Anime Recommendation: The Calendar Master

"Calendar Master" is about an ordinary young man, Xiao Nan candle returned to his hometown, accidentally inherited the grandmother left behind a magic treasure called "Qiankun Calendar" and her former occupation - calendar master.

Through the Qiankun Calendar, the gods of traditional festivals appear in front of him: New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, Lantern Festival ...... to drive away evil spirits, punish the evil and promote the good, and protect the earth. As a master of the Calendar, Xiao Nanzhu, after learning about the harm that evil spirits do to human beings and her own duties, chooses to work with the gods of the Calendar to fight against the evil spirits generated by the negative emotions of human beings. The story is about the evil spirits that are created by the negative emotions in people's hearts.

There are three reasons why I recommend this anime:

First, the subject matter is novel and highly watchable

The show is based on traditional Chinese culture, with the order of the festivals as the main framework, using traditional festivals such as New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve, Lantern Festival, Tanabata and other traditional festivals as the material, and picking out the most important and interesting of them as anthropomorphized Chinese traditional festivals. Each calendar god will appear on the festival that belongs to him. During the calendar god's duty, he needs to help the calendar master to drive away the evil spirits and protect the safety of the calendar master. When they are not on duty, or when the calendar master is under great threat, they can also be summoned by the Qiankun Calendar. There are many calendar gods, rich in feelings, and the characters have a strong sense of three-dimensionality.

Second, traditional culture, strong popularization

The play through a distinctive character of the "calendar God", aroused people's attention to the traditional festivals, for the people to be forgotten, will soon disappear traditional festivals (Flower Morning, Cold Food Festival), people began to pay attention to and think. "Calendar gods originally existed because of people's sacrifices and offerings to festival seasons. When times change and festivals are forgotten, the original calendar gods, too, will weaken and eventually lose their divine power and sleep forever."

Among them, strong popularity is also a major highlight, almost every episode will popularize some of the festival trivia, comparable to children's science programs. Both can happily watch anime, but also can increase knowledge, two birds with one stone.

Three, the plot is rich, warm and touching

I did not watch the original, the anime has seen the first half, the plot is not fully developed, do not dare to do too much evaluation of the main plot (the main plot is not very clear), from the first few episodes, a bit similar to the form of the unit drama, to tell a small independent story. The first sentence explains the worldview and setting, the second focuses on left-behind children, the third protects cultural relics, the fourth tells the story of "the son wants to raise but his parents do not wait for him", and the fifth is the warmth between the disabled and the guide dog ...... These episodes bring viewers emotional These episodes bring the audience emotional touch and **** Ming at the same time, which reflects the left-behind children, intergenerational relations, mountain forest fire and other social realities, is also worth people to explore and reflect on.

At the same time, there are also many shortcomings, such as insufficient production funds, uneven picture quality, fighting some "perfunctory", etc. Overall, I think this national comic is still a very good work.