Chapter 60: For Our Forever Home
If you can't figure it out, you can't figure it out, and the fact that you can't make EVA is still cruelly there, forcing Meng Zhe to re-conceive it.
In fact, there are many robot animations, in addition to the "Space Battleship Yamato", "Mobile Suit Gundam" series and "EVA", which has been unable to be published, there will be "Full Metal Mania", "Rebellious Lelouch", "Creation Archangel", "Symphonic Psalms" and so on.
It's just that, after learning the lesson of EVA being banned from publication, Meng Zhe came to the conclusion that he should start from scratch and make a robot animation that is more in line with China's national conditions, rather than copying the original animation.
The appearance of the mecha can be used, the image of the character and the surname setting can be used, but an important thing is needed to start anew - an original script!
Well, we have to combine the national conditions of our Celestial Empire, so ...... What kind of robot animation script will not be banned from serialization, easy to sell well, and can attract the attention of all ages in our Celestial Empire?
Meng Zhe, who was thinking about this question, took a pencil and wrote down words on the original paper.
After writing about it, Meng Zhe went back and deleted the unnecessary keywords one by one, and after deleting and adding them back and forth three or four times, what was finally left were these two keywords - high-tech, patriotism, and nationalism.
In an era when China has just opened its doors, integrated into the process of globalization and desperately wants to acquire all kinds of advanced technologies, the word 'high-tech' alone can attract people's attention.
As for patriotism and nationalism, the pain of more than 100 years of suffering since the end of the Qing Dynasty made the Chinese people unconsciously maintain their patriotism and nationalism even when they envy the full moon of foreign countries.
This mentality is very similar to and surpassed during the Ming Dynasty because it was deeply poisoned by the previous Mongol and Yuan dynasties, so it treated foreign races uncompromisingly, because the concept of the nation-state was not clear in the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, anti-Japanese movies and TV series will be filmed again and again, and people are willing to watch them.
The 5,000-year-old history of splendid civilization has made the Chinese people have a pride in their bones, and this pride makes them never forget those enemies who have hurt them...... But now the question is, how can we connect mecha animation with patriotism and nationalism and fighting back against aliens?
This question bothered Meng Zhe and made him think about it for several days, until one day in geography class, he opened the atlas mechanically according to the teacher's request and saw the map of China marked with the name of each province, he finally had a flash of inspiration and jumped up screaming.
"Haha! I thought about it, I thought about how to combine robot comics with the nation and the state! ”
So, Meng Zhe, who was so happy that he got carried away, received the attention of more than 50 pairs of eyes in the classroom.
"Huh? I'm sorry, I'm sorry! I'm so sorry, teacher, I definitely didn't mean to do it just now! What's that, teacher, me, I suddenly have a stomachache and want to take a leave of absence......"
Meng Zhe, who had a flash of inspiration, still had the intention of continuing to stay in the classroom and continue to sit dry, so after he apologized to the geography teacher repeatedly, he casually made up a reason and wanted to sneak to the studio to start work.
Meng Zhe's reason for not believing in this ghost made the geography teacher roll his eyes helplessly, but how can Meng Zhe see how to have the face of a big demon child in the future, and the geography teacher can't help but sell it, right?
Therefore, the geography teacher could only say helplessly: "Go, go, go." ”
Before the geography teacher's words landed, Zhao Chongxu had already rushed out of the classroom with a gust of wind.
"Teacher, I also want to take a leave of absence, and I also have a stomachache."
After Meng Zhe walked out of the classroom door, Guan Yingluo, who was still wearing a fiery red body, suddenly raised her hand and said.
"What?! Guan Yingluo, you ......, "What the geography teacher actually wants to say is, Guan Yingluo, what are you doing with Meng Zhe's child, what kind of mess are you making?" Just thinking of Guan Yingluo's uncle, who is Secretary Ke of the county party committee, the geography teacher only waved his hand to show permission: "Yes." ”
"Thank you, teacher."
Well, to the relief of the geography teacher, Guan Yingluo at least thanked him before leaving the classroom.
…… After leaving school, he ran to Meng Zhe of Tianjiao Club, entered his small studio that had been converted into an office due to the relocation of the studio, opened the antique ThinkPad notebook, opened the WPS document and crackled the words.
The first thing that Meng Zhe knocked out was naturally the title of the text script, and this title is called "For Our Only Home".
Then, lines of text appeared in the WPS document with Meng Zhe's memory:
In 1937, July, 8 was called the capital.
"You guys, take the young master away!"
In the quaint courtyard, a young man of about twenty-seven or eighteen years old held the child in his hand and yelled at the four gods around him.
Just as Qinglong was hesitating whether to take over the child, the door of the courtyard was knocked open with a "pound".
"Beiping, stop kidding!" The tall figure shrouded Beiping's slightly thin figure entirely, "If the young master leaves you, then in what name will we claim our position?" ”
"Kanto? How did you come here? You're not ......" Thinking of that day many years ago, Peiping regretted even more that he had not expected those mutations.
"Beiping, are you joking?" grabbed the other party's collar, and Kanto's anger was still unquenched. "Do you think that if I was ordered not to resist and taken away, I don't belong here? Beiping, you have to figure it out, whether it's me, Gang'er, or those brothers and sisters who were taken away and adopted...... In our life, there is only one master! ”
……… Yes, it is the article "For Our Only Home", which personifies the entire provinces and cities of China, and uses a touching pen along that period of suffering that the Chinese nation can never and should never forget, and the words are full of pure heart and patriotism.
The article with a total of more than 10,000 words is not long, according to Meng Zhe's typing speed of more than 150 per minute, it was only half an hour for him to write the most memorable episode 2 by memory:
Forever.
He had been sleeping in swaddling clothes, but not sleeping peacefully.
The small eyebrows were tangled, and even in his dreams, he could clearly feel the smell of war.
Blood and fire, dust and smoke, birth and death.
As a child, he stood in the middle of a huge temple in a dream, looking up at his ancestors.
Glory, brilliance, and abundance.
He reads such words from his past memories, and little by little he inscribes the culture passed down from his ancestors in the depths of his mind.
"I'm sorry, kid." At the end of the reading, he found such a message. "I have left you with the deepest suffering."
He knew who had left him his last words, and when the old man, who had been more rickety than his ancestors, had left, his eyes were full of guilt.
The wind and rain are shaking, and the country will fall.
He knew what kind of grief and pain he would face in the future.
"It's okay, ancestors." Standing in the middle of the temple, he said loudly, "China will not fall, and neither will my brothers and sisters and me!" ”
…… As soon as he wrote this, Meng Zhe suddenly let out a wow, and there was an irrepressible cry!
Shocked by this cry, Meng Zhe hurriedly withdrew his hands from the keyboard, and rubbed his eyes that were already full of tears before finally turning his head to look back, and then he saw Guan Yingluo, who had already cried into a flower-faced cat.
"Y-Why are you here?"
Looking at Guan Yingluo, who was crying like a flower-faced cat, Meng Zhe took out his handkerchief and handed it over, his expression wanted to laugh but he couldn't, because he understood why Guan Yingluo was crying.
"Meng Zhe, you liar! You were in the classroom just now, and you said that you wanted to draw a robot cartoon that combines the nation and the country, but you came here and wrote such a strange article that made me want to cry! ”
Probably embarrassed because Meng Zhe saw his crying appearance, under Meng Zhe's gaze, Guan Yingluo snatched the handkerchief handed by Meng Zhe, wiped the tears on his face in a little panic, and said with some choked and some dissatisfaction.
Guan Yingluo has seen the EVA drawn by Meng Zhe before, and she also knows that EVA is banned from serialization, and because of this EVA that is banned from serialization, now Guan Yingluo has fallen in love with robot comics and animation.
If it weren't for this reason, how could Guan Yingluo follow Meng Zhe and ask for leave with that ghost who didn't believe in her stomachache?
It's just that Guan Yingluo wronged Meng Zhe, although Meng Zhe is indeed just typing the original text of "For Our Only Home" according to his memory, but what Meng Zhe wants to do next is really to adapt this article into robot comics and robot animation.
The anthropomorphism of the country is still a subject that no one has ever dabbled in in this era!
So, it's okay to match this story with a different time and space background, so that the anthropomorphic images of those provinces, cities, and regions have all kinds of mechas, right?
Although it is a future high-tech background in a different time and space, how can those storylines that you know exactly what the name of the place is when you hear it, and what historical events you know at a glance, can't you arouse the empathy of the Chinese people?
Isn't the final composition of this combination a robot comic that is deeply touching and can resonate with all Chinese?
As for the problem of foreign markets, Meng Zhe really doesn't have much consideration for the time being, but he thinks that after this comic and animation come out, it will at least become popular in the Chinese circle, and then the authorized sales of peripheral products will be carried out or something, not to mention how much money will be made in the end, at least it won't be a loss, right?
Therefore, after being accused by Guan Yingluo, Meng Zhe could only answer helplessly: "This article is the prototype of the robot comic." ”
"That's not right! This is obviously the article that personifies our country and then reproduces the anti-Japanese war! Guan Yingluo, who didn't know Meng Zhe's thoughts, naturally didn't believe Meng Zhe's explanation, of course, she didn't forget to add while not believing it: "I admit that this article is very touching." ”
Meng Zhe shook his head helplessly, and after casually explaining his thoughts, he sat down again and typed on the keyboard, he was afraid that he would forget the follow-up plot if he continued to delay.
When Meng Zhe re-typed the keyboard, Guan Yingluo didn't take the lead for the first time, she stood very quietly behind Meng Zhe, although with the tapping of Meng Zhe's lines of words, she soon let out a sobbing cry again, and the handkerchief that Meng Zhe 'snatched' from where was also unconsciously soaked.
Finally, Meng Zhe finished typing the last text.
I stored the document on a floppy disk, and then took the floppy disk to the big editing room, and used the desktop computer connected to the printer in the big editing room to print out the entire article.
"Editor-in-Chief Meng, what are you doing here?"
An editor in the magazine who happened to be passing by the printer looked at Meng Zhe and Guan Yingluo, who was crying behind him, curiously, and asked with some curiosity.
"Here you go."
Meng Zhe handed the printout, which was still warm and inky, to the passing editor.
Three minutes later, the male editor, who is in his early thirties, cried profusely...... "For Our Only Home", a short story anthropomorphized by the state, if the author is right, it should be "Iced Sour Plum Soup" on the Feiyang Military Website, and the full text I reprinted into the work - "I admit it, I cried when I saw it. ”
Perhaps, as the book friend 'NSF sentence' says: otaku...... also knows the world of the family and the country.
(To be continued)