No special story

Lola 2022-01-19 08:02:43

I watched this episode at the rate of one episode a day. Looking back, it might be more suitable to watch it in two or three days at a time. The look and feel will be better. After all, this is not a complicated story.

At the beginning, it took me about five episodes to recognize everyone’s faces and names. When I watched it, I didn’t remember them deliberately. Such a hodgepodge of appearances can easily lead to polarization of word-of-mouth. Some people think it’s funny, some people think the author I'm not telling the story well at all.

I usually collect screenshots when I see interesting places. The stories in this book are the stories of Issac and Miria. Many people call them fools and couples, and fools are blessed, but I don’t want to call them that, they should be called As a couple of immortals, simple, kind, willing to help others, living in troubled times forever and happily, with a lovely personality, they are good friends.

The tastelessness of this series is that the story of looking forward to digging deep is not said at all, which has caused most of the characters to stand up, but they are not full. The audience can only accept the settings of certain characters, but they cannot see through the causes and consequences of the characters' hearts. This is somewhat of a response, not strong in persuasiveness, novelty is also temporary, and will eventually be forgotten.

For example, the white-clothed man is a man who kills innocent people indiscriminately. What is the reason for the formation of this character, and what happened later, we don’t know; how the immortal religious leader was discovered, why he went to prison, and his three views We don’t know the specific meaning of the claim; why the younger sister is obsessed with finding her elder brother who is essentially a dude, and is not in place; why street gangsters want to be chivalrous, should be more pen and ink explanation; railway trackers use His own moral standards determine the fate of everyone, very arbitrary, but also very boring; the three underworld brothers and Philo and other gang leaders purely play soy sauce, just passers-by in the plot.

There are also a few characters who have a lot of ink, but they are distorted or unnecessary. The little boy with persecuted delusion wants to express what the author’s conception is, but he can’t tell; the dumb sister and the man-made sister are first controlled by others and then influenced by love. The settings are repeated, and one can be deleted completely; the wrench in the last three episodes The kid is completely confused. Although when I look at it, I understand that the author’s intention is to use a newcomer to illustrate that the story is never ending and the characters are interconnected. In fact, this approach greatly affects the perception and will reduce the audience’s perception of the existing Attentiveness and attractiveness of the clue.

Moreover, although the author always wants to emphasize the link between people, in fact, only the immortal couple, the dude and the intelligence agency really play the role of threading the needle. The rest of the characters are forced to rely on their routes. The ability to meet is either related to the wine of eternal life from the beginning, but then it cannot be a good proof of the center of "characters are interconnected and influence each other." Moreover, the intelligence agency has piled up several people, which is superfluous; the portrayal of the dude is really mediocre, and there is no refreshing feeling.

In short, the conception of the plot is far from exquisite and detailed. The design of the story is relatively clumsy and rough. It is said to show a good group portrait, but after thinking about it, the characters are flat and monotonous. I think the highlight of the whole play is the funny of the fairy couple, the fight between the white murderer and the railroad tracker, the painting and music of the title, and the rest is really nothing. The so-called multi-line cross narrative technique is very refreshing when you watch it, but believe me, you can also do it: sort out the story lines of several characters around you first, and then compile several paragraphs at different time periods. , The last piece is pieced together, and you're done.

I have not read the original novel, and I don’t know how the above mentioned pitfalls and shortcomings are in the novel, but it is indeed too boring to watch the animation alone, and there is even reason to suspect that this is the author’s arbitrary work, and it has not been screened at all. After reviewing, it's just a running account. There really is no special story.

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  • Dovie 2022-03-28 09:01:12

    A masterpiece in a sense, British style, many characters, multi-line narrative, bloody violence, no beginning and no ending, every character can be the protagonist, the only downside is that 16 episodes are a bit not enough for me to go to work to watch it!

  • Alexandrine 2022-03-27 09:01:20

    The soundtrack is pretty good. White-eyed mandarin duck thief Saigao XD and Mr. Luck Gandor, who is just a trick but somehow deeply in love XD