The star is legit but sick.

Chapter 699: I was searching for information for the civil service exam, why are you asking me to make cartoons?

The animation "Calabash Brothers" can be said to be the least favored animation among all the animations of Dream Building Studio before it was broadcast.

How can the characters in animation all look the same? They are only distinguished by color. Isn't this just saving costs?

On Earth, when Shangmei was producing the film, it was indeed because of lack of costs that they made the seven gourd brothers look the same, but the result was a classic.

It doesn’t matter if they look the same; what matters is whether the characters have their own characteristics.

Some characters in animations look different and are not memorable to the audience.

In a certain family's home, a little boy turned on the TV right after finishing his meal.

He turned on the TV very skillfully and after a few clicks on the remote control, he switched to the children's channel.

This is the only time he has to watch cartoons every day.

After watching cartoons he has to do his homework and then go to bed.

The song "Sunny Boys and Sunny Girls" was played on the children's channel.

As soon as the song started, the little boy could sing along.

"Your childhood and my childhood seem to be the same..."

Now when this song sounds, everyone knows that the animation of Sunshine Childhood Theater is coming.

The animations of Sunshine Childhood Theater are of guaranteed quality!

The little boy sat on the sofa, staring at the TV intently.

Soon, the main film of "Calabash Brothers" began.

At the beginning of the picture, there is a gourd-shaped mountain standing among the clouds, with a very unique shape.

As music played, the scene changed and a gourd vine appeared with seven gourds of different colors on it. A red gourd fell to the ground and a gourd baby came out of it.

The Calabash Brothers' body suddenly grew bigger.

The little boy's eyes lit up.

“New animation!”

The opening animation is still playing here.

Then the little boy saw the Water Baby who spit water, the indestructible Third Baby, the Fire Baby who spit fire, and the Snake Demon and the Scorpion Demon.

This setting of Calabash Brothers is close to the age of children, so children can have a strong sense of immersion.

The various special abilities here are also very attractive to children.

After the opening theme song was played, the four big words "Calabash Brothers" appeared in the video.

The little boy remembered the name immediately and kept repeating the four words.

Then the main film begins, with an old man picking herbs on a cliff.

He accidentally fell off a cliff and landed at the entrance of a cave. The herbs he dropped were delivered to him by the bird he rescued.

At this time, a strange wind blew up on the earth, freezing all the animals.

The old man ran into a cave, but the cave collapsed, blocking the entrance. The old man could only keep crawling forward, looking for a way out.

There was not a single line of dialogue from beginning to end, but the little boy still watched it with great interest.

He had never seen such a unique style of painting before.

Afterwards, the old man rescued the pangolin in the cave and learned the situation from the pangolin's mouth.

A long time ago, there lived a snake demon and a scorpion demon. They had great magical powers and brought disaster to the world. Finally, they were suppressed by the gods under the Gourd Mountain. As long as ten thousand years were up, the demons would be reduced to ashes. There was only one year left.

However, the pangolin broke through the Hulu Mountain and let the goblin escape.

The pangolin brought the old man to the cave to look for the treasure to suppress the monster.

As long as you get the treasure to suppress monsters, you can suppress monsters again.

The treasure that can suppress demons is the precious gourd seed.

The magic gourd seeds can take everyone away from here. As long as we plant more gourds, we can destroy the monsters.

Then the old man used the herbal leaves he had collected to get the treasure gourd seeds in his hand. The shape of his herbs was the same as the leaves on the gourd baby's body.

Finally, Hulu Mountain completely cracked, and the old man and the pangolin fell into the endless abyss.

The first episode ends and the song begins.

"Calabash Brothers, Calabash Brothers, seven flowers on a vine~"

"I'm not afraid of wind or rain, la la la la ~"

"Ding-dang-dang, dong-dong-dang, Calabash Brothers~"

"Ding-dang-dang, dong-dong-dang-dang, great skills, la-la-la~"

"Calabash Brothers, Calabash Brothers, you have great abilities~"

The little boy suddenly felt a little unsatisfied.

This is too short.

Fortunately, a prompt appeared immediately after this episode was broadcast.

"Don't go away, the next episode will be on soon."

The little boy then continued to wait.

Each episode of "Calabash Brothers" is only about ten minutes long, which is very short nowadays, but the pace is not slow at all.

The complete series of "Calabash Brothers" has only thirteen episodes, and "Calabash Brothers" has only six episodes, but in many people's childhood memories, this story always seems to be quite long.

The little boy waited for a while and finally saw the second episode.

With the help of gourd seeds, the old man and the pangolin returned home safely.

The gourd seeds automatically drilled into the ground, and the water in the bucket next to it automatically flowed to the place where the gourd seeds were planted.

As the gourd-shaped light lights up, the gourd seeds quickly break out of the soil. The scene of them breaking out of the soil is very full of life.

The gourd vine propped up the stone slab on the ground, breaking it into pieces, and then continued to spread, entwining itself around the stone, creating a gourd vine in the air. Even the water in the pool automatically fell onto the gourd vine.

The little boy's eyes widened as he watched these scenes.

Soon, seven gourds grew on the gourd vine, and sounds came from the gourds.

"Grandpa, grandpa!"

The little boy was already looking forward to the appearance of Calabash Brothers.

The scene then turned to the cave of the snake demon and the scorpion demon, where a group of monsters were having a dinner together, and it was very lively.

However, this scene seemed a little scary to the little boy.

Centipede monsters, toad monsters, bats, etc. all look a little scary.

The snake demon discovered the gourd vine with the help of the magic mirror and was immediately frightened. He decided to get rid of the gourd quickly.

They first sent out the wasp monsters. The arrows shot from their tails could not cause any damage to the gourd at all. Instead, they were burned to death by the flames spewed out from the fire baby's gourd.

The little gourds laughed happily.

When Grandpa and Pangolin came back, they found the corpse and the bent bow and arrow on the ground, and they became worried.

At night, another monster came.

At night, the gourd still glows.

This was very exciting for the little boys, and they stood up excitedly.

Animation with this fantasy element has a natural appeal to children.

In this battle, the little gourds also displayed various abilities, but in the end, the grandfather walked out of the house out of concern, threw out a sickle and killed a snake demon.

But he fell into the monster's trap, a big net fell on him, and grandpa was captured by the monster!

The song of "Calabash Brothers" sounded, and this episode of animation ended.

The little boy immediately showed anxiety.

But there will be no next episode after this one, so if you want to watch it, you have to wait until tomorrow.

By the evening, viewers on the Internet were already discussing the animation.

"Have you seen Calabash Brothers?"

"I watched it. I watched it with my child. I didn't expect it to be so good."

"It's quite interesting, but I feel like I've seen a lot of content, but the Calabash Brothers are still hanging on the vine and haven't turned into Calabash Brothers."

"It's pretty fast if you say it's fast, but it's also a little slow if you say it's slow, but it's really good, better than I expected."

On the first day, there was no explosion of positive reviews online. Many people did not watch the show because they were not interested after seeing the promotional posters. However, among those who had already watched the show, Calabash Brothers had a very good reputation.

After the update the next day, some viewers watched it on TV, while others watched it on Xiaolan Station.

Yesterday everyone was complaining that after two episodes no gourd brothers had appeared. At the beginning of the third episode, amid lightning, thunder and red rain, the eldest brother's red gourd fell from the gourd vine.

There was a loud bang in the sky, and Big Baby made a brilliant appearance.

The many gourd brothers asked the eldest brother to rescue grandfather quickly.

Big Baby also demonstrated his abilities. He has great strength and can grow bigger or smaller.

On the way to the fairy cave, Da Wa saw the world was in ruins and the monsters were causing trouble, and he felt sorry for them.

On the other side, Grandpa had been captured and taken back to the goblin's cave.

The snake demon is a cunning monster, and he pretends to be friendly to the old man, but the old man has seen through the monster's tricks.

The snake spirit also has her own ideas. She wants to keep Grandpa so that the Calabash Brothers can come and rescue Grandpa so that she can find out the Calabash Brothers' background.

With the help of his ability, Big Boy broke into the snake demon's cave.

However, facing the cunning snake demon, Da Wa was no match for him.

In the end, the snake demon used a trick to trap Da Wa in a quagmire and captured him.

The audience's hearts were suddenly tightened again.

In the fourth episode, the second baby was born.

Erwa’s abilities are super hearing and super vision.

I wonder how many people wanted to have such ability when they saw this passage as children.

With the ability to hear and see from afar, you will no longer be afraid of exams.

Among all the Calabash Brothers, Erwa is considered to be the wisest one.

He also sneaked into the snake demon's cave, trying to get the snake demon's Ruyi and magic mirror.

However, in this duel, Erwa ultimately lost.

The snake demon used a trick to destroy Erwa's clairvoyance and super hearing.

In this episode, the snake demon can be said to be the childhood nightmare of many children, and everyone hates the demon to the core.

After these two episodes were aired, there were even more discussions online.

Some bloggers who like to interpret have used their imagination to start making associations.

"Look everyone, Big Boy's ability is immense strength. What did the snake demon use to deal with him? It used the quagmire. No matter how strong you are, you will still be stuck in the quagmire and unable to extricate yourself.

Erwa's ability is to have super hearing and clairvoyance, so let the beautiful mini eyes blow your ears with evil wind. There is something wrong with this animation."

Some bloggers posted their analysis, and a group of netizens were stunned.

"What are you talking about? Isn't Calabash Brothers a cartoon?"

"This animation looks like a serious children's animation, how come so many things have been interpreted into it?"

"But what you said makes sense. You are powerful, and I have ways to harm you. I can trap you in a quagmire. You can distinguish right from wrong, so I will let beauty seduce you and let the lewd music corrupt your ears."

"No, buddy, I'm looking for information for the civil service exam, why am I here?"

There has been a noticeable increase in discussions about the plot on the Internet.

Many people were put off by the style of painting at first, but after watching it they unexpectedly found it to be quite good.

The rhythm of the plot is not slow at all. In the third and fourth episodes, one gourd baby is captured by a monster. If it were placed in other animations, it would take at least several episodes.

By the third day, there were even more viewers for Calabash Brothers.

Many people became curious and after watching the first four episodes, they waited for the update.

At the beginning of the fifth episode, Erwa and the old man escaped from the goblin's cave with the help of the pangolin, but the pangolin died at the hands of the scorpion demon.

The goblin was still chasing the old man and the second child. At this critical moment, the third child came out.

However, Sanwa did not break the gourd open. Instead, the gourd fell off the gourd vine and went to find his grandfather.

At the critical moment when grandpa was stopped by the monster, Sanwa broke the gourd.

In the sixth episode, Sanwa showed his iron-willed ability and fought off all the goblins.

Grandpa quickly took the second child away, and the third child stopped the monster alone.

Although there has been a lot of talk online about Calabash Brothers saving his grandfather, in fact, starting from the third brother, it was no longer about Calabash Brothers saving his grandfather.

It’s just that Sanwa was arrogant and underestimated his enemy. He easily broke into the fairy’s cave and smashed the magic mirror directly.

However, although he had a body of steel, he was finally tied up by the snake demon with a soft knife.

No matter how strong your body is, you are no match for a soft knife. This is what it means to overcome hardness with softness.

This can be considered the earliest bondage scene.

Some netizens on the Internet have started to interpret it again, and the popularity of "Calabash Brothers" is getting higher and higher.

Everyone also discovered that although this animation was created from a child's perspective, the things in it are not childish.

In the seventh episode, Fire Baby and Water Baby were also born.

The Calabash Brothers planned to cure Erwa's eyes and ears first, and then think about the rest.

On the other side, the snake demon pulled the alchemy furnace out from under the deep pool. As a result, the flames in the alchemy furnace unexpectedly came out and burned the entire mountain.

The Fire Boy and the Water Boy put out the fire. The snake demon then came up with another plan and invited the two gourd boys to visit his cave.

Water Baby and Fire Baby were captured again due to the snake demon's conspiracy.

After several days of updates, the reputation of "Calabash Brothers" has become better and better.

"The Calabash Brothers animation is extraordinary and very interesting."

"These calabash brothers all look the same except for their different colors, but I can easily tell who is who."

"I thought the plot was simple, and quite interesting. Please urge for more updates!"

In the next few days, the number of views of Xiaolan's song "Calabash Brothers" continued to rise.

Later, after the goblin took away the gourd vine, the plot changed again, which was completely beyond everyone's expectations.

In the end, Qiwawa recognized the thief as his father, but was eventually thrown into the alchemy furnace by the demon.

At the last moment, the old man took out the seven-colored lotus and said, "Connect hearts, connect hearts, connect as one. With it, the Calabash Brothers can work together to destroy you monsters!"

The old man threw out the seven-colored lotus while laughing.

Seven lotus seeds fell from the lotus and entered the alchemy furnace.

When the alchemy furnace exploded, the scene on the promotional poster appeared.

The classic shape of seven gourd brothers standing on a lotus platform.

The gourd brothers fought against the monsters, but the old grandfather was killed by the monsters for the gourd brothers.

At the last moment, the old man shouted: "Children, work together to destroy the goblins!"

Grandpa was kicked off the cliff by the Scorpion Demon.

The seven gourd brothers each used their abilities, and finally they put the two monsters into their gourds. The seven gourd brothers combined to form a mountain made of seven-colored stones, and suppressed the monsters under the mountain.

Seeing this, many viewers thought it was about to end.

However, in the next episode, the content of "The Calabash Brothers" was directly continued.

New monsters appeared, the green snake demon and the crocodile leader.

The plots of the two animations can be seamlessly connected, and the audience did not feel there was any problem.

The green snake demon and the crocodile leader began to attack the Seven-Colored Gourd Mountain. The crocodile leader used all kinds of methods but could not touch the mountain at all.

The green snake spirit said calmly, "Don't mess around, don't mess around. Even though the gourd brothers have turned into a mountain, they are tightly connected together and as solid as a rock. It's useless to just chop them with an axe. We must first cut off their connection, then use the method of digging holes and finding loopholes to shake their foundations so that we can defeat them one by one and capture them one by one."

Adult audiences immediately understood the meaning of this sentence after hearing it.

Good man, you're not even using metaphors anymore, you're just saying it directly!
At the end of this episode, it stops at the moment when the eldest baby is born and is pressed down by the gold ingot.

Gold ingots represent money, and money can solve everything.

After these two episodes were aired tonight, "Calabash Brothers" became a hot topic.

In the latest episode, the words spoken by the green snake spirit are so meaningful.

Netizens have been promoting it online.

"Watch Calabash Brothers and experience the workplace life!"

(End of this chapter)