With no birds and animals, no people, or even almost no sound, the distant South Pole is no different from the universe for four Japanese female high school students, or even farther than the universe. The core team of the animation "No Game" (No Life) has gathered again to tell a female high school student Antarctic youth story, called "Farther Than the Universe".
Antarctica, because of the extremely cold harsh environment, pure white landscape has become an indispensable element of the achievement of legendary stories, with the development of science and technology, Antarctica seems to be less inaccessible, many film and television works like to use Antarctica as the background, such as Sakai's "Antarctic Cuisine Man", the recently released domestic movie "Antarctic Lover", and earlier there are takuya Kimura starring in the movie "Antarctic Continent" and earlier Takakura Ken starring in the movie "Antarctic Story", Doraemon and Bugs Rabbit have also had adventures in Antarctica.
Showcasing the extreme environment of Antarctica, the creatures that live in Antarctica, etc. seems to be no longer new to the audience. Much of "Farther Than the Universe" focuses not on "Antarctica" but on "going to Antarctica.".
High school sophomore tamaki has always been secretly determined to make some amazing feats in youth, but she usually has no opinion, after hearing that the same grade girl Obuchizawa Hinose wanted to go to the South Pole, she unexpectedly aroused interest in antarctica and began to plan. Obuchizawa's mother, who was once a member of the first Japanese civilian expedition team, disappeared in the process of scientific expedition to Antarctica, and the thought of his mother turned into Obuchizawa's obsession with Antarctica, and he began to prepare early.
Self-taught schoolgirl Hyuga Miyake boldly and constructively wants to go crazy before facing the college entrance examination, eavesdropping on Tamaki and Kobuchizawa's conversation and deciding to join the team heading for the South Pole. Fortunately, they happened to meet the child star Shiraishi Yukizuki, who was responsible for media broadcasting in the civil scientific expedition team, and Shiraishi, who originally resisted the cold place, felt the enthusiasm of the three people yearning for antarctica, so he helped the three people get the opportunity to go to the Antarctic with the scientific expedition team.
Four female high school students began to go to the Antarctic youth road, the overall tone of the story is bright and warm, the Introduction and Instructions of Antarctic Scientific Expeditions and the Confusion of Female High School Students are interspersed with each other, the feelings are sincere, lively and funny, suitable for watching in this season when the cold main opinion fades and spring quietly comes.
The original concept of the production team was to describe the youth story of cute girls, but looking at the field of anime, all the campus club activities seem to have been depicted, and it is not easy to innovate, so it is better to make a fuss about the club itself and let the protagonist go to a rare place to see. In this way, four female high school students were "assigned" to the South Pole by the makers.
"Farther Than the Universe" is a fictional story, female high school students have not yet been able to participate in the Antarctic expedition team, but the animation is still very meticulous, in the Antarctic to become the most expensive destination for the Spring Festival holiday of the Year of the Dog, "Farther Than the Universe" may provide some useful reference for audiences who want to go to Antarctica.
The Antarctic research ship in the cartoon refers to the real Japanese Antarctic research ship "Shirase" - the name of this ship is pronounced the same as the name of the female number two Obuchizawa in the cartoon "Hose", and the Japanese expedition team arrived in Australia from Japan and then boarded a ship from Australia to the South Pole. As a transit station, Australia provides fresh food supplies for expedition teams that have long been far from civilized society, contributing to the healthy life of expedition members – of course, Japanese expedition members will also buy alcohol in Australia, and the wine is tax-free, which is more economically cost-effective than bringing it from Japan to Antarctica.
Every year, Japan will send a scientific expedition team to the Antarctic, the object of the expedition is very diverse, most of the expedition team members are scientists, of course, there are some engineers responsible for the construction of Antarctic scientific research bases and mechanical equipment, there are doctors, cooks and other less special professional practitioners. The "wintering team" that spends a year in Antarctica is called the "summer team", and it is the "summer team" that only performs scientific expeditions in the summer half of the southern hemisphere, and the summer team usually has "companions", who may be teachers, journalists, graduate students and overseas researchers.
Expeditions to Antarctica require a long period of training, physical fitness tests and mental tests, and in addition to courage and enthusiasm, they also need perseverance, which are very different from the female high school students with huge emotional fluctuations in the cartoon.
Compared with the Japanese anime those big popular battle themes, the painting style is clear, the production of meticulous to the details of the women's toilet "Farther Than the Universe" focuses on the heart of adolescent girls, fiction and exaggeration, can let the audience experience the courage to move forward, and even some rampage of high school students for the yearning for the unknown world and the desire to explore, the so-called "youth" core spirit is exactly so, fearless, brave pursuit, not afraid of shame, and even rely on the power of the spirit to overcome various difficulties, the most important thing is not to do it now, Some things are too late - regret is the most sorry thing for "youth"!