Many years ago, "The Boy of Shushan" once claimed to be anime, which surprised readers.
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The novel version was called "The Adolescence of the Swordsman of Shushan Mountain" before it was published in the magazine "Legends of the Ancient and Modern", when its author had not yet changed his name to Xia Sheng, but called Idle Silver Hook.
As a popular work on the Internet, it has successfully taken magazines and monographs as its own carrier, and its influence has become more and more extensive.
Perhaps inflated by the successes of the early stages, animation looks just around the corner.
But after the trailer of "The Boy of Shushan" landed in Cannes, how come there was no news in these years?
1. Copyright issues
Friends who have chased "The Boy of Shushan" have seen the ending, presumably they have seen Xia Sheng's preview of the sequel.
She said: If "The Boy of Shushan Mountain" is a young man's fresh clothes and angry horse, then the sequel is the dark jianghu of adults.
Wait, wait, the name of the sequel changed from "Four Kingdoms" to "Twelve Kingdoms", but never waited for the day it was born.
Xia Sheng later replied to the eagerly awaited reader through another channel: the specific person she had signed the contract with had left, the copyright had been taken away by him, and the sequel would be difficult to publish even if it was created.
The sequel to the novel version cannot be released because of the copyright, and the copyright of the anime version is likely to have a problem.
Moreover, from the information related to the anime trailer, it can be seen that the people in front of them are more for love.
Then a few minutes of fragments consume a lot of manpower, material and financial resources.
Anime is originally a very expensive industry, remember that the trailer was very difficult, in order to make a name for itself in Cannes, attract funds to burn, and the follow-up anime was done.
But if the copyright is not clear at the beginning, who dares to throw money down to do this anime?
2, the attraction of the trailer is not enough
If you are looking at the comic illustrations serialized in "Legends of The Ancient And Ancients", you must have great expectations for the appearance of the five swords in the chaotic world.
The manga one-shot has fine-tuned the appearance of the Five Swords of chaos, but it is still within the range of expectations.
Let's bring our eyes back to the anime trailer: What the hell is this?
Seriously, if you don't know the whole plot in advance, you really can't see what this is all about.
The plot of the anime trailer is actually more general, the twist is also relatively blunt, and it does not make a particularly attractive effect.
The most troublesome thing is that in addition to the background, this trailer does not fully grasp the characteristics of the characters to dig in the character modeling, but makes people unconscious action movie mode.
The background of the novel version of "The Boy of Shushan" is taken from the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, and it is reasonable to say that the anime version should be closer to this direction, right?
Sorry, no.
To be honest, I'm curious what the people who did this anime trailer really think, and there's a problem with the whole script — and of course it could be because they're inexperienced.
If such a trailer can attract reliable sponsors, it is strange.
Logically, this kind of ancient style anime should highlight the ancient style elements, but the sense of ancient style in this trailer is not strong.
In addition, this trailer does not tell the story well, just like the opening part of Tang Mi crossed over, this small fragment if there is no original as a basic knowledge, who can understand what it means?
Now, hope is lit up again and again, but the cold water of reality will always come on time.
After so many years, there are fewer and fewer old readers who look forward to the animation of "The Boy of Shushan", coupled with Xia Sheng's busy family, the sequel has not been born for a long time, and the sense of existence of this work is getting smaller and smaller.
At that time, the national comic industry was not as prosperous as Japanese comics, and the level of practitioners was much different, and it was difficult to make works like Japanese comics.
For love to generate electricity, after all, there is no ability to turn the tide, once the expectation of "The Youth of Shushan Mountain", after all, is wrongly paid.
When you were young, did you also look forward to opening a new chapter in "The Youth of Shushan"?