Is this cartoonist mentally ill?.

Chapter 454: Kana Urobuchi Nobu and the Magical Girl
"…C Station's strategy for the next year is to work with the major animation production companies present here to produce more original series."

"…In addition to the works that have been prepared for animation, such as "Flame Fist", "Dou Guiyixian", "God Clan", and "Jujutsu Kaisen", more original scripted dramas will be produced…"

"…In terms of cost, Station C will look at the initial review scores of the show's script and setting, and will give production funds based on the review standards…"

"…In terms of production, the animation production department of C Station, which has worked with partners in the past to produce popular works such as "Akame ga Kill", "Mado Ghoul", and "Fate Zero", will provide certain assistance…"

"...We will also discover more outstanding animation producers, create more TV series scripts together, and produce TV series with the major animation production companies present here..."

……

As the New Year is approaching, Station C has released explosive news one after another.

The first is several popular comic works now, such as Lin Qingshan’s 18+ comic work "Flame Fist" which has never been animated before.

Now, "The Taoist Priestess", which ranks first in popularity and performance, is about to be adapted into an animation after the animation project has been approved.

In response to this, comic fans have expressed that their youth is over!

Oh my god! "Flame Fist" and "The Dao of Strange Immortal" can actually be animated.

Lin Qingshan's works are not as simple as the animation of "Flame Fist" and "Dao Guiyixian", but also his short comic "Goodbye Eri", which has also been bought by a domestic film and television company and is preparing to be remade into a live-action literary film.

"Parasyte", which has already been adapted into an animation and a spin-off American TV series, was also bought with the intention of being made into a movie.

Coincidentally, the protagonist Shinichi is played by Gu Yuege who appeared in "Parasyte: Gray Army" before.

Even Lin Qingshan's less popular horror comic "Vortex" had its copyright bought by WB Films, which was preparing to make it into a horror movie.

Lin Qingshan was the most popular person at that time.

After all, the influence of film and television dramas and animations is far different.

Even in this world, the Republic's ACG culture is very well developed, but its influence is still slightly inferior to that of film and television dramas.

Just like Lin Qingshan's previous life, Japan's ACG subculture was compared to the film and television entertainment industry. Even though it has become a national economy, its influence is still not as good as film and television dramas, especially TV dramas.

The same is true for the Republic of this world. No matter how well comics and animations develop, they are still slightly inferior to movies in terms of influence.

Therefore, whether it can be adapted into a film or TV series is almost equivalent to whether it can break the circle on a large scale.

Just like the previous "Edgewalker".

"Purple Air from the East" and "The Dragon's Choice" have actually also gone through the process of being adapted into film and television dramas, but... obviously they have not achieved as high an achievement as the movie "EdgeWalker".

Lin Qingshan has now fully demonstrated the excellence of his works, so he is once again trying the waters.

The filming of "Goodbye Eri" and "Parasyte" was the first attempt by a domestic film company.

After the success of "Edgewalker" and "Parasite: Gray Army", WB Films has great confidence in Lin Qingshan.

Then after some thought, I decided to remake the manga "Uzumaki".

Lin Qingshan really became famous both at home and abroad and became one of the most popular cartoonists in the world.

Of course, the explosive news from Station C is still about the two works of Lin Qingshan that were adapted into animations, "Flame Fist" and "Tao Weird Immortal".

All comic fans are looking forward to what will happen when these two "psychotic masterpieces" are adapted into animations.

In addition, C Station has also reached a large number of animation copyright transactions with the comic industry, but...

The negotiators from the comic world made some exorbitant demands. The two squid men came to negotiate the copyright issue.

It is said that the Squid are the smartest people in the world who know how to do business. However, during the negotiation between Station C and them, I only felt two words...

greedy.

It's really a big deal. For the animation copyright of the popular manga "Jujutsu Kaisen", they dare to demand a minimum of 2 million and 50% of the broadcast and advertising dividends.

Too greedy.

After all, "Jujutsu Kaisen" is not very popular at the moment, and it has not yet been tested in the animation market.

Although Lin Qingshan knew that "Jujutsu Kaisen" was a super IP, the staff of Station C did not know it.

But the other party was just trying to scare us, and we eventually reached an agreement.

There are also several popular comics whose copyrights have been signed.

Especially the animation copyright of the third season of "Protoss", which is the highlight.

Everyone knows that the most exciting plot of "Protoss" is the Tide of the Black Moon part of the third season.

But in fact, many animation production companies are a little scared.

This is naturally due to the failure of the first and second seasons of "Protoss", but the second season was not actually a failure.

However, compared to the expected expectations, the performance of the second season was still not satisfactory.

The first is the original work. As we all know, the plot of the original work will affect the animation currently being broadcast.

The Return of the Mourner chapter currently being serialized in "Protoss" is still getting worse and worse.

Although Yang Shuzhun made a lot of efforts afterwards, the series was often suspended for a month or even two months before returning to serialization.

However, the subsequent plot is still bad, and a new female character, Christina, appears.

Moreover, this female character has an ambiguous relationship with the protagonist Yang Mingfei.

Why do you say again?

Because since the third part, all the new female characters that have appeared are like this.

Even in the previous Odin's Abyss chapter, after Yang Mingfei took over Xisa's position as the president of the Student Union, he also took over Xisa's Lace Girls Group.

Among them, Yang Mingfei’s student union secretary is also a new female character, and she also has an ambiguous plot with him.

However, in the Odin's Abyss chapter, more scenes are focused on Chen Nuonuo, the senior sister that Yang Mingfei is obsessed with, so everyone has somewhat overlooked this new female character.

But now a new female character, Christina, appears and has an ambiguous relationship with the protagonist.

Then let us begin to enumerate Yang Shuzhun’s crimes.

It's like eating from the bowl, staring at the pot, and thinking about yesterday's.

The plot where Eri died for Yang Mingfei made the fans feel sad, so the plot where the protagonist was still obsessed with his senior sister and liked a newly arranged female character was even more disgusting.

There are also many loopholes in other settings and plots.

Many comic fans began to turn into black fans, counting the loopholes and shortcomings in the plot and settings of "Protoss".

The popularity of "Protoss" has dropped to eleventh place!
Many people even think that "Protoss" may be cut short.

Therefore, the decline in popularity is outrageous, and the public opinion is not good.

The second season of the "Protoss" animation was also slightly affected by this, but the most important thing is that its quality has problems again.

There are many problems, big and small. The famous scenes and the plot are slightly okay, but the nonsensical and unfunny jokes and many other problems seriously affect the viewing experience.

Now, even though they know that the Tides of the Dark Moon chapter of "Protoss" is very popular and excellent, many animation production companies are somewhat hesitant.

After all...the third season of "Protoss" is destined to be made into an adult series because of the length of the Black Moon Tide chapter in the original work.

If you invest a lot of money but still get poor results in the end, you will lose a lot.

At this time, Station C stood up and said it didn't matter.

After all, their main focus now is to be rich and powerful. They are just losing money, so what is there to be afraid of?

So they filmed it.

Yang Shuzhun was actually relieved and very happy.

He also hopes that Station C can give the production of the third season of "Protoss" animation to Trigger Animation.

He has always believed that the failure of the first two seasons of "Protoss" animation was entirely due to problems with the animation production company.

If it is handed over to Trigger Animation, there is no reason why his "Protoss" animation will not be good. This time he also told the people in the animation production department of C Station that he hopes that the third season of "Protoss" animation will be produced by Trigger Animation Production Company.

Regarding this…

Even the staff of Trigger Animation said, sorry, we don’t have time.

Because they already have several hot animation projects on hand.

The Ghoul series, the Fate series, and the new anime "Neon Genesis Evangelion" which has just been launched are not only highly anticipated by Lin Qingshan, but they are also quite optimistic after reading the script and setting.

How could they possibly have the time to take over the mess of "Protoss", especially the mess of an annual series?

In fact, as C Station has acquired a number of copyrights for comic animation, it is obviously not enough to just cooperate with Trigger Animation.

Therefore, before this, Station C had already started cooperating with other animation production companies. For example, the animation of "Parasyte" was produced in cooperation with Skeleton Animation.

Next, Station C began to cooperate with many animation production companies that were willing to work with them.

Fang Zhaozhi, president and director of SHAFT Animation Production Company, was sitting at the bottom of the strategic announcement meeting held by C Station with some trepidation, listening to the president of C Station, Gu Qianli, reading out the next strategy of C Station.

He felt a little regretful. Looking at the people around him who were all skeletal animation directors and royal animation directors, he felt that he was out of place.

After all, his animation production company is definitely just a small workshop in front of them.

In fact, this is indeed the case. After graduation, he and several college classmates and high school buddies teamed up to open an animation production company on a whim.

However, they have only produced a short animation with only three episodes.

Even because of its unique style of painting - too childish, it is currently criticized for making children's animations such as Magical Girl and Little Ultraman.

He and his friends were naturally devastated.

However, he has not given up completely. He just expressed his willingness to cooperate on C Station's commercial cooperation website with a try-it attitude.

But unexpectedly, Station C actually sent them a meeting invitation.

However, Fang Zhaozhi disagreed, thinking it was probably just a small meeting or something.

However, when he arrived, he immediately discovered that something was wrong.

Why is this conference venue so large and formal?
And what about those famous animation production companies marked on the conference seats, such as Skeleton Animation Production, Wangquan Animation Production, Dongyin Animation Production... etc.?

However, it was too late for him to regret, and he had to attend the meeting here anyway.

"…The meeting is over. Next, please follow the instructions of the staff and the heads of the major animation production companies should go to their respective rooms and wait. We will send people to hand over the cooperative animation projects with you."

After Gu Qianli finished speaking, Li Zhiqiu next to her immediately stood up and said with a smile.

"Fortunately... the meeting is over, but I should be able to leave soon, right?"

Fang Zhaozhi muttered to himself.

But just as he was muttering...

"Is that Director Fang?"

A male staff member from Station C came up to him and asked with a smile.

"Ah...oh oh it's me, what's wrong?"

Fang Zhaozhi was startled and asked quickly.

"Please follow me. I will then privately hand over the cooperation project with your company."

The staff member immediately said.

"Forehead……"

Fang Zhaozhi was a little frightened.

Ah? He is cooperating with C Station to produce a TV series?
Is their company a small workshop?
When he thought of the short animation he had made before and the few viewers who commented that their animation works were "only suitable for making children's animations such as magical girls", he felt a little inferior.

But he still gritted his teeth and followed the staff into a room with computers and large-screen monitors.

The room is also very large, and it is one of those private rooms in a hotel that can accommodate more than 30 people for dinner.

This is a hotel after all.

However, the private room was converted into a small meeting room.

The staff asked him to sit here and wait, but he did not leave. Instead, he stayed here with Fang Zhaozhi and waited.

until……

"Hello! Is anyone there?!"

An incongruous voice came from outside the room.

Fang Zhaozhi was a little confused, but still answered, "Yes, there are people there."

"Oh, I'm coming in!"

Just like that, a person who looked very familiar yet very unfamiliar to Fang Zhaozhi appeared in front of him.

"hello!"

Lin Qingshan waved at him and greeted him.

"You are... Mr. Aoyama!"

Fang Zhaozhi suddenly became excited and said with a tongue tied, "Teacher Qingshan... I am actually your idol... No, you are my fan... No, no! I am your fan!"

"what?"

Lin Qingshan was also a little confused by his words, but soon he smiled and said, "Oh, I understand. It's okay, don't be so nervous!"

At this moment, Fang Zhaozhi suddenly became disappointed and said, "I didn't expect it was Mr. Aoyama who came. In this case, I can't lie to you, Mr. Aoyama... Teacher, our company doesn't have much experience in making animations, so don't cooperate with us."

"Ah? I saw your company's resume..."

Lin Qingshan said, "Didn't you produce an animation called "Skyline Abyss" in June this year? It's pretty good."

"That one... was terrible. People said our style was childish, and some even said we should make anime about magical girls instead."

Fang Zhaozhi sighed and said, "In fact, our company is full of fans of Mr. Aoyama's comics. We wanted to make an animation imitating "Chainsaw Man", but unfortunately the style is not very good."

"No! I think it's great!"

Lin Qingshan smiled and said, "I like it very much! It is especially suitable for the animation project I will be working on with you next."

"?"

Fang Zhaozhi blinked, somewhat confused.

"correct!"

Lin Qingshan suddenly thought of something, and then said to Fang Zhaozhi seriously, "I will use a new pseudonym to be the screenwriter of this animation series. Please don't tell anyone when the time comes."

"A new... pseudonym?"

Fang Zhaozhi asked with some curiosity.

"That's right! A new fake... a new pen name!"

Lin Qingshan gave a thumbs up and said, "This is a helpless move to prevent everyone from guessing the plot. My new pen name is Xu Yuanxuan! Please give me your advice!"

"Of course, the next thing we are going to talk about is the cooperative animation project."

He chuckled again and said, "Didn't you say that the artists in your company are suitable for producing magical girl animations? Well, the name of the next animation we are going to produce is..."

"Puella Magi Madoka Magica!"

(End of this chapter)