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Original title: "an animation called" Miracle "in 2022

"isn't this the unfinished animation I saw when I was a kid?"

In many ways, the Warriors against Dragons: the Adventure of Dai, which was broadcast last week, does not seem to belong to the animation of this era.

Viewers familiar with Japanese animation must know that more and more popular works are dividing 25 episodes nominally belonging to the same season into two seasons, so as to buy more production time and prolong the topic of the work.

Against this backdrop, Dayi has aired 100 episodes in a row since 2020-and judging from the messages on Douban, it's not hard to feel the impact on a new generation of viewers.

"wrong label", but this animation is worth mentioning much more than just the length.

"Animation halved by unfair treatment comes back to life 30 years later", "tells a story of an old-fashioned but not out-of-date royal adventure in 2020", "encounters all kinds of accidents during the long construction period, but increases instead of declining production quality"-- these commendable things happen to the same work. Just let the audience who finished watching this animation sincerely feel that "Da'i Adventure" can be called the "miracle" of the current animation industry.

This is the common feeling of many viewers at the end of the animation. 1in 1991, "Daj's Adventure" was first adapted into an animation, which was exclusively shown by the Japanese TV station TBS, but came to an abrupt end after the 49th episode, and the plot is still in the best part.

It is not uncommon for the 1991 animated series "Dai's Adventure" to be halved in the middle of the broadcast, but it was not for its own reasons that "Dai's Adventure" had quite good ratings and commercial response at that time.

When the ratings of TBS were low in 1992, the then president made a "gambling club luck" decision to stop all TBS primetime shows from Monday to Thursday and invite an artist to participate in the variety show every day instead.

The sudden change also caught the collaborators of the animation project by surprise.

"Daj Great Adventure" is originally a popular comic strip on the Weekly teenager Jump, and it is also a key project responsible for the production of Dongying animation. The surrounding manufacturer Duomei Toys has already begun to produce products related to the follow-up plot, and many parties expect that this popular animation will drive the work to a new high, but all expectations have been dashed at this moment.

Even in that environment known as the "golden age of Jump comics," the decision of "Daj Adventure" to have a firm place was later satirized as "the sound of the crane". In the Japanese proverb, it is used to describe "authority makes arbitrary decisions regardless of the opinions of others." this reform not only failed to boost the ratings, but also reduced the overall television ratings from the third to the fourth. It lasted only half a year and ended hastily.

Many viewers look forward to a repeat of Dayi's Adventure, but by this time Dongying's production resources have shifted to another Jump cartoon Slam Dunk, which has received a good response after it was broadcast on Asahi TV, and obviously has no time to clean up the mess left by TBS.

By the time the "Slam Dunk" cartoon and TV animation ended smoothly in 1996, when Dai's Adventure was not as hot as it used to be, there was no reason to continue to animate.

If Dai hadn't been off the air, the animation of "Slam Dunk" would probably not be what you saw. "Daj's Adventure" has also been introduced by many countries, especially in South Korea and the Arab region. In the coastal areas of China, "Dai Adventure," which was once translated as "the riddle of the Dragon", has also been popular for a while, but because the plot has a beginning without an end, it is not as popular as those more complete animations.

Compared with "Dayi Great Adventure", the name that is more familiar to the domestic audience is "the riddle of the Dragon". The "Dai Great Adventure", which was abandoned by chaos, has become a childhood regret for many audiences, and times have changed, and most people have long given up the hope of seeing follow-up animations. But at the end of 2019, there was a sudden news that Dai was about to be animated again.

It has been 28 years since the work first appeared on screen.

To some extent, the promotional posters of the new animation also pay tribute to the 91 years version 2, just as its full name, "Da Yi Da Adventure" was originally a derivative cartoon of the game "Warriors against Dragons". It was born out of the craze set off by the Warriors against Dragons 3.

So "Daisy" inherits many settings from the original game of "the Warrior against the Dragon", including the Akira-style settings, the protagonists' occupations and shapes, combat skills and spells, and even the background music in the TBS version of the animation directly uses the game soundtrack.

As a result, the plot of this work is quite simple and straightforward, with an uninterrupted battle from the beginning to the end. The protagonists gain growth and understanding in a sound duel, until they finally save the world, which is a rather conventional story on the whole.

However, in today's creative environment where all kinds of "anti-routine brave" are rampant, such kingly stories have become rare.

The original orientation of Dayi Adventure, which is animated from scratch, was to serve the younger audience, and the new version also modified some of the "welfare" scenes in the original work, but after the actual broadcast, the composition of the audience attracted by the new animation is quite large and complicated, from preschoolers to college students to middle-aged people who have seen the old animation. Even the producers themselves can not tell who the main audience is.

In order to reduce exposure and become more "full-age", the new animation put the female character Mam in silk stockings on Twitter, and someone left a message saying that he was a housewife who accompanied his children to watch Dai on Saturday morning. Suddenly realized, "isn't this the unfinished animation I saw when I was a kid?"

Recalling that she was even younger than the child next to her today, she had a wonderful feeling that she unwittingly became more concerned about the animation than her child.

Some middle-aged viewers said that when they watched the old animation when they were young, they always substituted themselves for the protagonist Dai, imagining themselves as the brave and imitating the protagonist, but now when watching the new animation, they can't stop crying for the supporting role Pope and the villain Hadra.

Pope, Dai's mage teammate, was quite timid when he made his debut, in sharp contrast to the younger but courageous Dai. If he had only seen the old animation, he would probably think he was just a funny character.

But in fact, Pope is the most growing character in the whole comic. he represents the character of "ordinary people", who is afraid of powerful enemies and timid of hard battles, but finally overcomes it all. With the ability and will of human beings, he has become a true brave.

As a result, Pope is also known as the "True Brave" villain Hadra, who is like a mirror of Popper. At first, he was led by the nose by his boss and colleagues to keep his status as the little devil. He constantly lost his bottom line, but in the end, he regained his forgotten dignity in order to face up to the protagonist, leaving a brilliant war history.

The flesh-and-blood villains in the story are one of the highlights of the work, and these characters are more adult than the protagonist Dai, who embodies the innocence of children. for those old audiences who know the plot in the old animation, the new animation not only allows them to see the follow-up of the story, but also to look at these characters and themselves in front of the screen from a new perspective.

This may really be the only thing that can be done when the animation has been off the air unexpectedly for 30 years.

In fact, at the end of 2019, when the news of the new animation of "Dai Adventure" was released, in those animation-related forums, former fans expressed more negative concerns.

There is a reason for this attitude-the so-called "Renaissance" craze in the Japanese animation industry to reproduce classic animation has been going on for a long time, but over the past few years, the quality of many reproductions is not even "dog-tailed mink". Most of them have become a new black history.

This is especially true when it comes to Dongying, who is once again in charge of the animation of Dai's Great Adventure.

At that time, Dongying was working on the 30th anniversary of the Digital Baby Adventure, which once again tells the story of the first generation of children who were called up. In theory, the animation only needs to retell the original story with the pictures of the new era to meet the expectations of fans, and the length of 67 episodes also shows the sincerity of the producers to a certain extent. however, the young plot and barren action scenes of the reform finally let most of the audience down.

The 2019 "Digital Baby Adventure:" may not be "bad", but it is not "good" Dongying is responsible for producing all the works in the "Digital Baby" series, and the connection is undoubtedly much closer than that of Dayi's Great Adventure. Even works that can be called direct can only show such a level, and people's expectations for Dai's new work are no more than that.

Therefore, at the beginning of the 2020 version of Dayi, although there were a lot of stiff and abrupt 3D action scenes in the animation, looking at the delicate character painting and color performance, everyone gave a good evaluation. They all said that they were overjoyed to be able to maintain this level.

The initial 3D action scene of the animation is still quite stiff, but it is also within the scope of audience acceptance. in its first year of broadcast, "Daj" withstood the production pressure of the epidemic, maintained high-quality painting and performance, and successfully came to the plot point where the TBS version was suspended-the showdown between the protagonist Dai and his biological father, Dragon Knight Balan.

This is a brilliant key battle in the original cartoon, but in the old animation, it was carelessly dealt with because it was about to go off the air, leaving a criticized ending to the original well-received old version.

Although it is no longer the Dongying painters who participated in the production of the new version, it is as if they are going to take a breath of evil that has been saved for 30 years. The production team brings together excellent original painters to make a smooth transition between 3D and hand-painting. The battle was completed with extremely high quality.

Over the past year, the 3D scene in the animation has also become more smooth and gorgeous, and the audience is so excited that they even start to worry about whether the performance will run out of money, and then whether they will be able to see such a level of painting. However, the animation production team in reality is like the brave team in the plot, which has been continuously improved along the way, and its combat effectiveness has risen to a higher level. The level of animation production has become more stable, and it can also bring "divine return" to the audience from time to time.

But just when everything was going well, Dongying suddenly issued a notice in March this year, saying that the corporate server had been hacked and that a number of animations, including the new theatrical versions of "King of the Thief", "Dai Adventure" and "Dragon Ball Super", could not be produced and were suspended irregularly for some reason.

Most viewers of the King of Thieves were unimpressed at the time, when the 1000 episode was about to be broadcast, but most viewers were tired of TV dragging on the plot "water video" to keep pace with the comics and didn't care to watch less for a few weeks.

The Dayi Adventure side is a completely different story. Viewers are well aware of the efforts made by the production team to maintain stable quality in the previous more than 70 episodes, not to mention the suspension of the air, not even a single long-running memory or episode, but the production was innocently delayed.

A work with a scheduled schedule of 100 episodes like Dai is more likely to be affected than the "really long" animations that are broadcast indefinitely, and the story is at its best, even if only one or two episodes are affected. Will be a long-term regret.

Nearly three months later, audiences welcomed the 74th episode of Dai's re-broadcast with trepidation, and then were surprised to find that this episode not only reached a new high in the standard of drama, but also added a special ending to the plot and produced more pictures than usual. In fact, it is also the one with the largest number of original artists among the 100 episodes.

The full list of original painters is the guarantee of the production quality of this episode. At the moment when the audience is most worried, "Daisy" always brings the biggest surprise. This is the "Miracle moment" that belongs to this animation. this quality of production has been maintained all the way to the end of the story.

It is not only Dai in the story who shows "more and more brave", but also Kurohiko Chiba, a real animator in charge of the animation script, mentioned the production scene of this animation in an interview. He said that at the beginning, he also marked everyone's content priorities, but found that everyone was making all their efforts to produce all the content. Even the elderly, he was deeply affected and put more and more energy into participating in this work. I feel like Matrif, Pope's master in the story.

Matrif is an old mage of the former Warriors' team. After being touched by Dai, Pope and others, Matrif once again threw himself into the war against the Devil King. After the animation finale, many producers also expressed their feelings on Twitter, saying that they were really tired to participate in the project, and there were times when they wanted to retreat, but finally made a work that made them have no regrets.

Conclusion because the series of "the brave fight the evil dragon" is not very popular in China, and there are no gimmicks in "Dai Da Adventure", and the broadcast progress of bilibili's imported version lags behind by more than 10 episodes, the popularity in China is quite low. Almost only old fans watch it, and there are few social platforms that can focus on discussing the animation.

As a result, a wonderful scene was formed in the bilibili comment area of the animation: when the B station version was updated every week, viewers were discussing the latest words watched elsewhere in the comment area, and when bilibili played to 90 words, everyone is already coming to an end.

But in the eyes of fans, at least the audience here can still have something to look forward to for the next 10 weeks, and the days of Dai's company are not completely over.

When Dayi's Adventure reached 99 words, many viewers began to call the two-year animation journey a miracle, while some people began to feel empty or even afraid of the coming Saturday without Dai to see.

This mood eventually turned into a call for a sequel, which was originally planned for the Dai Adventure cartoon, but for a variety of reasons. Now, audiences hope that the new animation will revive the sequel that once fell into thin air.

Some fans have launched a campaign to call for a sequel on Twitter, and it has also attracted support from viewers outside Japan because they know how rare a hundred-episode animation of this quality makes it known as a "miracle". It is undoubtedly greedy to expect the "miracle" to continue to happen like this. But as Dayi's Adventures tells, it is precisely because human beings are greedy and want to make miracles happen again and again in their limited lives that the brave in the story can finally defeat the mighty devil-and that is why such wonderful animations are born in reality.

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

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