Over the years, we have seen too many examples of "tragic animation", and many well-known light novels and comics have been completely ignored after animation.
The point of animation overturning is also strange, the most common is the production of five cents of funds, and some animations are turned over at the performance level, and the bridge section that exploded in the original work is a comedic effect.
However, recently there was a lightly modified animation, which brought a big surprise to the audience.
Everyone was prepared for the worst: it was supposed to end by the end of 2021, but the last two episodes were announced to be postponed until March 2022.
This is obviously the explosion of the construction period, which makes people worry about the end of this animation.
More importantly, these last two episodes also contain the bridge that the readers of the original work have been looking forward to: the men and women who have never met have finally met, and the happy "online love rushes out".
If this bridge section is broken, the whole animation will be boring.
The production team proved to everyone with the final score of the film that the three months of this delay did fulfill the promise of "sharp production".
The lucky ones who are "lucky enough to animate" are—
86 - Non-Existent Warzone
(hereinafter referred to as "86")
For the original work, the most inferior adaptation of the animation is to destroy the original work, and the adapted animation of the middle product is loyal to the original work, at least it can make the fans of the original work watch a happy oh, and passers-by can also understand.
The highest-quality adaptation of animation can use the media advantage of animation to add color to the original work, and the animation of "86" belongs to this kind.
The animation of "86" is not a "high-open" animation. On the contrary, when the anime first began broadcasting, the worldview was spat out into a sieve.
In the story, the author depicts a dystopian racist country, the White-Haired Republic, where white-haired, white-skinned Caucasians live in Zones 1-85, and people of color are excluded into District 86.
Area 86 is at the forefront of the battle against the Mechanical Scourge "Legion", and the colored people known as the 86 are used as cannon fodder for flesh and blood, stuffed into strange four-legged combat machinery to fight mechanical monsters.
In districts 1-85, the white-haired citizens received official propaganda as if the dangerous fighting on the front line had nothing to do with them.
In the army, there are basically only wine bags and rice bags, and there are few soldiers with commander quality.
The 86s, who had been expelled from the white-haired people, did not rebel or destroy, but fought with the mechanical monsters of the legion.
This is their own choice: as human beings, they should stand up, face the battle with the legion, and fight for their own living space.
They despise the "white pigs" hiding in the Iron Curtain, so they do not allow themselves to become like those "white pigs", their guns are always aimed at the enemy of mankind, the legion.
This reason cannot be said to be completely untenable, but it is also quite awkward.
Even if the author tries his best to circle, and the animation team tries to use bgm to render the atmosphere and other ways to let the audience enter the state, I can still only think of it as the "first axiom of "86".
The rationality of this cannot stand up to scrutiny, just like the three-dimensional maneuvering device in "Giant" and the bipedal giant humanoid weapon in "Gundam", which can only be accepted for a while, and then look at the author's deduction on this basis.
Perhaps, because of this, the animation of "86" has shown a trend of "low opening and high walking".
At the beginning, everyone will also complain about these "axioms", as the plot advances, the author does more and more deductions on top of this, and the audience is accustomed to it.
Coupled with A1's performance of supernatural literary drama in the later stage, the slow and hot half-year of "86" finally fully bloomed.
The main deduction made by the author based on these "axioms" is the portrayal of the male protagonist Zinye and the female protagonist Rena.
Singh is an 86 fighter on the front line, a veteran of hundreds of battles, code-named "Mourner", who mourns both the enemy and his teammates.
In order to prevent the legion from acquiring new human brains and strengthening its own combat strength, he will personally shoot those teammates who have not been saved, destroying the brain with one shot.
Rena was his commander and the youngest major in the White-Haired Republic.
Compared with the other wine bags and rice bags in the military department, her command ability is excellent, and she also attaches great importance to subordinates who have never met.
She knew that they were also living people, and she would try her best to fight for them to survive.
The first half of the anime is the home of Rena's growth. At first, she was like an aristocratic lady who had nothing but kindness.
She wept over the death of the 86s and apologized for surviving the 86s, but such sympathy was useless.
And, even when she said she wanted to "treat them as adults," she never really knew them, not even asking for their names.
After the first altercation, she connected with the entire team, and even though she had asked for the names of all of them from Sheinye beforehand, she asked each of them herself.
This was the first step in starting a relationship between people, and it was also the first step for her to really start to understand the group of 86.
However, at this time, her identities between her and them are still not equal, and she still does not know what kind of death the Republic has pushed 86 into.
In the subsequent exchanges, she gradually understood how cruel the battlefield where 86 was located: the remaining brains of the dead comrades were used by the legion, and the cries of the undead echoed on the battlefield.
She thought that as soon as the term of office ended, the 86s would be able to retire as promised, but the Republic would send the 86s who were about to end their terms to carry out the investigation mission of no return.
She knew that the Republic had rotted to the root, and simply did not care about the rules of the military department, and used the fire cannon without application to give long-range fire support to the 86s.
As a result, Singh and five others also defeated the first half of the boss in the final mission, the "shepherd" who obtained the brain of Singh's brother, rushed out of Area 86, left the control of the Republic, and gained freedom.
She also came to the place where they had lived, and decided to become the same person as them, facing the battle with the Legion and catching up with the five of them.
The second half of the animation is the home of the male protagonist Singh's growth.
At the end of the first half, after Zinye defeats and completely sends away the undead of his deceased brother, he loses his reason for life after defeating the "shepherd" who is hovering near the Republic.
He listened to too many undead cries on the battlefield, personally sent away too many teammates, and unconsciously became a wandering undead.
In the second half of the anime, Zinye and five others are rescued by the Federation after storming out of the Republic-controlled area.
Although the Federation did not want their children to go to war again, they chose to go back because this was the way they had always insisted.
Moreover, they crawled out of the pile of dead men in Area 86, and they were better at fighting than most Federal soldiers.
However, at this time, There have been some subtle changes in Singh's mentality.
After sending off his dead brother, he has lost his reason to live. At the same time, he saw warriors who were more eager to live than he was, and died because of their lack of strength.
"Why do people like me live all the time?" He couldn't help but have such a question.
There were only four of his comrades who had established a bond with him, and the Major Rena he was worried about was also unknown.
Knowing the movements of the Legion, he knew exactly what fate the Republic would face in the near future.
He grew more and more frantic in battle, as if he had deliberately danced on the blade of death, testing death's bottom line.
In the second half of the anime, because the main perspective is given to Zinye's side, the others are in the Federation, out of the Republic's perceptual sharing contact, so Rena is almost always in a state of disconnection.
In Area 86, although he is not free, at least when he talks to Rena, he will show a gentle expression.
On the side of the Federation, he was free, and the Federal soldiers would not let them die, but he himself gradually slid into the abyss of death.
The first half of the anime ends with a fully grown Rena who can be relieved of this painful state as long as Rena catches up with Sheinye.
The second half is to slowly stew the audience's emotions in the text, so that The pain of Surviving and Not Dying cannot be fully fermented in front of the audience.
In the final two episodes, even viewers who are not readers of the original work are looking forward to the reunion of the two of them, because only then can Sinoye be truly redeemed.
This pain of Zinye reached its peak after defeating the boss in the second half, and the expression of this animation is already supernatural.
After completing the mission, Sheenye saw his comrades in blood in a hallucination saying thank you to him for keeping his promise to bury them.
His own black silhouette was urging him to die, and he lived alone in the world, like a man left behind by his comrades-in-arms.
The production team worked so hard to render Sinoye desperate that when the two reunited, the expression of the literary drama became extremely restrained.
Just as Zinye fell into despair, a remnant legion also targeted him, who was almost incapacitated, as if he were invited to harvest his life.
It was at this time that Rena arrived with the Republic's army and saved Sinoye.
Since the two had not actually met before and had been in contact through the perception sharing system, Sienyer only knew that it was a Republic officer and did not know that it was Rena.
Therefore, at first, he allowed his anger to erupt and vented a large amount of negative energy at Rena.
At this point, the viewer's perspective is locked on Zinye's side, and only his negative energy quotes can be heard, and Rena speaks without sound at all, but presents the text through the lip recognition system of the mech camera.
It wasn't until Rena began to use what Sheinye had told her to refute the now desperateLys that the audience could hear Rena's voice.
At the same time, the dark curtain above and below the picture began to fade. Zinye also realized that the person in front of him was Rena.
This time, however, the two of them did not meet head-on, and the Legion's attack uninterestingly interrupted the historic meeting between the two.
By the last episode, almost every audience member knew that the two of them were definitely going to be online dating, and the production team also maintained a restrained style, dragging Ben to the end.
First, from the perspective of the supply robot Fido, the squad is given the reaction of the squad to see Rena soon.
There are also some related knife reminiscence pictures in the middle, slowly accumulating emotions.
Finally, in the robot's perspective, the two sides met, but the picture at this time was a blurry vision, and only two rows of figures could be vaguely seen.
At this time a cloud just obscured the sunlight, and they were all in shadow.
In the next shot, the clouds are clear and the sun is shining, and Fido also adjusts the camera focus, pulling to the close-up, so that the audience can see the close-up of the faces of both sides.
After waiting for a reunion for half a year, it finally came true.
At this point, the production team finally completely let go, and rarely gave a rotating shot.
With Rena and Zinye as the center, Rena looked at the clan in turn and recognized them, as well as the team's two mascots, the supply robot Fido and their cat, also showed their faces.
The corners of everyone's eyes were red, even the always expressionless Sheenyer, and the emotions that the audience had accumulated for so long were finally fully cathartic at this moment.
"86" began airing in April 2021, and that season also began broadcasting "Electric Light Machine King", "Vivy", "Odd Taxi" and other masterpieces.
For Xinfan, this can be said to be a death group, and the slow-heat "86" naturally does not have an advantage.
However, in March 2022, when "86" ended, compared with January 2022, when it ended at the same time, the perfect ending of "86" was simply amazing.
Although "86" is not a god work, I believe that anyone who has seen the last few minutes of its 23 episodes will be tempted to learn about the story between Rena and Syyer because of this reunion of these few minutes.
Such a god-level performance is definitely worth experiencing for yourself, and this attitude of trying to tell a good story is also the most beautiful love letter from animation practitioners to the audience.