Everyone good evening ah ~ I think you are all on the winter vacation, what are you busy doing during the winter vacation?
Recently, Xiao Luo's circle of friends, Weibo, space, have been brushed by a drama called "Beginning", and some netizens who have watched "Beginning" have also had serious sequelae, can't hear Canon, can't see the pressure cooker, and can't even take the bus.
I wonder if the momentum of this drama is really that great? Driven by curiosity, I clicked on the show.
"Beginning" mainly tells the story of Li Shiqing, a college student, and Xiao Heyun, a game architect, who "came back from the dead" after encountering a bus explosion, and constantly experienced the time cycle during the time period of the bus accident, from getting off the bus to saving themselves to breaking the barrier and fighting side by side, trying to stop the explosion and find the truth.
The time loop is a more common theme in literary works, and it has been played out in novels and film and television works, so the works of the time loop theme should not be new to everyone.
The world's first work on the theme of "the cycle of time" dates back to February 1941 and was written by Malcolm James Ang in the short story "Doubled and Redoubled".
The story tells the story of a man who is accidentally cursed to repeat a "perfect" day, including lucky bets, promotions, heroic and thwarted bank robberies, and successful marriage proposals.
The novel was published in unknown magazine
The originator of the time loop genre in film history is generally considered to be "Groundhog Day", but in fact, the second theatrical version of "Fukusei Kid", which was released in 1984 and supervised by Oshii Mori, was adapted from Rumiko Takahashi's manga of the same name, "Kirito Dreamer", which had already used the time loop setting and was a full nine years earlier than "Groundhog Day".
"The Dreamer" tells the story of Yui High School's upcoming new year's gayen festival, from teachers to students, but they are busy for this important festival. Although there is still time for the preparation of the last day, day after day, year after year, the opening ceremony of the Gakuen Festival has not been held for a long time.
Until the tired hot spring teacher felt strange from it, he felt that he and the people around him were living the same life every day, but the people around him did not notice anything strange.
Time in the world is passing, humanity is gone, civilization is over, and cities are in ruins, but the protagonists are stuck in the same day.
Oshii Mori deviated from the original book in the theatrical version of the adaptation, adding a time loop and multiple dream settings, which made the tone of the film far from the funny humor of the original book, which caused the dissatisfaction of Rumiko Takahashi, and Oshii Mori also left the creative team of the "Fukusho Kid" series because of this.
This is also the beginning of Oshii Mori's so-called "original shredder", but it is undeniable that the time cycle of the dreamer and the setting of multiple dreams show the foresight. "Lucky Star Boy 2: Kirito Dreamer" is also known as the pioneering work of time loop anime works.
After talking about the opening work, let's talk about other classic anime works related to the time loop. Here it has to be said that the classic eternal "endless August" is over.
Speaking of this, Xiao Luo wants to point out some bugs in the "Beginning" drama, August is the high incidence period of the cycle, and the cycle in the anime is generally in the summer, this statement does exist, but the example given by the male protagonist is not right.
"The Girl Who Traveled Through Time" can barely be said to have a time loop, but "Summer Wars" and "Your Name" are two films that have nothing to do with the time loop.
"Summer Battle" is at best a meta-universe, and the timeline of the male and female protagonists of "Your Name" is three years apart, which can only be said to be a crossing, but this has nothing to do with the time loop! I feel that the concentration of the screenwriter's two-dimensional element is not very high, and it is recommended to look back at a few more cartoons.
Let's go back to the endless August, which is one of the most well-known passages in the Haruhi series of Ryogu.
Because Haruhi Ryogu has unfulfilled wishes for summer vacation, it leads to a cycle of world time, but with the exception of Nagato Yuki, Haruhi Ryogu and others who are caught in the cycle are not aware that they are experiencing the cycle. Haruhi Ryogu has always been full of vitality, hoping to live a full life of "the summer vacation of the first year of high school in my life".
Later, after Discovering the Loop, Kazuki Furuzumi and Ah Xuan began to try to find a way to crack it, until Ah Hui invited Haruhi Ryogu to participate in the study meeting.
In order to let the audience have the same endless experience as the protagonist group, the animation production team pushed the almost same plot of eight episodes eight times, that is to say, after the audience saw the update, after each click, they found that they were watching the same plot as last week, and it was like this for eight consecutive weeks, which tortured the audience's circular playback method. It caused great controversy at the time.
Although the plot has not changed, the storyboard script, background music, and character position screens of each episode are completely different, so some people also call "Endless August" "the most classic split-shot teaching", but some people feel that Kyo Ani's operation is purely rotten and treats the audience as a fool.
This kind of unrest of the ancients and the untouchables left a huge psychological shadow on the audience, which led to the later viewers seeing the plot of the Ryogu Haruhi series (and even Kyo Ani's other works) developing into August or the plot of the homework unfinished, and they will think of the fear of being dominated by the endless August.
Under the contrast of Kyo Ani, I suddenly felt that Lao Hui could indeed be said to be a "warrior of love", at least he did not mentally torture me when I watched the film.
"Magical Girl Xiaoyuan" is In order to save Xiaoyuan, Zhongxiao Meiyan repeatedly returned to the past with time, not to mention hundreds of times, thanks to the animation production team for not making hundreds of episodes of long stories to torture me!!!
As a surreal theme work, "Magical Girl Circle" is only the ability of the character to jump in time, but the plot arrangement of Xiao Meiyan's one-time entry time cycle can be called the finishing touch.
Obviously, he entered the reincarnation in order to change Xiao Yuan's fate, and he did not want to make the cause and effect of the magical girl wrap more and more tightly around Xiao Yuan's body, and everything he did finally became the driving force of fate.
The setting of the time cycle in "Magical Girl Circle" more reflects the causality and fatalism, and the growth of Xiao Meiyan also coincides with how the protagonist of the time loop theme story learned from the previous experience and tried to break the current growth line of the time loop, which is still recommended for everyone to see.
Another sci-fi anime of the same year as Magical Girl Circle, The Gate of the Stone of Destiny, also uses the setting of time looping, and it is also a classic in the time loop genre.
The game of the same name is based on the story of Ryutaro Okabe, a college student who can't get rid of the second disease, and establishes the "Future Props Research Institute", which produces inventions of unknown purpose every day. But one day, a time machine was invented that could transmit electronic messages to the past.
Unable to suppress the excitement of the inventions of the century, the constant interference in the past is purely out of interest. As a result, the great tragedy that swept the world befell Okabe and others, and in order to avoid tragedy, Okabe could only go back to the past and rescue his companions one at a time.
"The Gate of the Stone of Destiny" was once called a brain-burning god work, and the most feared thing about science fiction works is that the setting cannot withstand scrutiny, or fall into the paradox of time, but "The Gate of the Stone of Destiny" has a completely self-consistent logic, breaking the paradox of time, the unfolding and recycling of the world line is not perfect, but it is almost impossible to find loopholes.
In addition to science fiction works, the setting of the time loop is also often used in works with suspenseful reasoning, and the "Street Only I Don't Exist" adapted from the three manga of the same name by Keihara also has a time loop setting.
The protagonist, Goku Fujinuma, is a third-rate manga artist, but he possesses the ability to be called "Re-release". He can travel to a point in time before the event, preventing the event from happening, but failures are repeated forever.
One day he used his re-screening ability to prevent a child abduction case, but when he returned home, he found that his mother had been killed and that he had been blamed as a murderer. In the process of being chased by the police, Goku Fujinuma triggered the ability to re-release, going back to 18 years ago.
As for why it was 18 years ago? It turned out that 18 years ago, there had been a number of child abduction and murder cases, the victim was Kayo Tsuki, and the suspect was identified as a shiratori that Fujinuma often came and went, which had a great impact on Fujinuma in childhood, and Fujinuma, who returned to the past, also decided that he would not only save his mother but also prevent the occurrence of child abduction and murder. Because perhaps the key to saving her mother lies in Kayo Tsuki.
In order not to spoil here, I will not go into too many details here, let's say something else. The male protagonist Fujinuma enters the time loop several times in order to save his mother and Kayo. The animation production team also spent a lot of time telling the relationship between the male protagonist and Kayo, but in the end, Kayo married someone else.
The male protagonist does not feel that he is not known by the NTR, but the audience does feel that he has been given NTR by the production team, so this film has an extra name: only I am the street of the NTR.
In fact, there are many works involving the setting of the time loop, but due to space limitations, Xiao Luo will not dwell on it here, if you are interested in the audience and friends, you can also go to see "The Interpreter of the Hidden City", "The Young Pig-headed Teenager Will Not Dream of the Bunny Girl's Sister", "The Cycle of Killing", "Summer Recurrence" and other works.
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