full quarter of the episodes of the stealing star September Day.
The intricate CP party struggle gives hope to the plot of boiling water, so that the quality of the gradual decline of the star stealing September Day still maintains the identity of the brother of the Zhiyin comic book, but it is also the CP party struggle that makes the story of stealing the star September Day that gradually begins to break has no future; at the end of the main line of the story of salvation, all the dust has settled, and the author of the stealing star September Day is faced with how to end this period of breaking for several years, because of the cp powder's response and gradually lost the final hero's emotional line like a dog's tail grass fluttering with the wind.
There are many choices in the face, the choice of male protagonist Liu Xing should start from the title, choose the male number two in October not waste 7 years of running, do not choose the open exit can also leave a space for CP fans to enjoy, the choice is in the hands of the heroine and the author;
Faced with a similar key choice, Kishimoto gave Naruto a copy of Hatta's company, and Kubo brought a copy of Ogihime's perseverance to Ichigo. Looking at the determined predecessors, the stealing star September Day resolutely decided, it chose to give the two male protagonists a mallet, wishing them to return to their old age and come back from a new life.
Do you want to get it? I can't think of it.
Before the question of party struggle, how to choose is no problem, and how to choose is to become difficult to reconcile;
But it can't be such an ending;
This is a great disappointment, as if the end of the reader who has been buying manga for 7 years as a monkey has also become the heart disease of all fans.
The overthrow of the ending also made the reputation of stealing the star September Day in the 7 years of the end of the continuous reversal, painting skills deformity, special effects painting, composition plagiarism, accusation of a finished work of the entry point there are many, but in the face of this work that has been liked and chased, only "regret" can be appropriately used to describe the stealing star September day.
Until this time, fans who have been chasing for several years suddenly found that their reason for liking to steal stars in September Day has long ceased to be because of those characters who stand in their hearts, they have long ceased to look forward to the upcoming plot, and they have been obsessed with a work for many years, just painful for their own perseverance for many years, and sad for many years to and from the newsstand in front of the wind and rain.
Time has passed 7 years, stealing stars September Day this work accompanies junior high school students into college, accompanied by high school students into society, many fans forget the storyline, only remember this regrettable ending; under the animated PV, in the face of regrets, these fans who once may have been fanatical, perhaps rational, can only faintly say to this "childhood classic": "Can you modify the ending?"
They also love stealing the star September Day, they love the wonderful setting of Hatsumi, and they love the flesh and blood characters, but they don't like to steal the star September Day anymore.