No matter how many decades later in August, we will definitely see each other again
Half a year ago, Okada's "Asaka Sunset Oath" created surprised many viewers, and just when the popularity of "Asaka Sunset Oath" had not completely receded, a film called "The Man Who Knows the Blue Sky" announced that it would be released in October. Recently, a new promotional poster was released
On the list of production personnel for this work, we see three very familiar names - Okada Ryori, who is in charge of the script, Nagai Ryuyuki, who is in charge of the supervision, and Shoga Tanaka, who is in charge of character design, and three familiar names - Okada Ryori, Nagai Ryuyuki, and Tanaka Shoga. These three are the "golden combination responsibilities" that have jointly created many works such as "Dragon and Tiger", "Unheard Flower Name", "Heart is Screaming" and so on, and through this new work, the three of them have revealed their team called "Super Peace and Busters" with the structure of supervision-script-character design
The name "Super Peace and Busters" is taken from the story set in the story of the first work in the golden trilogy trilogy, "Unheard Flower Names". Talking about "Unheard Flower Name", this famous work has already left a deep impression on countless animation fans.
Whether it is the "secret base" of the tear-jerking "Divine Comedy", or the scene of the protagonists playing hide and seek under the last morning light in the work, or the fireworks (fireworks conference) full of good and good wishes, many elements of "Unheard Flower Names" from beginning to end are like a cool breeze in the summer, quietly blowing into the hearts of many viewers.
As the lyrics of ed "Secret Base" sing: "Ten years from now in August, we will definitely see each other again", and it is now the end of summer in August, so let's look back at this "flower" that bloomed in the summer.
<h1>Summer youth</h1>
In many film and television works, whenever the theme of youth is talked about, most of them cannot avoid the element of summer, as if summer has the most unique taste of youth. Whether it's enjoying the fireworks at the fireworks festival with your loved ones, eating a barbecue and playing with fairy sticks by the sea, or looking at the night sky in an empty and quiet place, summer always has many scenes that make people feel beautiful and youthful.
Many Japanese film and television works are more obsessed with embodying the charm of summer, the youth sect leader Iwai Shunji presented a period of crazy elopement in the summer through "Fireworks in the Sky, From the Side or below", Hosoda Mori presented a colorful family through "Summer Battle", and Midorikawa Yuki presented a throbbing and helpless love affair at the end of summer through "Fireworks Forest". And "Unheard Flower Name" is in this season of vitality, opening a youth story of friendship and redemption.
Maska, Hita, Yuki, An Ming, Tsuruko, Bobo and others were originally childhood playmates, and 66 people with good relations found an abandoned hut on the mountain and used it to form a small group of six6 people, "Chaoping and Busters". One day, when they got together to chat, An Ming jokingly said to Rentai and provoked a sentence, "Rentai, you like face codes." Extremely shy, Rentai said for a moment, saying "Who likes this ugly monster" and then ran away. In the process of chasing Rentai, Mian Ma unfortunately fell into the river and drowned, and the remaining five people had great guilt in their hearts, and thus fell apart.
The story begins many years after this incident, and the story officially begins many years after this event, when one day, Renta suddenly sees the face code appear next to him at home, and then he finds that only he can see the face code. Mask said that she had become a ghost, and this was because there was a matter that had not yet been completed, so she stayed in the human world. Therefore, the six people who had originally fallen apart, with the idea of atonement, reunited in order to help Mian Ma fulfill their last wish.
"Unheard Flower Name" is very good at creating a sense of ritual in daily life by portraying the unique interaction and fragments of life of the summer atmosphere, and thus conveying the feelings of the characters, and the stage and daily scenes that render the breath of youth are always closely related to the coolness and laziness of summer.
Throughout the story, the scene travels back and forth between childhood memories and current life. At the beginning of the first episode, green water, green mountains, trees, streams, hot winds, cicada catching and other elements are used to create a stage full of summer atmosphere, showing the exuberant vitality of summer.
At the same time, the characters in the play are not only dressed in school uniforms, the production team has designed many sets of cool life casual clothes including shorts, short sleeves, vests and so on. In the scenes of daily life, mixed with scenes such as eating ice cream, splashing in the water, eating watermelon, etc., in order to realize the wish of the noodle code, the friends of the super peaceful busters also worked together to make fireworks, all of the above designs have strengthened the summer atmosphere, and a series of stories close to life have enhanced the sense of realism of the work.
At the same time, the work skillfully constructs a sense of ritual through the fragments of life, and the food conveys and promotes the inner emotions of the characters, which is the usual performance method of Nagai Longxue.
Nagai Ryuyuki loves to use food to bring the characters closer, for example, at the end of the first episode of "Dragon and Tiger", the strange dragon and the big river are still shallow, and the reason why the arrogant big river shyly accepts the dragon is the dragon's careful food and cleaning. This eating scene appears many times in Dragons and Tigers, and even the title of the OVA is "The Essence of The Bento", which is also very common in Nagai Ryuyuki's early works.
In the first episode, in order to explain the relationship between Rentai and his uncle and Bobo, as early in the story, the audience has not yet clarified the sense of distance between the characters, so they design a scene of happy and harmonious eating, everyone eats together, Bobo takes a big bite, and the noodle code is playfully grabbed, and these fragments of life make the audience feel a happy and harmonious atmosphere.
This performance method still appears in large quantities in "Unheard Flowers". Early in the story, the audience does not yet understand the relationship between the characters. In order to explain Renta's relationship with other characters and show her changing state of mind, the animation team designed a number of different dinner table scenes.
In addition to "joy", "sadness" is also explained through the design of eating scenes, and when Rentai feels very little in his heart, the story gives a shot of Rentai eating potato chips madly, with a background and local close-up of light and dark interlacing, reflecting Rentai's inner depression and closure.
At the same time, the eating scene is also used as a transition of the scene in addition to conveying emotions, in episode 6, the code does not want to let the mother recall the things before the face code was alive, and does not want the mother to worry, so the face code is snatched up at once when Ren Tai eats, and the face code is snatched up at once and tightly holds the rice bowl and shed tears, at this time the scene is through the rice bowl as a match, through the matching editing technique, the camera is transferred to the scene where the face code mother makes a bowl of curry rice and worships the face code, and at the same time explains the mother's nostalgia in her heart and the sadness of the face code.
Thanks to the expression of life, "Unheard Flower Name" can quickly close the distance between the audience and the stage of the work within a few episodes of the story. This also allows more space in the second half of the animation to discuss the theme of the work- atonement and friendship.
<h1>Atonement and friendship</h1>
"Unheard Flowers" was supposed to be a story of friendship and growth, but in fact it was slightly off the way.
The early unfolding of "Unheard Flowers" led many people to think that it would have been a story of pure friendship and growth. But in fact, although the work tries to close the distance between the audience in the stage construction, it seems to push the audience away in the middle and late stages of the story, showing a very complex emotional entanglement between the characters.
The main reason for this is that the main direction of the film to promote the plot is not to reflect the sincerity and warmth of friendship, but to tend to present the intricate emotional entanglements between the characters that are beyond the age of the characters.
In fact, although the work tries to close the distance between the audience in the stage setting, it seems to push the audience away in the middle and late stages of the story. The main reason is that the dominant direction driving the plot is not the sincerity and warmth of friendship, but the tendency to transcend the intricate entanglements that should be expected of the character's age.
It is not difficult to find that in the story of "Unheard Flower Name", the death of the face code has become the knot in the hearts of all the friends of the ultra-peaceful busters. In the process of advancing the series, this emotion is amplified into different forms of guilt, and different characters also show different degrees of "personality deviation" that is often mentioned in youth culture research.
Rentai becomes a squatter who does not go to school, Xueji's women's clothes become face codes to comfort herself, and An Ming becomes a hot girl with a somewhat extreme and chaotic personality. The growth in this work fades into self-redemption, and the promotion of the relationship between the characters does not rely on mutual support and trust, but more on quarrels and vents.
Taking the eighth episode as an example, when the mask failed to complete the wish many times, everyone questioned whether anyone really wanted the face code to end the wish, so they criticized each other. In this episode, from beginning to end, there is distrust and estrangement between the characters, and the next action that constitutes the characters is a large number of conflict scenes, and it can even be said that the characters have pure self-venting in their hearts. This situation is not more than one episode, and the work repeatedly arranges the mutual exclusion of the characters to carry out the turning point of the story, and the overly distorted concept weakens the audience's sense of substitution. In the meeting where the issues are discussed, mistrust and estrangement between the characters erupts. Yuki believes that Hita has been clinging to the past and not thinking well about how to face the present face and everyone, thus hurting each other's hearts, followed by mutual quarrels, and even can be said to be the pure self-venting of the characters' hearts. The work repeatedly arranges the mutually exclusive conflicts between the characters as a turning point, and the overly distorted plot weakens the audience's sense of substitution.
Not only that, "Unheard Flower Name" is also mixed with a lot of "your circle is really chaotic" love scenes, and the desire to talk about multilateral love is to stop and stop making the story have a "Qiong Yao drama" flavor. Of the six6 people of the Ultra Peace Busters, except for Bobo, the other five or five people all have complex feelings that crisscross each other, and this feeling promotes the guilt in the character's heart.
Even when they were only 5 years old, they already had a liking relationship, and the beginning of the story was also caused by An Ming's jealous questioning, when An Ming asked Ren Tai if he liked the face code, and the desire of the crane to stop and Xue Ji's incitement to ask Ren Tai "Honestly Confess It", it is difficult to make people think that this is the personality and attitude that this age will have.
It is the work that mixes emotions beyond their age, the intricate relationship and the quarrel of each pregnant ghost fetus, so that the "friendship" component fades a lot, and even the work is not to depict the purity of friendship, but to amplify the emotions and ideas of adolescence, becoming a scream of cracked lungs.
<h1>Okada's cry </h1>
Okada, who plays the screenplay, is a person who likes to scream hysterically in her works, and most of her characters have a desire to expose the complex emotions of the heart.
In an interview with Okada that year, Okada revealed that the script of the original script of "Unheard Flower Name" originally included a farce of the Gongkou drama, but it was not used in the final animation plot. Her original idea was to make an anime about the awkward and awkward love between young boys and girls. So as a script writer script, she had hoped to strengthen the entanglement between the characters through a heavy erotic farce. However, after that, in order to meet the requirements of animation, supernatural elements such as the soul of the face code appeared. The supernatural appearance.
At the same time, animation supervisor Nagai Ryuyuki and painting supervisor Tanaka Shogun Kado made their own suggestions for the story, and as the person in charge of the script, she was shocked when she learned that she had to revise the script in order to smoothly animate the story. During that time, both the overseer and the people advised her to focus the story on the theme of friendship.
It is not difficult for us to find that even the now improved "Unheard Flower Name" is still mixed with a lot of soft pornography
Throughout the story, mask code, whether naked or not, always lies on Hita without scruples, and uses many close-up shots at the same time. In the story of An Ming, there have also been scenes where she was forcibly dragged to a hotel and almost attempted rape. It can be seen that in the original script of Okada Kuori, "Unheard Flower Name" will contain more erotic elements as a worker, and the emotional entanglement will be more complicated.
In okada's autobiography, we can dig up her personal experience - Okada grew up in a single-parent family, coupled with being bullied at school, which led to her own personality with some paranoia, and some chaotic concepts of sex are also more unrestrained. Therefore, the works written by Okada Are like carrying the shadow of her body———— longing to be loved. Okada's inner emotions are extremely complex, and her expression of lust, the pursuit of understanding, and the habit of obsessing with intricate relationships with complex task relationships are okada's "exposures" in okada's style. This is actually a variation of Okada's transfer of "private novels" to animation.
Private fiction is a literary form born in the Taisho era of Japan, and in Japanese literature that is far-reaching influenced by material grief, private fiction is known for its depiction of trivialities and psychological activities around individuals from a first-person perspective. The private novel is the literary form that best embodies "writerhood", which is the exposure of the author's inner self (ego) and turns it into a cry of art form.
This "exposure" is presented to the audience in the form of a "scream", which is okada's "private animation". As mentioned above, there is a lot of quarrel in the story of "Unheard Flower Name", and the direction of the story is also biased towards self-redemption. It is not difficult to find that the development of the story many times is through the 66 people of the ultra-peaceful busters, each of whom has a deep inner cry, by loudly venting their guilt and dissatisfaction with others, or venting their inner guilt, or venting their dissatisfaction with others. This is a kind of "exposure" and okada's character building. Even at the end of the story, including the most famous "hide-and-seek" scene in the film, the way everyone sends off the face code is by shouting out their inner thoughts and thoughts about the face code.
This "exposure" is presented to the audience in the form of a "scream", which also makes Okada's animation a "private animation". As mentioned above, the story of "Unheard Flower Name" has a lot of quarrels, and the direction of the story is also biased towards self-redemption. It is not difficult to find that the development of the story many times is through the inner cry of the 6 people of the ultra-peaceful busters, or venting their inner guilt, or venting their dissatisfaction with others.
This "scream" is also frequent in Okada's other works and is one of her most important ways of expressing it. Among them, the second animated film "The Mind Wants to Shout Out" of the "Ultra Peace Busters Series" is the most typical - the theme to be expressed by Okada Koori has been clearly written in the title.
The protagonist of the story, Naruse Shun, falls into self-isolation because she has never felt love or other reasons, and when she unlocks her inner closure at the end of the story, she is still alone. She screamed hysterically about her inner pain and experience, trying to gain the understanding of others.
This "cry" is one-sided and at the same time venting. Okada's expression is tantamount to standing naked in front of the audience, not minding to expose his inner pain and desire to be understood.
In her other works, although the themes and settings of the works are different—whether the theme is love, longing, or across races and time and space," she chooses to convey her emotions to the reader through this cry. This practice is exactly the "tear gas" that Okada koori uses to push the story to the climax.
This is okada's controversial writership, and it is also the most recognizable style of her work.
<h1>epilogue</h1>
From 2011 to now, 8 years later, "Unheard Flower Names" is still a popular masterpiece. Quite literary and artistic works title names, ear-catching ed, attractive character design, sophisticated production, touching the story of many people's life and death parting, "Unheard Flower Name" has a lot of attractive gimmicks.
At that time, even now, in the animation recommendations of major forums and Tieba on the Internet, the recommended animation is always indispensable to the name of "Unheard Flower Name" and often appears. This work has undoubtedly set off a wave of healing tear-jerking works in the circle of animation fans in China, which has witnessed the love in the circle for a long time, and also witnessed the original debut of okada Kosato X Nagai Ryuyuki X Tanaka Shoga, a golden partner, and witnessed the rise of the "super peace busters" group in the animation industry.
"Unheard Flower Name" is more like a memory full of youthful youth: perhaps everyone has a good friend in their hearts, a girl who once liked, and a crazy and free youth. But all of this eventually passed away
The taste of summer youth may never come back, just as the flowers are short and brilliant, all this is like the final epilogue of "Unheard Flower Names" -
What exactly are the flowers that bloom that season call?
Gently swaying, hand touching the pain of being pricked, and when you get close, there will be a slightly green and sun-like fragrance,
And gradually the scent will gradually dissipate, and we will grow up
But that flower is going to bloom somewhere.
Yes, we will continue to fulfill that flower's wish at any time