Bento (in anime). Why is it called bento as if people are dying? What about cannon fodder?
In animation and movies, there is a word called "taking advantage of lunch". The word "Lingbento" comes from Xing Ye's comedy "king of comedy". In the play, the little guy played by Master Xing wants to be a big actor, but he can only play some cut-and-dried roles. When the director doesn't use him, he is only given a lunch box to send him away. The word "taking a lunch box" is also spread, which means the director's severance pay. In Japanese animation and games, when a character in a work dies, he can quit the performance of the crew and get a lunch box, and then he can get off work. Therefore, in the field of ACG, the death of a character is compared with the death of a leader. The guy who is destroyed by people is "getting the lunch"; Killing someone else's guy is "sending a lunch to XX". For example, "When the Cold Cicadas Cry", which started in 2006, appeared many times in the whole animation process, so it was known as the king of bento in 2006. Another example: "Detective Conan" has been counted as the number of people who have died in its murder since its launch, so it has become the king of lunch in the history of animation. The bento law in ACG field: where there are people, there are bentos.