My Animation Era

There is no objection to it.

After all, Mr. Gu nodded, how could anyone else dare to object? As a private company, Wanbao's boss's will absolutely overrides everything.

What's more, there is nothing to object to. What level of IP is "Dragon Ball"? If Dragon Ball is not worthy of a theatrical version, then Wanbao’s other animations can just be buried.

There are many theatrical versions of Dragon Ball.

Among the many theatrical versions of the original works, some are surprising, while others are speechless...

But whether you are surprised or speechless, among the many theatrical versions of the original work, most of them are short films that are less than an hour long.

This is a very serious problem.

Today's animated movies generally run between 80-120 minutes in the theatrical version. If it is a director's cut, it may be longer.

80 minutes is the bottom line.

If the theatrical version is shorter than this length, the audience may feel that the production team is not sincere and is not worth the ticket price.

This is the trend of the new era.

Everyone is doing this. If you insist on being unique and make a streamlined animated movie that is not even one hour long, then just wait to be scolded by the audience!

Because of this, it will be very troublesome for Gu Miao to draw lessons from the original work for the upcoming Dragon Ball movie version produced by Neon Division.

After all, many of the lengths of the original work are not suitable for today's era. If you follow the example, you will only die violently, and die miserably.

Several theatrical versions starting from "Dragon Ball Z: Gods and Gods" meet the standards, but these theatrical versions are too "new".

This new refers to compared to TV animation.

As the first theatrical version of the Dragon Ball series, it took too big a step and jumped directly into the "gods and gods" era. Gu Miao felt that it was not appropriate.

Still want to be conservative.

Based on some of the old theatrical versions, he appropriately expanded some plots until the duration was extended to more than 80 minutes. He thought that was enough, and other requirements could not be too high.

Theatrical version, especially the theatrical version of a super popular anime like Dragon Ball, is different in nature from "The Return of the Great Sage" and "The Lion King", and the audience's expectations are also different.

for example.

There is a sequel to the movie "Transformers". Everyone knows what they want to see, and the director also knows what fans want to see.

So the movie fans bought the tickets and went in to see Wuhu! The transformation of the Autobots, the exciting chases and fights, the appearance of various fighter planes, tanks and aircraft carriers, the robot battles...it's money well spent! The special effects are enjoyable!

Why is this so?

Because for a movie like "Transformers", when everyone sees the title, they can already guess what the content is like.

In other movies, all kinds of secrets and mysteries are used before the release.

Transformers, on the other hand, puts its selling point directly in front of all the audience: I just sell special effects, and the main attraction is robots fighting. Just tell me whether you want to see it or not.

Similar to the theatrical version of animations such as "Dragon Ball", the same principle is actually the same.

Dragon Ball has a theatrical version. Anyone who is not stupid knows what story this theatrical version tells. The main selling point of the movie is definitely the various big fight scenes.

The logic is the same.

Everyone buys tickets to watch the "Dragon Ball" theatrical version, isn't it because of the exciting and exciting battle depictions? If you do what fans should do for a movie, this theatrical version will naturally be successful.

As for other aspects?

All I can say is that everyone who understands understands.

…

Dragon Ball The Movie is definitely a big movie for fans, similar in nature to "Detective Conan" the movie and "Doraemon" the movie.

This kind of animated movie, to put it bluntly, is just trying to make money.

Because of this, although Gu Miao has certain expectations for the theatrical version of "Dragon Ball", these expectations are more aimed at the box office prospects and are not as important as "Okja Love Story".

"If you talk about performance and audience, the ten Okja love stories put together probably can't beat even one Dragon Ball movie."

"But the nature of the two films is completely different, and the subject matter is also very different. There is no need to compare the two films together if they are not from the same track." Gu Miao shook her head.

"makes sense……"

Lao Zhang deeply agreed, and then asked: "So "Go Boy" is also like this, taking the niche and unpopular route?"

"Yes and no!"

Gu Miao did not deny this.

After all, compared with Wanbao's works of the same period, such as "Journey to the West 3D", "Wandering Animated World", and "Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds", the audience of "Go Boy" is indeed very narrow.

But to say that it is unpopular, that is not the case.

Go is an unpopular project, but it does not mean that Go animation is an unpopular subject!

On the contrary, chess-related animations, comics and even games have always been quite popular, with many fans both at home and abroad.

Who says CyberGo is not Go?

Speaking of this, Gu Miao suddenly thought of the reply he gave Xiao Ke yesterday when Xiao Ke came to him and asked him if no one would watch the animation "Go Boy".

No one is watching? I want to eat shit!

Some people even read shit like XX's story, and some people read the dark little mermaid. Why didn't anyone read Jiang Liu'er?

"I'm not telling you, you are all wrong. Go Boy has never been a simple Go animation!"

Gu Miao explained speechlessly: "A 13-year-old boy's family is in ruins, he bears a blood feud, he gets a chance to rise quickly, and finally defeats countless powerful enemies and reaches the top... What does this kind of story template look like to you?"

"Hot-blooded Internet article!"

Lao Zhang said without thinking.

As soon as he finished speaking, he realized, good guy, after removing this part of Go, the main line of the animation is really a standard template for cool writing.

"So what are you worried about?"

"Instead of worrying about the unpopular theme of "Go Boy" and that no one will watch it after it airs, it is better to worry about Fat Tiger." Gu Miao rolled her eyes wildly.

"Fat Tiger? What happened to him?"

Lao Zhang was a little confused when he heard this. Isn't Fat Hu working on the animation "Three Years of My Son-in-law, I'm the Immortal King and I Stop Pretending", an online text adaptation?

I heard that the animation will be broadcast soon. Could it be that there was trouble during the submission process?

"That's right!"

Gu Miao nodded and said: "Director Wang told me that this animation is considered by many die-hards to have kitsch themes, incorrect plot views, and revealing characters..."

He read all the review comments.

In general, he expected to be criticized. After all, there were some things that went too far.

For example, there is a problem with the female character's clothing. There is no complete piece of fabric on her body, so it is normal for her to be criticized and asked to correct it.

Fat Tiger really wanted to take care of the audience's feelings. In order to provide benefits to his brothers, he wandered on the edge of passing the trial and tried wildly.

"You won't be able to pass the trial, right?"

After hearing this, Lao Zhang couldn't help but worry: "With such a large investment, it would be a bad thing if it fails to pass the trial in the end."

"No, just add a coat to the female character. There aren't many female characters in the play anyway."

Gu Miao was very relaxed.

Because he has connections, he can know that the main reason why the review is blocked is that the female character is dressed too revealingly.

As for the accusations that the protagonist kills people and buys goods, and that the plot is not correct, it is purely above the line.

If you have to put it this way, of all the fantasy fairy tales adapted by Penguin, which one doesn't involve killing people and cheating? Which protagonist has the most upright views?

Stop being funny!

In online novels, especially fantasy novels, there are almost no protagonists who have extremely upright views. If you have to find fault, many seemingly perfect protagonists have problems such as "selfishness and double standards, lust and greed".

While saying, "The devil deserves death," he turned around and fell asleep with a beautiful female temptress. Isn't this kind of thing uncommon?

Almost all animations adapted from online novels cannot tolerate criticism. Only Tomato’s work has a slightly normal outlook on the protagonist.

So just listen to this accusation.

It’s not difficult for the Immortal King’s son-in-law to pass the trial. The real difficulty is how to deal with the old audience who are tired of seeing the same “routines”?

The transformation of online text into animation began to rise and lead the trend the year before last.

Since then, the domestic animation industry has seen the emergence of many highly "homogenized" web adaptations.

What does serious homogeneity mean?

Not only are the plots extremely similar, the audience will know whether he wants to poop or fart as soon as the male protagonist sticks his butt out, but there is also the homogeneity of the 3D modeling of the characters.

Putting ten heroines/males of web-based anime adaptations together, it would be like ten first-generation Ultraman, Zoffie, and Ultraman Jack standing together.

Regardless of how they are dressed, how many people can tell which anime’s male/female protagonist these faces correspond to?

They look so much alike!

Fortunately, Son-in-law Fairy King is a 2D animation instead of the 3D production commonly used in the industry. Otherwise, the faces of the male and female protagonists may have become "Internet celebrity faces", seriously lacking in recognition.

But then again.

Although it is produced in 2D and avoids extremely homogeneous character modeling, the homogeneity of the plot is still unavoidable.

There's really no way around it.

There are only those routines in online novels, such as the waste material flow, the genius flow, the son-in-law flow... As long as the genre is the same, the plot will inevitably have a certain degree of repetition.

The title of The Immortal King of Son-in-law makes it clear that this is an online novel of the son-in-law genre. In this case, it is difficult for the plot to avoid some of the usual routines of the son-in-law genre.

After the animation is broadcast, some people will definitely complain that the plot is too old-fashioned. He has seen this scene hundreds of years ago...

Regarding this, the solution Gu Miao and Chen Hu came up with was to "revamp" it, disguise it as a lightly modified animation about reincarnation in another world, and send it to overseas markets to test the waters.

Chen Hu is very awesome.

Since receiving the guidance from Mr. Gu and feeling that this matter was promising, he immediately contacted President Seto of Wanbao Neon Branch to communicate and arrange corresponding matters.

Now, the plan has begun to be implemented.

…

Ryano Fusuke, who has just entered the second grade of junior high school, lives in Chiba and is a senior otaku whose online name is "Chiba's No. 1 Girl Controller".

Yes, he is a girl control.

But Feng Jie not only doesn't have a sister, he doesn't even have a cousin, which makes him often lament that it would be better if his parents were more supportive.

But that's not important!

Although he has no sisters in the third dimension, he has many sisters in the second dimension, such as elves, succubi, monster girls, slimes, dragons... all kinds of races, and their personalities are also diverse.

On weekdays, apart from basic club activities, Fousuke basically devotes all his free time to ACGN, which contains animations, comics, games, and light novels.

His favorite is the theme of reincarnation in another world, and he never gets tired of many otherworld anime.

Don't ask why he is so keen on reincarnation in another world. The question is that he is too useless in real life and longs to be reincarnated in another world to dominate.

As an otaku, it’s normal to have such thoughts.

However, a "special" reincarnation anime that just aired recently made him change his original idea.

"Life in a Different World Starting from Marriage"!

It was this animation that shocked him, and he instantly realized that the other world did not seem so beautiful. It turned out that the other world could be so cruel and dark.

He only watched the first episode.

In the first episode of the animation, the male protagonist is sent to a different world by a truck. At the beginning, he falls in love with a rich woman and becomes the son-in-law of a huge family.

"Wuhu, take off!"

When he first saw this opening, the young Suangno Fusuke did not realize the seriousness of the problem. He only felt that this opening was simply invincible.

I just picked up a wife for nothing through time travel, and this wife is as beautiful as a fairy. Her father is the lord of a city and a powerful immortal cultivator. What a great start?

But as he looked at it, Ryuno Fusuke's smile suddenly solidified.

What?

The protagonist was born with a broken pulse and is a useless person who cannot practice? Moreover, his wife has a bad attitude, so she asked him to get married just because she wanted the male protagonist’s family secrets?

The father-in-law and mother-in-law even tortured the male protagonist in every possible way, trying to force him to find out the whereabouts of the secret book. The maids and servants did not take the male protagonist as a "brother-in-law" seriously and directly mocked him in person.

Suzuno Fusuke, who had never seen such a battle before, was completely depressed after watching the first episode of the anime.

"Damn it! This damn woman actually asked the male protagonist to drink her foot-washing water. If he didn't drink it, she would splash him with foot-washing water..."

Fusuke had a strong sense of immersion when watching animations. Because of this, when he saw this explosive scene, he was already shaking with anger.

He was originally full of fantasies about another world, but now he only had one thought: Fortunately, he didn't travel through another world!

Otherwise, if he was treated like this, he would feel extremely aggrieved just thinking about it. The most uncomfortable thing is that the protagonist is born with a broken pulse and cannot cultivate, and has no right to speak in this different world where strength is paramount.

Damn it...

For the next week, Fousuke was in a particularly bad and depressed mood, and all he could think about was the miserable appearance of the protagonist being bullied and unable to resist.

Go to such a different world!

Whoever wants to go can go. If the other world is all like this, then it is better to keep the status quo.

After all, living in modern society, no one dared to bully him like this, at least not openly.

Fuusuke, who was getting more and more worried the more he thought about it, finally got through the week and took the time to watch the second episode of the anime.

"Xiao Fan, do you dare to hit me?"

"What's wrong with beating you? Not only do I want to beat you, I also want to divorce you!"

OK OK!

Seeing that the protagonist no longer tolerated it and slapped his evil wife directly, Fousuke was as happy and refreshed as if he drank a glass of iced Coke in the summer, and the feeling of suffocation a week ago was instantly swept away.

This is the animation from another world that real men should watch, and this is the life in another world that he wants...

A mere slap brought Feng Jie as much pleasure as the school beauty confessing her love to him in public, and it also made him look forward to the subsequent plot even more.