Chapter 177: Overlooking the Scenery (Part II)
In a cramped, outdated room, a short and medium-sized black-haired girl in a cyan yukata talks to her orange-haired female boss who is smoking a cigarette about the recent bizarre series of "suicides".
This is the famous magic workshop "Jialando", where the black-haired girl is the first fighter and two ceremonies, and the orange-haired boss is the owner of the magic workshop, the highest-ranking puppet envoy, and the "orange" code name in the magic association.
The dim light, the books and documents piled up on the shelves and all the furniture, the small black and white television, and the news broadcast with the noise of radio waves in the background...... Everything exudes and creates an antique atmosphere, but what this atmosphere represents and expresses is the "mystery" outside of the everyday and nature, that is, things called magic and magic.
Mystery has always been the first thing to show in this type of story, and this story is no exception......
On the couch on the other side sat the third and last member of the magic workshop, the only "normal" person who did not possess supernatural powers.
And through the dialogue between the two ceremonies and Aozaki Orange, the events they are currently facing have been gradually restored: in an abandoned neighborhood called "Wujo Building" in this city, there have been several incidents of girls falling from buildings, and these incidents are currently considered suicides by the police - because the dead girls did not show any signs of being violated, they came to such an area to be demolished alone, climbed to the top floor alone and jumped down, and suicide under this condition can indeed be regarded as a possibility.
However, the anomaly is that they did not show any such tendencies before they died, and there were no last words left at the scene of death, in fact, the behavior pattern of these deceased people is as if they accidentally walked out of the house for a walk, and accidentally killed themselves in the process of walking.
And the unusual thing is that they all died in the same place, and this "coincidence" really can't be justified - especially if these girls didn't meet an elementary school student surnamed Ke and a high school student surnamed Jin, which is even more bizarre.
Therefore, there must be a connection between these suicides, and it is not difficult for magicians to see this connection...... It could be some supernatural force that led the victims to the edifice and pushed them down from the top floor.
For the "Jialantang", such incidents are within their field of expertise, but from concern or interest to real action, a deeply reasonable reason is also needed:
Kuroki Kanya, who was sitting on the sofa next to him and seemed to have been listening silently to the conversation between the two, had actually become an "empty shell" without a trace of consciousness.
The story has obviously undergone a considerable degree of "jumping", and the meeting and exchange between Kuroki and the two ceremonies in early August is just a "disguise" to blur the boundary between the ordinary and the supernatural, and from then until the story really begins, what happened in the middle has been erased to a considerable extent.
However, from the two rituals and Aozaki Orange's words, it is not difficult to find out what happened to Kuroki - because of the concern for the continuous unnatural suicides, Kuroki went to explore the situation of the Wujo Mansion alone, but some accidents occurred in the process, similar to the girls who "committed suicide", his consciousness was confined to the Wujo Building, and only his body came back in the end.
Now Liangyi and Orange are discussing the possibility of rescuing Kuroki, but Liangyi here only indifferently identifies the "inadequacy" of Kurokiri, who acted without permission, and the current result is also the standard "self-inflicted", and said that he will not take any initiative to solve this "stupidity".
In response to the rescue that Orange said, the two rituals indicated that it was not worth the action, and then ...... She went to the rescue alone.
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Because of the duration, the thickness of the script and the density of the plot, the rhythm of the theatrical version of the empty realm is on the fast side, but this story must not be described by the word "bright", on the contrary, the tone of this story is gloomy, mottled buildings, gloomy paths, dark red sunsets, weird continuous deaths and the heroine who is always expressionless and hides her emotions, all of which are rendering such an atmosphere.
In terms of picture processing, from beginning to end, "overlooking the landscape" is using a strong contrast technique, it seems that each picture is a corner of the bright and a corner of the dark, part of the ethereal, part of the dark, the two are clearly opposed, but the boundary between each other is blurred, this is not only the characteristics of overlooking the scenery, but also the characteristics of the entire empty realm.
This kind of picture processing, combined with the exhibition of the storyline, can naturally bring a strong impression to the audience, but correspondingly, if you want to get the ultimate performance under the premise of this kind of picture contrast, you need a very high "shadow quality".
The reason is simple, high contrast sometimes has an "overexposed" visual feeling, so the picture is more likely to lose the three-dimensional effect, so it is necessary to ensure more detailed work in shadow processing...... Therefore, Mad Poihat's Void Realm must be an improvement over the original in terms of graphics.
The realm of emptiness in Miyayo Sota's impression, the part that makes people feel the most outstanding is the cinematography, which is the most capable part of the producer's animation company UFO, and among the investment levels of theatrical animation and below (TV), the level of cinematography is far beyond the average, and it can even be called amazing.
However, this does not mean that there is a "generation gap" between this animation company and other companies in terms of ability, especially in terms of technical level, everyone is on the same level, and the difference is nothing more than proficiency, play, cumulative advantages, etc.
Although Mad Poihat has not been established for a long time, they also have advantages in photography...... To a considerable extent, Gong Daiju uses this advantage as the only advantage, so their cumulative intensity in this area is very high over the years, and under the premise that the funds and production cycle are guaranteed, not to mention the problem of transcendence, it is not difficult for them to achieve the same level as the original in photography and post-production.
As for the original art...... To be honest, these are two half-pounded animation companies, and so far there is no advantage in original painting, and no one is better than anyone in terms of overall strength, and no one is worse than anyone else.
However, Mad Poihat still has the kind of parts that are very simple to surpass the original animation, especially on the premise of clarifying the disadvantages of the original game, such as ...... Perform?