How are you doing today Christmas?
Yuki has found his own male/female ticket and ushered in a new chapter in his life ~ ~ (๑•̀ᄇ•́) و✧
Although Christmas has now become a dating festival, in the West it also means the beginning of a new era.
So today let's talk about a story about the new era,
However, this new era is a little different from what we think .
(Humanity has declined.)
The anime After the Decline of Mankind is based on the light novel of the same name by Japanese light novelist Romeo Tanaka.
It mainly tells the story of human beings living in a world dominated by goblins after the recession.
"After the Decline of Mankind" is a very magical work -
It has two very different styles at the same time, fresh and heavy, switching back and forth between healing and depressing.
Obviously, it uses bright fairy tale tones, and if you don't prevent it, you will insert a knife into your hot chest.
According to its setting, in the future, human beings will seriously decline in the birth rate under the influence of unknown reasons and gradually withdraw from the stage of history;
A goblin who loves candy and snacks replaces the original human status as the "new human".
This new group of humans looks like this:
Don't look at their average height of only 10 centimeters, but they actually have the primary productive force - powerful science and technology.
The heroine "Miss Human", voiced by voice actress Mai Nakahara, is an important international civil servant "mediator" responsible for mediating between goblins and humans.
Miss Human is cute and gentle, and is loved by goblins.
She often becomes a spit on the incident, and from time to time she will reveal a black side of her belly, plus a pink hair, a proper "pink cut black" girl.
The most special thing about "After the Human Recession" is that the story inside it is really focused on "after the human recession", as the title says, and there is no mention of what the real cause of the human recession is.
What it presents is a world that has taken shape.
Although some unexpected things often happen in this world, some are still a little scary.
For example, in the anime, there is a processed chicken in a vain attempt to dominate the world:
For example, a second ago, I was still selling myself to Miss Human and other people, trying to "make a fool of myself" synthetic bread.
After a second or two words, there came a "self-explosion" that shocked the world and cried ghosts.
Immediately after the animation, an explanation is given, and the blood that spews out is nothing more than carrot sauce.
However, this spectacular scene of bleeding must be enough to leave a psychological shadow on the little pot friend who did not have a parent to accompany him to watch...
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Although "After the Decline of Mankind" does not give the real cause of the decline of human beings, there are clues everywhere in the animation.
It even makes people feel that human beings are so dead, it is not strange to take pills.
Many of the plots in the animation are absurd on the surface, but they are actually metaphors for the reality of the moment.
From the education system, to the upper management, to the ordinary people in society, the author will hack whoever catches him.
In episodes 3 and 4, titled "The Fairy's Subculture," the anime points the taunt to the Japanese manga industry.
Miss Y, a white-haired "white-haired woman", is the partner of the heroine Miss Human, who came to Miss Human for help because of the construction of the Human Monument.
In their old house outside the village, they found devices for copying documents from the past, as well as data from various publications.
y Suddenly on a whim. She printed out the comics saved in the data in large quantities and sold them nationwide.
What type of comics is this?
According to Miss Human, most of them are just beautiful stories of ooxx that are very suitable for your taste.
To this, Y pulled his hair to the side and said:
"Yes, I can go on rotting endlessly."
Miss Human is worried that if there are many such things, many people who are already susceptible will be poisoned by them.
Y not only did not heed the advice of Miss Human, but gradually became dissatisfied with the comics in the data, and began to organize everyone to draw cartoons together, thus opening an "era of inferior cultural competition".
Also known as the "Comic Renaissance".
Because the number and weight of publications were too large, the transport personnel unilaterally stopped cooperating with Y.
However, the Tao is one foot high, and the devil is one foot tall.
After thinking backwards, Y set up a fandom conference, not to send the comic to the readers, but to let them come by themselves.
As a result, the legendary "Fan Comic Exhibition" appeared.
Just as Y's comic book career was in full swing, Y, Miss Human, and Miss Human's assistant were sucked into a comic with only a picture frame and no pictures.
It's a prison called Comic Square.
Here, they have both cartoonists and comic book characters.
On the one hand, if you need anything, you can get the corresponding physical object through painting.
On the other hand, their actions, that is, if the content of the manga is interesting, can move on to the next frame, which is directly related to the popularity survey.
Try your best to make every box wonderful, and you can find the ending called the exit.
In Y's view, as long as there is enough impactful foreshadowing, you can ignore all the plot developments so far, even if it is completely destroyed.
So, Y began her performance in a serious way.
Lines range from "Actually, I killed people", to "Actually, I'm his sister", to "Actually, I'm a man", to "Actually, I'm a twin, and I changed people in the middle"
Although the story is getting more and more fascinating, the ranking of the popularity list is rising steadily.
y said triumphantly:
"How?" It's easy to incite the reader."
However, the operation of reversing for the sake of reversal gradually makes the reader grow bored, and this trick becomes more and more ineffective.
After that, they tried sf, reasoning, fighting, adventure, crossing, love, fantasy, horror and all the other genres that dogs can imagine.
Even so, it will not save the fate of the manga being beheaded.
The writer begins to abandon himself, and as a result, Y and Miss Human and others have become line drafts.
The anime tells the truth about a comic book industry through the mouth of Miss Human:
I dedicated my life to comics, and if I had to start my second life again at the age of thirty or forty, it would be difficult to start a second life.
At this time, the goblin said to her:
"Your serial is cut off,
As punishment, you have been cursed with the 'must inherit the family property'"
Failed to start a business and had to go back to inherit hundreds of millions of family properties?
This terrier really plays 666
How long does it take for a country to go from establishment to demise?
Maybe it's just the time of an episode of animation.
In episode 9, "The Drifting Life of a Goblin", the animation depicts the rise and fall of a goblin kingdom for us in just 20 minutes.
Miss Human leads a group of goblins to a desert island overseas.
The goblins established a nation on their own and elected Miss Human as queen.
The goblins toiled day and night on the island.
With plenty of food, the number of goblins also increased dramatically day by day, and soon reached a breathtaking level.
However, happiness is prone to sorrow.
Due to the felling of trees, excessive resource consumption, and the endless boom in cultural monuments, the island's environment has been severely damaged.
By the time Miss Human realized this and tried to make a change, it was too late.
The kingdom is destroyed, and Miss Human and the remaining goblins return to their original land.
When Miss Human woke up, she heard the goblins on the side again excitedly asking her to lead them and build a new nation.
Miss Human whispered darkly:
"The guy who has been called a human lately,
I don't know what the lesson is,
It's annoying. ”
Are these new human beings who do not know what the lesson is?
Perhaps, in the point of unrepentance, whether it is new human beings or old human beings, it is the same.
Or perhaps the reason for the decline of human beings is that they are in decline without knowing it.
Overall, After the Decline of Mankind is a very interesting black fairy tale of doom, which is full of all kinds of metaphors for the real world.
However, the animation does not directly debunk these metaphors, which makes the storyline inside become benevolent, the wise see the wise, and think carefully.
If you like a work of this genre, then don't miss it.
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