作者：六壁坂

“妥協(xié)就是死”。

這是動(dòng)畫·CG制作公司“神風(fēng)動(dòng)畫”的社訓(xùn)。


自從2012年的JOJO TV動(dòng)畫OP一炮打響之后，這個(gè)游離于傳統(tǒng)動(dòng)畫公司之外、對動(dòng)畫業(yè)界全新可能性進(jìn)行追究的年輕公司也走進(jìn)了國內(nèi)觀眾的視野。

神風(fēng)以其獨(dú)特的3D→虛擬2D渲染技術(shù)，創(chuàng)造出充滿漫畫般速度感的鏡頭效果，很難想象這些大部分是3D的CG。這也是因?yàn)樗麄儾粩嗵魬?zhàn)技術(shù)的邊界，化不可能為可能，才給我們帶來了許許多多的視覺奇觀。

神風(fēng)動(dòng)畫創(chuàng)立于1998年，在JOJO的OP之前，他們主要活躍于游戲CG（主要是OP）的制作?！蹲罱K幻想 獅子戰(zhàn)爭》的OP就出自神風(fēng)之手。對于近期的玩家來說還有《火焰紋章 覺醒》OP、《幻想生活》OP、《數(shù)碼寶貝 賽博偵探》OP。對手游玩家來說，《白貓PROJECT》的OP也是神風(fēng)制作的哦。

神風(fēng)的觸手早已伸到了原創(chuàng)實(shí)驗(yàn)動(dòng)畫、游戲CG、實(shí)寫電影特效、廣告、音樂MTV等等，TV動(dòng)畫只是它的一個(gè)新陣地，然而積累了如此多不可復(fù)制的經(jīng)驗(yàn)，它的表現(xiàn)可以說是不鳴則已，一鳴驚人。自為david production外包了JOJO TV版OP之后，他們又為龍之子制作了《科學(xué)小飛俠Crowds》的OP，下一個(gè)作品會(huì)是什么？想必是JOJO第四部的OP吧！

第1期OP1（第一部）的導(dǎo)演水崎淳平在訪談中曾提及：對方還沒把JOJO這個(gè)詞說完，他就一口答應(yīng)了一定會(huì)做。OP1考慮到作品有長達(dá)25年的歷史，基本理念是再現(xiàn)出世界觀、展現(xiàn)作品基本魅力、又能被廣泛的年齡層所接受，采用了強(qiáng)調(diào)演出技術(shù)的“王道動(dòng)畫”。演出主題著重于“JOJO的血緣”“DNA”等，圍繞著螺旋階梯運(yùn)鏡，最終才有了觀眾所看到的沖擊影像。




OP2（第二部）強(qiáng)調(diào)與第一部的陰暗風(fēng)格截然不同的輕松氣氛，以及世代交替的傳承感。所有負(fù)責(zé)人都換成了公司的年輕一代！不光更換了導(dǎo)演和圖像設(shè)計(jì)，還重新審視了OP1的繁重作業(yè)量，為了將輕松的氛圍融入到作品中，還給員工定下了“禁止通宵工作、禁止休息日加班”的規(guī)定，最終這種輕松的心境果然融入作品，讓觀眾的心境也跟著喬瑟夫與西撒翩翩起舞了呢。



短短的兩段OP當(dāng)中融入了許許多多的實(shí)驗(yàn)性質(zhì)嘗試，本文篇幅有限實(shí)在無法詳述，比如說OP1中除了角色之外，連擬聲詞、漫畫速度線都是建模拍攝的；




第1部中非常著名的擬聲詞「ズキュゥゥゥン」也同樣利用建模進(jìn)行拍攝

OP2最后鏡頭出現(xiàn)的那顆晶瑩剔透的艾哲紅石，是建模、打高光，并在鏡頭外設(shè)置宇宙空間貼圖，全程渲染出的3DCG，更不要提Credit中很多字都通過中間幀的方式藏了種種彩蛋。

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第三部的兩個(gè)OP也是同樣的出色，在精彩之余，作品的彩蛋藏得滿滿當(dāng)當(dāng)，充滿了暗示、隱喻，信息量爆棚，以至于一播出就會(huì)有詳盡的彩蛋分析。

這就是決不妥協(xié)的神風(fēng)動(dòng)畫。

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動(dòng)畫第一部至第三部OP全音效版

不滅鉆石

去年（2015年）10月24日，為紀(jì)念JOJO TV動(dòng)畫第三部圓滿完結(jié)，舉行了現(xiàn)場特別活動(dòng)“THE LAST CRUSADERS”，6名主役聲優(yōu)來到現(xiàn)場與觀眾狂歡，告別這段漫長的旅程?；顒?dòng)最后，眾望所歸地，公開了JOJO第四部“不滅鉆石”動(dòng)畫化的好消息。因?yàn)檫@場活動(dòng)事先宣布不會(huì)推出BD，我們沒辦法聽到現(xiàn)場的歡呼聲，但是心情仿佛已經(jīng)飛到了現(xiàn)場。

去年12月，動(dòng)畫公布了主視覺圖和PV1，又一場似曾相識(shí)的口誅筆伐和激烈爭論來了。當(dāng)然，是因?yàn)橛謸Q了人設(shè)和聲優(yōu)。這回的人設(shè)由“馬越左膀右臂”的西位輝實(shí)擔(dān)當(dāng)。配合第四部輕松和緩的基調(diào)，人物設(shè)定的線條進(jìn)一步簡練而圓潤，色調(diào)參考了原作彩頁，更偏純色并挑選鮮艷跳躍的顏色。馬越嘉彥最推崇的原畫師是羽山淳一，猛地前后文呼應(yīng)了，這莫非是一種循環(huán)www

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全新的作品風(fēng)格擺明了要和一到三部“血之神話”的基調(diào)徹底割裂，走一條自己的嘻哈路線。對于老讀者來說這顯然是期待與擔(dān)心并存的。

戰(zhàn)戰(zhàn)兢兢地經(jīng)過三個(gè)月之后，我們在上周等來了在東京、大阪、仙臺(tái)三地同時(shí)于廣告大屏幕現(xiàn)場播出的PV2，打消了我們的許多顧慮。主視覺圖中承太郎奇怪的頭身問題似乎已經(jīng)不成問題，而瘋狂鉆石帶著鉆石光芒的登場方式更讓人眼前一亮！

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平心而論，除了配色比較跳之外，第四部的畫風(fēng)應(yīng)該是找到了一種概括原作畫面的折中方式。特別是對角色表情的描繪，也許會(huì)是目前最好的。而從PV2（應(yīng)該包括了1~3話的畫面）看來，作畫質(zhì)量如果能穩(wěn)定在PV水準(zhǔn)，也將是目前最好的。

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我們有充分的理由相信，第四部可以成為至今最棒的一部JOJO。也相信，第四部之后，還會(huì)有第五部、第六部……不再有什么不可能的事。

筆者的心情不禁回到了8年前第一次看JOJO第四部的時(shí)光。那時(shí)候雖然網(wǎng)絡(luò)漫畫閱讀早已盛行，但是還不存在漫畫APP這回事。學(xué)校的網(wǎng)速很是捉急，我在電腦室同時(shí)開著4、5個(gè)網(wǎng)頁輪流載入頁面，只為快那么幾秒鐘看到故事后面講了些什么。絕對不會(huì)想象到現(xiàn)在還有幾天就能看到TV動(dòng)畫了，這對于我已經(jīng)太奢侈了。

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筆者不再打算再堆砌那些詞匯，再說一遍“少年漫畫王道設(shè)定、劇情螺旋上升”之類的廢話，就兩個(gè)字：好！看！

所以，歡迎來到杜王町。

Stardust Crusaders (2014) is Jojo's Bizarre Adventure : the Animation (2012)'s sequel. But if you think about it seriously, there are a thousand things that are different between the two seasons, and which make undoubtedly SEASON 1 > SEASON 2. To some extent, you could speak of a DIFFERENT anime.
I took a quick look on the reviews of other websites a moment ago : senscritique (barely), anidb (clearly) & anime news network (surely) all agree with me on which season is better, only douban doesn't and that can be explained easily : the community of douban does not understand SHIT to anime. All hail anidb !

Since I consider Jojo's Bizarre Adventure the Animation (2012 = season 1) as the best shounen anime of all time, this review is mostly going to be a comparison between the two, a comparison between the Master and the student.

Characters : Stardust Crusaders' has the worst Jojo so far. His look is definitely GAR, but the "R" in here is getting too much closer to an "Y". The chain on his neck, the hat on his head and that stupid cape make his design far less enjoyable than the two first ones.
Personality wise, he is an empty shell, and this hurts even more since they had 24 episodes to develop him, whereas they had far less for the two previous Jojo's who had to share out the 24 episodes.
When the two first Jojo's had a few first episodes to lay down some background (usually without much fights or as an appetizer) and stories in order to introduce the protagonists, their values & skills (honesty & raw force for the first, naughtiness & smartness for the second), this one only gets the bare minumum. The end result is that there will be no empathy for the character during the whole show. This 3rd Jojo's has almost no dialogue lines : he looks cold, avoids to talk, does the job (i.e. the killing) when necessary and contains all his emotions. The "Yare yare" (Good grief) that he keeps on repeating in every circumstance is DEFINITELY not cool...
This goes to the extent that we might at some point doubt who is the main character... since this one does not get so much attention when the stories unfolds, & the creator focuses more on the other characters. This is also a big difference with the first season, in which one Jojo's is the boss & the others are only there in a support (Zeppeli the teacher) / secondary (Zeppeli the descendant) / commentary (Speedwagon) role and usually end up dying or beat up.
In Stardust Crusaders, there are actually TWO Jojo's simultaneously. One plays the role of the Dark Powerful Silent Protagonist and the second of the Experienced Funny Talkative "secondary" character. + 3 other characters that actually get a lot of attention and a bit of development (especially Polnareff) : Avdol (the Wise & Temperate guy) whose Stand skills are Power & Fire, Kakyoin (Common Sense & Stabilising member of the group) whose Stand skills are Flexibility & Variety, Polnareff (the Silly & Funny guy with whom the viewer will often adopt the subjective point of view : i.e. Avdol's death) and whose Stand skills are Precision & Velocity. Of course the characters are created so that there is an Equilibrium & Complementarity in the group, and so that no one is powerful enough for overtaking the Protagonist's role. Classicaly, who will face the new bad guy depends on the powers that they each have, and on how powerful is the enemy. Sometimes they will face altogether some enemies which is pretty cool in terms of interaction and symbiosis.

Development (structure & fights) : Far less epic than Stardust Crusaders for many reasons. One of them is that there are too many enemies (representing for some weird reasons a card in the Tarot game, which is not adding anything to the show - except perhaps selling the fucking cards later ?). On average, each new enemy has a two-episodes span life, including half an episode of silly jokes and progress in the map, a cool or stealth entrance, the fight lasting 1 episode with a couple of predictable twists and then a conclusion with everyone being happy and teaching the bad guy a good lesson. It's almost a pokemon-like structure... The worst is that Dio never appears in any fight... He is far away "waiting" for the characters in the darkness, raping bitches and looking strong & cool with the Jojo's family star on his back. This again reminds a lot of the old european cartoons of the 90's, in which the main antagonist keeps sending small fries without moving his ass, while he's posing and showing his best evil laughter. The show is structured in a way that we know at each episode that the bad guy is going to get his ass kicked and that a new one is coming next and so on... If the characters were not road tripping from Japan to Egypt and if we didn't know that opponents are limited in number (Dio will necessarily run out of those FUCKING Tarot cards), the anime would have been simply BORING. Hopefully the road trip enables to see different settings and is helping for building the jokes (toilets in India, 討價(jià)還價(jià) in Arab countries, rigorous rules in Singapore etc...). It goes without saying that the MYSTERY of season 1 (related to the Mask, to the ancient cultures evil forces etc.) is completely absent. In the first season, the stakes were generally much higher : badass & super dangerous enemies (including Dio and the mask's embodiments) with some depth & backstory would show up and give a real hard time for the protagonists (causing heavy injuries, deaths and big emotional fuss). In Stardust Crusaders, everything is too easy and taken lightly. Except once, all superficial injuries disappear at the end of the fight and, opponents come one by one and end up begging for their lives without any dignity.
And that leads us to one of the main points of this review : if you think about it in another way, one could argue that Jojo's is less of a shounen with serious fights than a funny comedy with loads of gag (adding the traveling adventure aspect, and it starts having a couple of common points with One Piece). This is not necessarily a critique, since the show is REALLY super funny, but mechanically less Epic and thrilling.

Other aspects : Aesthetically speaking, IMHO the first season's added effects were clearly better and engaging. They would for important moments, freeze the picture for a "cool phase" and add layers of colors and geometric forms all around in order to emphasize a situation and making it classy, usually during fights. This technique has sadly almost been abandoned in this anime... I thought it was brilliant in the first season. In the same spirit, moments when the colors of a given setting would start to beautifully distort and change are also less common in the sequel. The sceneries depicted were also more elaborate and beautiful in the latter.
Otherwise the animation of this sequel is really well-made, even though the artistic value is a bit inferior to the predecessor.
The music (including OP and especially the masterpiece song for the ending) is not as good as season 1 but still fits what's happening in the screen overall. The references to the rock n' roll & heavy metal world are also very rare compared to the first season, since the creators focused their references into general knowledge (geography, cultural aspects and bit of history) while describing the place where the characters stopped during their road trip.

Wish they do a sequel with more epicness, and with DIO !!!!!!! for God's sake.