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Even if the news of the production of the second season has not been released, it is still surprising that "No Game No Life" (hereinafter referred to as "Game Life") will first meet with you in a theatrical version, that is, "Game Life Zero".
"Zero" is an animated film that was not optimistic about the industry at first. After all, in the industry, without the endorsement of famous directors such as Makoto Shinkai and Hideaki Anno, the works produced by general directors can probably only be reduced to the foil of TV animation and pave the way for the second season that may appear in the future.
However, "Game Life Zero" is different, this work released in Japan on July 15, 2017, won 150 million yen at the box office in 3 days, and exceeded 500 million yen in 5 weeks of release, which can be said to be a pretty good result.
For this work, many friends who have watched it have basically given such a movie evaluation: although there is an epic story, the final foothold is above the tears of every audience. This feeling is enough to prove the strength of animation.
So the following content of this article, the author will share with you where the work of "Game Life Zero" can make us read and move.
Our sympathy comes from being humble as a weed
Even in today's world, most of the time we still have this understanding: human beings are the masters of all things, an intelligent creature that rules, dominates and masters the law. This view is true even in the main chapter of Game Life, but in the prequel Game Life Zero, it is set as an unattainable wish.
In the main part, it is only about a real-life squatting for waste firewood, in other words, the two brothers and sisters who have failed in life are "empty" and "white", crossing into a different world full of game rules, frantically showing their ingenuity, and finally winning everyone, and then showing a story with wisdom fighting, laughter, and even comedy.
However, in the prequel "Zero", this is all completely reversed. Because in the theatrical version of the story, it is actually a pair of very capable lovers Rick and Hubby, but they struggle to struggle in an irregular world, even if they exert their intellectual potential to the limit, they have never won, until they finally gamble on their own and even the lives of the entire race, and only open even a little bit of hope.
After all, in the prequel world, humans are the lowest or even nameless race. As for the others, whether it is the Mori Jing Species that can use quite complex magic, the Celestial Wing Species that is at the forefront, or the Divine Spirit Species that are high above, no matter which one in this chaotic world, there is a unique set of ways to survive.
Only human beings have none, except wisdom. But in such a large background surrounded by strong enemies, even if there is wisdom, it is difficult to defeat the sea, so human beings can only curl up in the ground, in caves, and face every day, hunger, death, starvation, death, and no other characters.
To this end, "Zero" has been depicting this situation for more than 40 minutes, until Rick, who is the male protagonist, and Hubby, the heroine, intend to change all this through their own strength.
So, why does this anime have to behave like this? Especially the misery that embodies humanity.
In fact, it is very simple, in the final analysis, I hope that the audience can dig out and touch the inner touch in the epic work of "Game Life Zero". After all, in the animation, humans like us are crushed like ants crawling on the ground. And a large number of pictures in the animation do not carry these in one stroke, but show them to the audience in detail, so that our hearts will become fragile under the stimulation of the pictures of human beings surviving in the play and facing death.
Everyone should have the feeling that no matter what it is on weekdays, indifferent people will become silent when they walk into the museums where human beings have suffered diseases and disaster records.
Because our compassion makes it impossible for everyone to bear the unimaginable weight of fate of our own kind. Just like the theatrical version of "Zero", once the depiction of the humble plot of human beings is too long, everyone's sympathy will shift into the animation, so that we will have a kind of empathy for the various human characters in the story, perhaps substitute for it, feel that we have become one of them, and then have a feeling of mutual pity and snuggling.
Or, they will think that after all, in real life, whether it is war, natural disasters or various unexpected disasters, they will also put human beings under this fate of survival, and it is difficult to extricate themselves.
For this reason, this fear, the intertwined heart of sorrow will continue to maximize our sympathy for the human situation in the animation, and then touch the heart, inducing emotion and tears.
Only this love cannot be disappointed
Although "Game Life Zero" is cloaked in a cloak of wit, it is clear that the protagonists, Rick and Hubie, play a game of combining human races with the Jikai species and other races in the whole world, in a vain attempt to penetrate the planet through huge forces, play the "Star Cup" (the owner of the setting will gain supreme power and can change the rules of the whole world), and finally innovate this chaotic world and save all the descriptions of humanity, in fact, are paving the way for how to express their sincere love for each other between Rick and Hubby.
After all, one of them is a human being, and the other is like artificial intelligence, built by super computing power and machines.
Initially, Hubby encounters Rick only to complete her investigation of a creature without a "heart", about the "heart". Even this seems so absurd inside the Jikai species that Hubby can only be alone to understand this almost whimsical thing, and because of these she is also removed from the Jikai species, Itobi cannot be linked to the clan through data transmission.
However, Rick gave Hubby affirmation and courage, opening his heart to let this alien, even as a guy who once forced human beings into a dead corner, to feel what is the unique "heart" of human beings.
So the whole theatrical version starts from here, under the shades of gray, smeared with wisps of bright colors.
Rick takes Hubby from the bits and pieces of human life, eating, sleeping, bathing, and then to the communication of human races, blood, family affection, mutual help, bond, and finally confess to each other, and feel the most sincere love that belongs to human beings together.
And these experiences also make Hubby, a creature who has no heart, have human emotions little by little.
Throughout the anime, all the love is conveyed through a little thing. After all, if love can slowly enter people's hearts like the stream that slowly flows out after the warm sun breaks the glacier in spring, then such a story will naturally inadvertently trigger our emotions. After all, the love that everyone sees and receives in their daily lives is sprouting from the subtleties, not the so-called waves, the so-called sea oath mountain alliance. It is only this calm as water that everything is more like the sincere love in everyone's reality.
For this reason, in Game Life Zero, Hubby gained the status of wife and human, so according to custom, he changed his name to Hubby Dora, just like her husband Rick Dora.
However, "Game Life Zero" did not let the couple go on forever. As the climactic point that triggers the audience's tears, Hubby is chased and killed by the God-killing weapon of the Celestial Wing Species on the way to complete the task for Rick.
However, Hubby did not retreat, while she was desperate to fight against this invincible enemy, because she wanted to give the "heart" of the human beings who had been investigating and even cultivated for a long time to the entire Jikai species, so she had to issue humble prayers and cries in the hope of obtaining a racial change that had expelled her and judged that she did not belong to the Jikai species.
And all this was declared successful at the end, even though Huby's body had been destroyed by Jeprey's unbearable gaze.
But a very small detail here is that it mostly takes only 3 seconds for the Machines to transmit their thoughts through the data, but they take 251 seconds to receive a survey of Hubby about the "heart". And this time gap only shows that the "heart" thing carries too much love that cannot be expressed in concrete language and numbers.
To this end, just as the theatrical version of the story is based on the world war, the essence is to let the audience know a little bit about what is the sincere friendship between lovers, Just as Hubby also spent a long time that made Ji Kai feel incredible, a full 251 seconds to understand the heart and love she wanted to tell.
Yukamiya and his game life
Yumiya is the original author of the series "Game Life", I used to think that "Game Life" is a fantasy work after all, so a lot of the content in the creation process may come from the author's brain hole. But if we think about it in this way, a rather paradoxical place is that it is easy to lose the sense of truth in a work with too many brain holes, and it is impossible for the audience to read the strong love and strong family affection from the work so easily.
It wasn't until I learned everything about this author that I realized that maybe there was himself in the shadow of this work.
Yumiya suffered from school violence from an early age and was in poor health, so he dropped out of school and failed to complete his studies at home, and at a young age, he was sentenced to death by a doctor for cancer.
Even so, Yu yu Yu, who later found a goal in life, had no intention of giving up creation. In this belief, he successfully extended his life after a cancer surgery.
However, his body is already very weak, it is impossible for him to complete the dream of directing, and even then he has not changed his desire to travel in the world of words. What is even more valuable is that just like the theatrical version of Hughby, as a machine that is several levels higher than humans, not only did not slaughter humans, but was willing to understand. In fact, YuMiya's wife, Yu Zhenbai, also has the same "spirit of great love", after all, she knows that Yumiya's health is not good and she can't make ends meet, but she does not show disgust, but strives to maintain the long-term love of the two people and also pushes them to finally come together.
To this end, we look at Rick and Hubby in the animation, in fact, the last thing we see is the author and his wife, and everything they love.
So a lot of times, I am thinking about how to write a work that can touch the audience's heart, and now it seems that if I have not experienced it and have a real sense of truth, these words that can jump on the paper and make us resonate may not be easily depicted.
In the end, as an animation with a film source on the B station, "Game Life Zero" is indeed very worth watching. Even if it is difficult to read the story behind it, the magnificent war and dizzying battle plot presented in the work are enough to amaze the audience. On this basis, if we can find more human values, it is indeed the inner touch that this work brings to us.