Rebirth of the Father of Anime

"This is Tianman..."

Looking at the Heian City equipped with "Tianman", Nanzawa Shiba sighed with longing. Such a dreamlike atmosphere was something he could never feel in Tokyo.

Although Xu Yuanjie on the side is from China and has been to Ping'an City before, he has been studying abroad in the island country. The last time he came to Ping'an City was four or five years ago. He was also deeply shocked by this unprecedented change that took place in Ping'an City.

"This is Fantasyland!" Xu Yuanjie said, with an indescribable light shining in his eyes, filled with pride and joy.

It’s great to be born in such a country!

It’s great to be exposed to anime!

It’s great to be able to create animation with your own hands!

Here, he deeply felt a feeling like a pilgrimage. He Chen's writings drew a fantasy town for everyone. With an attitude of embracing all rivers, he tolerated countless races and the souls of countless fans, making him Everyone can swim in the vast mysterious sea and explore this boundless world.

At this moment, Heian City gave him the same feeling as Gensokyo. This ancient city, just like Gensokyo, accommodates people from different regions around the world who have longing, fantasy and love for this place!

For countless like-minded people who are full of love for the second dimension, this is not Ping An City, this is Gensokyo - a place of all-inclusive fantasy and the birthplace of many fantasies!

"Where's the president?"

After the emotion was over, another companion behind them did not see Noto Takumi, so he asked Minazawa Shiba.

"The president should be with Mr. He Chen, Miss Noto is here." Nanzawa Shiba thought for a while and replied. Sonoko, the representative of Noto Takumi, was also invited, and they were the confidants of Noto Takumi. Was also brought here.

"There's nothing going on these days. The president allows us to move around freely. Do you have any plans?" Xu Yuanjie asked them.

A colleague continued: "I am going to visit Ping'an City. This is an ancient capital with thousands of years of history, full of Chinese heritage. It is also the place where the master grew up. I want to see what kind of city can give birth to a person like the master. Yingjie."

Another fat man replied: "I'm going to visit Baiyu Tower..."

"Foodie." Several people immediately complained at the same time.

"I want to go to the screening hall of the works nominated for the Golden Comic Awards." Nanzawa Shiba said.

"Then let's go together, I'll go there too." Xu Yuanjie said.

After the experience of several animation festivals in the past, everyone has become accustomed to specifying the schedule in advance and everyone has their own plans, so several people went their separate ways and contacted each other by phone if anything happened.

Because the Golden Comic Awards ceremony was scheduled to be held in the auditorium of the Scarlet Devil Mansion. Therefore, the screening room is not far away. It is a cinema specially built by Tianman for this event.

Those works will be screened during the event, and the business will be open at other times.

If you walk, you can walk there in ten or twenty minutes.

Coming out of the Lake of Fog, passing through the park, and then bypassing two intersections, you came to a commercial street. This is the largest commercial industry in Tianman, and the entire street is Tianman. It has been open since April. However, even though it has only been a few months, it is already in Ping'an City, or all over China. It is very famous even in the world - its name is "Human Realm".

Like most commercial streets, there are various grades of goods gathered here. However, what interests fans the most is that most of the goods here are animation peripherals - whether they are clothes, decorations, food or electronic products. Wait, there are only things you can’t think of, and there are no peripherals that can’t be made.

Even car peripherals are included in He Chen's plan, but they are still under consideration for the time being.

And the movie theater in Tianman. Located right next to this commercial street - watch a movie and take a rest after shopping. There are also a series of places such as hotels and restaurants nearby. I don’t like an environment that is too closed. A few steps away is the park, with the sky as quilt and the ground as bed. He Chen thinks that no one can be more considerate than him.

Like an ordinary movie theater, there is a movie schedule in the lobby, but the difference is that the movies displayed here are not ordinary movies. They are all works from all over the world that have been selected for the Golden Comic Awards. Most of them are even It was not released in China.

The posters are extremely beautifully made, because most people have never even heard of these works, so the introduction of the film is extremely detailed, and even the author or production company is introduced.

On the other side, a special space was set aside for comics - the Golden Comic Awards included both animation and comics. All the selected comics are also put here for trial reading. If you are interested, you can also buy them. The comics here only charge a cost fee to promote various comics in the world and let everyone know that there are many more in the world. of people love comics as much as everyone else.

Whether it is comics or animations, Tianman has carried out bilingual translations. One is Chinese, the mainstream language in the comics industry, and the other is English, which is widely circulated in the world, so that most readers can understand the comics.

In front of the comic reading booth, many readers were looking at the comics attentively. These comics with different styles bring some fresh air to people who are used to enjoying He Chen's works.

Xu Yuanjie and Nanze Shiba walked over and looked at the comic reading booth. Among them, Chinese comics accounted for a large part. After all, this is the birthplace of animation, both in terms of the time of contact and the development of the overall industry. , China is ahead of the rest of the world. Coupled with China's terrifying population, even if only a small part is engaged in the animation industry, the number of people who stand out among this part is not comparable to other countries.

Xu Yuanjie and Nanze Shiba skipped He Chen's works. After all, they were very familiar with every one of He Chen's works. They focused on other people's works - because this was what defeated them to enter. Works on the nomination list.

Sonoko was quite miserable this time. Whether it was animation or comics, all her works were wiped out and she failed to be nominated for any award. Although the Sonikos were completely wiped out, the island nation was not completely wiped out, and several works were selected for nominations.

Both of them are professionals. Xu Yuanjie and Nanze Shiba looked at the works from other countries. In each work, there was something that made them shine. In comparison, they suddenly felt that they were being brushed off. It's not so unacceptable anymore.

"This is the first one... and it also serves as a wake-up call for us. Just because we know the porter master, and because we have a good relationship with Tianman, we can't be arrogant and complacent, thinking that after Tianman, we are second." Nanze Shiba held a comic and suddenly said to Xu Yuanjie, "Animation doesn't matter! The content is the only way to evaluate it! In the world, we are not the only ones who like animation, but there are also these people who also have completely different personalities. Our love."

Nanze Shiba closed the book: "Being dismissed is indeed due to our lack of ability. And this also allows us to see our shortcomings clearly and no longer be blindly arrogant. Next year, we will definitely be placed here!"

"I think so too!" Xu Yuanjie continued. Seeing so many excellent works also ignited Zheng Yuanjie's competitive spirit, and unprecedented creation burst out in his heart*.

"Let's go and watch the animation, Moebius's 'Looking Up at the Stars'. This is a person who is also highly praised by the porter master. I think it must be very powerful."

While chatting about some of their experiences while reading the comics, the two walked towards the animation screening room.

In this screening of nominated animations, He Chen's work had the smallest number of viewers, because almost everyone has seen He Chen's work... Even if he didn't watch it because he didn't like it because of the style, he definitely knew it.

…

On a mountain on the outskirts of Ping'an City, He Chen built the Hakurei Shrine. It was a very simple and not magnificent Hakurei Shrine, but the mountain road leading to the Hakurei Shrine was overcrowded.

This is not a famous mountain or river, it is just a very ordinary mountain that is usually used as an ordinary mountain for exercise. However, from now on, it is no longer unknown because it has a Hakurei Shrine.

In the beginning, only fans came to visit. Hakurei Shrine basically restored Hakurei Shrine. In the shrine, a 1:1 scale statue was made for Reimu. It was so lifelike and lifelike that people could hardly tell what it was. A living person or a statue. Unlike other temples, the statues are either tall and magnificent, or they look very pious.

The statue of Reimu was sitting inside the shrine, drinking tea calmly.

However, this posture is exactly the unscrupulous Reimu in the hearts of fans. He is lazy, hates trouble, greedy for money, and occasionally a nymphomaniac (Ming Luo), but he will spare no effort to solve any abnormality every time.

Such a gestureless Reimu has received devout prayers from countless fans - perhaps most people pray, hoping that Reimu will be innocent enough to take him to Gensokyo.

However, I don’t know why, but when it spread from person to person, and reached the ears of some more traditional old people, Reimu became a very "spiritual" "god" who not only had to control monsters. To govern and protect Gensokyo, you also have to take care of your family's affairs, get promoted and make a fortune, everything goes smoothly, and even when you have a child, there are still people coming to pray to Reimu...

So Reimu's incense became stronger. If Reimu knew that there was a money box filled with money every day, would she really show up and come over?

Some devout believers who thought they got rich by relying on Reimu's spiritual manifestations did not understand the background, and even hoped to donate money to renovate Reimu's dilapidated shrine.

But He Chen stopped him without hesitation - it's a joke, if Reimu doesn't live in Hakurei Shrine, is it still Reimu?

Such an attitude makes it even more clear that Ling Meng is a high-spirited person who does not covet any worldly things and is dedicated to saving all sentient beings.

So the incense became more intense. (To be continued)