Chapter 54 About Clothing

Starting from the fifth episode, "Magical Girl Illya" entered a relatively important plot point in the first half of the season, which is the round-robin battle with the two class card heroes, Caster and Saber, at the Fuyuki City Bridge.

And Nanaya used a full three episodes to tell this part of the story, which is a very rare length even in special effects dramas.

Generally speaking, when special effects dramas describe more powerful bosses or enemies, they usually only use two episodes to tell the story, which are called the upper and lower parts.

The reason for doing this is that it is difficult for children to concentrate on one thing for a long time, and if it takes too long, their attention will easily be distracted.

If you divide the story into two parts, then after the first part ends, they will be excited and thrilled about the enemy that appears in this part, and look forward to how the hero will defeat this powerful enemy in the next part.

But if the plot is divided into three episodes, from an external time perspective, it takes three weeks to tell a story. After half a month, it is a question whether the children can still remember the content of the first episode when you are telling the third episode.

It is not uncommon to split a plot into three episodes, but it is very rare.

For this reason, Nanaya was particularly attentive when producing these three episodes, not only leaving suspense at the end of each episode, but also achieving a good balance between tension and relaxation in the battles, keeping the rhythm to the best.

In this regard, Nanaya personally feels that the TV version of "Magical" in the previous life was not very good. The overall rhythm of the three episodes was obviously slow, and the rhythm was very obvious. It can only be said that compared with his teacher, Shin, there is still a big gap in strength.

However, this matter cannot be entirely blamed on Shin Oonuma. After all, the original first season of "Magical" comics only had 14 episodes, and it would take a season to turn it into an animation. Without adding original plots, Shin Oonuma has done his best to drag it into 10 episodes.

Moreover, Nanaya feels that if "Magical" is given to Shin, Oonuma Shin's teacher, it can easily complete 13 episodes. However, compared with the comics, the plot of the animation is probably at least three feet off, after all, Shin's nickname "Original Work Crusher" is not for nothing.

Although Oonuma Shin's work is not perfect, it is also a good reference. Nanaya can make modifications based on it and make up for its shortcomings.

On this point, Nanaya has done a very good job.

So the audience of "Magical Girl Illya" first saw the protagonist team being defeated by Caster's magic bullet light curtain at the beginning of the fifth episode.

After realizing that she must learn to fly in order to defeat the sorcerer, Illya easily learned this skill. On the contrary, Miyu, who had always performed very well, could not learn to fly.

It's not quite accurate to say that she can't learn it. It should be said that in Miyu's subconscious mind, there is no concept that humans can fly.

Seeing Miyu seriously saying that humans absolutely cannot fly, the audience was amused by her serious expression.

The next plot is a relatively old-fashioned training upgrade, and then re-challenging the Boss routine. Nanaya used a trick here. He did not focus on training every move, but regarded the special training flying as a new ability rather than a skill.

Nanaya knows very well that when children watch special effects films, or rather, all audiences, when they enjoy the story, they all look forward to the story developing in an unknown direction. Whether it is the plot, the skills of the protagonist, or the conspiracy of the enemy, this exploration of the unknown and the expectation of the future direction of the plot are the driving force for people to continue watching a story.

If the highlights of a battle are broken down to every move and even previewed through special training before the battle, this approach may be very exciting, but it makes people less excited about the unknown.

This approach is not very desirable, especially for children who want to see all kinds of brilliant skills in special effects films.

Therefore, Nanaya adopted a more lighthearted tone in the design of the special training plot. For example, Luvia learned from the lion and the eagle to push Miyu off the plane to train her to fly. And Illya took Miyu to watch a video tape of a magical girl in order to let her know that humans can fly.

These humorous and interesting scenes allowed the audience to go through the training session in a relatively relaxed atmosphere.

The subsequent plot is not much different from the general special effects plot. After sufficient training, Illya and others once again fight against the powerful opponent Caster.

In order to maintain suspense, the scene at the end of Nanaya's fifth episode was not that Illya and others were attacked by Saber after defeating Caster, but it stayed at the end of the first round of the second battle between Illya and Caster.

As for the candidate for Caster's Heroic Spirit this time, after considering for a long time, Nanaya finally chose Nitocris, the female pharaoh of ancient Egypt.

When making this choice, Nanaya really wanted to complain about Type-Moon's design of Heroic Spirits. Magic bullet attack should be a standard skill for magicians, but not many Casters can do this. Except for Medea, a veteran Caster, other Casters are simply unworthy of their title of "magician". Although there is a certain difference between magic and magic in Type-Moon's settings, why are the "magic attacks" you use so weird? Some use music sound waves, some use bombs, and some let their villagers throw treasures.

Can't you design more normal Heroic Spirits that match their classes? !

"I always feel that the design of the Heroic Spirits gets weirder and weirder as time goes on."

In response to Nanaya's complaints, Ori did not hesitate to retort: ​​"What nonsense are you talking about? Aren't these all designed by you?"

"That's right..." Nanaya snorted depressedly, then turned his head to watch TV.

At the same time in a rental house in Tokyo, Shiori Kaede was watching the sixth episode of "Magical Girl Illya".

After "Kara no Kyoukai", Shiori Kaede began to be interested in the director Nanaya Kiryu. Although he was quite disappointed that the director did not continue to cooperate with Ms. Ryogi on the second movie of "Kara no Kyoukai" that he had been looking forward to.

However, this "Magical Girl Illya" is still full of fun. Heroic spirits from all ages come to the modern era. Just thinking about this scene can make people excited.

Unfortunately, the director who was favored by Shiori Kaede seems not to be very good at special effects dramas, and seems to be a little restrained. Compared with the magical and novel plot of "Kara no Kyoukai", the plot of "Magical Girl Illya" feels a little too neat.

It's not that the special drama "Magical Girl Illya" is not outstanding. The settings of the heroic spirits in it are still very interesting. Although the setting of the magic has certain similarities with "Kara no Kyoukai", it is not a big deal.

What Shiori Kaede really regrets is the formulaic nature of the plot development, which is almost the same as the traditional three major special effects dramas, following the discussion of "an incident occurs—an enemy appears—the protagonist solves the enemy."

"Is it because it's for children? I feel like the plot has a bit of the Showa period vibe to it. It would be nice if there were battles between the Heroic Spirits. It's not very satisfying to have a fixed plot like fighting a boss. But the Caster in the last episode, well... he was awesome."

Thinking back to the new characters that appeared last week, Shiori Kaede swallowed her saliva uncontrollably.

The exotic charm of the female pharaoh brought Shiori Kaede an incomparable sense of freshness.

Although Nanaya used metal accessories and gauze to cover all the parts of Nito's body that should be covered, his superb application of camera language made Shiori Kaede feel that the female pharaoh named Nitocris was more attractive than wearing nothing.

"It's just testing the edge of approval. I heard that PTA seems to be preparing to cause trouble for the crew? I hope the production team can handle it."

Shiori Kaede silently prayed for the crew of "Magical Girl Illya", hoping that they could withstand the PTA's harmony offensive.

In fact, Shiori Kaede was just overthinking it. It's not that PTA didn't cause trouble for the "MagicaI" crew.

Instead, facing the PTA's questioning, Nanaya responded directly and domineeringly, "Anyway, I have covered the parts that should be covered with cloth, and I am not violating any laws. Why don't you take a look at the "Super Sentai" next door! The clothes they wear are more revealing than mine, okay?!"

The guy sent by PTA felt a little embarrassed by what Nanaya said. He hesitated for a long time before he uttered a word.

"At least the female villain in the Super Sentai next door didn't make my tailbone shiver."