01.
Hill's main purpose of going to Winter City this time is to discuss with the Ice Emperor about making the Ice Empire promotional film. He had a simple thought on the way there. The game was CG-like, and at the end, everyone shouted "For the Horde"... Well, a slip of the tongue, it was "For Mülheim".
He went through the two sets of plans in his head, and was too lazy to write them down. Yes, he planned to dictate to Bingdi directly and let Bingdi choose by himself.
Party B like him seems to be too much. Hill thought. But now it's a seller's market, even if the opponent is the emperor. He quickly found an excuse for himself.
Some time ago, Hill began to vigorously develop business in the Demon Realm. In the past, the commercial trade in the Demon Realm was basically zero, and it was even exchanged by barter. Hill started to adopt a planned economy last year, encouraging all races to use currency for communication, and also released a large number of goblin merchants to let them run around. Now that the business in the devil world finally has a certain foundation, Hill plans to try to develop Engage in a market economy.
The black dwarves are very happy about this. They have researched various strange things for various races, such as a polisher for skeletons, which makes you the brightest cub in the crowd. Hill saw the corner of his mouth twitching, but these things It was very popular among the skeletons. At that time, all the skeletons had a shiny head... Forget it, as long as they were happy.
But later, because their heads were too bright, they dazzled the eyes of other skeletons during construction, causing several accidents on the construction site, and then the members of the skeleton construction team all wore hats uniformly.
The corner of Hill's mouth twitched. Human construction wears hard hats for safety, and your skeleton construction team wears hard hats to prevent people from shaking their heads... This is really exotic, exotic.
After arriving in Winter City, Hill and his party first went to Olivia to settle down. Now Olivia has become one of the most popular women in Winter City. Today she is completely different from when she was in Magnolia City.
After "Violet Eternal Garden" ends for a while, Hill will release the movie "Pirates of the Caribbean II" directly. Presumably, Olivia's popularity will increase by then.
The maid boiled the bath water with wormwood leaves, mallow leaves and orange peels, and Hill comfortably soaked in it to wash away the dust.
On the other hand, Alice is very curious about Olivia Jackson.
Alice's mother hopes that Alice will grow up to be a qualified lady, but Alice has never met a real noble lady - Olivia is the first. Olivia and the maid brought her pastries and snacks. Alice was not interested in these for the time being. She looked up at Olivia. Olivia was dressed in fashionable and gorgeous clothes, with a string of multi-layered pearls The necklace is a new style recently launched in the Devil's Emporium. On top of her head is a delicate and lovely hat decorated with violet velvet flowers.
Olivia satisfies Alice's imagination about the noble lady.
"What are you looking at? Child." Olivia asked with a smile.
"I'm not a child. My name is Alice." Alice said, her voice was relatively sweet, after all, she was a child of this age, but her tone was very calm, which did not match the calmness of her age.
Olivia realized that the girl in front of her was not a child who could be treated casually. After thinking for a moment, she gave Alice the etiquette of a noble lady, "Hi, first time meeting, Miss Alice." Treated directly as women of equal intercourse.
This has something to do with Olivia's previous experience. Olivia's mother died young, and she has always had a lot more thoughts than ordinary girls. She longed to speak out and attract others' attention when she was very young, but at that time, adults always treated her like a child and didn't always treat her as a child. Olivia remembered the feeling that what she said mattered. So after she also became an "adult", after hearing Alice's words, she immediately understood that this little girl had a strong sense of self-esteem.
Alice also saluted back: "Nice to meet, Miss Jackson."
Olivia didn't know Alice's identity. She was actually a little curious about the little girl brought by His Royal Highness Greenwald, "If you have any needs, just tell me." Then she asked: "Are you human?"
"Yes," said Alice. "By the way, I have seen your father, Miss Jackson. He is a distinguished gentleman."
"Thank you for your praise." Olivia understood after a little thought: "You were in the Demon Realm with His Highness before, right?"
"Yes." Alice was a little curious: "How do you know?"
"Because my father has basically been in Yulan City all the time, and your appearance is not from the Yulan Empire. He only went to the Demon Realm a while ago. Everyone knows this. So in summary, you should We met in the Demon World." Olivia explained.
"It's amazing..." Alice finally showed the expression of a little girl.
"No." Olivia smiled a little embarrassedly, "I am far behind His Highness, and I have been imitating His Highness's way of thinking."
Alice thought, just now when I praised Miss Jackson's father as a distinguished gentleman, Miss Jackson said thank you for the praise, so now that Miss Jackson praised Hill, should I also respond? So she opened her mouth and said solemnly in a child's voice, "Thank you for your compliment, Miss Jackson."
Olivia froze for a moment, then smiled.
Really cute girl.
outside.
The sky outside and the dark buildings of Winter City were mixed in the white snow fog. The cold whirlwind blew snowflakes across every street, and the whole Winter City was shrouded in suffocating snow.
inside the house.
The wood in the fireplace was beeping, and the warm orange flame lit up a third of the room, and the air was filled with the scent of orange blossom and geranium, which was very calming and calming. effect.
Olivia was laughing. Her laughter was different from the introverted and shy ones of ordinary noble ladies, but it wasn't enough to "laugh out loud". Generally speaking, it was just right.
Alice didn't know why she was laughing, but it felt so good at the moment that she laughed too.
This relaxed feeling is good.
The maid opened the door, and Hill came in with a smile, "Did I disturb the two ladies? Speaking of which, did you not tell me something interesting?"
Alice called out: "Sir."
Olivia smiled and said, "We were just talking about Alice, and we just said that she is not from the Yulan Empire."
"Well, I was born in the Eutin Empire." Alice replied generously.
"The country of the holy religion." Olivia sighed subconsciously.
"Yes." Alice said, and then she looked at Olivia: "Are you a believer in the God of Light?"
"No." Olivia replied.
"Neither am I," said Alice, "or rather, I am not."
"It seems that you guys had a good chat." Hill said, "Alice has entrusted you to Olivia during this time, I will stay in Winter City for about half a month, I hope you can spare time to teach She has something you think should be taught. But it's best not to ask her who she is, it's not good for you. Please, Olivia."
Olivia raised her skirt and saluted, "I am willing to serve you, His Royal Highness Greenwald."
The purpose of Hill's purpose of bringing Alice here this time is to let her have a look at the scenery and relax, and the second is to let her meet Olivia.
After all, Alice is a human girl. There are some things that Hill can teach, but there are some things that he can't teach. If the succubus teaches her, I don't know what the hell it will be like... So he thought of Olivia. In fact, Mrs. Helen and Ms. Qili can do it too, but Hill doesn't trust them.
It has to be said that Hill really cares about Alice.
And Alice said to Hill... "Thank you for your compliment, Miss Jackson" said it all.
"I went out first and didn't come back for dinner tonight. By the way, the hat is beautiful, Olivia." Hill said.
"Thank you." Olivia smiled.
Olivia, whose hat is decorated with velvet flowers in the shape of violets, is also following the show.
In the past, she liked to bring magnolia velvet flowers. After all, magnolia flowers are the favorite flower of magnolia people, and they are usually planted in the gardens of noble families. Later, after "The Eternal Violet Garden" hit the air, some people pulled out all their own magnolias and planted violets (...), which was enough.
02.
The cover of this issue of "Devil Magazine" is Violet, the heroine of "Violet Evergarden".
Now five episodes of this anime have been aired, the ratings are rising steadily, and discussions about it can be heard everywhere. This is an animation that has a threshold for experience. Statistics have been made on the earth. The age ratio of the audience under the age of 19 is less than 20%, while the age ratio of "want to watch" is only 3%. Those over the age of 40 can actually Reached 14.6% and 11%. This is undoubtedly surprising for an anime.
After Hill saw this statistic, he subconsciously thought of a word: the old second dimension.
The word is really appropriate here. Cough cough hahaha...
"Violet Eternal Garden" doesn't have many things about the charming house. It's a mature and stable story. It doesn't add too many side effects such as selling meat, selling rot, etc. to please the audience. Here is a real-name criticism of "K" next door. Poor Seri Awashima in Season 2. Coupled with the fact that it is a chicken soup-style unit drama story from childhood to adulthood, there are many meticulous and classic details in the seemingly ordinary shell-this establishes a non-young age threshold and removes the threshold of animation itself. —Almost beyond the dimension, there is no problem in adapting it to the third dimension.
Because of the trauma of the war, there are simply too many people in this different world who are deeply in love with this anime.
Of course, there are some fantasy colors in it, such as the arm of Violet's black dwarf craft. In the anime, the Demon Race and the Human Race can basically live in harmony, but there are still some mutual hostility and hostility. Because of Violet's succubus bloodline and strong fighting ability, she also received a lot of cold eyes in the army. There are not many animations on the earth for this picture, but the original novel has a lot of descriptions. Hill adapted part of the original novel, and most of them restored the original work. She kills.
It is said that there is such a saying in the original book, and Hill changed it to a more extreme point: It is his fault that the other party wants to rape you, but it is not right to kill his comrades for this.
Hill: ...
Looking like wanting to hit someone.
Okay, this line is also included.
Then Hill also added an original character in Memories of Army Life, a male soldier who is also a half-demon and a fighting madman. Hill gave him two shots. In the first shot, he approached Violet to tease him, and then he was chased away by the major. Violet heard someone mockingly say, "You two bastards are really good together. ", directly expressing the other party's lineage. The second scene is on the eve of the war. The half-demon stood in the smoke and smiled and said to Violet: "It seems that you have someone who cherishes you. You are very lucky. Live well."
Then the half-demons died in that battle, and he left a suicide note for Violet. At that time, Violet couldn't read, so he showed the suicide note to the major.
"Maybe it's wrong to write to you. After all, I don't have any friendship with you, and you probably don't have a good impression of me. But I don't have anyone to write to, so I did it on my own. If you mind, I will It doesn't matter, because I'm already dead~
I have been fighting desperately. They say that it is the demon blood in my body that is doing evil, but in fact it is my human blood that is making noise. My purpose is to die. I know that one day I will make it happen.
I am pretty tired. Why keep fighting. Why do humans slaughter humans, why humans and demons slaughter each other. We can talk, we can communicate, we can hug, we can die in love like my mother did, why should we kill each other.
If you read this letter, bless me, because I can finally rest. "
After the major finished reading the letter, his emerald eyes were trembling. He told Violet that the half-demon's father was a human and his mother was a demon. His father was Shao Zuo's former boss, who died in the battle, and his mother committed suicide. The semi-demons lost their father's protection and gradually became worse.
No one loves him anymore, and no one will cherish him.
So he doesn't love anyone, and he doesn't value anyone.
Everyone in the army hated him, he got into fights, and when someone said something bad about him, he would immediately explode. Not generous at all. But no one knew he wanted to die.
until now.
Hill's original story is more explicit than the original story, and the emotions expressed in the original story are more subtle and subtle. Hill understands this, so he intersperses his original stories in the anime, trying not to Affects the rhythm of the anime.
It is worth mentioning that the old Jackson became a loyal fan of it, so some people were surprised to find that in this issue of the magazine, the former spoiler of "A Song of Ice and Fire" returned, and the old Jackson wrote a lot of eloquence. In a long article, I commented on "Violet Eternal Garden" from many angles such as story plot, narrative method, and characterization. Of course, there are piles of reasonable spoilers at the end.
Well, Hill looked at the spoilers and thought, he really guessed a lot of things right.
One of them is that the old Jackson believes that the major should be dead and not come back. From an artistic point of view, this is just right. If he comes back, he will destroy a lot of things.
In fact, this is true in theory, but from a personal emotional point of view... it really makes my teeth sore.
Alright, now that old Jackson the spoiler maniac is back, Hill has to start his misleading tricks too!
"In this regard, I have a different opinion." Hill began to write: "This is a unique story of melancholy and warmth, and there is a kind of lost beauty in the whole story. But as far as life is concerned, nothing is absolutely reasonable Arrangement, if Violet gradually learns to love in the end, and then Major returns, this kind of explanation can also work—a hero who only exists in memory, and finally walks out of memory, this is also a symbolic things…”
These discussions made the readers of "Devil Magazine" very addicted, so many people immediately joined the discussion. Unfortunately, the next issue of "Devil Magazine" will be published in fifteen days, and "Violet Eternal Garden" will have already been broadcast It's over.
Hill reviewed the audience's manuscripts and began to wonder whether to expand the scale of Weibo.
Gradually building Weibo into what it looks like on Earth has both advantages and disadvantages for the current situation. Needless to say the benefits, of course, more information exchange, easier to hype the heat. But the disadvantages are also obvious, the biggest point is: the role of "Devil World Magazine" will drop a lot.
After weighing the pros and cons, Hill finally decided not to expand the scale of Weibo, but to do it as it is now. Make a speech first, and talk later.
Now that the Demon Realm has almost developed, it's time to make some major policy changes.
A monitoring group has to be set up to monitor the implementation of the policy.
Hmm... Hill suddenly remembered the news he had seen before, saying that the captain of the Russian fire brigade was arrested for setting fire 5 times in order to test the efficiency of the team members.
Cough, what a fighting nation.
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