My Animation Era

  Chapter 191 Adaptation and originality (for subscription)

   After the park opened, business is booming.

   Almost every day, there are tens of thousands of tourists from Jiangchuan and even from nearby provinces and cities, bringing their families to the park to play.

   During the peak period, there were even 100,000 people.

  If it wasn't for the implementation of the "free admission" policy, Gu Miao would be able to make a lot of money just by collecting the entrance fee.

   But it's not a big problem...

  Although one week before the opening, there is not much ticket money. But in this business, who expects tickets to make a profit?

  As long as tourists enter the gate, they have to spend money on eating, drinking, and sleeping, and they have to buy two souvenirs before leaving. Aren’t these all profitable?

and!

  Don’t forget that the core area of ​​the entire Pleasant Goat Paradise, that is, the animation street and the comic street, is a “two-dimensional theme business district”.

  The meaning of the business district, no one will not understand it?

  Daily Jindoujin may be a bit exaggerated! But it shouldn't be a big problem to make half a bucket of money every day. Excluding various operation and maintenance costs, the park’s daily profit after opening is in the millions.

   Of course, this is certainly not the norm.

   After all, the park has just opened and free tickets are implemented, so many people will come. But after this period of time, as the number of tourists declines, it should not make so much money.

  Gu Miao thinks it's okay.

  He didn't expect to make a lot of money from this, but he just hoped to use the paradise to expand the reputation of Wanbao Animation.

   By the way.

   Except for the first day when the park opened, Gu Miao was a little worried, so he ran to take a look, and the next day he wiped the neon.

   "Gou Rare! Come back to me!"

  Jiang Keke roared on the phone: "The company is such a big mess, you don't care about it, but you still go to the neon lights to eat, drink and have fun, are you still a person?"

   "Who is eating and drinking?"

   "Don't talk nonsense about things without evidence! I went to Nihong for a business trip, so how can it be called eating, drinking and having fun?" Gu Miao said guiltily.

   "What a business trip!"

  Jiang Keke was very annoyed and laughed back: "Take the employees to visit the custom shop, and go to the company for reimbursement. You are definitely the most disdainful boss I have ever seen."

  Gu Miao: "..."

broken!

   Didn't Seto pay for it himself? Why are you still taking the company account? Now it's caught.

   "Ahem!"

   After coughing, Gu Miao seriously explained: "Listen to me, I'm really serious! Didn't Seto want to make a new work? Because I don't have a clue, so let me make suggestions."

   "So what... Neon people are more polite, we chatted and chatted, and got lost accidentally, and walked into a custom shop."

   It’s okay to get lost!

  Whether Jiang Kexin believed it or not, Gu Miao did anyway. He came to Nihong purely for the animation project of "The Three Sisters of the Southern Family".

   That's right, that's it.

   It has been a while since the first season of the anime "Sailor Moon" ended. Considering the current situation of the neon branch, Gu Miao decided to start a new work production plan.

  Tentatively scheduled for "Season Fan"!

  That is three months and twelve episodes, the standard neon season animation.

  Actually, at the beginning, Gu Miao's plan was to define "Three Sisters of the Southern Family" as a "half year show", which means about 24 episodes.

   But Seto thought it was too long.

  Because they will have a second season of Sailor Moon to be produced and aired next year. If we do a half-year series now, the second season of American War may have to be delayed until the next year.

  After some discussions, it was finally determined: the first season of the animation "Three Sisters of the Southern Family" will only be a season series!

  The length of the twelve episodes is just right. Even if an episode is 24-26 minutes long, it is only about 300 minutes.

   Is 300 minutes long?

  To be honest, in the animation industry, especially feature-length animations, the total duration of 300 minutes is considered very short.

  However, considering that this is only the first season of animation, and there will be second, third and even more seasons to follow, this length is understandable.

  The original "Three Sisters of the Southern Family" is a "manga" animation.

  But there are no original comics in this world, so the nature has become Wanbao's "original non-adapted" animation.

   Don't underestimate this difference!

  Whether it is a manga revision or a light revision, there is always one hurdle that cannot be circumvented, and that is the views of the readers of the original work.

   If you change it well, it will be fine.

  Once the modification is poor, or even changed to a piece of shit, the animation production team will definitely not be able to please, not to mention being torn to pieces by fans of the original work, at least they will be scolded bloody.

  Original animations don’t have to worry about this.

  Because it is original, there are no fans of the original work with a "magnifying glass" to look at it all the time, so even if there are some problems, it will not appear too serious.

  The audience's tolerance for original animation is obviously more than that of adapted animation.

   But there is also a problem.

  Original animation has such advantages, but its disadvantages are also obvious, that is, it is difficult for fans who do not have the accumulation of "original" manga/light novels to break out from the crowd of competing products and win the favor of the audience.

Ok!

   This is a very real problem.

  Adapted animation is a "double-edged sword".

  Original animation belongs to "starting from scratch", without accumulation and attention, unless the work is really excellent, the possibility of being buried is far greater than that of adapted animation.

  Wanbao version of "Three Sisters of the Southern Family" is an original animation on the surface, and there are no fans of the original work.

But in fact…

   The signboard of the Wanbao (Neon) branch is really eye-catching. Their last TV animation work was called "Sailor Moon".

   Sailor Moon!

  Based on just these few words, no matter whether it is the audience or the bigwigs in the industry, they will not ignore "The Three Sisters of the Southern Family".

  This also means that although "The Three Sisters of the Southern Family" is only an original animation, it enjoys the unique "sense of attention" and "sense of anticipation" that is unique to adapted animation.

   To be honest, Seto was stressed.

   This is the first time he has independently supervised the production of a commercial TV animation work since he joined Wanbao.

   I didn't expect to start so high!

  Because of the great success of "Sailor Moon", everyone is looking forward to the second TV animation launched by the Wanbao (Neon) branch.

   This expectation...

  From Seto's point of view, it is actually a great pressure.

  Because he knew that "The Three Sisters of the Southern Family" was destined to be compared with "Sailor Moon" by the audience since its birth.

   How does this compare?

  The two are completely different types of works with different themes. Apart from being produced by the same company, there is no connection at all.

  But I can't stand "Sailor Moon" is too successful!

  As the second work of Wanbao (Neon) Division, everyone is full of expectations, hoping to see the rise of the second "Sailor Moon".

"Do not give yourself too much pressure."

  Gu Miao pondered: "We can't interfere with other people's thoughts, we can only do what we need to do, and leave the rest to fate."

  Seto nodded numbly.

   It has been raining for a week, and I don’t know when it will be sunny...

  (end of this chapter)