Author: HGCG/Anitama Cover Source: Tiger Face Man W
This year, 2016 is the 60th anniversary of the establishment of Toei Animation, and the birthday of the big factory should always be expressed. In addition to making some original innovative films to commemorate, it will not be less to take out classic old works and continue their feelings. The new work of "Tiger Face Man w" (タイガーマスクw), which began airing in October, is the third animation of this work in 34 years.
There are not many friends in China who may know about the original work, after all, the work has a long history, and it is a wrestling theme that the Chinese people are too unfamiliar with. But this work is a household name in Japan.
Tiger Mask Man is a wrestling manga created in 1968 by the famous manga author Kajiwara Kajihara, and was made an animated version in the same year under the production of Toei, which became a hit. The professional wrestling world is also linked to animation, not only in the first and second parts there are real wrestlers in the animation, but also in the 80s the wrestling world has also introduced wrestlers who appeared in the name of Tiger Face Man. Anime is the third in the next month, and the real-life linkage wrestler is now in its fourth.
Hearing this, some friends may ask, the animation has been filmed to the third part, so directly chasing this one, will it be difficult to understand the plot? In fact, although the third part has been announced to be a follow-up plot of the first generation, it should not be too difficult to understand the plot directly to watch the third part. After all, the first game in the 60s, the second game in the 80s, when one did not popular heap settings, two did not advocate your circle chaos, are simple and bright plots and settings, so everyone just needs to know that "there was once a wrestler named Date Naoto, incarnated as a tiger-faced man to defeat the dark wrestling organization 'Tiger's Den'" This previous situation can be.
Originally a member of the dark wrestling organization Tiger's Den, tiger-faced people were not only exploited by the organization, but also forced to use the next three indiscriminate means in each game to create a "villain image". However, in order to donate money to the orphanage, the Tiger Face Man broke up and changed to a bright and upright style of play, and the Tiger Cave sent assassin wrestlers one after another to defeat the Tiger Face Man in the ring.
As for the second anime, also produced by Toei, it is about a new wrestler who inherits the mask of tiger face man, and the story of the dark wrestling league controlled by the Oil King of the Middle East is still simple and rough.
The upcoming third part, a little more complicated, is that the Tiger Mask Man has become two. A weak wrestling group was destroyed by the Tiger's Den, and two young wrestlers went their separate ways. One inherited the mask of the Tiger Mask and became an orthodox masked wrestler; the other deliberately joined the Tiger's Den and became the Black Tiger Face. The two are usually friends, but they don't know each other in the ring wearing masks. What kind of spark there will be, this is worth paying attention to.
There is another place in the plot that has attracted the attention of old fans, that is, to connect the plot of the animated version or the manga version, and how the second part of the TV animation will be handled. It turns out that the anime of the first generation of Tiger Face Man has a different ending and manga.
The same work, in different media, the plot and ending are different, which was a very common situation at that time. The second game of the anime version inherits the ending of the manga version in the plot, in which the tiger-faced man finally dies under the wheel to save the children outside the arena. And this time the "Tiger Mask Man W", from the appearance of the characters can be judged, is to undertake the original animation version of the plot, in the final words of the animated version, the Tiger Mask Man out of helplessness with foul tricks to defeat the last enemy, and then feel that the victory is not a weapon and left Japan. These two different endings, how to choose, or integrate together, and how the second generation of Tiger Face People will deal with it, are all the places where fans of the original work care.
As an anime with wrestling as its selling point, it is also a matter of concern about how to draw, after all, it is Toei animation that cannot draw more than 3500 copies per episode. This new animation "Tiger Face Man W", when promoting, mentioned two selling points about painting. One is to restore the animation style of the original, that is, the 60s, with retro thick lines; the other is to invite the well-known animator Junichi Hayama to supervise the action painting. Toei's cartoons have a general painting supervision, but it is rare to set up an action painting supervision. From this point, it can be seen that Toei's painting of "Tiger-Faced Man W", at least the painting of the action scene, is more important. A few days ago, "Tiger Face Man W" held the first episode of the first release, watching the audience on social networking sites reflect that they are still very satisfied with the painting. In addition, the official also revealed that the familiar Ma Yue Kahiko will also join this work, it seems that for the painting, it is worth looking forward to.
Ma Yue Yoshihiko participated in the original painting
As for the voice actor lineup, it is Toei's "voice actors don't want money" pomp and circumstance as always, the male one is Yatsuyo Taku, the male two is Umehara Yuichiro, both rookies, and the supporting role villains are morita, Suzumura, Fukuyama, Kishio, the female has Mimori, Tachibana, Kobayashi Shubo, and more seniors such as Ryoichi Tanaka and Hidekatsu Shibata joined in and continued to dub the roles "Kentaro Takaoka" and "mr. x" in the first game. In terms of voice actors, the lineup is extremely luxurious.
However, surprisingly, this time," "Tiger Face Man W", the broadcast time is late at night. The main battlefield of Toei Animation has always been the morning file and the evening, and the last time the late-night animation was launched, it was still "Kyo Sao Drama Painting".
In fact, this time, "Tiger Face Man W" is still in cooperation with the Japanese professional wrestling group "New Japan Wrestling", and the reason why it is placed late at night is because it is broadcast in front of the wrestling program of the TV station. In recent years, as the "showmanship" nature of so-called "professional wrestling" has become an open secret, fans have a tendency to decrease. How to increase the popularity of wrestling has become a problem for major groups.
Toei Animation, on the other hand, originally had a so-called "tax avoidance file" at 6:30 a.m. on TV Asahi on Sunday morning. Because of the large number of copyrights under his hands and the close relationship with Bandai, Japan's first toy factory, Toei has always made money with his eyes closed. But instead of paying taxes to the state, the money earned is better to invest and transform it into their own capital, and capitalists who don't think so are stupid pigs. Those who open a factory can buy a batch of new equipment at the end of the year, but what about animation companies? Naturally, it's about making animations. However, this schedule was cut off by the TV station leaders this year.
The animation of Toei and the new Japanese wrestling plus the cooperation of the TV station can be described as a combination of one shot and one shot. Playing wrestling animation at the current wrestling festival can attract anime fans to become wrestling fans, and in turn, let wrestling fans buy some animation peripherals.
The first two animated versions of Tiger Mask Man also have real-life wrestlers appearing, all of whom were hardcore wrestlers such as the popular "Antonio Inogi" at that time. Now, new Japanese wrestling is dominated by yotsumi Okada and Hiroshi Tanabashi, who are popular among female fans. And this time "Tiger Face Man W", invited these wrestlers to make cameos in the animation. Of course, the dubbing is not myself, but the invitation of Morita Seriichi and Suzumura Kenichi, who also have many female fans, to say that it is not in the pursuit of superposition effect to increase female fans, I am afraid that no one believes it. In fact, the audience who participated in the first episode of the first screening also mentioned online that there were far more female audiences than expected.
"Tiger Mask w" Pre-screening event.。 Left-handed Actor Taka taka takana-michi Mimori Suzuko, Naoto 东/ Tiger face person Taku Yatsushiro, Fujii Takuma / 黑 dark tiger mask Yuichiro Umehara.
And "Tiger Face Man W" is also very emotional and strategic for nostalgia parties and old fans. In addition to the previously mentioned reproduction of the 60s style with retro thick lines and the original voice actors who brought in the original characters, the theme song is also the original theme song sung by Shonan Nokaze. I believe that not only the old fans will be extremely moved after hearing it, but also the audiences who have never been in contact with it will also be enthusiastic after hearing this theme song.
So, what peripherals are sold to fans? First of all, late-night animation, selling discs is indispensable. Bai Qingge marble machine is also one of the sources of copyright income of the Tiger Face Man series, this new work, the marble machine will also have a new income. In addition, many people may not know that the owner of the Bushido company known for card games, Takaaki Kidani, is actually the majority shareholder of New Japan Wrestling, and the Bushido company may also make some moves this time.
This time, "Tiger Face Man W" can be described as a huge momentum, and there is a grand celebration of Toei's 60th birthday. The plot, painting, and voice actor performances are all worth looking forward to. Once successful, TV Asahi and Toei's views on the operation of late-night animation may also change, and Japanese professional wrestling may also gain new fans. What kind of work can be made still needs to be seen. Nostalgia can look at the feelings, and if you are tired of ordinary Japanese high school students and beautiful girl zoos, you may wish to watch this wrestling animation full of men's sweat, maybe you will see a refreshing feeling.
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Series Director: Toshiaki Komura
Series composition: Katsuhiko Chiba
Character Design: Hisashi Kagawa
Action Painting Supervisor: Junichi Hayama
Art Design: Watanabe Beauty
Music: Koji Takanashi (team-max), Blade-yaiba-
op Main Song: Shonan Nofu "Go! Tiger Mask" ed Main Song Song: Shonan Nofu "king of the wild"
Tonaoto/Toyomi: Yatsuyo Taku
Takuma Fujii / Tora-mask: Yuichiro Umehara
Haruna Takasaki: Suzuko Mimori
Kazumi Okada: Narita Morita
Hiroshi Tanba: Kenichi Suzumura
Daisuke Fujii: Takeshi Kusao
Ruriko Yamashina: Chiemi Chiba
Kentaro Takaoka: Ryoichi Tanaka
Kurumitsu: Izumi Tachibanata
Wakamatsu: Daisuke Kishio
Hiroshi Nagata: Terasusa Sakaki
mr.x:Hidekatsu Shibata
miss x:Yu Kobayashi
Yellow Enma: Satoshi Shimada
Kevin Anderson: Fukuyama
Mike Rodriquez: The Insider Jingming
Okcho: Hidefumi Takemoto
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