"Killing City" and "Infinite Terror" have some similar settings, as well as the main gods, traversal, tasks, redemption and other elements they built to create the later "infinite flow" creation mode, which has sparked more than ten years of discussion, who opened up the later "infinite flow"? Or is there a relationship between "plagiarism" and "borrowing"? Today, Brother Che will come to the end of his family's words, let's talk about it. Infinite Streaming, Infinite Horror
"Killing City" (Japanese: gantz).The original manga is written by a Japanese manga artistAo HaoA youth sci-fi manga work, Gantz is the name of the black ball that appears in the comics. In 2000, it began in Shueisha's manga magazine "Weekly Young Jump", and ended in June 2013, with a cumulative circulation of more than 19.9 million copies.
The story tells the story of Genno Ji, a high school student who died unexpectedly, is sent to a mysterious room, where there is a supreme being, the black ball "Gantz", and all the people who are teleported to the room will be controlled and arranged by the black ball Gantz to fight against the alien aliens who have invaded the earth.
From 2004 to 2018, there have been 6 animation, CG, live-action and other works on the screen, and it is said that there will be a Hollywood version of "Killing City" released in 2025, which is said to be directed by Julius **ery, the director of "Overlord", and the script written by Marc Guggenheim, the producer of "Green Arrow". It can be seen that the influence of Gantz is still extremely large.
Let's talk about it"Infinite Terror"., the book was written by a well-known web authorZ big, real name: Zhang HengIt was first published on Qiqi Chinese Network on April 6, 2007. The book is 2.73 million words, has received a total of 23.12 million views, and a total of 4.23 million recommendations, including its sequels "Infinite Future", "Infinite Dawn", and "The Beginning of Death" have been sought after by the public.
It can be seen from this"Killing City" is 7 years ahead of "Infinite Horror", and Z Big is still an out-and-out comic book lover, It seems that the question at the beginning has been well answered, and at the same time, 10 days after the publication of "Infinity", there was such a statement on the Internet, saying that "Infinity" was using the model of "Killing City". So from the point of view of the work, is this the case? Let's compare.
First of all, the most similar to the initial setting is the main god and Gantz, especially in the first half of the work.
1. The shape is similar, the main god is a ball of light, and the gantz is a black ball, which is simply a reversal of "black and white".
2. Functionally close, the main god is mainly to exchange skills, ** equipment, strengthen the body, and plane teleportation; What about gantz, redeem boosts**, resurrect, teleport.
3. In battle mode, the main god is to teleport the fighters to various horror movie planes to complete the task; Gantz is to designate an area on the outskirts of the city to destroy a specific alien enemy.
4. Exchange method, on the side of the main god, complete the main line side quest to get reward points; On the Gantz side, points are awarded according to the degree of defeat.
Especially in the first half of the story, the similarity between the two is too high, although Z University has clearly stated that there is no "plagiarism" of "Killing City", but according to the global influence of "Killing City", combined with Z University is still a Japanese comic fan, I personally think that he has not seen "Killing City", and it is unlikely that he will create such a similar setting. However, it would be too hasty to conclude that it was "plagiarism".
Because we have to look at the difference between the two, in addition to the initial setting, the group portrait design of the world view structure of "Infinity" is much more exciting and rich; And in the shaping of its various supporting roles, it can be called a classic, it can be said that each supporting role has the possibility of pulling it out to write a separate story, and the supporting characters of "Killing City" are basically cowardly types, brainless and self-aggrandizing, unspeakable and other simple types, and most of them died early, and they directly received a box lunch before they had time to shape. "Killing City" is estimated to be the author's commercial publishing request at the editor's request, (we will find another time to introduce the creative form of Japanese comics in the future), mainly shaping 2 or 3 main characters and then lengthening the battle line, and Zheng Zha, Chu Xuan, Xiao Honglu, Zhao Yingkong, Zhang Heng and others in "Infinity" have separate storylines entangled.
If you zoom in on the setting to a macro perspective, Infinite Terror is about the fact that after the ancient saints and cultivators failed to fight against the box, they left behind the "box within the box" of the main god space as the last refuge and legacy of mankind. It can be seen that "Infinity" can be admired by future generations not only because of such a model created by him, but also as a creative idea and style.
So, Brother Che thinks,"Infinite Terror" may have the possibility of borrowing or referring to this basic setting, but if it has to rise to "plagiarism", I am not inclined to it. For example, Stardew Valley and Portia Time may be borrowed from "Ranch Story", but they cannot be said to be plagiarism; There are many works on the theme of crossing, but they can't all be said to be plagiarized from the ancestors of crossing"The Quest for Qin".It's the same thing.
On the contrary, a large number of infinite stream works in China in the past 10 years can actually see a lot of traces of "Infinite Terror", which shows that purely in terms of China's infinite stream works, the influence of "Infinite Terror" is extremely great.
In the end, according to Brother Che's family, purely from the basic setting, "Killing City" is indeed a precedent; But in terms of opening up a writing style and routine, and guiding and laying the foundation for later generations, we have to watch "Infinite Terror".
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