How can I let go of the matter of saving my stepsister?

At the same time, Miki Sugino, who was helping to handle things in the supervision room, also shook her body.

Well, it wasn't because she was shaking after seeing the list. Sugino Miki just saw Mochizuki Nanae shaking, and then Sato Yuu looked at her chest twice more and then she shook a few times on purpose.

Finally, his gaze couldn't help but linger on Sugino Miki for several seconds longer, and Sato Yu smiled happily.

"Sure enough, it's still big... well, the bigger the production team, the better. This is the shocking effect we want."

Good publicity and promotion can really achieve twice the result with half the effort in gaining fame. At this moment, watching the animation in front of him jumping non-stop before it even starts, and the fame value technology rising rapidly, Sato Yuma is very happy in his heart.

Some are happy, while others are sad.

"Hey, Takaoka, you're not going to get involved in a young boy's plan, are you?"

"How could that be possible? I know about your feud with Sato, so how could you be so shameless as to try to squeeze in like the others?"

Umezawa Masashi finally couldn't sit still anymore after hearing the "good news" that came one after another from Sato Yu, and watching the comment section of his tweets gradually fall into the hands of those who like to make fun of him, and seeing the wind direction completely reverse and returning to the state of being ridiculed by the whole network.

He called each of the national team members he was familiar with and had a good relationship with to inquire about them, but his heart sank again and again. Now that he received the news that Chihiro Takaoka would not join, he finally felt comforted.

However......

"Takaoka! You're here too. I just saw Director Sato's plan. It's really..."

"Shh!"

"What are you talking about? You think it's not okay? Ah, you haven't watched Director Sato's..."

"Shhh!!!"

Twice in a row, Chihiro Takaoka interrupted another national team painter who was talking to him after seeing him, and kept signaling him to boo.

But no amount of shushing could stop Masashi Umezawa from discovering the truth.

"Takaoka, you, how could you betray me!"

"Uh... Maze, it's... that, you have to know."

When questioned, Takaoka Chihiro was speechless for a while, but in the end, he still followed his true heart.

"It's not that I'm weak-willed, but the three great people rewarded it. It's just too charming!"

Skirt~

Volume 172: Chapter Chapter . Sato Impact

The recruitment lasted for four days. No one was interested in the first two days, but the last two days were packed with people.

"A production team of 45 people, all of whom are industry veterans, is used to produce a single season of anime. It's a waste, it's redundant, it's too redundant."

Different from ordinary TV animations, "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" uses a particularly exaggerated and abstract representational technique - collage.

It is a method of creating by clipping flat materials instead of brushstrokes. It began with the attempts of the Cubist school of painting. It was previously mainly used in paintings. This time, it was widely used by Sato Yu in animation to express the weirdness, horror and weirdness of the witch.

This technique is not mastered by ordinary painters, and even none of the more than 40 senior painters recruited here have mastered it.

As for Sato Yu, he has a system cheat that allows him to store all the skills needed to create the "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" animation in his head. He can do the collage-related drawings himself, but that would take up too much time and would squeeze out his drawing time.

So in the end, he followed his memory and found the "Theater Dog Curry" in this world, an art duo composed of mud dogs and white dogs who were independently responsible for this aspect.

This was something that had been decided and finalized a long time ago. Now, when the planning and drawing officially began today, the "Theater Dog Curry" also happened to send over some of the finished drawings.

“Disruptive idea.”

“A perfect combination of classical art genres and animation.”

"I didn't feel anything when I saw the storyboards, but now combined with these pictures, wow - I'm getting goosebumps."

Widely incorporating collage techniques into painting is still a very novel experience for all painters. Gathering together to discuss the application of this technique, many old men in the industry are as excited as children who have found a new toy, with their eyes shining.

Having realized Sato Yu's genius earlier than them and having been shocked by his collage techniques once before, Mochizuki Nanae did not participate in the discussion but instead whispered complaints in Sato Yu's ear.

There were too many senior painters who were persuaded by the three major awards. Although she was a rich lady, she had never fought such a wealthy battle in the field of animation. She couldn't help feeling sad when she thought about how much manpower was wasted by so many excellent animators gathering in one film.

"Don't worry, let's stabilize everyone for a few days. When the time is right, I will coax some of them to join the "Oregairu" production team. There are many seniors who are good at character drawing here."

This was what she was planning and what she was waiting for Sato Yu to say. Upon hearing this, Mochizuki Nanae immediately broke into a smile.

"In this way, the quality of Oregairu should be able to be raised to several levels, and everyone should be able to learn a lot during the production process. Yabai~Aren't the newcomers in our company too lucky?"

I have been in the industry for a short time, and my painting skills were still rough, but I participated in the production of the phenomenal work "Fate/Zero" and received hands-on teaching from senior painters of Kyoto Animation. Now I have the opportunity to work with a bunch of famous painters, and I have accumulated connections and improved my skills by listening to their advice...

Phew~ Even if we exclude the fixed hourly wage system that is unique to the capital's painting circle, just this unique painting environment and learning opportunities alone will probably have countless newcomers, and even well-known senior painters scrambling to get into Pandia.

In fact, after hearing that more than 40 big names had gathered at Pandia and learning that the company was also simultaneously producing another anime series, many illustrators in the industry called to inquire whether they could join the "Oregairu" production team.

After looking at the list, there were more than a hundred painters lined up on three or four pages. At that time, Mochizuki Nanae's expression was quite subtle. Unfortunately, Sato Yu had too many people, and even the new company that moved here didn't have room to add too many workstations. In the end, she could only absorb a small number of people first, and gave the rest the helpless reply that there would be opportunities for cooperation in the future.

"Hey, why didn't I grit my teeth and make up my mind to move to a more spacious office building?"

"It's not a pity. With you and me here, there will definitely be a steady stream of talented people coming to us in the future."

"Although I'm just a little extra, I'm still happy to hear you say that."

With you and me, let’s do it together!

Hearing what Sato Yu said, Mochizuki Nanae felt sweet in her heart, but her actions seemed immature. She just smiled sweetly and rubbed Sato Yu's arm with her shoulder, which made Yamada Naoko, who had been watching their conversation, roll her eyes.

These two people...are they really not in a relationship?

It seems there really isn't.

Fuck! The two of them quickly dragged Sugino Miki to the Civil Affairs Bureau to register their marriage!

She had no idea that while Sato Yuu was in the hospital he had a confidante, Chiharu Mita, and a little sister, Sora Aoi, who had been waiting for her recovery and had been eyeing her brother for a long time. In Tokyo and Kyoto, Yamada Naoko, who was separated from her husband and had not been able to enjoy love for a long time, was screaming wildly in her heart.

The scream was only in her heart and she didn't show it on her face. Seeing that the conversation between Mochizuki Nanae and Sato Yu had come to an end, Yamada Naoko spoke.

"Come to think of it, I didn't expect that you, Sato, have quite a bit of experience in music."

In addition to the extensive use of collage techniques in animation, the magnificent and epic soundtrack is also an indispensable part of the "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" animation.

The system also provided the complete original soundtrack, but it was too strange for an animator to come up with such a high-quality musical work. In order to reduce suspicion, Sato Yu found the famous musician Yuki Kajiura, who was in charge of animation music in his previous life, and commissioned him to produce it.

But as expected, the situation in the previous life and the present life cannot be the same. After showing the other party the story, although the song that Kajiura Yuki played for the first time was excellent, it still sounded a little lacking to Sato Yu.

So he went to the record company and gave Kajiura Yuki a lot of suggestions for revisions. The two worked together for a whole day to modify the original song, and finally came up with this classic track [Original SoundTrack].

As for the other subsequent tracks, having already heard Sato Yu's opinions, Kajiura Yuki should be able to come up with a song that is slightly different from the original song in Sato Yu's mind, but closely matches the flavor.

This way of discussing with the composer and giving suggestions for revisions is the most harmonious and the least revealing way that Sato Yuu can think of. However, even so, Kajiura Yuki still praised Sato Yuu's understanding of music and extraordinary talent, and even excitedly tweeted:

[Luckily, Sato is an anime guy. If he had studied music, I might not have made a living.]

Now, Naoko Yamada looks at Yu Sato strangely because of this tweet.

How come you, a animation director, know so much about music? You even guide famous composers like Yuki Kajiura to produce BGM. Even if you are a genius, you are too talented. When and where did you learn it?

Sato You could easily see the doubt in Yamada Naoko's wide eyes. He scratched his head and laughed it off, talking nonsense.

"When I was little, my dad took me to Hawaii..."

"Hawaii, you bastard, do you think you're a Death God elementary school student?"

"In short, I understand a little bit, a little bit."

"Oh, it's really a monster, with so many different art forms, and the BGM is so magnificent, plus this production team... I'm really looking forward to what the finished film will look like, and how the audience will react, and how the judges will react."

Although the drawing has just begun today, looking at the early preparations and the production lineup, Yamada Naoko, an animator who has been in the industry for decades and has seen many big scenes, has already harbored unprecedented high expectations.

The same is true for the audience in this regard.

[Sad news! Sato Shock: Destruction of Heaven and Earth, the number of spring series has decreased by 23 compared to the winter series, and by 27 compared to last year's spring series! ]

Throughout the year, as far as Japanese animation broadcasting practices are concerned, winter and spring episodes always have the largest number of broadcasts, but this year a rather strange, or rather interesting phenomenon occurred.

There are especially many winter episodes, and especially few spring episodes.

The difference between more and less is so obvious that any otaku who watches relatively more anime can clearly notice that something is wrong. After some investigation, they easily found out the "cause" and called it the "Sato Shock"!

It's all Toosaka Tokiomi's fault...well, it's all Sato Yuu's fault!

Winner takes all is a theorem in all industries. Naturally, such a phenomenon also exists in the animation industry, but it is not too obvious under normal circumstances. However, when a phenomenal work is born, the sales of other animations in the same period, both the disc sales and the peripheral sales, will drop sharply and fail to meet expectations at all.

Coincidentally, "Fate/Zero" supervised by Sato Yu is such a phenomenal work.

In the first half of the summer, it competed with the national team "DARLING in the FRANXX" and directly defeated the opponent. In the end, the first-time sales of "Fate/Zero" discs were 86,000, while the sales of "DARLING in the FRANXX" were only 3,000, a difference of 20 times.

As for other series in the same quarter, except for the "dark horse" "Little Dot in the Goblin Forest" which achieved sales of nearly 3,000, none of the other series had sales of more than 2,000.

Speaking of bleak performance, only three anime in the entire season passed the concept break-even line (about 2,300, just kidding, in fact, the break-even line of most animations is much lower than this value), but if we really look at the top, "Fate/Zero" directly raised the average sales of summer anime to the highest level in history...

Well, except for "Fate/Zero", all other anime are being "averaged".

Whose fault is this? No matter how I think about it, it can only be Sato Yuu's fault!

Being suppressed by "Fate/Zero", how could other works have a chance to make a comeback? And judging by how it unfolds, the second half will probably be even more terrifying. So at that time, many animation series that were well-made and expected to have good sales and whose release dates had not yet been finalized were directly postponed to winter.

This resulted in the number of winter series increasing by twenty-two compared to the previous year. Subsequently, everything proved that the postponement of these series was correct.

The second half of "Fate/Zero" moved 103,000 copies on the disc for the first time, breaking the record it created itself. As for other anime shows at the time... they were so miserable, let's not talk about them!

Therefore, since then, the industry seems to have reached a consensus.

If you observe carefully, you can find that after the winter series "flourished" for a quarter, for the spring series, except for those that were scheduled a year in advance, or those with low-cost adaptations and comic adaptations, the release dates of the series with a little production quality are all later than "Puella Magi Madoka Magica", and they all chose to skip the spring and go straight to the summer.

What? You want me to fight Sato Yuu, fight Puella Magi Madoka Magica, and defeat the National Team Plus version? Really?

Avoid Sato Yuu, the plague god! Most animations choose this approach.

This way they can reduce the loss, but the audience will...

[Damn it, Sato Yuu really deserves to...fuck, for a moment I don't know whether he should die or not. ]

[I was so excited to see the Ultimate Galaxy Battleship rushing into space to conquer the sea of ​​stars, but I couldn't help but feel sad when I thought that several animations that I had been looking forward to had been postponed to the summer. 】

[I'm afraid this will be the case in the future. It's really hard to judge. Can other companies in the industry hold back a little? They are being beaten up like this by a new supervisor.]

[Then, you come? ]

【I'm here... come on! 】

Pain and happiness, this is probably the true portrayal of the audience's psychology at the moment.

On the one hand, they are dissatisfied with the great depression of the spring anime caused by Sato Yu, but on the other hand, the audience is full of expectations as to how high the Galaxy Battleship driven by Sato Yu can fly, and whether it can really break through gravity and rush into the sea of ​​stars.

In short, it is more like the national team than the national team, and more like DARLING in the FRANXX than "DARLING in the FRANXX". Before it even aired, the discussion about "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" has already skyrocketed.

But even after the failure of the last national team animation, countless people are still extremely optimistic...it would be better to use the word "expecting", they are looking forward to the performance of this national team.

After all, if Sato Yuu's drama is good, they will be happy to watch it, but if he turns the Galaxy Battleship upside down...

Ha! That's even more fun.

For a moment, many viewers didn't even know whether they were expecting Sato Yu to become a god or to crash.

But in short, the market sentiment was very favorable before the animation was aired.

Well, just look at the production lineup!

[Yu Sato, Mado Fujimori, Kaiichiro Nishida, Yukihei Kawase, Chihiro Takaoka, Naoko Yamada...]

Boom! Boom! Boom, boom, boom!

Half a month later, the animation PV of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" was officially released. It was a three-minute long promotional PV that didn't show any other scenes at the beginning. Sato Yuu just showed off his muscles directly.

After director Sato Yu, a bunch of industry celebrities, whose names would make the whole industry tremble, are thrown around like that for free. What should we do when we see such a grand scene?

"What are you standing there for? Come on!"

While the live broadcast was on, the UP host [Anime Bastard Kota] was frantically editing the list of original paintings on the screen, setting an example himself.

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Volume 173: Chapter Chapter . The Wolf is Coming

They would stay in front of their computers and watch the official website for a show's PV, and even start a live broadcast for it, all just to be able to see the content as soon as the PV is released.

This is a truly incredible honor for animation.

And there are actually 30,000 people supporting this honor!

Japanese, Chinese, Europeans, Americans, and Southeast Asians, nearly 30,000 viewers who had nothing better to do actually stayed in the live broadcast room waiting to watch the animation PV together.

Huh~ My superman brothers are really too powerful and popular. I thought that when I was broadcasting on weekdays, at most there would be only 10,000 simultaneous viewers. Almost all the peak records were refreshed when I was watching Sato Yuu's animation.