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Obviously, he knows the truth that "works can be ugly, but they must not be boring."

War, patricide. Blood, severed limbs. On Social networks these days, I believe you've seen a lot of "little Gundam shock."

As an orthodox Gundam TV animation broadcast seven years later,"The Witch of Mercury," a mobile warrior, exceeded all audience expectations in various senses."The Witch of Mercury," which was originally unveiled at the second Gundam conference in 2021, was initially not favored by a crowd of Gundam fans.

On the one hand, the target audience of this work is young people who have never been exposed to Gundam, and the main campus style is also incompatible with the theme and tone of this series; on the other hand, the last orthodox Gundam TV animation is called…

The Iron Olphins.

Until the official launch, the performance of the first episode of this book made the new and old audiences feel the changes of the times together: standing on the ground, Gao Da became the background board for the engagement between the female owner and the female second.

The selling point of Mercury's Witch was straightforward. The lily drama of the female lead and the female lead was obviously the biggest attraction.

From a midsummer kick a few months ago to the hit Lonely Rock, the intimate interaction between beautiful girls in the animation now seems to have some meaning of "version answer." A well-made animation, with a little lily element, can always produce one after another.

S1 forum, lily CP's special building stands alone, supporting the popularity of the entire animation section

This is true, in the netizen's follow-up discussion process,"knock CP" became this high animation can not be circumvented topic.

A girl who was not good at words and a president who lacked love. Their relationship went from knowing each other, knowing each other, and then trusting each other. During this period, there were misunderstandings, cold wars, and finally, they moved towards a reconciliation ending that everyone liked. It is worth mentioning that the 11th episode of the film was broadcast on Christmas Day, and the screenwriter prepared two female guests '"affectionate confession" for this episode, and countless lily lovers shouted for enjoyment.

But the prosaic "play house" story ends in 12 words.

After the 12th episode aired, the images of the two protagonists in Mercury's Witch, both inside and outside the play, achieved a 180-degree turn.

The animated protagonist, Slata Mercury, was the first female protagonist in the Gundam TV series, nicknamed "Civet Cat" by fans for her likable persona and iconic thick eyebrows before the show began, and her performance in the show was also considered to be a solid nickname.

If you look at the first 11 episodes, the civet cat is actually a very normal little girl. Although she wanted to go home to build her hometown after she had succeeded in her studies, she also suffered a lot from her weak social skills.

She naively lists her wishes and tries to adapt to a new campus life. No matter how she looks at it, the civet cat is a very ordinary "social fear girl."

The raccoon cat is so innocent and simple that some stupid characters may find it difficult to sit firmly on the protagonist status of the Gundam series animation famous for its grand war. However, according to the interview of animation production team, many members involved in animation production are aware of the problem of "new audience difficult to enter the pit." In order to attract more passers-by audience, the production team temporarily revised the original script, which we now see "Mercury's Witch."

In the voting survey of YOASOBI, a popular band that sang for this work, 30% were new viewers. In order to eliminate the serious atmosphere that has always existed in the Gundam series, the initial episodes of "Mercury's Witch" deliberately strengthened the sense of comedy and drama. The local girl from Mercury, the raccoon cat, formed an ambiguous relationship with many characters in just a few episodes. Marriage, marriage proposal and dating were all available. If the audience could filter the background of "Gundam" by themselves, It's not impossible to taste some "idol drama."

The proposal of "highlighting brother" in the early stage almost became a funny role "Mercury's witch" early too "children's play" plot development, touched part of the high old powder reverse scale. Especially in the background of Episode 0 released before the broadcast of this work, the tragic foreshadowing of Episode 0 and the tragic ending full of bad fun are too different from the film, many Gao Da fans have to sigh:

"Is Mercury's Witch too disrespectful to older viewers in order to pull new people into the pit? "

However, everyone knew the story behind it.

In the final minutes of Episode 12, the stupid cute civet cat drives his Gundam to crush the enemy in order to save the girl who is in trouble. Just like patting a mosquito to death, after killing, the civet cat still carries out its naive and simple human design, smiling foolishly like nothing happened, and the close-up of the animation repeatedly emphasizes the truth that the audience actively ignores_the civet cat has never been a normal person.

On Sunday's final live broadcast, the most frequent word was "respect." Before that, viewers would have thought that the civet cat's ignorance was a comedic treatment, a "cuteness" of a second-dimensional character, a compromise made to cater to the market.

For the last few minutes of the 12 episodes, the screenwriter packed dumplings for a whole season, highlighting the "inhuman feeling" of the civet cat through the comparison before and after. The 15-year-old girl was not afraid to kill, and she was afraid that she could not find a legitimate reason to kill, which has been the case since episode 1.

The close-up shot of the first episode of animation "Unclear Meaning," looking back, has a deep meaning from the beginning to the end of the story,"Mercury's Witch" takes into account the heat, gimmick and commercial achievements, bringing a unique follow-up experience to the new and old audience, especially after the broadcast of 12 episodes, the related second creation of this work ushered in a wave of small blowout, the palm of the cat, everyone was silly.

For a while, the pictures flew across the Internet. For example, pay tribute to classic film and television works:

"The scariest performance in animated film history" and, for example, finding this scene early in Magic:

"Exactly the same" and eating "human blood tomatoes"...

In such a situation, the painters in charge of animation production cannot escape from the relationship, but everyone also understands that there is a head debt, scared the new era of the second dimension "culprit," of course, the name engraved in the old second dimension DNA: the first floor in the river.

2. On the first floor of Okawa, he was born in the Department of Human Science of Waseda University. His first participation in ACG related work was to write novels for the classic stream of consciousness lily animation "Girl Revolution", and his debut as a scriptwriter was to write single-episode scripts for "Gundam Black History" and "Gundam."

History circulates, who can think that more than 20 years later, Dahe will combine his two debut works into one, wrote the present "Lily Gundam."

Looking through several major works of Dahe's career, it is not difficult to find that this scriptwriter can highlight the charm of robot animation through works such as "Rebel Lulu Xiu" and "Revolutionary Machine." In recent years, he has also written ambiguous works focusing on same-sex emotions such as "Princess Principal" and "Infinite Skateboard."

He was able to take over the scriptwriter work for Mercury's Witch.

Ohanoi is responsible for the series composition and script, which determines the script outline of the whole work and the specific lines of most single episodes. However, from the performance of animation, Ohanoi is somewhat suspected of being "lazy."

Audiences who have seen "Girl Revolution" will definitely have a full sense of both: campus theme, student duel, rose bride, and the complex love and hate between the main characters in the early stages of the plot all fit together one by one. The high EQ is called salute classic, and the low EQ is that the old is alive and the new is whole, and they are not alive.

However, as the plot progresses, Dahe tears off his kind mask and reveals his sharp fangs. Birthday sacrifice day, human experiment, hand-blade father, and then to the final malicious "mosquito patting" section, the new audience experienced an unprecedented perception roller coaster, the old second dimension recalled the fear dominated by the runaway script in the river.

The mid-to-late rampage of "The Crown of Sin" is often considered to be the beginning of the black history of writers in the river. In fact, Ohanoi's performance in recent years is not bright enough. This does not mean that his screenwriting skills have declined, but that he has rarely produced topic works recently. "Rebel Lulu Xiu,""Crown of Sin,""Cabanelli of Iron City," in terms of the topic raised by these works alone, in the whole industry, Dahe is also regarded as a leader.

Obviously, Dahe knows the truth that "works can be ugly, but they must not be boring." Most of the original animations he handles have one or even several key plot explosion points, allowing drowsy audiences to keep watching.

In Okawai's famous work "Blood-stained Youfei," he resolutely chose "the writing with the most bullet screens," triggering a bloody and bizarre tragedy through a complete accident, forcing the story to develop while secretly recovering the foreshadowing previously buried. Unexpectedly, beyond reason, this sudden dramatic turn has become the "three-board axe" in the river, which he has used to this day.

Lulu Xiu's Geass lost control when he was joking. Yufi, who gave people a strong dramatic impact and was stained with blood, perfectly inherited the current "Witch of Mercury." The tragedy caused by the dramatic coincidence and collision corresponds to the final patricide plot. The strange texture and inhuman feeling brought about by Yufi's character transformation before and after are also reflected in the main character's body. The familiar Ohanoi has finally returned.

Perhaps some viewers will think that although the 12 episodes are cool enough to hunt in visual perception, they are also accompanied by a strong sense of fragmentation and suddenness. Compared with the blood-stained Youfei, they are more sloppy and rough, affecting the plot tension of the whole work. However, from the very beginning, Okawai's mission wasn't to write an excellent script. Injecting fresh blood into Gundam animation was the biggest mission of Mercury's Witch.

Gundam, a well-known IP, has a history of more than 40 years. It has completely witnessed the glorious age of robot animation, but how can it be done? The giant mecha has some taste of "retreating environment" today. Dozens of animations, large and small, are the accumulated wealth of this series along the way, but also the heavy shackles that bind this series to a new era. The high viewing threshold keeps young audiences out, and a radical innovation is imminent.

In a magazine interview last November, Ohanoi revealed the inside story of animation production. The work we see today is quite different from the plot he originally conceived, and the ideas of other team members have been drawn from the process of writing the script, which actually explains to some extent the small problems existing in this plot.

Translated from Bilibili user @ Little Angel Egg Putting aside the final quality of the film, just looking at the popularity of the work, Dahe was still the topic writer who deserved it. Twitter was at the top of the daily search, and the character popularity was at a high level. Feng Ling was even sold out for a time...

The problem is that Mercury's Witch is still a work with the name "Gundam."

If you look at the style of previous works in the series, this work is really "not very high." Although there is still no final conclusion on what Gundam is, people still want to see the conflict between the two forces, the collision of old and new ideas, and the thinking of grand wars rather than the popular campus themes in the market.

From CCTV6's "Today's Film Review", from the beginning of this animation to the end of the previous days, the controversy and abuse surrounding the work never stopped. Some of the content is deliberately done in the river, and more is the sigh of fans 'true feelings. Just like the traditional proposition of the Gundam series, human beings may never understand each other.

As the first Gundam for young people, Okouchi perfectly achieved his goal of attracting new audiences for Gundam IP with Mercury's Witch. Although this may not have been the story he originally wanted to write, no one knows whether another script will raise the commercial value of the work to its current height.

Mercury's Witch is not finished yet, and the second season will be officially released in April this year. It's too early to conclude, but the volume of 24 episodes of this book can't help but make people sweat. Gundam TV animation has always been around 50 episodes. It's really difficult for Dahe to reproduce the glory of his predecessors in the next 12 episodes.

The battle-hardened Dahe did not understand the difficulty of this task. He steadily advanced the plot in the first 12 episodes, quietly burying the foreshadowing of the setting. In order to take care of the new audience who didn't have much contact with Gundam, the man known for his "illness" restrained himself and held it until the last episode to bring a little "Gundam shock" to everyone.

Even if there is still a gap between the current Hanoi teacher and his peak, we can still look forward to the next 12 episodes of anger, waiting for him to bring us another surprise_only hope this "surprise" can be a positive word.

This article comes from Weixin Official Accounts: Game Research Society (ID: ysaag), author: Oakny

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