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Even if it is imitated, it is hard to say that there is any work that can shake the status of the "god of fashion" in the comic book world of "death". In March 2012, the TV animation of "death Bleach" announced the suspension of animation after broadcasting "death acting on behalf of death" (commonly known as "the end of the art" in China), and the series that has been released for 8 years in a row stops at "366 words".

The protagonist Kurosaki ichigo left a "good-bye" at the end of the film as one of the "fires of death" known as the "three migrant workers". "death" was the first to bid farewell to the TV screen. but this is not a happy end-at this time, the cartoon of "death" is still serialized, and the suspension of the animation is undoubtedly a dead end.

The decline in ratings is the main reason for the suspension of animation projects-compared with the past glory of 7%, the average audience rating of "completion" in Japan is less than 2%, and even fell below 1% at the trough, which is really low as a prime-time animation.

However, fans of "death" were quite optimistic at that time, believing that they would see "death" again on TV soon. After all, the end of the art chapter is only a transitional chapter, and at this time the cartoon has just entered the final chapter of the Millennium Blood War, and we all feel that rather than letting the dragged-on original animation further deplete popularity, it would be better to wait until the cartoon is almost over and then animate in one breath.

As a result, this wait is ten years.

1 after the cessation of animation, the popularity of death cartoons is also going further and further downhill. Two years before the end, death was at the bottom of the list of readers of Weekly Youth Jump, and it was no longer worthy to be compared with "Naruto" and "King of the Sea Thieves."

At this time, readers who have long abandoned the pit talk about "death" and think that the story should end after "defeating Aizen." readers who are still chasing the watch also have little praise for "the Battle of the Thousand years of Blood". They often complain about the procrastination of the plot and the confusion of the storyline, and many people's mentality has turned to watching fun.

The author Jiubao also lived up to expectations and really created a rare plot of "lifting the table" in the history of juvenile comics, which has been criticized so far.

In this final chapter, Habach, the ancestor friend of the annihilation division, and his "invisible empire" are the main enemy forces. Like the previous "Guardian 13th team" and "broken face Ten Blade", Kubo arranged a large number of elite men called the Knights of the Star Cross for the Boss, and greatly expanded the number to more than 26 according to the English alphabet number.

Youhabbach and his Star Cross Kubo spent a lot of time creating these new characters and arranged for past characters to fight them. But as he was painting, he seemed to lose patience and let Youhabah abruptly launch a skill called "Holy" and directly sacrifice most of his men (many of whom are still in unfinished games). Force the story into the "final battle of the final battle".

Although the characters in the play still use a variety of lines to explain the rationality of the "holy", it is obviously not enough to convince the readers to accept the development of the plot; but let's say that this is a "waist-chopped" episode triggered by external pressure, and the cartoon has been serialized for nearly three years before it comes to an end.

Such outrageous and casual practices may only happen to works like "death", which once reached the peak of popularity and no one cares about it at this time. During this period, the British Press and Weekly Juvenile Jump have allocated less and less publicity resources to death, as if just continuing to serialize its pages is already a boon to the old dignitaries.

In the second year after the end, "death", which often ranked C, did not even make an appearance in the annual main poster of "JUMP FESTA". By the end of 2016, "death" had jumped into public view for a long time, but the focus at this time was not how Kurosaki ichigo finally defeated Youhabah. It is the controversy caused by the "CP party struggle"-many people refuse to accept mating endings such as "Ichigo Zhiji" and "Lucia x love times", which makes "death" further labeled as a "rotten tail".

The response caused by the ending "La Lang pairing" can be described as sorrowful, so for a long time, no one mentioned that "death" had restarted the painting.

Compared with Naruto, which ended two years ago, it is not difficult to feel the loneliness after the end of the cartoon of death.

The former almost seamlessly linked up with the descendants' works "biographies of Boren" and "two blossoms" of cartoons and animations, while "death", which also arranged the protagonists and descendants to appear at the end of the story, only provoked a lot of abuse, but there was no follow-up for a long time.

In 2018, death, which had been sitting in the cold for a long time, caught up with the movie craze of those two years, and was adapted into live-action movies starring popular young students such as Fushi and Cedar. After the end of the cartoon, the low-key Kubodai also appeared on its platform for a long time.

But the actual response of the film, not to mention the work ushered in a second spring, the box office revenue is not even comparable to any previous theatrical version of death animation, it is to knock another nail on the coffin board of this work.

The box office and word-of-mouth of live-action movies may be that this silence has brought a little chance for death to make a comeback.

Over the past few years, the development of the Biography of Boren, which is far less than expected, has been severely criticized for squeezing the value of the original work, and Hiroshi Kishimoto himself has further "fallen off the altar" with the halving of the new series Biography of Jipu Hachimaru. In contrast, death, which unhurriedly launched several foreign novels, ushered in the overturning of the case on a small scale.

Cartoon-derived novels written by others like this often have the nature of "peripheral goods", and stories usually try to bypass the core content of the original and avoid conflicts. However, these small books of death are just the opposite. with the deep participation of Kubo himself, they not only complete and recycle many foreshadowing in the cartoon, but also break the "good and evil" position of all forces in the original work, and further reveal the allegorical nature of the whole work.

Several novels written by Narita Liangwu have filled many holes in the original cartoons, such as the identity of the Spirit King and the political pattern of the corpse world. After reading these works, many readers began to feel that the "bad end" at that time was not entirely a matter of Kubo's personal ability or attitude. it is an irreconcilable contradiction between the genre of Weekly Young Comics and the grand worldview.

At this time, there are more and more voices questioning that "death" was unfairly treated by the editorial department at the end of the series. After all, no matter how much the crotch is pulled in the later stage, no matter how much a single book sells, it will not be able to mix up a theme cover at the end of the series.

In the final issue of death, Weekly teenager Jump only gave Ichigo a display in the upper right corner of the cover, with the word "end of legend" looking ridiculous. on the other hand, death is not as completely out of date at the public level as expected.

Despite the lowest popularity among magazine readers at the end of the series, single-line sales of the last few volumes of death remained at a high level of around 500000, showing the long-tail effect of a masterpiece at the end of the serialization. the total sales of recently updated cartoons are up 10 million copies from 2018.

"BLEACH Brave Souls" is a mobile game that only started at the end of the comic book in 2016. it was originally thought to be a typical fan who made a profit to IP, but the game was overseen by Kubo himself and was able to complete many plot stories and character forms that were not shown in the original film.

Because of its good reputation and income, the mobile game has logged back into Steam and the mainframe platform after a few years of operation. all signs indicate that although "death" has been labeled as a "rotten tail", it still maintains a fairly broad mass base many years after the end. This point was finally confirmed in 2020-as soon as the news of "the War of Millennium Blood is about to be animated" came out, "Bleach" quickly became a global hit on Twitter, and animation lovers from all over the world were partying like a festival, and the scene could be described as "everyone shouted at the end of the year, but now they are shouting for their youth to return."

It is said that thanks to the support of colleagues or the right follow-up, in short, over the past few years, when people mentioned "death" again, they no longer just reread "unfinished", "Battle Power collapsed" and "CP stew". More people began to miss the only "fashionable" temperament.

3. "fashion" is a modern word derived from the Japanese word "fashionable and unrestrained". Although it is usually translated as "fashionable", the meaning of this word is actually closer to the "cool" in the Chinese context. it refers to the kind of "trendy" aesthetic that is a mixture of retro and avant-garde and is inexplicable in the eyes of most people.

It is through "death" that this new word has been widely spread.

While the battle cartoons of the same period on Jump strive to portray rigorous combat strength settings, sharpen coherent action mirrors, and pursue the "realism" of the fight, the characters in death always concave some cool shapes in the battle, read some mysterious lines, and are full of "kill Matt" temperament, and they fight like a round game that takes turns, often inexplicably distinguishing between winners and losers.

The readers of the classic "I second you, you second me, I second you" and "death" further created the concept of "OSR value" to explain the unique combat system of this comic book.

According to this theory, the battle of "death" is like a costume competition like "Miracle Nikki". The key to determining the outcome of the two sides is not who is more capable of fighting and whose moves are more destructive. It depends on who poses cooler, makes his moves more dazzling, and behaves in a higher style.

A character may have strong hard power, but as long as he makes a price drop such as taunting his opponent or bullying the weak, his "fashionable value" will drop sharply and is often defeated immediately; for example, if he says "I am strong" bluntly, the fashionable value will fall and is easy to be beaten in seconds, but if he reads some obscure sentences to vaguely express "I am strong", then his "fashion value" will rise and it will be more difficult to defeat.

Aizen's classic "hairspray hand" made his "fashion" soar to the ceiling. Obviously, this was a joke about death at first, but as the serial went on, "Fashion" gradually became a positive comment on the work.

First, Kubo's painting skills improved by leaps and bounds during the serialization period, and the characters in "death" became more beautiful, without the early sense of "hillbilly being hard and handsome". Kubo also often draws color illustrations for characters like hard photos of fashion magazines.

Kubo designed a lot of costume shapes for various characters, but once he accepted the narration of Kubo's lines that read like poetry haiku, coupled with a variety of names and terms mixed with German and Spanish, as well as a unique free and easy mirror in juvenile comics, it is not difficult to feel the "literary sense" and special flavor of this work.

Volume V Sado Yasutora's famous prologue: "if I don't have a sword in my hand, I can't protect you." if I keep holding the sword, I can't hold you. " Also contributed is the TV animation of death. Although the action scenes are often criticized as "PPT", the animation of death, which is responsible for by the clown club, has always maintained a very high standard in terms of art color matching, light and shadow performance, font design and music soundtrack.

This is particularly prominent in many OP and ED of "death" animation, these scenes are accompanied by popular songs, which often make people feel that "the original animation OP of teenagers can still do this", even if it is seen more than a decade later, it is not out of date.

The OP of "death" is often simple and unique, which plays an important role in promoting the character's "fashionable value". Coupled with the fact that Kubo always appeared in the fashion of "yellow-haired sunglasses" in his early years, death has confirmed the title of "Fashion God" in all aspects.

As a result of his fashionable appearance, Kubo later encountered a lot of parodies of the "round fight" of "death" at that time. In fact, to a large extent, it was influenced by "Saint Seiya", and Kubo's avant-garde modern "fashionable style" finally became an object for later generations to emulate. In recent years, the popular "mantra return" has never avoided paying homage to "death". The author has repeatedly stated bluntly that his career in the comic book industry is influenced by Kubo.

From time to time, the mantra will repeat the famous scenes in death, but even if it is imitated, it is hard to say that there is any work that can shake the status of the "fashionable god" of death in the comic book world. More and more people feel that no matter how bad the plot of "death" is, the viewing experience in some aspects is still the only one.

Everything after that is like pushing the boat along the river.

In August 2021, Kubo published the 20th Anniversary of death, the Song of Prison, in the Weekly Juvenile Jump, which instantly became the number one hot search.

On JUMP FESTA at the end of 2021, Kurosaki ichigo returned to the center of the main poster

On October 10, 2022, the animation of "the Millennium Bloody War of death" was broadcast, and the three works of "death", "Naruto" and "King of the Sea Thief" were reunited on the TV screen after ten years.

Ten years later, when Tiansuo chopped the moon and reappeared on the screen 4 at the end of the 2016 cartoon of death, Kubo posted several sketches on Twitter, saying that he wanted to give up the series many times because of illness and pressure at the end of the serialization. at this time, he received a letter from a seriously ill boy, thanking the direction of Kubo, saying that "death" had supported him through the last difficult time. And encourage Kubo to finish the comic book according to his own ideas.

"for the first time since I was hospitalized, I began to look forward to tomorrow because I wanted to see the next volume of death," the letter wrote.

At the end of the letter, Kubo learned that the letter was sent by someone else and that the boy was no longer alive. This letter became the spiritual motivation for Kubo to finish painting death.

Kubo also solicited clues from netizens about the sender, hoping to have the opportunity to express his gratitude to the relevant people, and found the person who sent the letter on his behalf, the deceased boy's patient at that time.

Postmarks and envelopes were almost the only clues at the time after the first episode of the Millennium Blood War was broadcast yesterday, except for the discussion of the animation itself. the hottest related topic on Twitter is a message written by a "death" fan in the comment section of the animated promotional film six months ago.

The fan said with emotion that he was mixed with joys and sorrows, and was so happy that he could see "death" back on the screen in his lifetime. Unfortunately, he suffered from cancer, and I'm afraid he won't have a chance to see the moving "Millennium Blood Battle." He said he would wait for everyone in the corpse world to tell him how wonderful the animation was.

Everyone found the user's oil pipe home page, and his dynamic stayed two months ago. People left him messages telling him that the first episode of the Millennium Bloody War was wonderful.

Not everyone believes in the authenticity of these stories. Some people question that these stories are self-hyped, while others stress that no matter how moving these off-site stories are, they will not change the fact that death has a bad ending.

But from the beginning, the theme of "death" is "Life and death", which tells the story of "the living miss the dead". It all begins with man-made creation, and countless people are still moved by it.

This article is from the official account of Wechat: game Research Society (ID:yysaag), author: Lushark

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