Netflix (hereinafter referred to as "Netflix"), which is known for its "not bad money", has always been extraordinary.
Whether it is the hit of self-made dramas such as "House of Cards" and "Super Sense Hunting", or buying the overseas copyright of domestic dramas such as "White Night Pursuit" and "River God".
Almost every move of Netflix will cause an uproar in the industry.
Especially in the past two years, Netflix has also continuously brought surprises to people on the road of restarting classic animation.
As the childhood memories of the post-80s, "Carmen the Thief" and "Saint Seiya" have been "hand-picked" by Netflix's father to restart, and will be broadcast in 2019 in the form of episodes.
Today's drama of AQi wants Amway is also adapted from a classic anime, which can be called Netflix's opening gift in 2018. It's just --
Demon Man
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The series is based on the 1972 manga Demon Man created by Japanese manga artist Hiroshi Nagai.
Along with Osamu Tezuka's Doctor Black Jack and Riyoko Ikeda's Rose of Versailles, it has been called the three most influential manga works of the 1970s.
This masterpiece is not only known for its intuitive display of violence and bloodshed, but also influenced many later Japanese manga with its advanced philosophical thinking, such as "Legend of the Sword Wind" and "EVA".
What exactly is a "demon man"?
Simply put, it is the union of demons and people.
Demons, first appeared in various religious myths, are symbols of evil.
In Demon Man, it's an ancient creature.
At first, the earth was ruled by demons, but because the "gods" hated this group of cruel and ugly demons, they decided to destroy the earth.
Satan objected to this, and in order to prepare for the next battle, he and the Demon Clan ceased to be on the earth as consciousness and began to sleep.
But when Satan wakes up to find that the earth has been ruled by humans, he cannot forgive the human beings who have defiled the beautiful earth, so he decides to resurrect the demon clan and exterminate the human race.
The plot of the new version of "Demon Man" mainly tells the story of the thrilling battle between the young fumizu who has obtained the power of the demon and the demon clan.
Before he became a demon man, Fu fu ming was just a cowardly crying ghost.
10 years ago, he met his friend Asuka, who, because he loved archaeology, accidentally discovered the existence of demons.
Later, Asuka took advantage of Fudoaki's kindness to unite him with the demon Ammon, making Fudoaki a "demon man" with both the powerful power of demons and the human mind.
However, in the process of constantly fighting against the demons, not only witnessing the death of relatives, friends and lovers, but also a great conspiracy is hidden at the end of the story, which is shocking.
This time, Netflix released 10 episodes of "Demon Man" at one time, and this new year's opening gift may also make many fans cheer.
But what surprised Ah Qi the most was the director of the play, Masaaki Yuasa.
This talented director in the Japanese animation industry not only worked as an animation designer for "Cherry Maruko", but also served as the supervisor and original artist of "Crayon Shin-chan".
And last year, he won two international awards for animated feature films.
"Spring is short, the girl is moving forward!" won the highest award in the feature section of the 41st Ottawa International Animation Festival in Canada.
"The Song of Dew That Announces the Dawn" won the "Crystal Award" in the feature section of the 26th Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France.
Throughout Yuasa's many works, they all carry distinctive branding and labels.
Strange painting style, cool scenes, and imaginative brain holes have become the unchanging style of his animation.
2004's "Mind Games" uses brilliant and dazzling colors and multi-angle free collage to let the audience experience a cool and flying movie viewing experience.
2010's "Four Stacks and a Half Myths Series" once again gained a large number of die-hard fans with its colorful and eerie painting style and narrative setting of parallel time and space.
Of course, the most well-known to Chinese audiences is probably "Ping Pong", which was once popular at Station B.
It is still a different style of painting, a unique color matching, but it has created a variety of table tennis players.
Masaaki Yuasa has always been highly acclaimed in the industry, and has been praised by Miyazaki as Japan's once-in-a-century genius animator.
But in Yuasa's view, he is still different from Miyazaki and Makoto Shinkai, and he did not consider the popular route from the beginning, but only wanted to do niche animation and shoot it for the audience he liked.
So it's no surprise that in 2013, with $200,000 from crowdfunding, he made a 13-minute short film, "Romeo and Juliet of Wrestling."
Speaking of the new version of "Demon Man", it is easy to think of Yuasa's previous work, "Beast Claw".
The two animations have many similarities, such as being bold in the presentation of erotic scenes and violent scenes, and trying to expose the dark side of human nature through grotesque images.
And that's where the show is best looking.
On the one hand, the new version of "Demon Man" exudes a distinct style of Masaaki Yuasa's works.
For example, at the beginning of the film, the opening of the film sets the tone of the entire animation with strange brushstrokes: dark and murderous.
Seemingly scattered patterns, still jumping out of the editing, but to create a sense of apocalyptic horror atmosphere.
Another example is the scene at the end of the first episode in which Fumuaki transforms into a demon man.
The contrast between the front and back is huge, the sense of ceremony is strong, and with kensuke Ushio's BGM soundtrack, it makes people's blood boil every minute.
For the yellow storm scene in the original work, Masaaki Yuasa is naturally not a word, and once again contributes a large-scale shot against the sky.
In the erotic part, you can still see the big contrast background that Masaaki Yuasa is good at, and the use of exaggerated and unrestrained lines.
For example, at the Sabbath party that summons demons, a group of young people who indulge their flesh fall into the path of demons in the midst of silence.
The violent part once again shows us Masaaki Yuasa's super ability to create action scenes with powerful lines.
Whether it is the great battle between Fudo Ming and the death of Li Li, or the final showdown between him and Satan, it is full of wild spirit and strong creativity.
On the other hand, it retains the essence of the original story.
In terms of characters, Masaaki Yuasa continues the basic settings in the original work, such as the aura of the Virgin of Miki.
Futamuaki's meticulous care for Miki, the character of Crybaby from the beginning to the end has not changed, and the compassion for human beings in the end is also close to the theme of the title.
In terms of the connotation of the story, through Satan's provocation of humans and demonic people, the ugly and dark side of human nature is exposed.
When Yukida, possessed by demons, begins to kill recklessly, causing panic in the human world.
Blind humanity listened to Satan's lies and began to involuntarily exterminate the people of society who might be demonic races.
Thus, human beings, who thought they were shouldering the banner of justice, began to do everything in the same way.
The main theme of this animation has also become more and more obvious in this murderous riot, that is, the exposure and reflection on the evil of human nature.
When Miko, one of the demon people, faces the muzzle of a human gun to protect the heroine Miki, she issues such a deafening question.
"What is human nature? What is kindness?
What is justice? What is correct? ”
When Fudoaki saw that Miki had been killed, he was even more indignant and grief-stricken.
"It's the devil, you're the devil!"
Strong authorial temperament, profound philosophical thinking, these have made this drama leap into another Netflix drama.
However, some people say that the adaptation of the new version of "Demon Man" is slightly different from the original version.
In the original version, the demon and human beings are portrayed as the poles of good and evil, the demon people are good, and the reason why human beings perish is precisely because of the sins of human beings themselves.
The new work obscures the concept of good and evil, focusing more on the portrayal of human alienation.
There is also a strong religious meaning in the original version, and the cold and hard temperament that has been carried out throughout has been relatively weakened in the new work, and it has become more gentle and peaceful.
However, in Ah Qi's view, these are all expedient measures of Yuasa Daijin in order to restore the work.
On the one hand, he has to take care of the fans of "Demon Man" and be faithful to the temperament and theme of the original book.
On the other hand, he also has to consider the general audience around the world, after all, Netflix, the world's largest streaming platform, faces a very wide audience.
However, even so, Ah Qi still has to say that "Demon Man" is still an animation work with a high threshold, it grows wildly, and it is full of warmth, directly lamenting the darkness of the world, while retaining the tiny light in human nature.
Only then is it unique.