Chapter 709: Half a Year of Fan Guangmei (Please Subscribe)

New year, new start.

As Wanbao's first work of the new year, the animated "Date Live II" lived up to expectations and successfully got off to a good start.

Relatively excellent production, combined with a relatively stable plot, and the fan base accumulated after the first season was broadcast, made "Yue Zhan 2" the brightest star during the New Year's Day holiday.

Of course, only in ACG circles.

The possibility of a neon animation with a harem romance theme being out of the entertainment industry is not high, and since it has only been aired for one episode, it is already pretty good if it can cause a sensation in the industry.

The playback volume is pretty good...

This is also due to the support of die-hard fans. Although the animation has only been updated for one episode, many people have watched it twice and even started to analyze the details of the first episode frame by frame.

All I can say is, it tastes right!

Compared with the number of views on domestic online platforms, the performance of the "Yue Zhan 2" animation in Neon's hometown seems a bit underwhelming.

There is a reason for this.

The biggest root cause is that the neon animation market has been "depressed" for too long.

After all, it is a big animation country, but last year, except for "Dragon Ball", there was no animation that was good, which is embarrassing to say.

After the trough, comes recovery!

After experiencing a trough last year, the neon animation industry ushered in a round of recovery this year, with excellent works springing up one after another.

From mid-December to early January, many high-quality series on different worlds, campus romances, and passionate battles were launched one after another.

Don't talk about a date.

Even the "Dragon Ball" animation, which suppressed the crowd and was regarded as a "masterpiece" by many neon animation fans, saw its ratings drop a lot during this period.

But it's not a big problem.

Since the end of the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai, the ratings of the "Dragon Ball" animation have experienced multiple ups and downs, which was also expected by Nishio.

He told Gu Miao.

Soon, it is expected that in February and March, after the plots of the Red Silk Army and the Fortune-telling Granny are concluded, the ratings of the "Dragon Ball" animation will reach its second peak.

Because the 22nd World No. 1 Martial Arts Tournament is about to begin!

This not only means that the plot will enter the next high-energy moment, but also means that Wukong is not far away from "growing up".

After the end of the 22nd World's Best Martial Arts Tournament, there will be a series of high-octane plots such as Demon King Piccolo, temple training, and the 23rd World's Best Martial Arts Tournament.

After this series of events ends, comes the most surprising "Saiyan" chapter!

Of course, the story about the Saiyans, Goku's life experience, and his marriage to Chi-Chi are all the plot of the second season of "Dragon Ball Z".

According to Nishio's adaptation plan, the first season of the animation "Dragon Ball" Unprinted Chapter will almost be completed by the end of the 23rd World No. 1 Budokai.

Why not keep doing it?

On the one hand, it has been serialized for too long. The plots currently planned are enough to be aired until the end of the year.

It has been serialized for two years. The audience needs some time to relax, and the animation production team also needs to wake up.

On the other hand, Nishio, as the animation supervisor, also needs to squeeze out time and energy this year to toss what the president calls "punching and kicking" magical girls.

This can be considered as multitasking!

Fortunately, the follow-up plot of the animated "Dragon Ball", including storyboards and fight designs, has the original comics for reference, and Seto helps keep an eye on them.

Therefore, Nishio is not too worried about the follow-up of "Dragon Ball". On the contrary, "PreCure", which the president said before, gives him a headache.

Oh my God! Spare him...

Nishio is so old and has been engaged in animation production for so many years, but he has never done this kind of "magical girl" animation. It can be said that he has no experience at all.

Not to mention magical girls.

He has never made an animation with a little girl as the "protagonist". Seto has made "Sailor Moon" and has a little more experience than him.

All I can say is that I suffered a great sin.

Gu Miao, who was far away in Jiangchuan, was very aware of Xiwei's complaints and complaints, but he did not waver in his determination.

Until now, he still believes that Nishio, who is responsible for the production of the "Dragon Ball" project, is the most suitable supervisor for "Guangmei", and there is not even one!

Don't ask why, the question is that Guangmei and Longzhu seem to be incompatible, but they actually have something in common.

"What is the core of Guangmei?"

"In other words, there are so many magical girl animations, how do you attract viewers? What is your main selling point?"

During the video call, Gu Miao said without hesitation: "You are right, you are not the most suitable candidate for supervision, and you have no experience..."

"But it is precisely you who can hope to create a unique and non-mainstream magical girl animation!"

"non-mainstream?!"

Nishio thought about the president's words and said with a thoughtful expression: "My best field is fighting movements, very intense battle scenes."

"Then blend in!" Gu Miao patted the table excitedly, "Do you still remember what I told you? You have to punch to the flesh, punch and kick, and break people's attitude towards magical girls. The inherent impression of magic.”

"I understand these..."

Nishio scratched his chicken coop-like hair and frowned, "But isn't it a little out of character for a magical girl to do this?"

Is it too violent?

Magical girls in the past were the incarnations of love, peace, truth, goodness and beauty. How could they exist so brutally and violently?

"What do you want all this for?"

Gu Miao scolded angrily: "Whether the audience accepts this setting is not a question you should consider. At worst, we can make it shorter and only do it for half a year, just as an experiment."

"That's okay!"

When Nishio heard this, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief and felt that the pressure was not as great as before.

After all, what he is most worried about is that if it is defined as a year, it will be a huge investment.

With such a large investment, if the audience cannot accept this "non-mainstream" magical girl setting and the animation is put on the street, then he will really have a caesarean section to apologize.

There won’t be so many things in the half-year series.

Compared with the annual animation with more than 50 episodes, the half-year cycle is short and the investment is small. In the words of the president, it is just an experiment.

If the experiment was unsuccessful, the torture would end soon after half a year anyway.

The losses were within an acceptable range, and the entire Neon branch would not be in crisis because of the disastrous failure of this one project.

Then it’s decided!

After communication between Nishio and Gu Miao, it has been tentatively confirmed that the animation "Pretty Cure" will be produced as an "experimental" "half-year series".

The tentative series is 26 episodes!

Originally, Nishio wanted to fight for it, which meant that he would first make a season of 12 episodes to see the results, and then decide whether to expand it to a "half-year series."

But Gu Miao didn't agree with anything.

26 episodes in half a year is already his bottom line. If it is reduced to 12 episodes in a season, it will be too short...

What story can be told in 12 episodes?