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Today, let's talk about it, and it has been rated as one of the Japanese manga gods- the "Gate of the Stone of Destiny" series.
The Gate of the Stone of Destiny
"All this is the choice of the Stone Gate of Destiny!" This is a line that is very famous in the global ACGN field and is often used to play with memes.
The entire series of games + anime in "Gate of destiny stone" mainly tells the story of a secondary two researcher, Phoenix Temple Horigen (real name Okabe Ryutaro), who invented/improved the time machine in order to save his dead friend/lover, and went through hardships, thus changing the timeline again and again, traveling through parallel universes and finally successfully saving the world and the story of close friends and lovers.
Despite his own ingenuity and a time machine, he found that no matter how much he struggled, the future would lead to an inevitable end—the death of a close friend or lover (or even worse, The Third World War), a fatalistic and irreversible physical law of "world line tightening", as if to show him that this was an inevitable fate, and that humanity's struggle was worthless and nothing in the face of fate.
In the end, even in the face of the world line where the entire human race will perish - because of the third world war caused by the time machine, the protagonist is still revived from the blows of failure against fate again and again, and finally pays a huge sacrifice to save his best friend, lover and the whole world.
The key point in time - the protagonist who faces the threat of life and death
The protagonist and his party are working out plans to prevent the unfolding of the "World War III" world line
Despite facing the darkest, most painful, and unknown future, Rintaro Okabe, who chose to escape and cowardice like ordinary people, finally straightened his waist again, and decided to carry out the plan to deceive the world line and the future in the posture of The Second Century—"I, the phoenix-infernal fierce, now declare that I will let the whole world go to the battle of the world line of the Stone Gate of Destiny!" ”
The animation freeze frame of this frame is one of the few "famous scenes" in Japanese manga works.
At this moment, I think the courage in him is incomparable.
"Even if I will eventually disappear and be forgotten by everyone, I have traveled through time and space and experienced pain and suffering, not only to save the world, but also to save you." 」
"Confrontation Moment"
It can be said that this is a Japanese anime version of "Reverse Future" + "Back to the Future", which is indeed a good work.
Under the brain-burning plot, sci-fi setting, and complex narrative techniques, there are colorful and flesh-and-blood characters - Makise Hongliqi, Shiina Masayuki, Hashida Toshi, Akibari Ryuho, Ryuwako, Awan yin Reiwa, Hiyasei Makoto, Kiryu Mengyu... Each character comes to life, making you feel that they are real beings, under the dome of fate, those ordinary people with flesh and blood.
The protagonist's hair is small / and close friend - Shiina Masayuki
Human beings must be born imperfect, and it is rare that human beings can recognize their own defects and deficiencies. Most people in the world will fall into panic, insecurity, confusion, and depravity.
Classic lines from the play
Although, to a greater or lesser extent, everyone wants to be a hero, heroes are uncommon. Because everyone knows that the hero has to endure too much suffering, too much sacrifice, too much loneliness, this path is not only painful, but lonely.
Therefore, most people give up this idea and hide it in their hearts.
As the second daughter (Makise Hongliqi) said
However, there are always some people who have not experienced any suffering, but always want to experience those and become a hero. We generally describe such people in one word - "secondary two".
I believe that in a worldline about the Gate of the Stone of Destiny, there must be such a romantic dialogue.
"Do you know the true nature of the Phoenix Temple?" He is a very middle-aged and exaggerated teenager, always thinking that there will be an apocalyptic crisis and that he can save the world. ”
"And later?"
"Later, the apocalyptic crisis that concerned the fate of the whole of mankind really came. And it is precisely this secondary two teenager, with a tattered time machine, through countless hardships and pains, and finally grows into a strong, mature, rational, truly genius scientist, a real hero who can make everyone trust him and rely on him. ”
Even if you change the timeline, you can't bypass the real name of the node of inevitable death
Back to real life, many people will always issue and "All this is the choice of the Stone Gate of Destiny!" The same lament—"Everything is fate." "My fate is really bad." ”
In fact, although fate and cause and effect exist (here we are talking about scientific causalism, not the feudal superstition of "fate", "reincarnation", "cause and effect"), but human subjective initiative is equally important and great.
We need reverence and rigor for the "Path of Destiny" of higher existence, but its impact on us is infinite and limited. Things, or man-made. It is we who create our future.
Under the premise of grasping the history, the development trend of the times, the background and the objective law, giving full play to people's subjective initiative and creating a beautiful future in their hearts is the correct "gate of the stone of destiny" in real life.
Although the Heavenly Dao exists, it depends on man-made things - to do human affairs, to know the destiny of heaven.
Finally, the Destiny Stone Gate series is suitable for ACGN and anime depth fans who like to play with complex narrative lines for fiction/manga/anime creators.
Popular character - Akiba Ryuho
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