When it comes to anime, people first think of Japan.
Not to mention the works of Ryunosuke Wasagawa and Hayao Miyazaki, let's say that Yoichi Takahashi's "Football Boy" is also a household name.
At that time, there was also an anime in Japan, called "Demon God Altar Fighter", which was the ancestor of the armor series, which combined the Japanese Warring States culture with the Chinese Confucian culture.
Benevolence, righteousness, wisdom, and faith belong to righteousness, so the five demon god altar fighters are the party of justice; loyalty and filial piety belong to private morality, and the four demon kings belong to the camp of darkness.
In the play, the main characters such as the flame god Sanada Liao, the water god Maori Shin, the god of heaven Yu Shibadangma, and the radiant god Date Seishi have different weapons.
Familiar with the history of japan's Warring States, you know that they are related to Sanada Yukimura, Motonori Mori, Hideyoshi Hashiba, and Masamune Date.
When they put on their armor and prepare for battle, they will shout: "xx god, arm up"; when launching a big move, they will say: "Super bounce · xx chop".
Nowadays, although the picture of "Demon God Altar Fighter" at that time was not as clear as it is today, it still does not affect its becoming a classic and becoming the memory of a generation.
What makes us think deeply is that Japan can skillfully apply Confucian culture to anime and manga, and it is perfectly compatible with its own Warring States culture.
Our History in China is so long, not to mention that Confucian culture is ours, can't we make this kind of animation?
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A domestic anime masterpiece that attracts audiences by "playing drama"
The reason for the success of "Demon God Altar Fighter" is to capture the audience of the anime to the young people, attract young people, the cultural connotation is secondary, and the surging "feeling" is the first.
The success of the Thunderbolt Bag Drama stems from this, which is also worth learning from other domestic animations.
On April 24 this year, "One Man Under 3", adapted from the manga of the same name by Mi Er, co-produced by Penguin Film and Television and Tencent Animation, and broadcast exclusively by Tencent Video, finally met with the majority of fans in thousands of calls.
To the great surprise of many fans, "One Man Under 3" not only continued the high level of animation production in the previous season, but also added an unprecedented and exciting 8-minute play scene with vivid action, which made many fans and animation audiences addicted.
"It's really amazing that domestic animation can play so coolly!" Fans have said.
In this fight scene, the opponent and the two naturally have the "internal strength" competition in Chinese martial arts, which is manifested on the screen, that is, the light waves are mutually intimidating, and a casual shot is dusty.
But close hand-to-hand combat, but also fist to flesh, the moves change is complex, it looks like electric light flint, the two have actually passed a lot of moves.
In order to show the protagonist's martial arts proficiency, when the fist is about to touch the other party, in the form of slow motion, we can see the protagonist's dodging at the moment of a thousand gunshots.
This fight scene makes us feel that it is obviously a special effect bonus, but it is so real.
It turned out that the martial arts director who was responsible for the 8-minute play in the second episode of "One Man Under 3" was Huang Chengxi, who had brought Chinese kung fu elements such as Wing Chun, Tai Chi, and Bagua Palm into the "Hirohito Biography" animation, and was called "the first person to make "Naruto" in China" by netizens.
This kind of 2D animation is indispensable to make such a high-level play, investing a lot of financial resources, manpower and energy to carefully polish it.
To take a particularly intuitive example, when Huang Chengxi previously directed the 65th episode of "Bo Ren Biography", the number of shots reached 510, and the number of paintings directly reached 18,000, which has reached the usual level of 2-3 times in terms of data alone, and the difficulty of production is evident.
The reason why "One Man Under 3" has to spend a lot of energy and material resources to do this fight is mainly because the entire IP of "One Man Down", from content to operation, has always emphasized the "sense of reality".
As early as the early stage of the project, "One Man Under 3" has proposed to use a wonderful fight scene to show the charm of Chinese martial arts in an animated way, reflecting the visual needs of a refreshing and refreshing feeling.
However, the problem is that the original manga does not actually use much ink to depict this battle, and the animated version can only be presented in an action deduction + original way.
As a result, the animation production team spent a lot of effort to enrich the details of this fight, not only studied a large number of Chinese martial arts boxing movements, but also carefully studied the lens framing and character dynamics of various martial arts film and television works, and strived to achieve the ultimate in this fight scene.
It seems that behind this is the hard work and sweat of Chinese animators to have today's results.
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"Under One Man" not only has a fight scene
Of course, the highlights of "One Man Under 3" are not limited to this.
For anime, cultural connotation is secondary, but the role of culture is hidden and lasting.
The Thunderbolt Bag Drama is due to the unsatisfactory plot, even if it is a wonderful martial arts drama, it has also hurt the hearts of many old fans.
"Under One Man" is not so bad.
From the opening song, it begins to exude its ghost animal power, "Picking flowers in the first month without yo flowers, picking flowers in February is blooming, peach blossoms are red like the sea in March, and grape racks are blooming in April...".
This song "Endless" is the re-arrangement and polishing of the mountain song "Picking Flowers" by the creative team, and finally realizes the fusion of "tradition" and "popular". This magical music and the plot of secondary two, the combination is called a "pearl combination"!
Due to the strong "Beijing flavor" in the stage setting where the story takes place, the production team of "One Man Under 3" also pays special attention to introducing and reproducing a large number of beijing regional cultural characteristics.
Animation directors have led the production team to Beijing for many times to take real scenes, from various iconic attractions or buildings to ordinary vendors and food details, all of which are integrated into the animation production process under the premise of ensuring the unity of style, so as to ensure the success of the work to create a "sense of reality".
In the film, Wang Ye, the rich second generation of "handsome" + "golden", has a strong Beijing flavor on his body: "Zhang Chulan, you are a grandson thief!" ”
Moreover, "Under One Man" also does a lot of exploration of human nature.
The positive and negative factions of "Under One Man": the whole nature and the Heavenly Master Dao, black and white are not completely different.
In the villain all-sex organization, there are also gentlemen who are righteous and keep their promises, such as Lü Liang; there are also righteous people who dare to take responsibility, such as Gong Qing, the all-sex temporary sect leader, who knows that he is invincible, but he still fights against the top Zhang Tianshi.
However, the so-called decent people are not lacking in scum, such as Wang Wei and Chen Jinkui in the "Ten Guys", who act fiercely and unscrupulously, and have no decent elderly demeanor at all.
"Under One Man" seems to be saying: it doesn't matter to stand in line, the world is not completely black and white. Standing in line and where you are, does not determine what kind of person you become! Because, people are complex!
The world is full of "bad guys" with strengths and "good guys" with flaws.
And this also happens to be the embodiment of the "yin and yang" of Chinese Taoist thought, there is no absolute, only relative!
And that's not all, Taoist culture even pervades the entire film.
For example, the source of the so-called superpower's strength is the Taoist qi (炁)! As the protagonist, Zhang Chulan is hiding the strongest ability, the body source stream of [qì].
Another example is the superpower of the aliens, which borrow a lot from the Taoist techniques: Zhang Chulan's Golden Light Spell is one of the eight great mantras of the Taoists, the Lei Law is the Daoist Supreme Law, Wang Ye's Fenghou Qimen, Zhuge Qing's Wuhou Qimen, and Xiao Xiao's Qi [xǐng] Qi (referring to the techniques of the Second General of Hum Ha) are also Taoist techniques.
In addition, the names of the episodes "Under One Man" are almost all from Taoist mantras, such as:
Episode 1's "Listen to My Words, God Admires Ghosts" comes from quanzhenjiao's "Persuasion of the World".
The Taoist thought in the film is by no means as simple as the embellishment of the film, it is also responsible for connecting and promoting the entire plot.
In the second season of Luo Tianda, the Heavenly Destiny Little Daoist King also said a passage of the Qing Jing Jing in order to persuade Zhang Chulan not to cling to the past.
Wang Ye, who "brushed his clothes and went away, hiding his merits and fame deeply", always seemed to have a look of no energy, not arguing, going with the flow, and showing the quiet and inaction of the Taoists.
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The rise of Chinese animation
It is precisely because "Under One Man" integrates culture and drama into the plot that the hard work of the production team has paid off, and the Douban score has reached 8.8 points.
Attracting people with martial arts and retaining people with plots is the path explored by "Under One Man".
The Thunderbolt Bag Drama is also trying to adjust, and the screenwriter Luo Ling returns, and the male number one who has no desire to talk about the master and disciple of Su Zhen is not willing to be praised, which can be said to be a kind of "correcting the chaos and returning to the original heart." ”
Whether it is the success of "Under One Man" or the detour of the Thunderbolt Bag Drama, it is a meaningful attempt to make a meaningful attempt for the rise of Chinese animation.
Japan has previously cooperated with Perak on "The Sword Tour of the Eastern Fence", and this time "Under One Man" has also been involved by Japanese animation companies.
Letting the animation power take the initiative to cooperate shows that Chinese animation can be expected in the future.
In addition, recently came out of the national comic "Under One Man" to shoot a live-action movie version of the news, while looking forward to it, but also a little worried, I hope that the film producers will seriously produce, do not ruin this conscience anime.