On January 15, Wei Xiaohan, who has served as the music director of "Qin Shi Mingyue" and "Fighting to Break the Sky", shared a promotional video on Weibo.
The work promoted this time is very nostalgic, it is called "New Go Boy", which is said to be a CCTV animation produced in 52 episodes.
When it comes to the anime works related to playing Go that everyone can think of, China and Japan have each launched one. The Japanese one is called "Chess Soul", and the Chinese one is "Go Boy", and the theme elements of the two are the same, the protagonists of the story are all young boys, and they all have a deeply intersecting competitor.
Not only that, these two are classics of quite good quality, and they are also the common childhood memories of many friends.
Therefore, the release of this news is another "grandfather and green return" moment for everyone!
01. Continuation of the previous game
At the beginning of the trailer, the first person to appear is the protagonist of the previous work, Jiang Liu'er, and then the camera screen moves, and the three characters are changed in turn, until they turn to the eyes of a handsome young man, and the trailer begins to enter the main topic.
The first two are the images of Jiang Liu'er in the first and second seasons of the "Go Boy" animation, and from the order of arrangement of this character change, it is obvious that the third young person who appears is Jiang Liu'er after he has grown up.
That is to say, this "New Go Boy" belongs to the third season of the series in terms of story positioning.
In the trailer, there are not only familiar old faces such as Fang Baihua, Kuroki, Chess Ghost King, and Xiao Yun, but also some new characters who seem to have never been seen before.
Because the announcement of the "third season" has been more than ten years since the first two films, the production level of the national comic has developed rapidly during this period, and the picture quality of the work has also been significantly improved compared with the previous work, and some of the characters who may have appeared in the previous game will look a little fresh, perhaps only until the follow-up information is revealed.
It is worth mentioning that the story of the previous work is set in the era of the Wukou in the coastal areas of Jiangnan at the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the age of Jiang Liu'er in the first part was 13 years old, and in the third part of his adulthood, there was a flourishing scene of the night scenery of Wanxiang and the display of bright lanterns, which seemed to reveal that the Wu rebellion had been quelled, and the Ming Dynasty had entered the final prosperous period--- the background of the era of the first year of the Wanli Calendar.
In addition, the emperor who appears in the trailer is still young, and according to historical data, it is most likely that this person is Zhu Yijun, the mingshen emperor who ascended the throne at the age of ten, which can be more certain that the story background of the third season is during the Ming Dynasty.
Because it is close to the end of the dynasty, some of the plots in the trailer also reveal an undercurrent of surging atmosphere, which seems to reveal the hidden dangers behind the demise of the Ming Dynasty, and of course, it may only be some of the strong opponents that the protagonist will meet in the story.
Finally, there is also an equally noteworthy point of content in the trailer, that is, the relationship between Jiang Liu'er and Fang Baihua seems to have reached the time of cultivation.
And we who happened to have watched animation in front of the TV set have basically grown up to be about the same age as them, and looking at "New Go Boy" in this way is obviously the production team to give the friends here a dream, the dream that everyone hopes to see called "Happy Ending".
At present, the finalization time of the animation has not yet been known, but there is news that Sun Xiaosong, an animation screenwriter who was in charge of "Go Boy", published two dynamics as early as this year's New Year's Day Weibo, one is a blessing to fans and new works, and the other is to reveal that the animation has been sent to the trial, hoping that CCTV can announce the broadcast time as soon as possible.
With the spread of related topics on the Internet, netizens' attention to "Go Boy" began to rise, and some media also took this opportunity to revisit the classics for you, and suddenly the theme song seemed to ring in everyone's ears again---
"Go teenager ~ through hardships, taste the suffering of the world ~ stay up all night, Go teenager ~ determined to move forward ..."
Speaking of "Go Boy", because it is the same as "Chess Soul" is an anime work with "Go" as the core element, and it is also the two related masterpieces (or only the two of them) that we are most familiar with, so in the past, some friends often compared these two works.
But at that time, there was also another voice circulating on the Internet, that is, the rumor that "Go Boy" copied "Chess Soul", and it is said that there was an article on the Internet at that time specifically to criticize "Go Boy".
Looking back at this article now, it can be seen more or less that this author is actually just forcibly holding a step on one, and has not understood the difference between the two works at all, but in that era when everyone was not so knowledgeable, such an article did make many people believe it.
This also led to the fact that "Go Boy" was not very good in the early online wind review, and it was once questioned by everyone.
However, during that time, some people on the Internet were also clarifying the misunderstanding, trying to tell everyone the difference between the two, and reminding everyone not to step on one.
At the time when the news of "New Go Boy" was first revealed, there were many self-media on the Internet that talked about the controversy again.
Now that the new work trailer has been released, I would like to take this opportunity to analyze the differences between the two works.
In fact, if you have carefully studied and compared the differences between "Chess Soul" and "Go Boy", you will find that their differences are actually very large, except for the similarities I talked about at the beginning, other places are completely different--- don't misunderstand this 17-year-old national comic masterpiece.
02. It seems to be "Go", but it is actually "wuxia"
Let's talk about "Chess Soul", which tells the story of the protagonist Hikaru Jindo, who inadvertently met the soul of "Fujiwara Sakai" from the Heian period, and after that, he began a life experience related to Go.
From the beginning of the indifference to Go, to the slow development of interest, in the constant competition with competitors began to grow, until determined to surpass the other side, with professional chess players as the goal of life.
The plot of "Go Boy" is about the protagonist Jiang Liu'er, who is gifted in chess, because he wants to find out the truth behind the murder of his father, so he embarks on the growth path of learning to play chess and becoming a "chess saint", in this ups and downs of the journey, he continues to improve his chess skills, and also meets many important people and things.
Jiang Liu'er's father, Jiang Lingyun, was a member of the imperial court, and in order to find out the Tongwu incident of the anti-Wu hero Demon Sword King, he was unfortunately assassinated, thus changing Jiang Liu'er's life path.
Just from the motivation behind it, there is a big difference between the two works, which is a difference in the story setting arrangement between the two.
Then there is the progression of the story, "Chess Soul" depicts the mental journey of the scripted characters, while "Go Boy" depicts more than this, one of the obvious differences is that--- the growth of the protagonist of the former is accompanied by his love and in-depth understanding of Go, which in turn promotes the development of the plot; the growth of the protagonist of the latter is not only in The aspect of Go, but also involves the overall environmental changes in which he is in.
The background of the story of "Go Boy" mentions that it was a chaotic period of foreign invasion, and this social environment was full of darkness of human nature.
For example, in the plot of the third episode, the reason why Jiang Liu'er and the casino owner Hua Mian Lang play chess is that Hua Mian Lang not only wants to seize all the family property of Old Master Hong by gambling chess, but also forces Old Master Hong to marry his daughter Miss Hong to him, so Jiang Liu'er, who wants to be a hero, signs an agreement with the other party and defeats Hua Mian Lang with a strange move at the last moment.
Although Jiang Liu'er won the battle, fate chose to use his father's murder to deal a heavy blow to the teenager who intended to make a splash, turning him into an orphan.
And when Jiang Liu'er officially embarked on the road of learning Go, he will continue to face more setbacks in life from society.
Unlike Jinto Hikaru, who has been studying under Fujiwara Saki, Jiang Liu'er has studied with teachers everywhere, among which there are some masters who have no conscience, such as the first master he met, Jin Weiyuan, although he has the name of "fast axe hand" in the Go world, but this person is not right in his heart, using Jiang Liu'er as a tool to gamble and make a fortune, and also teaches him to use the move of playing slow chess to make the old national player Liu Nanru.
But it was also this game of competition, Liu Nanru used his life to teach Jiang Liu'er the most important lesson in his life--- act in a fair and upright manner.
In contrast, it was Jin Weiyuan's eldest disciple Lei Lingyun, who had a sinister and cunning personality, bent on winning the title of "Chess Saint", but refused to follow the right path.
In the national hand contest, he used yin moves many times to defeat opponents (poisoning Jiang Liu'er to make him faint), and even colluded with the leaders of the Wokou to try to mutilate other Go masters.
Similar persecution by social darkness is not only reflected in Jiang Liu'er, but also in the experience of other supporting characters, like Jiang Liu'er's mentor --- genius chess Saint Lin Xincheng was once jealous of others, hit by Fang Sheng's treacherous scheme and the five major players at the same time to play chess and vomit blood, almost lost his life, had to hide his name, became a "crazy beggar" on the rivers and lakes.
But the more in this dark social environment, the more Jiang Liu'er, who was guided by many life mentors, was constantly tempered in it, grew up in a bumpy experience, and finally held the honor of Chinese Go in the competition with the Japanese genius Kuroki, and at the same time felt sorry for each other and truly became a Great Ming Guoju.
Judging from the above character experiences, the animation reveals the spiritual core of the feelings of home and country behind the Go competition on the side.
The talented protagonist embarked on the road of learning to become stronger because of his life, and finally went through twists and turns, becoming a big hero who saved the country in times of crisis, and if you look closely, the routine of this animation is actually the same as the routine of the martial arts novel, except that the protagonist learns not martial arts but chess.
Just as the so-called "hero is great, for the country and the people", the protagonist's love for Go is not limited to Go itself, but also the sense of honor as a national hand, and behind this sense of honor comes from the love for the country and the nation.
In addition, the friendship between Jiang Liu'er and Kuroki can also be regarded as a borderless pursuit and exchange of skills, and to a certain extent, it also takes care of the Chinese philosophical idea of "the unity of the world", especially in the background of the Wokou rebellion, Kuroki, who is also japanese, out of appreciation for Jiang Liu'er, and his attitude of safeguarding the fairness and justice of the game can be seen.
From the perspective of animation, although the story of "Go Boy" started from Go, it is not limited to Go itself, it is the pattern behind the animation that can make it one of the most impressive domestic competitive animations.
03. Finally
Here we need to add a little more, in fact, we may not know, the professionalism of the chess score of "Go Boy" is actually not rigorous, and the talented chess player "Big Devil" Ke Jie in the mainland has criticized before that the animation is not professional in terms of Go moves.
It's just that at that time, everyone was a layman, so they couldn't see the problem, and at this point, "Chess Soul" was professional.
Although it was criticized as unprofessional, on the whole, "Go Boy" is still flawed, and it is already full of its unique national comic charm from the perspective of story intention and ideological core, which is worthy of recognition in this regard.
As for whether this "New Go Boy" can satisfy everyone, it depends on whether the production team can grasp the essence of the story itself again.