The magazine published the “Girls ☆ Opera Revue Starlight” series in the October issue, which constitutes an interview between Sakaguchi and producer Wu Cixi. The two talked about the formation process of the girl opera planning and the reproduction bank interested in everyone. The giraffe and other settings have been explained to help you better understand the girl opera. .
Stage girl first grows.
The planning of BanG Dream has just started, and it is not long after Wusui’s work in Bushido. Wushu Gaoming, the president of Bushido, proposed to use the theme of the stage, and the performance of the musical was more than the animation. Early works. At that time, the 2.5-dimensional stage drama adapted from comics and animation was very popular. However, Wuji did not hear the works of comics and animations after making musicals first. It was this Wushu that I thought that the planning of the girl opera was worth doing. . At the beginning of the
Program, there was only one requirement of “taking a girl as the mainstay”. In addition, stories and themes were not yet available. So Wuji found an acquaintance, Guli Shangzhang, to work as a planner to help plan the work. At the same time, he also cooperated with Nelke Planning, which specializes in stage-related matters, to discuss the plan, and Guri pulled his mouth through his own connections. Both Sakaguchi and Guri are very fond of Baodi opera. The two often chat together. After the invitation is made in Guri, the mouth of the mouth enters the planning group of the girl opera. .
Although the girl opera is the first in the animation of the musical, it does not mean that the animation should be based on the musical, but the planning team first creates the original “original case” of the animation and the musical, and then entrusts the original to the musical. And the animation of the two production teams, which means that the two are actually level. It is precisely because of the need for an original art form that encompasses two different media. The production of the original case took a long time to settle. .
There are three instructions that Sakaguchi initially received, namely “unfolding on two levels of musicals and animations”, “nine people who are both stage actors and seiyuu”, and “joining fighting elements”. The number of nine people is the proposal of Matsuda Satoshi of Nelke Planning. When dancing, the nine-person group can be divided into three or three groups, and one can also become one person to do center, and the remaining eight people stand behind the center and dance. .
The biggest problem in planning is still in battle. The whole plan must first solve the problem of “how to make the battle with nine girls.” As for why you have to join the fighting element, this is the idea of Wushu. Wuji didn’t know much about the stage before touching the girl opera, so he voluntarily consulted the staff of Nelke Planning to study the motives of the audience to go to the scene. .
For the musical, each audience has their own favorite part. After the personal experience, Wushu finds that the most attractive thing is the action drama. Wuji likes the actors to stretch their bodies on the stage. The resulting sense of jumping. And from the perspective of the producer, there is a stage actor in this seiyuu. Singing and dancing, plus action movies, is enough to attract the audience as a marketing point. .
However, even the structure of the battle was not designed at the time, so that the girls fight is not a single character. Since the initial stage is to be made into a model of “girls knocking down and purifying enemies by singing and acting”, Sakaguchi proposes to make a hero show for adult audiences (in parks, department stores, etc., actors wear special photos). Chinese hero’s costume show). .
Sakaguchi believes that the “girls stand on stage for some purpose” form, the hero show is the closest, in fact, this proposal is also to a certain extent, to the lesser musical and animation plot Played a guiding role. Since then, the plan has combined the three elements of the school, the battle, and the battle transformation system. However, such a combination is more like a design based on the theme of fighting girls. The significance of the stage and the charm of the girl standing on the stage are not revealed. .
Finally, the supervision of Furukawa Zhihong’s participation changed the situation. In the middle of 2016, Furukawa participated in the discussion of planning and production, and re-introduced the pattern of the mismatch between girls who did not intend to do it on the table, proposing to “sing a song with weapons, and some kind of enemy.” Fighting “the fighting girl, changed to “girls fighting on the stage”, this is the prototype of the current girl opera.
The reason why the melee mode is to be sealed is that the melee mode often requires the destruction of the characters in the play and the structure of the background stage for the development of the story. The original song is that the girls are defeating the enemy outside, which is contrary to the internal melee structure of many people. However, this seal was broken by Furukawa and re-produced as a new structure for “fighting on the stage for the girls who become stars.” .
Stage girl born for the stage.
After screening and elimination, the last remaining ideas are basically closely related to the few songs that everyone sees now, but the role of Aicheng Hualian and her opening remarks “Let everyone shine.” “), but it has been retained since the beginning of the project as a part of “reflecting the existence of stage girls”. .
樋口新计划 plans to establish a word or sentence that can explain the plan and express the protagonist, but the less song is a plan that is developed on two different media of animation and musical, and at the same time, I can’t find anything to summarize. Planning two levels of arguments. However, when I thought about the uniqueness of Shaoge’s songs, which could not be summarized in other languages, then I could only summarize myself, so I simply extracted the word starlight and eventually evolved into a Chinese love. The opening remark “Let everyone shine with stars (スタッライトしちゃいます)”. .
The opening remarks made Hualian change from the passive party to the direct participant in the first words, and also called the audience to have the feeling of coming to the starry theater. Since Hualian has an opening statement, the other eight characters also need to design an opening statement. Although it is very hard, the opening statement can show the reason why each character stands on the stage when the character is on the stage. The effect is still very satisfying. .
After establishing the stage girl civil war, we need to solve the problem of why the girls fight. Although the stage girls each have their own motivation to stand on the stage, for example, “to bring smiles to everyone”, but since it is a stage girl, Sakaguchi believes that it is necessary to make a clear distinction between the stage girl and the ordinary person, emphasizing the uniqueness of the stage girl. Sex. .
The uniqueness of the stage girls lies in their persistence on the stage. It is because they feel the happiness that ordinary people can’t feel on the stage, so they can only survive on the stage. Therefore, Sakaguchi designed for them “want to stand on the stage” and “want to become the focus of the spotlight”, these two unique motives only for stage girls. After establishing the motivation of the stage girl, the structure of “competition for the top star” will be convincing. .
Key settings are detailed.
The existence of the giraffe has always been a point that the audience is very concerned about. In fact, it is the giraffe who is hosting the revue. Everyone in the planning group is not very clear. The reason why the giraffe is used is because the giraffe is supervised. Furukawa painted a giraffe on the mirror, and then said that the giraffe was chosen for hosting. I remember that when I was supervised and said that I wanted to use a giraffe, everyone was surprised. Asking why Furukawa used a giraffe, Furukawa replied “because the giraffe is very cute.” .
When Furukawa identified the giraffe, he also understood the purpose of Furukawa and asked if the giraffe could speak. After receiving a positive answer from Furukawa, the mouth of the mouth pushed all the lines of the gods to the giraffe. When I wrote the script of the first words, I tried to write the lines of the giraffe in the tone of Furukawa. As a result, I saw the feeling of giraffe talking after I saw it. Furukawa only gave a request to the mouth, let the giraffe say “I understand” at the end. .
And the reason why the giraffe does not have anthropomorphic acting design is because it will be biased towards Furukawa’s idea. The final giraffe real shot image of each episode is the producer’s interest, and there is no other intention. .
From the beginning of the animation, the viewers of the less songs, some viewers feel that revue is absurd and not very understandable. Regarding this point, the production team did not think too complicated. Wuji reminded everyone to pay attention to the lines in the first episode of Giraffe: “The person who shows the most shining revue, the road leading to the top star will open to her”, this is the rule of revue. And revue is also very simple, is the stage for girls to fight.
Wu times suggested that the audience of revue could not be understood. It is best to take a look at the musical. Wu Ci believes that when the audience has seen the girls fighting in the musical, they will understand the role of the characters in the animation on the stage. Wuji hopes that everyone can go to see a musical in person, because animation and musicals complement each other in various places. Sakaguchi also mentioned that due to the different media, musicals can show that the animation team can’t perform, and vice versa. Sakaguchi naturally expects the audience to be able to pass the animation and then enjoy the musical. .
Of course, Wuji also admits that musicals and animations are not exactly the same, but it is also more interesting because there are differences. For example, the fifth episode of animation and the 嫉妒revue of Zhenzhen, in the musical, is the true meaning of light, which is the combination of the musical drama group considering the relationship between love and sincerity. If it is still in revue, it will overlap and waste. It is. On the contrary, the part that was wasted without being revue together was placed in the sixth words describing the relationship between Futaba and Fragrant. .
When the musical was first performed, the script of the animation was not finished yet, and the animation team was still learning a lot from the process of watching the musical. Because the stage girls in this game are strong and full of personality, the atmosphere of the work tends to become very murderous. Strong emotional performance in the musical, will make the audience very excited, but if each episode in the animation is like a musical, it is too hard. Animation should play its own advantages, put the role of the first in the first place, and make the stage girl’s daily life more interesting and lively. .
In terms of characters, the most troublesome thing is Crow’s French. For this reason, Nakamura is also a French inspector. After all, the role of Crow is still very conspicuous. The supervisory side will also put forward the requirements of “letting Zhenya and Cloro stick together” and “don’t forget to bring pure one”. .
As a recent topic role, the big game Nana must also be mentioned. Banana is portrayed as a character who knows the revue rule overlooking the whole world and has another secret. Although banana is introduced as a mother’s role, banana also has a strong side, and it is also a key role in driving the story. When Koizumi scented the musical, he still had to hide this secret. At the time, Koizumi was still very hard to play. In fact, I originally intended to let banana be the adhesive for the stage and animation linkage, and to give her the task of two or three giraffes. .
The most memorable part of the seventh sentence is the plot of the first words of Chinese love wrapped in the giraffe’s neck, because this is the plot of Hualian standing on the stage to change his own destiny, so I like it very much. Although the behavior of Hualian is a bit abrupt, it is indeed very attractive, and the voice of the giraffe’s seiyutsu Tsuda Kenji was also very interesting. .
And Wuji prefers the bank for reproduction. Furukawa has always said that it is not a traditional transformation, but a garment and a weapon like a factory. Therefore, Wu Ci felt that Furukawa should have this idea in his mind long before, but when people first listened to Furukawa, there was no concept in the brain. After seeing the good mirrors of Furukawa, Wuji realized that it was like this. .
The so-called reproduction is definitely a raw material. It can’t change clothes like a magical girl. It is the process of reshaping itself as a material and the performance of the stage girls. Let’s take the example of a stage actor, that is, a child’s transition from an immature actor who can’t speak a line on the stage to the next stage as a skilled actor. Sakaguchi believes that Furukawa should just want to express this transformation through reproduction. .
With the animation getting better, starting from the first words in the theme of starlight, ray, topstar, reproduction, etc., will return to these topics. In the end of the role and story, I finally sold it to that keyword, and I sold it to everyone. The seven to nine words can be said to be Nana, and the big change in the animation to the second half. .
The girl opera is not only looking back at the collection of the past, there will be new discoveries, the lyrics of the songs in the drama, the cover of the released CD, etc. will be buried in various places, and everyone can see all kinds of things in the end. The connection, so Wu Ci hopes that everyone can appreciate the works from various angles. .
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10 October 2018