Whenever there is an exam, there are always some forms of cheating that are breathtaking.
For example, after a college entrance examination candidate in Hubei Province, after painstaking efforts and using a variety of secret means to successfully obtain an external network connection, the ultimate cheating strategy of TA is:
Open a certain problem tutoring APP to search for answers to questions.
This candidate is a veritable "smart and stupid uncle": the little cleverness lies in the fact that he really broke through the heavy communication defenses of the examination room, and the stupidity lies in uploading the admission ticket to the APP and searching for the original new college entrance examination questions in the APP's public database.
If this candidate can really find the answer through the tutoring APP, it is definitely a genius that is unparalleled in the cheating world, and this potential, strength and luck are not enough to open a Gundam.
Gundam is not very far from this classmate's examination room, there is one in Shanghai, and the distance is only 1,000 kilometers.
"Max Gundam" sits in Shanghai Jinqiao
On May 28, Shanghai Jinqiao LaLaport Mall unveiled a statue of the Great Freedom Gundam. Bandai Namco announced a new multimedia project for the "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED" series at the unveiling ceremony.
Among them, in addition to new animations, comics, and assembly models, there is also a new game for the world.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="20" > behind the legendary car gods</h1>
This rare Gundam SEED theme game is still in the state of "three noes", and only the words "officially decided to develop" are for fans to guess.
Details of the game have not yet been revealed
Since the new game can't be talked about, we may wish to review the two animations of "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED" and the sequel "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED DESTINY" to dig up the story behind the animation.
What we want to talk about here is not the bloody storm between "seed kitchen" and "kind of black", not the various references and reshaping of the old Gundam works by the SEED series, but an old animation with a completely different world view from the SEED series.
It's called High Intelligence Equations.
Before getting to the point, let's tell a small story: the villain forces try to steal a high-tech machine that is about to be put into use, and the genius teenager coincidentally becomes its irreplaceable driver, and fights the villain with the help of his teammates.
I didn't expect an accident to happen, and the original machinery was seriously damaged. The teenager is difficult not to die, but also get a more advanced new car, and from then on embark on the road to becoming a "god"...
Think you're talking about Kira Yamato from Gundam SEED? Wrong.
The boy is actually named Kazemi Hayato, and is the legendary car god in "High Intelligence Equation".
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="129" > "Futian dual-use card"</h1>
"HighLy Intelligent Formula", also known as "Thunderbolt Racing" in many people's childhood memories, was released between 1991 and 1998, including a TV version and four OVAs. The animation revolves around the fictional Cyber Formula GPX car race, telling a bloody story on the track.
The wind sees Hayabusa
The supervisor of the "High Intelligence Equation" series is named Fukuda Tsuneyoshi; there is a person in the screenwriting team named Chiaki Ryozawa. That's right, it's the supervision and chief writer of Gundam SEED and Gundam DESTINY.
When it comes to the inspiration for the Gundam SEED series, fans always think of early Gundam animations such as Mobile Suit Gundam 0079, but "High Intelligence Equation" is always forgotten.
In fact, "High Intelligence Equation", as an early work of Fukuda and Ryozawa, can be said to be the original intention of the couple. When the two took over the creation of the Gundam SEED series, they naturally remembered this original intention.
Top: Asrada Bottom: Freedom
So, in "Gundam SEED" and "Gundam SEED DESTINY", in addition to the protagonist setting, the car color and the story direction and some similarities with "High Intelligence Equation", we can also see -
"SEED Capabilities" and "ZERO Fields" that also greatly stimulate potential;
Top: Into ZERO Field Bottom: SEED Capability Explosion
Voice actors such as Koono Mishi, Shunhiko Seki, and Shuichi Ikeda;
Supporting brothers who are separated from two universes and cannot be recognized for life;
Left: Annie, High Intelligence Equation SAGA Right: Yitzhak, Gundam SEED series
As if carved out of a mold — even the voice actor is Shuichi Ikeda — the villain;
Left: Kyoshiro Nayomo, High Intelligence Equation series Right: Speaker Dilandar, Gundam SEED DESTINY
And so on, and the ubiquitous, near-saturation bombing, overwhelming mix-use cards.
For example, in "High Intelligence Formula", Kazemi and his car Asrada were blessed by misfortune when practicing the car, and developed a crooked trick of using a fan to float and turn, and have since become a "fan demon" on the track.
The aslada fan cornering of the high tension storyboard has also appeared on the screen repeatedly since then, blowing the audience at the same angle.
In "Gundam SEED" and "Gundam SEED DESTINY", the destructive "multicolored cannons" of the Freedom Gundam, as well as many shots of attacks, deformations, and hidden bridges on the battlefield, are often used again and again, making people feel the fear of being dominated by the "Futian Dual Use Card" again.
But just that doesn't seem to be much of a talking point, after all, the use of a combined card is a cost-saving method of Japanese animation, and it is not a Fukuda original. The "powerful" thing about Fukuda is that some shots will even be used across works to become a "bridge" connecting the two animation series.
For example, in the opening animation, the composition is the same:
Top: High Intelligence Equation SIN OP Next: Gundam SEED DESTINY OP
For example, in the main film, it seems that the protagonist's house is only partially remodeled:
Top: High Intelligence Equation SIN 01 Next: Gundam SEED DESTINY 08
It is said that in the future, Fukuda also participated in the "Wheel Dance of Angels and Dragons", which also used a lot of SEED series storyboards, but the author has not seen this aircraft battle, so I will not explore it for the time being.
In short, Futian does not miss any opportunity to use both, and fans will not miss any opportunity to play terriers. Also released on May 28, the new Gundam SEED series includes a manga called Mobile Suit Gundam ECLIPSE, in which the new protagonist pilots a deformable Gundam called "Eclipse".
Deformable up to eclipse
Although the manga does not seem to have Fukuda directly involved in the creation, it is still the work of the SEED series. So shortly after the eclipse mechanism was announced, such a picture appeared on the Internet:
Ostensibly a Mobile Suit Gundam Eclipse, is it actually a highly intelligent Formula Racer clad in Gundam skin, Asrada?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="130" > idols its table, cruel in it</h1>
However, the setting is inherited, the camera is used both, and Fukuda and Ryozawa are not completely self-repetitive.
Overall, the Equation High And the Gundam SEED series are actually very different. The former is youthful, hot-blooded, pure, and even if there are occasional villains, they are more of a tool to promote the plot than a representative of the core contradiction. Most of the racing on the Cyber Formula field can be called gentleman's battles.
The latter is different. Although the Gundam SEED series is often complained that it is too idolized, there is still a cruel war reality under the cloak of idols.
While, like many Gundam anime, set against the backdrop of the conflict between Earth and the Cosmic Colony, the Gundam SEED series also establishes a confrontation between ordinary humans and genetically modified "adjusters", pushing racial tensions to an unprecedented prominence.
Travel to the CF GPX Trophy of the SEED Universe
Released at the beginning of the century, Gundam SEED was a huge success, perhaps because it took the idol route without forgetting the unique face of reflecting reality.
I don't know how much of the original SEED flavor can be experienced in new works such as anime, manga, and games in the future?
I don't know if these new works will be like the GPX car race trophy in Kira's room in "Gundam SEED DESTINY", and then bury some "High Intelligence Equation" memes?
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