My Animation Era

Penguin is willing to invest in Wanbao Video, which is a good thing for Gu Miao.

Don't worry about your identity. If you have money, you are your father. If you are willing to spend money on Wanbao Video, don't care if it has evil intentions or is it an undercover agent sent by a friend?

Moreover.

Investment is investment, and competition is competition. Gu Miao didn't even say that she took Penguin's money, but turned around and gave the "Wild Wilds" animation a five-star rating!

One yard owned by a yard.

Wanbao Video, which is preparing to go public, decided to accept investment from Penguin. This has nothing to do with the competition between "The Wilderness" and "Hell Girl" in the summer vacation.

The producers of the two animations are still throwing dirty water at each other, and the war of words between fans has become increasingly fierce.

But then again...

"Hell Girl" has indeed taken advantage of its excellent production standards and the popularity brought by Professor Luo in terms of reputation and broadcast volume.

Especially when the plots of the two animations are getting better and better, and after the broadcast is halfway through, the gap becomes even more obvious.

The Wilderness lacked a follow-up.

As I said before, the most exciting chapter of the original novel is the first 1 million words, the "Zongmen Chapter" where the protagonist is still very weak.

After being adapted into animation, the most exciting sect chapter of the original work was briefly ignored, and the protagonist who appeared in the animation was super strong as soon as he appeared.

Maybe the screenwriter thinks...

The protagonist appears to be a super strong person when he appears, and it will be fun to watch him pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger.

But he was wrong.

The reason why the audience likes the original novel "The Wilderness" is mainly because they saw with their own eyes the process of a time-traveler from a humble background climbing up step by step and transforming from an ant into a strong man through his own efforts.

To put it bluntly, what fans of the original novel like is the kind of "starting from scratch" development flow, rather than the invincible flow where a strong person appears on the scene.

The screenwriter's change has won the love of many online fans who like Wudi and viewers who like to watch "pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger", but fans of the original work feel that this animation is too disappointing.

The number of fans of the original novel is huge.

When the more they watched, the more they felt something was wrong, and even gradually became disappointed, the animation playback volume collapsed.

"This is just one of the things..."

"Another reason is that if you keep watching the same show-off and slap-in-the-face routine, you will really get tired of it if you watch it too much!"

Gu Miao explained: "The protagonist's growth process in the early stage involves various adventures and life-and-death crises. It would be better to adapt it into an animation, because it is all about pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger."

Once or twice is fine.

But every time, the protagonist goes to a place, is ridiculed and belittled because of his hidden strength, and then reveals his identity as an elder and his super strength to get slapped in the face and win the favor of a beauty.

This kind of drama has lasted for so many episodes, even the most loyal fans can't help but complain. Can there be some freshness?

"So the problem is still the same. You shouldn't skip the 1 million-word plot in the early stage. Without the foreshadowing of that plot, it will be very brainless and awkward to watch later."

"That's right!"

Gu Miao nodded.

Needless to say, the follow-up adaptation of the animation "The Wilderness" was really good, but skipping the first one million words was too bad, and it directly led to the lack of follow-up of this animation.

If it were adapted according to the original work, starting from when the protagonist was still very weak and witnessing his adventures and life-and-death crises along the way, the audience would not find it boring.

Look at the number of views...

Before, it was still over 40 million per episode. Starting from the 10th episode, the number of views dropped to about 10 million per episode. By the 20th episode, the number of views per episode was not even 5 million.

On the other hand, Hell Girl.

The start was limited by the user base of Wanbao Video. The number of views was indeed not too high, but it became more and more popular as it was played.

After only 10 episodes were aired, the total number of views has reached 875 million, and the seventh episode with the highest number of views has already approached 100 million.

…

The animation "Hell Girl" is becoming more and more popular, and it has become the most popular animation work on the Internet.

At this time, Wanbao launched a lot of peripheral derivatives based on the Hell Girl animation, intending to take advantage of the popularity of the animation to make a profit.

But it's embarrassing.

Wanbao officially released peripheral derivatives, but few fans paid for it. Instead, a video teaching people how to use straw to tie a little man with a red rope became popular.

What's the meaning?

You don’t buy official peripherals. You like to make your own peripherals, right?

It’s okay to make it yourself, but what’s not good but make that straw doll with a red string? Also specifically marked that the doll is Gu Miao?

"Hahaha!"

After learning that fans all over the Internet were tying up red string dolls in the hope that Hell Girl could send Gu Sanshui away happily, Lao Zhang, a heartless ghost, laughed so hard that he couldn't even close his mouth.

"What are you laughing laughing?"

Gu Miao said with a dark face: "Is it so funny? The person who pays your salary is cursed, don't you want to do something?"

What can I do?

Do you want me to advise the fans not to stab the villain? If Hell Girl can’t send Mr. Gu away, maybe he will be sent away by Mr. Gu in turn?

"Although I'm not afraid of curses, and I don't believe in them, but with so many people stabbing my little person, I will inevitably panic..."

Gu Miao frowned and said: "This is nothing. The key is that netizens are doing this. It seems that some people really believe that Hell Girls and Hell Communication are real."

"Isn't it?"

Lao Zhang's smile solidified and he said: "Isn't this just a joke among netizens? Will anyone really believe it?"

Good guy!

Hell Girls and Hell Communication are just settings in animation. When can a fictional setting be taken seriously?

"People have built a temple for Xiao Ai, and there is endless incense every day. Do you think anyone believes it?"

Lao Zhang: "..."

Building a temple for Yama, burning incense and worshiping gods is too abstract.

Not to mention that Yama Ai itself is just a fictional character in the animation. This god does not exist in reality. The key is why do you worship her?

I hope she will take you away soon?

Since Lao Zhang joined Wanbao, he has seen many abstract masters, but this is the first time he has seen one that has abstracted to this level.

"what is it now?"

"Issuing an announcement to dissuade and clarify!"

Gu Miao explained: "If this continues, I'm really afraid that many years later, Xiao Ai will become a god worshiped by the people, and no one will know her specific origins."

Ah this? !

Damn it, aren’t you about to take the college entrance examination? Let's go, daddy will take you to pay homage to the God of Examination, Yama Ai. It is said that this God of Examination is quite effective, and you will definitely become the top scorer in high school after you take it!

Thinking that many years later, this scene would most likely become true, Lao Zhang also felt that this matter must be paid attention to.

On a smaller scale, this is to protect the image of the animated characters; on a larger scale, it is to avoid being labeled as "promoting feudal superstition".

Don't mess around!

You said that you stabbed Mr. Gu and cursed him to run out of paper and drop his cell phone in the toilet. If you really believed in the urban legend of the Hell Girl, you must have something wrong with your brain.

It’s so funny, girls are free for the blind date event, and boys are more than 100 per person. As a result, not many boys signed up, so the event was cancelled…