Sir is known to be a die-hard Hong Kong film fan.
Not only because Sir, as a Cantonese, witnessed its golden age up close.
The most attractive thing is the extremely wild B-grade fun in Hong Kong films.
"It's all overheated, it's all madness."
"Infernal Affairs 2" was released in 2003, and the scale was significantly narrowed.
But the first line of the movie goes like this:
My brother and I patrolled Hanoi Road
We received a notification that something had happened in the New World, and we rushed to it
When I arrived at the scene, I saw dozens of people wielding knives and sticks in the weapon fight
A dozen had fallen to the ground
There was a lot of blood on the ground
I also saw a severed hand holding a knife on the ground
My brother told me to draw my gun
I am Xinding, and my brother tells me to do whatever I want
I haven't had time to open the gun bag yet
Master has fallen in front of me
I saw a boy who took an iron pipe and inserted it into his brother's stomach
Blood kept flowing out of the iron tube
My head went blank
I only knew that six bullets were all hit on the boy at once
No picture.
The camera only shows Huang Qiusheng smoking a cigarette to reminisce.
But word by word, stained with blood.
It is true that the current Hong Kong films have gradually lost this "fire".
But in a recent niche work, Sir regained a sense of déjà vu.
The background is not unexpected.
From a people known for their "perversion" —
"Alien Beasts and Magic Capitals"
Drogedro
Douban 9.3 points, only 5k people evaluated.
It belongs to the category of "unpopular films".
But in Japan, there is no doubt a big hit.
In the Netflix Japan composite list, which is all watched by paying subscribers, it rushed to No.1.
Produced by Mappa.
Founded in 2011, it has been promoted to one of the best emerging animation companies in Japan today.
Style sword goes sideways.
Especially this "Strange Beast Demon Capital".
Netizens praised it, and the words were a little weird -
Don't blame them.
"Alien Beasts and Magic Capital" is an extreme work that tests the level of heavy taste.
Sir Tips:
Minors, or weekdays like literature and art small fresh, dress love abstinence, eat hot pot points clear soup pot poison rice ... Please think twice before reading.
Aren't you?
congratulations.
The following, absolutely – sour and spicy, perverted and spicy.
The painting style is extremely hardcore.
Messy, decadent, chaotic.
Dark background city, classic wasteland aesthetic.
One second reminds Sir of classic animations such as Akira of the last century.
△ Top: "Akira"; bottom picture :"Strange Beast Demon Capital"
Action design, no scruples.
Plasma, broken arms, waist chops...
Refreshing and clean, flowing clouds and flowing water.
The smell of cult splashing all over the screen is called quentin in the animation world.
△ Sir's screenshot has been manually filtered
The character design reveals a strange sense of doom from the details.
finger.
There is no ring, but a rough stitching thread as an "accessory".
Chest.
No sexy bikinis, but bandaged sports lingerie.
Face.
No delicate human faces.
There are only a variety of masks wrapped in it.
The setting, the same strange power chaos.
An alien world where humans and magicians coexist.
The two are hostile.
The world is clearly distinguished between dignity and inferiority——
Magicians create "doors" and use "doors" to come to the human world and use humans as experiments in practicing magic.
The human world is the "cave" at the bottom.
The protagonist, Cayman, is a lizard-headed man.
The main attack method is hand-to-hand combat, and the force value is exploded.
Years ago, he was enchanted by a magician, transformed into the ghost of this humanoid lizard, and lost his memory.
In order to regain his true appearance and memories, Cayman and his partner Second Order Hall (a very thoughtful girl) embark on a journey to find a magician.
Cayman has two attributes that can be called the protagonist's aura -
1. Magic Resistance.
That is, all magic is ineffective against him.
This makes him a small strong who can't die.
2. There is a man in cayman's head.
This man was once his comrade-in-arms and is now hanging.
Cayman opened his mouth to swallow the magician's head, leaving the man in the head to judge who killed him.
That's right.
It's that even the protagonist is so perverted and divided.
So, the early stages of the story seem simple.
Trends in Japanese Burning Animation:
The male and female protagonists, carrying their own resentment and confusion, kill the enemy all the way through the barrier and redeem themselves.
But gradually, Sir discovered the doubts.
There is an important thread in the story:
fumes.
It is a substance that distinguishes magicians from humans.
Magicians are born to cast spells by releasing smoke.
Release channels, either fingers, or throats.
But there are also chains of contempt within the magician.
A small number of magicians, for various reasons, could not release smoke, and they gathered to form the organization "Cross Eye".
Another group, led by a man called Smoke, called himself the "Cleaners" to clean up the "Cross-Eyed" members who could not release smoke.
In short, it is the infighting between magicians.
but.
Wait, cross-eyed.
Cayman and the man in his head, isn't it the eyes that draw crosses on them?
Clues composed of mystery triggered -
Is the protagonist Cayman a man or a magician?
If he was a magician, who had cast spells on him?
What conspiracy would be involved in his shielded memories?
In the early stages of the episode, in addition to the main line of suspense.
The biggest attraction is undoubtedly all kinds of imaginative magic.
There is a healing system -
Help people heal and restore their bodies, like "nursing mothers";
There are destructive systems.
Not the kind of brute force you think.
They're evil, but they're very... skin.
For example, Mr. Smoke, a big man in the magician's world, his magic is to turn people into mushrooms.
(Vomiting, scared Sir put down the mushroom soup in the bowl... ）
An absurd magical world that derives a unique comedic color.
The level of magic, often the strength of the disparity.
Novice rookie who wants to turn people into bugs.
outcome......
It has changed into a semi-finished product, which can be said to be more frightening.
High-level players, unloading eight pieces in one second.
Sounds like no big deal?
hehe.
Just after the demonstration, everyone present was frightened.
His essence is not a big unloading of eight pieces.
It's --
After unloading eight pieces, the person is still alive...
These ridiculous designs certainly make the audience shine.
But in Sir's look —
It is more of a painless dissection of "violence" itself.
Just like the B-grade films that have been in the film genre for a long time, they also have their own significance.
Naked blood, violence, and sex are vulgar gimmicks that stimulate the senses.
But after the shock.
Instead, it stimulates a calm reflection on primitive desires when we are in a state of absolute nothingness.
Like "Strange Beasts and Magic Capital".
It does not present all kinds of meaningless hunting brain holes in one piece.
Violence in this world is different in color.
At first, red.
Pulling eyeballs, cutting off heads, breaking hands and feet... It's all everyday.
But it's advanced in --
Blood, a little oozing out.
Sir said two shots.
Mr. Heart's first appearance as a magician.
I saw no one, only a hammer dripping with blood.
Why not use magic?
For humans who can't do magic, he doesn't care to kill people with magic at all.
The use of the most primitive and handy weapon shows the fierce arrogance of its people.
And also.
Cayman disposes of a bag of garbage at a body treatment plant.
Suddenly, this "garbage" began to speak.
It turned out that all the people who had been discarded after the magician cast the spell here were dealt with.
What monster did he turn into by the magician?
I don't know.
This man never showed up, only revealed in the lines -
He wanted himself to die quickly.
Describing bloody does not necessarily mean shooting and slashing people.
It can also be left blank enough, as you can imagine, as bloody as you think.
When you unveil the red veil.
"The Beast" shows the second layer of pigment of violence -
black.
In order to find the truth about his being replaced, Cayman and the Second Order Hall infiltrate the world of magicians.
Ooh.
The air here is different from the rest of the world.
Plenty of sunshine and shine.
Surrounded by ornate buildings, there are magicians flying in the sky and decent inhabitants on the ground.
Good years?
I'm afraid not.
Inside the magician, the class is strict.
Because of his strong mana and high social status, Mr. Yan is respected by the audience.
But those weak magicians can only rely on drugs to maintain magic for a short period of time, at the bottom of the chain of contempt.
Doomed to the weak.
Ahead......
High-can-pre-police.
What about the cave world?
Darker.
Twisted by magic, it is perennially smoky.
In order to restore normal order, humans once set up "town associations" to fight back and hunt down magicians.
But the initial self-defense gradually evolved into an extreme "Great Purge" movement.
The party is fighting the same, and human nature is out of control.
There are also people who, in order to become magicians, do whatever it takes.
By killing fellow citizens, collecting black gems from the victims' bodies.
Ironically.
These black gems do not have any "mana".
At this point, violence shows its deepest undertone —
chaos.
Whether it is the plot or the character design, it is not a simple binary opposition.
The name "Drogedro" is a name.
Literally translated as "chaos".
Magicians use humans as test objects for the evil party; human beings are persecuted without magic, for the innocent party.
But is evil really evil, innocent really innocent?
Before answering this question, Sir will revisit the setting of The Strange Beasts for you.
What kind of "magic capital" is this?
In the collapsed world of Lilly, humanity and civilization cease to exist.
Order and rules are dying out.
What's left.
- Undisturbed, unrestrained desire.
namely.
There is no definition of "good guy" or "bad guy" here.
Only "people" who are driven by instinct to choose different paths.
Even the protagonist.
In order to find his true identity, Cayman hunts down the magician, knowing that the other party is not the person he is looking for, what does he do?
Kill it directly.
Even rip off the face raw.
That's why Sir chose Amway Beast today.
As a Japanese new fan.
It is not mainstream, and it can be expected to become a hit, and even many people can't see it.
Like all works with the "b-rated" label —
Edge, extreme, overheated.
But it is this attitude that does not care about decency, but makes people look directly at the gully of desire and the dark side of human nature, and infects you with viral excitement.
It's a kind of self-destructive combustion.
It never stands in the Holy Light to preach to you. It is only responsible for gritting its teeth in the dark, and biting out tears, biting blood until you see it.
Simply put -
Use ugliness to force out the truth.
Use chaos to force out sobriety.
As Sir mentioned at the beginning of the article.
In fact, there is still the second half.
It's a conversation between the cop and the gangsters, but you don't feel their opposition at all.
Because they are in such a chaotic world.
With the same sobriety —
Two years ago, I met the boy again
Dressed in a good outfit, drinking with a group of people
This gang was Ni Kun's men
Murder set fire to gold belts, repair bridges and roads without corpses
The look of that brother was already very vague
But I regret that the six shots didn't hit the boy in the head
The world should not be like this
Being human shouldn't be like that, Chen
The picture in this article comes from the network