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This is a super delicious push.
It is not difficult to see from the eight major cuisines and thirty-six cooking methods that people have never hidden their love for food. With the rise of the entertainment industry, many creators have also put this love into their works, and the network animation "Cute Wife Eater" is one of them.
"Cute Wife Eater" is originally a Mary Sue love novel, but the production team packaged the "gourmet" element as the highlight of the series, not only added the "kitchen lady transformation" section in the animation, but also used enough funds in the cooking production process. Each dish comes out of the pot with its own background, every taster can "ascend to heaven on the spot", and every tasting has a "full score essay"...
The audience is getting more and more up, and even many viewers want animation to develop towards pure gourmet animation. The exaggerated expression of food shots in the animation has added a new meaning to the story of the original routine, which has been developed for nearly 40 years by the expression method derived from Japanese food animation.
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According to manga researcher Nobuhiko Saito, Japanese cooking manga appeared in the 1970s. Among them, the technique of "combining text commentary during cooking duels" in the "Bao Ding Ren Wei Ping" born in 1973 has been used in food manga works to this day. In the process of the protagonist and the opponent to compete in cooking, the author will alternately use the onomatopoeia of Comic Regae font and the meticulous professional narration to create a tense atmosphere while popularizing the reader's knowledge of cooking. This imitation of sports competition commentary not only makes the cooking competition more reasonable, but also attracts many potential audiences for the work.
A large number of food comics that emerged after "Bao Ding Ren Wei Ping" mostly took professionals in the field of cuisine as the protagonists, and pursued to restore the real cooking process and the sense of food material, which can be described as an early "real" food comic. At that time, the story core of food-themed works was roughly the same as other genre comics, and the creators often used solid culinary knowledge as the basis for creation, and used the story content to reflect the current situation and problems of society at that time.
The manga "Delicious Challenge", which began serialization in 1983, is one of the best, and the author Tetsuya Yanya uses the protagonist Yamaoka's travels to introduce a variety of cuisines, popularize culinary knowledge, and explore the social problems that existed in Japan at that time.
In the chapter "Sturgeon Liver", Tetsu Yanya not only restores the details of the appearance of the sturgeon, grants the reader cooking skills by the hand of the protagonist, but also satirizes the social atmosphere of Japan's blind pursuit of extravagant life at that time through the story of "the liver under the ugly appearance of the trout is far better than the foie gras", conveying the concept that the cuisine should pay attention to the ingredients themselves and the life should be simple and true. What is admirable is that tetsu Yanya's "Real Fukushima" chapter, which he also created in 2014, sharply pointed out the impact of the legacy of nuclear pollution on Japan through the plot of the man's nosebleed after inspecting Fukushima.
In the mid-to-late 1980s, when Japanese manga entered a "golden age", manga artists worked hard to increase the competitiveness of their works, learned from the creation methods of popular themes, and integrated the plot conception of hot-blooded manga with cooking competitions, so that the protagonists constantly challenged stronger opponents and eventually became the pinnacle of the culinary world. In addition, the author also integrates the expression methods of blood-themed comics into the cooking process and tasting links, and increases readers' interest through the character "Yan Yi", brain-opening cooking, and unexpected cooking techniques.
The food comics that have developed here have jumped out of the previous creation methods, greatly expanded the scope of the subject audience, and effectively enhanced the competitiveness of food comics in the "hot blood" creative environment, and these innovative ways of expression of food comics have also been called "super series" by later anime fans.
In 1985, the manga artist BIG Ingot serial "Chef Mantaro" was deeply influenced by the sports manga of the same period, and the duel and commentary were fully integrated into the cooking process, making the cooking link in the manga very visually impactful. Early in the story, the blindfolded protagonist Mantaro triggers a skill: "My hands are out of my control!" And cut out the skin of a radish as thin as a cicada's wings that can float in the air." Later in the story, in the face of an opponent wearing protective clothing and holding a gas canister and grilling dozens of Osaka yaki at the same time, Mantaro hollowed out the Osaka ware center and let his "spiral ascension" produce suction to dip the opponent's bonito fillets on his own Osaka yaki, improving the deliciousness of our cuisine while preventing the other party from completing the cooking. The brain hole of this manga is "outrageous" enough even now, but once it accepts this setting, it will only become more and more "up".
Compared with "Chef Mantaro", which focuses on the duel process, "Little Chef with a Magic Hand", which was born the following year, opens up the creative idea of "genius protagonist" + "exaggerated reaction". The "Sunrise Pork Chop Rice" that appears in the manga carries all the good expectations people have for pork chop rice: the crispy shell is wrapped in thick pork chops, the mouth that echoes the "click" sound is also filled with the salty aroma of gravy, and the tender eggs and full rice grains make people call "perfect". In the manga, "You have the pleasure" to taste this delicious "Taste Emperor", a famous and famous person in the culinary world, but he was also shocked to the point of widening his eyes, and his assistant's reaction was even more exaggerated, and his hair directly soared into the sky.
"Little Chef" quickly gained popularity with its fun and professional story, becoming one of japan's earliest animated gourmet manga. The animated version not only fully shows the cooking techniques of the cuisine, but also uses more exaggerated audio-visual effects to take the expressiveness of the work to a higher level. In this animation more than thirty years ago, pork chop rice has been added with a "luminous agent" that emits a green beam, the tasters will also mutate the style of painting to produce a brilliant "full score composition", seafood cuisine can give people the ability to "escape into the illusion", let people directly "flash" the seashore... This provides many references for the animation of later gastronomic works, including the "Chinese Little Boss", which is most familiar to Chinese animation fans.
When "China Little Boss" was serialized, Ogawa First considered the impact of the picture and the fun of the cooking process, and then considered how to make dishes, so there are often unexpected fantasy dishes such as "Magic Panda Mapo Tofu", "Land Without Faces", "Big Universe Yakyo Sale" and so on. The exaggerated manga original made the animation production team more "self-indulgent", so in addition to classic pictures such as "Golden Legend", "Escape into the Illusion", and "Full Score Composition", the animation also created "Terriers" such as "Eat First Must Lose" and "Dark Cuisine", which are still talked about today.
The interesting movie-watching experience has made "China Little Boss" a food animation enlightenment work for domestic audiences, and even live-action film and television works have been deeply affected, one of Chow's representative works, "God of Food", has a cow ball with a Q bomb comparable to table tennis; the characters roll on the char siu meat; the internal force control of the heat to speed up the cooking speed and other surreal bridges.
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Nowadays, "China Little Boss" has been broadcast for more than 20 years, and various anime themes during this period have never stopped exploring and innovating, but the "super series" food animation has never departed from its origin, and has never departed from the "golden legend", "escape into the illusion" and "full score composition".
With the blessing of imagination, even ordinary things have infinite possibilities. As long as the author's brain hole is large enough, the food theme works can fully meet the audience's curiosity and expectations for delicious dishes.
In the age of information explosion, although people's pursuits and interests are different, the love of food is the same. Because the special form of animation is difficult to bring the audience the substantive experience of "fragrance" and "taste", the creators often emphasize the visual clues of food through exaggerated techniques, so that our brains make judgments of "delicious" and "want to eat".
Vision is the main channel for human beings to obtain information, and people are usually driven by visual cues when choosing food, which is supported by the experimental results of scientific research teams in various countries.
Charles Spence, an experimental psychologist at the University of Oxford, once did an experiment on color and taste, in which two identical glasses of white wine were tested, one of which was filled with red food coloring, and the result of different people tasting two glasses of wine was that most people thought that red white wine had a more rounded taste. Eventually, the experiment concluded that foods with bright colors and high calories tend to be more able to activate areas of the brain that taste and feel pleasure.
This is why many close-up shots of food documentaries can always make people eat their fingers, such as the barbecue close-up in "A String of Life", the smoke slowly drifting out to reveal the oily skewers on the grill, the red paprika on the skewers, the white sesame seeds, the green onions mixed together, and the flames that emerge from time to time make the aroma rush to the nasal cavity. When looking at the entrance of the skewer, the grease and spices that spilled out of the corner of the mouth were wiped by the hands of the hands without any attention, and the skewers continued to be stuffed into the mouth, and the ingredients that occasionally fell off the screen were distressed, even if they knew that they were watching the "dark cuisine" roasted silkworm chrysalis, they also wanted to bravely try the taste of the bursting pulp.
In addition, the research team of Yokohama National University in Japan also pointed out that in addition to the color of the food will affect the taste, the gloss of the food will also affect people's actual perception of the texture and taste of the food. So there is no shortage of food advertising and food industry shops, using some strange things instead of food to shoot posters, just to make the food look more delicious and delicious. For example, the soft cake is sandwiched with cardboard, the cream that does not collapse is shaving foam; the oats that cannot sink are milky white glue in the bitter support; the muffins poured on the muffins are not sweet honey, but pungent gasoline...
But these problems can be easily solved in animation, only need superb animation production technology, you can pass the color and fragrance beauty of the dish to the "diners" off-screen through a very impactful picture, which brings visual and taste double stimulation far beyond the audience's imagination, far more than the food in the advertisement.
More than 40 years after the birth of food-themed works, this genre has also incorporated more and more popular elements, such as the "bursting clothes" setting in "Spirit of the Eater", and the fusion of food and otherworldly themes in "Delicious Captives". The identity of the protagonist of the work is becoming more and more diverse, and the theme of the story is becoming more and more complex and changeable, but no matter how gorgeous the real-life cuisine is wrapped, the closeness between people and diet can make up for the taste of Q bomb, crisp and soft glutinous from the middle brain, salty, spicy and sweet. The food culture and emotional significance of the food that stimulates the sense of closeness are the reasons for the long-term prosperity of the gastronomic theme.