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In the interview "fight for Victory", Shou Ai mentioned his view of success and defeat in his creation. He believes that as a film director, victory is not a commercial success at the box office, nor the honor brought by winning awards, but to continue to gain the right and internal motivation to make the next film.

According to Asui Shou, as long as we can continue to create, we can continue to attract new audiences, and naturally some people will continue to excavate their own historical works. For creators, this is a long-term victory.

On the contrary, when a work is no longer updated, it enters the countdown to life, the great popularity will dissipate sooner or later, and wonderful stories will be sealed behind people's minds. Like the Titanic that hit an iceberg, it will eventually sink.

Unfortunately, the Legend of Sword Wind (later referred to as "Jian Feng") has become such a work.

In May 2021, Miura Kentaro (later referred to as "Miura"), the author of Jianfeng, died of acute aortic dissection. His magazine, Baiquan, issued an official obituary, and countless readers were plunged into great sadness and grief.

Because Baiquan Society has not yet reached a final conclusion on the follow-up matters of the work, readers are in a panic and do not know where the fate of "Sword Wind" will sail.

A year after the dark clouds of the author's death, Baiquan Society finally announced the news of serial reopening in June 2022. The follow-up content was produced by Miura's assistant team and supervised by Miura's cartoonist Mori Hengji, a good friend of Miura for more than 40 years.

At that time, it seemed that the work was finally coming out of the uncertain situation of life and death.

According to officials, the opportunity for the serialization of "Jian Feng" is as follows: while sorting out Miura's relics, Mori Henger found that his bedside was covered with his new work, "the Great River of creation", as well as some separate mirror manuscripts of "Jianfeng".

Because Miura was still reading his works before he died. Mori Hengji felt extremely moved. At the same time, I also felt my responsibility and thought that as a good friend of Miura, I should stand up and draw a full stop for his work.

Although my own ability is limited, together with Miura's excellent disciples, I will certainly be able to reach the end. " So he officially took over the work of continuing to write Jian Feng.

Mori Hengji and Miura are close friends for more than 40 years. They met in high school and were admitted to the same school. They were almost inseparable when they were young, and often drew cartoons and watched movies together. Mori Hengji once ran away from home and lived in Miura, where they discussed the skills of comic book creation and wonderful film and television plots until dawn.

Mori Hengji painted "Miura Kentaro & Mori Hengji's autobiography" Miura began to conceive of "sword wind" from the university. Mori Hengji gave a lot of suggestions and often acted as his model topless. In the more than 30 years since then, Miura has often discussed with Mori Henger about the shaping of the character and the unfolding of the plot.

More or less, Mori Hengji knows the follow-up content of Jian Feng, and it seems to be the best choice for him to take over.

Many readers were moved by their stories, and the news of the cartoon series was also called "Friendship Relay", which was talked about by netizens. However, with the curtain really opened, the continuation of the updated content has fallen into a huge controversy.

If you want to judge the appropriateness of the new content, you must review the original content. And this can not avoid the Golden Age, in which the protagonist Gus, who licks blood, meets his best friend in life and future enemy-Griffith.

He was forced to join Griffith's team, the Eagle Regiment, but he was influenced by all kinds of characters in the Eagle Regiment. For the first time, he felt the warmth of family affection, friendship and love, and found the meaning of life and the purpose of living.

The eagle regiment, but in the end all the good things were destroyed. With the advent of the solar eclipse, Griffith began the sacrifice ceremony of turning his back on his friends.

Gus lost an arm and crawled back to earth from hell; his beloved Kaska was deranged and behaved abnormally; all the other members lost their lives and the Eagle Group was destroyed. At this time, Gus completely lost his mind, and there was only one goal left in his heart-to take revenge on Griffith, who had betrayed himself and his companies. he was driven by hatred to fight and almost lost his feelings as a human being.

Gus waved his sword like a demon, and the Buddha blocked and killed the Buddha, but he also saw all aspects of life and met many precious people in the process. As the new team formed again, he gradually found the reason and meaning to continue to fight from the confusion and pain-the guardian, who had been left behind by himself to guard the new partner. He completed the growth of his personality, no longer lived in killing, and paralyzed himself by revenge.

On the other hand, Griffith was reincarnated into a noble "hand of God" by sacrifice, but he could not rule out his feelings for Gus and Kascarlett, so he became the son of the full moon in frequent contact with Gus and Kascarlett, looking for the warmth that made him sentimentally attached.

With the death of the author Miura, the final picture of Jian Feng is fixed on a clear tear of Griffith.

Griffith's teardrop is a recovery of Griffith's emotional line, informing the reader that the son of the full Moon is Griffith and heralds a more dramatic unfolding of the plot.

The reader can read out the determination, pain, resentment, yearning and sadness from the last teardrop, and the future plot is full of possibilities that can be imagined and analyzed. In the case of the author's death, for many people, this is the best ending.

However, in the new series, the above emotions disappear, Gus once again returned to the flat image of revenge, directly carrying a knife to Griffith, but was inexplicably stopped by Warcraft Zod, who was not present. Then Griffith snatched Coscarlett, Gus was routed, and he himself fell into a constant collapse.

The new plot with only ten words has exposed many problems, such as the lack of literature and drama, the illogical behavior of the characters and so on. The growth shown by the protagonist in the previous plot has been completely dispelled, and the final scene that looks like "Yamu Tea" has turned Gus and Griffith's years of feud into a joke, which is obviously unacceptable to many readers.

Of course, many readers call on everyone to be tolerant of the follow-up content. Although the performance of the continuation painting is very bad, there is at least one ending, so that this work does not leave any regrets, which can also be regarded as comforting the soul of Miura.

However, regardless of the quality of the content, is it really what Miura expects to continue writing "Jian Feng"?

In the past 30 years since the creation of "Sword Wind", Miura has a very high demand for himself. When he is energetic, he draws almost all the characters and backgrounds on his own. The team of assistants who took over the drawing of "Jian Feng" was actually formed by him in 2019. Moreover, Miura did not let them directly devote themselves to the creation of "Sword Wind", but opened a new series "between Heaven and Earth" for them to practice.

After "between Heaven and Earth" was replaced with a digital board for painting, he always enlarged every detail and revised the draft repeatedly until he was angrily stopped by the editor. In his own words: "my obsession with painting is already a kind of illness."

Leprechaun Island: even if the leprechaun appears only once, Miura is committed to giving them their own souls and making the most authentic reaction, so he spends a lot of time painting. When Miura was alive, Jianfeng could only be updated once every two or three months, but this is why the assistant team was able to maintain double shifts every month after his death.

In addition to his obsession with painting, Miura also has his own persistence in friendship. At the beginning of the serialization of "Sword Wind", Mori Henger lost his confidence because of repeated setbacks in his contributions, muddled his way through life, and was at the bottom of his life. Miura asked him to live in his studio, helped him and encouraged him to continue to contribute. Although he was very busy at this time, he never asked him to help draw a page of the manuscript, or asked him to be his assistant.

Mori Hengji painted "autobiography" this is Miura's view of friendship-the pursuit of "equal relationship". Just as Gus and Griffith became the origin of the "sword wind" story because of their pursuit of a "reciprocal relationship", Miura and Mori Hengji are also each other's best friends and rivals, and their dream has always been to climb towards the pinnacle of "comic creation" together.

Such Miura may not choose to let friends continue to write their own works.

However, in fact, whether Mori Hengji participates or not, Baiquan Society will certainly revive the "sword style". This is a work with an average volume sales of more than 2 million copies, and among all the comics serialized by Baiquan Society and Magazine, those who can reach an average sales of 300000 copies are already considered outstanding, and the sales of all other works can not add up to half that of "Sword Wind."

It can be said that whether or not to continue to write "Sword Wind" is no longer within the control of Mori Henger. He himself is only a small cartoonist who works for Baiquan Society. To a large extent, the outside world's understanding of him stays on the label of "best friend of Miura." so far, he has not been given the same creative freedom and privileges as Miura.

And the follow-up trend of the story is more sufficient to explain the fate of "Sword Wind" today. If the cartoon series still seems to have some feelings, then Baiquan Society has completely tore off its mask in the new animation project.

3 in the same month, the official announcement of the remake of the Legend of the Golden Age of the Sword Wind was announced, and the three theatre versions were edited into an one-season TV animation, named "the Golden Age of the Sword Wind", which was broadcast on wireless television.

Although the three theatrical editions have been adapted many times, the poster "MEMORIAL EDITION of the Golden Age of Jianfeng" was undoubtedly encouraging when the news was first announced. When it comes to remaking specifications, this is the most valuable one.

According to officials, the edited version will be released for the first time with a cut that has never been played before, and will also produce a brand new picture to make up for the lack of drama due to time constraints.

In order to produce new content, the production team specially invited the former chief painting supervisor Shang Enda to be in charge of the new picture, invited the soul composers of "Sword style" Peizawa Jin and Luchao Shiro to compose the soundtrack, and the famous singer Meijia Nakajima sang a new ending song.

The strong lineup of the posters of "Wish" at the end of Nakajima's film makes countless audiences look forward to it, hoping that it can make up for the shortcomings caused by the limitations of the theatrical version and pass on the charm of "sword style" to more audiences. I even hope it can get off to a good start and bring the animation project into a continuous virtuous circle.

But this expectation was quickly broken.

After the first episode was broadcast, officials released a mixed cut that lasted more than 4 minutes, and the soundtrack used Ping Zejin's "FORCES" for the 97 version of the animation, and hit the love card hard, causing countless fans to shout "tearful eyes". However, when the second episode was broadcast, the audience found that the mixed cut had been completely cut into the feature film for a long time, but the deleted plot that should have been added was missing.

When the plan was released, it played the banner of making up the plot, but it didn't even do the effortless scenes of literary drama when it was broadcast. The audience finally realized that it was just a project to sell feelings.

However, the matter is far from over, and Baiquan Society has to deal another heavy blow to the disappointed audience.

While the edited version was broadcast, a mysterious countdown ceremony was launched on the official website. The countdown, which lasted more than two months, was set to end on December 11, and no one understood what it meant.

In general, the longer the countdown, the larger the content of the project. Such a long countdown has raised hopes among many viewers that a new animation should be announced after the countdown is over.

Everyone thinks so, and the worst guess about the project is that officials continue to stir up cold rice in the Golden Age.

In the end, however, to everyone's surprise, with the broadcast of the penultimate episode, viewers understood the true meaning of the countdown. It calculates the broadcast time of the worst plot in the Wind of the sword, the eclipse and the destruction of the Eagles.

At the end of the countdown, what viewers expected to see was a piece of commodity information: the edited version of the animation will be released on Blu-ray in March, with a video of Miura's interview as a special example.

Included the interview video of teacher Miura in the "Great Sword Wind Exhibition"! This is a special image that you can only see at the site of the "Great Sword Wind Exhibition". Please read it. The Baiquan official uses the interview video as a disc special and spares no effort to publicize its value. it is precisely because Miura's interview photos have been limited to below the head in recent years, and the photos have not been released for a long time, perhaps in their eyes. This is very attractive content for fans.

This may be against Miura's own will. In his lifetime, Miura was an extremely low-key cartoonist who did not often attend various events and seldom interacted with his authors. In his own words, "cartoonists should convey their ideas through their works and should not show off in other places."

This is the case at the end of the long countdown, waiting for the "feast" of fans. Both inside and outside the animation, this is "the darkest day in the history of sword wind".

The conclusion now seems that a series of absurd events taking place at present actually have traces to follow at that time.

When Miura first died, many readers guessed how the work "Jian Feng" would develop in the future. For example, Baiquan Society may issue derivative cartoons in the official name to describe the protagonist's feeder journey, but will never touch the main line. Or make a completely original animation and continue to write the following content in the form of animation.

However, Baiquan Society finally chose to revive "Sword Wind" by force, but directly cut Miura's another new serial work, "between Heaven and Earth".

In fact, in the creation process of "between Heaven and Earth", the role played by assistants is much greater than in "Sword style". When the human setting and world outlook have begun to take shape, this work is also the easiest to be continued. However, the serialization of "between Heaven and Earth" ended hastily after the 6th word, and a single book was reluctantly put together for sale with the set version.

In the eulogy between Heaven and Earth on the cover and in the eulogy at the end of 364 words, Baiquan Society said that although it has not yet reached a clear conclusion on the follow-up of the work, "if we continue to write Jian Feng, our club will certainly put 'what Mr. Miura thinks' first."

At least at that time, they had the intention to continue to write Jian Feng. In the following year, officials held two "Great Sword Wind exhibitions" and released commemorative magazines and limited edition booklets. While achieving huge sales, he also made up his mind to continue to write "Jian Feng".

However, this is beyond reproach. Both the Baiquan Society and its readers understand that it is impossible to cultivate a new cartoon from scratch and let him reach the height of "sword style."

In the face of a million-selling cartoon, Baiquan Society has no reason to allow its commercial value to pass in vain over time. At the end of the disc sale, other plans will continue to mow the grass. The "Great Sword Wind Exhibition" is still touring around the country, and activities such as "Sword Wind Coffee" are inundated-but it all seems that the ship "the Legend of Sword Wind" was sinking and the people on board were still partying.

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

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