Netflix's investment in the content industry is increasing year by year, with the amount of investment planned to reach $8 billion this year.
The streaming industry boss has never stopped expanding his library, but also pays more attention to creating original content.
In addition to being happy to launch some of the settings of the rare but sparse net, Netflix is also working on the animation series.
The 21+ heavy-mouth animation "Demon Man" created by Nagai Hiroshi and directed by Masaaki Yuasa brought a lot of attention to Netflix at the beginning of the year.
"b: The Beginning of the Other" produced by production i.g and "a.i.c.o.: Avatar" produced by the Bone Society have also landed on Netflix, and will produce 12 episodes of "Knights of the Zodiac: Saint Seiya" next year.
Recently, Netflix has been holding back for a while and the big move has finally been launched.
Disillusionment
The 10 episodes of the first season were just released, and the second season has been booked.
Looking at this poster, do you think that the painting style is familiar?
Yes, this animation was written by Matt Groning.
"The Simpsons" and "Fly out of the Future" are his proud works.
How successful these two classic animated series are, I am really not afraid of his pride when I say it.
The Simpsons, which began airing in 1990, is the longest-running American prime-time television series in history and the oldest American animated series and sitcom.
The play focuses on middle-class American families with low average IQs, and their daily lives are full of satire and ridicule in social, political, film and television aspects.
There are also many advanced prophecies, such as the election of Trump as president, the US eavesdropping gate and the Ebola virus.
This year, the anime, which has aired more than 600 episodes, will enter its 30th season, a record that even South Park can hardly surpass.
The Simpsons made their mark on Hollywood's Walk of Fame in 2000, and its creator Matt Groning received a star of his own in 2012.
In addition to the industry's affirmation and supreme honor, this classic "yellow family" has made him worth as much as $500 million.
In 1999, "Flying Out of the Future" was released.
Compared with Simpson, this animation has gained cult-style pursuit.
The pizza delivery guy Fry traveled through the millennium to 2999, when the robot with self-consciousness was basically a racial existence.
It not only embodies the future picture of "high-tech and low quality" at all times, but also has philosophical thinking and narration of friendship, love and family affection.
Reflecting global warming, spoofing bureaucracy, and moving at every turn can really move the audience.
"Flying Out of the Future", which has produced 7 seasons and 4 big movies, is now over, but its memes are still good.
Fry's bewildered gaze: I see what you're doing there.
And: Don't act so stupid. (Take the microphone and say what about you)
Both of the above animations came out of Fox, but "Flying Out of the Future" was taken over by Comedy Central from the fifth season, and "The Simpsons" will soon have to call Disney Daddy due to the acquisition.
Their production direction is often limited by the company's top management.
But Disillusionment is not. Here at Netflix, Matt Groning was given relatively greater creative freedom.
In the medieval dream country, there lived a princess named Xiaobi.
This princess is quite self-indulgent and maverick.
The knight would rather go on an expedition than be Xiao Bi's personal bodyguard.
Xiao Bi ran out of the castle to gamble with people in the tavern and played stinky rogues.
I obviously only have 2 princess cards in my hand, so I add myself to 3. Are you kidding?
Calmly put the money on the table into his clothes, and the other party was naturally angry.
She simply threw coins, caused a riot and took the opportunity to escape. Just out of the house, he was tied back to the castle by the bishop and others by roasting suckling pigs.
Today is her big wedding day, and she has never even met her fiancé.
The narcissistic and arbitrary king does not care what his daughter thinks, and Xiao bi is about to be forced to become a tool for marriage.
In the elven forest full of candy and laughter, only Ivor is unhappy.
After snapping with the elf king's daughter, the angry king hanged him under the gummy tree.
But the elves were too light to hang.
Ivor, who had long been tired of being blindly happy, chose to go to the outside world alone, and he felt that the days of joy and sorrow were the real life.
There is also a talking black cat Lucy who is Xiaobi's exclusive demon, who loves to smoke, play with fire and have fun.
He is actually a spy planted by a mysterious wizard next to the princess, but acts more like a friend.
The more he shouldn't do it, the more he advised the princess to do it.
Xiao Bi, Ivor and Lucy met on the wedding day, and the three of them got together, and there was no peace ever since.
Escape from marriage, drink alcohol, take drugs, rob tombs, they have done all the wrong things together.
In fact, take a careful taste, the uncle has tasted back.
Aren't these three protagonists in Disillusionment born from Frye, Bande, and Lila in "Flying Out of the Future"?
Princess Xiaobi, like Fry, is out of place with her environment, keen on her own ideas, and has certain feminine characteristics in Lila.
Elf Ivor has the innocent character of Frye, and is capricious and quite like Lila.
The demon Lucy, hedonistic and self-serving, sometimes feels like he's just another Band.
This animation does not resonate much with modern times, and it is basically like a ridiculous "bad history".
The dark side of the Middle Ages is teased in all sorts of ways.
For example, the people suffered poorly.
Ivor, who had only eaten candy, ate coarse tea and light rice for the first time, and all kinds of praise for the hospitable Lord were driven out as a.
Because they were too humble to bear the scolding and could not bear the praise. Commonly known as.
And the plague that has claimed countless lives.
Patrol cars pulling dead bodies appeared in the streets and alleys.
There is also a mockery of religion.
The so-called ancient and sacred ritual is actually a grand group party.
There are laughs, but Disillusionment doesn't find the right balance between humor and plot and theme.
So intuitively it feels like the princess and her little friends are constantly self-defeating and mischievous.
The men who were involved with the princess did not end well.
While picking up the ring, the first fiancé was pierced in the head by a sword propped up from the Iron Throne, clearly playing a spoof of Game of Thrones.
The second fiancé was framed by the princess and seduced by the walrus song, and was lucky enough to come back alive but mistakenly drank the mixed magic blood and exchanged his body with a pig.
The animation is a bit of a scale but not so open, a bit of a brain hole but not so imaginative.
The most that remains is gags. However, everyone's expectations for the god's professional Matt Groning are definitely more than that, so it is inevitable that some people will feel disappointed.
In any case, it is indeed a skill to live with a smile in a world of pain, scheming, and idiots.