The group gods who retired to fish in Genshin Impact

I have talked about two of the four novel adaptations, and I won’t say much about the anime version.

Many people must have watched the two anime "Lucky Star" and "10 Bad Jokes". Although they may not have watched them in full, they definitely have some understanding of them.

Lucky Star is a prank anime famous for its spoofs, nonsense and lack of moral integrity.

Although the plot is abstract, the characters are neither moral nor principled, and even the entire Journey to the West team is more like a gang of gangsters compared to the pilgrims.

But this does not prevent him from ranking among the top in Journey to the West adaptations, and even ranks among the top five in anime adaptations.

Apart from the animated version of "Journey to the West" and the animated version of "The Monkey King" previously released by CCTV, I personally think that the third place should be "Lucky Star of Treasure Hunt".

However, because this team also has another Journey to the West work, and all the characters are the characters of the new stars of the treasure hunt, but the story also turns back to the orthodox Journey to the West story.

So it can be said that this company created the third and fourth anime adaptations of Journey to the West after the anime version of "Journey to the West" and the anime version of The Monkey King.

If the animated films Journey to the West such as Havoc in Heaven and The Lotus Lantern are also counted.

Lucky Star and another work by this team can also be ranked 4th and 5th.

There are many adaptations of Journey to the West, but only a few of them have become series or even had a second or third season.

Lucky Star Treasure Hunt not only tells the story of Journey to the West with ancient background, but also a new story with modern background.

It is a very good work, although the character settings are shameless and nonsensical, and the entire group of people who go to the West to seek the scriptures are also jokingly called the Tang Dynasty Gang.

Sun Wukong and Tang Seng are full of foul language and have done many shameless things.

But this is not the case. On the contrary, this work still adheres to the traditional core of "Journey to the West", that is, to promote the viewpoints of truth, goodness and beauty.

Although there are many shameless and bottom-line-less things in this anime, its core theme has never changed, that is, truth, goodness and beauty are used to obtain the true scriptures and save the world.

Even though a new Journey to the West story with a modern setting came out later, I can't remember what they were looking for, but it was the same thing, and they couldn't find it, so the gods called back the Monkey King and the other three as usual, and then formed another Journey to the West team.

Then, I traveled across the oceans in the background of modern cities and traveled all over the world to find scattered things, and the ultimate goal was to make the world a better place.

It is also a Journey to the West story with truth, goodness and beauty at its core, but covered with nonsense, shamelessness, comedy, pranks and spoofs.

If you like to watch some more relaxing plots, you can watch Lucky Star. If you want to watch a more human and heroic plot that is more in line with the original story, you can watch it.

You can go watch another work produced by the same team, which is supposed to be about the Monkey King’s rampage in Heaven. It was also filmed very well and received very high reviews.

It can be said that this team is very capable. When they work seriously, they can shoot a Journey to the West story that will receive high ratings from many people.

When they are not serious, they can make stories like "Lucky Star" that make people laugh and think about some philosophy and truths.

This is an animated adaptation of Journey to the West. I think given its fame, there should be few people in China who are not familiar with it. Most people should have heard of it to some extent, but I don't know how many have even seen clips of it.

Unless you are the type who was not interested in anime and only gradually got involved in this area later, you may not know much about this.

Because this was broadcast more on TV at the time, its popularity on the Internet was average, but later on, with the development of the Internet.

This anime was also dug up by someone and became a little popular again. Now there are still plot clips on many short video platforms.

Then, also as an anime adaptation, after talking about Lucky Star, let’s talk about another anime work that is also shameless, has no bottom line, and is mainly based on spoofs, pranks, and comedy, Ten Thousand Bad Jokes.

Compared with Lucky Star, One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes is probably more famous.

Although it was rarely shown on TV, it happened to be released at a time when the Internet was developing rapidly and had few restrictions.

Therefore, with his unique style and very strong ability to create memes, he quickly became popular in the circle.

At that time, smartphones had just become popular, and many video platforms and online platforms did not have so many restrictions. In addition, many people had just gotten smartphones and thought these things were very new, so they were almost fanatically addicted to them and browsed and read large amounts of information every day.

In addition, because smartphones are small and easy to carry, you can freely search for the videos you want to watch on various video platforms, download, fast forward, and watch offline.

Therefore, many TV series, movies, and even animated shorts were extremely popular at that time.

Many people even download dozens of movies and TV shows on their mobile phones to watch during their free time at work or when they go out.

At that time, smartphones still had a split design, and each smartphone had about 2 to 3 batteries.

Generally speaking, most people use two batteries, and a few people who use them frequently or want to be safer will choose three batteries, and the battery charging method also relies on a universal charger.

In the era when mobile phones had replaceable batteries, everyone would carry a few batteries when going out, maybe one, maybe two, and people at that time never worried about their phones running out of battery.

Because as long as the phone is out of power, you just need to disassemble the back of the phone case, then take out the dead battery, and install a fully charged battery, the phone will recover from a dead battery state to a fully charged state within 1 second.

The rotation of the two batteries is enough to get 99% of people through a whole day, until they can take the dead battery home to charge it at night.

Although the batteries at that time mainly relied on universal chargers, the mobile phones themselves also had charging ports.

So every night many people will put their mobile phones next to them to charge, and then plug the spare batteries into a universal charger.

The charging process takes about 6 to 8 hours, which is very long compared to the current mobile phone charging speed, but it was very common at that time and no one even thought it was long.

It was not until later, with the upgrading of mobile phones, that people realized that mobile phone batteries charge really slowly, taking 6 to 8 hours to fully charge.

Later, it was gradually reduced to 5 hours, 4 hours, hours, hours, and now it can be fully charged in half an hour.

In just over a decade, the speed of smartphone updates and upgrades can be said to be very fast, and technological iterations are very frequent.

Then at that time, in my memory, we usually plugged in the mobile phone and placed it next to it to charge before going to bed at night, and then took out the spare battery and put it in the universal charger and plugged it into another socket.

Then go back to bed and sleep. When you wake up the next day, your phone and battery will be fully charged, so you can put them together and take them to the company or other places.

In addition to the removable mobile phone batteries, mobile phone storage at that time also mainly relied on memory cards.

The internal memory of a mobile phone is very small, usually only about 8 GB.

Some mobile phones even only have 6gb, but at that time, if a mobile phone had 10gb or 12gb of built-in memory, it would be considered very impressive now, which is roughly equivalent to 16gb of running memory plus 512gb of super large memory.

But there are only a few people who own such phones, most of them have 6gb or 8gb, and if you want additional memory, you need to install a memory card, which ranges from 12gb to 64gb.

128GB memory cards were not developed until later, but not long after they were developed, smartphones had larger built-in memory due to upgrades, which was enough to meet the needs of 80% of people.

Therefore, the 128 basic memory card chip was only popular for a short while before disappearing, because later mobile phones began to have built-in memory.

And because you can carry extra memory cards, the memory of many mobile phones is larger than the actual memory.

Moreover, there were not so many mobile phone programs to occupy the phone’s own memory at that time, so the freely available space in the phone’s memory at that time was almost more than 95%.

Many people would download various animations, movies, TV series or other short films on their mobile phones, such as the famous "Never Expected", "Lalala Demacia", "Unlucky Bear" and so on.

Although "The Lucky Bear" is a relatively old animation IP, it became famous in China at that time due to the popularity of smart products in the country.

Many people first came into contact with Bad Luck Bear by finding some intermittent plots on many video platforms on their mobile phones.

It’s just that people at that time just regarded "The Bad Kids" as some animated shorts and never thought of it as a complete animation.

Although the time when One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes appeared is already very vague in my memory.

But it’s around the time when smartphones are updated.

That is, the transition from a smartphone with replaceable batteries to a smartphone with non-replaceable batteries.

Of course, the specific time may be earlier, but it was at this time that I came into contact with it, and the One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes were still being updated at that time, so I also watched it for a long time.

There are many chapters in it, and each chapter is related and yet not related to each other.

I can't explain the details, I'll know after watching it myself, and among them there are Journey to the West, Nezha, Investment of the Gods, etc.

Although there are many chapters and many types of stories involved, including Ultraman, Calabash Brothers and the like.

But no matter which chapter it was, in the end it could not escape the unique three-no curse of 10 bad jokes: nonsensical, shameless, and without bottom line.

In One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes, you can see Superman who can transform only by pooping, and Ultraman who can fly only by farting.

And the Dragon Ball version of Son Goku who has no moral integrity and has some problems learning his skills, which causes his skills to mutate.

It can be said that it has everything and can satisfy all kinds of enthusiasts.

Although the plot is shameless, nonsensical, and has no bottom line, the development of the story in each chapter is very consistent with the original work.

For example, in the Nezha movie, no matter how strong Nezha is, he still chooses to commit suicide to solve the problem in the end, and is resurrected by Taiyi Zhenren.

Or in the Calabash Chapter, although the Calabash Brothers all had some problems and the snake demon was not quite normal either, in the end it was still the Calabash Brothers who defeated the snake demon.

No matter how outrageous the adaptation of the plot is, it will not deviate from the process and results of the original work. Although the Journey to the West is not too long, the purpose of protecting Tang Monk on his journey to the West to obtain Buddhist scriptures remains unchanged.

But in my impression, the Journey to the West chapter seems to have only been updated to the Havoc in Heaven. I don't know if there will be any more updates later.

Because I thought it was interesting at the time, I followed it for a long time, but then I got tired of it and I stopped paying attention to the news.

It was not until later that I heard about it, when the Internet emerged and smartphones became widely popular. After being upgraded to newer generations, they had become very smart and almost indistinguishable from small computers.

Someone said that "One Hundred Thousand Bad Jokes" was blocked and harmonized. Then I suddenly realized that it has been such a long time since I last watched this anime. I didn't expect it to be harmonized. I am really impressed.