One: eat first and die first; second: if you don't shine, you will lose; third: all glow, and those who emit golden light win.
These are the three laws of cooking duels in "China's Little Boss" summarized by netizens. Whenever the protagonist opens the lid of the pot and reads out the name of the dish with full sense of the middle two senses, the audience knows in advance that the victory has been decided.
Ridicule is ridicule, now known as the super power to cook "China Little Boss", which was a real childhood classic at that time.
There are actually many Japanese anime that can be watched on TV when I was a child in the 80s and 90s, but like "China's Little Boss", with the Chinese land as the background, the protagonist is Chinese, the cooking is approachable, and the anime is really rare.
"China Little Boss" tells the story of the little boss who left Ju to go downstairs, make like-minded partners, step by step become a special chef, and fight against the dark culinary world, which is an ordinary monster upgrading routine from the current point of view.
I even recalled some of the plots that I used to talk about -- the little boss usually covered the logo of the special chef, and as soon as he reached the end, he lit up and flashed the dog eyes of the melon--this is not the earliest dragon arrogant sky pretending to force the plot?
If you put it in the current anime, you will come once per episode, and it is estimated that it will be wildly squirted.
However, some of the hard wounds in the plot and setting did not fade the classic, but the limitations of the animation itself left a permanent flaw - the TV animation of "China Little Boss" only has 52 episodes.
The plot of the TV animation ended abruptly at the beginning of the collection of legendary kitchen utensils, in fact, the last three episodes were original plots, and the animation ended with the court duel between Man han and the whole table.
As for the follow-up of the core plot, the legendary kitchen utensils have been collected, and whether they have defeated the dark cooking world, none of them have been explained.
In that era when the 3G network was not very developed, of course, not many people could find the original comic to complete, and even if they found them, they would most likely be disappointed.
Because the animation caught up with the progress of the manga that year, in fact, the animated version we saw made a lot of magic changes in the middle and late stages, coupled with the decline in the overall popularity of the work, resulting in a certain degree of waist cuts in both the manga and the animation, so these 52 episodes of TV animation are already a good ending.
However, on February 4, 2019, Chinese New Year's Eve, there was suddenly good news:
After 20 years, "China Little Boss" will produce a completely new animation. In the original work, Mr. Yoshiji Ogawa also specially drew a "little boss" New Year greeting map.
The official announcement of the new character setting map and stuff list was announced, and the name of the new animation was set as "True China Ichiban!" 》。
Here is a must to interject an anecdote about the name of this anime. In 1999, when "China Little Boss" premiered on Taiwan Television, it was called "Zhonghua Yiban", and once it was broadcast, it was sought after by teenagers, and it was ready to be rebroadcast the following year.
Taiwan Unification Group saw the business opportunities behind it, so it vigorously sponsored the replay plan, and changed the names of the characters in the anime to the names of the products of the unification:
The protagonist Liu Pleixing changed his name to "Little Dangjia" (Xiao Dangjia Simply Noodles), the heroine Mei Li changed her name to "Toot Toot" (Toot Good Small Sausage), Yangquan Restaurant's chef Zhao Yu changed her name to "and the first master" (and the first dumpling), and so on, almost all the characters have changed.
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When the mainland was introduced for the second time, it followed the translation name of the version of "China Little Boss", and in this way, the children on the mainland inadvertently experienced a clever advertising implantation.
Back to the new "True China! Animation, although the official did not say which plot this time is about, but only from the title speculation, this animation is likely to make up for the lack of 52 episodes after the content, the protagonist group and the dark culinary world face-to-head duel.
First of all, Ogawa's original manga "Zhonghua Ichiban! At the end of the series, the name was changed to "True China! In addition, the new manga series opened in November of the previous year in the Series is called "China Little Dangjia Ji! If you make this part into an animation, it will be a bit hasty.
And, consider "China Little Boss Pole! From the beginning of the series, the wind evaluation was not good, it was complained about selling meat and exaggeration, the plot lacked logic, the cooking became more and more out of touch, and it was suspected of touching the porcelain flowers and bones.
For the emotional fans of "China Little Boss", the plot of the TV animation is definitely a more acceptable option.
To be fair, the old version of "China Little Boss" is not a top god work, Douban 8.4, imdb 7.5 results or more or less account for the light of feelings, the reason why it can maintain the topic degree in 20 years, and even launch a new animation, there may be other reasons.
For a considerable period of time after "China's Little Master", the food animation that can be presented to mainstream Chinese audiences was basically discontinued, and it was not until the emergence of "Prisoner of Food" and "The Spirit of Food" that the situation improved slightly.
But the former is more like a battle comic cloaked in gourmet clothing, and the latter adds more fashionable elements that new era users like to hear, which is excellent in production, but you can carefully study the details of the cuisine and the impact of the story, and always feel that something is missing.
In fact, before these two Japanese comics, China also produced a comprehensive food animation "Divine Chef Xiaofugui", and the literary consultant of the animation was Yu Hua, who wrote "Alive".
This made the story logic and depth of "Divine Chef XiaoFugui" shake off the national comics of the same period a grade, but at the same time, Yu Hua also brought the tone of depression, darkness and abuse of the protagonist into this animation broadcast on major children's stations, and finally the animation was banned and failed to gain wider popularity.
In this context, it is not surprising that "China Little Boss" can still take out a battle, especially for those Chinese audiences who have grown up, even if they can't chase after the episodes, they can't help but take a look.
Coincidentally, the new animation of "China Little Boss" was released this time by a Chinese company - Jiewai Animation, which introduced a large number of Japanese TV animations, including many emotional IP, "Crayon Shin-chan", "The Prince of Tennis", "Magic Card Girl Sakura", "Pokémon"...
In their long list of agents, I also saw the figure of City Hunter. The new theatrical version of "City Hunter" will be released in Japan two days later (February 8), and the film appeared in the latest trailer released in January as "Three Sisters of Cat's Eye", which caused a strong response in the major Chinese communities.
Feelings are really a good thing.
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