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我睡不着。我已经在床上扑腾了好几个小时了。我一直在想安和萨沙...我的好姐妹们在哪?
我在这过得很好,但我还是很想她们...
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而且我很担心她们...而且...
毕竟,都是因为我,我们才...
抱歉,乔,我还没准备好聊这个话题
安...萨沙...你们还好吗?(干农活ing+军训ing,勿Q)
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今天我和安德里亚斯一起享受了一顿有趣的早餐
最开始,我一头栽进了一个巨大的溏心蛋里
哈 哈 哈 哈
我浑身上下沾满了蛋液,我对此甚至笑不出来因为这些蛋液让我想吐
安德里亚斯用一片6英尺的面包把我擦干,然后我们就开始了聊天
???
他问了一大堆关于地球的问题-我们的科技水平(我们有无线)...我们的一座小镇有多大...我们的军事水平如何。这些问题真奇怪,不过我想只是他好奇心太过旺盛了而已。我懂得,我也喜欢了解奇幻沼泽并尽可能地研究这个世界的运作规律
我解释了我们的军队等级制度,坦克,战斗机以及导弹。他向我展示了皇家蝾螈护卫使用的珊瑚长矛
我们交流了一些对方世界的信息,以及聊了一下我们的父亲-我一直再说我的父亲有多严格而且我不敢相信他在没咨询我的意见下就接受了那份其他州的工作(醒醒,你是中国人)
安德里亚斯笑了,他说他的父亲也很严格而且很难让他满意!我们共同点真多!!!
第52页
啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊!!!!!
我太太太高兴了!我不敢...这真是难以置信!!!!我需要调整一下呼吸
安!!!!备忘录:准备防火的斗篷
老青蛙头盖骨长度:62cm
皱纹里夹杂着泥土,也许是个农民
安在这里!安·布恩楚伊!!!! 她可是我在家乡里最好的朋友-安!世界上最贴心的小笨蛋!我所知道的最快最强的网球运动员!那个可以从鼻子里射出珍珠的人!安蕉娜现在就在这里!
所以这一家青蛙被困在外面了?其实他们是安的特选家庭!你没听错!她的.特选.家庭!我最爱的女孩过着我幻想中的生活!!(蝾螈妈妈组:那我们呢)他们特别粘安而且很爱她!!!!我真不敢相信安一直呆在青蛙小镇!
好吧,我要先解决这些珊瑚蚁,等我回去,我会好好和你讲述安的!光聊她我就能写满一页纸而且我会的! 我真是太高兴了; . ;
安不但平安无事,而且她看起来精神抖擞。
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好的,我们成功教训了那些蚂蚁并让这帮臭虫滚回老家了!我的信息素蘑菇效果显著。我觉得我可以在悬崖边上种一圈,这样那些害虫就不会来到城里了!
不过就到这吧,是进入主题了,乔!我要让你更深入的了解安!!以及我最近正在记录的她的青蛙家人们:3
跳爷爷-可爱搞笑的口音(毕竟是高飞的CV) -青蛙基因引发的脱发
跳爷爷-年老的爷爷辈以及家族农场的族长。种植青菜的农民并以此为荣(和我一样是个农产品爱好者^-^)严厉,认真,但是出于爱的原因,懂吗?他很用心的照顾他的孙子孙女...不知道为什么
为什么看不到普兰特家族的父辈
蝴蝶结真可爱
泡泡-淘气又难以控制的小蝌蚪!看起来有点好战倾向?目前来看非常固执。虽然是小妹妹却能轻松拿捏自己的哥哥
第78页
萨沙萨沙
萨萨萨萨萨萨萨萨萨萨沙沙沙沙
萨沙·怀布莱特在这里。她说她是和自己的蟾蜍同伴(名叫格罗姆)跟着我们过来的。他们(当然,主要是萨沙)把我们从困境中解救了出来(会用眼睛喷火的熔岩蜈蚣)而我在她把那些熔岩虫子切成两半前都吓得说不出话来而且她看起来酷毙了
她看起来好棒啊!我已经很久没有见到她了。那一缕金色的秀发,那猩红闪耀的盔甲,那蔚蓝色的双眼...
抱歉,她酷的让我出神了!她在看那些坏家伙的时候给了我反应时间,这座神庙不是我的主场,这里的一切都太重了。对了,看我画的战争女王 萨沙
第81页
今天真是太棒了!
这绝对是我一生中最快乐的时光!
乔!树瘤村举办了“乐队比拼”的活动,尽管一路上坎坷不断(萨沙退出了我们的队伍因为安的独立让她认为我们三个无法合作)...但最终我们三人还是一起在舞台上表演并让自己尽情闪耀
说实话,我从没见到安和萨沙走得这么近过。现在我们还是有过去那种关系的印记,但这段关系的每一部分都变得更好了,我们独自成长并最终再次聚集到一起而且...这
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乔,我现在在机场马上要登机了。妈妈去买零食了,所以我想用这段时间在起飞前再写一页。我还是很害怕,但一想到我要昂首挺胸地面对我的恐惧我就感到兴奋(以一种别样的方式)
安和萨沙很早就在登机口等着给我说再见了。我们三个就呆呆地站在那里...我永远也不会忘记我们当时脸上的表情的。这是一个时代的结束,但这不是我们友情的终点。不可能的。没什么能抹除我们共同经历的一切。没什么能带走我们共有的回忆,我们一起经历的冒险。
感觉我们好像抱在一起了一个小时
我的好姐妹们
安蕉娜
我最好的朋友们
萨酱
永恒的好朋友我们保证有空就聊天打电话。但我也不会再犯同样的错误了并把她们当作不去融入新环境的理由。我要确保我会在不断向前的同时不会遗忘过去-我不会再被困在自己曾经的舒适圈了
平衡,是我一直追寻的目标
再见了,我爱着的一切(My loves),我知道你们会伴我而行,无论我去哪...无论我干什么...你们永远都是我心中最不可或缺的一部分
试读者反馈《玛西日记》比我想象的要深刻得多。这部作品以欢乐的基调讲述了玛西·吴、安妮·布恩楚伊和萨沙·韦布莱特的冒险,也提供了而这个动画系列并不总是能够在十分钟的剧集中提供的令人惊讶的对角色的情绪的深入研究。有充足的时间可以分析三人组的内心想法,为那些曾经被掩盖或留给我们自己解释的主要叙事节奏提供了细微的视角。现在节目已经结束了,我们可以从新的角度来欣赏这本书所取得的一切,作为一个忠实的粉丝,我从一开始就被深深吸引
玛西·吴是一个书呆子,她在可爱的小日记中无时无刻不在展现这个特点。每一个句子都充满了对经典RPG游戏或她最喜欢的动漫的引用,她的激情流淌在她在奇幻沼泽的冒险中,因为曾经在人类世界阻碍她的不安全感现在变成了引以为傲的长处。长期以来,粉丝们将她称为精神分裂的代表,每篇作品中都证明了这一事实,因为她承认她是个社恐,并明确表示要与朋友团聚,或者成为影响她成长的虚拟英雄。这既是悲剧,也是心声,是对一个长期未被提及的故事的一种愿望的实现
感觉就像Matt Braly, Adam Colas和Catharina Sukiman看了《玛西的主题曲接管》,决定把她毫无关联性的冒险变成一个庞大的叙事,一个赋予曾经只在随机场景中出现过的人物独自的个性,使我们在类似于小盆或泡泡的视角上关心他们。我们很容易忘记玛西和萨沙并不是安故事的支线,她们和她一样在奇幻沼泽中为生存而战,并得出了自己合理的结论,即这个世界对他们意味着什么,以及她们是否能使之成为自己的世界
马西不想回家,她经常提起她的父母背叛了她的信任并马上要带她搬走了,甚至与做出类似决定的恶棍进行比较,因为她无力地想证明自己的自私的正义性。看着她的笔迹演变成慌乱的涂鸦,当她的心态明显崩溃时,鉴于这本日记轻松的叙事风格,她的情绪变化会显得奇怪。大部分页面都充满了可爱的观察和备忘录,使人非常清楚地看到玛西是一个混乱的制造者,而且是一个以新的发现和有明确的目标为荣的人。这本来可以是一篇相对枯燥的散文,我仍然会被它迷住,但所有单独的涂鸦和华丽的插图为它提供了一种无与伦比的魅力
玛西的旅程与安和萨沙的旅程同时进行,我们从她进入理想国的第一步开始,看着她成为夜卫队队长,然后成为安德里亚斯国王信任的顾问。奥利维亚夫人和芸南将军从一个新的背景中被介绍出来,并有额外的人物发展片段,同时还有大量对即将发生的事件的预兆,而我们的女主角太天真了,没有注意到。然而,这一切都感觉恰到好处,为奇幻沼泽的世界添加了一层额外的细节。该剧总是提供情感节拍,但它的结构并不是为了在如此短的时间内堆积如此多的叙述。当然,玛西仍能找到时间进行有趣的小旅行,但每场冒险都是以我们一直期待的方式来展示她的性格
玛西开始执行任务并利用她过人的知识打败古代生物的新场景是对奇幻沼泽世界观的补充,每一幅插图都像是从节目中节选出来的,而且有一种手绘的感觉,完全适合我们调皮的主角。虽然这些额外的冒险都很好,但我觉得亮点是以新的视角来看待现有的场景。玛西第一次与安妮在理想国的大门口重逢,这次在描述上完全不同,结识了安的家人的高兴与不想她选择特选家庭在一起时的自私交织在了一起
玛西冒着一切风险把安和萨沙带到奇幻沼泽,他们中的任何一个在重聚时拒绝加入她的阵营意味着这一切都是徒劳的,她忽视了她们的生命安全,而且没有办法修复这个错误。即使当音乐盒再次被谈起时,玛西也是忐忑不安地修复它,她更想看看外面有什么其他世界,而不是回到地球。这本日记假定读者事先知道该剧最大的转折,特别是知道玛西一直在撒谎,而且主要目的是将所有人永远困在奇幻沼泽。然而,这本日记的一个核心主题是宽恕,以及承认弥补你以最好的意图犯下的错误。安、马西和萨沙自始至终都有自己的错误,但最重要的信息是我们需要接受自己的缺点,并学会与它们朝夕相处
我怕破坏读者的体验,所以对很小心地概括观感,因为这本日记重新展现了《奇幻沼泽》的最后一季,因此它更加特别。在《本色乍现》结尾处马西明显死亡后,安妮接过了写日记的工作。在剧中,她对所有这些创伤都地无动于衷,但这本日记记录了这个女孩的内心想法,她因为害怕崩溃而隐藏了很多东西。挣扎是显而易见的,但也有回到家里与家人团聚的喜悦
安谈到了她的母亲作为第一代移民的挣扎,她的朋友的父母在她离开时是如何应对的,以及她究竟要如何解决这些问题。我不会谈论时间线的走向和其他即将到来的惊喜,但对我所期盼的奇幻沼泽故事的未来有如此微妙的暗示。故事显然是开放式结局,这意味着我可以随心所欲地规划三人组的未来,并看待马西对更美好事物的钦佩,以及它如何影响她对朋友、家庭的看法,以及在这个世界上找到自己的位置
《玛西日记》是将我们已经非常熟悉的故事以一种新的方式展示出来的愉快的小短片,使这段故事重新感到新鲜。其迷人的插图、犀利的文笔以及对所处世界的热爱,使每一页都成为一种享受。目前还不清楚奇幻沼泽世界观的未来是什么,但如果这是我们对这个世界和我们已经爱上的人物的最后告别,我想不出有什么更好的方式来告别
原文Marcy’s Journal - A Guide To Amphibia is way deeper than I ever expected it to be. This happy-go-lucky glimpse into the adventures of Marcy Wu, Anne Boonchuy, and Sasha Waybright, is also a surprisingly emotional character study that the animated series wasn’t always capable of providing in ten-minute episodes. Ample time is spent analysing the inner thoughts of the Calamity Trio, providing a nuanced perspective on major narrative beats that were once glossed over or left to our own interpretation. Now the show is behind us, we can appreciate everything this book achieves in a new light, and as a big fan, I was engrossed from the off.
Marcy Wu is a giant nerd, and never has that been more clear than amidst the pages of her adorable little journal. Every other sentence is filled with references to classic JRPGs or her favourite anime, passions bleeding through her adventures across Amphibia as insecurities that once held her back in the human realm are now boons to be celebrated. Fans have long labeled her as neurodivergent representation, and she all but acknowledges this fact in each entry as she admits to her difficulty with socialising, a clear hyperfixation on reuniting with her friends, or becoming a hero that mirrors the media she grew up with. It’s equal parts tragic and heartfelt, acting as a sense of wish fulfillment for a story that long went untold.
It feels like Matt Braly, Adam Colas, and Catharina Sukiman watched Marcy’s Theme Song Takeover and decided to take its disparate adventures and turn it into a sprawling narrative, one that gives robust personalities to characters who once only ever appeared in a random scene, making us care about them on a similar level to Sprig or Polly. It can be easy to forget that Marcy and Sasha didn’t just exist on the sidelines until Anne stumbled across them, they were fighting for survival amidst Amphibia much like she was, and came to their own justified conclusions about what this world means to them and whether they could make it their own.
Marcy doesn’t want to return home, habitually bringing up her parents moving away and betraying her trust, even making comparisons to villains who made similar decisions as she tries in vain to justify her own selfish mistakes. Watching as her handwriting devolves into a panicked scrawl when it’s clear her mindset is fading away is strangely emotional given how lighthearted this journal can be. The majority of pages are filled with cute observations and contemporary memes that make it very clear that Marcy is a chaotic zoomer, and one who takes pride in new discoveries and having a clear goal to work towards. This could have been a relatively dry delivery of prose and I still would have been enamoured with it, but all the individual doodles and gorgeous illustrations provide it with an unparalleled charm.
Marcy’s journey runs concurrently with Anne and Sasha’s, and we begin from her first steps into Newtopia and watch as she becomes Captain of the Night Guard before landing a sweet gig as King Andrias’ trusted advisor. Lady Olivia and General Yunan are introduced from a new context with extra nuggets of character development, while there is an awful amount of foreshadowing into the events to come that our heroine is far too innocent to notice. Yet it all feels just right, adding an extra layer of detail to Amphibia’s world. The show always delivered emotional beats, but its structure wasn’t built to pile on this amount of narrative in such a short amount of time. Of course, Marcy still finds time for fun little excursions, but each entry functions as a way to build up her character in ways we’ve all been waiting for.
The additional scenes of Marcy embarking on quests and defeating ancient creatures using her cunning knowledge are fantastic additions to Amphibia’s mythos, with each and every illustration feeling like they’ve been pulled from frames of the show, albeit with a handcrafted feel perfectly befitting of our mischievous weeaboo protagonist. While these extra moments are all excellent, my personal highlights came in the form of existing scenes viewed from a new perspective. Marcy first reuniting with Anne at the gates of Newtopia is entirely different in its execution this time around, the excitement of finding her friend tinged with an element of selfishness as she befriends her found family and fears she’d rather be with them instead.
Marcy risked everything to bring Anne and Sasha to Amphibia, and either of them refusing to join her side when reuniting means it was all for nothing, and she’d thrown their lives away with no way of repairing them. Even when the music box comes into conversation, Marcy is almost apprehensive in getting it working, far more interested in seeing what other worlds are out there instead of returning to Earth. The journal assumes prior knowledge of the show’s biggest twists, especially knowing that Marcy was lying the entire time and had the primary goal of stranding everyone in Amphibia for good. Yet a core theme of this journal is forgiveness, and the acknowledgment of making up for mistakes you made with the best of intentions. Anne, Marcy, and Sasha all make missteps throughout, but the overriding message is how we need to accept our own shortcomings and learn to live with them.
I’m tip-toeing around spoilers in fear of ruining the experience for readers, because the journal actively recontexualises the final season of Amphibia, and it shines brighter than ever as a consequence. The tome changes hands at one point, with Anne taking over as scribe in the wake of Marcy’s apparent death at the end of True Colors. She was weirdly indifferent about all of this trauma in the show itself, but the journal examines the inner thoughts of a girl who was hiding so much away in the fear of breaking down. The struggles are apparent, but there is also joy to be found in returning home to her family.
Anne talks about her mother’s struggle as a first generation immigrant, how her friend’s parents coped while she was away, and how exactly she is going to fix things. I won’t talk about where the timeline goes and what other surprises await, but there are ever so subtle hints to the future of Amphibia that I will be clinging onto with all my heart. Things are clearly left open to interpretation, meaning I could ship the Calamity Trio however I wanted and view Marcy’s admiration for the finer (read: nerdier) things and how it comes to influence her view on friends, family, and finding her place in the world.
Marcy’s Journal is a delightful little snapshot into events we are already keenly familiar with, but shown in a new light that makes them feel fresh all over again. Its charming illustrations, sharp writing, and clear love for the universe in which it resides made every page a treat. It remains unclear what the future holds for Amphibia, but if this acts as our final farewell to the world and characters we’ve fallen in love with, I can’t think of better terms to part ways.