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"Saint Seiya" is the enlightenment animation for the majority of Chinese born in the 1980s. It can be said that the number of animation fans in China is largely due to "Saint Seiya". Many animation fans are in their 30s or even At the age of 40, I am still following anime. For example, I later followed "Naruto", "One Piece" and other fighting animations. Many of them started with "Saint Seiya". As an excellent anime, "Saint Seiya"'s beautiful character painting style and gorgeous battle scenes are among the best in anime even now.

However, after watching more, I still feel that there are many shortcomings in "Saint Seiya". After all, it is a super serialized anime, which is inevitable. For example, the monotonous nature of the battles. After watching it too much, it can be regarded as a turn-based style of play regardless of the differences between the characters facing each other. The front character gets a critical hit, but the villain is found to be unscathed. As soon as the negative side breaks out, the positive character is beaten to the ground again, and then the negative character is triumphant and thinks he has won. The positive character suddenly rises up again because he is unwilling to do so, and finally defeats the villain.

Also, for example, Seiya and his gang can't be beaten to death. Just thinking of Athena is like being on stimulants. Of course, when we were young, we didn’t care so much, we just did it. Maplewood-kun was only 8 years old when he watched this anime. He didn't care so much. Just play beautifully. Anyway, his favorite is this hot-blooded boy mode. I can't understand the complex characters.

But I started to follow anime when I got older. As my experience increased, a character with a thin personality like Seiya could no longer meet my adult anime standards. In retrospect, Masami Kurumada should be one of those animators who are first-rate in drawing skills but have poor plot conception. There is no way, after all, it is still too difficult to achieve the combination of Jin Yong and Da Vinci. For this kind of long story, the character of the protagonist is too complex and difficult to continue later. Just like many villains and plots in Naruto are constantly reversed and whitewashed, it does feel somewhat deliberate. And a young man like Seiya really shouldn't have such a complex human nature.

However, in the Zodiac Chapter originally created by Kurumada Masami, Mr. Mu, the boss of Aries, as the first house, still put a lot of energy into shaping the characters. So what kind of person is Mr. Mu? people? Let's listen to Mr. Maplewood:

01 He is a true nobleman among the Golden Saints

Unlike the shameless Cancer of the Golden Saints and the muscular man of the Taurus, The coldness of Aquarius, Scorpio and Goat, the evilness of Gemini, the effeminateness of Pisces, the passion of Sagittarius and Leo, the stability of Libra, etc. Mu in Aries is a saint with graceful temperament in the true sense. The only person who is more similar to him is Virgo, so the relationship between the two can be said to be the best, but Virgo is more of a one-woman kind, and is not willing to interact with others, and is aloof like Aquarius. Mu Gaogui reveals his upbringing, and his pride contains elegance. No matter what the situation, he exudes gentleness, the temperament of a classical aristocrat, the demeanor of a general, and the temperament of a scholar. This kind of cultivation is probably hard to find even among us ordinary people, right?

02 Mr. Mu has an approachable philosophy of doing things

Mu’s calmness in dealing with things is an ability that ordinary people cannot learn. He has a warm aura and has been mending the clothes of the bronze rookies and teaching them the seventh sense from the very beginning. Thinking back to those of us who were young in the workplace, did anyone help you like Mu? It's so rare. To be honest, it is like a sanctuary in the workplace. Gold Saints, Silver Saints, and Bronze Saints represent the top, middle, and bottom classes of the company respectively. Generally, the top management of a company will not hang around the bottom level for nothing. Mr. Mu’s character is actually particularly able to unite people’s hearts. Find an actual person to compare with. Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty in history, is such a person. He could visit the soldiers in the newly surrendered troops without any guards. This kind of magnanimity made the people who had just surrendered willing to go through fire and water for him. This is also Mu's personality charm.

03 Mr. Mu is closer to the life choices of mortals

The person closest to human nature in "Saint Seiya" is Mr. Mu. Compared with the anime, he can let go if he disagrees with you. Fight to death, it is actually difficult for people to do things in reality, especially for people approaching middle age. Mu showed the realistic part of a middle-aged author.

First of all, Mu’s master was Shion, the former Saint of Aries, who was also the pope at the time and the boss of all Saint warriors. But when Mu was seven years old, Shi Ang was assassinated by the conspirator Gemini Saga, who secretly replaced him with a mask. Although Mu was young at the time, he could still feel whether he was his master. According to the setting of passion, Mu should take revenge. But Mu didn't. He neither took revenge nor took refuge with Saga. Instead, he chose to leave the Holy Land and go to the Pamir Plateau. This is very consistent with our reality. If your company leader deliberately makes things difficult for you, even to the point of being crazy, some may take extreme measures to violently retaliate, and some may abandon their dignity and submit like a pug, but more people will probably choose to resign and find another place to stay away. This strategy is also helpless in reality.

Mu was like this. He knew he couldn't defeat Saga, so he hid, but when the Five Little Strongmen appeared, he saw the opportunity and took the initiative to help. A typical outlook on life that if you can’t beat someone, just endure it, and if you can’t beat someone, then try your best.

Secondly, in the Pluto chapter, faced with the dilemma of the resurrected master Shion asking him to kill Athena, on the one hand the master is equivalent to his parents, and Athena is his ideal. Ordinary people will always face this situation. Their parents want to take the civil service examination and marry girl A with good family conditions, but they are willing to be a support teacher and like girl B who has the same hobbies. I had no choice but to beg my parents in every possible way for understanding, but I was unwilling to break up and hurt the family relationship.

It can be said that Mu embodies the extreme difficulty of being a human being. Unlike bad guys like Saga who can pursue their own goals regardless of conscience, angry youths like Seiya can use the simplest methods such as violence to solve problems. It's best to solve the problem. If you fail, the problem will be solved. Mu is more like a middle-aged man with a family who drives a BMW. Although he looks glamorous, no one can understand his suffering. Mr. Maplewood's conclusion

I know Mu's character, but I don't know how the fans feel about it. He has a handsome and luxurious appearance, a generous personality and treats others. In fact, he is a benchmark for life. But he is also burdened with humiliation. Unlike Sagittarius who can die for his ideals, Mu's choice is more realistic and even feels cowardly. I'm not afraid of fighting, but there are some people I really can't fight. This is Mu's life, and the life of many real-life fans.

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