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He's coming! He's coming!
The legendary century hegemony has finally been shocked.
As the top blood of Wang Fried, which has attracted much attention, he single-handedly raised the attention of external public opinion to the entire autumn file.
A PV discussion degree can top others with 48 feature films.
As the face and responsibility of the "Big Three Migrant Comics" period after "Weekly Shonen Jump", the circulation of comics has exceeded 15 million copies. has won "This manga is amazing!" for two years in a row! "Champions.
After the broadcast, it immediately topped the major hot lists.
In the discussion of the mountain and tsunami, Douban Xiti scored 9.2 points.
Do not blow black, I think this score,
Low.
Today I will give you a plate, where is the strength of this time.
The protagonist of "Chainsaw Man" has the most tragic, miserable, and undignified opening in the history of shonen comics.
After his father owed a huge debt, he hanged himself, and the young man was hungry for electricity, and he did not hesitate to sell his organs in order to pay off the debt, but the usury paid more and more.
By chance, the young young rescued a chainsaw demon "Pochita".
In order to make money, the cornered Denji had to use "Pochita" as a weapon and become a demon hunter.
In the setting, the world is full of all kinds of "demons", all of which are associated with a figurative object or concept, and the more people fear this thing, the greater the power of the demon.
In the opening chapter, Denji hunts the mobs "Tomato Devil" and receives a bounty of 400,000 yen. But after deducting various intermediary fees and interest, the money in hand is only enough to buy a slice of bread.
His dream is simple.
Without a girlfriend and no future, he lived in a cluttered tin house like this, living like a "dog"...
One night, Denji and Pochita take orders to slay the demon, but they are plotted by their employers.
The employer wanted to expand his amateurship, so he signed a contract with the zombie demon.
Generally, most demons are extremely hostile to humans, but a few are friendly to humans, and some demons will choose to sign contracts with humans, allowing humans to borrow their own power, and the cost is generally accompanied by great human sacrifices.
The zombie demon hates the "demon hunter", and he directly takes down the entire organization under the pretense of signing a contract.
Eight pieces were unloaded and thrown into the trash like garbage.
However, Denji had made a contract with Pochita before his death.
Pochita transforms himself into the heart of Denji, causing him to be reborn as a half-demon and half-human.
After the rebirth, the electric second opened a killing ring, and the entire zombie army was destroyed in an instant.
The next morning, police Makima arrived at the scene of the crime, and she gave Telegraph two options.
After learning that he had a proper breakfast every day after becoming a "civil servant", he chose to "become Miss Machima's dog" without hesitation.
Joined Lesson 4 on Demon Specifics and became a demon hunter under the public security umbrella.
This opening seems to be a traditional bloody manga mode of "counterattack of the little people at the bottom",
Until the later stage, the anti-sky development around the character of "Machima" "penetrates the reader's mind" completely reveals the murderous true face of "black comics".
The reason why "Chainsaw Man" can become popular, in addition to the success of author Fujimoto's long-form debut work "Yan Fist" and the accumulation of original diehard fans, can be largely attributed to the all-round anti-routine from content to form.
The theme of the royal road, the easy-to-understand storyboard, and the triumph of friendship and hard work, these values advocated by mainstream works are all cut to pieces in "Chainsaw Man".
In this work, there are not only many crude and illogical whole performances, but also a large number of storyboards with unclear meaning (the author did not intend to make it clear at all), and even the consequences of friendship efforts are presented in an extremely distorted way, making you stunned every time by the development of too much sword.
Full-length works can't gnaw at old books of "interesting worldviews, paintings, or fascinating characters."
If plot medicine such as anti-routines and bento boxes are used too frequently, readers are also prone to paralysis.
Therefore, "Chainsaw Man" not only has the above "flower gimmicks", which can make the audience want to stop, and its winning weapon can be summarized into the following two points:
One is the author's powerful (washing) (brain) power, although it seems to be an electric wave, but it can be perfectly self-consistent narrative logic, even if the protagonist is always constantly and rapidly changing the ultimate goal and behavioral motivation, but still does not make the reader feel abrupt.
Denji does not have the "Wei Guangzheng" like other shonen manga male protagonists, and he will only kick his crotch when fighting.
Because the starting point is low enough, the degree of ease of satisfaction is quite high.
In the first episode alone, this change of course of the electric ji is repeated three times.
His motivation will continue to jump as the plot progresses.
Unlike Naruto Uzumaki, who always wanted to become a Hokage, Luffy wanted to find treasure and become One Piece...
Denji's heart is always based on smaller goals than we expected: jam, European pie, dating girls, sticking.
And every change in goals that fishes our curiosity never makes us feel divided.
The second is to use comic routines to implement anti-routines, and the continuous twists and turns in the later stage can always catch readers off guard.
Contemporary creators generally face a dilemma -
The audience's standard for "spectacle" has been raised, and what was once "slightly strange" is now "commonplace".
But Fujimoto's ability to shape spectacle clearly easily breaks through the threshold of contemporary readers' brains.
From "Brother is So Delicious" in "Yan Fist" to "Chainsaw Man", all kinds of brain-opening spectacle scenes.
"Shark Whirlwind", "Halloween" and "Corpse Talking" have now become two-dimensional "canons".
No matter how paradoxical, Fujimoto's work often ends up leading to healing emotions.
And his healing is often accompanied by a piercing heart, and it is manifested through lowly human natures such as deception, cowardice, and malice.
For example, the story of Pava and the cat, such as the story of Denji and Lace...
There is generally a relationship of "education and guidance" between Dianji and important others.
Machima, who adopted Denji, gave him a tenderness he had never had;
Lesser, who teaches Denji, comes from the same background as him, and the outcasts of the two human worlds give each other room for fantasy, childish but gentle.
Aki Hayakawa, who took in Denji, was skilled in housework, and originally took care of Denji, who knew nothing like a giant baby, but one day suddenly said that he would teach Denji to cook, the reason was, "If I am not there one day..."
Under the rough lines of the radio waves, the most delicate and gentle knives are buried.
All this is inseparable from the author Fujimotoki.
This young cartoonist, who is just 30 years old this year, has been actively publishing comics since he was a student.
In 2013, he won the Newcomer Comics Award of Jump Sub Monthly with his short story "Love Makes People Blind", and in 2016, he officially launched the first feature-length serial "Yan Fist".
After the end of 2018, the serialization of "Chainsaw Man" began.
Manga readers should know that Fujimoto is a true movie fan, and his manga works often appear like movie shots.
This year's new short story "Goodbye Pear" is directly based on the theme of the movie, telling an interesting story of falling in love with a vampire.
Because of this, the animation producer MAPPA has buried a large number of movie Easter eggs in the OP, each of which is recommended or mentioned by Fujimoto:
"Killer Tomato"
"Pulp Fiction"
"Sadako VS Ga Coconut"
This brings us back to the production of the animated version of "Chainsaw Man".
For the production company, such a top-notch Buddha is completely hot potato.
If it is changed, it will not necessarily be famous in history, and if it is messed up, it will inevitably bear the infamy of the ages.
MAPPA, who has produced "Spell Return" and "Attack on Titan Final Season", has gone all out this time.
Before the broadcast, outdoor hard broadcasting had already covered the streets of Japan.
The musical lineup is staggering.
The soundtrack brought in Kensuke Ushio, the industry god.
OP invited the red to purple Yonezu Genshi, ED is even changed one episode at a time, there are as many as 12 songs,
"Chainsaw Man" broke the industry convention and did not set up a production committee, and the main creators were only the copyright provider Shueisha and MAPPA itself.
This is a very risky move, but in exchange for creative freedom.
Different from the general direction of the original radio wave evil road, the animated version is more realistic in style.
The animated version of the storyboard is a complete reinterpretation of the original.
With "Blade Teeth", which completely copied the original storyboard, the time and energy invested is not an order of magnitude at all.
The composition and light and shadow are very ingenious, the picture has a lot of white space, and the perspective is changed to express the mood and status relationship of the character.
The performance method of relatively real people is selected.
The literary drama is outstanding, whether it is the memory killing between Denji and Pochita in the middle or the first encounter with Machima in the back, it is very accurate in rhythm control and atmosphere brewing.
The only more subtle is the use of 3D performances in the combat section that leads to polar evaluations.
Objectively speaking, in fact, the technology of the third and second is not bad, and the B-grade film and cult sense that the supervision wants are indeed presented, but to the extent it does not play the cool feeling + courage of the original storyboard.
However, it is undeniable that for mechanical objects with a strong sense of perspective such as chainsaws, 3D modeling + photography is better presented (the same is true for various vehicles and mecha), which is not only more accurate and realistic than completely two-dimensional hand-drawing, but also saves too much time and energy (hand-drawn requires a large number of corrections by supervision), which is the optimal solution after balancing the look and feel and cost performance.
Some of the audience of the original two-dimensional party may prefer the Trigger Club ("Cyberpunk: Edge Walker") and the Hegemony Club ("Attack on Titan"), which are visually dazzling and stylish.
But it is undoubtedly friendlier to the group of ordinary passers-by.
The voice actor lineup, starting from the role, boldly uses newcomers, and there will be no familiar "sense of hearing".
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Every frame and every second is painstaking, the overall look and feel is quite advanced, I personally like it very much, but this bold adaptation of another way is bound to set off a bloody storm on the whole network...
As mentioned earlier, the reason why "Chainsaw Man" has become popular all over the world may be because fans are tired of the so-called "mainstream".
For a slightly experimental new animated work, Mina-san didn't give it a chance.