Fumiya Takahashi is an amateur film critic.

runs a personal channel with a decent number of followers on YouTube.

Tonight,It's the day when GENIE's new "Utengu's Monster Retreat House" was first broadcast on TV.

Takahashi stayed in front of the TV early.,He's going to publish a review video about this new episode on his channel.。

For this reason, I even set up a video recorder.,Ready to record the content of the new episode completely.。

TV broadcasting is like this.,There's no way to pause and reverse.,So in order to better explore the details of this fan.,Let the video you make have more content to tell.,You can only rely on peripherals.。

Regarding the promotional video of "Urtengu's Yokai Retreat", Takahashi has repeatedly watched it on GENIE's official website several times.

Seriously,He's looking forward to this new episode.。

After all, he was already a big fan of GENIE's previous work "Miss Mary", and at the same time a fan of the virtual anchor "Mary-chan", who has a subtle connection with GENIE.

And even if these personal emotional factors are aside, as shown in the promotional video of "Utengu's Monster Retreat House", the quality and sincerity of the new work are not to be picked.

The picture shown by the promotional camera is very well-shot, gorgeous and gorgeous, and the level of the soundtrack is also very high, and it costs a lot of money at first glance.

And in the footage of the promotional video, there is also a Gothic doll sitting in the dimly lit cabin flashing by.

GENIE HAS MADE IT CLEAR THAT MARY IN THE PREVIOUS WORK "Miss Mary is Unstable" will make a cameo appearance as a supporting role in a certain episode of "Urtengu's Yokai Retreat".

Now I have to watch it!

"Genie is obviously an animation company that only appeared last year, but in terms of the amount of money to produce animation, it is even far ahead of most convention clubs in the industry. To exaggerate a little, there is a feeling that the first goal of making anime is not to make money, regardless of the cost. ”

"Maybe their business policy was originally to spend a lot of money to polish the ship and the gun, and win with outstanding quality?"

"It could also ...... GENIE ISN'T SHORT OF MONEY AT ALL. If that's the case, the somewhat outrageous inference that has been on the Internet all along, maybe it's true. ”

The outrageous inference that has always existed online is –

The person in the virtual anchor "Mary-chan", who has a close connection with Genie Studio, is actually a wealthy daughter.

Whether it's making a V's debut or setting up a club to produce animation, it's just that this eldest lady came to experience life by chance.

Therefore, whether it is watching live broadcasts or watching fans, everyone should watch and cherish them.

Maybe one day this mysterious eldest lady will get tired of playing, so she won't accompany the common people to continue to play house.

Because there has always been such a hypothesis, it has attracted a lot of people to Mary sauce's live broadcast room and Genie Studio.

"Is there really a young lady who is so idle? AND GENIE IS VERY AMBITIOUS, NO MATTER HOW YOU LOOK AT IT, IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT'S JUST FUN. ”

At the thought of this hypothesis, Fumiya Takahashi couldn't help but laugh.

It doesn't matter what the truth is, for a fan like him anyway. The emergence of a company in the animation industry that does not hesitate to spend a lot of money to polish its work is a great thing anyway.

While waiting for the release of "Urtengu's Yokai Retreat", Takahashi's mobile phone kept vibrating.

It's a group chat called "Genie Club" on LINE that keeps popping up messages.

This small group is said to be a fan club, but in fact there are only three members, Takahashi and his two friends from high school, Hidaka Tsunado and Shimokawa Yoji.

Last year, it was also pulled by these two good friends, and Takahashi watched the TV premiere of the drama "Miss Mary" together, and not only successfully ate the Amway of that drama, but also became a fan of "Mary-chan".

And now all three of them are in college.

Because they went to different universities, the three of them usually spent less time seeing each other, but they still chatted on LINE from time to time.

Like tonight, because of the initial broadcast of "Black Tengu's Monster Retreat House", Hidaka and Shimokawa chatted hotly in the group-

"Have you watched the promotional trailer for "Utengu's Monster Retreat House"? The main hit is 'The Beautiful Picture Scroll of the Monster Retreat', which is amazing! ”

"Of course, I watched it, Miss Kamiya, the animation executive producer of Genie Studio, is super beautiful! It's no problem to make your debut as a star. ”

"Where do you focus your attention?"

"But it's really beautiful, that kind of OL beauty. By the way, is there a possibility that Miss Kamiya is the one in Mari-chan? ”

"No way, I can't imagine that they are the same person. I feel that the person in Mari-chan is more like the financier behind that company, and he won't come out in that documentary. ”

"You don't know what contrasting cuteness is!"

“…… The smell of the house overflowed through my phone screen. ”

"Alas, what a pity. Speaking of which, the number of Mary-chan live broadcasts has dropped a lot this year. Obviously, the live broadcast is more diligent, and Mary-chan is very promising to become the head anchor this year. ”

"Maybe it's because Genie is too busy? It's not that the second season of "Miss Mary is Uncertain" is already in production, and now a new monster has been launched. ”

"That's what I said. But I still want more people to feel the charm of the goddess of good luck, and no matter who it is, I will become a believer in Mary-chan! Mammon lives on! ”

"Mammon!"

“……”

Takahashi casually flipped through the chat history of his friends, and found that the topic had shifted to the stalk that Miss Mary was the "goddess of good luck".

Whether it is the virtual anchor Mary-chan or "Miss Mary", they have created such an image.

And in a sense, Hidaka and Shimokawa are both "big believers" of Mary-chan.

Especially Hidaka, this guy always said that he was able to be admitted to Hokkaido University in "explosive seeds", all because of Miss Mary's luck.

…… I don't know who brushed the questions until the early hours of the morning during the preparation for the exam.

Takahashi felt that Hidaka's admission to a good university was entirely due to his own last efforts.

However, there may also be the influence of the so-called "goddess of good luck", and that guy really wants to prove to everyone that as a fan of Mary, he really has good luck......

Immature! Amusing!

After saying a few casual words in the group, Takahashi put the phone lock screen back on the desktop.

Then he looked at the TV that was still playing commercials, and silently folded his hands: "Miss Mary, you must continue to bless my channel data up." ”

But then again-

Anyway, "faith" in Miss Mary doesn't cost money, it's all a matter of incidental and thoughts.

Takahashi, who is always rational and serious, also believes a little bit.

……

Half past twelve in the morning.

"Utengu's Yokai Retreat House" was broadcast on time on TBS TV.

After a period of hot-blooded and gorgeous OP, the screen fades in.

The first thing that catches your eye is the castle town with a strong Edo period style.

The whole piece is a two-story brick and wood structure with a heavy black tile roof. Then the picture zooms out, and several tall western-style buildings with different styles appear across the street from the "Tibetan Architecture".

Above the western-style building, you can also see the Star-Spangled Banner fluttering.

This is the first stage of the drama story, in Yokohama, at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Western-style building that appears in the picture is the first to blow the doors of Japan open.

You can see Japanese people wearing kimonos and suits on the streets, and there are blond-haired Westerners on the side of the consulate.

In the opening scene, the painting style is delicate, showing the non-homogeneous hybrid style of Japanese style and Western culture during the Curtain Falling Movement.

And such a sense of picture conflict in the context of a special era immediately caught the attention of Fumiya Takahashi.

He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief: "Sure enough, GENIE didn't just make the pictures in the promotional video well. ”

The camera pans through the street and enters a Japanese-style mansion, which is supposed to be the residence of a certain daimyo because of the family crest in the frame.

A boy of five or six years old, dressed in a kimono, walks along a deserted corridor.

"The upper teeth were placed under the verandah floor, and the lower teeth were thrown above the roof. I lost my upper teeth, so, the floor ...... The floor ......," the boy said vaguely.

In traditional Japanese architecture, there is a small and dark space where the ground is kept from moisture.

The boy came out of the porch, crouched down, and raised his hand to throw his baby teeth under the floor.

But his movements suddenly stopped.

Under the floor of the verandah, there was a subtle and very dense sound like the fluttering of the wings of an insect.

Bang bang bang!

Then, a swarm of winged "flying insects" with a strange glimmer of light instantly poured out from under the floor of the verandah!

The boy fell to the ground at once.

And on the floor of the verandah, the sound of wings vibrating is still ringing, this time it is no longer dense, but louder.

The little boy pinched his baby teeth and shivered to look again at the small space under the floor.

I saw a twisted woman huddled in the small darkness.

The woman's back was covered with transparent, insect-like wings that snapped violently against the bottom of the floor.

“tooth……”

She groaned and held out her hand to the camera.

"Wow!!!"

The scene ends abruptly with the boy's screams, and this is where the story begins.

Fumiya Takahashi's interest was smoothly mobilized by the opening plot, and he recorded the main points of the plot: "The first episode is actually a story about Western weirdness? Tooth-related ...... Tooth fairy? It's kind of interesting. ”

While Takahashi is writing, the plot continues to advance.

The scene has shifted to a bookstore building, where one of the protagonists of this work, Ryuken Igarashi, is smiling and talking to a man dressed as a samurai and carrying a long sword.

Samurai: "...... That's the way it is, this time, I'll leave it to you Igarashi for this monster retreat. ”

"Well, say hello to your master for me."

Igarashi is a feminine young man with squinting eyes who looks shrewd and not easy to mess with.

"Hmm." The samurai got up and left.

Only Igarashi and a kimono maid were left in the study.

"What, I obviously begged Long Xian for you to do something, and you were still arrogant." The maid was indignant.

"Hehe, don't worry about that."

"He doesn't say anything, but he just looks down on us!"

"Well, well." Igarashi shrugged her shoulders and walked over to the counter of the bookstore:

"Samurai-sama, you've always looked down on us businessmen, and you've always been like that. Saying that the root nature of the townspeople is calculating, greedy, and short-sighted, and people's ears are calloused. ”

"But if I want to say it—samurai who only speak clichés and don't know how to be flexible are really short-sighted."

Igarashi opened the hidden drawer on the counter, and saw a long and a short one neatly placed inside.

He took the well-looking short firearm in front of him, opened his slightly squinted eyes, and made an illusory shooting motion towards the camera: "After all, times have changed." ”

……

The beginning of "Utengu's Youkai Retreat House" is fascinating.

The suspense created by the Western monster Tale Tooth Fairy who appeared in Yokohama is enough to make the audience concentrate on watching it and look forward to the subsequent plot development.

Then, through Igarashi's perspective, some of the background settings of this work will be gradually unfolded -

Because the Black Ship Incident opened the door to Japan, the shogunate's rule was in turmoil.

The Sashoku faction, which was loyal to the shogunate, fought openly and secretly with the forces of the fallen shogunate faction under the banner of "honoring the king" and in fact intended to overthrow the shogunate's rule, and the Western faction was mixed in.

The entire Japanese people were in turmoil.

Such a situation makes monster incidents frequent. In addition, with the entry of Westerners and Western ideologies into Japan, some strange theories that originally existed in the West also appeared in Japan.

This is how the tooth fairy that appears in the first episode comes about.

And as Igarashi began to investigate the Tooth Immortal incident, an old woman with black teeth began to appear in the audience's field of vision again in the Daimyo's mansion......

The suspense of the story is further raised.

Takahashi: "So, the new work not only depicts the background of the conflict between Japan and the West during the Shogun Movement, but also refers to the development of strange stories. The tooth fairy of Western children changing their teeth and the Japanese custom of blackening their teeth are very cleverly combined......"

"So Mary appeared in Japan during this period, is it also because of this?"

The monster story written by Mr. Shuryu is still as wonderful as ever!

Good at creating suspense, but never procrastinating, the plot is smooth and hearty.

And the new work is completely different from the story told in "Miss Mary". Because it is a different way, it is very novel, and there is no feeling of fried cold rice.

Takahashi had previously praised "Gargle", an animation scripter who was born out of thin air, in the interpretation of "Miss Mary".

Sure enough,Teacher Shuliu will not disappoint.,The new one he handled" is very exciting in the plot.

Expectations are full!

Because it was the premiere tonight, TBS TV broadcast two episodes of "Utengu's Yokai Retreat".

In the second episode, after the truth of the Tooth Immortal incident is revealed, Igarashi fights the Tooth Immortal with a fire hammer, accidentally unlocks the seal of an ancient shrine, and releases the black tengu Kamui "Crow" as the end.

Because "Utengu's Monster Retreat House" is obviously well funded, the fight scenes are very sophisticated and gorgeous.

Moreover, Igarashi's use of the fire gun to retreat from the strange setting is also particularly interesting.

The picture on the TV finally stayed-

Under the big moon, the black tengu "crow" stretched out its pitch-black wings, covering most of the sky, hanging silently in the air, and staring down at the lens of Igarashi.

Fumiya Takahashi could see that he didn't take a deep breath and come back to his senses until ED played.

“…… It's over? ”

At this time, the pointer has turned to two o'clock in the morning.

The hour and a half passed too quickly, and it wasn't enough to see.

Another main character, "Raven", also appears, so I wonder what happened after that!

(End of chapter)