Is this cartoonist mentally ill?.

Chapter 400 Plot Review Another New Episode (Original)
The premiere of "Magto Ghoul" was of course very good because Station C invested a lot of publicity resources in advance, plus it had the added fame of Lin Qingshan and Trigger Animation.

And because of this...the most important thing about "Magical Ghoul" is not its popularity when it was first broadcast, but the impression and reputation it gave to the audience during the first episode, as well as its subsequent popularity.

Station C is also keeping a close eye on the audience's evaluation of the first episode of "Magto Ghoul".

The audience’s evaluation of the first episode of “Magical Ghoul” was... pretty good.

"The ketchup and food settings that Aoyama loves the most! I can only say that he is worthy of being called Aoyama. This style is exactly like Edgewalker and Chainsaw Man."

"I just think... the theme song is really good! I saw that this is another song written, composed and arranged by Qingshan Laozei! He is indeed a great musician who was delayed by comics!"

"That song 'Unravel' is really nice, and it has the feel of the theme song of 'Chainsaw Man'. To be honest, is this song originally from 'Chainsaw Man'?"

"The painting is quite beautiful, the quality of Qingshan Laozei's works is the same as always. You can always trust Qingshan Laozei!"

"Even if you don't look at the production team, I can give this first episode of "Magic City Ghoul" a 9 out of 10!"

"The plot progresses quite fast, but I can't fix it. At first I thought Kamishiro Rize really liked the male protagonist..."

"Yeah, I like her so much that I want to eat the hero! Denji also likes Makima, and in the end he ate her bit by bit."

"You call this liking?"

"Let me ask you, according to the way Qingshan the old thief thinks, is this love?"

"You said that you are following the way Qingshan the old thief thinks. Isn't Qingshan the old thief a psychopath?"

"Awesome! I'm starting to understand everything!"

"The male protagonist looks a bit miserable. He was harmed by the doctor and turned from a human into a man-eating monster called a ghoul."

"How can you blame the doctor? He's trying to save him. There's really no other way but to do this."

"But I can't accept living like this. I've gone from being a normal person to being a monster..."

"Wow, in Parasyte, the hero's hand mutated, and the hero himself had nothing to do with the parasite. I didn't expect that in this new show, the hero directly turned into a monster."

"Basic version of gourmet setting: "Flame Fist", in order to survive, the male protagonist has to save others in this way; Advanced version: "Chainsaw Man", in order to gain strength or recover quickly, he has to swallow blood; Upgraded version: "Parasyte", a gourmet monster appears, and the protagonist's hand is swallowed and turned into a monster; Ultimate version: "Magic Ghoul", the protagonist directly turns into a monster."

"Wow, this is the evolution of gourmet settings, right?"

"In the previous one, you forgot about "Dao Wei Yi Xian", which is also a food-themed book."

"This time, Qingshan Laozei really wants to explore this topic in a monster way. I think this is quite interesting. I wonder what will happen to the protagonist in the later stages."

"It's both a human and a monster... It's so detailed. This really won't be the second Parasyte. I'm looking forward to the sequel."

……

The overall reviews of the first episode of "Magical Ghoul" tend to be positive, after all, a person's reputation is like a tree's shadow.

Lin Qingshan's works have always had an excellent reputation, so passers-by also have a particularly good impression of them.

In fact, audiences tend to be friendly and trusting of creators. Unless you have come up with something really amazing and smart, even if you have one or two not-so-good works, people will still trust you a little bit because of your super popular work.

They may even ignore previous bad works.

This is true for Lin Qingshan's previous life's "Dragon Ball" and "Dragon Ball Super", as well as his previous life's "Magic City Fortress" by Mr. Itchy Mouse.

On the other hand, the famous Okada and Kyon actually had similar experiences.

It goes without saying that comic book fans like Lin Qingshan, a talented cartoonist who has never failed, choose to believe! Believe! Believe again!
They will continue to believe firmly until Lin Qingshan fails.

However... "Madu Ghoul" is not completely without negative reviews.

“I watched it and felt that except for the theme song, the setting and plot were too boring.”

"The setting of this monster is really too ordinary. Even if it has the kagune setting, isn't the kagune just a part of the body that can be transformed like in Parasyte?"

“It’s just a copy of Parasyte, the same man-eating monster, the same cowardly ordinary protagonist, but one is a high school student and the other is a college student. (laughs)”

"I am really disappointed with Aoyama Laozei. I thought that the setting of "Matou Ghoul" was very novel, but it turned out to be the same as "Parasyte".

"The plot was the same. Except for the part in the middle where Kamishiro Rize suddenly wanted to kill the hero, I was sleepy watching it."

"This is the new show you've been promoting for half a year? I can only say that you're done for. You've only been promoting this kind of show for half a year. 6."

"The next plot is that the protagonist's best friend is killed, and the protagonist turns evil, right? Hahaha, this is a plot direction that you can easily come up with."

"The old thief Qingshan is really becoming more and more clichéd. He just takes the settings of his previous works and renovates them and passes them off as new works?"

"Disappointing. Really, apart from painting and music, it's just a bunch of gold defense."

"Golden defense is a high evaluation, but in my opinion, it can't even be called gold. It's not a defense, it can only be said to be a sparkling water that has been drunk and opened. The setting is the old setting, just like the bubbles in the sparkling water that have escaped, which is similar to ordinary ice water."

……

There are a number of such comments, but overall, they are still relatively rare.

This group of people probably only look at the setting and think it is very similar to "Parasyte", so they think it is just old wine in a new bottle, with the medicine not changing in name only.

However, most viewers are not so superficial. They just think that the settings are similar and conclude that the following plot of "Magto Ghoul" will be boring.

Especially considering Lin Qingshan's reputation and fame, passers-by will not give up the show so easily.

To truly judge the quality of a work, we must look at the overall direction of the subsequent plot, and... whether there are plots that are worthy of being called gods!

It all depends on how the next few episodes are aired.

Before that, there was another new anime that had been promoted by Station C for a long time. It aired its first episode the day after the first episode of "Magto Ghoul" was aired.

The update time of "Kill! Akame ga Miteru" is also at 12 o'clock in the morning, but Fan Siwei watched it after returning to the dormitory to rest at noon the next day after finishing class.

Faced with this new anime which has also been promoted by Station C for a long time, he and his two roommates are also full of expectations.

They were quite impressed by "Mato Ghoul", so they were also very curious about another new show "Akame ga Kill" that was heavily promoted by Station C.

"Let's watch it together."

Yao Zihan took the food he had packed from the cafeteria and clicked on the play button to play "Kill! Scarlet Eyes".

Fan Siwei and Fu Liyu also held their meals and watched the anime together.

The story background of "Kill! Akame ga Kill" is not a common background like a modern city or a modern city, but is set in the feudal era of a fantasy world.

At the beginning, after the hot-blooded young man Tatsumi, who is obviously the protagonist, appears and kills a huge monster with his powerful and exquisite swordsmanship, the setting of the animation is directly explained - "A country will gradually decay like a person, and one day it will be destroyed. Ghosts and monsters in human skin will be arrogant and rampant everywhere. If the sky cannot punish evil, all of us professional killers will disappear in the darkness!"

Then, there was a group photo of the "protagonists" and the theme song.

The theme song of "Akame ga Kill"... can only be considered nice to listen to, not a masterpiece, but it is still quite nice to watch together with the opening credits.

After the opening theme ends, the main plot of "Akame ga Kill!" slowly unfolds from the perspective of the protagonist Tatsumi.

Tatsumi, a boy from a poor village that was oppressed by the empire, travels to the imperial capital with his childhood friends Sau and Iyeas in the hope of saving his village.

But on the way, Tatsumi got separated from his good friends Sau and Iyeas.

And the worst thing was that when he left the village for the first time, he was deceived by a woman who called herself Leone and stole all his money.

By the time he realized he had been cheated, it was too late.

Tatsumi could only wander the streets at night, but at this moment...

A luxurious carriage passed by the street where Tatsumi was living, and the blonde rich lady in the carriage noticed the young and handsome Tatsumi.

She slowly got off the carriage, walked up to Tatsumi, showed a friendly and beautiful smile, and said, "If you don't have a place to stay, why don't you come to my house?"

"Ah, this? Isn't this plot too cliché?"

Yao Zihan saw this and took a big bite of rice and said, "Then the protagonist meets a beautiful rich lady, happens to be involved in an incident at the rich lady's home, and then takes action to resolve it? This plot is boring."

This traditional routine of the beauty saving the hero and the hero then saving the beauty is too old-fashioned. It's obviously a traditional routine and it's hard to arouse people's interest.

"I don't think it's that simple."

Fan Siwei shook his head and said, "Why did this rich lady invite the protagonist so suddenly? Could she have other intentions?"

"Okay, let's keep watching."

Yao Zihan immediately started watching with Fan Siwei and the others.

However...the following plot is so traditional and clichéd that it cannot be more traditional.

Under the kindness and goodwill shown by the rich lady Alia, Tatsumi finally moved into Alia's extremely luxurious home.

At the same time, Alia's family was extremely friendly, and her father and mother seemed to be very kind and gentle people.

They treated Tatsumi kindly, and Tatsumi asked them to find partners, to which they kindly agreed.

In this way, Tatsumi stayed at Alia's house for a whole night and was quite safe without any accidents.

The next day, Alia took Tatsumi and asked him to go shopping with her, as if she had fallen in love with him at first sight.

While shopping, although Tatsumi seemed a little overwhelmed, he still liked Alia, such a gentle and kind lady.

At the same time, he also learned some things from the conversation with the servants of Alia's family who were accompanying him.

That is... the public outrage in the empire today is all caused by the minister Ernest who monopolizes all the power. It is precisely because of his insatiable greed and his indulgence in corruption in the empire that the empire has become so corrupt today.

In addition, Tatsumi also learned about a terrifying existence called the "Night Raid Killer Group."

"As the name suggests, they attack their targets in the dark of night."

The guard said seriously, "Moreover, most of the targets are dignitaries and high-ranking officials in the empire. You must be mentally prepared."

But just after the peaceful and warm plot of accompanying the young lady shopping ended...

That night, Alia's family was actually...attacked!
Or it was an attack by the Night Raid Killer Group!
The lady who was very friendly to Tatsumi was suddenly brutally killed in the darkness by a purple-haired and eyed girl holding a pair of scissors!

"It's murderous!"

Tatsumi, who was originally resting in the room, was very familiar with this murderous aura and ran out with his weapon in hand.

But he saw...

In the dark night illuminated by the moon, terrifying figures stood in the air, and under their feet were actually... steel wires?

"Night attack..."

Tatsumi recognized who they were at once, and he was also confused, "They said they were attacking dignitaries, could this be their target as well?"

"That's right. After all, he's just a killer who gets paid to do his job..."

He simply regarded the "Night Raid Killer Group" as killers who would do anything for money.

Yao Zihan, Fan Siwei and Fu Liyu were a little confused.

"No...isn't this Night Raid Killer Group the protagonist group?"

Yao Zihan said in surprise, "I thought they were good people."

After all, these figures appeared in the opening and OP, and the name "Night Raid Killer Group" was mentioned, which basically shows that the killer group is the protagonist group.

The protagonist will join them next.

But the result was... the protagonist started fighting with his companion behind him from the very beginning?
"He should be a good person..."

Fan Siwei guessed it a little bit and said, "Let's keep watching."

"What should I do? Should I help?"

Just as Tatsumi was hesitating, the Night Raid Killer Group launched a massacre.

Under his gaze, all the guards who were extremely friendly to him during the day and had extraordinary strength were massacred!

Especially the girl with waist-length straight black hair, wearing a formal dress, holding a Tang sword, she moved forward as if no one was around, and all the guards who were injured by the sword were killed at one blow!
Not only the girl with long black hair, other killers also showed great strength. The girl with twin ponytails holding a huge cannon directly bombarded the fleeing guards to death.

There is also a tall man wearing armor similar to that of Kamen Rider, and the big-breasted girl with yellow hair and animal ears who once cheated Tatsumi of all his money.

In this situation, not only the guards, but even Alia's father was killed while he begged Leone to spare his daughter before his death.

Tatsumi immediately chose... to protect the only remaining Alia!

After all, Alia has done him a favor and is so kind, so he must protect her.

But he couldn't outrun the powerful "Night Raid Killer Group" after all. When he shouted for Alia to leave here, the "Night Raid Killer Group" had already appeared behind them...

(End of this chapter)