Chapter 398: Demon Hunting Notes (2-in-1)
The time entered mid-November, and "Glory" at this time was still being screened worldwide.
At this time, another work of Wedo Entertainment was also launched.
This is an anime - "Demon Hunting Notes".
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On November 11, the day of such a shopping carnival stirred up by e-commerce, Guo Lei spent it in the cinema.
He doesn't like to join in this kind of fun, what do you need, then he usually buys it and it's over, and never makes special things on Singles' Day.
But his wife likes to do it.
He was too lazy to accompany his wife - people didn't need him to be such a wooden companion, and a group of little sisters were very happy to make up a single order.
So, he was also happy, and after getting off work, he went to the cinema to watch a movie.
He watched "Demacia: Glory", and this was the third time he went to the cinema to see it.
Even though it's three brushes, I still feel very cool after reading it.
He is now looking forward to the release of "Night Hunter" after the year. If Galen is the natal hero of their dorm boss, then VN is his natal hero. When he played the game, he was the main player of the bottom lane shooter, and he loved VN the most - although it was very vegetable.
When I got home, my wife hadn't come back yet. Out of boredom, he took over the child's feeding work from the off-duty nanny, and after finally putting the little one to sleep, he sat in front of the computer and opened the dimension platform.
Since watching "Demacia: Glory", he has also become a fan of Dimension Entertainment. During this time, in his spare time, he went back to make up for the works of Dimensional Entertainment.
Even animations are included.
"Amber Sword" has now risen to the point of his favorite anime. In just half a month, he is almost finished with three seasons of "Amber" - he is not an anime dead house, he usually goes to work and goes home to accompany his wife and children, which will take up a lot of time, and it is impossible to do that kind of thing of staying up late to brush up.
But even so, he was still able to finish almost three seasons of content in the last half a month or so, which is quite good.
Now, the third season of "Amber" is about a tail away for him, and he plans to finish watching it today!
However, when I opened the dimension platform, a homepage recommendation first popped up.
Generally, this kind of recommendation, in other software, he must have dropped it for X casually - he doesn't like to watch ads.
However, on the dimensional platform, it seems to be a little different.
The current Wedo platform, the overall number of users, and the base are actually not small, but in general, this is a place that is currently dedicated to the distribution of works produced by Wedo Entertainment, and occasionally some third-party works will be seen, but they will not be vigorously promoted. At the same time, this software is also very concise in terms of interface style, and never engages in too many bells and whistles, especially this kind of homepage pop-up advertisement, which will be more likely to be bored by users, and Wedo Entertainment is used very restrained.
That's all about user experience.
In this case, Wedo Entertainment uses the way of pop-ups on the homepage to advertise things, which basically means that their new work is about to be released.
Sure enough, when he saw the content of the pop-up window clearly, he was quite excited!
"Wedo Entertainment's latest masterpiece! The CG animation of "Demon Hunting Notes" is officially launched! ”
Guo Lei really didn't know the news about this animation before.
He didn't rush to click on it, but looked at the publicity under the advertisement.
"Adaptation...... Well, it's the consistent style of Dimension Entertainment...... Wasteland art style? Pure CG production? ”
Originally, he was a fan of Dimension Entertainment, and when he saw a new work, even if it was an animation, he decided to watch it. Not to mention, the elements of the latter works, when swinged outward, are quite attractive.
The pure CG technology of the wasteland painting style, the animation made, there may not be a similar work in China at present.
If it is another domestic animation company that claims to do CG animation, it will definitely suffer a lot of doubts. For domestic CG works, most people's inherent impression may be that the level of model production is inferior; Lighting and materials are all messed up; The rendering of the relevant does not take effort or effort to get ......
But if it is done by Dimension Entertainment, then almost no one will worry about this.
Originally, Guo Lei was going to make up for the little tail that he didn't watch at the end of the third season of "Amber", but now, his mind has changed a little - since there is a new work, why don't you watch the new work first?
The complete episode of "Demon Hunting Notes" has a total of ten episodes, which is updated every Saturday at eight o'clock in the evening, and it is currently the first episode.
The charging model of this work is obviously different from the previous animations and TV series.
Non-members don't have any free content to enjoy, even if they are dimension members, they can only watch the first episode for free.
Moreover, it is quite expensive.
The price for non-members is five yuan per episode. After buying the whole work, that's fifty yuan. Even if it is a member, it will cost forty yuan after the discount.
However, Guo Lei is not sensitive to price at all in this regard. It doesn't matter if it's a few dozen dollars, anyway, it's a small amount of money, and it's over!
In contrast, seeing the work early is what he cares more about.
took out his mobile phone and scanned the code to pay the bill, although he was a member and didn't need money for the first episode, he still pre-ordered the whole episode directly - anyway, he believed that what was made by Dimension Entertainment would not disappoint him or make him feel that his money was wasted.
started watching "Demon Hunting Notes", and sure enough, just the first picture made him feel that the money he spent on buying animation was worth it.
In the pools of sewage, it is impossible to see the original color of rags, rusty iron rods, and carrion corpses left by unknown animals, and all kinds of filth float or sink.
Suddenly, a one-meter-long giant rat, out of nowhere, squeaked and screamed, ran into the sewage, and gnawed on a few pieces of rotten meat. The giant rat seems to be normal, except that when it has leather hair on it, it will drop a few pieces of flesh, and these pieces of meat will have long since rotted.
This picture is very similar to the concept of being affected by radiation in many movies or literary works.
Then, the camera gradually zooms over the giant rat's body, revealing all the Chinese people who are framed buildings, half-collapsed walls and houses, and car wreckage scattered everywhere.
The ruined world is full of miserable green fluorescence.
Such a place, which used to be called a ruin, is now called a city - that's what the subtitle says.
Seeing this first scene, Guo Lei believes that this will be an excellent work.
Although the story has not yet begun, through the dynamic giant rat before, Dimension Entertainment has shown their excellent production level when they are doing pure CG animation. In the follow-up, the scene shown by zooming out of the camera shows their strong strength in art.
They are working on the work seriously, both in the overall design and in the details of the picture.
In the ruins of the city at night, a woman is chased by a large group of people who look ragged and have a certain deformity on their bodies.
This is the beginning of "Demon Hunting Notes".
The woman with the baby in her arms ran in a hurry, crossed a corner, and suddenly noticed a figure sitting by the wall.
The man was covered in a black blanket, his head was so low that he couldn't see his face at all, and from his thin figure, he looked like a child of eight or nine years old.
She rushed over in a few big strides, shoved the swaddling clothes she was holding tightly in her arms into the man's arms, and cried out: "Please, save her!" ”
The fluorescence emitted by the puddle of sewage under the wall illuminates the woman's face. This is a very young, beautiful face, no more than twenty or so in appearance, with delicate snow-white skin that is rare in this era, and it is very in stark contrast to the deformed people who appeared in the previous picture.
Without waiting for an answer, the woman stood up and ran deeper into the alley. After a few seconds, she let out a scream that almost punctured her eardrums.
In the slightly noisy night, the screams were heard far away. The frenzied crowd not far away immediately erupted into a shout of excitement or joy, and in less than a minute, torches lit up the alley, and more than a dozen rags in tattered clothes with cruel and exuberant faces rushed into the alley, pushing and squeezing, and chasing deep into the alley.
In the fluorescent light of sewage, in the reflection of sin, the miserable cries of women and the excited howls of refugees tell people that something cruel is happening there.
In the corner of the wall, the figure wrapped in a black felt blanket suddenly moved, his head lowered and slowly raised, and he took out a swaddling cloth from under the blanket, and the edge of the rag exposed half of his palm, looking at the immature silhouette obviously belonging to an underage child, but the skin was icy and shiny, a little dazzling, and incompatible with the surroundings. And in the low-hanging blanket, there was a deep blue light, and it was his eyes, silently watching the baby in swaddling clothes.
At this point, the protagonist 'Su' in the Demon Hunting Notes, as well as the baby girl who is an important clue for the development of the follow-up story, have all come out.
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The follow-up story, after dawn.
An old man in his fifties knocked on the empty iron pipe erected on the ground and shouted, "Work hard! Get up for me, bunnies! Let old Hans see how lucky the few guys are left today! ”
Hundreds of people got up and rushed to him.
In the subsequent conversation, it was learned that the elder Hans was an agent of a company, where people could work as coolies and dig ore in the mines in exchange for money and survival materials.
Like a butcher picking cattle, he glanced at their physique, skin, and countenance, and casually commanded, "You can, go over there and get something to work!" Or, "You can't!" ”
Those who are selected are ecstatic, and those who are not selected are like ashes.
"Why can't I!" A thunderous roar drew everyone's eyes back. A strong man who was more than 1.9 meters tall and looked like a mountain bear pounded the iron case vigorously and roared at the old Hans.
Old Hans pointed to a large ulcer on the black man's chest, and said slowly, "You are sick!" If you go down the mines, you'll infect all my mules, and who's going to work for me? ”
"I can work! I want to eat, I have three children to raise! The Negro didn't listen carefully to what Old Hans was saying, but kept roaring and thumping the iron case.
Suddenly, a gunshot rang out, and behind old Hans, a bald strong man pulled the trigger of the double-barreled shotgun in his hand, and hundreds of grains of iron sand slammed into the black man's chest, blasting out a large hole.
The content of this scene, as well as the previous part about the runaway woman, clearly shows the cruelty of this new era.
After the old Hans finished picking people, he complained to himself about the recent shortage of labor.
Then, Sue walked over.
The child, who looked to be less than ten years old, was wrapped in a dirty blanket, and his face and hands, as long as they were exposed, were tightly wrapped with strips of cloth, revealing only one left eye.
"You want to work too?"
Sue nodded.
"Alright! But tell me if it's a man or a woman, right? Old Hans said.
"Very well, boy, go over there and get the tools. Like everyone else, dig up a hundred kilograms of ore and get five cents. This is the greatest benefit for you. You can't be dressed like this, you can't have some kind of disease, right? Well, you don't have to worry, at least you don't have a stench on you, old Hans's nose is very smart. Go to work, and when you can't do it anymore, go to Peter the lame, and he will tell you how much money you make and how much you can get for food. ”
After nightfall, when the mine was about to call it a day, the protagonist Su, carrying a huge basket that did not match his figure, walked over step by step.
He was thinner than any drudger, but he harvested the most minerals.
However, in exchange for supplies, he had to buy 'tertiary pure water'.
During the conversation, the premise was also thrown out. The so-called tertiary pure water is water that has not been polluted. Through this, Old Hans also guessed that Sue was raising a child, and said: "Children under the age of three, if they drink water without radiation and eat clean things, yes, they keep eating damn tertiary water and food, then they will not mutate when they grow up." ”
In this way, the relationship between Sue and the baby girl is shown to be dependent on each other.
These contents are the contents of the first chapter of the original book.
According to the adaptation, it is just a prologue, and it should not be told too much in the precious animation space. Especially in such a sophisticated CG animation, every second is a dollar burning.
But the content of this part is very important. It shows the worldview of the whole work, as well as the characters in it, under the distorted worldview, the distorted values.
The style of this whole work sets the tone; At the same time, it also enriches the character of the protagonist.
It's not easy to give up.
It's still necessary to put in the effort to make it.