Depressive Screenwriter

The broadcast of FZ Episode 8 has ended, but for the vast majority of viewers, there's an indescribable feeling in their hearts.

In Su Yan's previous life, the Fate series was a huge IP in the anime and manga circles for almost twenty years.

It started with the galgame written by Nasu Kinoko, and then Gen Urobuchi adapted the FZ world into the FZ novel.

Until Su Yan traveled to Xia, this IP still maintained the trend of having a spin-off animation or film every year or two.

And for such a tenacious series, Artoria played a pivotal role in its initial popularity.

Before the broadcast of Episode 8, everyone guessed that this episode would be full of action and top-notch visuals.

But guessing it doesn't mean being indifferent after actually seeing the plot.

Although Artoria's highlight in this episode was just that one sword strike.

Even the line "Excalibur" in the TV series used the original animation's pronunciation, sounding very much like "Ex-Curry-Bar."

But the audience of FZ is in no mood to make memes at the moment.

Tonight, on various video websites, a group of fans have gone crazy arguing.

"She's the real female lead!"

"It made me so excited!"

"Old Thief is really good at it, he created such a cool female character."

"Long live the lack of romance in this TV series. How can Artoria be in a relationship?"

"A teenage girl, elected as king for pulling the Sword in the Stone. Mistrusted by her subordinates for being too noble and just, eventually leading to internal strife and war. After her death, she was summoned to the real world by the Holy Grail, dreaming only of wishing to save her former country, wishing to return to that year, to never pull the Sword in the Stone, and let someone more capable become that king. Associating this with Artoria's background story, combined with tonight's plot, I, a college student, was moved to tears."

"Really, after reading the background story and then watching Artoria's sword strike in this episode, I'm really filled with emotion."

"Zhuang Yuxin is really going to be famous this time. She's going to win Best Actress next year with this role."

"Maybe not. Old Thief has a romance TV series called 'From Me to You' premiering in July, the female lead is Gu Qingyuan, but... I feel Artoria has a higher chance, this character is too charming."

"Saber, long live!"

"Where are those haters who said the TV series was boring in the early stages? What were you saying about Su Yan's dramas having no appeal without romance elements? What do you say now?"

"The plot is getting more and more complicated. Who will win the Holy Grail War after all?"

"I feel like Gilgamesh is a bit OP, that Berserker isn't bad either. The Ea mentioned in the plot seems very powerful too."

"Tonight, let's celebrate for King Arthur!"

"Although I like watching romance dramas, FZ tonight was really good, the special effects were amazing."

"I'm captivated, from today on, I'm a fan of Zhuang Yuxin!"

Artoria's performance in FZ Episode 8 caused the character's name to trend on major websites throughout the night.

As the female lead of FZ, Zhuang Yuxin was popular before today, but it was more the drama that was popular. She herself didn't become as ridiculously popular as Gu Qingyuan and Shen Liqian, who had worked with Su Yan before.

But now, the situation has changed.

People in Xia's TV drama circle have noticed something is not right.

The way Zhuang Yuxin's situation looks now, it seems like she's being groomed by Su Yan to become a Best Actress.

Tokyo

After Su Yan announced in the company's internal group chat that the viewership rating for FZ Episode 8 was 5.89%, the entire company erupted in cheers again.

After all, with FZ doing so well, the year-end bonus for the winter season will definitely be substantial.

In the past few years, Dimensional Films' annual project bonuses have basically been two to three times the employees' salaries, and this year...

Judging from the performance of Rurouni Kenshin, bonuses and whatnot will definitely increase.

However, Su Yan and Ayaka Shinozaki basically don't have much emotional fluctuation about FZ's current performance.

After all, there are too few opponents in Xia's TV drama circle who can compete with Su Yan. Perhaps the three major TV stations, with all their might and heavy investment, can create works with some threat.

What's more, the three major TV stations have basically been slacking off this year.

Anyway, Su Yan doesn't have a TV series every season. If everyone wants to compete, they can compete for the championship in other seasons. In seasons when Su Yan's dramas are broadcast, everyone competes for second place.

With the three major TV stations slacking off so much, Su Yan naturally has no pressure.

He's relatively easygoing about FZ's viewership ratings.

It would naturally be best if it could surpass the viewership record previously created by Madoka Magica, but it doesn't matter if it can't, anyway, they're both his works.

What Su Yan and Ayaka Shinozaki are more concerned about is Rurouni Kenshin's box office.

It's been released for three or four weeks, and now the box office trend has become sluggish, with a daily box office of 20 to 30 million and a total box office of 2.564 billion.

Being the Spring Festival box office champion is definitely a sure thing, but whether it can break the 3 billion box office mark is actually very subtle.

Moreover, the work at Su Yan's company comes one after another.

After the release of the Rurouni Kenshin movie ends, it's time for overseas countries to seek to purchase the copyright for the film's release.

Whether it's revenue sharing, buying out regional distribution rights, or some overseas video websites also buying paid broadcast rights.

Most of the work doesn't require Su Yan to come forward, but he needs to personally meet with the person in charge to finalize the contract for a small portion of the work.

Although those regions don't have large populations and small market sizes, Su Yan also understands the principle that every little bit helps.

At the same time, while handling the finishing work for FZ and Rurouni Kenshin, the promotional activities for the movie Your Name and the TV series From Me to You, which will be released in the July summer season, must also begin to be planned.

Although the summer season is generally not as good as the Spring Festival season in most cases, there are exceptions to everything. There have been examples in Xia's film history of the annual box office appearing in the summer season.

And there's also From Me to You...

Having developed to this point, it can be said that Su Yan has no shortage of fame or money.

Viewership ratings and the like are not what he is pursuing now. He hopes to let the people of Xia's world feel the joy he felt when watching a series of works in his previous life.

As his first truly pure love TV series in Xia, Su Yan is very much looking forward to the surprise it will bring to his fans after it airs.

After all, when everyone defaults that the romance works he brings out are definitely depressing masterpieces, everyone realizes after watching that this is pure love...

In a sense, this can also be regarded as a betrayal of fans.

Thinking of this, Su Yan smiled knowingly and lay back on his office chair.

However, just as he was thinking about these issues, the company's front desk had the assistant send some mailed documents to Su Yan.

Su Yan casually flipped through them, thinking they were gifts from those die-hard fans, and was about to put them in his office safe when a few red invitation letters made Su Yan's eyes narrow.

The Di Jing Film Festival nomination invitation...

Su Yan was stunned for a moment, but then he reacted.

There's no exception to this.

Last year, the two movies '5 Centimeters per Second' and 'Love Like a Bouquet' released by Su Yan had final box office takings of over 1.4 billion and over 1.2 billion respectively, ranking 5th and 8th in the annual box office rankings.

The Di Jing Film Festival awards dozens of awards of all sizes. If you can't even receive a nomination invitation with the results of '5 Centimeters per Second' and 'Love Like a Bouquet', then that's a real strange thing, indicating that the entire film circle is excluding Su Yan and his Dimensional Films.

"Best Screenplay Award! Nominated work: 5 Centimeters per Second. Nominator, Su Yan."

"Best Music Award! Nominated work: 5 Centimeters per Second. Nominator, Su Yan."

"Best Actress Award, Nominated work, Love Like a Bouquet. Nominator, Shen Liqian!"

Su Yan looked at the general information on the invitation letters and then put them down.