Radish Diary: The Beginning of Otaku - "Macross, the Fortress of the Time and Space"
When it comes to Japanese animation, robot animation is naturally unavoidable. It would be better to say that it is precisely with robot animation that can lead to such a prosperous Japanese animation now. Many famous works naturally emerged.
In Japan from the 1980s to 1990s, there were four SF masterpieces recognized by the society. They are: "Space Warship", "Gundam", "Space Fortress", and "EVA". The first three are called the three immortal series of Japanese military science fiction animation. But the last one created the term "Otaku".
What we are going to talk about this time is the beginning of this "Otaku" - "The Fortress of Time and Space".
As a series, it has been 35 years since it was broadcasted in 1982. But at first it was just a backup plan. No one expected it to achieve such an amazing achievement.
In the beginning, "The Fortress of the Time" was called "The Battle City Mega Lord". Because it is regarded as a backup plan, the planners naturally add their own imagination to it without restraint. However, I didn't expect that it was this unintentional behavior of planting willows that was appreciated by the financial owner.
In order to cater to the requirements of the funders, planners have to start backup plans. Among them, the young Masaji Kawamori and Ikki Miyagi became the main leaders of the project. Due to its production capabilities, Kawamori Masajima's company decided to jointly produce this work with a company led by Ishiguro Tsuna. The original name of "Fighting City Mega Lord" was also renamed "Macross for the Time and Space".
The author believes that there are three aspects to the success of "Shi Shishi Fortress": production, innovation and continuation.
After I carefully checked the staff, I found that many of the members are Gainax employees, and they also participated in the production of "EVA", and are the giants who shine like stars in the contemporary era. And "Massive Time Fortress" is their first encounter.
Because they all came from "Astro Boy" to "Space Warship" and then to "Mobile Suit Gundam", they were baptized over and over again. They chose to devote their youth to animation.
As young people, they have capital to squander, which has also enabled them to create a new system - open management. With Black Stone as the core, by unblocking the constraints, the production staff can get the space to play their own way. to improve the quality of animation.
The most worth mentioning is the design of the body in "Space-Time Fortress". Masaji Kawamori put a lot of effort into this. In order to highlight the "reality" of real animations. Masaji Kawamori referenced the aircraft's body and then borrowed from the robot model of "Mobile Suit Gundam". After some mixing, the current world-renowned world-renowned super-time and space fortress standard three-stage machine design was created.
Innovation is the "Space-to-Space"It is precisely because of this series of innovations that it caused a stir in that era.
First of all, there is a three-stage transformation, namely, fighter form, half-fighter half-robot form, and robot form. Although this three-stage transformation was not invented by Masaji Kawamori, he carried forward this model. This has led to the fact that many robot animations will undergo three-part transformations, and this type of robot with multiple modes is also popular among the audience.
The so-called robot animation, the author believes that to some extent, "The Fortress of the Time and Space" should be used as the dividing line. And love is this dividing line, clear and clear.
The plot of the Super Time Space Fortress is about: After the Earth transformed the spacecraft that an alien fell into a fortress, the turret on the fortress was fired due to the time and space jump of aliens. This broke out between humans and aliens. At the same time, as the human male protagonist, he also had a story about a white album with the two heroines.
Before "The Fortress of Time", robot animation had almost no emotional entanglements between the male and female protagonists. At most, they can dance platinum disco together. And this work not only describes emotional entanglements, but also describes the story of Bai Xue in love triangle.
This leap span keeps the work warming up. Audiences may not like political struggles, but no one will dislike the party struggles over love triangles. As a result, "The Fortress of Time" naturally became a hot topic, and the popular character in it, Lin Mingmei, also became one of the goddesses of that year.
If the work wants to develop in the long term, it must have its own means of survival. "The Fortress of Time" extends its lifespan in a very clever way.
The author discovered from the series of works that "The Fortress of Time" has its own representative of the year, which means that this series is a story of a worldview.
Compared with "Mobile Suit Gundam", except for the UC era, it seems that every new work is a new world. "The Fortress of the Time" integrates the series of works into a worldview, which is quite interesting.
For old fans, the previous series of works can see the tribute and more chaotic character relationships in the new works. For new fans, the previous story is somewhat related to the story of the new work. When tutoring old works, we have less trouble of re-understanding the worldview and lowered the threshold.
In addition to the continuation of time, there is also economic continuation. If the first "Ship Time Fortress" was just a popular work, then the theatrical version of "Do you remember love" suddenly pushed "Ship Time Fortress" to the altar. March from masterpieces to masterpieces.
The most commercial value of "Do you ever remember love" is that it created a combination of virtual singers + real singers. This three-dimensional marketing has opened up a new path.
Thinking so, the robotic universe war full of love and music. This is too Romantic!
Finally, hope "Space-Time Fortress"》 series can keep the original intention in mind and create a new classic.
