In the first two weeks, many animation fans were "crazy" because a drama finally started broadcasting.
In this fast-paced era, how long are you willing to wait for a drama? What Xiao Wan said is not that he has finished watching the first part and waiting for the second part, but that if he doesn't even have the first part, will you still wait patiently?
There is such a drama, and fans only relied on a 30-minute pilot episode, and waited for four years before finally waiting for the first episode to start.
Let's take a look at this "Hell Inn" today, what is the charm of "infatuation"?
On October 28, 2019, an animation called "Hell Inn" released a 30-minute pilot episode on the Internet.
It stands to reason that the pilot episode has received such a big response that the official series should be launched immediately, but the creator of the series then said that the second episode has not yet been followed, and after that, the film and television industry has stagnated due to the epidemic.
It wasn't until 2023 that Hell's Inn finally announced that it would start its first season in January of this year, more than four years after the pilot episode. In this era where new hot spots are born all the time, it is already a rare miracle that there is no movement for four years and still have the opportunity to "resurrect".
Fans wait. But what's even more miraculous is that the audience who watched the pilot episode and waited hard actually persevered all the way for four years, and the 30-minute pilot episode was watched by everyone as "pulped", all kinds of details in the picture were repeatedly excavated, and the relationship between the characters and the development of the story aroused countless imaginations.
What's more, Vivian Medrano, the creator of "Hell's Inn", also produced another work that shares the same world view as "Hell's Inn" after the pilot episode of "Hell's Inn", and in 2022, as a latecomer, "Hell's Boss" will launch its second season, and "Hell's Inn" has not even seen the first season.
"Extremely Evil Boss" also has an excellent reputation.
So it's not difficult to understand that when the first season of "Hell's Inn" finally started in January, and the second season was confirmed to start production, fans could finally see this "urban legend" work as they wished.
After talking about so much background, let's take a look at what "Hell Inn" is talking about and what are the highlights.
The main setting of the story is "hell", yes, it is the hell to which people will be exiled after death, and even though it is hell, as there are more and more wicked people, it also faces the problem of overpopulation.
In order to solve this problem, the angels of heaven come to hell every once in a while to carry out a mass killing, and this "purge" is a natural entertainment in the eyes of heaven, and in the eyes of hell, it is a period of death that is approaching with the countdown.
The background of this story is obviously strongly ironic, and it is our protagonist who cannot bear this harsh reality the most, the princess of hell, Charlotte Morningstar, nicknamed "Charlie".
Xia Li is the daughter of the fallen angel Lucifer, who inherited the pure blood, she is naturally a powerful demon, but at the same time she is also a naïve girl, simple and kind no less than a real "princess".
Xia Li does not want her subjects in Hell to suffer, so she plans to build an inn to take in the demons so that the demons in Hell can be reformed so that they will no longer have to face punishment from heaven.
This decision is not only ridiculed by Heaven, but also received little response among the demons, and Xia Li and her companions embark on their own adventure against prejudice.
First of all, the most attractive thing about Hell Inn is the rich display of the character image, Xia Li is a naïve girl, easy to whim, and always optimistic and positive, and a little demonic nature revealed from time to time also makes the character look more real and cute.
As Xia Li's partner, Vicky is a cool-headed and rational existence, but she is often annoyed by the whimsical Xia Li, and the "brainless and unhappy" combination between the two is a common CP combination.
The other characters who appear in Hell Inn, from the cynical Angel Dest to the powerful "Radio Demon" Alasto, all have strong charisma and personality traits, and the series clearly shows more of their personalities despite being demons.
As a ** animation, we can see the undisguised violence, drugs, swear words and other elements in the story, and at the same time, the exaggerated modeling and dense lines also highlight the "madness" as much as possible.
But on the other hand, we can also see that the core of the story is about classic propositions such as salvation, trust, and courage, and as the princess of hell, Xia Li is still a princess, no less than the princesses of Disney's positive characters.
This logic of reversing the familiar relationship between heaven and hell, and weaving the story with demons as the protagonists, together with a series of bad but real and lovely characters created in the story, constitutes a unique interest.
Gothic rebellious on the outside, gentle and kind on the inside, who doesn't love such a character?
Of course, "Hell's Inn" has another biggest feature of the form, which is the use of singing passages, in terms of form, this anime is a song and dance genre series, and each episode of the film inserts several songs that are sung and danced by the characters in the play.
These songs have achieved quite good results from songwriting, visual presentation, and the degree of fit with the plot before, and the song "There is a Rainbow in Every Demon's Heart" in the pilot episode once sang the theme of the story very pointedly.
In terms of final presentation, "Hell's Inn" puts together quite contradictory and completely different styles, with both gorgeous and dreamy colors and a lot of "yellow storm" content; The story is a story in a dark hell, but with joyful singing passages.
In this era of the birth of all kinds of works, if an original work wants to leave an impression on the audience, it must not only have a solid story, but also the ability to blend various genres, styles and popular elements.
After four or five years of absence, Hell's Inn still has a large number of loyal fans, and in addition to the high-quality production and carefully designed characters, it is also inseparable from the many unexpected surprises brought by creating contrasts.
Will the first crazy animation of the beginning become this year's blockbuster dark horse? What do you think?