In recent days, "new Altman" has been released in Japan, causing a sensation on social media. It's not hard to understand that as one of the most popular IP in Japan's special photography industry, it also has a memorable tribute to the early generation. Whether it's an old audience coming from the seven brothers of Showa (jonias has been expelled) or a new generation of small audience growing up from the era of serro and zeta, new Altman has unique viewing value and discussion heat - not to mention that it was produced with the participation of Hideki Amano.
But you may not think that the hottest discussion of "new Altman" by the audience on the current day is not about the connection between the work and the early generation of "Altman" series many years ago, nor about the development of "new close-up universe". Even they rarely mention the name of Hideki Ono.
What are they talking about after watching new Altman?
"Three bodies".
Liu Cixin's most famous sci-fi works depicting the contact between the three civilizations of our country and the world are the "Three Civilizations" of the world.
After watching "new Altman", Japanese netizens generally believe that "new Altman" really has the sense of "three bodies".
Some Japanese netizens believe that new Altman will return to the ancient "relationship between man and Altman" and interpret it with the classic "dark forest theory" of the "three body" series.
Some netizens plan to watch new Altman because they are readers of the "three body" series and are in the voice of social media. He even said that "Altman doesn't matter" on social media. I just want to see "film and television" three bodies ", which can be described as a model figure" exported by culture ".
Even the highly acclaimed translator of the "three body" series in Japan, Dawei mori, expressed his view after watching new Altman that "I was not the only one who thought of the" three body "after watching the film", saying that "I'm relieved now".
About "new Altman", although there have been many detailed text plot analysis of elder brothers in enthusiast gathering places such as Baidu "Altman bar", after all, "new Altman" has not been released in China, so we can't repeat its plot. Let's look at the problem from another angle and talk about why the "three body" is so popular in Japan.
In fact, the popularity of the "three body" series of novels in Japan has not been a day or two for a long time.
Source: Douban @ future affairs administration
In July 2019, the first novel of the "three body" series was officially sold in Japan. For the sake of safety, the publishing house's Zaochuan study only printed 10000 copies when it was first printed. However, the editors of Zaochuan study soon found that they not only underestimated the expectations of Japanese science fiction fans for the "three body", but also underestimated the "out of circle" glory that the "three body" had created in China.
10000 copies sold out on the same day.
Source: Zhihu @ jelly meow
As a result, the first book of the "three body" series has been reprinted many times in Japan. It has not only been reprinted 10 times a week, with a total of more than 80000 copies, but also triggered readers to buy the interesting story of "buying books beyond time and space" that the publishing house left the market in advance and the printing date has not yet arrived.
Finally, trisomy, which entered the Japanese market, sold more than 100000 copies in the first month, which was originally expected to be sold in one year. The "Amway" of some well-known creators gave the "trisomy" series a cross-border influence.
For example, Mr. Hideo Kojima, our most familiar Japanese star game producer, not only paid attention to the "trisomy" before the Japanese version was released, but also sent a message to introduce Liu Cixin to his fans that "Liu Cixin and I are peers".
Both Hideo Kojima and Liu Cixin were born in 1963
Well known animation producer Xin Haicheng also tweeted after watching the first film, saying that "the 'three body' is really good-looking! I hope the second film will appear as soon as possible", just like an ordinary book fan, he began to "urge change" online.
Of course, in addition to the names we are familiar with, more and more names appear on the recommended posters of the Japanese version of "trisomy", such as Japanese critic sasakitun, well-known reasoning novelist nobuhiko kithara and popular science fiction novelist ichishui Ogawa.
This situation of joint recommendation by experts from all walks of life is easily reminiscent of the high popularity of the "three body" series in China - similar to the active recommendation of yishuier entrepreneurs such as Ma Huateng, Zhou Hongyi and Lei Jun.
With the "endorsement" of various industry celebrities, the sales volume of "three body" series in Japan naturally rises. According to follow-up statistics, every time the "three body" series is launched, it will cause repercussions in Japanese social media and appear on the best-selling list of bookstores.
However, different from the "wealth password" status of the shopping elite here, the "three body" series seems to have a different taste in the eyes of Japanese non science fiction fans.
For example, in the eyes of Japanese netizens, the partners of Shi Qiang and Luo Ji, which ran through the whole story in the early and middle stages, may be a pair of weak Qi scholars and overbearing sheriffs who let rotten women bleed their noses.
In order to carry out CP to the end, Japanese netizens even drew Cheng Xin and AI AA into a pair. From the "Shi x Luo" that did not exist at the beginning, they also integrated the "Cheng x AI" that did not exist in the original work, and directly "if the lily does not open, the brain will make up for it".
In addition to being keen to "pull Lang" for characters who are not involved in a romantic relationship and match them or them into a pair, Japanese netizens also associate Qin Shihuang's "Qin No. 1" virtual mainframe computer in the "three body" novel with the rising machinery and infinite computing power in the mobile game FGO.
As the saying goes, there are hundreds of people with the same rice. Some see "Deviation" from Liu's hard science fiction, and naturally there are orthodox Japanese science fiction fans who fall in love with the "three body" series.
We know that there is a very important step in the process of translating a work from its own language to another language, which is called "localization". The Japanese version has a very high translation quality, and the great moriwang, who is responsible for localization, has made great contributions.
In the preface of the Japanese version of the story, Ohmori hopes to directly raise the "three body" series of stories to works with the same status as Carl Sagan's contact, Arthur Karak's the end of childhood and Komatsu zuojing's the end of the endless river, giving a high evaluation of the "three body" series of stories as "a thick and colorful book in the history of modern science fiction".
Compared with the more famous sinking of Japan, Komatsu zuojing is a classic with SF flavor
While immersed in Ye Wenjie's story, Japanese netizens praised the authentic translation of Da senwang. For example, he translated "immersion" into "rehydration", which enabled Japanese netizens to more smoothly understand the details of the three body way of life.
In order to better understand the status of the "three bodies" in Chinese science fiction and bring more authentic translation, Da senwang even registered a microblog account to interact with Chinese netizens, which was grandly welcomed by domestic science fiction lovers.
Source: Sina Weibo @ Da senwang
After the launch of "trisomy 2: dark forest" in Japan, he specially shared his knowledge on Weibo at an internal exchange meeting of Japanese science fiction circles. "I didn't expect that there are so many fanatical science fiction fans in China. They have been introducing me to the interesting aspects of trisomy. Thank you very much.".
Source: station B @ Muyu orange rice
Japanese "trisomy" translators and even science fiction fan readers obviously love "trisomy". Not to mention that "Zhizi" once appeared in the story as Daiwa Fuzi and Japanese female ninja. Only the exploration of the moral concept of Oriental society in the "three body" story, which is edified by traditional Oriental values like us, is obviously easier to understand than Europe and America.
Therefore, a reader wrote a unique love letter to trisomy on Amazon, Japan - "I hope I haven't read the stories of trisomy series, so I can read them again".
When the news came out in 2020 that "three body" would be remade into a TV series by Netflix, many Japanese netizens also had the same question as us: "the story of" three body "has a strong Chinese color. Can you shoot it online?"
The source of this concern is still the recognition of the quality of the work itself. Liu Cixin once said that what the "three body" series wants to express is the sadness that all mankind has lost their homes. In fact, there is no difference between nationalities and regions in this story of mankind resisting foreign enemies together.
Perhaps this is why many Japanese netizens associate with the "three body" series of novels and praise the work after reading the National IP "new Altman".
It is precisely because of this characteristic of "three body" as an excellent science fiction that people can understand the core of the story regardless of region, and Chinese and Japanese netizens have the opportunity to stand together and rarely share each other's views on a Chinese novel.
Source: station B @ awl face Wan
In some views, Chinese and Japanese netizens actually have a high degree of consistency. For example, many people agree with "virgin Cheng", but in European and American reader circles, "virgin Cheng" is often the most popular one.
In addition to the main roles of Shi Qiang, Luo Ji and Zhang Beihai, Thomas Vader, a cold "loser", is very popular among readers on both sides.
Source: Tiger pours @ captain coconut
For another example, due to the same "judging ugliness", Chinese and Japanese netizens have expressed the same views in different languages - the cover of diss's Korean first edition of trisomy.
We might as well look forward to how Chinese and Japanese netizens will respond after the launch of Netflix version "three bodies" in the future.