my animation era

Chapter 184 Sister Animation (for Subscription)

Neon, Kyoto.

In the Wanbao (Neon) branch, Seto is reporting the latest work plan to the president through a portable Internet video conferencing system.

"Hi!"

"The animation "Sailor Moon" has started its second round of reruns in many countries and regions."

Seto explained: "TBS has been asking me, when will the second season of "Sailor Moon" be produced?"

Is TBS in such a hurry?

No need!

The first season of the animation has just ended, so it’s time to take a break and organize your thoughts, and then think about the second season next year. How can it be so fast?
Gu Miao couldn't figure it out, so he asked, "Has anything happened to TBS recently? Why are you in such a hurry?"

"Something did happen..."

Seto introduced to Gu Miao some things that happened on TBS TV station recently.

The situation is not complicated.

Mainly the TBS animation production department, the two self-made animations that were ambitiously launched this year with "light revisions" all suffered serious losses.

This also caused a chain reaction.

If one animation fails, it can be said to be an accident, but if two animations fail in a row, it is not only an accident, but there may be a deeper reason.

all in all.

The failure of two consecutive popular works has caused tremendous pressure on TBS.

After all, after "Sailor Moon" ended, the new work encountered Waterloo again. If we don't do anything, the audience will be lost to ANB and other TV stations.

Perhaps because of this, TBS urged Wanbao to release the second season of "Sailor Moon" as soon as possible to stabilize the morale of the army.

But this thing...

Urging is useless!

The second season of the animation "Sailor Moon", which is the rumored "Sailor Moon R", has not yet been planned, let alone started production.

Isn't this embarrassing!
Although everyone likes to call Gu Miao and Wanbao "high-yielding sows", he is not a real sow.

Taking a step back, even if she is really a sow, she has to be bred before giving birth, right?
"TBS is under a lot of pressure, and the ratings continue to slump. It is said that many advertisers have withdrawn their advertisements one after another..."

Withdraw the ad?
Has it come to this point?
Generally speaking, unless the ratings of TV stations are really unacceptably low, advertisers will not easily use the "withdrawal" clause to stop losses.

After all, popular advertising positions are generally paid by the second. If the advertisement is withdrawn, the advertiser will also suffer huge losses.

Gu Miao was suddenly curious.

What exactly did TBS do to disappoint the audience so much, and even caused a large number of advertisers to "run away with buckets"?

This is a rare thing!

In his impression, it seems that a similar situation has occurred in CCTV [-] in China.But that time it was a new drama of a certain little fresh meat, the ratings soared to the bottom of the earth, and the advertisers couldn't stand it, so they ran away.

What kind of animation did TBS do?
How could it be more intimidating than the rotten drama of Xiao Xianrou?It doesn't make sense!

"It's hard to describe!"

Seto smiled wryly and said: "Those two animations are adaptations of light novels, and the original works are already very bad. The animation production is still short of funds and the time limit is tight, resulting in incomplete plots, distorted and broken paintings..."

"That's all right!"

As soon as Gu Miao heard the words "the original work sucks", she already knew it in her heart.

The original sucks, and the adaptation sucks!

This kind of "rotten and worse" animation sudden death is simply the light of the righteous way!No matter who comes, they have to say "good death".

"Oh yes, President."

"Sister-type works are very popular in the neon market recently. Whether it is sister-type light novels or sister-type comics, the market response is very good."

Seto hesitated for a moment before saying, "Should we follow the trend and make a sister animation to test the waters?"

"Sister animation?!"

Gu Miao was taken aback for a moment, then fell into deep thought.

One thing is undeniable, that is, whether you are doing animation, writing novels or drawing comics, the easiest way to succeed is naturally to follow the "trend".

simply put.

We will do what the market desires and what the audience wants to see.

If Neon really has a trend of "sisters" now, then it can indeed follow the market trend and launch a "seasonal" work to test the waters.

only……

The proposition of "sister series" is very broad!
Different from the exclusive terms of "brother control" and "sister control", the interpretation of sister animation in a broad sense is: as long as there are kawaii female characters, it can be counted as "sister" animation.

This "sister" is not that "sister"!
In a broad sense, sisters should refer to "beautiful female characters".In the narrow sense, the sister line refers to the relationship between righteous sisters, brothers and sisters, and sisters.

Of course, this is only Gu Miao's understanding.

In the eyes of the audience, as long as the protagonist has a kawaii sister, it is considered a sister animation.You don't even have a younger sister, how dare you call yourself a younger sister?
Pooh!What a shame!

The younger sister works that Seto said are very popular, referring to those works that "focus on portraying the protagonist's younger sister", that is, "sister series" in a narrow sense.

For this kind of works, Gu Miao has many choices.

But he wanted to hear Seto's opinion.

After all, he is not from Neon, and he lives in Jiangchuan all the year round, so he doesn't know the market trend of Neon.He needs to listen to Seto's opinion before choosing a suitable work location.

"should be……"

Seto, who was in the video conference, scratched his head and said, "It's more cute, it's more about the daily school girls' works!"

According to him.

At present, the "sister series" works that are popular in neon generally focus on "everyday campus" plots, and rarely have elements such as superpowers, magic, and fierce battles.

That excludes many works.

If it is partial to daily campus plots, it will focus on the direction of "warm and funny".As for sister animations in this area, there are really not many optional works.

"It's already November!"

Gu Miao calculated that if "Sailor Moon 2" is going to be done next year, it will take at most 3-4 months, which is the standard of 12 episodes.

Exclude those feature-length animations.

In this way, works that are suitable for Wanbao Neon branch to "practice" and test the trend of the "sister series" market are actually easy to choose.

"What about the Three Sisters theme?"

"Three sisters?"

Seto was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "Are there three heroines? Is there a love element? If there is, then choose one of the three male protagonists?"

"No, no, refuse to trade in stocks!"

Gu Miao shook her head and said, "I'm a serious animation producer, how could I become a stockbroker?"

"There is no male protagonist in this animation!"

After spending a long time, Seto, who finally understood what the president meant by "stock trading", couldn't help asking: "Without a male lead, there would be no love element! As a sister animation, this is really appropriate. ?"

"Who said that there must be a love element to be called a sister animation? And...the absence of a male protagonist does not mean that there are no male characters!"

Gu Miao was speechless.

What kind of pig brain is this, can't tell the difference between the male lead and the male supporting role, right?

(End of this chapter)