Is this cartoonist mentally ill?.

Chapter 421 Invitation to Cooperation

By the time Fu Liyu woke up at 9:30 the next morning, the trending searches for "Magic City Ghoul" were already everywhere.

"Magical Ghoul", which became a phenomenal anime series in the previous life thanks to this episode, will naturally be no exception in this world.

Many viewers who started watching anime after getting up in the morning felt refreshed after watching the episode "Mato Ghoul".

The same was true for Zhou Wenwei. After watching the anime, he felt, like Fu Liyu, that all the frustration he had felt before was released.

In fact, the narrative style of "Madu Ghoul" is smoother and less deliberate than that of "Akame ga Kill!"

One of the things that people criticized about "Cut! Scarlet Eyes" in Lin Qingshan's previous life was that the knife-cutting of the eldest brother Brand was too deliberate.

Anyone can see that there are knives behind.

In addition, the plot of the hair knife was not mentioned, like Hayakawa Aki in "Chainsaw Man", which made people not expect that it would develop like this, and it also made people feel a mental shock.

Therefore, even after Lin Qingshan's optimization, "Kill! Scarlet Eyes" still feels a bit too deliberate.

Even if the final ending was not that all the members were killed, but that only the heroine Akagi, who served as the name of the anime, was left alive, the evaluation would still inevitably be slightly lower.

Therefore, "Akame ga Kill" cannot be considered a masterpiece, but can only be considered a masterpiece that is close to the production line.

This is where Ghoul excels over Akame ga Kill. The depressing but realistic plot in the beginning was artistically sublimated into darkness after the twelfth episode, and it received a worthy evaluation.

No matter what happens to Lin Qingshan's ghoul in the end, based on the finale of the first season alone, it is not an exaggeration to call him a god.

Zhou Wenwei originally preferred "Akame ga Kill", but after seeing the trending search in the morning, he went straight to the toilet when he arrived at the company and watched the finale of the first season of "Magical Ghoul", which was wildly praised and praised by everyone.

then……

“It’s really cool.”

Even though he is a young man in his twenties, Zhou Wenwei thinks that Kaneki's dark outburst after extreme repression is extremely handsome.

“All the unfavorable situations in the world are caused by the lack of ability of the parties involved.”

Zhou Wenwei was still obsessed with the famous quote from the episode "Magic City Ghoul" and said, "A mentally ill person can't really be a genius, right? This sentence has a philosophical flavor. Qingshan Laozei's plot skills are really amazing."

But he thought of Lin Qingshan again... In fact, his works have always tended to be philosophical.

"EdgeWalker" pioneered the anti-future sci-fi utopian science fiction theme of cyberpunk, and the subsequent "Flame Fist" is a psychotic "philosophical masterpiece".

When he read "Flame Fist", he could really feel the philosophy of the comic's plot.

Dema's correct education, Li Hetian's reflection on his own gender, Besim Drucker's soldiers' analysis of the reality that humans feed on lies and survive with lies, Agni's thoughts on living and his own existence...

That's why "Flame Fist" caused such a big response at that time.

Even Aoyama Ryouzei's later works "Chainsaw Man", "Parasyte", and a short comic "Goodbye Eri", the philosophical nature of them all proves that his works have never been simple, straightforward, brainless and refreshing comics.

Even the "Kamen Rider Ryuki" that he wrote as the main writer for the Kamen Rider series, Zhou Wenwei, as someone who watched the entire "Kamen Rider Ryuki" because of it, was also very touched.

Lin Qingshan, a talented cartoonist who is known as a mental patient and the freest cartoonist in the world, never creates simple works.

It's just that he seems to be restrained sometimes because of the commercial nature of his works.

For example, in "Chainsaw Man", you can feel that Lin Qingshan has definitely made sacrifices for the commercialization of the work.

But it is precisely because of this that the "Chainsaw Man" series is so popular.

The same seems to be true for "Kill! Akame ga Mitsukoshi", where Lin Qingshan restrains his talent for rich philosophy in exchange for the high commercial value of the work.

However, "Magical Ghoul" is different. This anime series has been ignored by audiences and anime fans in recent times.

Just like "Flame Fist", while it is depressing, it also tells the artistic philosophy that Qingshan Laozei wants.

For example, the struggle between humans and ghouls seems absurd and unnecessary at the moment.

Although ghouls feed on prey, they are a great enemy to humans.

But... the ghouls, led by the Antique Cafe in Anding District, have proved that they can also live in peace with humans.

At the same time, the tragedy of Hinami's parents and the tragic past of the human investigator Wu Xu, the tragic past of Gekko being tortured by the human investigator in the past, and then compare his current behavior of torturing Kaneki who has nothing to do with the human investigator...

It makes the fight between the two sides seem even more ridiculous.

Just as the saying goes, "When will the cycle of revenge end?", the struggle between humans and ghouls is constantly involving one unrelated innocent individual to another.

However, in this situation, unless both parties stop together, who would be willing to stop on their own initiative?

So this is destined to be endless fighting and killing...

This is really similar to the situation of great powers competing for hegemony in reality...

When I think of this...

At this moment, Zhou Wenwei felt that...he might have neglected the anime "Magic Ghoul" too much.

From this perspective, this is definitely an animation work with profound philosophical meaning comparable to "Flame Fist".

In fact, Lin Qingshan also thought so. He planned to adapt the sequel of Ghoul and make it anti-war.

This can also make up for the inherent deficiencies of ghouls.

At present, his ability is sufficient to do this.

Even though Lin Qingshan is a plagiarist, he has a system!
Zhou Wenwei immediately decided to go back and watch "Magic City Ghoul" carefully again.

……

The discussion caused by the finale of the first season of Ghoul is not limited to this. Many netizens are all curious because of the heated discussions and comments from viewers who have watched the finale of "Magical Ghoul" online.

At the same time, Station C also released a lot more clips of the finale of the first season of Ghoul within one day.

Many people just watched the part where Kaneki turned evil at the end of Ghoul, and even without reading the previous parts of the story, they all thought that Kaneki was so handsome in this part of the story.

Some younger, adolescent viewers even imitated Kaneki's signature finger-folding gesture.

At the same time, the ghouls' famous sayings in the clips, which were considered classics in previous lives, also became popular.

“All unfavorable situations in the world are caused by the lack of ability of the parties involved!”

"It's not me who's wrong, it's the world!"

"Either you are strong enough, or you have to be willing to give up!"

……

Some more immature viewers began to take these two sentences as their guiding principles.

However, this also caused some slightly more rational viewers to frown, because these words were a bit... too absolute.

Are all the unfavorable situations in the world caused by the lack of ability of the parties involved?
This is a bit like victim blaming.

Although this sentence is essentially just to make the cowardly male protagonist Kaneki cheer up and stop being a coward.

After all, the person who said this, “Kamiyo Rize”, was unlucky enough to be crushed to death by steel bars. ①
Is this also due to her lack of ability?

Yes and no. Yes, if Kamishiro Rize was strong enough to ignore the steel bars and use her flesh and blood to withstand the falling steel bars, she could have avoided her own death.

This was indeed caused by her "lack of ability".

But Kamishiro Rize is already very strong. After all, even as a ghoul, she is an SS-class ghoul "Gluttony", the top among ghouls.

So how can we become stronger?

It’s the same in reality. The misfortunes of ordinary people are attributed to their “lack of ability”. Do they deserve it?
Are the workers who are owed wages due to their lack of ability?
Are ordinary people who are deceived by telecommunications fraud also because they lack the ability?

It can only be said that it is part of the reason, but the victim will definitely not bear the main responsibility.

Instead of blaming the evil people who committed crimes and did wrong things, we blame the victims... It doesn't make sense.

However, this sentence did not originally mean this, and most of the audience understood it.

However, if this statement is stated too absolutely, it will inevitably lead to ambiguity.

Some sensible viewers can also see it.

So they kindly advised, "It's just an animation, don't take it too seriously."

However, some teenagers who thought they had seen the injustice of the world responded excitedly, "This is reality. Because you are not strong enough, you are so unlucky and feel unfortunate. Therefore, only when you are strong enough can you be true. The strong can trample on the weak!"

Suddenly, some viewers began to refute, "What kind of perverse logic? The strong trample on the weak? Since when did strong and weak become the truth?"

"That's too childish. The original intention of this statement is to encourage you to work hard to become stronger, not to think that the strong should bully the weak."

"You think you are a strong person? Little do you know that in reality you are just one of the ordinary majority, the weak ones who are trampled upon."

"You really take yourself too seriously..."

"Looking at the tone, he's definitely a little kid who's still studying...what do you know?"

……

All of a sudden, the middle school boys and some rational viewers started attacking each other online, sparking a war of words.

It has to be said that since the Internet has been developing more and more rapidly, the hostility on the Internet has become more and more serious.

Sometimes a small matter can lead to a war of words.

This may be the high risk that comes with great "power". The rapid development of the Internet has made people's lives more convenient.

But it also turned the Internet into a garbage dump.

People pour their negative emotions here and vent their dissatisfaction wantonly.

This place also attracted Lin Qingshan's attention.

"Eh? Can they quarrel like this?"

Lin Qingshan was helpless, he didn't expect that those two sentences from "Magic City Ghoul" could cause such a war of words.

It's just two sentences, and there is no personal attack or insult to the country, ethnicity or region involved. Can it be considered as cursing?

Just as he didn't understand why so many people in his previous life would randomly start wars of words online.

Often, for some insignificant reasons, things can escalate to the point of attacking family members.

It's probably like when a chef's food is not very tasty, and the customers come to the chef's house and keep talking about the divine beast...

It seems a bit too exaggerated.

But he couldn't just let the public opinion develop like this, so he posted a blog post on Station C:

[“All unfavorable situations in the world are caused by the shortcomings of the parties involved.” - Although this sentence was written by me, I hope it can serve as an encouragement for everyone to work hard to become better, rather than a remark to attack each other.

I prefer this sentence: "As long as you have tried your best, there is no need to regret it." 】

After he posted it, although it did not completely quell the online verbal abuse, it did help to calm the meaningless quarrel a little.

This is all Lin Qingshan can do.

But not long after he sent the tweet, his phone suddenly... rang.

Lin Qingshan immediately looked curiously, and then saw... a message from Ming Yi Yang, the director from Trigger Animation, with whom he had worked before.

Ming Yiyang: "Teacher, congratulations on the ghoul's popularity!"

He felt a little puzzled, but still typed back, "Thank you, and congratulations to you too."

Ghoul and Akatsuki Zankai are both anime series produced in collaboration between C Station and Trigger Animation, so the popularity of Ghoul is certainly something worth celebrating for Trigger Animation.

At this time, Ming Yiyang finally typed again, "So... Actually, our boss wants to ask, our cooperation should continue in the future, and Akagi is about to end, what plans do you have, teacher?"

They have obviously tasted the sweetness. The ghouls that seemed to be the least promising have now also achieved great success.

As long as Akatsuki is airing, it will definitely be very popular and hot.

The second season of "Chainsaw Man" will also end this weekend, and the finale of the showdown with Santa Claus will definitely be very popular. It is definitely the new overlord that has reached the top.

Producing three hit TV series in one quarter... Trigger Animation couldn't even imagine this before.

Now it has become a reality.

And all this is all because of the talented cartoonist Lin Qingshan!
It’s true that any work created by Lin Qingshan will become a hit.

Who wouldn’t be confused after seeing this and decide to hold on to Kun Kun, the boy who lays golden eggs.

Ming Yi Yang’s meaning is very clear. Teacher, look, Aka: Killing the Demons is about to end and there will be no second season.

So do you have any ideas for new works to fill the gap?

Lin Qingshan was also conflicted. As a plagiarist, he had many excellent works from his previous life in his memory, and he liked these works very much.

Like "EVA", "JOJO", "Death Note" and so on...

Moreover, one of his comic works can be adapted into animation - "Parasyte".

He also has some hope of adapting Parasyte into an animation.

So which animation should I make next?
Just when he was struggling...

His cell phone rang.

It’s… Ayumi Ito.

Lin Qingshan immediately answered the phone and asked curiously, "Hello? Ayumi? Moshi Moshi?"

"Teacher, I'm Ayumi..."

Ayumi Ito's voice came over the phone, and she said, "Actually, it's like this... MADHOUSE, a company in the industry, has asked our company to cooperate with you to animate "Parasyte"..."

"Also... several animation companies such as Hegemony and East India also want to cooperate with you to adapt your comic works."

Lin Qingshan blinked his eyes. How come...all these animation companies are going to cooperate with him?
(End of this chapter)