In the fairy tale about the years, there is a place called "Animation City", where "Big Windmill" is always creaking and turning. I want to ride on the time machine of "Doraemon", accompany "Xiaguang", sing "butterfly", walk through "Clouds of Life", and return to "Three Hundred and Sixty-Five Days of Thinking of You". There are my friends "Little Hero Nezha", the amazing "Monkey Brother", and the silly and cute "Eight Commandments"... Hello children's shoes, I am the ACG dimensional meal radio, welcome to today's "Anime Time Machine".
I don't know when, a "fine tradition" has arisen in China, that is, which animation film fire parents will report which one, "Rainbow Cat Blue Rabbit Seven Heroes Legend" is on fire, report fighting and killing! "Pleasant Goat and Gray Wolf" is on fire, report boiling water boiled sheep! "Nezha's Demon Boy Descending" is on fire, report the child for peeing!
In Ah Ji's view, these parents still "see too little in the world." Nezha felt unsightly when he soaked urine, so if he saw some of the plots in Japanese anime that year, he would not be able to stomp on the door of radio and television.
In addition to a type of "black and deep disability" works represented by Nagai Hiroshi anime, many all-age Japanese manga works are actually very large, such as the familiar "Ultraman". (Although Ultraman is a close-up, it can still be regarded as "anime" in a broad sense.) But many people don't know that the early Ultraman can actually be defined by "horror films".
Some people say that you are a machine boy who is blind, Ultraman who does not know, that is not a child to see the thing? Ultraman Fighting Monsters is a sci-fi movie at best. People who think this way are generally people from our uncles' and aunts' generation, because for Ultraman, they only hear its name, they don't know the truth.
In the early Showa Ultraman, the level of horror was actually not less than some of the current horror films. Let's take the 40 episodes of "Jack Ultraman" "Snow Girl Monster Signage" as an example to talk about why Ultraman can be called a "horror movie".
The Ultraman of the Showa system (the Ultraman series produced in the Showa period) is dominated by cool colors, and the contrast between light and dark colors is strong, and most of the shots show a sense of gloom.
Even everyday pictures are dark.
In the episode "Snow Girl Monster Signo Appears", the main stage of the story is the resort on the snowy mountain, and its main colors are simple: black and white. Black vacation homes, white snowy mountains, and the colors on the characters are very inconspicuous. The contrasting color of black and white is actually a typical "horror film" color, which will set off the horror atmosphere through strong visual contrast.
The main characters, Rumiko and Jiro, go on vacation on the snowy mountain, but something strange happens to the vacation cabin in the middle of the night, and Jiro sees the terrifying "Snow Girl" in the mountain. The following few pictures, the officials judge themselves, not afraid of your jokes, anyway, When Ah Ji saw this scene when he was a child, he was scared to pee (in addition, please make up the low-fidelity horror soundtrack by yourself).
Don't look closely
Especially this shot of the snow girl, after watching it, I feel that Sadako is small and fresh.
Sadako? Is it you Sadako?
When the Snow Girl appears, a newlywed couple in the cottage disappears. Upon learning of the situation, the SWAT team began to investigate, and they discovered that the real identity of the "Snow Girl" was likely to be an alien, and a mountain man recalled the details of the alien abduction of the newlyweds. Let's look at this memory picture again, dark blue + black and white, another classic horror film color, do not look at the storyline, just look at this picture is enough to make people creepy.
The horror of the color scheme is only one aspect, and in terms of plot, Ultraman's scary skills are also first-class. After identifying the killer, Township (Jack Ultraman's human form) and swat team members hunt down the aliens, and the exposed aliens "spit on the SWAT team".
According to the routine, the SWAT team members are not ok, and Ultraman should play. Sure enough, as a dazzling light radiated from The Township's body, Jack Ultraman appeared.
As a hero of children, a symbol of justice and light, Ultraman usually gives the impression of being invincible. In this episode, however, Ultraman's encounter is extremely tragic, with the Snow Girl monster freezing Jack whole and then... The body is divided, and this episode must not be reported by parents thousands of times.
God knows how cruel this scene is for us as children, watching our heroes being torn into several large pieces and rolling their heads to the ground. Seeing this scene, Ah Ji's whole body trembled, his hands and feet were cold, this society could not be better, everywhere was full of oppression of Ultraman, and I cried tears indisputably when I thought of it.
After watching this scene, I didn't sleep well all night when I was a child
"There are some pictures that are not suitable for display on the big screen, maybe the nerves of their time are relatively large, anyway, I can't imagine an underage child killing himself in front of the screen." 」 Asked why the plot of "cutting the bones and returning the flesh to the mother" was deleted, dumpling dumplings, the director of "Nezha's Demon Boy Descending", replied. The picture of "self-killing" refers to the scene in "Nezha Noisy Sea" in 79 years, of which Nezha is "self-killing", but the way of expression is actually more dramatic, far less realistic than the picture of "being divided into corpses" in Ultraman.
79th edition of "Nezha Noisy Sea": "Nezha killed himself"
However, it is not difficult to see that whether in China or Japan, the animation broadcast for children was actually not so exquisite. Ultraman was first undoubtedly a children's close-up, such a work full of horror elements but to show to a group of children, put to the present, parents want it three more dead, who dares to keep it to five more?
However, the children who watched Ultraman every day grew up and became part of society, some of them taught on the podium, some of them treated patients in the hospital, some of them sang on the stage, and some of them may be tapping their fingers on the keyboard quickly, telling everyone a story about "Ultraman". "Horror" Ultraman didn't make kids worse, why? Because the reason why Ultraman wants to make children feel fear is to teach children to defeat fear.
After Jack was "dismembered" by the monster, it wasn't long before his bracelet shone again, and the Giant of Light returned, eventually defeating the Snow Girl Monster and saving the kidnapped civilians. Darkness will eventually be defeated by light, and evil cannot triumph over justice, and although these truths may seem childish to you today, they are incomparably precious to children.
It is always difficult for people to simply believe one thing in adulthood, which is the complete opposite of childhood. But people who like Ultraman, who understand Ultraman, will always know when to "stay naïve". Because at all times, they have a pure childlike heart. Such a childlike heart will make them always full of love for the things around them, full of love for the world, and I believe that this is actually the most important thing That Ultraman wants to teach his children.
Well, the above is the entire content of the first issue of "Anime Time Machine", thank you for your attention, we will see you in the next episode!