About two years ago, there were rumors of the production decision for the fourth season of "All Metal Frenzy" (hereinafter referred to as "All Gold"). For so many years, although there was often similar news from time to time, but in the end it all disappeared, and many all-gold powder like me had long been commonplace. Full gold 4 out, a lifetime of Kyoto black, this ridiculous sentence has also been circulating in the anecdote for more than ten years, is it going to come out with a new version of the model, first create a momentum to speculate and then say. It wasn't until october of that year that the Fontasia Bunko Thank You Festival, "Full Metal Frenzy!" Invisible Victory was animated, produced by XCBEC, and the Flying Very Merry Christmas chapter was released as a radio show. The majority of fans realized that the long-awaited series of life was finally coming.
▲ There is a full 13 years between the third season of TSR and the fourth season of Invisible Victory
Perhaps it is a good thing to grind, the full gold 4 originally scheduled for the fall of 2017 has been postponed to the spring of 2018 for some reason. Coincidentally, there was a delay in the first season of the anime. When the events of 9/11 occurred that year, fearing that some sensitive settings in the work would give rise to additional problems, the full gold 1 originally scheduled for the autumn of 2001 was postponed to the spring of 2002. Sure enough, the review of this kind of military theme works is more stringent, but it is also the scarcity of this kind of theme in the market, coupled with its own quality is good enough, to promote this series to not fall all year round.
▲ The Shun'an incident involving hijacking was a sensitive topic in 9/11
All Metal Frenzy is an adaptation of the light novel of the same name by Japanese writer Shoji Hedong. The story is set in a semi-overhead world modeled on the real world at the end of the 20th and early 21st centuries, the Cold War has not ended, the Soviet Union has not disintegrated, and China is divided into capital communism and north and south with the Yangtze River as the boundary (because of this special setting, He Dong was once defined as a right-winger in China). With the rapid development of military science and technology, the human-type mobile weapon ARM SLAVE (hereinafter referred to as AS) appeared and quickly became the main force of the armies of various countries. In the cold war atmosphere of the world, the East and the West, which never confront each other, maintain their power in various sensitive regions, and terrorist organizations are behind the leadership of conflicts in which AS participates in the war, in a vain attempt to break the military balance and trigger a world war. The work tells the story of the protagonist mercenary Sosuke Sagara, who is ordered to protect the heroine Chidori with special abilities against a terrorist organization.
▲ The political position has been clarified
At first glance, the main theme of the work does not seem to be superior, but the world view, scientific and technological background, character settings and other elements are close to realism, but they are not completely equivalent to the real world, retaining a certain surreal imagination space. The intricate world pattern, the exchange of intelligence between countries, the military contest between organizations and organizations, and the trust and betrayal of people are all displayed through the unique perspective of a teenager, and this strong sense of conflict, I think, is the real charm of this work. In addition, a large number of daily depictions are also one of the highlights of the work. The protagonist himself is a teenager, the boss is a girl, the partner is also a girl (let's say the heroine is a partner), the hazy feelings and funny bridges between boys and girls are in line with the majority of teenagers' hobbies, and at the same time, they can serve as a good transition between battle chapters, making the work not dull and relaxed.
▲The campus chapter is still regarded as an everyday funny god
The full English name of Quanjin is "Full Metal Panic", which should be a tribute to the classic American war movie "Full Metal Shell" (Atang Ge's 2014 "Edge of Tomorrow" heroine nicknamed Full Metal B*tch, should also be a tribute to this film). In episode 5 of the second season of the anime, when Sosuke was training the school football team, he sang the song of the instructor training recruits in "All Metal Shell", but changed the lyrics. Therefore, in the anime, you can see the unique military culture memes everywhere, some funny, some serious, all of which bring some hardcore elements to the work. Speaking of names, in fact, the Translation of the Taiwanese version is called "Explosion Crisis", I think the translation is also good, but the lack of "all metal" three words seems to lack the thickness of military themes. And why is it not a literal translation in China but translated into "All Metal Frenzy"? It turned out that at the beginning of the domestic translation of "all metal panic", in Japan there was a "complete metal riot" statement, it seems that The Chinese and Japanese otaku are all English hands. Later, with the efforts of mainland translators and ACG enthusiasts, it was gradually unified into "All Metal Frenzy", which should be a more in line with the artistic conception of the translation.
▲Full metal shell stills
He Dongzhaoji is definitely a geek in the light novel industry, dropping out of the economics department of the university when he was young, entering a game company as a screenwriter, and writing novels for games. After slowly writing a name, he debuted as a serial writer of Fujimi Shobo, during which he published works such as "Penglai Academy", "All Metal Frenzy", "All Anti-Drug Frenzy", "Gancheng Brilliant Paradise Savior" and so on. In addition, he has also served as an animation series composition and script, such as the well-known "Cool Palace", "Lucky Star", "Ice Cream", etc., he has participated in the script design. It can be found that these works do not belong to the same theme, and He Dong can control it freely, which shows the high level of his achievement in literary creation.
▲He Dongzhao II
As a fighter anime, mechanical settings are often more important than character design. The mechanism of the all-gold series has always been held by Kanetake Kaiogawa, and the representative works include the "Gundam 000" series, the "Gundam AGE" series and related model supervision in addition to the full gold. His machine thinking is very open-minded, very divergent, but also very systematic. The all-gold series body has a small head, a slender and tight torso, slender and powerful limbs, and other details are also handled reasonably. In layman's terms, it can not only make the mechanical house feel full of mechanical feeling, but also make the average person feel quite human-like beauty. Kailaokawa should be among the best among his contemporaries, and some people even compare him with old predecessors such as Kakuki Zhao and Nagano Go, but he is relatively low-key, and only published a collection of his own set works in 2015.
▲ The King of Hell (villain Kowloon) set the original draft
Since we talked about models, let's talk about it by the way. To be honest, the popularity of all gold in the past few years was not high, and it was not easy to buy a genuine all-gold series model in China. I once bought the ARX-7 of the Robot Soul series on a treasure (the protagonist Sosuke Sagara's early car), and the owner repeatedly stressed the guarantee of Direct Mail in Japan, and as a result, made in China on the back of the package. When the all-gold 4 was broadcast, the major model manufacturers invariably launched the re-edition of the all-gold series, and other models also gave way, making the entire New Product Market in April occupied by the All-Gold series. If you start, I recommend on the assembly model, Bandai re-edition just out, the supply is sufficient and the quality is OK, the D-style version of Shouya is cost-effective, if you are not bad money, you can enter the ALTER version, there is a collection value, but the supply is scarce, it is not recommended to enter the Qingdao she version.
▲Bandai ARX-7 re-edition
At present, the fourth season has been broadcast to episode 9, and it should be the end of the Nansang chapter. The length of the season is to carry the content of 3 volumes of the novel, and the animation is inevitably a bit rushed in the plot. The combat storyboard also doesn't feature full hand-drawn but CG+ hand-drawn detailing, and it's clear that XCBEC learned the lessons of GONZO in its first season. Although the full-hand painting surface is more refined and smooth, the cost is too high. CG sometimes brings a certain sense of violation to the picture, but it can make up for some by hand-drawing details. This should be fully considered to save costs and weigh it, after all, the full gold is a fan to the work, it is not easy to win the production company and funds, and it may be necessary to comprehensively integrate the sales of DVDs and models to decide whether to make up another season to finish the whole work. But anyway, as a fan, you will wait for the big ending of this boy meets girl story. (End)