In July last year, a total of 36 people were killed in the Kyo Ani Arson Incident at the First Studio of Kyo Ani.
After the fire was extinguished, almost all important documents were destroyed, and the first studio was reduced to rubble. Because of the continuous people coming to mourn, Kyo Ani set up a flower stand nearby, and it was only withdrawn a month after the fire, leaving a smoky ruin.
It wasn't until last month that the site was finally demolished as well. The "holy land" that was originally the main studio of Kyo Ani Animation production, which once produced a large number of high-quality animations, has become a vacant lot, and there is nothing left.
Coincidentally, in the last month when the epidemic in Japan was still under martial law, "Ryogu Haruhi" returned to people's vision. Aya Hirano, who was the voice actress of Haruhi Ryogu at the time, uploaded a video of "Ryogu Dance" to encourage everyone who could not leave the house, which caused many artists and voice actors to follow suit, and "Good Mood on Sunny Days", which had not been seen for many years, also appeared on the music hot list again.
"The Melancholy of Haruhi in Lianggong" is one of the representative works of Kyo Ani's early years. In April, the traditional new season, many Japanese animations have been postponed due to the epidemic. An old animation has returned to the field of vision, which makes people feel quite sad.
Times have passed, once this phenomenon-level animation, now there is no following, and the studio that created it has been demolished by fire, the supervision of the year has passed away, and the voice actor has repeatedly suffered negative public opinion. The Lianggong Dance can still be remembered, but the "Lianggong Spring Day" of that year can never come back.
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In 2003, Cool Palace won the Sneaker Award.
The Sneaker Awards, which began in 1996, were awarded for light fiction, and the criteria were strict, and if there were no works that met the level of the award that year, they would simply be left blank. In the past ten years, the "Great Award" has only been issued four times, namely in the second, third, eighth, fourteenth and fifteenth times.
The eighth time was in 2003, the year of Tanigawa's debut, and his award-winning work was called "The Melancholy of Haruhi Ryogu".
This is a year when the light novel industry is poised to develop, with "The Burning Eyes of Xiana", followed by "Magical Banned Books Catalog" and "The Secret of Haruka Nogisaka". The emergence of "The Melancholy of Haruhi in Ryogu" in this year has repeatedly consolidated the status of light novels that have risen since the 90s.
This science fiction intertwined campus, mainly a female high school student named Haruhi Ryogu, broke through in its first year of release, selling 100,000 copies. In the following years, it was also rated as the peak of "Japanese leisure novel" by the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper.
Behind the nodes and booms, there is the author Tanigawa Ryu, who is just emerging and stepping into the new world.
In the year of the award, Tanigawa Ryu was 33 years old, and there was no such person in the Japanese literary world before. He had submitted an essay for the Literary Magazine Newcomer Award, but all of them were unsuccessful. He turned to light novels and soon wrote "Haruhi Ryogu".
After the book hit, Tanigawa Ryu was quickly crowned the title of "Ghost Talent". Before that, he was an employee of a women's clothing store, doing work that had nothing to do with words, and with a not-so-high salary. Time went forward, he did not become a lawyer in college, missed the opportunity to enter the baseball world in high school, and even took the cram school entrance examination that year.
In terms of experience and resume, Tanigawa's first 33 years are no different from anyone who has embarked on society, full of hard work and half-way abandonment, opportunities and discouragement, many hobbies, only reading is the longest.
And it was this kind of Tanigawa Stream that finally resigned when he was over thirty years old, chose to write, and wrote: "I have no interest in ordinary human beings." If there are aliens, future people, otherworldly people, and super-powered people among you, just come to me! above. And the Ryogu Kasuga who said this.
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The year Tanigawa wrote Ryogu Kasuga, Aya Hirano was dubbing "Angel's Tail," a very ordinary mesmerizing anime. Aya Hirano was 16 years old.
To become an animation voice actor at this age, one is to have opportunities, and the other is to rely on strength. Aya Hirano has both, she was born beautiful and sweet, and at the age of 11, she joined the Tokyo Children's Theater Troupe, shooting commercials and participating in events. He also debuted as a voice actor when he was a minor. In junior high school, Aya Hirano found that her pituitary gland was swollen with many sequelae, one of which was that if there was no nasal sound, it added a touch of recognition to her voice that was already different from ordinary people.
Shortly after starting her regular voice acting career, Aya Hirano was told a chance to audition, and she went to "try her luck" and was quickly chosen. The audition character is a high school girl named Haruhi Ryomiya.
Lianggong Haruhi is pretty cute. Aya Hirano bought Tanigawa Ryu's novel before the audition, and when she opened it, she felt that this girl was in great contrast with herself. In her eyes, she should be more like Asahina.
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Kyo Ani soon announced that he would produce an animated version of Ryogu Haruhi's Melancholy, with the protagonist voiced as Aya Hirano.
For more than a decade after that, Aya Hirano was later referred to as "the girl Kyo Ani watched grow up", but not entirely appropriately. In the year of the production of "The Melancholy of Haruhi in Ryogu", Kyo Ani was far from the fame he has today, but had just left the identity of an outsourcing company.
Founded in 1981, Kyo Ani had outsourcing prowess in the mid-1990s, but was nameless in the industry. It began producing animation independently in 2003 and ended most of its outsourcing career the following year.
In 2006, Kyo Ani's "Melancholy of Haruhi in Ryogu" began to be broadcast, which at that time took the level of light novel animation to the extreme. So that a few years later, looking at the animation industry in 2006, some people called it "the year that belonged to Kyo Ani".
Later, some people believe that the key to Kyo Ani's achievement is that it boldly reused a young man: Yamamoto Hiroshi.
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During the summer vacation of his third year of junior high school, Yamamoto made up his mind to become an animation supervisor.
For teenagers at this age who love anime, their ambitions are often more superficial, "want to be a manga artist" and "want to do animation". Yamamoto also had such a period, when he was in elementary school, he read Fujiko Fujio's "Manga Road" and enthusiastically wrote a fan letter, "I want to be Fujiko's assistant." But in the end, practicing drawing was fruitless, and after going to middle school, the dream of a cartoonist went with the wind. After studying the animation industry, he found that he could not draw, in fact, he could also be an animation supervisor, and his life was gambled on this industry.
When he was a student, Yamamoto Hiroshi was active in the animation club and made a movie called "Resentment Team Restivity", which was very well received, so that he who had never been welcomed before felt what "red" was, one of the reasons was that there were many girls in the screening.
After graduating, Hiroshi Yamamoto sought a livelihood in the animation industry, and Ghibli was the unsurprising first choice for the Miyazaki admirer, followed by Sunrise, Toei Animation, and famous large companies. During the process of picking and choosing, he heard from somewhere that a local animation production company in Kyoto had come to try it out.
The unknown company is located in the wilderness of Uji, Kyoto, and the building looks like a shantytown. The sluggish appearance made Yamamoto more confident that half a foot had stepped into society, and he asked in an interview: "Can I use this as an alternative when Ghibli doesn't want me?" ", I got a positive reply from the president.
This company is Kyoto Animation, Kyo Ani. Soon after, Ghibli sent a letter of rejection to Hiroshi Yamamoto, who eventually chose to come here in 1998. Ten years later, a building was built not far from the shack, a workplace for the main employees of animation production, called Kyoto Animation Studio No. 1, which burned down last year.
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"The Melancholy of Haruhi Ryogu" has left three memory points in the history of Japanese animation, the first of which is played in a disorderly order.
After Yamamoto came to Kyo-Ani, he teamed up with Tachiya Ishihara, who was the superintendent, to produce an animated version of "The Melancholy of Haruhi Ryogu". Both of them had radical ideas and did not belong to the decent people in the industry, and the team also held the idea of gambling, and finally used a variety of experimental ideas in the animation.
2 April 2006. As the first episode of the late-night animation premiere, sos first entered the public eye, the theme of the episode is a close-up short film, the deliberate use of 8 cm camera quality and 4:3 display range is unconventional, inspired by Yamamoto's real experience when shooting "Grudge Team Restiment". Coupled with the setting of chaotic playback, "The Melancholy of Haruhi in Lianggong" started quite high.
On the night of the premiere, the production team squatted at 2ch to watch the reaction, and the whole network was sensational. Subsequently, because the animation still remained in disorderly order, the topic degree remained high. The network interprets it: This means that the character of Haruhi Ryogu is tired of the world's vision and does not like to spend life in a flat and straightforward way.
The second is a clip of Haruhi Ryogu singing "God knows...", because the performance effect is amazing. The painting process here is a live-action turn animation, and the production team shoots Aya Hirano singing. The 18-year-old Aya Hirano did not care about the image, singing to the climax of the expression is slightly sinister, the painting is still restored, and the final product is regarded as a classic. In an interview with Nakayama Motohiro many years later, he mentioned that he was sobbing when he first saw the original painting that he couldn't see the law table clearly, so he didn't change it here.
As for the third Lianggong memory point, it is the "group dance" that is still talked about until now, that is, the picture of the five members of the SOS troupe dancing together in the ED of "The Melancholy of Haruhi in Lianggong", and the music is "Sunny Day Good Mood". The choreography of the dance was by Hiroshi Yamamoto. Prior to this, Yamamoto had participated in the production of "The Hilarious Life of the Rainforest", was deeply interested in the dance at the end of the film, and was determined to make a paragraph himself. So when making "The Melancholy of Haruhi in Ryogu", this dance was finally choreographed by referring to PV.
The success of the group dance goes without saying. The impact of "The Melancholy of Spring in Lianggong" was enough to become a cultural phenomenon and spread around the world, and many pop-up activities were also recorded in the history of ACG culture. In 2010, at the Shanghai World Expo, the Japanese Pavilion promotional film "A Day in Japan", the only anime that appeared was the animated version of the group dance.
The value of Ryogu Haruhi also needs no explanation. The evidence is that most people who see these four words can immediately restore the millennium era when ACG culture first emerged.
It was 2006. Tanigawa's "I have no interest in ordinary human beings..." was spoken by Aya Hirano and interpreted as the enduring, deeply rooted teenage girl Ryogu Kasuga. Aya Hirano also directly entered the first echelon of the voice actor industry due to the fire of "The Melancholy of Haruhi in Ryogu". KyoAni has since made a name. His outstanding performance in "The Melancholy of Haruhi Ryogu" also made Yamamoto considered a promising animation supervisor.
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Due to his outstanding performance in "The Melancholy of Haruhi in Ryogu", Yamamoto was soon appointed as a supervisor by Kyo Ani in 2007's Lucky Star. However, after directing the first four episodes of "Lucky Star", Kyo Ani announced the dismissal of Yamamoto Hiroshi and replaced him with Yasuhiro Takemoto of the same company, giving a reason: "As a supervisor, I have not yet reached this situation." The specific details of the dismissal incident have not yet been announced, and the folk speculation is that the first four episodes of "Lucky Star" have been too badly received or clashed with high-level people.
"As a supervisor, I still haven't reached this point" and "I only made four episodes of "Lucky Star"" since then, as labels, I have been shadowed by Yamamoto. On June 23, 2007, Yamamoto left Kyoani and opened his own animation production company, Ordet, the following year. He also participated in the production of animation works such as "Shen Xue", and in 2010, he served as the supervisor of the animation work "Fractale".
Like wanting to do big things, Yamamoto is keen to talk big, and has even expressed the intention of resigning if Fractale fails. As a result, the first volume of BD sold 883 volumes, and it has since become the laughing stock of the industry.
During the period after Yamamoto's departure, Aya Hirano continued to voice Izumi in Lucky Star, and repeatedly voiced well-known characters, such as MihaiSha in Death Note, and her career was smooth. On March 18, 2007, a concert called "Ryogu Haruhi" was held at the Nippon Budokan, which can accommodate 14,000 people, and tickets are hard to find. As the main character, Aya Hirano sang many times, playing unsteadily, but the enthusiasm was undiminished.
At the end of the concert, the host asked "Kasuga" to come forward to conclude, and before she could speak, a deafening "thank you" came from the audience. Aya Hirano could not hide her emotions and frequently shed tears.
Tanigawa's serial also did not stop, and after "The Melancholy of Haruhi in Ryogu", a number of sequels were quickly released within a few years, namely the sigh, boredom, disappearance, rampage, vacillation, intrigue, indignation, and division of Haruhi Ryogu.
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After "The Split of Haruhi in Ryogu", Tanigawa did not lift his pen for four years, during which fans were divided. But because he doesn't often use social software and rarely gives interviews, it is extremely difficult to catch the destination, and fans can only guess out of thin air.
In 2011, "The Consternation of Haruhi Ryogu" was officially released, and the first sentence in the afterword was: "I am Tanigawa Ryu, sorry to make you wait for a long time", followed by the same, Tanigawa Ryu-style, Bi GongBi respectful explanation: So, why did the competition drag on for so long? Honestly, there is no special reason at all, simply to the point where I am too big. It can only be said that suddenly there is no reason to write, dragging to even normal life is a little tight, and many people will care about the reason from time to time, but I really have no clue. Since you don't even understand it yourself, it's even more difficult to explain it to others.
"Consternation" was finally released smoothly, so that Lianggong fans once again ignited enthusiasm. It wasn't until a few months later that Aya Hirano's nude photos incident occurred. The Japanese news magazine "BUBKA" published "Aya Hirano's Erotic Photos", and the photos began to circulate on the Internet. Content barely deserves to be called a "nude photo": Aya Hirano kisses a male band member on the bed, acting intimate. Later, there were rumors that "Aya Hirano had an affair with other band members".
Due to the high demand for the purity of female idols in Japan, a series of incidents soon caused a storm on the Internet, and fans shouted shock and dissatisfaction. There are more radicals, releasing photos of dismembering haruhi dolls in lianggong on the Internet to vent their anger. Some people refer to it as "Aya Hirano Angel Turning Witch", and someone made a manga:
Since then, Aya Hirano's activity in the voice actor world has begun to weaken, but it has not completely faded, but the workload is not as good as it was in the past. To this day, when it comes to this matter, people still prefer to use a lamentant tone, calling it "the end of the myth".
In 2012, the Nikkan gossip magazine Tsangzo published a report on the incident: "Idol voice actress Aya Hirano has a difficult future, and declared that she will change her career to a female artist." It mentions a comment from workers in the animation industry: "Aya Hirano doesn't hate voice actress work, but she hates otaku."
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"Aya Hirano doesn't hate voice actress work, but she hates otaku", after the magazine published, Aya Hirano repeatedly denied this statement, and the statement of "female artist who changed careers", tweeted: Would you rather believe other people's rumors than believe me? So sad.
After this, Aya Hirano's topic in the ACG industry was no longer the same as it used to be. Only the words "hate the dead house" that did not come from my own mouth caused waves from time to time, and changed the text form with the network transmission effect, evolving into "Hirano Aya said that the dead house is really disgusting", and the final Internet golden sentence "The dead house is really disgusting".
In contrast, Yamamoto's topic was once elevated. He has repeatedly made remarks such as "the animation industry is finished" and "I want to save the animation industry", and has been dubbed "keyboard man". For example: "I'm very disappointed in the values of the animation industry right now, and I have to do something for the declining industry."
In 2016, Hiroshi Yamamoto announced that he had entered unlimited recuperation because he was "trapped by things that were too unreasonable" – a similar retirement declaration Yamamoto Hiroshi had published many times. Since then, Yamamoto has still made high-profile comments, many criticizing the current otaku culture, and even saying: "Watching animation at an early age is due to psychosomatic disorders", and his personal account has been reported many times.
In 2017, Yamamoto tweeted that "the real purpose of Japanese militarism in launching the war is to build greater East Asia for common prosperity, and to popularize education and even bring prosperity to the invaded areas", which caused dissatisfaction and resistance among Chinese netizens, and the trip to China was immediately canceled.
In the same year, Yamamoto published an article recalling the day he left Kyo-Ani, and the words of his mentor Yoshiharu Kinue to himself: "Kyoto Animation is still too small for you." Yamamoto explains that This sentence on the wood should be to let yourself "fight in the rough sea." He also added: "Thanks to your blessing, I am now drowning in the sea..."
With the frequent appearance of Kyo Ani's masterpieces, Yamamoto Hiroshi, as an "outcast", gradually stopped having anything to do with the company. In 2019, Hiroshi Yamamoto declared bankruptcy.
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On July 18, 2019, an arson incident occurred in Kyo-Ani, including Yasuhiro Takemoto and Yoshiharu Kigami, which killed a total of 36 people.
Last month, the studio was demolished.
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After the fire, Aya Hirano updated her blog, mourning Kyo Ani, and hoping to "not concede defeat", mentioning in the text: Without them, there would be no me now.
In an interview with the media, Tanigawa said, "I don't have anything to say now, I just hope that the injured people can recover as soon as possible."
When the news first came out, Yamamoto Hiroshi first posted: "I am not in Tokyo", and after the casualty report appeared, he sent a condolence, "Very sad, over and over again, crying many times."
After the incident, Xinhua News Agency reporters went to the scene of the fire to shoot live, and yamamoto kuan happened to be photographed with flowers. In the shot, Yamamoto Hiroshi gestured to the reporter to "walk away", did not accept the interview request, and then offered flowers and mourned.
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In April 2020, japan entered a period of martial law, and most residents worked from home and stayed at home.
In order to solve the boredom, many Japanese netizens have created a variety of entertainment activities at home, and uploaded videos to the Internet, which has also made the original people less panicked.
On April 26, Aya Hirano, who is now frequently active in the stage drama industry, uploaded a video of herself dancing the Ryogu Dance, and the style was still the same as that year, which immediately caused a sensation on the whole network, and the Ryogu Dance became a boom again, and many stars and voice actors began to follow suit.
The next day, Hiroshi Yamamoto shared a video of himself dancing the Ryogu Dance, which was played 9,000 times, and the title was titled "The Correct Way to Dance the Ryogu Dance."
* The source of the text part fee: Interview with Director Hiroshi Yamamoto "Anime to talk about now"