Recently, a domestic drama featuring time retrospection and cyclical reincarnation has frequently appeared on the hot search, and the name of this drama is "The Beginning".
Adapted from jinjiang novelist Qi Jun's work of the same name, "Beginning" tells the story of game architect Xiao Heyun and college student Li Shiqing, who fall into the time loop after encountering a bus explosion, and work together to stop the explosion to solve the truth. As a suspense web drama, the tense and exciting plot in "The Beginning" and the CP relationship between the male and female protagonists have become the focus of everyone's attention. The popular elements such as bus sexual harassment, steering wheel grabbing, Internet violence, and two-dimensional elements integrated into the play have made it a breaking point on social media such as Weibo.
Yesterday, "The Beginning" finally ushered in the final ending. Whether or not you are satisfied with such an ending, I believe that everyone who has seen it has their own conclusions. So "The Beginning" is over, what other works with similar themes are worth seeing?
For anime fans, this kind of time loop work seems to be somewhat common. Probably the most famous of these is Sakurasaka's light novel "The Cycle of Killing". "Killing Cycle" was a manga created by Ken Obata and adapted into the film Edge of Tomorrow in 2014. The game tells the story of Keiji Kiritani, a soldier who fights against the mysterious creature "GITAI", and falls into the strange circle of time after his first battle. This work takes the discussion of the concept of life and death as the core, and shows the strange cycle of hero and heroine involved in the reader's eyes. On this basis, the brutal battle full of SF colors has also become a point that attracts many readers.
In science fiction works, the big name of "The Gate of the Stone of Destiny" must also be thunderous. Around Rintaro Okabe, a college student who accidentally created a time machine, a series of tragic events have swept the world. In order to change such a history, Okabe changes the world line again and again, trying to save everyone from their tragic fate... Based on the 5pb game, this work involves many science fiction elements such as world line changes, and is a very good work for related enthusiasts. At the same time, Okabe's interesting interactions with several other characters, especially the complex emotions with his assistant Makise Hongli, add many highlights to the game.
If you prefer suspenseful reasoning, Three-Step Jing's "Only I Am Not in the Street" is also worth recommending. Goku Fujinuma, a manga artist with the ability to retrace the time called "Re-Release", travels back 18 years after witnessing the tragic murder of his mother. In order to avoid his mother's tragedy and save his classmates from a series of abductions and murders, he returned to Showa 63 and began an adventure to find the truth. If you could go back in time, what would you do? This work provides a good answer sheet for everyone. The efforts made by Goku to change the past, as well as the meticulous depiction of human nature in the work, are worth seeing.
Of course, in addition to the above films, the popular "Re:0", as well as fukuji's manga "Reincarnation of Destiny" and Toshiya's manga "Ship of Theseus" and other works have also adopted similar settings. Interested friends can also look for it.
So which works on similar subjects have you seen?
What other works do you think are worth recommending?