2020 is the year of "Ye Qing Hui".
"InuYasha" produced a sequel to the story of the daughters;
Digimon uses a movie version to prepare a farewell ceremony with childhood;
Even the kids, who had been waiting for a Letter of Acceptance to Hogwarts, waited for the re-screening of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone.
But for Ah Kan, the most "ye Qing Hui" moment is the explosion of a terrier at the end of the year.
You may have seen this sentence many times:
"Wouldn't it be, in 2020 there are still people who don't believe ultraman is real?"
Then, everyone played the famous detective Upanishads and found evidence of Ultraman's existence from clues.
Among them, the most powerful proof is the disappearance of the little monster and the lasting peace of the earth:
So, everyone was relieved. Celebrate.
I knew Ultraman was real!!!
At the end of 2020, Taobao announced the annual top ten hot searches, and "Ultraman" was actually listed among them, with more than 200 million searches.
It can be seen that its "top stream" position.
Rest assured, 2021 is still the year that you can't escape the Ultraman network.
This year, we have celebrated the 55th anniversary of Ultraman's birth, and there are already many commemorative events in Japan.
For the domestic "grandfather" youth, you can not know the Ultraman family, but you can not be unfamiliar with Diga Ultraman.
As a child, I only knew that Ultraman played little monsters.
Growing up, going to college, second year of graduate school, and having children for 5 months, we still have to watch Diga Ultraman.
Because of this discovery, it is such a profound work.
Diga Ultraman has never been a "childish kid"!
That's faith, it's forever dripping God!
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Digimon Ultraman was born in 1996, 25 years ago.
In Japan, in a recent popularity poll about Ultraman, Diga Ultraman won the first place in the vote, ranking C.
Not to mention his popularity in China.
As long as you chant "A new storm has emerged, how can it stand still".
There can be a large number of people around to sing along.
Marvel reproduced Mao Huafeng - Forever Ultraman
This is digimon Ultraman's national recognition!
After all, since its introduction in 2004, it has been broadcast round after round on more than 50 TV stations that year.
It has become a classic of the real "Ye Qing Hui" after the 90s.
When I was a child, I watched Ultraman fight a little monster, screaming and screaming to see a hilarity.
Looking at it now, I find that this drama actually has a vast and dark complex setting.
If I had to sum it up in one sentence, it would be: Diga Ultraman is a Cthulhu work!
Digha's worldview is not quite the same as the previous Ultraman series, and it does not follow the M78 worldview.
Instead, the ultra-ancient civilization was reset.
The story of the first episode is that in the early 21st century, a meteorite that flew from the universe to Earth broke the tranquility.
The land of Mongolia trembled, and a large monster named Golzan broke through the earth and was quite powerful.
The TPC (Earth Peace Coalition) found a time capsule and prophecy messages from the cut meteorites:
The Earth is about to undergo a great change! The Age of Monsters has arrived!
To save humanity, it is necessary to find and awaken the giants of light in the pyramids.
It turned out that during the ultra-ancient civilization period of 30 million years ago, the Giants of Light and the Dark Giants fought endlessly.
To many people's surprise, Diga was originally a dark giant.
Later, under the persuasion of the captain of the Earth Guard at that time, Diga abandoned the dark and turned into a giant of light.
As a result, the earth was invaded by the evil god Gatanjae!
He unleashes a flower called Chijella, and humanity, seduced by the pollen illusion, descends into decay and decline.
The evil god Gatanjae took the opportunity to descend to take over, and the ultra-ancient civilization was destroyed.
The Giants of Light also transformed into stone statues and sealed themselves inside the pyramids until the arrival of Dagu and others in the 21st century.
The evil god Gatanjae, the ultimate boss of the show. I believe that everyone is not unfamiliar.
In the final episode, Gatanjaer, with its huge threaded shell, a large number of tentacles and pliers, and an upside-down head, turns Diga into a stone statue.
I don't know how many people have cried. And how many people are inspired to hold a flashlight to "turn into light".
The prototype of Gatanjae comes from the "Old Ruler" of Cthulhu mythology, that is, Gatanotoya, the eldest son of Cthulhu.
His most famous ability is to petrify the creatures that witness him, and the petrified person becomes a conscious "living statue".
Before Gatanjee woke up, the ultra-ancient relic "Luluye", which had been sleeping on the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
Also from the Cthulhu myth.
The Call of Cthulhu reads: "In the eternal mansion Lalaye, the sleeping Cthulhu fell asleep"
Its undersea city of Lalaiye is the resting place of Gatanjee.
And diga, the friend of mankind, has many similarities with the ancient gods.
They were hostile to the evil gods and expelled or sealed many of the old rulers.
From this point of view, the ending of the great battle between Diga Ultraman and the evil god Gatanjae -
It is clearly the ultimate battle between the ancient god of Cthulhu and the rulers of the old days!
I can't imagine it! Many people think that the naïve Diga Ultraman is actually a Cthulhu work!
Instantly, I felt, what did I watch in my childhood?
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I know that there is a question that says:
"Why does Digimon Ultraman seem so profound in its humanistic significance today?"
Received more than 2,000 followers and 178 responses.
Below, we diligently explore the humanistic care and attention to social issues in each episode of the show.
Indeed, even leaving aside Cthulhu's shell, Diga Ultraman is a particularly charismatic work.
Because it is not a cold monster melee, or a model play for the victory of justice.
The story of each episode is about human emotions, and by the way, it also pays attention to and reflects on the current social problems at that time.
For example, in episode 17, "The Showdown Between Red and Blue", a widowed and widowed old woman in Tokyo who lives alone meets Reddell from an alien planet.
This story unfolds warmly like an "old version of ET aliens".
On weekdays, the old woman, who is always alone, has gained a big friend with a strange appearance.
She chatted with him, gave him tea and hospitality, took him into accommodation, and even though she didn't speak the language, her mother-in-law regained her happiness and smiling face.
Later, he learned that Reddell had come to Earth with his own mission, and his mother-in-law, who was reluctant to give up, also let him go.
The loneliness revealed in this episode is simply a kind of sadness that reaches the soul.
Behind it are the daily lives of tens of thousands of empty-nesters and the psychological needs of not being able to get a social response.
The 10th episode, "The Enclosed Playground", focuses on the problem of child bullying through a monster with a sense of "alien".
In the playground, a children's paradise, the story that is happening is that the children of the powerful bully the weak in public.
Without the presence of this monster, bullying will continue.
Monsters underground extended their tentacles to the children of the amusement park, who were dragged underground and conceived to lay eggs.
In the end, it was Dagu who transformed into Diga Ultraman, ignoring the tentacles that wrapped around his waist and pinched his neck.
Instead, he used various martial arts such as carrying, hugging, kicking, and fat punching to win the tentacle monster.
Ultraman is a representative hero of wrestlers, boxers, free fighters, gymnasts, etc.!
In short, Ultraman not only saved the children who were abducted by the tentacles, but also saved the teenagers living in the shadow of bullying.
When confronted with monsters, they are inspired with courage and strength.
It also gained the "internal strength" to face bullying in the future.
Diga Ultraman was born in the late 1990s, after Japan's "bubble economy."
I have experienced an era of national madness, the pursuit of extreme desires, and then the collective disillusionment.
All that is left to society is the accumulation of heavy and difficult to return and the accumulation of shortcomings.
12 episodes of monsters born from undersea nuclear tests, 10 episodes of child bullying, 17 episodes of empty nesters...
Children watch Ultraman fight monsters, imitating the movement of posing in front of his chest and making light attacks.
The real problems behind the monsters that adults look at: man and nature, aging, violence and greed in the human heart.
Threats don't necessarily come from the universe.
The real source of disaster may be the endless desires of human beings and the dark side of human nature.
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Not the evil god at the end, not the tentacle monster haunting.
Magically, the episode that left a shadow of my childhood for Ah Kan was actually 11 episodes of "Requiem to the Underworld".
In this episode, scientist Ryosuke is increasingly distorted because he has lived in the shadow of others since he was a child.
He is jealous of his classmate Horii, who has entered the victory team, and is even more angry about his failures in the love game.
The obsession with "first place" made him make a crazy choice -
He implanted one of the Ablon cells in his body.
When Dagu and his teammates follow the clues to trace the monster, they find that the real monster in this episode is this human.
The moment the body is torn apart, the claws and teeth burst out, and the moment a person turns into a monster, it looks vicious and mysterious.
When I was a child, I was deeply shocked: it turns out that there is no insurmountable boundary between man and monster.
Ryosuke is a "Frankenstein" fanatical scientist.
But he was even more a speck of dust swallowed up by never-ending desires.
He is a human, but he is a more terrifying being than a monster from an alien planet.
Because, he could be everyone, too.
Similar to films like Frankenstein or Fly man, this episode conveys the primacy of science and ultimately the message of destruction.
But it's not as dark as these movies.
Even if, as Mercy said, "The darkness in the human heart will never disappear." ”
But in this world, with the existence of Diga Ultraman, human beings can choose the light side and overcome the darkness.
For Diga is both a "god"-like guardian and, at the same time, a human being.
Isn't there a classic line that says, "In fact, everyone can turn into light by their own strength!" ”
Thus, we see in the ending that when Diga was turned into a stone statue by the evil god Gatanjae, none of the children gave up.
They raised their right arms, chanted "Digha," and together they transformed into light.
Together with the awakened Digha, he defeats the evil god boss.
Almost 20 years have passed, re-watching this scene, with a full barrage, A look really wants to storm cry.
Exploded!!!
Digimon Ultraman can be serious and profound, or it can be so optimistic and innocent.
We will always remember that when I was a child, I also became a hero.
Today, even if the edges and corners are smoothed out, they have grown into mediocre adults.
We are also willing to reserve a place in our hearts for Diga Ultraman.
Because that is the dream of a young hero that we will not change until death!!!