Aloha, dear little friends old driver ~ it is time for this issue of "100,000 Whys" column! In this episode, Penguin Lady will still ask some questions about ACG and give brain-opening answers! If you still have any topics you want to discuss after the show, please do not hesitate to raise them in the discussion area of this issue, and the penguin lady may give answers in future columns
Q207. Why are the squirrels in Ice Age so obsessed with acorns?
Sources of Doubt: The Ice Age series
Puzzle Index: ★★★★
Event analysis: As a touch of coolness in the heat, unconsciously, the "Ice Age" series of movies has accompanied us through 15 cold and hot summers. There is no unbroken feast in the world, and the recently released "Ice Age 5" is the final chapter of the series, a section belonging to the Ice Age's unscientific science popularization department (?) The animation legend has come to an end - but in addition to sighing, the penguin lady has to throw out a question that has accumulated for more than ten years (please don't spit on the age of the penguin lady): The real protagonist of this series, why is the squirrel Quilt so obsessed with that acorn?
Speculative answer: It is said that this squirrel Quett's obsession with acorns is really terrible enough, in "Ice Age 1" he split the major plates of the earth for acorns, in "Ice Age 2" he caused a flood for acorns, in "Ice Age 3" he shuttled through major ancient civilizations for acorns, in "Ice Age 4" he created a continental drift to transform the earth's environment for acorns - so capable why don't you go to heaven? Well, as a result, Quit did not agree with the truth, in "Ice Age 5" for the acorns to enter the universe, boarded the saucer and directly created the solar system, triggering the asteroid to hit the earth, and incidentally destroyed the Martian environment at the critical period of biological landing... And the reason for all this "atrocities" is actually just an ordinary acorn that does not look amazing! Could it be that there is some earth-shattering secret hidden in this acorn?
That's right, in fact, this acorn has a lot of articles inside! The reason why Squirrel Quett spent more than ten years searching for this acorn is, of course, not simply for the sake of appetite! In fact, Ice Age 5 has already given the official answer: this seemingly ordinary acorn is the key to launching the series's most powerful killer - flying saucer, and the squirrel Quilt is not an ordinary rodent, he actually has a terrible ambition, and his real purpose is to become the creator & destroyer of the earth, the solar system and even the entire universe!
In fact, friends who have watched "Ice Age 5" must have found that when The Acorn "embedded" the joystick of the flying saucer, the behemoth that had appeared in the first generation but had been silent for more than ten years suddenly "came alive", and it was obvious that the acorn used as the key to activate the power system of the flying saucer! And The next performance of the living treasure seems to be a mistake, but it is actually testing the various functions of this flying saucer! And he quickly mastered the operating system, teleportation system, and weapon system, and at the end of this episode, he finally swept away the previous abuses and soared through the universe like an old driver! At this time, he no longer hid his ambitions, ruthlessly modified the solar system, and gave the moon the satellite to the best testing ground in his heart, the Earth (and incidentally destroyed the ecology of Mars, because it was not his favorite testing ground, the Creator was so willful)! It can really be said that "the acorn is in hand, the universe I have", and it is no wonder that he will chase this precious acorn with all his life from beginning to end!
Q208. Why does black always have intellectual properties?
Source of doubt: Various black long straight characters
Puzzle Index: ★★★
Event analysis: "character attributes" in anime works are an important means to improve the character's discernment, and among the many attributes, "black long straight" always seems to be linked to adjectives such as maturity, tradition, and stability, and has almost become synonymous with "intellectualism" - why is this?
Speculative answer: For this question, the penguin lady feels that it should be split into answers, yes, that is, from the two points of "black" and "long straight" (because the length and straight complement each other, if the hair is not long enough, it does not matter whether it is straight or not, so it should be parallel). The first is "black", we all know that the role of belly black is generally compared... Ah, no, no, no, the "black" of "black long straight" is not belly black, but a more concentrated and condensed state, after all, black is the final form formed after the mixing of various other colors, it is bound to have a kind of deep connotation of inclusiveness and eclecticism, which naturally leads to belly blackness, no, black hair characters are mostly more brainy, especially in anime works with colorful hair.
And "long straight" is better explained, after all, "straight" means that the character is not curved - huh? Where do you want to go? Lady Penguin means that the character has a very upright personality and tends to be conservative! This is why the characters of the Yamato Fuzi family in anime works are often black and straight, after all, after a big wave is dyed into a strange hair color, the kimono witch dress god horse is not too well - there is a brain and knowledge, and the personality is more upright and conservative, which will naturally create an unusually intellectual character image! It is not unreasonable to think carefully about the student president, class leader, and witch girl in the anime who are all black and straight! After all, these "identities" all need the attribute of "intellectuality" to cooperate with li Jufu! The penguin lady began to hesitate whether to get a long black straight hairstyle for herself
Q209. Why do many girls in anime get married at a young age?
Source of Doubt: "Clannad", "Dragon and Tiger"
Puzzle Index: ★★★
Event analysis: Friends who often pay attention to love theme anime works may have noticed such a strange phenomenon, although most of the protagonists in such works are only sixteen or seventeen-year-old high school students, but they often talk about marriage with their lovers without a word, and "getting married after graduation" seems to be a matter of course. In contrast, domestic high school students are often still in a state of hard work because of early love problems and parents/teachers. I'm afraid I can't even think about it. What exactly is causing such a large national gap?
Guess the answer: Before answering this question, Penguin Lady would like to share a piece of news with you: "The Ministry of Justice in District 11 is planning to raise the legal age of marriage for women from 16 to 18 years old." In fact, the main reason why there are so many high school brides in anime works is that the legal age of marriage in Japan for a long time is 16 years old for women and 18 years old for men, although the age increase is not large, but at least it can be seen that the 11 district governments are not very supportive of girls getting married at a young age! Penguin Lady believes that the main reason for this kind of folk and upper-class cognitive bias is the Japanese makeup art known as the "three major evil arts in Asia"!
Everyone knows that District 11 is a country with anti-heavenly makeup technology, and women are completely two people before and after makeup. In fact, from the beginning of entering the society, the Cherry Blossom Girls must carefully specialize in makeup techniques, and they tirelessly apply various foundations and lipsticks and blushes to their faces every day. Generally speaking, the watershed of this makeup is almost from high school graduation to college admission, that is to say, if you want to observe the plain face of a girl in your daily life, high school is the last time! For men, if you want to find a favorite girl to marry, at least before marriage, you must confirm whether the other party's plain face is the right appetite, from the beginning of college, every girl in front of you wears thick makeup, and you can't see the original face at all! Therefore, I can only quickly confirm at the high school level, and before the girls have time to disguise themselves, they have finalized the marriage event! But why doesn't the Ministry of Justice want to see this? Because this will affect the sales of cosmetics! After all, women are pleasing to themselves, once married, the girls' makeup momentum will also be slack, the desire for cosmetics is not as strong as before marriage, but cosmetics manufacturers and the upper echelons of District 11 are closely related, and the decline in sales will damage the interests of both sides, so naturally we must find a way to control it!
Okay, so today's 100,000 Whys? As always, any two-dimensional difficult questions that readers can not understand can be asked, and Penguin Lady will be very responsible to open her mind to answer for you, and compile it into the next issue of "100,000 Whys?" 》! What are you waiting for? Hurry up and challenge the omniscient penguin lady!
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