Recommendation of "Recorded Horizon".

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"Recorded Horizon" is an online game anime adapted from a light novel, which began airing in October 2013. Actually, I have been planning to write this recommendation after this animation is broadcast.,But today I checked it and found that this is a work that is expected to make zuò26 words.,So I didn't wait for it to finish.,Start writing this recommendation first.。 So far, it has aired 10 episodes.

It's really a wonderful online game animation.,It's not an exaggeration to say that it's the most recognizable one of the new ones I've been chasing this year.。 Actually, this animation is not a new one that I noticed and chased at the beginning.。 One day in mid-October, a QQ group dedicated to discussing the plot of the game popped up in a QQ group dedicated to discussing the plot of the Japanese online game "Magic Baby", which was full of professional icons, and there were other audience barrage comments that they thought of "Magic Baby". Later, after a few words in the group, I was recommended for "Recorded Horizon" on the grounds that "the career setting is as rich as magic".

In terms of content classification, "Recorded Horizon" and last year's popular animation "Sword Art Online" belong to the same online game animation, which tells the story of the protagonist who was completely placed into the world of the original only online game for various inexplicable reasons. However, in terms of theme, I agree more with Horizon of Record, and I think it is a true anime with an MMORPG as the theme of the story. Unlike Sword Art Online's super protagonist Ji Meiji, the plot of "Recorded Horizon" explores the relationship between teammates, the sense of belonging and collaboration between guilds in online game guilds, and the relationship between social groups in the game world...... In short, it is the interaction between oneself and others, with the social group. In Horizon of Record, Megumi Cheng, as the male protagonist of this work, is not separated from the creation of an adventure story that belongs to his personal experience, but places his existence in his teammates, his close guild and his server player community, he is an observer of events, a planner, a strategist, a member of the active game society, and only when necessary, he becomes a leader. I think such a male protagonist positioning is in line with the theme of online game animation. And not only that, as far as the current story development is concerned, players in the game also have to communicate and interact with the "earthmen" (that is, the NPC characters in the original game) to maintain order in the game. This is a breakthrough in the framework of online game animation and a step towards a logically self-consistent fantasy adventure story.

If I had to say something about it, it would be: if you're not familiar with online games or are interested in online games but don't have the time to play them, Horizon of Recording will be a social theme that the ideal online game player should be passionate about; If you are a veteran player of online games, tired of monster farming, ranking and queuing, and want to reminisce about the original intention of the surging online game pioneer era that belonged to you when you first came into contact with online games ten or eight years ago, then you can watch "Horizon of Record"; If you are or have been the guild leader in online games, no matter how big or small or whether you have succeeded or failed, you already want to check out Horizon of Records after reading the above introduction, right?

That's all for the recommendation, and let's talk about its original novel. The novel "Recorded Horizon" has been published in four volumes by Tenwen Kadokawa on the Chinese mainland side, and its author is Maki Tatsuno, that is, the author of the novel "The Demon King Brave". In my opinion, this author is quite good at making up stories, but when it comes to writing, it is a mess. Not to mention the writing style of the Demon King Brave without a single sentence of description in the whole dialogue, the writing method of this "Recorded Horizon" is also very bad, always a fragment of plot text followed by a short explanatory text, I just felt that I was going to "enter the play" and have a "sense of substitution" when I read it, and suddenly inserted a cold and hard explanatory text, and immediately "played". This kind of reading experience of alternating between substitution and substitution in text content too frequently,In my opinion, it is an obvious shortcoming of the original novel,But if you can read it hard,Immediately save the scene of the "sense of substitution" in your brain when you see the explanatory text,And quickly sweep the explanatory text and immediately enter the reading of the next plot text,Then in general, the story of the novel is still good。 Of course, this shortcoming of the novel also shows that the adaptation of the animation was successful, and it took great care to integrate the illustration into the picture, so the animation does not seem to have the shortcoming of zài.

Finally, there is a special point to say that there is a main character in the film who is a cat, oh no, it is the cat teacher of the cat people. His voice actor is Ryoji Nakata, who is also the voice actor of Tsuri Yan Feng in "Fate/Zero". Do you want to hear the contrast of a middle-aged man who is docile and reliable, and has to "meow~" at the end of his lines? Go watch Horizon of Record!