Speaking of anime songs, I wonder what you can think of at the first time? Could it be Hiroyuki Sawano's explosive "Sword Drawing Divine Comedy"? Could it be that the "かない恋" that has now become a terrier? Or is it the "Junが好きだと名びたい" that represents a generation? In short, no matter which one it is, it represents a memory of a certain animation.
Theoretically, this kind of animation song should not be able to distinguish between high and low, but in fact, there is still a song that has won a different, loud title in the vast animation song. This song is "Bird Poem" / "Bird Poem", and it has earned a rather domineering title - "acg national anthem".
The Bird Poem
Today, let's tell a story and tell a history from the cause of this song. Tell the story of the "key" of the galgame production company, and tell the story of the "key" that may have moved you to or silently wept several times, or cried loudly, and once created "air", "clannad", "angle beats" and other "god works".
It is recommended that friends cooperate with the song to read this article~
First of all, we still have to introduce the protagonist of today's story - key society, Japan's galgame game production company, the production of the work is intended to make tears of the "crying game", has produced many classic works, such as the above mentioned "air", "angle beats", as well as "kanon", "little busters" and the new friends in the past two years are more familiar with the "Day of the Gods", "charlotte" / "Charlotte" Wait, of course, not to forget the most widely circulated "clannad". These works mostly describe the various emotions between people, love, friendship, and family affection, and often move players to tears, because of its extremely high quality script, key society has always maintained a fairly high status in the Japanese galgame industry.
《clannad》
The story is long, let's start at the beginning. It starts in the 1980s and 1990s.
At that time, Japan, because of the miyazaki incident, the yarn weaving incident, the same level of student incident and other influences (too long here do not expand, there will be a chance to talk later), the entire anime, game industry has fallen into a low point, and is not in a recession. At such a time, four young people gathered in a company because of chance, not the key club, at this time the key club was not yet established, they were in the company at that time called nexton, but also to make beautiful girl games galgame as the main work content of the game production club.
These four young men are Maede Jun, Kumi Naoki, Orito Nobuharu, and Higashi. That is, the founder of the later key society, the original elder. Among them, Maeda Jun and Hisami Naoki are responsible for the script, Nobuharu Oratore is responsible for the music, and Higami is in charge of the original painting.
Maeda-joan teacher
There are two games that these four people jointly produced in the nexton society, the first work is called "moon", which can basically be counted as a pull-up work, which is not discussed here, but the second work can be said a little, and the name of the second work is called "One ~ Season of Glory".
Although not many people know it now, but at that time this work caused a great sensation in the galgame community, it is not a simple practical work, this work by Maede Jun and Kumi Naoki jointly wrote the script, in an alternate world to depict a tear-jerking touching story, can be said to be the "weeping game" to carry forward the work, marking the birth of "weeping game" as a new game genre. It also let more players know that the original galgame can not only solve the needs, but also players can see a story that is enough to shock people's hearts and make people cry in this kind of game.
But to be honest, if you want to pick a fault from this work, there are also some problems, the first of which is the original painting of Higami, rather than the original painting of Higami pulling the hind legs of the whole work. Even considering the background of the times, the style of painting of "big-eyed beautiful girl" from Higami to Higami was difficult for many people to accept, so the president of nexton at that time decided to replace Higami To, but the other three of the four people who had formed a small group strongly opposed it, and finally the four of them applied for resignation together.
Of course, there are some other insiders in this, and there are already contradictions between Ma Zhi Jun and the president, but the main line of our article has nothing to do with it, and it is not discussed for the time being.
After leaving nexton, the four found the old owner visual art's club, Va, the production club of the more established galgame and other games, which accepted these four promising young people, and the four of them set up a new brand key under the va umbrella.
This is the logo of the key society, and since then, it is the story of the key.
After the establishment of the key society, Kumi and Asaede Jun began to prepare their first work, this new work is mainly planned by Naoki Kumi, the story takes place in the winter, on the basis of "One ~ Hui Season", the touching elements of the game are described, and the role of The Orito Shinji soundtrack is further strengthened. Soon, the new work was released in June 1999, which was the key society's pioneering work "kanon".
Kanon / Snow Maiden
How do you argue how popular this work is? Let's put it this way, at the end of the 20th century, when the main selling point of the character was almost all 18 forbidden games, "Kanon" was too popular and even launched an all-age version, which proved that it was his plot that everyone loved, not other additional content.
The game "Kanon" is full of love and affection throughout. This most essential human emotion is the one that resonates or moves the player and the audience the most. The story takes place in a small town in northern Japan, the time is winter, and it is simply the story of the protagonist and five girls who meet and spend this winter with them to welcome the arrival of spring. "Miracle", "convention", "goodbye" these words are the core of the story, presumably see these words you can imagine the content of this work to a certain extent, may now say that such a story is very cheesy, but on the one hand, 1999 has the inherent era of the era, there were not so many works at that time, on the other hand, "kanon" does render these most essential human emotions very well, even if you experience it now, you will definitely be moved by this emotion.
Because of the game's popularity, Toei adapted it into a 13-episode anime in 2002. But the quality of the animation in this version is very low, rather than quite poor. The characters and painting style are extremely strange, and they are completely unpopular with the audience. Moreover, the animation compresses a large number of the game's plot into 13 episodes, which leads to a complete lack of time, chaotic plot logic, and too fast a pace, so that people do not have time to "move", resulting in no one watching this animation now.
In 2006, Kyoto Animation, also known as Kyo Ani, remade an animated version of Kanon. The number of anime episodes has been relaxed to 24 episodes, and compared to the Toei version, the Kyoto version has more sophisticated graphics and more pleasing characters, which is not very strange to look at now. , and it was screened in the winter of 2006-2007, which coincides with the time in the anime.
Much of the music used in the anime is directly based on the original song in the game, taking care of the fans of the original game. A song called "last regrets" became a classic. These factors combined to make this new Kanon as much of a success as the game. Now if you talk about "Kanon", if there is no special mention, it refers to this one.
Here is a comparison of the two versions, and the advantages and disadvantages can be known at a glance.
This anime has also become a classic animation in Kyo Ani's early years, and it is not too much to say that it is a famous work, after all, it has such a strong contrast with the Toei version. If you have any friends who have seen it, here I recommend you to review the classics, although you may not be able to stand the quality of the old animation, or a slightly strange style, but believe me, the plot of this animation can definitely add all the subtracted scores back.
Speaking of the key club, although the popular "kanon" has just been released, but there is a little problem within the club, as the script writer Kumi Naoki and Maede Jun there is a large contradiction, and the final result of the contradiction is Kumi's departure, of course, there are also a lot of internal affairs, but also for the key club internal problems laid a foreshadowing, but because of the length of the reason here is not expanded, first continue to say downwards.
Kanon was key's first production, and soon after that, in September 2000, key's second work, air, was produced and released. If "kanon" is the representative of "winter", then "air" is naturally the representative of "summer".
"Air" tells the story of a coastal town that takes place in the summer. When it comes to summer, you can also imagine: blue is not like the real sky, floating clouds, direct sunlight; endless cicadas outside the window; sweltering hot weather. These make up the image of "Xia" in our minds. Especially in animation and games, the artist will deliberately enhance this feeling of "heat" or "quietness", making the feeling of "summer" more pure.
On this pure summer stage, "Air" tells a more purely touching story: a thousand years of reincarnation, a thousand years of waiting. The constant agreement between boys and girls, eternal love; at the same time, more importantly, there is the parent-child relationship between mother and child, although not directly expressed, but has always existed.
Like most galgames, the original chapter of Air is a simple boy meets girl stereotype, but the key club can tell the story less tacky.
The story begins with a boy who comes to this small town by the sea. The boy, named Kunisaki, who knew a little bit of magic, came here and met three girls. All three girls are most likely the girls he and his family have been looking for for generations with "dreams in the sky." The story of knowing and falling in love with each girl is the three routes of the first chapter of the game, "dream". And when the player opens the good ending of these three lines, the background of the title interface will change, and the "summer" chapter will appear directly at the beginning, that is, the entrance to the second chapter.
The summer chapter tells the story of the Wingman of a thousand years ago. A thousand years ago, there was a winged maiden who was hunted down by many people because of her special abilities, and eventually died of injustice. Because she hated the winged human body that brought her pain, before dying, the maiden cursed the reincarnation of all the winged people. This curse did last for a thousand years. All the reincarnations of winged people can never be close to people, and once someone is close to them, that person will have to leave for various reasons. And, when the reincarnation remembers the memories of her past life, she herself will die quickly.
Subsequently, the plot shifts to the third chapter, "air". The protagonist Kunisaki chose to sacrifice himself in order to save the heroine, that is, the girl who is the reincarnation of the "wing man". He gave his life to the heroine and transformed into a crow, although even then, the heroine could only have a few more days of life, but this was enough. She eventually chose to be with her mother, who eventually accepted her. Although the male and female protagonists in the ending are not together, the wishes of the two have been fully fulfilled, and the curse of the wingman will not continue, which is also a very happy ending.
There are also two versions of the animated version of "Air", the theatrical version of Toei and the TV version of Kyoto. Similarly, it is recommended that you go to see the TV version of Kyoto, as an animation produced in the same year, the Toei version not only has a chaotic plot, but as a theatrical version of the animation, the quality is even not as good as the TV version of Kyoto, I really don't know what to say...
Finally, let's talk about the song "Bird Poem", which I mentioned at the beginning, this song is called "acg national anthem", and there are three ways to say about this name:
The first is to say that the bird poem is "the character song of Kunisaki to the people", so it becomes the "national anthem".
The second is that on a large forum in Japan, 2ch, someone once said: "clannad" is life, "fate" is literature, "Wolf and Spice" is economic, and someone below said that "the poetry of birds is the national anthem", and gradually spread.
There is a third theory, in 2007, nhk (Japan's national television) suddenly played this "Bird Poem" after broadcasting the evening news, which is equivalent to an animated song after the news broadcast in China. Playing acg song on such a formal occasion is unprecedented, so some people jokingly call "Bird Poem" the acg national anthem.
However, whether these three statements are correct is also controversial, because the name of the national anthem has been around for a long time, and the real reason may not be able to be examined, but the name acg national anthem has been retained. Of course, although this song is very good, but the national anthem is actually just a stem, there is no need to delve into his influence or the technical level of the arrangement, its title is only to represent everyone's love for it, the key society.
Because of the length of the reason, this issue of the article can not write the story of the entire key society, and even the key club's most classic "clannad" and "angel beats" and other animation games I have not yet mentioned much, perhaps our narration will also be divided into several chapters to record, this is the first chapter, can be boiled down to the "early days of the founding", or "pre-clannad era", if there is a next issue, we will talk about the story of the "clannad era", Tell the story of this tear-jerking animation that has been praised by countless people as "life" until now, please look forward to it.